So with the recent changes to gear that can hold materia and new crafted gears, can we consider PIE an option now in our gear?

If melding full crit or det is going to be the standard, how much of a % increase in dps would that be? Around 5% roughly?

If we fully melded piety onto our gear (pentameld), we'd be getting around another 500 piety (~2k Mp) which then equates to one extra dark arts usage. Would that equate to a higher dps amount than the 5% crit / det gives?

Also consider higher uptimes on defensive cooldowns that use dark arts.

I haven't worked out how much Piety you could get on the end game lore gears though, so it might only be viable if you could pentameld on the crafted gear.

Not sure if this would be any good, just thought it was interesting and i'm hoping to get some discussion about it going on here