Omni-Gearing for Melee Jobs

The melee DPS in this game fall into one of three categories - Maiming, Striking, and Scouting. Maiming includes Dragoon and Reaper, Striking includes Monk and Samurai, and Scouting is only technically a melee, since they have the same Role Actions, but they share gear with no one. Ninja need not be included for this reason. Below, we have gearsets designed to be used if you want to flex between the two Maiming or the two Striking DPS with minimal need to re-meld gear.

The buttons linked below will lead you to the job specific gearing pages.

All four Maiming sets on this page have complete compatibility among the right side gear. Monk takes a small hit to its performance to make this happen, but it is not sizeable enough to be a serious concern, if you are looking to play multiple melee classes.

Dragoon and Reaper share the exact same stat considerations, and their basic best-in-slot sets are actually fully compatible by default, to make everyone's lives easier. We specifically planned these sets out (meld-wise) to make sure that it was painless to swap between the two. With the relics, there is now a minor wrinkle - Reaper needs an additional Skill Speed meld, which is the only difference between the sets. For full compatibility, you can pick one set of boot melds and just know the other Job will suffer minor DPS losses, or do inventory trickery to have two different boots with different melds.

Monk and Samurai are extremely incompatible. They utilize different Skill Speed values to properly execute their rotations, which makes it very difficult to build a "one-size-fits-all" sort of gearset for the two classes at the same time. As such, the two sets listed below are unfortunately the way it is. Both sets have full meld compatibility with the Maiming Jobs (Dragoon and Reaper), but the left sides require different melds to maintain optimal speed stats for both Monk and Samurai, due to different meld priorities.

Ninja and Viper share very similar desires when it comes to setting up their stats, and they have an identically-potent speed buff baked into their rotation. While Viper, in general, prefers a 2.11 or 2.10 GCD spin, their 2.12 GCD speed option perfectly aligns with the Ninja's favored gearset. As such, it's recommended that you run 2.12 on your Viper if you intend to swap between Viper and Ninja with any regularity.