Why do Ninja and Monk use different gear?

[Brannigan]

The problem most of you guys fail to see with the NIN-DEX issue is that by making NIN a strength class you are not solving anything. Just wait for when they add another STR based dps, such as samurai, then the gear balance will be three and three. Right now yes, NIN shares right side with bard and machinist, and this is slightly unfair, but its the most fair it's going to possibly be with the current jobs.

You don't need to make Ninja a strength class, just put dexterity on monk gear. It does literally nothing for monk since they took parry rate away from it.

I don't like how BRD/MCH/NIN have to share accessories. In 4 man dungeons, tank and healer always get 100% drop if it's for their job. DRG/MNK and BLM/SMN have a smaller chance to meet another DPS that they have to fight for the loots.

This is mostly accurate except that tanks don't actually use the accessories they can roll need on, but that's a whole different thread. When I first saw the DEX trait for ninjas on XIVDB I figured they'd be on bard left/right side (since at the time bard also had its own gear).

Nope.

[Evangela]

I don't want to share anything with any job.

if the devs have enough of free time to make all the dragoon gears exclusive to just one job, I believe they can make unique gears for every job.

[LineageRazor]

I don't want to share anything with any job.

if the devs have enough of free time to make all the dragoon gears exclusive to just one job, I believe they can make unique gears for every job.

This belief makes... no sense at all?

Me: I can bake a cake in an hour.
You: If you can bake a cake in an hour, then I believe you can bake ten cakes in an hour!
Me: But... that's simply not true! My oven's not big enough, I don't have enough cake pans, and I simply can't work that fast even if I had those tools!
You: And make sure they're all different kinds of cake! I want each to be unique!

[Evangela]

tell me why dragoons always get unique gears. design-wise and stats-wise. other jobs have to share their gear with other 2-3 jobs or sometimes palette-swapped version of each other's.

[Colorful]

tell me why dragoons always get unique gears. design-wise and stats-wise. other jobs have to share their gear with other 2-3 jobs or sometimes palette-swapped version of each other's.

Always? Law gear is a pallete swap of all other melee gear iirc, Poetics is a palette swap of Monk, Alexander is pallette swap of Monk, ST is a palette swap of Monk and many other sets I assume. Don't remember Soldiery/CT/WoD, and Soldiery is no longer in Mor Dhona for me to check.

[Kahnom]

tell me why dragoons always get unique gears. design-wise and stats-wise. other jobs have to share their gear with other 2-3 jobs or sometimes palette-swapped version of each other's.

I guess str-user gears divided into light gears(mnk) and heavy gears(drg).and if Samurai is dps job,they would probably share gear with Dragoon.Well just guessing ..

[Colorful]

It was annoying enough being out rolled by other Ninjas in CT, and for that to happen again in Void Ark but with Monks too? No thanks... unless of course they switch it to a token system.

[RazeLandale]

Physical dps tables are way too bloated, where tanks, casters and healers get to share gear. I think monk and drg should share gear and nin with brd/mch UNLESS there's a specific reason they shouldn't.

Say, you've got some plate so you want that to be drg specific. That's reasonable, you can give monk and drg their own gear for that dungeon/raid/whatever. But if it's just a recolor? Just make one piece for both of them. For belts this should always be the case, because they're just another accessory slot.

[Felis]

Physical dps tables are way too bloated, where tanks, casters and healers get to share gear. I think monk and drg should share gear and nin with brd/mch UNLESS there's a specific reason they shouldn't.

Different amount of main stats. DRG gear have more def than MNK gear. This would mean keep the stats how they are and buff the monk with more def or change the stats and nerf DRG with less def.
Also different favourite 2nd stats.

[RazeLandale]

Different amount of main stats. DRG gear have more def than MNK gear. This would mean keep the stats how they are and buff the monk with more def or change the stats and nerf DRG with less def.
Also different favourite 2nd stats.

It'd be fine to change the defense either direction, it's a fairly useless stat.

As for secondary stats like crit, det etc, it's not like SE caters to giving classes optimum secondary stats anyway. If anything they outright avoid it.