Bushido - The Way Of The Samurai (A Guide) V. 2.0

How come no ryuo feet +1? Compared to STP+10 from relic+4 wouldn’t the zanshin proc help get faster tp for faster WS? Esp if using other zanshin pieces? Just confused.

If you are asking me, then you need to check few posts before the last one and it should be clear :)

tl;dr Ryuo have the fastest tp gain, but gain is small enough, that many people prefer alternatives that won't compromise their defensive values as much as Ryou, so I provided results for those alternatives too.

Ryou+1 are BiS. The TP to WS gain speed is minor but when it procs you are instantly at 2k meaning your WS hits harder.

Everything you would bring SAM to its ok to use them.

Limbus, Segs, Sortie, Dynamis all are just fine to use Ryou+1 in.

Master Trials and v25s they are not but SAM is a seldom used job in those.

That makes sense, thank you both :)

Ryou feet are garbage and belong on the floor of your mog house.

There are three other options within 1% of Ryou feet dps available to Sam - no I don't have data do it yourself. There is no reason to use them and take the hit on every stat other than a marginal increase in tp speed.

Don't be that guy.

The best feet are Tatenashi +1 R15, stop spreading false infooooo


Seriously though, nope. I think they're still behind Ryuo+1 because of hassanshin. Tatenashi +1 are surely good in terms of pure DPS but they are very much glass cannon stuff, their defensive stats are ***.
Wonder how much ahead they are compared to Relic+4?
I think these days I'd go for Limbus ones, augmented.

Realistically though they require not simply money but a lot of time, A LOT of time to uncurse them and augment them. Also people might want a lot of those pieces and might want to prioritize other pieces before.
So what to use until then?
I guess Relic+4, Mpaca and Kendatsuba+1 are all inferior but viable options, probably? They're all pretty easy/fast to obtain so you can use those, if anything as temporary options until better ones are available.

Simon provided some numbers a few posts ago.

Three other options that are not tatenashi (equally as trash as ryou).

Relic +4, af +4, mpaca and now clemency. Four including limbus gear. Five with kenda if you like those (worse than either af or relic Imo).

I think it's also a matter of what you use SAM for though.
Personally I've always been very biased towards stuff with good defensive stats, long before it became acknowledged as it tipically is in recent times.

With that said though, I guess it's not really insane to think about having multiple TP sets. One with pure DPS in mind, a hybrid of sorts, a full DT/defensive set.
Theoretically it makes a lot of sense and it's perfectly in line with the approach many of us had for their FFXI lives.
It's more a matter that in practice sometimes the DPS difference is so absymal that you start to wonder if there even is a point in having a pure DPS one.

Like, I mean, a typical build that was supported until not long ago with Flamma+2 head, Empy body and legs, Tatenashi+1 hands and feet.
This set has 2 pieces which are extremely good in DPS but also have very good defensive stats (empy).
Then you have a defensively bad piece (Flamma) and 2 pieces (tatenashi) which are even worse.
This set is not purely glass cannon (Empy alone provide 15MDB, 239 Meva and 35% DT with ambu cape), so you have a defensive layer which is not completely to the floor as the "old" full glass cannon builds were.

So the question here becomes: what are you using SAM for?
For stuff like Limbus, most Ambus, many other things, does it even matter? Probably not much.
For other stuff like T4 Escha NMs, Sortie basement bosses, Odyssey V20+ fights, does it matter?
Absolutely, it does imho.