Ideal Convert gear?

[thestalkmore]

My RDM has been finished for the longest time but I never paid any attention to my gear while converting because MP has never been an issue. I was bored today and started setting up a convert gear swarp, anybody know the "best" possible set of gear for convert?

[Tonko]

Depends on your race, merits, and sub.
Ideally you want as much +HP and +MP gear, and try to avoid HP -> MP gear, because it's a waste of a slot unless you're just way over on HP.

Try to get to a 1:1 ratio.

Good pieces:
Walahra Turban
Goliard Saio / Warlock's Tabbard +1
Loquacious Earring
Rep. Gold medal
Prince's Slops
Heiarch Belt
Intensifying Cape
Tamas Ring

Rest of my normal setup is race specific, or includes Vivian Ring + Zenith gear.

[thestalkmore]

Depends on your race, merits, and sub.
Ideally you want as much +HP and +MP gear, and try to avoid HP -> MP gear, because it's a waste of a slot unless you're just way over on HP.

Try to get to a 1:1 ratio.

Good pieces:
Walahra Turban
Goliard Saio / Warlock's Tabbard +1
Loquacious Earring
Rep. Gold medal
Prince's Slops
Heiarch Belt
Intensifying Cape
Tamas Ring

Rest of my normal setup is race specific, or includes Vivian Ring + Zenith gear.

Are you galka?

This is what i'm using ATM (I'm taru):
Head: Walahra Turban
Body: Crimson Scale Male
Hands: Devotee's +1 (have always passed w. hands)
Legs: Crimson Cuisses:
Feet: Blood Greaves
Ring1: Tamas
Ring2: Aqua
Ear1: Loquacious
Ear2: Phantom +1
Ammo: Hedgehog Bomb
Waist: Hierarch
Main: Apollo's
Back: Prism Cape

That puts me at 993 hp (over a hundred short of MP)

[yrpaine]

crimson gear is also good since it does both +hp and +mp instead of just converting hp>mp gear i try hard to get pieces that add stats and not just move them around.

[Tonko]

I'm hume with 50 MP merits and 20 HP
Regardless of sub, I always have over 1000 for HP and MP
Mage subs I have over 1100 of each on convert.

[thestalkmore]

I'm hume with 50 MP merits and 20 HP
Regardless of sub, I always have over 1000 for HP and MP
Mage subs I have over 1100 of each on convert.

I need more HP ;/

[Intense]

Can you invest into HP merits?

[Evelyn]

subbing a bomb queen ring in for aqua (if you have one) should help close the HP/MP gap.

[Crizto]

I guess I'm lucky that I have PLD leveled aswell because I have 6 HP merits a long with 2 MP merits. With BLM sub I can get a 1:1 ratio, with WHM or DRK sub the HP goes up and the MP goes down.

Range: P. Tanthlum
Head: Walahra Turban
Neck: U.Pendant
Ear1: Bloodbead Earring
Ear2: Loq. Earring
Body: Warlock's Tabard
Hands: Zenith mitss
Ring1: Ether Ring
Ring2: Tamas Ring
Back: Intensifying Cape
Waist: Hierarch Belt
Legs: Zenith Slacks
Feet: Zenith Pumps

Since you are a Taru you may wanna switch you're Aqua Ring for a B.Q. Ring. Getting the W.Hands would be good for you aswell. May need to sacrifice one of your lesser MP earrings for something like a Pidgeon Earring. This may even out your ratio.

[Delekii]

As taru /whm I use:

Wahlara
Grandiose Chain
Loquac.
Antivenom
S.Harness
Crimson hands
1 ring that doesnt affect convert, if I had bq ring I could get higher ratio
Tamas
Prism Cape
Heirarch
Yigit
Dusk feet

With merits, I end up just shy of 1100. As I said if I had bomb queen, I could put on more MP. I also need 3 more HP merits, so pusing up to 1200 with ideal setup.

[Turaeg]

My convert for /whm is 1051 hp 1051 mp. I have 8 mp merits and gear:

Main: Light staff
Range: H. Bomb
Head: Faerie Hairpin
Neck: Promise Badge
Ear1: Magnetic
Ear2: Loq.
Body: Warlock Tabard +1
Hands: Marine M
Ring 1: Ether
Ring 2: Tamas
Back: Intensifying
Waist: Heirarch
Legs: Custom Slacks
Feet: Mahatma Pigaches

With my regular casting gear I have 1051 hp and 906 mp. One of the most important things I think about convert gear is to allow me to cure IV 2 times and switch back to normal gear and be relatively close to being full mp.

[Xerlic]

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8...vert227lb5.jpg

0 HP merits 5 MP merits.

In addition to all of the gear mentioned already, I would also check out +HP rings. Bomb Queen Ring and/or Bloodbead Ring (if you're really anal about Convert) are especially useful if you're a taru.

For clarification, the neck is Grandiose Chain and the legs are Yigit Seraweels.

[Shuemue]

Xerlic, you obviously need: http://ffxi.somepage.com/itemdb/592

[Wottles]

change aqua to BQ.
change prism to Gigant mantle.
change mitts to taru RSE or Crimson.
use Uggalepih for neck.
change Phantom to Insomnia.
eat Marron Glace and get MP merits.
If mp merits aren't an option or you don't wanna eat food, can use astral earring, and/or intensifying cape.
You could also use Seveneyes and an mp shield, but that's a little overboard, and if you swapped to light staff to cure after, you'd just lose the mp.
Everything else you are using is basically the best options.

[Darkslitter]

BTW I'm a hume with 5/8 mp merrits, so once i get the other 3 it will be about even. If I'm lucky I'll get zenith mitts +1 for my blm and that will make me vert at 1062 hp and 1059 mp. Back item is altruistic cape

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...r/img_0837.png

[Sylvrdragon]

Elvaan, 8/8 MP merits, No food active. I have a long way to go for MP gear, and I have an lolA.Legs uncursed in my MH (for about a year now...).

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5...8074500so8.jpg[/img]

[shukuffxi]

Here's my work-in-progress Convert gear:

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/3...ertgearrx0.jpg
My character is a Hume Male, unfinished MP merits (4/8)

Ammo: Hedgehog Bomb - MP+30
Head: Walahra Turban - HP+30/MP+30
Neck: Beak Necklace - MP+20
Ear1: Insomnia Earring - HP+15/MP+15
Ear2: Loquacious Earring - MP+30
Body: Blood Scale Mail - HP+42/MP+42 (lucky HQ, don't ask :P)
Hands: Zenith Mitts - 50HP --> 50MP
Ring1: Tamas Ring - MP+30
Ring2: Ether Ring - 30HP --> 30MP
Back: Intensifying Cape - +30HP/+30MP
Waist: Hierarch Belt - MP+42
Legs: Crimson Cuisses - +25HP/+25MP
Feet: Zenith Pumps - 50HP --> 50MP

This setup gives me:

+70HP (This is after -130HP from 2x Zenith + Ether Ring)
+364MP

1098HP / 1042MP, which would be 1082MP once I finish my MP merits (other merits take priority imo). Just needs a little more fooling around with to hit 1100:1100. I feel like i'm overlooking something really obvious, any suggestions?

[Eraphiel]

http://www.otasrealm.com/pics/ffxi/VertGear.jpg
Astral Aspis, Warlock's Chapeau (need ruby silk to make the +1), Lamia Mantle (until we can do more Ix'DRKs at least .__.), Ether Ring, Wood F Ledelsens, and 8/8 MP merits.

Dependent on the situation, I'm using either Melon+1 or Witchkabobs as food, which brings the total to 1017mp or 1002 respectively.
Vert, Cure4, regen, swap on Light Staff, and Cure4 again, and I'm close enough for regen to take me the rest of the way to full, and still sit either right at, or close enough to my idle (1123hp/837mp) to be negligible. There's still a few pieces I'd like to upgrade (Hedgehog, Altruistic, Warlock's+1), I'm fair well happy with what I've got.

[Ambir]

Keep in mind as well, if you add HP gear before your convert, that you'll have to cure yourself before convert as well as after (costing yourself time, and some of the MP that you've just gained.).

Often it's nearly as efficient MPwise and more efficient Gearwise to just add MP gear and convert to your casting HP level. (maybe with the exception of Tarus).

[Djekkie]

http://www.absolutezero-ls.net/personal/rdmvertgear.jpg

This is what I mainly use.. I try not to bring extra gear for convert seeing as my inventory is pretty packed as it is allready while playing RDM (usually 55/60) so I mainly made it out of gear which I bring with me 99% of the time. I did 4 HP merits and 4 MP merits to try and keep a balance for my other 75s as well. After getting back the 1022 HP from vert, Refresh + double Auto-Refresh from Dalmatica and Duelist's Chapeau fills it right up to full.

Pending Subjob I switch out pieces of gear but that's rare as I'm usually /blm.