Ring question

[Similli]

I have or am leveling BRD NIN and SAM at 75 which will be my main jobs. As of right now I picked Tamas, Ethereal, and Suppa for those rewards. I have yet to pick up a ToAU ring. Now considering I want to switch to Rajas I think for my SAM what ToAU ring should I get? Should I keep Tamas and get the melee or switch to Rajas and get what then? I don't want to redo DM or AN so switching earrings isn't really an option. My favorite job is BRD really and I mostly gear that one up but Tamas is a bit weak for the job considering I have Troopers, 2xHeaven's, Ether and Serket ring already. It's nice but not necessary. For NIN and SAM I have HQ STR (Flames for 75) and NQ sniper's. I'd like to keep a 5 hit setup for SAM with as much haste as possible so that would probably make me switch to Rajas.

Someone give me a good argument why I should go one way or another. If someone can convince me to switch earrings too I currently have loq., musical, brutal, singing, evasion, intruder. I'd probably use Ethereal + Brutal for SAM, Suppa + Brutal for NIN merits and Ethereal/Loq./Evasion/Intruder(since I have 4 MP merits) for NIN endgame.

[Thulius]

With those jobs and rings available there's pretty much no reason to have tamas at all. Definitely switch to a rajas, frees up space in a 6-hit build and is an amazing ring for both DoT and WS for SAM. As for ToAU rings, ulthalam's is a great melee ring in general, but balrahn's offers a pretty unique stat as far as rings go, and brd could make good use of it. I can't say for sure how much of a difference it makes, but I can say you won't see a big difference going from sniper's/rajas to ulth/rajas. IMO, your earrings are fine.

tl;dr get rajas and balrahn's, keep the earrings.

[yayaok]

tl;dr get rajas and balrahn's, keep the earrings.

i second this good man, no need for tamas when you got those others
if you have sam, rajas is the kingshit

[Plow]

if you have sam, rajas is the kingshit

Seriously, the other one is arguable, but there's no question if you're playing sam rajas for it far far far outweighs what the others offer for any other job.

[Lordwafik]

Tamas isn't really special for BRD unless it's an MP set peice, but even then it's not that useful (for brd). I'm a big fan of tamas but wtf @ your jobs and ring choices. Go swap it for a Rajas.

As for the Treasure rings, if you can't decide now, then don't choose one. Wait till WotG comes out and see how assault dependant it is, and which ring will get more use, and then pick.

[sb]

Go for a Rajas and work on this:

http://ffxi.somepage.com/itemdb/9405

for your BRD.

[Popsiclestick]

speaking of which, on the whole magic accuracy thing:

I picked Bahlran's ring for myself (since I have Rajas, and the refresh seems pretty nifty) and noticed that it does a fair good job in landing spells for my now 60Bard. I stand with lol+24 Chr for my taru when I could have +40 if I decently geared it. Seems like a lot of the newer gear that includes bard gives macc now. And from my limited knowledge on bard, doesn't CHR only reduces resist? If one were to condense gear, would going with a balance of MACC be slightly better?

Gear wise, MACC is pretty hard to come by it seems. Einherjar gear, bahlran's ring, and like Nyzul are the only places to get this for a bard...

[Tradition]

MAcc is hard to come by in decent amounts for BRD, so most BRDs just stick with +skill/CHR (at least, I do).

[Spidey]

With those jobs and rings available there's pretty much no reason to have tamas at all. Definitely switch to a rajas, frees up space in a 6-hit build and is an amazing ring for both DoT and WS for SAM. As for ToAU rings, ulthalam's is a great melee ring in general, but balrahn's offers a pretty unique stat as far as rings go, and brd could make good use of it. I can't say for sure how much of a difference it makes, but I can say you won't see a big difference going from sniper's/rajas to ulth/rajas. IMO, your earrings are fine.

tl;dr get rajas and balrahn's, keep the earrings.

Ditto

[Similli]

Tamas isn't really special for BRD unless it's an MP set peice, but even then it's not that useful (for brd). I'm a big fan of tamas but wtf @ your jobs and ring choices. Go swap it for a Rajas.

As for the Treasure rings, if you can't decide now, then don't choose one. Wait till WotG comes out and see how assault dependant it is, and which ring will get more use, and then pick.

I got Tamas back when BRD was my only 75 and I was leveling WHM. I quite WHM a long time ago and never bothered to get it to 75 so Tamas seems a whole lot more worthless but I got it back before you could trade rings and have only recently picked SAM back up and thought about switching rings. I think I'll most likely do this and wait to see if theres any more events like Assault/Salvage in the new expansion where I could use that refresh effect.

[Obev]

WHM RDM BRD 75, rarely if ever use Tamas on BRD. I suppose I could fit it into an -enmity setup, but 90% of the time I'm using light ring/minstrel's ring or mp ring/mp ring to activate the latent. On RDM and WHM of course it never leaves my finger, but given your own other 75 jobs Tamas seems a bit of a waste.