Whats better?

[Max™]

Yeah, because my absolute contribution in a situation like city Dynamis or Limbus is going to ultimately decide whether we win or lose.

Totally counters my willingness to give up some of my epeen damage potential and /Nin so I can tank for the group and be more useful.

So yeah, swapping to /Drg now and then because it's really fucking fun in lighthearted situations is totally going to ruin my reputation.

Dynamis-Jeuno is serious business guys.

[Cream Soda]

You know, I had all the fun I'm ever going to w/ turban and usu head and outparsed the people I wanted to outparse so now for fun, I'll go with shura head!

[Max™]

Better comparison would have been "Yeah, Mnk/Nin is generally better because it lets me deal damage without getting faceraped, but since we've got this event covered either way, and no one minds much... I'm gonna go Mnk/War, it'll be fun, plus amusing when I eat a Goblin Rush for 1500 Dmg."

[Cream Soda]

Or I can go /drg for mega fun!

[Max™]

Well, I imagine Mnk/War would be more fun than Mnk/Drg.

Do the same events for years with good groups and tell me you don't get the urge to change up subs and jobs and fuck around at times?

[Cream Soda]

W/e sub may be more "fun" shouldn't be the one of your points of your argument. "I don't need rajas cause i /drg so it doesn't lower my xhit!" That'd be like me saying oh I don't care for full usu cause I don't benefit from my wyvern earring when I sub drg on mnk and I can use dune boots and still have capped haste!!!

[BadKarma]

I bought Mahant Sandals to nuke in since Yigit are unavaiable to me atm.

Is this stupid Y/N

[Max™]

Mahant are... odd, but I doubt the recast penalty from the slow will matter that much.

Spoiler: show

W/e sub may be more "fun" shouldn't be the one of your points of your argument. "I don't need rajas cause i /drg so it doesn't lower my xhit!" That'd be like me saying oh I don't care for full usu cause I don't benefit from my wyvern earring when I sub drg on mnk and I can use dune boots and still have capped haste!!!

I don't need Rajas because in the last year I've been /Sam a handful of times, and thus it is just a free WS ring.

Taking the 6 hit build out of the argument, you are left with a very situational piece, I simply chose the situational piece I knew I would get more use out of. It isn't that hard to understand.

I also sold my berk +1 for Pld shit, so I'm left with a merited but basically NQ 19% haste 4/5 hecatomb War/notSam. Compared to my "RAWR DD" days, I'm far more useful because aside from doing less raw damage over all, I'm a much more capable tank.

DD's are a dime a dozen, they don't matter outside of merit parties. Anything you can do with an HQ DD, you can do marginally slower with a DD -1.

You can't do many things without a tank, and I've got the gear and practice to DD + Tank on War/Nin, and am bit by bit improving my Pld/Anything, so all in all your argument about me not being a team player fails utterly. I went from having a slightly above NQ DD, to having two jobs which are both DD + Tank, and can now go from NQ DD > Damage based Tank > MP based Tank that does damage > Survival based Tank.

tl;dr
This game is based around Tanks and Mages, pure DD's are a convenience at times, a hassle at others, but almost never required. Last time I leveled a Mage job I quit in a rage and deleted my toon, luckily I enjoy tanking and thus can be useful.

[Yuroko]

corsair's belt or royal knight's belt for rng?

Assuming bonus not active for royal knight's.

no access to dynamis rng belt/einherjar belt, any better waist to recommend instead?

Race is Mithra so RSE not a good choice

Edit: so RSE seems good for a marco swap. thanks Max.

[Max™]

Jungle Sash - Bahamut - FFXIAH.com ?

[Thorny]

Precise Belt.

Would you TP in 3 attack over 2 accuracy? - Corsair's

Would you TP in 4 str 2 dex over 5 acc? - RK(this one admittedly depends on your r.acc, but still)

Ranged Acc/Attack translate to damage the same way for ranged, the only difference is a lesser level correction. STR applies twice, but still isn't as uber as people make it out to be if accuracy is uncapped.

[Shinryuu]

STR applies twice but due to the already massive DMG rating it's not anywhere near twice as good (compared to especially 1H).

[Argettio]

I bought Mahant Sandals to nuke in since Yigit are unavaiable to me atm.

Is this stupid Y/N

Well you could have got Cobra feet... 3MAB.

But you could have done worse.

[ryuke_xi]

Fixed my DRG Up a bit (at least as far as TP gear goes). Looking for all around advice on what I still need. I know I could probably use a PCC, but I don't have the gil and I'm waiting for a love torque.

TP
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...519_095206.png

Drakesbane
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...519_095141.png

Jump
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...519_095326.png

Sorry for small pictures, resolution is high and I don't have photoshop on the windows side of my Mac, and don't know how to resize in photobucket.

Pole is Skystrider, Earrings are Supremacy/Brutal. ACP Body has 10acc/3crit. Neck is Chiv Chain, Gorget is Flame.

I also have Aurum Legs available (use for Drakesbane, or would the -4att not be good? I'm pretty OK on ACC).

What hands should I WS in?

Thanks in Advance.

[Argettio]

I'm not sure about the WS hands, but a Forager's mantle would make a nice boost to every set.

[Gunslinger]

TP- looks pretty good, could aim for Aurum/Black Tath, but that's nit picking and preference on body.

Drakesbane-

Head- use Heca or AF2
Neck - preference, but I'd use Love Torque when you get it
Body- Zahak's would be the only upgrade I could recommend since you built your ACP to be a WS piece
Hands- Heca or even Alkys over Homam
Waist- Warwolf if you can spare the acc
Legs- Use Aurum, it's probably the best 'easy' WS piece to get. Alternately, you can use Heca (if you can get them... I can't seem to), Ares, or even Askar
Feet- Can use Heca or Aurum as upgrades

I pretty much jump in WS gear. Do you have polearm merits?

[ryuke_xi]

I pretty much jump in WS gear. Do you have polearm merits?

8/8, yeah.

I know homam are really shit for WS (was just using them for the ACC), but is the DEX- on Gigas's Bracelets gonna mess with Drakesbane too much?

[Gunslinger]

If you have 8/8 PA merits I'd say you're wasting the slot on just acc. While Alky isn't ideal because of crits, the 50% str mod is pretty huge for str builds as long as you can maintain your hits.

This is pretty much what I use, and it has almost no 'pure' accuracy-

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1015/drakes.png

Try to get all the acc you need from dex, stack str in every other spot. Also, for your 'jump' build, I forgot to mention that Wyrm belt is really, really nice for waist if you can get one. Most of the time they rot in our dynamis'

And before anyone jumps in, I'm using cerb because my other jobs are tanks -_-; Also notice that FFXI AH doesn't calculate DA right, because I should be sitting at 10%.

Places I'm in the process of upgrading are 1) Black Tath, 2) Heca Legs or Ares, whichever comes first!

[Ragnus]

For Nin

Aileron Mantle: Acc/Racc+6

vs.

Amemet+1: Str 2, Att/Ratt 15

Current Gear:

TP: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?38040
WS: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?194238

[Drex]

For 50k/75k allied notes, could get cobra feet (3 mab 3 conserve mp)

Otherwise meh probably not that dumb

edit: wow forgot to refresh or something I guess, lots of posts popped up. was directed at badkarma lol