Dancer equipment

Recently discovered this site: http://ffxigear.com

Fun little site to easily play with equipment, and more importantly, show various gear sets. I thought it would be fun to put up the various gear sets I use on DNC and see if anyone had any suggestions on how to improve them.

I'm not sure how many people realize this, but Dancer is really the main job that I go out of my way to equip. While I generally do my best on my other jobs, I don't go out of my way to gear them up as crazily as I do DNC. I have two million+ daggers, a 2M+ necklace, and lots of expensive situational gear on DNC such as a Scouter's Rope and Delta Earring. I don't think any of my other jobs has a single piece worth anywhere near 1M xD

Anyway, here are some gear sets and their uses:

Haste set - http://ffxigear.com/?ref=18309

- As much haste as I can pile on... I'm still desperately needing Etoile Tights to complete this set. This is what I typically use for most party situations. Sometimes I'll put on Enkidu's Mittens instead of Dusk Gloves when we are moving a lot in order to move faster. I could squeeze another 1% haste with a Walmart Turban, but I figured that the Denali Bonnet had other benefits, and looks a lot better xD

Accuracy set - http://ffxigear.com/?ref=18680

- Surprisingly, this is a gear set that I rarely use. My accuracy is generally good enough with my haste gear that I almost never need to switch to full accuracy. I can also simply eat some sushi if I need accuracy. About the only time I've used this is during Dynamis-Buburimu when we attack the birds. They are surprisingly evasive. However, these days I'm rarely on DNC when I go to Dynamis since I'm enjoying PLD a lot more there xD. I know I can improve this by picking up a Sniper's Ring, but I don't think the extra gil and inventory-1 is worth 1 more accuracy.

WS set - http://ffxigear.com/?ref=18681

- I've been using this more often these days as I get comfortable with managing TP as well as trusting my backup healer to cover for me. I no longer sit on 200+ TP, and typically bounce between 70-150% TP depending on how much I have to heal while WSing every chance I get. I also use 3 macros for WSing... one to put on the above gear, one to actually do the WS, and one to switch back out to my regular gear. Currently, I can do about 650+ with both Dancing Edge and Pyrrhic Kleos, and as high as 1100+ for a Dancing Edge if I have just activated Saber Dance

Evasion set - http://ffxigear.com/?ref=18531

- Mainly for soloing, or survival... maximizes evasion at the expense of everything else. It's amusing to see how often things that would demolish other jobs miss me xD

Enmity set - http://ffxigear.com/?ref=18530

- Just for the crazy occasion when I want to tank... happens most often in duo or small-party situations. I think this is the most enmity I can put on so far. The two expansion pieces have +4 & +5 enmity as augments. Fan Dance would further increase enmity by another +15

You'll notice that this is all equipment for DNC/NIN. I often go DNC/SAM for things since Meditate gives me more flexibility to spam cures or WS, plus the TP gain rate for DNC/SAM is overall faster compared to /NIN at the sacrifice of some survivability. The only equipment changes I have for /SAM are to replace the Suppanomimi with a Delta Earring for the extra +chr, +dex and -enmity. Oh, and using a Legion Scutum for the -enmity and extra defense.

So, can anyone think of gear that I may have missed for DNC? I didn't know about the Scouter's Rope until I /checked a random DNC who was doing a good evasive tanking job in campaign. Is there other gear I may have missed?

Fey Weapons

Fuuji & Hyouga /poked me a couple of nights ago and told me that I should look into the new "Fey Weapons" that were added in the last update. These are job-specific weapons that can be augmented by completing the Succor to the Sidhe quest. Teia has been wanting to augment her lance for a while now, and Fuuji & Hyouga went out to get some weapons with some decent augments.

Personally, I was going to look into doing this quest once I had more gil (still need to pay Vanh back his loan!) and once the price of the Ogre Jambiya became more reasonable. This dagger was selling on the AH for around 200k, which I thought was much too high. Hyouga was the one that pointed out that the AH was completely overpriced, and that the materials only cost about 25-30k ~.~ Stupid AH price gougers! The AH price is coming down quickly, but I was able to get in touch with Greysnake, one of Hyouga and my mutual friends to craft one for me! I met Grey in the beginning of this year when I was leveling SCH. He was leveling RDM at the time and we had quite a few good parties together :)

Well, now I have a DNC weapon and I'm ready to try for some augments. It's going to be tough for an augment Ogre Jambiya to compete with my two current daggers, the Azoth(accuracy + evasion) and the Adder Jambiya(evasion + impairs evasion). Looking at the augments that have been found so far, I'd have to get both Double Attack and Store TP before I'd consider keeping the Ogre Jambiya and not trying for a better augment.

Just need to find a time, and the people to do this quest now :)