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.

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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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As the robots rise and fall – so does your proc chance!!! GL with yer’ Machinist for BiS in 3.2!

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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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Doton’t let RNG and Robots put you down! You’ll get your Ninja 3.2 BiS soon! Good luck with it, and thanks for checking out our NIN BiS Guide!

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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

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: 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

Click the boxes above to expand!!

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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Well, I wish you all the luck in getting your Giers! GL with your Dragoon 3.2 BiS!

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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.

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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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FFXIV 3.2 Paladin (PLD) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.2 UPDATED! PLD Best in slot guide! “THE SHIELD IS BACK!”. PLD Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So some of you are back from being Paladins from previous tiers sadness huh? Welcome to the 3.2 PLD BiS! In case you missed the memo – as of 3.2 tanks stack VITALITY! Thanks to Claes Henrietta for the help!

Quicknotes: All tank BiS pages are quite similar to each other, but the PLD BiS will “avoid as much SS as practically possible, and get as much Crit”.

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3.2 Paladin Best-in-Slot

PLD	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	Acc	Crit	Det	SS	Parry
Weapon	Prototype Midan Metal Sword	CRIT V	-	-	12	84	61	-
Offhand	Prototype Midan Metal Shield	CRIT IV	-	-	35	-	-	35
Helm	Augmented Hellfire Mask of Fending	DET V	DET V	-	69	66	-	-
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	DET V	-	-	51	12	-	36
Legs	Midan Breeches of Fending	DET V	DET V	-	112	99	-	-
Boots	Augmented Hellfire Sabatons of Fending	CRIT V	CRIT IV	69	69	-	-	-
Neck	Augmented Primal Choker of Fending	STR V	-	-	36	-	-	51
Earring	Midan Earrings of Fending	STR V	-	-		49	-	36
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Fending	STR V	-	51		34	-	-
Ring	Midan Ring of Fending	STR V	-	36		-	51	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Fending	STR V	-	51		34	-	-
Food	Steamed Staff	-	-	-	40	-	16	-
Stats	Total stats from gear			367	550	378	197	158
	End value			721	904	596	551	512

PLD BiS Discussion

Why STRENGTH melded in accessories? While VIT beats out STR in value, STR beats the secondary DPS stats (Crit, DET, SS…). So while yes, tanking primary stat is undoubtedly VIT – it’s not like STR became WORTHLESS! Aside from Parry, we cannot meld any more defense on the right side…

THE ABOVE BiS IS MISSING 2 POINTS ACCURACY. It’s 99.9+% hit rate, but this can be bothersome. Ultimately, there are many ways to get that last 2 points –

Food: Steamed Stafff -> Baked Pipira Pira (Most brainless solution)
Materia: Change one DET meld into ACCURACY (Laziest solution)
~~Swap certain pieces of gear with an ACC one (more on this later on…)~~

Of the above, I’d recommend AGAINST gear swaps, as the food or materia change are the best (Personally I’d go the materia route).

PLD Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

Boots: Acc Crit – it’s just the smarter buy at this point.
Mask: by order of savage floor obtained…
Belt: by order of savage floor obtained…
(Preference) Any other left-side filler (Chest>Legs)
Weapon: On tanks, I’d say weapon AFTER left-side is complete.
Ring > Wrist > Neck (Buying the acc pieces is safer…)

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: As mentioned earlier any left-side filler would be considered first (Chest, Legs) then Earring, 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: Belt > Ring > Earring > Any
A6S: Hands > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x4 > 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 PLD’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:

PLD	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 ditch the boots since we buy it ASAP, and since we have to choose between head and hands, head is a lot better. Basically it’s all about getting as many BIG body pieces as we can! And as much VIT as possible!

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PLD Crafted Gear Viability

As mentioned earlier, I update this a little later on just so I can update all lists ASAP. 90% of the info you need is already in the page, the rest is details…

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Well, good luck on gearing your Paladin for 3.2, and I hope the robots drop the loot you need!

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FFXIV 3.0 Dark Knight (DRK) BiS for Heavensward

HEAVENSWARD UPDATED! DRK Best in slot guide! “I need BALLAD AND PAEON!”, DRK Esoterics buy order, melding and more!

Sadly, there isn’t any Piety on ’em! Welcome to our Dark Knight Best-in-slot gear guide! We discuss here gearing options for BOTH DPS CENTRIC DRK’s and PARRY/EHP CENTRIC DRK’s. So no matter which camp of tanking you follow, or whatever your group needs – you can see both options right here!

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Heavensward Dark Knight Best-in-Slot

TANK BiS DISCLAIMER: I don’t buy into the whole ALL TANKS SHOULD DPS or ALL TANKS SHOULD HAVE MAX EHP! It all depends on your group, level & speed of progression, and personal preference. As such, I will list both options. (Related Read: Parry vs DPS)

For the sake of “interchangeable filler slots”, Chaos <-> Gordian serve as natural replacements to each other (May or may not be discussed within guide, but take that as an ‘unspoken truth’).

DRK Slot	DPS	No gil to meld?	Parry & EHP
Weapon	Deathbringer	-	Gordian Greatsword
Offhand	-		-
Head	Chaos Burgeonnet		Chaos Burgeonnet
Body	Gordian Plate Mail of Fending		Chaos Cuirass
Gloves	Chaos Gauntlets		Gordian Gauntlets of Fending
Belt	Fabled Belt of Fending		Gordian Tassets of Fending
Legs	Gordian Breeches of Fending		Chaos Flanchard
Boots	Chaos Sollerets	Best 210 Mix	Gordian Sollerets of Fending
Neck	Fabled Necklace of Slaying	Gordian Neckband of Fending	Fabled Necklace of Fending
Earrings	Gordian Earrings of Slaying	Gordian Earrings of Slaying	Gordian Earrings of Fending
Bracelet	Fabled Bracelet of Slaying	Fabled Bracelet of Slaying	Gordian Wristbands of Fending
Ring	Gordian Ring of Slaying	Gordian Ring of Slaying	Gordian Ring of Fending
Ring	Fabled Ring of Slaying	Fabled Ring of Slaying	Fabled Ring of Fending
Food	Baked Pipira Pira	-	Almond Cream Croissant Liver Cheese Sandwhich

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SINCE MELDED RIGHT SIDE IS SO STRONG FOR TANKS, tank gear should be thought as two separate entities: Leftside (armor) and right side (accessories). There’s a million ways to setup the right side, but the left is pretty much set in stone given your goals. (Purely ignoring the top accessories and using melded is A GREAT CHOICE / OPTION)

Dark Knight Accessories: Choices & Melding

Considering crafted right as BiS for tanks is 100% legit…

Equip on	Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3	Slot 4	Slot 5
Citrine Choker of Slaying	VIT IV	VIT IV	VIT IV	CRIT III	VIT III+
Chrysolite Earrings of Fending	STR IV	STR IV	STR IV	STR IV	STR III
Chrysolite Bracelets of Fending	STR IV	STR IV	STR IV	STR IV	STR III
Chrysolite Ring of Slaying	VIT IV	VIT IV	VIT IV	FREE	VIT III+
Chrysolite Ring of Slaying	VIT IV	VIT IV	VIT IV	FREE	VIT III+

For the (FREE) Slot, you can put ACC, DET or SS (rings).

Here’s how it works. Melded accessories will always have the highest overall power level. However, they will never be as tanky as a Fending accessory, and never be as strong as a Slaying one. The melding strategy above makes it so you can wear crafted from A1S to A4S no problemo.

DRK BiS Discussion, Notes & Options

DPS DRK Set

Going for PURE SLAYING right side is a bit greedy, but definitely possible with a competent team. So we identify the suckiest accessories to replace with crafted.

Fabled Ring of Slaying: It has accuracy… so it has that goin’ for it. Personally, I wouldn’t waste eso on these.
Fabled Wristband of Slaying… SS/DET. Again, I wouldn’t buy these and just go for crafted.

The A3S legs are a KEY PART of this set, and hopefully you’ll get em! The Chaos counterpart is a poor filler – I wouldn’t waste eso on it.

Tanking / Parry DRK Set

Legs & Head – interchangeable: In the tanking list above we use Chaos Head and Chaos Leg. Keep in mind that this can be changed for Gordian Head, Gordian Leg. So if you’re lucky enough to get one of the gordian pieces early, just shoot for the gordian counterpart as well. A small but worthwhile to note value point, thay may save you over 1k ESO.

Chaos Cuirass is a MASSIVE increase in HP, Armor, MRes, Parry… basically a huge part of your defensive game. Tanks who choose to Gobtwine the chests over weapon are very common, and you should be one of them!!!

3.0 Dark Knight Esoterics Buy Order

“What should I purchase first with Esoterics for my DRK!?” Well, here you go!

DPS Dark Knight

Weapon: The Deathbringer should be bought FIRST for DPS DRK’s. No question.
Chaos Helm: Might as well, plus save A3 pages for Legs!
Chaos Boots
Fabled Belt
Fabled Necklace, Ring (Any Order)
EVERYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL, and NON-BiS
Chest can be bought if you want to help your raid group. It’s quite the upgrade still.

With very few pieces needed, this set is powerful and easy to obtain.

On belt: If you have the Illuminati Gobcoat, buy it sooner than you would have.

PARRY / EHP Dark Knight

Chest: Get these first and Gobtwine it if you can!
Legs: Hmm.. (If you have the A3S legs – you can push this waaaaay down or optional)
Weapon: You can buy this at any point during 1-3.
Fabled Necklace, Ring (Any Order)
EVERYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL, and NON-BiS

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I hope you don’t break your back in search of your Dark Knight gear!

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FFXIV Warrior (WAR) Cross-class Skills (3.0+ Updated)

HEAVENSWARD UPDATED: What are the best Warrior Cross Class Skills? Find out the best cross-class skills of WAR and the best way to get them!

Go to our Stormblood updated
Tank Role Actions Guide
instead!

What are the Marauder-> Warrior Cross Class Skills? Here, we will be strictly discussing the cross-class skills Warrior can get.

How many cross-class skills can I get as a Warrior? Any job class may only equip five (5) cross-class skills.

From what other classes does Warrior get skills from? Gladiator and Pugilist.

What are the best Warrior cross-class skills? This is discussed below.

Full list of Warrior (WAR) Cross-class skills

Name	Level	Description	From Class
Savage Blade	4	Attack that generates enmity	Gladiator (GLA)
Featherfoot	4	Increases evasion	Pugilist (PGL)
Flash	8	Increases enmity in all nearby enemies	Gladiator (GLA)
Second Wind	8	Instantly restores own HP	Pugilist (PGL)
Convalescence	10	Increases HP restored by spells or actions	Gladiator (GLA)
Haymaker	10	Delivers an blow after evading an attack	Pugilist (PGL)
Internal Release	12	Increases critical hit rate	Pugilist (PGL)
Provoke	22	Increases enmity in target	Gladiator (GLA)
Awareness	34	Nullifies chance of suffering critical damage	Gladiator (GLA)
Mantra	42	Increases HP recovery via curing magic by 5% for self and nearby party members	Pugilist (PGL)

Warrior (WAR) Cross-class skills discussion

SET IN STONE: Provoke > Internal Release > Convalescence > Awareness > (Last slot: FLEX)

Savage Blade – Useles since you have your own version.

Featherfoot, Haymaker – This duo is technically most utilized by the Warrior. Is it worth 2 slots? No… it really isn’t.

Flash – Is pretty good in 4-mans. It’s a contender for FLEX slot in SOME ENCOUNTERS ONLY.

Second Wind – Not bad. Doubles as an aggro generator! Contender for FLEX.

Convalescence – Really good, but it requires some coordination with healers (or a good sense of tanking) to maximize.

Internal Release – +Damage on Warrior… legit always.

Provoke – is technically a must-have for any encounter with a tank swap mechanic.

Mantra – While good for others to take, you have more important skills like…

Awareness – is good when now a days! A lot of encounter crit, and also fixes problems if you mess up Raw Intuition.

Ideal Warrior (WAR) Cross-class progression

Marauder to 15 for: Unlocking other classes.
Marauder to 30 for: WAR Requirement.
Gladiator to 15 for: WAR Requirement.
Monk to 8 for: Second Wind.
WAR to 50 for: Maximum level.
Monk to 12 for: Internal Release.
Gladiator to 34 for: Awareness
Monk to 42 for: Mantra (All Cross Class Skills Obtained)

Summary

Warrior use skills from: Gladiator and Pugilist.
Best Warrior Cross-Class Skills:
Provoke > Internal Release > Convalescence > Awareness > FLEX
Flex slots would likely be: Second Wind, Mantra or Flash. (Featherfoot is okay for 4’s)

More Info: Marauder | Warrior | MRD WAR Stats

3.2 Warrior Best-in-Slot

WAR BiS Discussion

WAR Lore Tomestone Buy Order

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

WAR Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Machinist Best-in-Slot

only making short discussions to update all BiS quickly

MCH BiS Discussion

MCH Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

MCH Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Summoner Best-in-Slot

SMN BiS Discussion

SMN Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES for SMN

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS for SMN

SMN Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Ninja Best-in-Slot

NIN BiS Discussion

NIN Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES for NIN

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS for NIN

NIN Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Monk Best-in-Slot

MNK BiS Discussion

MNK Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

MNK Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Dragoon Best-in-Slot

DRG BiS Discussion

DRG Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

DRG Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Bard Best-in-Slot

BRD BiS Discussion

BRD Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

BRD Crafted Gear Viability

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3.2 Paladin Best-in-Slot

PLD BiS Discussion

PLD Lore Tomestone Buy Order

Using up Pages and Midas Normal Parts

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