Whats better?

[Max™]

Well, those WS sets were at like 360 Acc...

That's pretty fucking absymal.

[urat]

If Magic Damage Taken caps at -50% wouldn't Physical Damage Taken too? Obviously the diminishing portion of 70% is uncapped, but the base value of 20% could be capped, similar to Shell. Perhaps someone should test if Fan Dance, Terra's Staff, and -10% more Physical Damage Taken will hit some sort of cap?

They are calculated separately, the physical damage reduction cap is 50% like magic.

Fan dance's dmg resist appears to be calculated seperatly from armor resist, as with 23% resist in armor I am getting my first hit on FD for 0 then damage. If FD was combined, with a earth staff 2 hits should land for 0, not 1.

So say a mob hits for 100 dmg, with full 50% armor resist, which means your rocking full darksteel, D ring, jelly ring, and an earth staff. As a dnc at least, other jobs of course have access to much more dmg resist.

Thus, your armor would take off 50% of the 100 first, leaving with 50 dmg, then FD's first hit would remove 90% of 50, leavign it hitting you for 5 dmg.

Thus the true hard cap for damage is 95% with FD and full dmg resist gear. After 7 hits though your down to 60% though.

I'd need to do more testing once I've got my full darksteel+1.

[Bregor]

I've been playing with my RDM nuke setup and I'm wondering what to use for:

hands: Yigit Gages (5 INT, 2 MAB) or Zenith Mitts (5 MAB)

feet: Yigit Crackows (3 INT, 2 MAB) or Duelist's Boots (4 MAB)

Unfortunately Morrignan's Cuffs aren't an option for me right now. I see most people use Zenith Mitts and Yigit feet but I'm not really sure why, if 3 MAB is better than 5 INT (difference in hands), then why is 3 INT better than 2 MAB (difference in feet)?

[Pendulum]

It varies mob-to-mob but I find yigit equals zenith or outdoes it by 10 points max. Never really messed with relic feet; until recently I never had the space to carry something that 'might' improve my nukes very slightly over something I carried for a couple of other purposes as well as nuking.

[pchan]

I've been playing with my RDM nuke setup and I'm wondering what to use for:

hands: Yigit Gages (5 INT, 2 MAB) or Zenith Mitts (5 MAB)

feet: Yigit Crackows (3 INT, 2 MAB) or Duelist's Boots (4 MAB)

Unfortunately Morrignan's Cuffs aren't an option for me right now. I see most people use Zenith Mitts and Yigit feet but I'm not really sure why, if 3 MAB is better than 5 INT (difference in hands), then why is 3 INT better than 2 MAB (difference in feet)?

Duelist boots are better generally. As for the gloves A hands are better in general, though on ice spells, they are typically equal. The difference will never be something decisive, only a few points of damage.

[Jak]

I'm sure it's been asked before but I (on occasion) get lol'd at for wearing Iota Ring on Cor and Dnc with my Blood Ring. Am I not correct in saying that Iota Ring is okay when all my other gear I normally TP in leads to an odd numbered total Dex (like 70+13)? Or yah?

I'm almost positive I'm in the right to TP in Iota over Snipers NQ (since iota would bring it to 70+16).

[Wolfknight]

I'm sure it's been asked before but I (on occasion) get lol'd at for wearing Iota Ring on Cor and Dnc with my Blood Ring. Am I not correct in saying that Iota Ring is okay when all my other gear I normally TP in leads to an odd numbered total Dex (like 70+13)? Or yah?

I'm almost positive I'm in the right to TP in Iota over Snipers NQ (since iota would bring it to 70+16).

Iota is just as good[as sniper/wood/blood] on odd dex before it, and slightly worse on even dex before it for one handers, it's always better for two handed weapons.

[mdkuser]

If the people loling at you use an ulthlam's ring, lol back.

[Greatguardian]

If the people loling at you use an ulthlam's ring, lol back.

^

[Jak]

Thanks and that's funny because the last person who told me that was a Thf with rajas+uthalum+no food+birds.. I go lol at them now.

[Yugl]

SCH Healing: Peace Ring v Ether Ring (Troopers already have and Serene/Serket out of budget).

[stewie]

SCH Healing: Peace Ring v Ether Ring (Troopers already have and Serene/Serket out of budget).

Resting or curing? Assuming curing, Peace, ether won't do anything if you've used the mp anyways.

[Yugl]

Multi-tasking ring? It would have to be used after resting and curing cures. I should probably throw Benign v Morganas and mention that I have ~600MP as Elvaan with the Morganas.

[Greatguardian]

Augmented Phalanx Ring (Def:10) with STR+1 vs Ruby Ring for Blu Cannonball.

Asking for a friend.

[Yugl]

Augmented Phalanx Ring (Def:10) with STR+1 vs Ruby Ring for Blu Cannonball.

Asking for a friend.

Ruby Ring.

[Greatguardian]

Trying to convince him of that. He's going on about the importance of Def for CB. Since my BLU isn't budging above 16, anyone mind giving me a basic rundown of the importance for each stat on this spell? I know I've even seen people using Mithkabobs instead of tacos for this. Why's that?

[Ketsuri]

I had a discussion with an ls mate tonight when blm relic hat dropped. He said it was useless for everything we did. Which mobs would it be better to use af2 head over af1?

[_chuchu]

I had a discussion with an ls mate tonight when blm relic hat dropped. He said it was useless for everything we did. Which mobs would it be better to use af2 head over af1?

I'd use Sorcerer's petasos for highly resistant stuff, and use af+1 hat when I don't expect to get resisted. Sorcerer's Petasos isn't totally useless.

Edit: basically, sorc petasos is nice to have for hnms. I wouldn't ever use it on Fafnir though.

[Yugl]

Trying to convince him of that. He's going on about the importance of Def for CB. Since my BLU isn't budging above 16, anyone mind giving me a basic rundown of the importance for each stat on this spell? I know I've even seen people using Mithkabobs instead of tacos for this. Why's that?

1. Those people using Kabobs > Tacos are wrong.

2. You can gain DEF in better areas (Tacos/Cocoon/Minne)

3. When you have those three (Or even two) factors in play, you're not really going to hurt for DEF. In relation to all these other factors, you're simply wasting a slot where you need to pack STR. Equip is where you want to get most of your STR/VIT mods since you typically cannot replace that STR/VIT mod through items. It's similar to the ACC/Haste + Meat argument. You're not going to replace that ACC/Haste through food while gaining that much attack.

4. During CA, you mods double value.

STR > VIT > DEF is the general notion people go with (Assuming 2STR:1VIT). It's not always correct, but I cannot give you the specific formula for CB (Someone else like Suiram probably knows).

[Ciecle]

Augmented Phalanx Ring (Def:10) with STR+1 vs Ruby Ring for Blu Cannonball.

Ok, I saw GG post this, and i'll admit. I'm the one hes talking about. And i'd like to ask Why Yurl do you pick the Ruby over the Phalanx

I've always assumed the order of precedence for mods on CB was Def -> Vit -> Str because 2vit = 1 def (by natural equations...) (and def being the main thing for CB) and when you use cocoon it adds to the defense your str helps increase dmg but not as much as vit or def... that's basically what i've always followed by...