Stat tradeoff/customisation for DPS

[Sylkis]

In the former it won't be optional--it will become mandatory because people will call you bad if you don't have it. In the latter it will be suboptimal and people will call you bad for doing it.

There is choice available. Party composition is one. No one is saying you are bad if you don't have x y z job in your party, many setups are respected even if some job is better at some fight.

Except people will math out for which classes/compositions of raid group this is a DPS increase or decrease and where it falls off. Just like they've done with BLMs and piety.

You might not have a choice with party composition. Blm and pie is easy, but with a whole party someone will figure out when it is better given a set of conditions that your party may or may not be able to achieve, or want to achieve. For example, the difference in strats used by JP and NA groups. It is viable to use either but some find one easier than the other, or just like how it is done one way.
Or, it becomes a matter of choice like how they say thunder 1 and 2 are about the same.




I also want to add that sometimes it comes down to not "why aren't you doing it the better way?" but "why aren't you doing it my way?"

[Shori]

There is at least a bit of choice with Monk. The fists of wind I use if I'm lagging in EX Primals where the party is over-geared already, fists of fire is obviously the majority of runs, and fists of earth (with CDs from maruader) if I'm solo-ing or if the tank's connection dropped.

[Krylo]

fists of earth (with CDs from maruader) if I'm solo-ing or if the tank's connection dropped.

I like to stance dance into Fists of Earth for unavoidable damage mechanics (like any time a primal does their signature move, for example, or when Glasys explodes, or when Nael swaps into phase 3, or if Cloud has a couple more stacks than she should etc. etc.) and then swap back to fire after. There's been many times when I and the tanks were the only ones left standing.

[Shori]

I like to stance dance into Fists of Earth for unavoidable damage mechanics (like any time a primal does their signature move, for example, or when Glasys explodes, or when Nael swaps into phase 3, or if Cloud has a couple more stacks than she should etc. etc.) and then swap back to fire after. There's been many times when I and the tanks were the only ones left standing.

I do this too in Titan Ex. Gone are the days that Mnk and Drg were the first to go - we're now the last ones standing XD

[Ashkendor]

I do this too in Titan Ex. Gone are the days that Mnk and Drg were the first to go - we're now the last ones standing XD

Lol yup. I use Fists of Earth and Keen Flurry on double Wicked Wheel in Garuda X (it's fun to see yourself parry it, lol). Yesterday while running Titan X in Duty Finder, I ended up tanking Titan from about 2 or 3% till he died when the 2nd tank died. The first had already fallen off. Fists of Earth > Keen Flurry > Bloodbath > keep on pawnchin him right in the rocks.

[Kuurei]

As DRG, I pop Keen Flurry on unavoidable physical damage, since my parry is pretty decent anyways. TBH I was contemplating doing a reverse-tank thing and having my entire right side be crafted jewelry with "tank" stats but meld in materia to add additional dps. Sometimes surviviability itself = more dps.

[Zumi]

You can sacrifice dps stats for vit to make HP checks you won't otherwise meet some of the first groups that beat fcob did this.

[Sylkis]

Most people have replied with VIT but it's only good for like the first week or so of endgame because the damage loss is too great. It's also temporary as the left side pieces include VIT.