Nin Upgrades - Need a little advice plz

Aither

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Ok I like playing jobs to the best of thier ability and realized that gear is very important to "be all that you can be" So I would like a little advice as to upgrades for my Ninjar.

Lv.60

Head: Empress
Neck: Specs. / Chiv Chain
Body: SH/AF/Hauber NQ on both non af pieces.
Hands: H Kote
Earing: Velocity / Drone I think it's called Agi+3
Rings: SnipersX2 and 1 Garrious ring when ACC isnt an issue.
Legs: AF for Night and Ryl. Knight Breeches for WS/Non night.
Feet: The Rare/ex Fumas 1/13 lol and AF
Waist: Potent Belt / Quick belt - I know I know I on Oryu and will have the swift soon enough.
Weapons: Currently Main Muketsu+1 Off: Hoto
Back: Bat cape - Amemet+1 waiting when 61 comes

One upgrade I am doing as soon as I get home is losing my Hoto and getting a Sairen for main and offhand Muketsu until 61 and then off hand a Kabuto+1.

Spots I feel I need upgrades are earings mainly. But any advice is always welcome. Thank you
 
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Those +5 Eva earrings were pretty good at 60, I forget the name. You're probably better off using the DD belt fulltime. Haste macros aren't amazing that level. Sairen is junk, double Kabutowari/+1 are much better.
 
Aither said:
Ok I like playing jobs to the best of thier ability and realized that gear is very important to "be all that you can be" So I would like a little advice as to upgrades for my Ninjar.

Lv.60

Head: Empress
Neck: Specs. / Chiv Chain
Body: SH/AF/Hauber NQ on both non af pieces.
Hands: H Kote
Earing: Velocity / Drone I think it's called Agi+3
Rings: SnipersX2 and 1 Garrious ring when ACC isnt an issue.
Legs: AF for Night and Ryl. Knight Breeches for WS/Non night.
Feet: The Rare/ex Fumas 1/13 lol and AF
Waist: Potent Belt / Quick belt - I know I know I on Oryu and will have the swift soon enough.
Weapons: Currently Main Muketsu+1 Off: Hoto
Back: Bat cape - Amemet+1 waiting when 61 comes

One upgrade I am doing as soon as I get home is losing my Hoto and getting a Sairen for main and offhand Muketsu until 61 and then off hand a Kabuto+1.

Spots I feel I need upgrades are earings mainly. But any advice is always welcome. Thank you
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To really optimize yourself, at level 60 -

Head: Empress full time is just fine, unless you have a Voyager Sallet.
Neck: Specs/Chiv for ws is fine. Personally I used PCC full time at that level, and at 72, PCC/Breeze.
Body: SH/Haubergeon are just about going to be your full time getups.
Earring: Contrary to what you may think, use Spike Earrings for your DD. Keep evasion earrings handy for when you need to get shadows up. This goes for all evasion gear mainly.
Rings: 2x snipers are wise.
Legs: Again, use your AF at night, when you need the evasion. Otherwise, use Royal Knights Breeches pretty much full time.
Waist: Life Belt for TP, Potent for WS. Don't sell yourself short on accuracy for TP. Quick belt.. well, up to you. You can use that for Utsu recast, your call.
Feet: Fumas, and Hume RSE (when you get it) are just about going to be your full time equips.
Weapons: Once you hit 61, Kabutowari. Don't waste money on the HQ, you're only going to use them for four levels.
Back: Keep your Bat Cape for when you need evasion, otherwise, yeah, Amemet +1.

To note, I'd really only use your full evasion stuff for when you level, to keep your evasion skill capped. Once it is, put on your full, entire DD set. Yeah, you have negative evasion, but really, it's not going to hurt you much. You'll hold decent hate, and so long as you have a party that keeps slow off of you, you can keep your shadows up as long as you pay attention. For the times you use full evasion gear, make it easy on yourself. Have an evasion gear macro, and a separate WS macro, that puts on all your WS/DD gear, and swaps it back to your evasion set. Tends to be pretty nifty. Have another WS macro that just swaps you back to your TP getup. I know it's pricey, but if you can get PCC, by all means.

Good luck to 75.

Mist-
 
I normally stick with the DD options and leave off the haste. Now why is the Sairen junk compared to a kabuto +1? It has 3 Str (helps with ws etc) and the +7 on darks day is nice but same DMG as Kabuto +1 with 16 more delay. The price is semi steep @ 680kish but still only pro on dual Kabuto's is 16 less delay.

Edit in reply to Mistra, Yea a PCC would be nice but the 2M pricetag is kinda meh for 3 more acc. I have a baliatorn in ranged till I can get to bcore lvl so it's LIKE I have a PCC with the two combined lol. Being a DRK and all I understand the massive importance of ACC gear but is that extra 3 acc worth the 1.9M difference approx from Spec to PCC?
 
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Aither said:
I normally stick with the DD options and leave off the haste. Now why is the Sairen junk compared to a kabuto +1? It has 3 Str (helps with ws etc) and the +7 on darks day is nice but same DMG as Kabuto +1 with 16 more delay. The price is semi steep @ 680kish but still only pro on dual Kabuto's is 16 less delay.

Edit in reply to Mistra, Yea a PCC would be nice but the 2M pricetag is kinda meh for 3 more acc. I have a baliatorn in ranged till I can get to bcore lvl so it's LIKE I have a PCC with the two combined lol. Being a DRK and all I understand the massive importance of ACC gear but is that extra 3 acc worth the 1.9M difference approx from Spec to PCC?
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That's really entirely up to you. It's vanity at that level.
 
lol very true. I never thought about the hume RSE boots tho as a gear option but uppon looking at them they would be sexy for WS and even TP gain over fuma until I have a nice haste set built. So ty for that tip mistra.
 
Neo's reason for saying for you not to use a sairen is really just a "because I said so" reason and nothing more.
So long as your party DD's can actually do damage going full steam ahead on DD gear wont hurt you too much. I personally used to use the times that a war pulled hate to recast some shadows if I only had 1-2 left before voking it back.
The quick belt is kinda meh.. use it for utsu casting and nothing else.
With the small amount of haste gear you have as it is you will get 2% extra damage( and barely anything better even overloaded on haste) from that vs hitting 5% more with a life belt.( 2 acc = 1% increase to hit rate)
 
Aither said:
lol very true. I never thought about the hume RSE boots tho as a gear option but uppon looking at them they would be sexy for WS and even TP gain over fuma until I have a nice haste set built. So ty for that tip mistra.
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Np, personally, taking NIN up on HM, I used those over fuma until 72, when I had Unji/Unsho, dusk gloves, and fuma sune-ate. worked out pretty well.
 
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Np, personally, taking NIN up on HM, I used those over fuma until 72, when I had Unji/Unsho, dusk gloves, and fuma sune-ate. worked out pretty well.
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How did you wear the Hume RSE boots on your Mithra?
 
Khajit said:
Neo's reason for saying for you not to use a sairen is really just a "because I said so" reason and nothing more.
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Really? I thought it was because Kabutowari +1 have lower delay, higher DPS, and the same damage as Sairen. Or because a +3 Str boost wouldn't make up for the losses not having dual Kabutowari +1, or because the +Enmity is negligible at that level (and frankly at any level).

No. You're right. Because I said so.
 
Not to mention sairen's only real advantage is only useful 1/8th of the time. Even NQ kabutowari have higher DPS.
 
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