elemental staffs and -magic dmg taken

[Faxanadu]

Ugh... searched high and low without finding any answers. Hope you guys can help.

What exactly is the "-magic dmg taken bonus" from elemental staffs when equipiping them?

For example: Say the mob is casting Fire V or Flare on me, Do i equip a fire staff to get the "-magic dmg taken bonus"? or the element that is strong aginst fire?

What is the -%dmg taken? 10%? maybe 15% with HQ staffs?

[Priran]

wut

[Kwijiboe]

the information you're looking for is on the staff itself..

[Suiram]

This should probably be in the other forum, but there's no hidden magic taken bonus from elemental staves. In your example I suppose you'd use a Water/Neptune's staff for the +15/20 fire resist.

[Faxanadu]

bah, i heard there was some kind of straight -magic dmg taken, when using a certain staff against a certain element.

maybe was just a rumor

[Evelyn]

only hidden traits are when casting magic of the given element, not having magic casted on you

[Faxanadu]

so... Kirins Pole > elemental staffs for pld/rdm tank against JoL?

[Suiram]

Yeah, but PLD/WHM is superior to PLD/RDM for JoL in my opinion since more MP, more MDB, and Curaga.

[Faxanadu]

/RDM had magic defense bonus trait too, also rdm has almost insta cast single target bar spells (elemtal mostly)

[Suiram]

/whm has the next level of MDB trait over /rdm (granted it's only like 2 MDB or something), and bar-ra spells aren't exactly slow to cast, either. Unless you just don't have /whm at 37. Also this is just my opinion on which is better between the two; there are a whole host of different job/subjob combinations that tank perfectly fine on JoL, including PLD/RDM.

[Faxanadu]

well i can sub nin, rdm, war or whm. but i think rdm has more merit based on phalanx, which I think also reduces magic dmg taken along with physical dmg.

[Tonko]

Deffinentally not an advanced player forum question.

[Bagel]

PLD/BRD really seems the way to go. It's just too fun having tank PT outside of ally.

[Sylphet]

Sorry, no such thing as "-magic dmg taken bonus" on elemental staves. You may have noticed that several people use them as part of a bar-element gear set, because they are great for that (+20 elemental resist on HQ). Without other gear and barspell/carol though it'll be effectively useless.

and for JoL we've always used PLD/NINs with WHM casting barspells /shrug .... would be fun to try PLD/WHM but I can think of only one of our PLDs who has WHM or RDM sub leveled; ... and he's not on a lot! PLD/NINs benefit most from Capricorn's Staff (5% haste) imo.

[Jeryhn]

Yeah, but PLD/WHM is superior to PLD/RDM for JoL in my opinion since more MP, more MDB, and Curaga.

Phalanx + Fast Cast > MDB + Curaga.

MP difference is negligible.

[Metah]

Don't forget Blaze Spikes amirite