What materia should be used for Ninja?

[Scarletashe]

I can't find any guides for this and was wondering for Ninja lore and alex stuff what materia should I be using? Is it best to use crit and det or all crit or all det? I don't do any savage alex. The hardest thing I do are ex primals. What's the best stat to focus on?

[AskaRay]

Honestly if the hardest thing you do is EX primals...you don't need melds.

[Powercow]

Crit, if you can. If the equipment has a higher amount of crit than the other stat you won't be able to meld it, at which point determination. If you're using a grade IV materia the skillspeed one is fine too (since you get 9 of that compared to 6 of det) but really it's a wash in that regard and I think most people would rather just go for the det.

But yeah, crit if it can be slotted in it. Your gear has more than enough accuracy and vitality for EX primals and the like so you don't need to stress in that regard.

[Darkstride]

Depends on the gear piece. You can't do "all Crit" or "all DET" due to stat cap restrictions. What you're capable of melding is dependant on what stats are already present on the gear. Crit has the highest stat weight for secondary stats on NIN, but you won't always be able to meld more Crit.

The reason there's no guides is likely because there really isn't a lot of "choice" in melding. As long as your Accuracy is ok, you meld your best stat until it is capped on that piece of gear, and then move onto the next stat.

[Raminax]

Honestly if the hardest thing you do is EX primals...you don't need melds.

Not melding your stuff is doing your allies a disservice, even if you don't do Savage Alexander. You can get one free tier 5 materia of your choice through Void Ark every week, and tier 4s are cheap as chips, even if you can't do rank 3 ARR Beast Tribe quests yourself. With those kind of circumstances, not melding is just asking to be carried.

(Just for fun's sake, imagine two fully Lore/Midan geared persons, one of them not melded and the other fully so. Even with just tier 4 crit materia, the melded guy would have a 4% crit chance advantage over the other. That's nothing to sneeze at.)

[MugenMugetsu]

I would suggest Quickarm Materia for the added Skill Speed. If Skill Speed is already on the piece of gear, but it has no Crit Rate + then go with Savage Aim. Determination (Savage Might) is also a good option, but of the three I would definitely choose Skill Speed first, but that's just my personal preference.

[Ashkendor]

(Just for fun's sake, imagine two fully Lore/Midan geared persons, one of them not melded and the other fully so. Even with just tier 4 crit materia, the melded guy would have a 4% crit chance advantage over the other. That's nothing to sneeze at.)

Is this based on the assumption that you can fully slot a set of armor with Crit IV materia, though? Stat caps are a thing.

I would suggest Quickarm Materia for the added Skill Speed. If Skill Speed is already on the piece of gear, but it has no Crit Rate + then go with Savage Aim. Determination (Savage Might) is also a good option, but of the three I would definitely choose Skill Speed first, but that's just my personal preference.

If you stack nothing but skill speed, all you do is make yourself zero out on TP faster.

[Alahra]

Critical Hit Rating is your best stat for NIN now. If the piece is already capped on that, go with Determination. Never meld Skill Speed—due to mudra-GCD clipping, Skill Speed provides very low returns for NIN (it's about half as valuable as Critical is, for comparison).

[Sirus222]

Crit and Det. dont' meld skillspeed, the last thing you need as a nin is skillspeed.

[Maero]

AS others said i would not recommend skill speed, no point of burning tp faster then we already do. Crit and det, although acc may be needed as well for certain content as you may miss attacks