Perfected Jidz-Tet'ka? Nope.

[DRoark]

Seems like a decent enough item, but the "Perfected" items weren't really thought out well. Every one of them become (ed - Artifact). Might be OK for some builds, but Monks got the short-end on that one.
The main monk set? Wraps and an Artifact Trinket. It's like the "these take two slots" item. Monks always seem to be at the receiving end of a guy that got divorced that week, then designed our gear.

Probably the same guy that thought making canon Heroic monk damage a HIT BONUS, after a decade, was a good plan. Don't let Divorced Dave near the servers. M'kay?

[Grunthorno]

Perfected Jidz are great and fit well. Air stance is SA damage and wind stance is MRR cap. It gets used on gem of many facets sets.

If you want to talk about builds that got the short end of the stick on perfected artifacts, look at tanks.

[dredre9987]

Artifacts, not trinkets. It is still a wrist slot NOT a trinket slot.

[DRoark]

Artifacts, not trinkets. It is still a wrist slot NOT a trinket slot.

Yeah, I typed Trinket twice, but the point is you can't wear the Monk set (Wraps/Trinket), and the Perfected Bracer at the same time. Different slots, and still clash.
By "upgrading" the Jidz-Tet'ka, you're downgrading it. Yes, I know some people won't have both. Irrelevant. The Perfected items conflict with sets for other classes
as well, and was a cute but total bomb of an idea.

I get their idea. Make something the players can eventually find, go on a little hunt, and get a decent piece. Making them all Artifacts? Totally murdered flexibility.

If you want to talk about builds that got the short end of the stick on perfected artifacts...

Totally agree. It's an all-round slapfest.

[dredre9987]

I still feel minor artifacts should still let you put on more minor artifacts so I understand the pain.

[DrawingGuy]

Eh, I don't agree. For one, I don't even consider the Hound wraps + trinket to be your best option. The tick is slow stacking, slow ticking, and doesn't scale... making it meh. I would rather use better wraps (Fetters or Duality) and a better artifact. Heart of Suulomades is a much better utility artifact, has a great set bonus, and the bracers play into your bird attacks. Taer comes with 14 Wisdom and more accuracy and damage for your DPS. And Jidz is a great option providing even more Wisdom, stance bonuses, insightful sheltering, and an extra filigree slot. Heck I know non-monk melee builds that use it. Personally I list Perfected Jidz-Tet'ka as the best in slot minor artifact for handwrap monks.

Also obviously people would want to slot multiple artifacts. They have better stats than any other items because they are limited to a single slot, and if they were nerfed to regular stats and had no option to take filigrees, whelp, you have a regular item again, right? Some piece might fit your jigsaw better, but this game is a gear treadmill with an ever shifting puzzle anyways.

My only issue with Perfected Jidz-Tet'ka and perfected artifacts in general is the obscenely low drop rate of nebula fragments and having no alternative to escape that stupid RNG. You're already charging a ton of mats, threads, need a legendary item (that likely also took star fragments and other mats), need the saltmarsh expansion... it doesn't need to be this rare.

[Arkat]

Perfected Jidz would be nice if the Monks in Air stance would get the +5 Sneak Attack dice the description says they get instead of just +5 to Hit and Damage they actually get while sneak attacking.

[Seph1roth5]

One thing I didn't like when looking over the perfected items was how many guards show up. Pretty sure in one of cordo's livestreams where he had steel or someone on, they mentioned how guards and stat damage were both basically useless. I think when they were going over saltmarsh lamannia stuff and I had brought up the stat damage on the weapons being utter trash.