Why do Ninja and Monk use different gear?

[Brannigan]

1) STR does nothing for Ninja. DEX does nothing for Monk.
2) They already just use recolors of the same set.
3) Pre-ninja monk gear had dexterity added to it too.


It just feels kinda stupid that melee DPS items make up like 40% of the drop pool. Ideally they'd shove dragoon on a set with someone else as well, but they probably don't want to give them tank defense.

tank
healer
caster
ranger
ninja
dragoon
monk

This is lame.

[AskaRay]

You're right.. it should be
everyone separated

So my glamours don't interfere with each other.

[Gralna]

Origionally they were suppose to, and ninja was suppose to use str as it's main dmg stat. However, devs saw debates about if ninja would be str or dex based and decided to change them at the last min to a dex based melee dps. You can see this in that for all post 50 gear ninja can wear from before they were added, is shared with mnk.

[ruskie]

You can see this in that for all post 50 gear ninja can wear from before they were added, is shared with mnk.

No the reason they share is because they needed to give them some sort of gear because they were not about to make full gearsets - they just added DEX and NIN/ROG to the MNK gears for that time. And MNK fit better for the melee aspect of NIN than BRD did.

[AltanRapsied]

They may add samurai on mnk though...

[SendohJin]

They may add samurai on mnk though...

they should add SAM to DRG. combine MNK and NIN again.

yes, it would be ideal to have gear for every job but since the dev resources are not available, it makes sense visually to pair them up that way.

what i would like to see for shared gear with 3 new jobs.

WAR/DRK - heavy armor - like Binding Coil, Odin
PLD/RDM - plated robes - like Second Coil, CT, WoD
MNK/NIN - like CT
DRG/SAM - light armor, chain mail
BRD/MCH - vest, shirts
BLM/SMN - robes
WHM/AST - robes
SCH/ some healer - half gowns/robes

[Gralna]

No the reason they share is because they needed to give them some sort of gear because they were not about to make full gearsets - they just added DEX and NIN/ROG to the MNK gears for that time. And MNK fit better for the melee aspect of NIN than BRD did.

If they had planned to make Nin dex based from the start, it would of been much easier to have them share gear with brd, instead of having them share with mnk, and adding dex to all mnk gear.

[Adventica6]

we don't need 4 dex users that's why...

nin brd mch dex

drg, mnk str,

[Brannigan]

we don't need 4 dex users that's why...

nin brd mch dex

drg, mnk str,

That's only three though. Gear sets right now could easily be

Tank
Healer
Ranged
Caster
Mnk/Nin
Drg

That still leaves dragoon alone, but at least monk and ninja can be combined without changing much of anything. Just make sure the next class that's introduced uses DRG gear.

[MaethusXion]

Gonna be funny in 4.0...

Tank- PLD/WAR/DRK
Healer- WHM/SCH/AST
Tanklike- DRG/SAM?
STR Melee- MNK/SAM?
DEX Melee- NIN/RDM?
INT Melee?- RDM?
DEX Ranged- BRD/MCH
Caster- SMN/BLM

Really though they need to better consolidate the DPS drops, since DEX is useless to DRG/MNK and STR useless to NIN/BRD/MCH, they technically could do just 4 sets (Tank, Healer, Caster, PhysicalDPS)... aside from oddball DRG and it's Phys/Mag defenses so different...