Common melee-DPS gear. (QoL)

[Griffey]

I have a theory about this. I dont think it has to do with lore at all, more to do with efficiency.

I think in the beginning the intent was that every dps class had their own style of gear, only healers and tanks shared their stuff. then they started adding more dps classes and, to save time and space, started sharing sets between jobs to make things easier.

The original dps lineup was mnk, drg, brd and blm, each with their own unique gear set.

Smn was added fairly late into development. It was a job voted for by fans, so im guessing that as a quick fix they made them use the same gear as blm. Might explain why it's the only job that shares a class with sch too.

Nin was introduced in a later patch. If I remember correctly a lot of their gear was just mnk stuff with DEX added to it (ie the Fuma set from LotA) until ninjas started getting their own set.

Finally they add mch, which is a ranged dps that uses DEX. It would make sense just to share this with brd.

Who knows, they may add more dps jobs that share gear sets with the melee jobs. I could totally see samurai sharing with drg, dancer sharing with ninja and... Uh... Puppet master sharing with mnk? A lalafell can dream.