A Summoner's Gear Guide

The only harsh reality is that it seems you've lost your creativity and ffxi has never been about equality. It's all about situation and niche. I'm sorry that you lost fun due to meta.

SMN could do with a buff to wards anyway, would be nice if it was an alternative to BRD, after all, if a BRD can fully buff a party then start Savage Blading every 5 secs i'm sure SMN could provide buffs and BP every 20 seconds. it's only fair.

This here is why i've been playing around with different sub jobs and seeing what works with different trusts, it's fun being creative and trying different setups.

"Here's a neat set I made for a niche I didn't think was served. If you like my idea, you can watch this video I made trying it out."

And suddenly none of the previous two pages worth of argument happened. Amazing isn't it?

Hey now, don't wrap me up in that, I'm in agreement with you and said the same thing on the previous page. My quote is directed at an entirely different person for a different subject lol

You misunderstand. My quote is what he SHOULD have done. IE if he had done that, no one, not even myself, would have found any reason to call him out on his ***. But alas, he did not.

I did understand, I said the same thing, I'm just saying you should have only quoted him and not add him quoting me as well lol quoting him replying to me there is bridging an entirely different discussion that has nothing to do with the mislabeling

Since there's doesnt seem to be any super huge changes with Limbus gear for Smn, I've only updated the Guide abit.
And I've added a Melee/WS section. I used Kastra's Dmg Simulator for Tp/Ws setup.

Do you really think Fickblix isn't worth it for any of the top sets?

Except one of them is objectively better, and like others have pointed out, your video is titled BIS sets not "my preferred sets." Claiming BIS means you better be ready to have your sets picked apart and defend them especially if they differ from conventional wisdom. That's literally what we're here for :) I'm not attacking, you know me so I'm sure you know that, but we're all passionate about this stuff is all. We want to know what is the best! And debate it until the cows come home!

You've stated consistency is your goal and why you don't lean into Pet:DA, but I'm going to convert you one of these days.

Consistency can mean a lot of things. For me, it means consistently getting 4 or 5 hits instead of only 3. Like folks have said, you're not even using Incarnation Sash in your physical pacts which is just crazy.

It looks like your physical pact set has only 9% Pet:DA total? So 83% of your pacts will only do 3 hits, and you'll basically never see 5 hits (less than 1%). My set I posted on a prior page, for comparison (but with Merlinic instead of Indom), has 44% Pet:DA and will do 30%/50%/20% for 3/4/5 hits respectively. So 30% of the time it'll do slightly less than yours due to less BPD, and 70% of the time it'll do significantly more due to double attack. Average damage will be 10.5% higher with the set I posted than the one in your video. Indom gloves would push it even higher.

You're leaving 10% damage on the table bro, and calling the set BIS, that's why people are reacting so negatively.

Well no, I just in general factor out most of those rings, since most people play many jobs and pick different rings. A miss on my part, I'll add it. The DD section wants the Lehko's Ring for TP, but I X'd it.

I hate to nitpick again, but your advanced hybrid set has dual wielding Nirvana and Opashoro... not that I object to dual wielding staves.

Not everyone has an Opashoro Stage4+5, and Nirvana is equal~ to Stage 4 Prime w/o AM3, hence the're both in the set. I'll add a note in the set for clarification.

I thought Grio was better than Nirvana for magic/flaming crush?

For Magic yes, for Flaming Crush nope. Nirvana is way ahead, so is Opashoro.
Nirvana AM3 not particularly relevant on Flaming Crush (it's a huge difference on stuff like Volt Strike and Hybrid Barrage etc, but I'm sure you know that already)

Thanks!