Zenith, To HQ Or Not To HQ

I have had zenith hand, leg and head abjurations in my mog house for a long, long time and was wondering if it is worth HQ'ing these pieces. Which is primarily the reason I have held out on abjurating them.

I am a BLM as well, and was thinking of perhaps just HQ'ing the hands as they provide a static damage percentage increase whereas the other two pieces provide a little MP increase on the NQ.

However, as I am primarily NIN BLU RNG and offset RDM and BLM (mainly for events) I do not have elemental magic merits. Which may mean I am better full timing (using 95% of the time) BLM AF hands (+15 elemental magic).

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Hjui.

Hard to say today, hands would be the only piece worth HQing for BLM, but with the level cap rising, I doubt ZMitts +1 will be the best piece anymore.

Edit: Didn't realize you specifically posted this in the Red Mage forum.

Still not worth the HQ. The amount of gil for 1-2 more stats and 5 mp per piece?... Plus just for the stats, there are better pieces anyway.

Very true, I would wait tbh because it would cost about 3m+ or so to HQ hands.

Hmm, so I should NQ head/legs? and wait on abjurating hands?

I am Hume and as RDM my MP pool isn't extensive. (Runs out fast in Limbus).

Does it make me a bad RDM/BLM having NQ Zenith?

If you have money to burn, then they're only worth HQing for white box status. +1 versions will give you an extra 5MP, MND/INT etc. But there are better alternatives for each, (Mahatma for MND etc).
Even with Elemental merits BLMs tend to use AF+1 gloves on say Wyrms/Kirin. I dunno if it's different at 80, I haven't done any of those since cap increase. If you can get a hold of +1 hands, they'd be nice, but you risk it being outdated in future updates.

Nope. BLM never uses Zenith (aside from Mitts) for anything besides an HP macro for Sorcerer's Ring. Could argue using it at the start of a fight for +MP to buff with but meh. Same applies to RDM, though most RDMs use it to achieve a 1:1 Convert ratio. Apart from that, they have no uses.