Quote Originally Posted by HaroldSaxon View Post
There isn't any misunderstanding about food. You are correct, the Piety is wasted, but the spellspeed weighting makes up for that (plus the fact that going over the accuracy cap is a waste for crit food, and you get less det with det food).
Same could be said about spell speed being wasted at certain thresholds, though. You need roughly 11 spell speed for every 0.01s reduction. I would like to know your actual spell speed value before I continue on this point, however (unbuffed, just gear)

I'm still not entirely convinced about i90 accessories outperforming i110 accessories. For warrior, perhaps, for it can have vit or str melded and have good str/vit ratio on it as well as some parry. But for DPS classes (this case black mage)?

Let's start with the Diamond Ring: +13 int and +11 determination. Assuming you meld 5 Grade 4 material in them and get +9 accuracy, +16 crit and +16 spell speed, the ring has a combined 52 secondary stats. In comparison: The Evenstar- and High Allagan ring has 32 secondary stats. This means 20 secondary stats more in exchange for 5 int.

The general rule of thumb has been that 1 main stat is equivalent to 6-9 secondary stats (plenty of theorycrafting on this, search the forums). 20 secondary stats difference is equivalent to 4 intelligence. In theory this means you're actually losing in stat value.