Black Mage

[IllyriaKnotfred]

Save tomes for the Weapon if you are able to down o6s

Ah good call. Yeah I just cleared O6S with my static tonight =D

[P_Wing]

Chest might be better if you have 4.1 chest but haven't got ilvl 350 crafted one yet because weapons are +5 ilvl (355 Byakko -> 360 Tome) but chest is +20 ilvl which might yield more damage 340 -> 360. Didn't actually calculate Math tho.

[HaroldSaxon]

The only time you should go for the chest before the weapon is if you feel you are going to kill o8s in the near future, because our o8s weapon has the highest WD.

[Maero]

Harold is correct Weapon>Chest and so on but
myself i will most likely get the Sigmascape Normal chest piece over the tome one for now and the weapon does not even have spell speed does it? I may be getting mixed up with the Primal weapon.
Also i went with crafted weapon for my Red Mage and not sure yet for blm. (Yes i know weapon dmg is better on tome weapon but i question SE for it's secondary stats in SB for weapons..)
And i will never get housing it seems so may as well spend my gil somewhere :/

[IllyriaKnotfred]

It doesn't have spell speed but the tome weapon has 1 more weapon damage so spellspeed or not I can only assume its better?

[HaroldSaxon]

It doesn't have spell speed but the tome weapon has 1 more weapon damage so spellspeed or not I can only assume its better?

Weapon Damage > All