The Sealed Dagger: A Ninja Guide

I don't know why I brainfarted and forgot that NIN can also use Blurred Knife +1. Same OAT and Haste, lower delay. It would make better sense if you play multiple jobs that can use the knife to just use that as your "I need haste" weapon, instead of carrying multiple blurred weapons across jobs (1 job weapon vs 8 non-haste jobs' weapon). The knife is also generally cheaper than Kujaku

I wondered that when I read your post, don't know why they bothered with the Katana really unless you needed the acc from it at the time it was launched.

Another upcycle in existing assets.
Was the original something you could augment?

Someone had to explain the Hades earring thing to me because I guess I was on break when those were a thing

I suspect the original was like ebur gear? Which the wiki like the Hades earring does not link to anything that would explain the process

I bought the katana way back because its a cool lockstyle and I just like using Katanas over anything else personally. But from a minimalist perspective (and to answer the guy's question), if you're ever in an unbuffed scenario, the haste proc is all that matters at that point. The dagger works just as fine. I happened to simply forget NIN could use it because I sold mine so long ago from COR. I used it on BST pre-Ridill and Kraken Club, but haven't considered it since that from a long time ago.

The point I was making is you don't ever need to be in a haste-less scenario if you just bring the blurred weapon. It's probably going to be your best offhand in a low-buff scenario anyways with the OAT. Not that I think that scenario is ever going to be super common to begin with (maybe soloing an Omen boss and your trusts die and you can't resummon the haster, even thats rare)

What's BiS Shun gear?

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/All_Jobs_Gear_Sets/Ninja

Thanks, I knew that page existed somewhere but didn't come up in google.

I assume Malig assumes capped attack or just for the high DEX on hands and body? I can't be bothered to make Lugra+1 earring any time soon so need an alternative.

Should be one for every job under each guide section in the individual job pages

I couldn't justify using Malignance body for Shun so I use Empyrean+3. Don't see any reason why Malignance wins in that set for Shun besides pure Dex, unless I'm completely blind. Empyrean body smokes it in str, accuracy and attack. Ditto for the Empyrean hands. Maybe I'm missing something, but that was one of the sets that slightly bothered me because I couldn't understand the context.

That's one of the reasons why I don't take those guides as pure gospel (and neither should you). They take into account just averages and best possible damage and nothing else besides a baseline level of attack, which isn't always the case. You still have to compare options

It's the PDL and the storetp shaving 1/10th of a second off the next attack round

But the difference between malig emp nyame mpaca is going to be 10 whole damage

High buff makes sense for malignance, since shun at 2k is already double your atk, suppose same could apply at mid buff if you're on the higher end of mid buff

Yeah I guess with whatever trust buffs the mid buff set uses plus mpaca/heishi/moonshade, says "you already cap attack with an extra 100%, use Malignance". I could see the reasoning there. Stuff like that didn't always make sense for me because it assumes that mid buff will cap attack. In something like Limbus where Sylvie solo won't frailty or fury, that's not a given

If you can't make use of the PDL with a +100-200% attack bonus then you better not be using any PDL for anything else.

Everyone assumes their attack is capped all the time. everytime. always.

Low buffs, mid buffs, high buffs. These words are meaningless, they all mean mobs def is 1.

Cor Brd Geo are the minimum spec

Just put the attack bonus in terms of naeglings.

Low buffs you might only get 10% attack bonus from naegling, Shun is then like 10-20 naeglings worth of attack bonus lol.

I was doing Locus Colibri with my other char MBing (yeah, they re-cast but shadows absorb it). I had Sylvie/Koru/Qultada/Cherukiki so only Chaos Roll and most the time Dia3. Not sure how much PDL I could realistically make use of, already have earring+1 in set.

1250 Defense -20%

Your attack is something like 2100-2400(berserk)

You can use some amount of pdl, if you're wsing at 2k effective
(Probably all the pdl nin can get, colibri have low defense)

If it's effectively 4000 attack Vs 1000 defense I suppose so, more so when berserk is up