Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[PArcher]

EDIT: With EMX's new Stat-Weights, Astrum Mail & Arm Guards are BiS for 470, 472, 480, 500 & 520 accuracy.

Buy these after Weathered Liberator, gotcha

[Craiger]

So, what should I do with my Tomes of Soldiery ? Get Weathered Liberator or spend on armor and get Zodiac weapon ? And how do I get the "Unidentified Allagan Tomestone" to get the Liberator ?

[Dervy]

Buy these after Weathered Liberator, gotcha

Yup. Remember to go for your Leviathan EX weapon however! It'll be best weapon until you get Liberator

[PArcher]

Yup. Remember to go for your Leviathan EX weapon however! It'll be best weapon until you get Liberator

Yeah, just going to take time. First priority is getting my Allagan Spear, then doing Levi EX

[Dunsford]

Fully materia'd out i90 gear is REALLY good for some slots. Just doing some quick numbers, compare the Wolfram Sabs (i90 crafted) fully materia'd out to the i100 weathered sabs and i110 Astrum Sabatons here is what we get:

i90 crafted > i100 weathered by 6.322 str
i90 crafted > i110 astrum by 2.997 str
i90 crafted <<< i110 high allagan by 2.157str

Final stats on crafted boots with materia would be:
18 str
20 vit
21+0 crit
11+4 det
0+21 SS
0+9 acc

[Dunsford]

The max materia you can put in it can be found simply by looking at i90 pairs of boots, gloves, or heads (all have the same max stats). For example, you can group Skill Speed, Crit, Accuracy, and Parry into 1 group with Determination (and piety) being the smaller group. We see these boots have 21 crit, so we KNOW they can take 21 ss. Also these boots have only 11 Det, but the allagan boots have 15 det, so we know the max det on i90 boots is 15 so these boots can take +4 det.

As a side note, with these paterns you can determine the max stats for any type of gear. Also note the secondary stats always come in sets of high stat and low stat. For example the crafted boots have maxed out crit and non max det whereas the Astrum/weathered come with high ACC low Det, partly why crafted shits on them so badly.

---Credit to EasymodeX for the new stat weights

[Butcherboy]

Ty Dun. I was actually thinking of that. Byt the looks of it it can come close or neck to neck in terms of potency. Good to know. As I would go for i90 crafted gear pieces

[Dunsford]

A word of caution, for legs and chest there doesn't exist enough materia in the world to max out 2 stats on them... not until we start convering i90 materia which we'd have to hope would turn into Materia V. So that'd hold 24 Det and 34 crit/ss/acc. so the highest materia as of now for Det is 6 per and Crit/ is 9 per... so to max one stat it takes 4 PIECES OF MATERIA, for 1 stat. Yep never craft a chest or legs ever lol

[Ihm]

To cap a non body/legs piece you need a Tier 3 to complete it's low secondary stat, then 2 Tier 4s and a Tier 2 to give it a third capped secondary stat, then another Tier 4 for the final stat. Melding is too much of a headache...

[Dunsford]

Crafted gear update, important stuff!

Here are stat weights on full materia i90 crafted gear with a note on accuracy at the bottom.

head
i90 crafted str value = 18+15(.325)+21(.204)+21(.178) = 30.897
i100 weathered = 21+23(.178) = 25.094
i110 astrum = 24+25(.178) = 28.45
i110 high allag = 24+18*(.204) = 27.672

hands
i90 crafted str value = 30.897
i100 weathered = 21+23(.204)+11(.325) = 29.267
i110 astrum = 24+25(.204)+12(.325) = 33
i110 high allag = 24+18(.204) = 27.672

belt
i90 crafted = 13+11(.325)+16(.204)+16(.178) = 22.687
i100 weathered = 16+17(.178) = 19.026
i110 astrum = 18+19(.178) = 21.382
i110 high allag = 18+9(.325)+19(.204) = 24.801

Is the belt worth it? Since its stat maxes are so low, you can max each stat with only 3 materia and use the last 2 to max accuracy. That makes it the HIGHEST acc belt in the game while being 2nd best dps belt.