What's Better?

[Darkmagi]

Hecatomb +1 or Ares legs for Chant du Cygne on PLD? Inside and outside abyssea

[Atoreis]

Hecatomb +1 or Ares legs for Chant du Cygne on PLD? Inside and outside abyssea

I was thinking that myself but I dont think that 2% DA can beat 19att and 3 dex is equal to 6STR assuming fSTR not capped w/o this STR.

Heca should be better probably even by a large margin.

[Mohit]

Someone posted before that Are's was better inside abyssea. I personally don't know the math on that.

[Mrp]

What is better for MONK ws ( ( i mostly use Ascetic's Fury )

Anguinus Belt Rare Ex
[Waist] All Races
DEF:6 Accuracy+15 Attack+15 "Double Attack"+1%
LV 78 WAR MNK RDM THF PLD DRK BST BRD SAM NIN DRG BLU COR DNC

or

Light Belt RareExclusive
[Waist] All Races
DEF:7 "Conserve TP"+7
Latent effect: Increases weapon skill
accuracy and damage
Lv. 87 All Jobs

Increases fTP multiplier by +0.1

[Kamil]

Awing Salade with WS DMG +2%, Crit DMG +2%, DEX+4, AGI+4 or Aias Bonnet for Evisceration on Dancer?

[Colenzo]

the salade

[Xilk]

BST Rampage:

Adaman Hauberk or Ferine Gausape +2 (8% damage improvement from killer effects)?

[Taint]

What is better for MONK ws ( ( i mostly use Ascetic's Fury )

Anguinus Belt Rare Ex
[Waist] All Races
DEF:6 Accuracy+15 Attack+15 "Double Attack"+1%
LV 78 WAR MNK RDM THF PLD DRK BST BRD SAM NIN DRG BLU COR DNC

or

Light Belt RareExclusive
[Waist] All Races
DEF:7 "Conserve TP"+7
Latent effect: Increases weapon skill
accuracy and damage
Lv. 87 All Jobs

Increases fTP multiplier by +0.1

Elebelt

[Raen Ryong]

Anguinus should universally beat Ele Belt on any WS where acc/atk is uncapped.

[Arthars]

aguinus and ele belt is too close to really spot a difference imo

[Raen Ryong]

15 Attack in Attack uncapped scenarios is ~4% increase though less on crit-based WS. A reasonable fTP for a WS these days is at least 4 typically which gives Ele Belt as ~2.5% increase or less. 1% DA is some minor increase on the order of 0.5% damage or less but the ~5 accuracy can be nice (contrary to popular belief, not instant acc capped on everything)!

Anguinus Belt is also far more inventory-efficient.

[drewbixcube]

for a friend: unkai nodowa/warwolf belt or 2xsnow pieces for fudo?

[Niiro]

BST Rampage:

Adaman Hauberk or Ferine Gausape +2 (8% damage improvement from killer effects)?

Wiki lists it as 5% but either way AF3 should win unless your dDex is at a critical point where the 10 from adaberk would give you a significant crit rate bump, which is irrelevant inside abyssea and not worth the trouble figuring out per mob outside. Not to mention the 5% from AF3 is constant while crits are still random.

Just make sure when you do use AF3 it's on mobs BST actually has a killer trait for.

[Darkmagi]

for a friend: unkai nodowa/warwolf belt or 2xsnow pieces for fudo?

2x snow

[drewbixcube]

2x snow

thanks!

[Vathris]

Rajas ring or Thundersoul ring for CDC on blu?

This is my current set up:
http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/200558
(Shamshir +2 with STR)

Edit: Also whats better, OAT sword or double attack +10 ¿? And why? does the double attack on almace gets more damage done on aftermath or the more WS spam allows for more damage in the end?

[Yugl]

DA is better because of the higher DA value BLU has in Abyssea 5 Brutal + 3 Eponas + 3 Atheling + 2 Twilight + 10 Trait = 23 DA. You get 5 from VV is using that and 10 from Sword for a total of 38 DA. DA applies to WS and main-hand unlike OAT. You also have less delay and higher base damage (Less delay better for off-hand).

[Vathris]

Ah i see, thanks a lot!
Though i wont be using VV i think, i usually go RR and two from GH, MM, Apoc, depends on what im doing really, sometimes merciless matriarch for head butt spam or 1000 needles on resistant stuff. But if i am going for CDC spam what would best combo be? RR, GH, VV or Apoc?

Also, though i dont think itll be much of a difference, Rajas or thundersoul?

[Yugl]

I'm not certain how much Rajas would bump you to the next tier of X hit and Dual Wield + DA tends to off-set the significance of that, so I cannot comment on it.

The atma question came up in the BLU thread without a definitive answer, but the idea was to use VV GH RR for mobs you do reasonably good damage to (Spell-wise) and Apoc instead of VV for mobs where critical hits do more damage (Or WS) compared to spells.

[Arthars]

is SJ nin's dual wield sufficient?

or sj nin + dual wield combo trait stacks?