Jan. 15 2015 Version Update

[Shirai]

Whawhawhaaaaa
No BPdelayII, instead a relatively useless BPdelay.
Body slot MAB? L0L what a waste.
Ooooooo! 3mp refresh! With no -perp....
How easy this would have been to make actually good....
I guess the SMN dev was on vacation for this one.

Yeah, apart from "hurray a new idle body" I'm also quite disappointed by these stats.

[Foldypaws]

Ooooooo! 3mp refresh! With no -perp....

It's pretty trivial to cap -perp without the body slot. 5 weapon, 3 pants, 4 feet, 1 ring, 1 hands = 14, with all of that gear except the NQ part of the pants being ah-able or from 75 content.

(You can do better with hag augments of course, but that's just the "trivial" option)

[FaeQueenCory]

It's pretty trivial to cap -perp without the body slot. 5 weapon, 3 pants, 4 feet, 1 ring, 1 hands.

And it's better to not waste the feet slot capping perp so you can get some attack and haste.
Same with hands.
Haste>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wasting slot on perp.

[Shirai]

True, there are however still plenty of other options that are better for that slot, if you're interested in Avatar TP sets that is.
The -perp is the least I care about though, I'd rather see the MAB changed to MACC, that way the body would at least serve some purpose other than idle.

[Foldypaws]

And it's better to not waste the feet slot capping perp so you can get some attack and haste.
Same with hands.
Haste>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wasting slot on perp.

Avatar DPS <<<<<<<<<<< bloodpact damage

[FaeQueenCory]

True, there are however still plenty of other options that are better for that slot, if you're interested in Avatar TP sets that is.
The -perp is the least I care about though, I'd rather see the MAB changed to MACC, that way the body would at least serve some purpose other than idle.

No kidding.
The only reason I link perp to the refresh because the only way this is meaningful refresh (because let's face facts, "idle" when without an Avatar is meaningless and you can wear anything. Real SMN idling is with an avatar out and you need perp then too.) is if you wear this with a summoned avatar.
Better than.... The new body?
Yeah. That's what I was saying....?

Avatar DPS <<<<<<<<<<< bloodpact damage

9_9
Can you hear that? I'm doing it as loud as I can.
If you think MAB is good for BPs in the body slot...
More stupid to you.
The rest of us will go on to use our +%dmg bodies since we know how math works.

[frodnonnag]

Whawhawhaaaaa
No BPdelayII, instead a relatively useless BPdelay.
Body slot MAB? L0L what a waste.
Ooooooo! 3mp refresh! With no -perp....
How easy this would have been to make actually good....
I guess the SMN dev was on vacation for this one.

It's best in slot for idle refresh and refresh with avatar out... you just need to pull -2 perp with nirvana or -5 perp without, the only slots you can pull this on would be hands and feet, alternating when serpentes pieces are up :V. You lose the pdt/mdt of hagondes though.

[Foldypaws]

Can you hear that? I'm doing it as loud as I can.
If you think MAB is good for BPs in the body slot...
More stupid to you.
The rest of us will go on to use our +%dmg bodies since we know how math works.

No, I'm not saying "use this body for magical BPs", I'm saying "It doesn't matter how much pet attack and pet haste you try to gear, it will never matter, because avatar melee DPS is trash."

[Shirai]

No, I'm not saying "use this body for magical BPs", I'm saying "It doesn't matter how much pet attack and pet haste you try to gear, it will never matter, because avatar melee DPS is trash."

While you don't hear me disagree about the "Avatar DPS sucks" bit, I do like my avatar haste and other stats that give me extra TP for those occasional magic pacts.
Having to sacrifice 20 accuracy and 6% haste for 1 extra tick of refresh is quite considerable in my opinion.

And in case of your recommendation I'd also be sacrificing 2% Avatar haste from the feet slot. (Marduk's +1)

Although I think it's time to start working on a few new gearswap rules for avatar idle and avatar engaged sets.
[edit]
Looks like switching to Mote's will do after some adjustments.

[Sechs]

Wow, they noticed. Maybe they'll actually fix this soon? /dream

I didn't even notice this bug. I guess it affects only the merit part? It's the merit additional bonus that only gives effect of a single rune? Because default Vallation is working as intended I think.
When did this thing break? Has it always been like this?

[Sechs]

Fuck you SE. Couldn't have been on ANY other slot.

Wrong.
Let me fix that for you.

"Fuck you SE for binding us into keeping an item equipped to receive a silly bonus that attempts to make those retarded CP/hr rates a little less retarded".

Because that's totally the best choice, game-design wise, to fix something evenly among player base. Inorite?

The job restrictions on unity gear in general look super dumb. Is dnc not being on daggers, sword jobs not being on swords, pup not being on melee gear, etc. supposed to be some kind of nostalgia feature?

It's just the result of the bad job-assignment design they had in mind during that era of FFXI.
When creating the new versions of those items they're not touching the job-assignment thing.
Don't even think it's intentional, it's just a byproduct of that era. They probably considered this as a possible issue and underestimated the consequences thinking it wouldn't have harmed/annoyed the player base.

[Martel]

I didn't even notice this bug. I guess it affects only the merit part? It's the merit additional bonus that only gives effect of a single rune? Because default Vallation is working as intended I think.
When did this thing break? Has it always been like this?

It always has been. From RUN merit release date to now.

The wording on the merit description say that you get "1 point per harbored rune." But if you have 5/5 and 3 runes you only get 5% bonus. Which is BS. Should be 15% by that description.

[dasva]

It's pretty trivial to cap -perp without the body slot. 5 weapon, 3 pants, 4 feet, 1 ring, 1 hands = 14, with all of that gear except the NQ part of the pants being ah-able or from 75 content.

(You can do better with hag augments of course, but that's just the "trivial" option)

What would even be the point of sacrificing some refresh in other slots in order to get 1 more in the body over hag?

[dasva]

Also sitting on 9 wings now. Nothing but 2 daggers and wings for me.

What's the wind dmg like?

[scaevola]

added lvl sync II 0/20; lvl sync I for 200 is now greyed out

Same rewards? This is potentially a pretty powerful incentive for grouping at low levels or going back to help people out. 100 sparks/kill is better than what you're going to get doing basically anything else.

[TummieGaruda]

Man, SE really loves THF nowadays, first Rudra's, now this? Is SAM now the unloved child?

Until SE releases a unity version of Unstable Cluster

[Bukadan]

ilevel soboro uh ohhhhhhh

[scaevola]

Yeah, it's called the WKR GKat and nobody uses it

[Marootsoobutsu]

What's the wind dmg like?

I don't know on higher level stuff, but on Salvage stuff I was getting 15-20 from the +1.

[Trumpy]

Is it 100% proc right?