ninja gears

[Warlyx]

Velhart has a point , in the future with more jobs coming...and only 8 members in party , loot list are going to be huge if no merges are done....

we already discard 1 set of gear because no1 of that job is in the party , in 2.4 that will be 2 jobs...

[LineageRazor]

If NIN is going to be a DEX-based melee class, I wonder what they're going to change the DEX help text to? Current help text:

"Affects physical ranged damage, as well as parry and block rates."

Unless they're chucking shurikens, about the only thing there that fits NIN is the parry bit, and Lancers know only too well how little meaning Parry has for a DPS class. Possible new text:

"Affects physical ranged damage, as well as parry and block rates. ALSO: NINJA, RAWR!"

[Kiroh]

Velhart has a point , in the future with more jobs coming...and only 8 members in party , loot list are going to be huge if no merges are done....

we already discard 1 set of gear because no1 of that job is in the party , in 2.4 that will be 2 jobs...

If that's the metric SE is going by here then we're going to end with one gearset for magic classes, one gearset for physical dps and one gearset for tanks.

So we're going back to 1.0 gearsets I guess.

[Millen1]

From the sound of it, monk gear will have dex added to it. Early crafted gear up to i55 had both Str and Dex. I would guess they will take the monk gear only and add Dex to it for coil, primal and higher level crafted gear. So right now, if you have i110 soldier or coil monk gear, you are the lucky winner in the room for ninja. I would be curious on the rings and stuff. Will ninja use bard accessories that currrently have dex, or will they add dex to the monk accessories?

[Ultimatecalibur]

From the sound of it, monk gear will have dex added to it. Early crafted gear up to i55 had both Str and Dex. I would guess they will take the monk gear only and add Dex to it for coil, primal and higher level crafted gear. So right now, if you have i110 soldier or coil monk gear, you are the lucky winner in the room for ninja. I would be curious on the rings and stuff. Will ninja use bard accessories that currrently have dex, or will they add dex to the monk accessories?

Since the Striking and Maiming accessory "types" seems to have been replaced by Slaying/Divine Wisdom accessory type in gear added after 2.2 I'm guessing that ROG/NIN will be sharing Aiming accessories if they need Dex.

[Chiramu]

They actually didn't say what the OP said. They mention a class similar to pugilist and I assume that means a lot of cross-class skills will be linked between the two of the jobs, like NIN will probably be Rogue and Pugilist to acquire Ninja.

[ZReport]

Thread is now irrelevant:

http://gamerescape.com/2014/10/21/fa...naoki-yoshida/

Gamer Escape: It was announced that Ninja would be using monk gear, but it was also said that it would be using dexterity as a primary stat. Isn’t the main stat on monk gear strength? How do you see this working?

Y: (After checking) Up to level 50, if you happen to have it, you are able to equip the fighter gear. Up to level 50 it is not job specific gear, so as long as you have fighter gear you will be OK, since they have both dexterity and strength. Beyond level 50, for example, the Fuma set from the Crystal Tower, and on that the dexterity attribute is already attached, so you be be able to use that. From 2.4 there will be new specific level 50+ gear that has the dexterity attribute attached so you won’t be conflicting with the Monk’s gear. Each will have their own specific sets of gear.

It is as people have been saying in this thread. Stat will be DEX, and they will accommodate in changing the tooltip to reflect this.

So if Ninja is DEX based and i have only MNK and DRG geared at max level, i won't have any DEX accesories ( that you get by gearing BRD) . How is that a smooth transitionning?

You're the one excluding possibilities because you're assuming its definetely DEX but it wasn't clear which part was a joke and which part wasn't, and even for the parts that where clear like sharing gear with monk, it can be interpreted in different ways.

Another strawman. It's not going to be difficult to attain i100~110 post 2.4. i90 gear is the new Darklight Set. If you don't know how to get i95 minimum post update, I don't know what to tell you. Syrus Tower will be unlocked, Hunts will be even easier than it already is, and to top it off, there will be higher level armor to attain from the new tomestones.

You're arguing from a very short sighted viewpoint.