BLM Gear

[Nyalia]

The thing is, there's not much point to discussing secondaries at all outside of the context of content like Coil.

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether or not it really matters when the content has next-to-nothing in the way of DPS checks, avoiding Coil means not being able to use Dreadwyrm gear, which narrows the choices down slightly.

It's pretty hard to build a bad non-end game BLM considering that there are no real trash secondaries aside from having way too much ACC for the content you're doing.

If you spend most of your time AoEing trash, prioritize DET/CRT since it's the server's mana regen tick that limits your pace more than casting speed; otherwise take as much SS as you can and pile on the secondaries that mathematically make sense.

That's a really good point. Despite how good SS is for BLM single target DPS (the metric that's used for calculating stat weights like the ones above), that doesn't take into consideration the pause inherent in the only sensible BLM AoE rotation where you are waiting for a mana tick. In fact, with a very large amount of SS, you have to wait slightly longer than the first mana tick to start your Fire 3 cast. If you don't, your Fire 3 will finish casting before the second tick hits, cutting both Fire 2s out and forcing you to wait after Flare before you can Transpose, all of which costs you quite a bit of DPS.

So, in short, if you're doing Coil/MogEx/LeviEx/ShivaEx, make sure you have enough Accuracy to reach the Accuracy cap (http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ything_coil_19), and any accuracy past that point is wasted. Apart from that, what gear you have is pretty meaningless in the end. It's all good enough, with only slight differences between the stats.

[Nyalia]

Yes nowhere did I say there is loot that has the same amount of det as crit

seems you just purposely chose to misinterpret my post for whatever reason
all I said was "SS>Det>Crit", which weight-wise is correct, though by all means continue to write your essay posts

OP: "I need some advice on what gear to acquire for BLM"
You: "SS>Det>Crit"

What's to misinterpret? You're saying that he should go for gear with det on it over gear with crit (all else being equal), which is untrue. If you meant point for point, sure, whatever, but that's not what you said, and that's not meaningful (nor is this stupid semantics debate).

My post gave the best non-coil gear loadout for BLM for content up to and including T9 according to the Ariyala BiS solver. The OP's question has been answered. If you are upset that I mischaracterized your gear choice statements in the process of giving that answer, I do apologize for hurting your feelings. In the future, I'll try not to refer to other posts when giving advice and just answer the questions asked.

And yes, I'm a verbose woman. Deal with it. If you don't like reading long posts, there is an ignore list feature provided by this forum. View my profile and then click "add to ignore list." I've added you - feel free to add me back.

[randysquirrel]

You're saying that he should go for gear with det on it over gear with crit

Yes just make up stuff, say that I said it, then disagree with it, and tell OP to ignore something I never said anyway bahahah
yet for all your know-all advice, you haven't even set foot in fcob yet lmao

[Clarkamite]

Yes just make up stuff, say that I said it, then disagree with it, and tell OP to ignore something I never said anyway bahahah
yet for all your know-all advice, you haven't even set foot in fcob yet lmao

I don't understand why you're coming here all angry and stand offish. A question was asked, Nyalia answered it. At no point was the information misleading or anything. At least what she had given was more in-depth. You simply gave a stock response ("SS>Det>Crit") that in the end really isn't all that helpful based on the OP's question asked.

[Skeith-Adeline]

To be fair, it doesn't take a genius to note that 14 Det doesn't equal 22 Crit. He gave the OP the idea behind the stats and trusted him to make logical decisions. The informative post certainly helps, but again, it doesn't take a genius.

[SpookyGhost]

To be fair, it doesn't take a genius to note that 14 Det doesn't equal 22 Crit.

If you don't know the stat weights, it does. If Det was weighted 2x what Crit is weighted, 14 Det would outweigh 22 Crit. But, once you know the stat weights, you can just do some basic math and figure out how much main stat you're getting out of whatever piece of gear. The main problem is a blanket statement like "SS > Det > Crit" just makes you think that one outweighs the other but you have no idea by how much.

Side note: randy meant overall stat weights (point for point), Nyalia meant stat weights on gear. You typically get enough Crit on gear to outweigh the alternative piece with Det. This isn't really a disagreement, you both just meant different things. :P

[Skeith-Adeline]

you both just meant different things

pretty much lol.