ninja gears

[Cynric]

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Yes quite. After all Bard isn't "Ranged" damage, Bard is a melee with Increased Yalms for its AA, and WS, where Dex is the modifier for AP, Everything in FF14 functions very simple. It would of taken quite a very long time to design gear for Ninja for all the Ilvls, so this is a better solution to just get the class and job out there and being played.

They could have just made Rogue be STR and it would of worked the same but I suspect they probably already have a STR class slated for the expansion, making this the better route.

Currently the gear is like this,
VIT:PLD,WAR
STR : MNK, DRG,
DEX: NIN, BRD,
INT:SMN,BLM
MND:SCH,WHM
Now if we do this

VIT:PLD,WAR,TMP
STR: MNK, DRG, DRK
DEX: BRD, NIN, MSK
INT:BLM,SMN, ???
MND:SCH,WHM,???

It makes sense . But of course this is reaching a bit into unknown territory.