so wich class/job shares a gearset with rog/ninja?

[Kiara1]

I just noticed, the one you have marked as BLM/SMN...there is a big dagger in the front there...No caster sets I have seen, that I can remember, have weapons such as this and am at a loss as to who it would go to, BRD potentially, the one next to her that you said could be brd i think is BLM/SMN.
/discuss

I hope youre right, if that is bard gear i'd cry, I hate playing bard but its so cute so I'd have to get it

[Radacci]

It wouldn't be the first time DEX would be revamped in this game.

except it doesn't really make sense to revamp dex, just for rogue.

[Sove92]

For everyone that thinks nin should use dex you need to ask why?

Why rework the way an entire stat works when we have a system that is working fine? to make it like other games?

Changing dex to include ninja damage just complicates the whole thing for no good reason. It is extra coding that does not need to be done, it is a wast of time.

It's nothing but a variable on the class or weapon to choose which stat it uses for attack power, only the the tooltip needs to be changed, which is incorrect anyway. If DEX was purely ranged damage stat, melee class ranged abilities would do horrible damage, yet, these ranged attacks use STR.

[Radacci]

Shield Lob, Tomahawk and Piercing Talon disagree with that.

yah that would be awesome, if drg needed dex, just to make piercing talon, do any damage.
you THROW a spear...that requires str, not dex.
dex doesn't have anything to do with damage, typing quickly on your keyboard, or managing multiple skill-bars, etc, is dex. it's body coordination. it would affect parry/block and accuracy/crit.
so if you want dex to affect damage, then dex->acc->crit (but in XIV, they aren't related) Actually dex shouldnt affect bow damage either, but dex is usually for ranged attacks, because you're more reliant on accuracy, to hit from far away, and also to differentiate gear, so not everyone share str gear.

duno why ppl are making such a fuss about preparing rogue gear
we're lv 50 with ilv110 gear; 10ilv doesn't do all that much. You can just FATE spam, and buy GC gear. or go with foehunter until 32, and use infantry set until 45, and AF to 50.
or i guess you can prepare mats, and craft gear to SB, while you lv rogue.
either way, gear doesn't do much, prior to 50. you'll get all you need from class/job quest.

[Sove92]

Can forget this debate, DEX confirmed, suck it up.

[Omegakiyohime]

Can forget this debate, DEX confirmed, suck it up.

Dex confirmed, but mnk gear stated as the shared gear. Yeah, this debate pretty much got split down the middle.

[MartaDemireux]

Dex confirmed, but mnk gear stated as the shared gear. Yeah, this debate pretty much got split down the middle.

I wouldn't say it was quite split down the middle. The STR or DEX debate was due to those of us knowing how the stats work with skills in spite of their given descriptions and those that were going strictly by the current descriptions.

Those of us that figured it to be DEX based on its trope and assumed an incoming change to the description of DEX came out on top. I say this because NIN will only be sharing gear with MNK (which will have DEX added to its gear) up until the gear added in 2.3. All future gear will have a NIN version using DEX separate from MNK's pure STR set.

[ZReport]

Dex confirmed, but mnk gear stated as the shared gear. Yeah, this debate pretty much got split down the middle.

Split down the middle how? Shared gear with MNK is only a temporary deal, NIN will have it's own DEX-only gear from 2.4 and on.