Stonetooth or no Stonetooth?

Well, with maker out now your options are much more varied. Getting DEX or ACC will be significantly easier now.

Funding is the only thing that differentiates what gear you want.

Maker + dark/black crystals + stims + vicious hammer + chaos scrolls + white scrolls + clean slate scrolls = [SIZE="5"]über godly items [/SIZE]

It used to be that scrolling for dex was limited due to scroll availability. But now you can put any stat you like on any item !!

Example: Let's say you've scrolled 9 ACC red snowshoes like mine :-)

That's 1x 30% and 6 60/70% shoe for dex scrolls.

Now with maker you can forge a blue crescent boot as follows: (just to illustrate how I can improve on my 9 ACC shoes that I thought were good)

base: 2 STR 4 DEX 1 ACC
add 1 ADV GARNET + 3 ACC
add 1 ADV DEX CRYSTAL + 5 DEX
add 1 ADV LUK CRYSTAL + 5 LUK

you now have 2 STR 9 DEX 5 LUK 4 ACC clean boots <--- 13.7 ACC

That's with no stimulator, no dark/black crystals, no chaos scrolls and no scrolling !!! Imagine the possibilities.

Let's say you're desperate for DEX rather than ACC since you want to wear that Stonetooth. Same scenario:
base: 2 STR 4 DEX 1 ACC
add 1 ADV STR CRYSTAL +5 STR
add 1 ADV DEX CRYSTAL + 5 DEX
add 1 ADV DRK CRYSTAL + 5 to - 5 on stats
add stim (insures the base item isn't below average)

possible outcomes are 12 STR 14 DEX 1 ACC - 0 STR 0 DEX 1 ACC

technically it's possible to chaos these 7 times after applying the hammer item and end up with 14 + (7 x 5) = 49 DEX shoes. More likely that you'll hit 2 x 30% and 4 70% and end up with 14 + (2 x 3) + (4 x 1) = 24 DEX

Extremely unlikely of course, but hopefully it illustrate that with maker the possibilities are awesome.

The choice is up to you, but if you're high enough to train at time temple, I'd suggest you farm for the pieces of time and make yourself a decent 2H reverse nimbleheim like Kaj suggested.

Level 100 shoes can only have 2 gems. 110+ can have 3.