What's Better?

[noodles355]

How much behind is unstacked 99 Mercy to unstacked Exenterator? Including the 5% Crit AM (assuming it's up fulltime)?

Bump on this, asked a couple of times. Want to know because it'll decide if I drop some exen merits to make room for other WSs since update.

[Nishida]

Requiscat (BLU), Ruinator (BST), Tachi: Shoha, Blade: Shun, Shijin Spiral.

Which ones do I do 1,2,3,4, or 5 points into if no R/E/Ms? My main two jobs are MNK and BLU. BST is used mostly for farming. NIN rarely gets use outside of abyssea. SAM is slowly being pieced together..need a lot of gear still.

[dogtime]

Requiscat (BLU), Ruinator (BST), Tachi: Shoha, Blade: Shun, Shijin Spiral.

Which ones do I do 1,2,3,4, or 5 points into if no R/E/Ms? My main two jobs are MNK and BLU. BST is used mostly for farming. NIN rarely gets use outside of abyssea. SAM is slowly being pieced together..need a lot of gear still.

5 shoha 2 ruinator 5 shun 1 shijin 2 req

[Kidnoftle]

I wouldn't do 5 on shun if you're only on nin in abyssea. I wouldn't merit it at all actually. 5 shoha/3req/4shijin/3ruin imo if blu/mnk/bst are used most but you still like blu.

[Arthars]

requiescat question:

MND rings? or MAB?

not sure if MAB affects anything...

also twilight mail or phorcys

[Damane]

requiescat question:

MND rings? or MAB?

not sure if MAB affects anything...

also twilight mail or phorcys

MND rings and twilight mail over phorcys body for req

[Therin]

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/299137 - 5-hit build, capped Haste, 14% Double Attack, 2% Quadruple Attack, +93 Accuracy.

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/299134

Anything I'm missing for the new "best" DRK TP sets? (Assuming Apocalypse is buffed soon.) I'm not sure on the body for the Apoc build but I'm assuming Mikinaak will have some good augments. Obviously that can be swapped back to Pak +1 or something else if the augments don't better everything else available.

[Zirael]

Bump on this, asked a couple of times. Want to know because it'll decide if I drop some exen merits to make room for other WSs since update.

Gear I use (Mand99/Twa90) Mithra /war,against Pil, haste, double marches, double minuets, chaos+fighter gives me this:
Exenterator (5/5 merits only,don't have new spereadsheet yet for simulate 1/5 etc) 1988, SA-Mercy 3676, TA-Mercy 3506, Mercy-solo 1433.
same against Chapuli 102:
Exen 2881, SA-Mercy 4723, TA-Mercy 4471, Mercy-solo 2026.

without BRD/COR against Chapuli 102
Exen 2247, SA-Mercy 3861, TA-Mercy 3722, Mercy-solo 1604.

My best advice tho is, download latest Monty spreadsheet and see for yourself with the gear available to you. You can simulate DPSusing solo weaponskills only or onlt doing SA-WS+solo etc in the spreadsheet.

[Kohan]

I wouldn't do 5 on shun if you're only on nin in abyssea. I wouldn't merit it at all actually. 5 shoha/3req/4shijin/3ruin imo if blu/mnk/bst are used most but you still like blu.

To provide further feedback: I simply use Blade: Jin on my NIN when I'm using it in Abyssea. I don't have Hi, but I don't play NIN seriously, as I leveled it solely for triggers, and the occasional mob solo/duo necessitating Migawari. For its sets, I already have Thaumas, MDT-, PDT-, etc., for my MNK; obviously excluding the pieces that don't transfer, I mostly use the same equipment on my NIN. This also applies to my WS set, as what I use for Victory Smite, I use for Jin. I wouldn't be able to do that for Shun.

So, as Kid said, don't bother meriting Shun. You really don't need it. You can use Jin to get by, and no one is going to care about your non-main NIN's damage outside of Abyssea.

[solracht]

How is Suijingiri KM compared to Masa90?

[Kaope]

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/299137 - 5-hit build, capped Haste, 14% Double Attack, 2% Quadruple Attack, +93 Accuracy.

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/299134

Anything I'm missing for the new "best" DRK TP sets? (Assuming Apocalypse is buffed soon.) I'm not sure on the body for the Apoc build but I'm assuming Mikinaak will have some good augments. Obviously that can be swapped back to Pak +1 or something else if the augments don't better everything else available.

I'm pretty sure using ebody (da3%/stp6) and ares leg+1 combo for pre-aftermath set ups is better.

[Modoru]

How is Suijingiri KM compared to Masa90?

also interested in knowing differences vs other options~

[blue]

sam/WAR or sam/DRK now with the last resort update?

[Taint]

sam/WAR or sam/DRK now with the last resort update?

SAM/THF lol

or SAM/WAR

[Devinry]

My "main" DD/tank jobs are PLD(90Almace/Aegis/Ochain), WAR(soon to be 99Ukon), NIN(90Kannagi), and MNK(90Vere). I rarely play, but do enjoy SAM(90Masa) and RNG/COR(85Arma). Right now my merit WS's are 5/5 Shoha, 5/5 Last Stand, and 5/5 Resolution.

What would be the best way for me to spread those around post-update? I've heard Requiescat is good for a variety of things -- worth throwing some points into that?

[dasva]

My "main" DD/tank jobs are PLD(90Almace/Aegis/Ochain), WAR(soon to be 99Ukon), NIN(90Kannagi), and MNK(90Vere). I rarely play, but do enjoy SAM(90Masa) and RNG/COR(85Arma). Right now my merit WS's are 5/5 Shoha, 5/5 Last Stand, and 5/5 Resolution.

What would be the best way for me to spread those around post-update? I've heard Requiescat is good for a variety of things -- worth throwing some points into that?

Sorta depends on gearing... like right now until you get the new super dmg weapons the way you have them now is probably optimal... though yeah might want to throw some into requiescat but once you get them you wont have access to there ws anymore so you will want at least 1 point in each merit ws that you switch away from the empyrean weapon. Oh and gun is likely to not be outclassed by the new weapon however the bow kinda trashes the gun now so might want to get apex

[Arthars]

My "main" DD/tank jobs are PLD(90Almace/Aegis/Ochain), WAR(soon to be 99Ukon), NIN(90Kannagi), and MNK(90Vere). I rarely play, but do enjoy SAM(90Masa) and RNG/COR(85Arma). Right now my merit WS's are 5/5 Shoha, 5/5 Last Stand, and 5/5 Resolution.

What would be the best way for me to spread those around post-update? I've heard Requiescat is good for a variety of things -- worth throwing some points into that?

keep 5/5 reso and shoha

remove 1 point from last stand and put into requiescat since its your main job, or more if u want, because last stand is just gotta miss on the new NMs anyway

[StatikGP]

Ferine Ocreae +1 / +2 or Ryuga Sune-ate for BST TP gear.

[Sechs]

Depends on your haste build, if you can cap haste without using the feet slot, then Ferin Ocreae +2 are an excellent tp piece.

[Fwahm]

Bale Earring + Brutal Earring vs Bladeborn Earring + Steelflash Earring for Resolution?