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FFXIV 3.3 White Mage (WHM) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.3 UPDATED! WHM Best in slot guide! “Screw Ballad”. WHM Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So you haven’t been disheartened by Manipulator & Co! You’re back for more Robots in 3.3! If you’re trying to find the WHM BiS for 3.3 you’ve come to the right place! (Or a valid data point at the very least!)

3.3 Notes: The only relevant changes to BiS are the possibility to use the relic – Cane of the White Tsar. Stats? Well, you can’t go wrong with PIE. SS and ACC are also good, too.

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3.3 White Mage Best-in-Slot

WHM	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	Pie	SS	Det	Crit
Weapon	Prototype Midan Metal Cane	PIE V	PIE V	112	0	0	123
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Horn of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	72	0	66	0
Body	Augmented Hailstorm Coat of Healing	SS V	SS V	117	24	75	0
Hand	Midan Gloves of Healing	SS V	DET V	72	60	12	0
Belt	Midan Belt of Healing	SS V	-	54	12	34	0
Legs	Midan Trousers of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	104	0	0	112
Boots	Augmented Hailstorm Boots of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	72	69	0	0
Neck	Midan Neckband of Healing	SS V	-	54	48	0	0
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Healing	SS V	-	54	12	34	0
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Healing	SS V	-	54	48	0	0
Ring	Midan Ring of Healing	SS V	-	54	12	34	0
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Healing	PIE V	-	11	51	0	36
Food	Hot Chocolate	-	-	30	16	0	0
Stats	Totals from items ->	-	-	860	352	255	271
	Totals with base ->	-	-	1121	706	473	625

WHM BiS Discussion

Weapon? Honestly I don’t know if the 5 ilvls of Midan beats out Augmented or Relic. Personally, I’d be more than happy with the latter. I really don’t like crit, as you may know.

Why so much Piety? Piety is the most STABLE WHM STAT. Legit, it is the ONLY STAT that directly helps you in progression. Again, as most healers already know if you’re maxed out on iLvl, secondary stats don’t really matter. However, for pure power and the steps of reaching this point – Piety is the sole stat that will universally help you to reach “godhood”. The only reason you’d drop PIE is for niche reasons like absolute speed-running.

But I wanna deeps! Of all the healers, WHM has the poorest DPS efficiency with stifling mana costs and no sure-hit skills. As such PIE is still needed to an extent. What’s the best DPS stat? Crit fanboys will tell you crit, but that’s untrue. It’s ACCURACY!

There’s not much to discuss about this tiers WHM BiS. All slots have Piety except the ring, and there’s no suitable substitute.

Boots? Don’t really matter. You can use either boots and still be happy. It’s a direct tradeoff of SS or DET.

Lessen Piety? The easiest substitutes would be switching the pants and chest (Using: Midan Chest of Healing and Augmented Hailstorm Legs). You can also replace any and all PIE melds to SS, DET or ACC. It’s better to have too much mana and adjust your build, rather than too little and regret.

To anyone that doubts PIE, I cleared A4S with zero ballad using sac strat far below ilvl 210. That includes many solo-healing phases.

If you’re a fan of Crit, or put massive importance to any other substat than PIE (SS and DET are good for me, but it’s a far second from Piety) then this isn’t the BiS list for you.

WHM Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Weapon: is a legit “filler” until you down A8S. The stats are great!
Chest: Bought first since midan is A8S.
Boots: And this is next since A6S is midan.
Ring > Wrist > Earring (Ordering a bit irrelevant, but Ring first is value)

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: Legs, Helm, Gloves, Belt purely for the stats, then the “other accessories” Neck, Ring (Unupgraded).

Using up Pages and Midas Normal Parts

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

A5S: Ring > Neck > Any
A6S: Helm > Hand > Belt > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Pants > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 2 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Any (Gobdip could be a good choice and wait for the cane)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should WHM’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is something I get asked often so here it is

This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

Week	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
W1	pedal	lens	spring	spring
W2	pedal	lens	spring	spring
W3	chain	bolt	crank	crank
W4	bolt	bolt	any	any

W5 and up – ANY.

This avoids the chest (sucky stats), and rushes the legs (great stats). allowing you to get the Weapon > Chest from Lore at week 5 – covering all major body pieces. It also fills most body pieces by week 3.

Click the above!!!

WHM Crafted Gear Viability

In order to facilitate the speedy update of all BiS pages, I will not discuss every detail just yet. But of course, the info here will encompass 90% of your needs. I usually update this later on…

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Well, good luck on gearing your White Mage for 3.3, and I hope the robots drop the loot you need!

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FFXIV 3.2 Scholar (SCH) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! SCH Best in slot guide! “Sorry I was Cleric”. SCH Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So you’re back with Eos and Selene for Transformers II?! I suppose you’re here for the SCH BiS for 3.2 – if so you’ve found something useful! Shoutout of thanks to my co-healer: Giggly Giggles!

Quicknotes: Healers don’t care about ACC cap, so I’ll be writing the BiS for those first. I will try to put up a preliminary BiS for all other classes.

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3.2 Scholar Best-in-Slot

SCH	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	Crit	Pie	Det	SS	Notes
Weapon	Prototype Midan Metal Codex	PIE V	PIE V	123	112	0	0
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Augmented Hailstorm Crown of Healing	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	72	0	0
Body	Midan Coat of Healing (ANY)	CRIT V	CRIT V	102	0	0	112	ANY
Hand	Augmented Hailstorm Gloves of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	69	72	0	0
Belt	Augmented Hailstorm Belt of Healing	PIE V	-	51	49	0	0
Legs	Midan Trousers of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	112	104	0	0
Boots	Midan Boots of Healing	CRIT V	CRIT V	24	72	46	0
Neck	Augmented Primal Choker of Healing	CRIT V	-	12	38	49	0
Earring	Midan Earrings of Healing (ANY)	CRIT V	-	48	0	0	51	ANY
Wrist	Midan Bracelet of Healing	PIE V	-	51	49	0	0
Ring	Midan Ring of Healing	CRIT V	-	12	54	34	0
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Healing	CRIT V	-	48	0	0	51
Food	Bakes Pipira Pira	-	-	37	0	0	0
Stats	Totals from items ->			758	622	129	214
	Totals w base, melds, gear ->			1112	883	347	568

>>> MELDS CAN BE CHANGED TO ACC V IN ALL SLOTS <<<

SCH BiS Discussion

Crit > Pie > Det > SS is pretty clear cut for most Scholars out there. Sadly, the gear we’re given in this patch forces quite a bit of SS on us.

A more stable evolution and one I prefer more (as noted in the table above) is to change up the Body and Earring to –

Augmented Hailstorm Coat of Healing
Augmented Primal Earrings of Healing
Lose Crit (BAD), Lose SS (GOOD)
Gain DET (GOOD), Gain Piety (GOOD)

So as we see from the above, the swaps result in 2 GOODS vs 1 BAD 1 GOOD, which is a gain IF YOU DON’T WANNA STACK CRIT LIKE A MADMAN. (In this case the tradeoff is justifiable, man!)

Accuracy Melds? Are totally legit. It’s the premiere DPS stat for healers (Piety probably second…), then of course CRIT for SCH. Given this factoid Melding Accuracy in all gear is OK, and probably gonna be a popular choice.

I know it’s massively unpopular – but I myself highly value DET on SCH. If this belief is more widespread than I think, please comment so I can add a tab for that.

SCH Lore Tomestone Buy Order

Weapon: Is a decent “filler”, and gives the most bang for buck…
- But you have to time it with the Hypercharged Tomestone, so you’ll likely go further down the list before actually buying weapon.
Helm: Getting leftside first, with the hardest to obtain being top priority.
Hand: –
Belt: This marks the end of left-side.
Ring: Since we’re likely stuck with a 210~
Neck: Marks the end of all Lore buyable BiS.

Everything ELSE IS OPTIONAL! The next best things are Body, Earring for the swap mentioned above. After than Complete Leftside > Rightside.

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

The boxes below are expandable on click!!!

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

This strategy purely outlines the “speediest BiS” getting:

A5S: Ring > Bracelet > Earring
A6S: Boots > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Legs > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 3 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Body > Any (Gobdip is OK and just wait for the Codex)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should SCH’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is something I get asked often so here it is…

This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

SCH	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	pedal	pedal	spring	spring
Week 2	chain	bolt	spring	spring
mega	value	ends	week	2
Week 3	bolt	lens	lens	shaft
Week 4	bolt	bolt	crank	shaft

W2 is the end of “value”, W5 and up – ANY. This method obtains all the Crit gear. For BOLTS -> Neckband first. Not much else to say here.

Click the boxes above to expand!!

SCH Crafted Gear Viability

So I can quickly work on all BiS pages, I’ll come back to discuss every detail on the second pass. But of course, 90% of your informational needs are here already.

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GL decking our your Scholar for BiS! I hope deez gob bots drop the loot you need!

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FFXIV 3.2 Black Mage (BLM) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! BLM Best in slot guide! “Lose Eno delete acct”. BLM Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

Come back to prove that magic beats machinery in 3.2? Thanks for checking out out 3.2 BLM BiS! If it was a little unclear to anyone last time – it’s damn certain NOW: Spell Speed is king. Shoutout to our BLM Bazu Zhilei.

Quicknotes: SS is the undoubted emperor of stats for Black Mages – if you disagree, this is not the BiS for you.

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3.2 Black Mage Best-in-Slot

BLM	BLM BiS	Meld 1	Meld 2	Acc	SS	Crit	Det
Weapon	Midan Metal Rod	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	123	24	83
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Horn of Casting	ACC V	ACC V	24	69	48	-
Body	Midan Coat of Casting	SS V	SS V	-	102	112	-
Hand	Augmented Hailstorm Gloves of Casting	SS V	SS V	69	24	48	-
Belt	Midan Belt of Casting	SS V	-	-	48	-	49
Legs	Augmented Hailstorm Bottoms of Casting	ACC V	ACC V	24	112	-	75
Boots	Augmented Hailstorm Boots of Casting	SS V	SS IV	-	69	69	-
Neck	Augmented Primal Choker of Casting	SS V	-	51	12	-	34
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Casting	SS V	-	-	48	-	49
Wrist	Midan Bracelets of Casting	ACC V	-	12	51	-	34
Ring	Midan Ring of Casting	SS V	-	51	12	-	34
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Casting	ACC V	-	12	51	36	-
Food	Marron Glace	-	-	11	37	-	-
Stats	Totals from gear			254	758	337	358
	Grand total			608	1112	691	576

BLM BiS Discussion

1100+ Spell Speed – I can end the discussion with that.

So why not crit? So here’s how it works SS works better the more of it you have – hands down. In an extreme example, you only need a few points of SS to decrease cast time from 0.2 to 0.1 – that’s a 100% DPS increase (in this unrealistic but easy to understand scenario).

But crit works better when stacked, too? Yes it does, but not as good as SS with for BLM – since they have an infinite resource it’s all about getting as many fire cycles as you can in a fight or phase, NOT about getting the most damage per skill you do.

SS also increases your safety by a large margin – a stat that CRIT simply cannot emulate in any way shape or form. KEEPING your ENO, squeezing MORE from LEYLINES, moving out of danger AoE faster – there’s countless immeasurable bonuses SS grants to any BLM.

As for the gear there’s very little to discuss in this patch. Does it have SS? Wear it. None? Accuracy. It was a brainless process to reach this point.

Accuracy Cap? You need 6x ACC V’s to cap – 7 without food.

Creme Brulee vs Marron Glace? Is honestly a non-issue. You have to meld an extra ACCV to cover for the loss of Marron Glace. It’s maybe… MAYBE better by around 0.0004%. maybe. But the cost? Secretly, many of us care about how expensive Creme Brulee can be :)

At this point I’m just reaching into the void for more discussion points. Unupgraded Ring, while tempting – is likely a DPS loss. but again, if you’re an SS freak go for it… it’s another “Decimal” change, man.

BLM Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The lore tomestone spending order is to get BiS fastest:

Weapon: is priority but you may not have the hypercharged tome. Just go down the list for a bit while you wait.
Legs: By order of Midan depth
Gloves (Need accuracy?) Boots (Has better DPS).
Ring > Choker (Accuracy) > Earring (DPS).

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers should be prioritized (Chest, Head, Belt) then Bracelet, Ring (230).

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

The goal with this listed strat is to gain BiS fastest

A5S: Belt > Ring > Bracelet > Any
A6S: Head > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 3 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Body > Any (Gobdip and wait for Staff is OK)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should BLM’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

BLM	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	lens	lens	shaft
Week 2	bolt	pedal	crank	shaft
Week 3	bolt	pedal	crank	shaft
Week 4	bolt	bolt	ANY	shaft

Getting pants is our priority with lore so we avoid it here. Shaft, while stats aren’t bad – it’s more of a concession to Midan Chest BiS and us having to use a filler for quite some time. This takes care of most left-side pieces to assist in survivability. Bolts? Ring > Earring > Any. Week5+ ANY.

Click the above!!!

BLM Crafted Gear Viability

To be updated later on to make all other BiS pages. 90% of info you’re here for is here already anyways.

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With 1000+ SS I hope it also increases the speed in which you acquire your Black Mage BiS in 3.2! GL with it!

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FFXIV 3.2 Warrior (WAR) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! WAR Best in slot guide! “Ax is Hax”. WAR Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

Back again to deliver the pain to deez goblins again I see? Welcome to the 3.2 WAR BiS! If for some reason you were hiding under a rock… – as of 3.2 tanks stack VITALITY! Thanks to Claes Henrietta for the help!

Quicknotes: Warrior BiS is an iteration of the PLD “Basic tank” set – the WAR BiS will account for the minimum 590 Skill Speed!

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3.2 Warrior Best-in-Slot

WAR BiS	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	Acc	Crit	Det	SS
Weapon	Prototype Midan Metal Axe	SS V	SS V	-	123	83	24
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Augmented Hellfire Mask of Fending	SS V	SS V	-	69	46	24
Body	Midan Coat of Fending	CRIT V	CRIT V	112	102	-	-
Hand	Midan Gauntlets of Fending	CRIT V	CRIT V	48	24	-	69
Belt	Augmented Hellfire Belt of Fending	SS V	-	-	51	-	12
Legs	Midan Breeches of Fending	SS V	SS V	-	112	75	24
Boots	Augmented Hellfire Sabatons of Fending	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	69	-	-
Neck	Augmented Primal Choker of Fending	STR V	-	-	36	-	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Fending	STR V	-	51	-	-	36
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Fending	STR V	-	51	-	34	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Fending	STR V	-	36	-	-	51
Ring	Midan Ring of Fending	STR V	-	51	-	34	-
Food	Steamed Staff	-	-	-	40	-	16
Stats	Total stats from gear	-	-	418	626	272	256
	End value	-	-	772	980	490	610

WAR BiS Discussion

590 Skillspeed: Is the minimum needed SS for optimal rotation, (616+ to be safe). Which this set applies. The PLD BiS is the baseline for any tank set, and this set if merely modification of it, only changes being:

Earrings, to get some more SS (and puts us above ACC CAP)
Melding, wherein many DET melds become SS.

Thankfully, we don’t lose ANY crit at all to accomodate SS (But loses some DET and Parry, which is a pretty value change).

For those not yet A8S cleared – the 590 SS is almost inevitable as both the lore weapon and coat have SS.
(Augmened Hellfire Battleaxe, Augmented Hellfire Armor of Fending)

Don’t care about 590 SS? Check out the PLD BiS.

Why STRENGTH melded in accessories? Yes, 3.2 is all about VIT on tanks – BUT that doesn’t mean STR is WORTHLESS. In fact, it still EASILY beats any secondary stat in terms of DPS (Crit, DET, SS). So we maximize this by melded STR when we can – in this case, only Accessories.

Accuracy isn’t a problem in this set, unlike the PLD set which requires a minor tweak depending on preference.

Ultimately the Warrior BiS is pretty amazing, with only a tiny percentage of “wasted” stats (A tiny bit of parry and accuracy). Thankfully, with the exception of melds – the difference is just ONE item (and weapon).

WAR Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Boots: Acc Crit – a stable first buy.
Mask: Since it drops later on…
Belt: Since it drops later on…
(Preference) Any other left-side filler (Chest>Legs>Gloves)
Weapon: Waiting until left is “complete” isn’t bad for tanks.
Ring > Wrist > Earring > Neck (Accuracy first!)

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers should be prioritized (Chest, Legs, Gloves) then Ring (Unupgraded).

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

The page spending method below is purely for fastest BiS:

A5S: Belt > Ring > Any
A6S: Hands > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 5 > Any
A7S: LEGS > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 2 > Any
A8S: Body > Weapon > Any (Gobdip then wait for Sword is OK)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should WAR’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

WAR	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	lens	spring	shaft
Week 2	bolt	lens	spring	shaft
Week 3	bolt	bolt	spring	shaft
Week 4	bolt	any	spring	shaft

We avoid pedals (for BOOTS) since we pick that up with Lore ASAP. We also cannot get hands in a timely manner since we’re going for both legs and chest – so you can get gloves in Week 5. Otherwise, this method get ALL major body pieces quite fast.

Click the above!!!

WAR Crafted Gear Viability

As I said up top, going for quicker notes so I can update all BiS pages, will be going back for this on the second pass.

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I hope you Fell Cleave your way to loot, progress and broken robots once again! GL gearing up your Warrior for BiS in 3.2!

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FFXIV 3.2 Machinist (MCH) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! MCH Best in slot guide! “BRB buying bullets in town”. MCH Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So your 1 key hasn’t worn out yet and you’re back to being a “Robot Sympathizer” which isn’t too popular with the Eorzeans! Thankfully, MCH got some pretty beefy buffs – so GL getting your 3.2 MCH BiS! Thanks to Tiffany Faye for the help!

Quicknotes: Of course, is very similar to BRD BiS. The most glaring difference I can tell you is that SS is absolutely garbage for MCH.

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3.2 Machinist Best-in-Slot

MCN	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	ACC	CRIT	DET	SS
Weapon	Midan Metal Musketoon	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	110	-	123
Offhand	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Goggles of Aiming	DET V	DET V	48	69	24	-
Body	Augmented Torrent Tabard of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT V	112	24	75	-
Hand	Augmented Torrent Armguards of Aiming	DET V	DET V	48	69	24	-
Belt	Midan Belt of Aiming	DET V	-	-	51	46	-
Legs	Augmented Torrent Tights of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	102	-	112
Boots	Augmented Torrent Boots of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT IV	-	69	66	-
Neck	Midan Neckband of Aiming	DET V	-	36	51	12	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Aiming	DET V	-	-	51	46
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Aiming	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	-	48	49	-
Ring	Midan Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	36	12	-	51
Food	Baked Pipira Pira	-	-	18	37	-	-
Stats	Total stats from gear			349	741	342	286
	End value			703	1095	560	640

only making short discussions to update all BiS quickly

MCH BiS Discussion

640 SS? What gives, man!? Well, SS is locked in 3 key pieces of gear

100+ from 245 Weapon (Silly not to use this)
100+ from Legs (Other legs are ACC DET and no crit…)
50+ from Ring (Un-upgraded ring is OK, but lose too much ACC!)

So with that, we’re stuck. You may not like it, but we HAVE NO CHOICE.

Why not use Midan Body? It has CRIT! Well, there’s this other stat that’s slightly more important that Crit sometimes – it’s called ACCURACY. The 50~ Crit lost from body more than makes up for the tons of accuracy WE ACTUALLY NEED. It’s just a 50~ point loss, shh bby is ok.

Frontal Accuracy? This set is 20 points away from Frontal ACC cap. If you find yourself needing it, simply replace 1 (2 max) DET melds for ACC.

Technically, you can swap the body and legs, as both of those slots have mirrored stats. This BiS just assumes everyone will get the legs sooner than the body. Just tossin’ that out there… meaning:

Choosing Midan Body + Midan Legs (saves lore)
Choosing Lore Body + Lore Legs (Earlier BiS power spike to beat A7/8)

If your MCH is an alt you may consider the Midan option.

It is as of yet confirmed if Piety increases your worship levels and boosts proc chance. If that’s the case you can check WHM… (This is a joke, k).

MCH Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Weapon: Not bad so why not? You’ll have to buy this at some point, man.
Body: By order of Midan counterpart…
Legs: By order of Midan counterpart…
Hands: This before boots since the stats are way better.
Boots: Yep… “That’s a lot of Lore, MAN!!!!”
Ring > Wrist > Earring in that order of value.

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers should be prioritized (Head > Belt), then accessories Neck > Ring(Unupgraded).

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

The below spending method is for getting BiS fastest:

A5S: Belt > Ring > Neck > Any
A6S: Head > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 4 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Any (Gobdip then just wait for Gun is fine…)

B-but Mahiko Senpai, the piece I bought dropped the next week! Don’t blame me. Blame yourself, or God. Not “God Mahiko”, just God. Or yourself.

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should MCH’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

MCH	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	bolt	spring	spring
Week 2	pedal	pedal	spring	spring
Week 3	bolt	lens	crank	crank
Week 4	bolt	bolt	lens	ANY

So we’re avoiding body here since we’re picking up lore ASAP. Every other body piece is pure value and will serve you as far as A8S! The stats are surprisingly great. BOLTS = Ring > Neck > Any. Week 5+ ANY.

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MCH Crafted Gear Viability

I’ll be updating this in the second pass just so I can finish more BiS pages asap. 90% of the info you’ll need is already here, though.

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FFXIV 3.2 Summoner (SMN) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! SMN Best in slot guide! “Pet battle isn’t new content”. SMN Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

Taking “pet battles” to the next level again with SMN in 3.2? Well if you’re looking for Summoner BiS you’ve found it! Welcome to our 3.2 SMN BiS Guide!

Quicknotes: I’m a believer of CRIT > SS >= DET. Read notes.

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3.2 Summoner Best-in-Slot

SMN	BiS	Meld 1	Meld 2	Acc	Crit	SS	Det
Weapon	Midan Metal Grimoire	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	110	-	118
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Horn of Casting	CRIT V	CRIT IV	-	69	69	-
Body	Midan Coat of Casting	SS V	SS V	-	112	102	-
Hand	Augmented Hailstorm Gloves of Casting	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	69	-	-
Belt	Augmented Hailstorm Belt of Casting	SS V	-	36	51	12	-
Legs	Augmented Hailstorm Bottoms of Casting	CRIT V	CRIT IV	-	24	112	75
Boots	Augmented Hailstorm Boots of Casting	SS V	SS IV	-	69	69	-
Neck	Midan Neckband of Casting	SS V	-	35	51	12	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Casting	CRIT V	-		12	36	49
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Casting	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Casting	CRIT V	-	-	48	51	-
Ring	Midan Ring of Casting	CRIT V	-	51	12	-	34
Food	Baked Pipira Pira	-	-	18	37	-	-
Stats	Totals from gear			260	712	463	276
	Grand total			614	1066	817	494

SMN BiS Discussion

Spell Speed vs. DET with summoner in 3.+

Ok there’s a few reasons why there’s a lot more Spell Speed than Determination in the list above.

Reason 1) Gear restriction: The spread of stats forces us to take quite a bit of spell speed by default. Of course, CRIT is still king.

Reason 2) SS softcap: “new summoner” has a supposed SS requirement of 750(+). Please remember that SS now affects DoT’s…

Reason 3) Scaling: Now that you have an SS req, and you’re forced to get quite a bit of it via gear… why not go all in? DET doesn’t scale at all, and SS gets better the more of it you have- so why not? Then “On-crit SS+” is massive… so this is another scaling property of SS on summoner.

B-b-b-ut STAT WEIGHTS?! I honestly feel DET is overrated and SS underrated with SMN. I don’t 100% buy into numerical stat weights when it comes to classes with speed-stat requirements. SS it at the very least EQUAL to DET – And even this guy seems to think so.

So if SS is “equal” to det or close to it… why not go for the SCALING stat? It’s pure madness to pile on det when you have a choice to pile on SS.

And as always SS have the upper hand in terms of being the only stat that allows you to fight raid mechanics and latency easier, and helps out with movement and botched rotations – DET cannot do this.

Want to reach Acc cap without food? Just simply put 1 Accuracy V in your melds.

SMN Lore Tomestone Buy Order

This lore spending strat is to get BiS fastest:

Weapon: technically “filler” but c’mon man. Any serious SMN will pick this up.
Legs: By order of Midan appearance.
Hands: Since it has ACC.
Boots: has pure DPS stats…
Belt: This ends left-side Lore.
Ring > Wrist > Earring by order of value.

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers first Body > Helm, then accessories Neck > Unupgraded Ring.

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES for SMN

Page spending strat below is for quick BiS:

A5S: Belt > Ring > Neck > Any
A6S: Helm > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Gobdip > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x3 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Body > Any (Gobdip then waiting for Book is OK)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS for SMN

“what should SMN’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

SMN	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	Chain	pedal	Lens	Shaft
Week 2	Bolt	pedal	Lens	Shaft
Week 3	Bolt	bolt	Crank	Shaft
Week 4	Bolt	any	Crank	Shaft

This setup is pretty simple. It prioritizes pieces you won’t be getting with lore (Body, Head) then picks up fillers by reversing the lore order. Week 5+? Any.

Bolts? Ring > Neck > Earring > Any

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SMN Crafted Gear Viability

Is this even needed with all the free gear? 90% of info you need regarding BiS is listed above – I’ll update all the crafteds when I can…

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FFXIV 3.2 Ninja (NIN) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

HEAVENSWARD FINALIZED! NIN Best in slot guide! “We’re FOTM! Huton 4days!!”, NIN Esoterics buy order, melding and more!

So you’re back with daggers to dismantle robots 3.2?! Don’t be Suiton about your BiS since you’ve found the right place – Welcome to our 3.2 NIN BiS Guide! Shoutout to Raika Tsugum for helping me out!

Quicknotes: Eh, not much to say here. If you have an alt BRD or MCH, since they all share the same accessories pretty much.

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3.2 Ninja Best-in-Slot

NIN	BiS	Meld 1	Meld 2	ACC	CRIT	DET	SS
Weapon	Midan Metal Daggers	CRIT V	CRIT IV	-	110	-	123
Offhand	-	-	-
Helm	Augmented Torrent Halfmask of Scouting	CRIT V	CRIT V	69	69		-
Body	Augmented Torrent Tabard of Scouting	CRIT V	CRIT V	78	24	107	-
Hand	Midan Gloves of Scouting	CRIT V	CRIT IV	-	69	66	-
Belt	Midan Belt of Scouting	DET V	-		51	46	-
Legs	Augmented Torrent Tights of Scouting	DET V	DET V	-	112	24	78
Boots	Midan Boots of Scouting	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	69	-	-
Neck	Midan Neckband of Aiming	DET V	-	36	51	12	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Aiming	ACC V	-	12	51	34
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Aiming	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	-	48	49	-
Ring	Midan Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	36	12		51
Food	Baked Pipira Pira	-	-	18	37	-	-
Stats	Total stats from gear			369	751	338	252
	End value			723	1127	579	606

NIN BiS Discussion

The BiS is quite intuitive this time around and it basically builds itself. Nearly every piece with crit is used with the exception of Midan Body.

Midan Body isn’t too big of a loss since we actually need the accuracy from its counterpart. Midan Body also has SS so the 88 Crit (while sorely missed) is something we just cannot afford to dip our greedy hands into.

Even with the Mudra Changes, SS is still pretty bad. It’s main function is a garbage stat that you’re forced upon cause you have no choice in gear selection.

The Augmented Torrent Kris is an amazing “filler”. Not all classes can say their lore weapon stands up as a near equal to the Midan Counterpart but Ninjas have that luxury. Besides, not everyone will be able to clear A8S asap.

There’s not much else to say here. Un-upgraded Ring may provide less than 0.3% DPS increase but is overall a bit of a hassle, and has problems scaling into greater content (so adjusting your gear to this may not be the best idea IE more ACC Melds)

NIN Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Weapon: Amazing stats, worth every tome as a “filler”.
Body: Since Midan is A8
Legs: Since Midan is A7
Helm: Rounds out left-side BiS
Wrist > Ring > Earring by order of value stats.

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers first Gloves > Boots, then accessories Neck > Ring(Unupgraded).

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES for NIN

Page spending detailed below is to get BiS fastest:

A5S: Belt > Neck > Ring > Any
A6S: Boots > Hands > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x3 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Any (Gobdip while waiting for Dagger is OK)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS for NIN

“what should NIN’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

NIN	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	pedal	Spring	Spring
Week 2	bolt	pedal	Spring	Spring
Week 3	bolt	lens	lens	crank
Week 4	bolt	bolt	ANY	crank

This setup is perfect! We avoid body for 2 reasons, the stats are nightmarishly bad, and we’re picking up lore body ASAP anyway. I don’t know what else to say except that you get all important gear pieces in 4 weeks. Head and Belt are extraordinarily good fillers.

BOLTS = Ring > Neck > Any. Week 5+ ANY.

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NIN Crafted Gear Viability

I’ll update this later on so I can finish all the other BiS lists. Pretty much 90% of what ‘yer lookin’ for is here already anyways.

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FFXIV 3.2 Monk (MNK) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! MNK Best in slot guide! “GL3 is down but TK is up -_-“. MNK Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

The best mechanics get their hands dirty y’know? If you’re back as Monk to take robots apart in 3.2, you’ve found the right place for 3.2 MNK BiS!

Quicknotes: There’s a bunch of sets that can come up with very similar stats (900~ CRIT, 500~ DET 600~ SS).

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3.2 Monk Best-in-Slot

MNK	BiS	Meld 1	Meld 2	ACC	CRIT	SS	DET
Weapon	Midan Metal Knuckles	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	24	123	83
Offhand		-	-
Helm	Augmented Hellfire Mask of Striking	ACC V	DET V	60	69	-	12
Body	Midan Jacket of Striking	CRIT V	CRIT V	78	24	-	107
Hand	Midan Gloves of Striking	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	69	-	-
Belt	Midan Belt of Striking	CRIT V	-	-	48	51	-
Legs	Midan Breeches of Striking	DET V	DET V	-	112	78	24
Boots	Augmented Hellfire Sabatons of Striking	DET V	DET V	-	69	48	24
Neck	Midan Neckband of Slaying	DET V	-	36	51	-	12
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Slaying	DET V	-	36	51	-	12
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Slaying	CRIT V	-	-	48	51	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Slaying	CRIT V	-	-	12	36	49
Ring	Midan Ring of Slaying	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Food	Baked Pipira Pira	-	-	18	37	-	-
Stats	Totals from Gear			348	662	387	323
	Grand Totals			702	1016	741	541

MNK BiS Discussion

Like many of the 3.2 sets, the advent of melding has made it possible that a bunch of setups can reach very similar stats. But first of all – let’s talk about Skill Speed.

Skill Speed or DET? Okay so we all know Crit is best for us, and as such the set has over 1000 of it. So where do we want our stats into next?

I don’t believe the hard and fast numbers of stat weights. The popular belief is that DET beats SS. This however does not take SCALING into account. But does it even matter? When we are almost FORCED to have 600++ SS to get anywhere NEAR BiS stats!

So as a concession to many many configurations and discussions with others, I have arrived at the set above to be a “balanced” set regardless of your thoughts. It has a really high Crit rating and SS rating which BOTH SCALE well, and still has a little det since we can’t go TOO crazy with SS. Why?

I could have melded more SS in place of DET melds (something you can do if you like) but TP will start to become a real issue at those levels of SS. Unless you have a NIN or your comp uses Paeon – do it at your own risk.

I have made multiple sets wherein I get a higher DET rating and lower SS rating, but I truly feel that since we are already forced to have a rather high SS – I’d rather embrace that than lose CRIT just to reduce SS and gain DET. Again, stat weights cannot take scaling into account.

Regardless though, the difference between these two “more Det less SS” setups is seriously marginal. Any set within the “BiS range” of stats will perform within the 95+ percentile of each other.

MNK Lore Tomestone Buy Order

Weapon: An excellent “filler” weapon – any serious Monk who wants to clear A8 should invest in this. The stats are GREAT.
Helm: has slightly better stats than boots (ACC / CRIT)
Boots: It’s the last left-side lore BiS…
BODY is a NOTABLE FILLER: You can pick it up now…
Ring > Earring > Wrist by order of “value”.

Everything ELSE IS OPTIONAL! left-side fillers priority Body > Legs > Hand > Belt – then accessories Neck > Ring (Unupgraded)

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

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Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

This strategy purely outlines the “speediest BiS” getting:

A5S: Belt > Ring > Neck > Any
A6S: Gloves > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Legs > Gobdip > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 3 > Any
A8S: Weapon or Body > Any (or just wait for the drop, and use Gobdip)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should MNK’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is something I get asked often so here it is…

This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

MNK	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	pedal	spring	shaft
Week 2	bolt	pedal	spring	shaft
Week 3	bolt	bolt	spring	shaft
Week 4	bolt	any	spring	shaft

Aim to get body and legs ASAP as we want Midan BiS. The only lost value here is we cannot get CRANK (Gloves) anytime soon, so you might wanna pick up a crafted. Floor 2 becomes really useless since we pick up Lore Boots and Helm asap. What do?

W5+: Pick up Crank in 3/4!
Bolts? Ring > Bracelet > Neck > Earring

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MNK Crafted Gear Viability

I’ll get back to this as I upgrade all the BiS lists – 90% of what you need is already up there, though.

For MNK, I gotta say you should buy the Gloves if you feel like A6 won’t go down anytime soon. Since you’ll only be getting Cranks Week 5+.

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FFXIV 3.2 Dragoon (DRG) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! DRG Best in slot guide! “I dropped blood”. DRG Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So you’re thrusting forward yet again as Dragoon in 3.2! Well you’ve been pointed to the right place for 3.2 DRG BiS! You’ll need it to get the jump on these robots!

Quicknotes: There’s alot of sets that can come up with VERY similar stats.

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3.2 Dragoon Best-in-Slot

DRG	BiS	Meld 1	Meld 2	ACC	CRIT	DET	SS
Weapon	Midan Metal Spear	ACC V	ACC V	24	86	118	-
Offhand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Helm	Augmented Splitstream Helm of Maiming	ACC V	SS V	60	69		12
Body	Midan Jacket of Maiming	ACC V	ACC V	24	78	107	-
Hand	Augmented Splitstream Gauntlets of Maiming	ACC V	ACC V	24	48	-	69
Belt	Midan Belt of Maiming	ACC V	-	12	36	-	51
Legs	Augmented Splitstream Breeches of Maiming	ACC V	ACC V	24	112	75	-
Boots	Midan Boots of Maiming	ACC V	ACC V	24	69	-	48
Neck	Midan Neckband of Slaying	ACC V	-	48	51	-	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Slaying	ACC V	-	48	51	-	-
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Slaying	CRIT V	-	-	48	-	51
Ring	Midan Ring of Slaying	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal ing of Slaying	CRIT V	-	-	12	49	36
Food	Baked Pipira Pira			18	37
Stats	Total stats from gear			357	745	349	267
	End value			711	1099	567	621

DRG BiS Discussion

Let me first preface this discussion by saying theres more than one way to arrive at a set that has nearly the same stats. And a whole lot of other
ways to make sets that are about 95%+ efficiency as this BiS.

Accuracy? It’s got 99.8++ frontal accuracy for A86 which should be more than enough. This should be enough! If you’re foreseeing problems, go ahead and change one of the ring melds to acc.

621 Skillspeed? It’s 5 points above the practical softcap of 616 (and the absolute minimum for DRG which is 590). As far as I know DRG’s should not go much higher than 616 – it may even be detrimental to the rotation. If you wan’t to go for 590+ (depending on your latency and experience) you can drop the single SS meld above and meld a DPS stat.

The LORE WEAPON and LORE BODY both have SS, and both are good fillers anyway. Lore Body large amounts of accuracy, So DO NOT HESITATE to pick that up even if it’s not BiS!

Melding? Can be a pain since it’s one of those sets that need accuracy melded on. Stick to cheapmelding IV’s (DPS stats or ACC) if you’re far from your BiS, and switch to accuracy V slowly. (The lore body helps out with this)

Lore Body BiS? Is very possible. Just change the melds and switch body piece THATS IT. The only downside is a little overcapped with SS, and lower DET (Not too painful). The upside? Much more flexibility with melds. It’s not BiS but can serve as a temporary solid set. This is the route you wanna take if you have no money for ACC V, lol.

Aside from this, the set works out quite well with over 1k crit and a safe level of SS (616+), and the rest being the “worst”, non-scalable stat, DET
which we can’t really avoid. Overall, quite a good BiS yet again for DRG!

DRG Lore Tomestone Buy Order

Weapon: Still worth even if its not BiS. Go further down the list if you haven’t gotten your hypercharged tome yet.
Legs: By order of Midan appearance. (A7)
Helm: Likewise (A6)
Glove: Since helm is a more stable choice, this is last.
BODY (You’ll get this either now, or after accessories).
Ring > Earring > Bracelet. By order of stability.

Everything ELSE IS OPTIONAL! left-side fillers priority Body (if you didn’t get it earlier), Boots, Belt – then accessories Earring > Neck.

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

The boxes below are expandable on click!!!

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

This strategy purely outlines the “speediest BiS” getting:

A5S: Belt > Ring > Neck > Any
A6S: Boots > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 3 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Body > Any (Waiting for Spear and getting Gobdip is OK)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should DRG’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is something I get asked often so here it is…

This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

DRG	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	pedal	pedal	shaft	shaft
Week 2	chain	lens	shaft	shaft
Week 3	bolt	lens	crank	crank
Week 4	bolt	bolt	ANY	ANY

We avoid legs since we’re getting it with lore ASAP. The body isn’t too good but its better than 210. Pretty good since you get all body pieces by W3. W5+ = ANY. Bolts? Ring > Bracelet > Any

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DRG Crafted Gear Viability

Well, I’ll get back to this once I wrap all BiS up – it’s pretty much better for ALTS at this point anyways. 90% of the info you’ve come to look for is above, anyway.

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FFXIV 3.2 Bard (BRD) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! BRD Best in slot guide! “Paeon again!?”. BRD Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

A song of venom and wind to rust and ruin deez rampaging robots! Back as Bard in 3.2? Well, you’ve found the right place for 3.2 BRD BiS! Shoutout to Tiffany Faye!

Quicknotes: Of course, is very similar to MCH BiS. 3/29/16 I UPDATED THE BiS! I wrote this one quite early, and underestimated Skill Speed on BRD. I was stuck in the Gordias mindset and if given the choice choose DET over SS with a small stat weight difference. MORE ON THIS IN THE NOTES SECTION. The list below reflect the better stat weights of SS and actually being able to USE it. The change from the original list I posted is TWO items (chest) and 2-4 melds.

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3.2 Bard Best-in-Slot

BRD	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	ACC	CRIT	DET	SS
Weapon	Midan Metal Bow	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	110	118	-
Offhand	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Goggles of Aiming	ACC V	ACC IV	69	69	-	-
Body	Midan Coat of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	102	-	112
Hand	Augmented Torrent Armguards of Aiming	ACC V	SS V	60	69	-	12
Belt	Midan Belt of Aiming	ACC V	-	12	51	34	-
Legs	Augmented Torrent Tights of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT V	-	102	-	112
Boots	Midan Boots of Aiming	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	24	-	48
Neck	Midan Neckband of Aiming	ACC V	-	48	51	-	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Aiming	ACC V	-	12	51	34	-
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Aiming	CRIT V	-	51	48	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	-	48	49	-
Ring	Midan Ring of Aiming	CRIT V	-	36	12	-	51
Food	Steamed Staff	-	-	-	40	-	16
Stats	Total stats from gear			357	777	235	351
	End value			711	1131	453	705

BRD BiS Discussion

Bard best-in-slot ain’t so bad this time around. This set features the ‘PRACTICAL’ absolute maximum critical hit chance a Bard can attain without gimping themselves.

— UPDATED BiS NOTES —

My original BiS list favored DET over SS even if SS had a tiny tiny edge over DET in terms of stat weight, due to reasons no longer valid in 3.2.

Skill Speed is actually pretty good these days! Why the change of heart? Well, the main reasons are its TP, Stat weight, Cast time and Scaling.

Lesser TP costs and encounter uptimes in 3.2 – TP isn’t really an issue these days. so that’s a tiny nod for SS.

Stat Weight? Even on its own, SS beats out DET by a tiny tiny margin.

Cast Time is a “non-tangible” bonus that you can move out of AoE faster, and may be able to get your skill off safely as compared to DET in some niche cases, providing a practical DPS boost that isn’t seen on the sheet.

Scaling? Det scales poorly, while SS scales better the more you have of it (but not quite as good as CRIT still). So in effect, if you’re gonna dump your other stats that “aren’t crit” into one pile – it’s better off in SS.

Do we really have to buy lore weapon? Yes, it’s a bitter pill to swallow but yes you do. The Sephirot Bows stats aren’t exactly magical… delay the weapon no later than after left-side purchases.

BRD Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Weapon: Horrific stats, luckily you’re forced to buy other items due to waiting on Hypercharged Tomestone… “what do”. You’ll have to buy this at some point, man.
Legs: Since Midan filler is A7.
Hands: Ahh some much needed accuracy…
Ring > Wrist > Earring in that order of value.

***THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DELAY to buy WEAPON is after you’ve completed left-side items!***

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: left-side fillers first Body > Boots > Head > Belt, then accessories Neck > Ring(Unupgraded).

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

Page spending detailed below is to get BiS fastest:

A5S: Belt > Neck > Ring > Any
A6S: Head > Boots > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 3 > Any
A7S: Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 2 > Any
A8S: Body > Weapon > Any. (Gobdip and just wait for bow drop is OK too)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should BRD’s pick up in Midas normal”! Is a common question, so here it is! This is a general thing, and people might have varying levels of gear or goals but as a catch-all good enough recommendation:

BRD	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	bolt	spring	spring
Week 2	pedal	pedal	spring	spring
Week 3	bolt	lens	crank	crank
Week 4	bolt	bolt	lens	ANY

With this setup we’re trying not to get body as we’re buying lore chest ASAP. All the other body pieces have pretty amazing stats and will serve you or a long time! BOLTS = Ring > Neck > Any. Week 5+ ANY.

Click the above!!!

BRD Crafted Gear Viability

I’ll update this later on so I can finish all the other BiS lists. Pretty much 90% of what ‘yer lookin’ for is here already anyways.

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Blood let the robots fool you – your loot is definitely out there! GL gearing your Bard 3.2 BiS!

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