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FFXIV 3.3 Gathering BiS Gear & Materia Melding

3.3 UPDATED Find out gathering best in slot & materia melding caps for DoL BiS! Info for Ironworks Gathering and Augmented Keep sets.

So you’re looking to spend on melding for your DoL BiS again? Luckily, our little guide here can hope to blunt the costs for you!

What is BiS and melding for 3.3?
Melding notes and intricacies per slot?
Is Augmented Keep (Red Scrip) set worth it?
Core 3.3 DoL Reminders?

3.3 DoL Gathering BiS (“Practical BiS”)

Thankfully 3.3 introduced a universal set which happens to be BiS. The set and melds outlined below has a few properties you should be mindful of:

DoL Gear	Gat Cap	Per Cap	GP Cap	1	2	3	4	5
High Mythrite SEE NOTES	50	28	5	GAT V	PER IV	Free	Free	Free
High Mythrite tier	28	50	5	PER V	Free	Free	Free	Free
Ironworks Cap of Gathering	9	28	5	PER V	PER V	Free	Free	Free
Ironworks Vest of Gathering	28	14	0	GAT V	PER V	GAT ?	GAT ?	PER II
Ironworks Gloves of Gathering	21	9	0	GAT V	GAT IV	GAT III	PER III	PER II
Ironworks Belt of Gathering	9	7	5	GAT V	GP III	GP II	PER II	PER I
Ironworks Slops of Gathering	14	1	5	GAT IV	GP IV	GAT III	GAT I	GP I
Ironworks Boots of Gathering	1	14	5	PER IV	PER III	GP III	GP II	PER I
Ironworks Necklace of Gathering	9	9	10	SAMPLE	MELD	BELOW	See	Notes
Ironworks Earrings of Gathering	9	9	10	GP V	GAT IV	PER III	PER II	GAT I
Ironworks Armillae of Gathering	9	9	10	SAMPLE	MELD	ABOVE	See	Notes
Ironworks Ring of Gathering	9	9	5	PER V	GAT III	GP III	GAT II	GP II
SAME RING (Alternate melds)	9	9	5	GAT V	PER III	GP III	PER II	GP II
Totals w/ melds & no food	913	929	679
Sample w/ Pasta Ortolano	947	963	692
13 OPEN Melds

Anything that can be practically capped is capped in the melds above.
Any uncapped gear is noted by ANY/FREE or in the Melding Notes above.
The set offers 12+ FREE/OPEN melds for any thresholds that may appear.

DoL BiS Melding notes for each slot

Mainhand: High Mythrite Pickaxe
GAT V – PER IV – OPEN – OPEN – OPEN

It becomes better than Red Scrip gear with those 2 melds. 3 open slots is a lot of flexibility for any stat soft caps you might need to chase, even just going with III’s.

Offhand: High Mythrite Sledgehammer
PER V – OPEN – OPEN – OPEN – OPEN

LEAGUES ahead of its predecessors. PER V is the only meld here I’d suggest and leaves 4 open flex slots.

Head: Ironworks Cap of Gathering
PER V – PER V – OPEN – OPEN – OPEN

Brutally “impossible” to cap, but more flex slots for us!

Chest: Ironworks Vest of Gathering
GAT V – PER V – OPEN – OPEN – PER II

I would highly suggest just putting GAT IV GAT III in the open slots here as Perception will be capped.

Hands: Ironworks Gloves of Gathering
GAT V – GAT V – GAT III – PER III – PER II

Easily caps, thankfully uses only a single V.

Belt: Ironworks Belt of Gathering
GAT V – GP III – GP II – PER II – PER I

If only it were like this. “Painless” in comparison – caps using one V.

Neck, Earring, Bracelet SAME MELD!
GP V – GAT IV – PER III – PER II – GAT I

Okay so this is a “cheap meld” which leaves 4 GP uncapped. Does it really matter? No, not really. It’s very very expensive to cap this requiring an overmelded V and two IV’s to work out. All in all if you want to be “maxed out” on GP, consider replacing the perception melds in the suggestion above. Ultimately, everyone has their own budget but the meld I suggested has many good points.

Ring: Ironworks Ring of Gathering
I HAVE 2 MELDS IN THE TABLE ABOVE

Of those two melds, I like the the one that utilizes GAT V simply because they will be a little less in demand compared to PER V. It’s up to prices on the day you meld, anyhow.

It’s a painless meld that caps with a single V and not even an over-melded IV. Great!

Is Red Scrip Augmented Keep set worth it for DoL?

tldr no, except for fillers. If you’re swimming in Red Scrip might as well get weapon for a filler. Shirt is a far second. It doesn’t help that this set is class-specific… yuck.

3.3 DoL Core Reminders

The Moogle Beast Tribe rank-ups give materia V’s (Gathering too AFAIK) So they’re pretty worth doing.

Tricks and Stones	Disciple of the Hand level 50
	The Churning Mists (X:27.2 Y:34.5) NPC: Seething Stonemason
	Players must first complete the main scenario quest “Into the Aery” and the quest “Laying the First Brick.”

You’re going to need a decent level DoH to complete these, though. Unlocking the Moogle Tribe is connected to quite a few side-quests in the map so GL with that.

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FFXIV 3.3 Crafting (DoH) BiS and Materia Melding

3.3 UPDATED! Find out crafting best in slot, Melding caps for BiS Ironworks Crafting set and info on Augmented Keep set.

Welcome to our Crafting (DoH) BiS and Melding guide! It’s updated for 3.3 which means it has information on Ironworks Crafting Set and Augmented Keep Set. So, let’s see what’s going on with these…

Which set is ‘BiS’ for 3.3?
How does the Augmented Keep set line up?
Suggested melds for “ANY” and “FREE”
Core crafting reminders for 3.3

3.3 DoH BiS (“Practical BiS”)

We’ve come to a point that we don’t need a fully melded ‘BiS’ to do endgame crafting. But EXTRA STATS always help, right? So the properties of this list are as follows:

Thankfully BiS this tier is the universally usable Ironworks Set.

DoH Gear	Cra CAP	Con CAP	CP CAP	1	2	3	4	5
High Mythrite	+54	+29	+4	CRA V	CON IV	FREE	FREE	FREE
High Mythrite Mortar	+54	+29	+4	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Cap of Crafting	+10	+14	+0	CON V	CON IV	CON III	CRA III	CRA III
Ironworks Apron of Crafting	+45	+14	+0	ANY V	ANY V	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Sleeves of Crafting	+10	+14	+0	CON V	CON IV	CON III	CRA III	CRA III
Ironworks Belt of Crafting	+10	+14	+4	ANY V	CP IV	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Breeches of Crafting	+2	+14	+4	CON V	CON IV	CP IV	CON III	CRA I
Ironworks Boots of Crafting	+2	+14	+4	CON V	CON IV	CP IV	CON III	CRA I
Ironworks Necklace of Crafting	+10	+9	+8	ANY V	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Earrings of Crafting	+10	+9	+8	ANY V	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Armillae of Crafting	+10	+9	+8	ANY V	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE
Ironworks Ring of Crafting	+10	+9	+4	CON V	CP IV	CRA III	CRA III	CON II
SAME RING (Alternate melds)	+10	+9	+4	CRA V	CP IV	CON III	CON III	CON III
Totals: no melds or food	891	813	378
Grand totals w/ melds above	935	887	394
w/ Seafood Stew (Need CON?)	935	918	444
w/ Baked Onion (Need CRA?)	963	887	442
With soul?	+20	+20

What can be “practically” capped is shown above
ANY and FREE represent melds that you can or should save in case any thresholds appear in the next tier. They are likely irrelevant in 3.3.
If any stat “tresholds” appear for rotations, this will be updated.

Craftin BiS Notes

***Stat summary is WITHOUT the ANY or FREE melds, and as you can see is more than enough stats for a baseline set in preparation for the next tier, with enough open melds to be able to compensate for any tresholds that may come.

Weapon? GET EITHER ONE, seriously. Both are a significant upgrade to the previous tiers weapon. Of course, they still aren’t equal.

FRESH OFF THE BAT: Augmented Keep is slightly better.
WITH MELDS: Crafted of course, comes out ahead.

So this all depends on your budget and red scrip amount. Personally? I’ll pick up crafted.

Earring? Bracer? Necklace? If you have a GODLIKE ASTRAL BIRCH ACCESSORY – use it. Otherwise, “not so tryhard” melding these is okay if you’re coming in with anything lower.

They aren’t “practical to cap” I listed that as ANY / FREE above. But they are cappable as of now using the below meld:

Capping Earring Bracer:
CON V – CRA V – CP IV – CP IV – CON II

Augmented Keep set? Worth it?

While an upgrade is an upgrade, I highly advise AGAINST getting any of these unless you are absolutely swimming with red scrip. EVEN THEN I WOULD ONLY CONSIDER THE CHEST PIECE.

The non-universal nature of this set is really a pain in the butt.

The Ironworks Crafting chest requires a bit of an investment for it to beat the Augmented Keep chest, but the pros heavily outweigh the cons. You can buy some chests for the core classes while gearing up, but don’t invest into any other piece.

Suggested melds for “ANY V” and “FREE”?

Again these are HIGHLY dependent on stat tresholds and budget. But at the very least SUREMELDS should be considered.

Control? Every bit of CON helps.
CP? Again, every bit helps.
Craftmanship? This purely depends on tresholds, and

So you can’t be sad if you stick CON V and CAP CP on each piece you can. And just try to cram in Craftmanship later on if you need it.

Again, it’s impossible to recommend a general scenario for everyone.

Core crafting reminders for 3.3

The MOOGLE BEAST TRIBE QUEST LINE Rewards DoH Materia! This starts out in Churning Mists:

Tricks and Stones	Disciple of the Hand level 50
	The Churning Mists (X:27.2 Y:34.5) NPC: Seething Stonemason
	Players must first complete the main scenario quest “Into the Aery” and the quest “Laying the First Brick.”

Unless I’m mistaken, there seems to be a chunky amount of pre-requisite sidequests so good luck with that sir. I don’t know if the high level dailies give V’s, but the latter Rank Up quests do, so that’s worth it in any case.

Well that’s about it for Crafting BiS changes in this patch. Thank the heavens that they gave us a solid universal set!!!

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FFXIV 3.3 Astrologian (AST) Best in Slot (BiS) Gear

3.3 UPDATED! AST Best in slot guide! “Always play the hand ‘yer DEALT!”. AST Lore buy order, Melding, Pages & Normals, more!

So the cosmos have guided you home – back home to the grind for gear! If you’re looking AST BiS for 3.3 you’ve found well! Here, you can find three options for the AST BiS…

Note: It goes without saying that -Diurnal will be almost identical to WHM BiS, Nocturnal will be almost identical to SCH BiS. So if you follow that “Classic mindset” you can check those out. However, in this page I will be talking about the DET focused set.

3.3 Notes: Aside from filler gear, the only thing that affects BiS is Relic – Sphere of the Last Heir. While melding may depend on your main stance, PIE is always a good idea, followed by DET if you adhere to this pages’ ideology.

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3.3 Astrologian Best-in-Slot

AST	Item	Meld 1	Meld 2	Pie	Det	Crit	SS	N
Weapon	Prototype Midal Metal Astrometer	PIE V	PIE V	112	118
Offhand	-			-	-	-	-
Helm	Midan Horn of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	72	66		-
Body	Augmented Hailstorm Coat of Healing	DET V	DET V	117	99	-	-
Hand	Augmented Hailstorm Gloves of Healing	DET V	DET V	51	24	69	-	ANY
Belt	Midan Belt of Healing	DET V	-	54	46	-	-
Legs	Midan Trousers of Healing	PIE V	PIE V	104	-	112	-
Boots	Midan Boots of Healing	DET V	CRIT V	72	58	12	-
Neck	Augmented Primal Choker of Healing	PIE V	-	49	49	-	-
Earring	Augmented Primal Earrings of Healing	DET V	-	54	46	-	-
Wrist	Augmented Primal Bracelet of Healing	DET V	-	54	12	-	36	ANY
Ring	Midan Ring of Healing	DET V	-	54	46	-	-
Ring	Augmented Primal Ring of Healing	DET V	-	-	12	36	51
Food	Frozen Spirits	-	-	26	11	-	-
Stats	Totals from items ->			819	587	229	87
	Totals w base, melds, gear ->			1080	805	583	441

AST BiS Discussion

Again if you follow the classic Diurnal=WHM, Nocturnal=SCH you can check their respective BiS pages with the only chain being the weapon.

Diurnal: Augmented Hailstorm Astrometer
Nocturnal: Prototype Midan Metal Astrometer

Click on the tabs below – “Determination?” and “Gear Discussion”

Why DeterminationGear Options & Discussion

This page isn’t just about being cute and different. The set offers power and consistency beyond the usual AST setups.

I don’t like crit stacked Nocturnal AST. Let’s get that out of the way. Hoping for a crit shield is never ever a habit you should form, or better yet, never a situation you find yourself in often (It’s likely a tank or healer error if that’s the case). I’m not too sold on SS stacked Diurnal, either. The base stance bonus is much larger than you’d think.

Piety is still the most important stat for either sect, though, and this set reflects that. Without Assize or Energy Drain, AST’s only have ONE MAIN REPLENISHER OF MANA – Lumineferous Aether (+Celestial Opposition Extension, which should always be used). More Piety means less reliance on Ewer, and in effect more cards meant for raid efficiency – given how Royal Road on Ewer is the amazing AoE effect.

Why Determination? DET DIRECTLY COUNTERS AST’s downside which is “slightly weaker heals”. Yes, I understand crit does this too – but not as consistently as DET does. The problem with AST is the RNG reliant gameplay, and I DO NOT want to compound that with crit! So this set takes care of both the “weak” and “random” weakpoints of AST.

But still, after all that following either WHM BiS or SCH BiS is A-OK and I’m sure its A8S clearable. The power level of both setups definitely have their ups and downs.

There’s some discussion here, but the core remains… after all, the set is full of linear power – boasting 800+ DET and 1000+ Piety. Damn.

Melding Strategy can be changed if you’re the “DPS-er” in your healing duo. A lot of healers may tell you that CRIT is the most important stat for DPSing – this is false. Accuracy and Piety are the most stable DPS stats Since our set is packed in Piety – you can Meld accuracy to your hearts content!

Flex slots? There’s only a small bit of wiggle room in gear choices:

Augmented Hailstorm Bottoms of Healing: Is a legit swap for more DET, but sadly comes with SS which has indeterminate usefulness… depends on which stance you main and your co-healer class/dynamic. You do lose a hefty chunk of Piety, though.

Bracelet -another mindless swap. SS or Crit. Retains Piety. No loss in DET.
Gloves – Same story, the list above use one of each variant.

AST Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The tome spending strat below is to obtain BiS fastest:

Weapon: good “filler” until you down A8S. Meld PIE I guess.
- Be mindful you need to time it with Hypercharged Tomestone
Body: Obvious second buy as any comparable Ilvl is from A8S
Hand: is “Equal to Midan”, but I guess just pick this up to save pages.
Ring > Earrings > Neck > Bracelet (is Equal to Midan)

ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: Legs > Helm > Boots completing left (if you’re investing in fillers, left comes first).

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 strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

A5S: Ring > Bracelet (equal to BiS) > Any
A6S: Belt > Boots > Helm > Illuminati Dark Gobcoat x 4 > Any
A7S: Pants > Illuminati Taut Gobtwine x 2 > Any
A8S: Weapon > Any (Gobdip is okay and just wait for Weapon drop)

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

“what should AST’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:

	M1N	M2N	M3N	M4N
Week 1	chain	lens	spring	spring
Week 2	bolt	lens	spring	spring
Week 3	pedal	pedal	crank	crank
Week 4	bolt	bolt	any	any (shaft)

Why avoid chest? Yes it has massive DET, but alas, this early on in the tier (and it’s gonna be replaced by Lore Chest very very quickly) PIE would be the smarter choice. Bolts -> Midan Ring > Midan Bracelet > Any

W5 and up – ANY.

Click the above!!!

AST Crafted Gear Viability

So we can quickly update all BiS pages, I wont discuss every detail just yet. But of course, the above will fulfill 90% of your needs. I usually update this later on…

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Let the stars guide your looting and robot dismantling – and GL gearing up your AST for BiS in 3.3!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

Click the above!!!

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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