Trusts

[Sechs]

Does Yoran-Oran use curagas?

[Harukasakura]

friend of mine got August during Sinister Reign. He is a tank (makes sense i guess)

[michaeldue]

How did you get balamor trust? and does he use aoe moves alot or mostly single target stuff?

[Gokulo]

How did you get balamor trust? and does he use aoe moves alot or mostly single target stuff?

You get him during RoV missions.

[Kyreth]

I had someone note why Apururu shuts down at times rather than Nott'ing herself. Apparently, if she's got a Refresh effect up (say, Koru-Moru RefII'ing her), it screws with her AI and leaves her holding TP indefinitely at like 11 MP or so.

[Gokulo]

Oh god that's so good to know, screw moogle then

[Ligray]

Does Yoran-Oran use curagas?

Doesn't look like he does, but he does has very fast cures like 3sec.

[Fwahm]

Apururu will only use Nott when either everyone is in white with no statuses, or she doesn't have enough mp for anything.

If she's got refresh, she can get stuck in a cure I spam loop as refresh refills her just enough for the next cast.

[Damane]

Arciela I is reacting to August when summoned with the chatline: "August Adoulin... I never would have dreamed of fighting alongside the founder king."

not sure if she and he get a bonus out of this

EDIT:
August physical are TP moves (seems that way), with WS animations.
Can use his WSs from the sinister reing battle like quarter blabla, alabaster burst, day breaker etc.
At some point he will take his wing outs which seems to grant him an attack bonus
Uses Reprisal
Uses Provoke
Uses Cure spells
Uses Flash
Uses Holy II

i am not sure, but his attacks might be magic based? with indi-malaise he started hitting for 500-600 dmg per hit instead of 100 ¬.¬


Ingrid II: Inexorable strike did just 7k dmg wtf and she likes to skillchain that move and close for 7k SC dmg

with acumen and malaise: Arcielas auto attacks start to hit for 800+, balamor pumps out 1100 + per autoattack, august 600+ per auatoattack.


EDIT2: ok confused augusts attacks droped to 100, i have no idea wtf is causing his boosted attacks

[FaeQueenCory]

Could it be that Arciela is causing his attack to rise?

[Damane]

Could it be that Arciela is causing his attack to rise?

dont know, arciela was there the entire time.

[Korvana]

What's the latest consensus on best DD trusts overall? I like Semih Lafihna for Sidewinder/Barrage and I like Halver/Excenmille for Penta Thrust while leveling up, but I get the feeling the "II" ones are generally more powerful.

Specifically here are the ones I have on my second character for leveling (saving two for Kupofriend and Koru-Moru): Naji, Excenmille, Gessho, Nashmeira, Chacharoon, Robel-Akbel, Semih Lafihna, Kukki-Chebukki, Halver, Lion II, Zeid II

[FaeQueenCory]

dont know, arciela was there the entire time.

Perhaps it's just simply that one of his WSs gives him MAB+?

And, Korvana, Mayakov gets good numbers with Coming Up Roses, and apparently Ingrid II is pretty pimp.
Balamore and Selh'teus have potentially high DPS by being virtually 100% magic (and thus only subject to resists).

EDIT: now there's so many DD Trusts that it really just depends on your taste. (Though there's only a handful that get good numbers... But the total number of melee DD alone is 55.)

[nivlakian]

What's the latest consensus on best DD trusts overall?

I can't comment on their performance while leveling up, but when using them as a GEO in the high tier BCs and on other NMs, I find Zeid II to output the most damage which can be amplified if you have a WS that he can follow up with ground strike for a skillchain. Maximillian would be next followed by Semih Lafihna based on what I've seen when parsing. Afterward, the other DD trusts would probably be ranked by what else they bring to the table more so than simply their damage since they seem to perform lower than the other 3 trusts I mentioned. Things like Mayakov's steps and samba, Lilisette II's TP based AoE curing, Shikaree Z's support na/erase, etc.

The above does not necessarily apply to the trusts that use magic based attacks (Balamor, Arciela, etc) as I haven't experimented with trying to boost their performance.

[Sechs]

Doesn't look like he does, but he does has very fast cures like 3sec.

Yeah but then again we have several other WHMs who use single cast cures, -na and no haste.

The real difference with Apururu was mainly her regain (for Dagan, i.e. less MP issues) and the Curagas, which make her a viable healer in some content.
If Yoran-Oran has no Curagas then he doesn't seem that much better than one of the other plenty WHM trusts we have, aside from the fact he has awesome Dagan+Regain of course.

[Tile]

i remember them saying at first that how they acted was baed on unity rank, both Sylvie an yoran are in last, maybe they should be tested alittle after update before we condemn them, there are so few of us on carby in sylvie but her partial is set to take #1 so i'll see how she is after that

[Vathris]

Teodore isnt even featured on http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ust-Initiative

Mabe next login campaign after the corse one?

[Tile]

Ranked 1 Sylvie, still acts the same, Entrust is broke, and no luopan

[Sechs]

Asura sucks and was forced to swap to Yoran-Oran anyway >.>''

Oh btw, August DOES use No Quarter. I have damage filtered but it seems it's doing just normal damage, no conal 9999 thing.
Only AoE thing I saw from August is the Bow thing. Arrow rains from the sky and hit anything in range (small range)



About ranking Tile, I think it's your current PERSONAL RANKING that affects the UC Trusts' AI, not the overall ranking.

[Tile]

August's No quarter move i've seen him use it twice as trust, both times were for under 100 dmg. as for Unity my personal evaluation is 84, idk if that is high or low