Alexander Gear Order Request: Ninja

[Shadow12000]

So, due to some last minute changes my static is having, I'll be switching to Ninja because I want a second melee in the group and I'm not great at Monk.

I noticed a thread in the tank forum discussing which loot on each stage of Alexander to go for each week, and feel like the DPS (and even healers) should be having this discussion, too. I feel it's especially needed due to the very likely possibility of us having to turn in the gear from Normal mode along with a token from Savage in order to get the Savage gear (the fact that they're called Prototype and that Savage gear was said to be the same look with better stats, but can be dyed).

So, including the free accessory token for clearing all four, what do you think is the most optimal gear upgrade route for Ninja? Assuming that un-upgraded gear will be at least i170.

[Odowla]

If you want to go the max DPS route (in time for savage)

All accesories + free one + belt + hat/gloves/boots (your choice).

[Shadow12000]

If you want to go the max DPS route (in time for savage)

All accesories + free one + belt + hat/gloves/boots (your choice).

Thank you!

[Odowla]

No problem. This build should give more main stat than going for all body pieces;
i believe its +4 mainstat from i180 to i190 accessories, vs +8 for say, a chest piece.. for 4 times the cost

[Behb]

It's difficult to find the optimal gear since we don't know how much accuracy we need for savage ... And some alex gear have ton of ACC on it.
Don't forget to keep that in mind when you choose your gear.

[Odowla]

I'd just swap out the i180 pieces with accuracy then, TBH - building for damage is generally easy to work with.

[LLamaPie]

So, due to some last minute changes my static is having, I'll be switching to Ninja because I want a second melee in the group and I'm not great at Monk.

Honestly dude, just get good as monk. Ninja is good but not nearly the level monk is. Just practice it instead of switching jobs. Monk is king right now on the DPS charts but I've seen dragoons do as well sometimes too.

[HeavensSword]

Honestly dude, just get good as monk. Ninja is good but not nearly the level monk is. Just practice it instead of switching jobs. Monk is king right now on the DPS charts but I've seen dragoons do as well sometimes too.

He should just play what he enjoys more.

[Shadow12000]

Honestly dude, just get good as monk. Ninja is good but not nearly the level monk is. Just practice it instead of switching jobs. Monk is king right now on the DPS charts but I've seen dragoons do as well sometimes too.

Yes, but it has no raid utility aside from making everyone take less damage from magic due to the new INT debuff on dragon kick. High damage output is literally their only draw. Ninja allows the tanks to constantly do more damage (or, since we have a WAR OT, I can just use AE twice instead), and have everyone do more damage for 10 seconds every third ninjutsu. Higher numbers on the entire raid seems better to me than just higher numbers on only myself, that's why I haven't bothered to get better at it.

EDIT: I'm not sure if it's true that Ifrit-Egi does more damage with each weapon damage resistance debuff on the target, but we don't have a SMN anyway, so the blunt damage still is only useful to the monk him/herself.

[Evangela]

I think I'll get the pieces with both DET & CRI on it, then get the ones with DET or CRI.

most Laws accessories for NIN give us skill speed and accuracy so I'll get Alex accessories with DET or CRI. not sure how many Accuracy we need for Alex savage though but I'll take DET & CRI over everything else for now.