Dancer role in Exp Party

[Armando]

Re: Dancer role in Exp Party

Simple put, it's not a 1:1 ratio as far as skill is involved, so you're not getting an actual +15 acc.

Skill-to-Accuracy IS a 1:1 ratio until your skill reaches 200 (and even then, it's 1 skill:0.9 Accuracy for every point over 200, which is still close enough.) Also, Itazura isn't counting DEX or Accuracy Bonus. A Lv.34 Hume WAR/NIN (WAR has C-ranked DEX, I'm guessing DNC has B but I'm not going to make that assumption) has 38 DEX, so slap on an extra 19 Accuracy. Acc Bonus I is another 10. Without taking gear into account, that's 129 Accuracy at Lv.34. 15% of that is 19.

As long as you don't overhunt, you shouldn't hit for 0.

Meanwhile, no matter what class you are, if you want to hit for any sort of decent dmg, you will need att.

This is quite the generalization. Accuracy is superior to Attack. Compare them side by side. Increasing Attack will increase the damage of your normal hits and WS by a flat %. Accuracy will increase how often you connect your normal hits and single-hit WS (thus increasing that aspect of your damage by a flat %) but also increases how frequently you WS. And if your WS is multi-hit (as is often the case) then increasing your Accuracy is an exponential improvement to your average WS damage.

I disagree that Sushi doesn't reach its potential until 50+. To be conservative, I'd say it can be used as early as 40 for jobs in general, though others like DNC and BLU can benefit from it as early as the 30's if you lack a BRD.

So 5 Acc in the dunes, on top of Vision Ring + Optical Earring + anyotheraccgear while gaining a hefty Att boost is the best bet imo.

If you're speaking in general, ok. But Mighty Rings trump Vision Rings in the dunes.

Probably because a bonus to BOTH att and acc can beat a bonus to one, especially if it helps keep your weapon from bouncing off too often.

This is true in general, but the Accuracy bonus from Rice Dumplings is small enough that there isn't much of a "bonus" from increasing both. When you use Rice Dumplings, you're sacrificing the usage of a food that would give 25% Attack as opposed to Rice Dumpling's 20%, for +2.5% hit rate. Rice Dumplings probably still comes out on top, but only by a small margin.

[VZX]

Re: Dancer role in Exp Party

I do like Rice Dumpling a lot as a melee DD, but DNC is not a DD. Shouldn't be hitting for 0's in mid Lv.30's, so I would lean toward pure accuracy food.
Edit:
Don't know why I used rank A weapon as example earlier; Dancer is B in Dagger. That means it hits 100 skill at Lv.34. Not that Viper Bite would do much for a Dancer... Oh well.

Extra notes:
Confirmed from BG, DNC have B+ dagger. So essentially, they have 2 less accuracy (including Acc bonus JT) than those 1hander wielder with A- rank weapons