Whats better?

[Cream Soda]

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[Indalecia]

"Gee Tolone, you're so smart with your Gin n' Tonic Futon brain."

<3

[Gunslinger]

Pole is going to give you better returns I believe, Brave seems pretty useless from what I've seen. Maybe use Braves for Mighty Strikes or SC with Warrior's Charge? So situational it's not worth it, imo. Probably never useful on DRK.

[Callisto]

A few RNG questions:

First off, trying to put together a Holy Bolt build, but not sure where to stick the MND and where to keep the RAcc...

At the moment I'm looking at:

Light Staff/Fire Staff(which?)
Scout's Beret
Ranger's Necklace
Drone Earring x2
Kirin's Osode
Crimson Fng Gauntlets
Behemoth Ring x2
Amemet Mantle
R.K. Belt +2
Hunter's Braccae
Suzaku's Sune-Ate

I have a Promise Badge laying around I could use in the neck slot, and could pick up Devotee's Mitts for the hands, but not sure how much RAcc to give up. Before anyone mentions the neck/cape, yes I know, this char has a PCC but atm it's temporarily traded for the Osode, and when I have a spare 200k it's going to Amemet+1. This is my Widescan/glass mule so not in a huge rush to pimp it out.

And regarding Holy Bolts, does anyone know how MND actually equates into damage, and what's a 'good' average damage for the addt'l effect?

And for Archery WS: CFG's vs S.Kote?

[matix]

i haven't done a holy build in years but for the cfg vs skote, generally its cfg for arch, skote for marks, but its all situational~

[Valyana]

Have you considered Trilling Dagger for holy bolt build?

[SamanosukeShiva]

holy bolts set up not worth it imo, it resist alot

[Sta]

Hey, I wanted to ask if I should ever see a WAR meriting with Organics? Would Organics/Ridill be nice for vorpal blade spam or would that still be out-parsed by a Ridill/Joyeuse? (8/8 sword with suppa). Please dont bring Perdu Voulge into this ._.

[ryanjh]

Phantom Earring +1 or Loquacious Earring.

Assuming:
full ele merits
HQ Staves
no novio
110 int, 304 ele skill, and +14 MAB with lightning
115 int, 314 ele skill, and +14 MAB with ice

More interested to know if I'd be better served by the 2 int. or the 30 mp and fast cast. I'm not too knowledgeable of blm damage formulas.

[Sta]

Loq is FC 1% so its nothing to get too excited about for general nuking. As a BLM i dont worry at all about MP, 850 as hume is plenty for me. I would deffo go for the +2 INT as it will up your max damage slightly and also help with your resists.

[Radec]

Phantom Earring +1 or Loquacious Earring.

Assuming:
full ele merits
HQ Staves
no novio
110 int, 304 ele skill, and +14 MAB with lightning
115 int, 314 ele skill, and +14 MAB with ice

More interested to know if I'd be better served by the 2 int. or the 30 mp and fast cast. I'm not too knowledgeable of blm damage formulas.

Loq. when you start casting, Phantom+1 when you finish - It's possible to get the benefits of both.

[Omniyoji]

Loq. when you start casting, Phantom+1 when you finish - It's possible to get the benefits of both.

Or just INT+2 full time and Loq when you need the fastcast1% or if you are going to use an mp set.

[Sta]

Hey, I wanted to ask if I should ever see a WAR meriting with Organics? Would Organics/Ridill be nice for vorpal blade spam or would that still be out-parsed by a Ridill/Joyeuse? (8/8 sword with suppa). Please dont bring Perdu Voulge into this ._.

halp

[Callisto]

Depends on what you're fighting, on birds the piercing bonus of Joy combined with the extra swings/faster TP may outweigh the extra damage on Vorpal, but Organics is probably the best Vorpal mainhand, if doing something other than birds Organics/Ridill is probably a very nice setup.

[Yohan]

Maneater/Ridill typical meripo build...

Currently using Byakko's Haidate in my WS build ever since I got 5/5 War AF2 and put it all away in storage (I used to macro in AF2 legs). I was going to pickup Exorcist Hose to use for my Rampage macro and I got to thinking I'd go ahead and ask "Whats Better?"

Byakko's Haidate
War AF2 Legs
Exorcist Hose
(something else not Ares since I dont do Salvage)

[Bagel]

If you do Nidhogg, N Legs, otherwise I'd just stick with Byakko's.

[isladar]

Maneater/Ridill typical meripo build...

Currently using Byakko's Haidate in my WS build ever since I got 5/5 War AF2 and put it all away in storage (I used to macro in AF2 legs). I was going to pickup Exorcist Hose to use for my Rampage macro and I got to thinking I'd go ahead and ask "Whats Better?"

Byakko's Haidate
War AF2 Legs
Exorcist Hose
(something else not Ares since I dont do Salvage)

Byakko's. Relic legs are for Steel Cyclone. If you're still doing dynamis, gun for a Warrior's Stone for RR and Rampage.

[Eraphiel]

In a similar vein, wondering if whensoever my shell finally finds time for sky again and I get haidate, if ares' flanchard would still be a better bet for rampage/vorpal/rr compared to haidate.

[Max™]

Aggressor up: Ares
Aggressor down: Haidate

UNLESS you're put 40~45~50 Dex over your target Agi rating by the extra 9 Dex on Haidate, at which point the acc boost and added crits will be hard to beat even with 6 Str 2% DA.

[Sta]

fux making separate gear macro for agg up, agg down. I'm far to lazy for that. thanks