AST Gear BiS

[AnMex]

With the current gear in 3.07 how are you guys deciding astros gear? Focusing on crit, piety, or det?

It seems me that you can get a really decent amount of crit with astros eso gear combined with the gordian.

How are you guys doing it?

[Akyio]

just focus on as high lvl gear as possible. i dont think there is a lot of meaning into walking around with 10-20 ilvl lower pieces just to get as high as desired possible secondary stat.

[VitalSuit]

As of right now since you can't do much mixing and matching just get as high an ilvl as you can. Personally I think AST benefits from Crit and Det the most so when the time comes where we can mix and match armor more the stats would probably be like Mind > Crit > Det > Pie > SpS

[AlexanderThorolund]

I think crit too. Astro definitely benefits from crit.

[AnMex]

I really like having high crit as astro especially since essential dignity can crit. For example astros pants, which would you choose? Gordian is crit piety and welkin is det piety.

Also how do you determine when you have enough piety? Is it just a matter of feeling it out?

[Cynfael]

Crit is not that amazing from a healing perspective. The only reason SCHs tend to prioritize crit is that Adloquium is fantastic when it crits (and shielding in general is much better with crit, but I'm not sure I would take the same approach with AST just for Noct). Otherwise you are usually better off prioritizing DET if you are purposefully timing your heals (as you should), since crit tends to contribute to overhealing.

For healers other than SCH I personally prefer DET and then PIE to taste, followed by CRT and finally SPSPD.

As for how much PIE you need, it's more of a preference, yes. It's rather difficult to wind up without a functional MP pool since PIE is very common on healer equipment, but WHM and AST are likely to prefer higher PIE values since they don't get 20% of their MP pool back ever 60 seconds in addition to the ability to use Energy Drain, like SCH. Their MP restoration tools are decent, but not quite as powerful as Aetherflow.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

No secondary stat has much impact right now. But that doesn't mean you can gear for specific gear. It's really questionable whether crit is really worth it or not, but same goes for determination. The only spells that really benefit from a big increase (regardless of overhealing) would be Aspected Benefic and aspected Helios in Nocturnal Sect. Whereas determination helps every single spell you have - Be it mitigation, DoTs or HoTs - regardless of your stance.

I'll repeat it again: Stats don't have much impact or value with current gear limitations.

Other topic concerning statweight:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...highlight=stat

[Zezaa]

i'm building it using different gear for Noct and diurnal sect.
SS for dirunal (754)
Pie for noct ( 16179MP <- based on my currently MP/pie)

I'm not sure if it will work well but i will give it a try anyway!

[Gallus]

WD>Mind>Piety>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SS>Det>Crit

Honestly, only the mind and piety are relevant, the rest don't do much...but if I was going to choose, I'd probably go for SS first, given how it would get further boosted by diurnal's 5% AS (which is very significant).