Whats better?

[Tan]

Personal experience with Samurai at lower levels was my ACC was typically horrible. A net gain of 5 Dex and 2 ACC is going to make a substantial difference on your ACC when compared Enkys bracelets. With most people at those levels camping monsters 10 levels or so above them their ACC is typically going to be pretty weak (barring parties with Bards or Cors) in addition to the fact that if you are fighting colibri and doing any decent damage you will be blowing through sushi if you are using that. The 6 STR difference is a moderate Fstr and WSC reduction but I would assume that the combination of a higher accuracy for TPing and WSing would outweight the benefits as you can essentially WS more frequently as long as you aren't getting feather tickled.

H.kotes are imo better choice than Enky's but I would still prefer the ACC of something like Luisants in the end.

[Amele]

Personal experience with Samurai at lower levels was my ACC was typically horrible. A net gain of 5 Dex and 2 ACC is going to make a substantial difference on your ACC when compared Enkys bracelets. With most people at those levels camping monsters 10 levels or so above them their ACC is typically going to be pretty weak (barring parties with Bards or Cors) in addition to the fact that if you are fighting colibri and doing any decent damage you will be blowing through sushi if you are using that. The 6 STR difference is a moderate Fstr and WSC reduction but I would assume that the combination of a higher accuracy for TPing and WSing would outweight the benefits as you can essentially WS more frequently as long as you aren't getting feather tickled.

H.kotes are imo better choice than Enky's but I would still prefer the ACC of something like Luisants in the end.

what did you eat at level 50?

I tend to eat sushi until real accuracy gear is available, so that taints my results a bit (since I was floating near 80-90% accuracy even vs +10-+11 mobs)

and - since your accuracy in the 50's without food *is* in the dirt, I think it makes more sense to eat sushi (since you can't get enough acc in gear) and go with a high str/attack layout in gear (since such gear is widely available.)

[Max™]

Perdu Voulge


Vs.


Martial Bhuj

Endgame / Exp and general overall awesomness. If anyone has parses or can show a link to one that would be sweet, hearing a lot of opinions going either way on this something conclusive would be nice.

Are you holding tp over 100%?
Are you building tp/tping on outside mobs before/during a fight?
Are you using SA?
Are you fighting things a good deal harder than merit level monsters?

If not, Raging Rush is literally Jesus good... if so, Mbhuj is made of happy and awesome, I used to roll around with several wars with very similar gear to mine, and in stuff like sea/sky/dyna/limbus, Mbhuj was the one thing that always made everyone say "fuck Max, wtf was that?"

[Jedimasta]

What GA do you use now if I may ask? Rampager?
Oh and grats on 4k posts

[Max™]

Ty, I post too much.

<= Mah Rampager, with any luck I'll rank up and get my Perdu within the next month so I can give them a nice conclusive back to back parsing.

[Hioki]

Drachen Armet +1 full time or Homam Zucchetto and sub in for breaths, for solo. Any other alternative I'm not looking at?

[Tan]

what did you eat at level 50?

I tend to eat sushi until real accuracy gear is available, so that taints my results a bit (since I was floating near 80-90% accuracy even vs +10-+11 mobs)

and - since your accuracy in the 50's without food *is* in the dirt, I think it makes more sense to eat sushi (since you can't get enough acc in gear) and go with a high str/attack layout in gear (since such gear is widely available.)

Depended on the party, but I actually leveled SAM before ToAU but have leveled DRK and MNK in ToAU zones. If I had a bard or cor would typically use some cheap meat like Rice Dumplings or Kabobs because either way I'd probably pull hate and lose my food on birds. Without a bard or cor, Rice Dumplings or Sushi depending on my level and the mobs.

[Tempestwolf]

Are you holding tp over 100%?
Are you building tp/tping on outside mobs before/during a fight?
Are you using SA?
Are you fighting things a good deal harder than merit level monsters?

If not, Raging Rush is literally Jesus good... if so, Mbhuj is made of happy and awesome, I used to roll around with several wars with very similar gear to mine, and in stuff like sea/sky/dyna/limbus, Mbhuj was the one thing that always made everyone say "fuck Max, wtf was that?"

WAR/SAM, no SA, probably Med > WS > SC w/ someone else.

[Tricen]

I was told Mbhuj is retarded for RR since the tpbonus doesn't apply to the crit+. Perdu vulge is just so much hotsex.

[Tempestwolf]

I was told Mbhuj is retarded for RR since the tpbonus doesn't apply to the crit+. Perdu vulge is just so much hotsex.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Raging_Rush

Not sure if it's right or not though.

[eormanric]

not sure if this has been posted yet or not! but i'm lazy to read all those pages... i had asked some questions on our server forums but i'm looking for moar outside opinions!

Askar body vs. Haub+1 for SAM!

[Amele]

not sure if this has been posted yet or not! but i'm lazy to read all those pages... i had asked some questions on our server forums but i'm looking for moar outside opinions!

Askar body vs. Haub+1 for SAM!

this is practically a topic for the sam vs dark vs meat vs sushi sticky at this point.

at least like, do a search on posts or something.

for that matter, give more context; it should be fairly obvious from looking at the gear that the differences are situational.

[eormanric]

this is practically a topic for the sam vs dark vs meat vs sushi sticky at this point.

at least like, do a search on posts or something.

for that matter, give more context; it should be fairly obvious from looking at the gear that the differences are situational.

Hmmm ok, well my sam won't have bushi... or any GK merits, Sam is my first 2H DD and it's not 75 yet, i have war(but with ridill, so GA isn't used much) mnk, rng and nin... I'm sitting at lvl 68 atm, and i have Haub+1, and askar.. So i'm looking for some opinions as to what i'd use end game for higher tier mobs, i'm leaning on haub and maybe just idling in askar but i dunno i don't know a lot about sam, is the store TP and askar make a hit build significantly easier?

[AneyuS]

The short answer is Haub.

[Tsuko_Asura]

The only answer is Haub.

^^

[Xanthu]

i have war(but with ridill, so GA isn't used much)

Out of curiosity where are your merits now? And what do you take to HNMs and the like?

[eormanric]

Out of curiosity where are your merits now? And what do you take to HNMs and the like?

8axe/8sword/4h2h, I mostly go PLD to HNM it's my main. Sometimes war too if we have enough people and i get to fool around doing SC.

I use my mnk for salvage always, and WAR is pretty much reserved for limbus, aside omega where i'm usually nin/drk or pld/nin. My brd is a memory on teh shelf! bwaha

[Cream Soda]

Askar only if you have amano

[Amele]

Askar only if you have amano

there's situations outside that where it's more useful too, but since he wont' have bushi or merits the OP will never come across them in normal endgame activities.

[Cream Soda]

there's situations outside that where it's more useful too, but since he wont' have bushi or merits the OP will never come across them in normal endgame activities.

Not having bushi or merits is MORE of a reason to use Haub+1. Acc+12 dex+6 will do a great deal for his hit rate.