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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

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MNK Crafted Gear Viability

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

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

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

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

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

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

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3.2 Dragoon Best-in-Slot

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

DRG BiS Discussion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DRG Lore Tomestone Buy Order

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

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

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

The boxes below are expandable on click!!!

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

This strategy purely outlines the “speediest BiS” getting:

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

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

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

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

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

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

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DRG Crafted Gear Viability

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

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

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

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

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

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3.2 Bard Best-in-Slot

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

BRD BiS Discussion

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

— UPDATED BiS NOTES —

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BRD Lore Tomestone Buy Order

The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:

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

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

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

USING UP PAGES AND MIDAS NORMAL PARTS

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

Midan Savage Pages

MIDAN SAVAGE PAGES

Page spending detailed below is to get BiS fastest:

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

Midan Normal Parts

MIDAN NORMAL PARTS

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

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

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

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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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