Items, Grips, and Misc Info Gathering Thread

[Akiyama]

While it's raining cats and dogs.

[Antonidas]

DRG and sam are gods.
People who TP in Osode now have a good reason for doing it.
War/sam Gaxe is awesome.
Str=atk.
If Dex=Acc, then Str and dex rings are awesome.
Bushi is awesome.
Penta is jesus.
Skewer is mary.
RR is joseph.


FFXI meets the Twilight Zone.
It will take me the rest of the week to clear my head. This is just too much at once

[Leashedragon]

Maaaaan I'm regreting not bothering to update till right now.

I dunno why. I was excited for the update and all... but Rising Force just side tracked me cause I was so close to my level. Then I got some revenge on some goddamn toasters cause they've been killing me way to damn much... </random>

I use to think my 1500~Pentas where awesome. Seeing some of those screenshots, I can't wait to see what I'll do now.

10 minutes left.. come on, faster. >< I want to get my grips and Qiqirn Hat!

I'll post some damage of things when I get on to test in a bit.

[Trythison]

Would be all the better if we had info on Sword Strap acquisition>.>

Any info yet? Wiki has a nasty rumor that it drops from ODS...

[Sylvrdragon]

Jesus... when that Sword Strap gets into the hands of the 93% Haste people... we are going to see the end of the world.

[ringthree]

are you fucking serious: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?f ... =19;page=1

It is hard to put into words how much I dislike allakhazam. I find that the word 'hate' has been diluted by use, so I need to come up with a new word to express my utter contempt.

...

"I mega-loathe them"

LOL <3 Scrubs.

[Bakthi]

So, it would seem, at least from the limited testing of my COR friend, that Detonator @ 300% outpaces Slug Shot now.

discuss.

Does Detonator @300% outdamage three 100% Slug Shots? Because I really don't have problems landing those with Martial Gun, at least in exp or Salvage.

[lysol]

I doubt 1 detonater at 300 tp will ever do more than 3 100 tp slugs thats funny to even think

[AoshiZ]

mechanic finding included sir?

so far for 2handed weapons:
- attack bonus from STR is attack=STR, no longer attack=STR/2
- pdif is changed to ranged pdif
- fSTR didn't change, still require 4 STR to increase base by 1 when dSTR is high

2 Handed PDIF has not changed exactly to ranged PDIF. Although 2H damage can now reach 3.0 PDIF, the critical hits do not increase to 3.75 PDIF but remain at 3.0 PDIF. This can easily be seen on low level mobs in that critical hits are the same as the max damage of regular hits.

[Antonidas]

Seeing that penta damage brings this image to mind

Seiz wins the Penta of the Patch. No screenshot sums up the 2hd patch quite like that one.

[alphacat]

I'll go on record and say I'll actually invite drgs to PTs now.

[Deftscythe]

Would be all the better if we had info on Sword Strap acquisition>.>

Any info yet? Wiki has a nasty rumor that it drops from ODS...

Someone on Alexander, who has the Polearm one, said (to his buddy, who told me) it comes from "the KS with the scorpions."

It's secondhand, but I saw the grip firsthand, so take that for what you will. I'm more surprised it doesn't come from ISNMs.

I'm on Alexander. What's the name of the guy with the polearm strap?

[Dre]

i'm a Carreer WAR, and honestly..... a decently equiped SAM is and it seems will always be more desierable than a Warrior it's sad. warrior is a jack of all trades, and master of none. WAR, can tank, and can DD. but will never be allowed to do so in most LS. SE is forgetting the most fundamental job imo. give a Warrior Spinning Slash and maybe they will be more viable on fights like Fafnir. personally i use Axe/Ridill on Faf but how often do you get to do that? me? never. and i lead my own LS.

i want to see Warrior tanking buffs and a few more WS that are availible to War to make them better SC partners.

Uh, why don't you use WARs on Fafnir?

I agree, Ridill WAR makes an incredibly good tank on Fafnir. 2 Ridill WAR tanks on Fafnir pretty much covers both a good deal of necessary DD if you're low manning and tanking as well - you get so much hate just from damage. Eat Sushi and you're golden.

How does Ridill affect WAR's tanking ability lol?

[Trythison]

People on Bahamut shouting to sell polearm and sword for 3m each, being very tight-lipped about where they're from

[Godlywargod]

CONFIRMED SWORD STRAP FROM ODS just got one(well my friend did) taking pic now if you want to see.

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[Dioma]

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3...8015354pp4.png

[Theraven]

i'm a Carreer WAR, and honestly..... a decently equiped SAM is and it seems will always be more desierable than a Warrior it's sad. warrior is a jack of all trades, and master of none. WAR, can tank, and can DD. but will never be allowed to do so in most LS. SE is forgetting the most fundamental job imo. give a Warrior Spinning Slash and maybe they will be more viable on fights like Fafnir. personally i use Axe/Ridill on Faf but how often do you get to do that? me? never. and i lead my own LS.

i want to see Warrior tanking buffs and a few more WS that are availible to War to make them better SC partners.

Uh, why don't you use WARs on Fafnir?

I agree, Ridill WAR makes an incredibly good tank on Fafnir. 2 Ridill WAR tanks on Fafnir pretty much covers both a good deal of necessary DD if you're low manning and tanking as well - you get so much hate just from damage. Eat Sushi and you're golden.

How does Ridill affect WAR's tanking ability lol?

more tp = more ws = more damage = more hate?

[Tomino]

err.. is it me or this update ruined BLU as average DD, making it drop behind almost everyone else?
also since the BLU Roll from corsair is useless compared to, say, DRK or SAM ones (that got seriously buffed), this is even worst.

would like an opinion from former BLUs, please.

[Eggroll]

err.. is it me or this update ruined BLU as average DD, making it drop behind almost everyone else?
also since the BLU Roll from corsair is useless compared to, say, DRK or SAM ones (that got seriously buffed), this is even worst.

would like an opinion from former BLUs, please.

Ya, it definatly seems that way, but i`m only level 44 blu right now (going back to leveling sam now though)

[Sylvrdragon]

err.. is it me or this update ruined BLU as average DD, making it drop behind almost everyone else?
also since the BLU Roll from corsair is useless compared to, say, DRK or SAM ones (that got seriously buffed), this is even worst.

would like an opinion from former BLUs, please.

We were in the running?

SAMs basically just freed themselves from needing SA to do good damage. DRKs just emerged from their niche a bit more so that they are more useful even without a KC, and DRGs got to actually join the club.

We still have endgame uses since we can set up a SC without TP. And we still act like a pseudo RNG via SACA Cannonball on a lot of NMs, and maybe even Mind Blast on some of the less melee/ranged friendly mobs. As far as non-endgame goes, people didn't invite us to burn PTs anyway. We didn't lose anything in this patch cause we really had nothing TO lose. People aren't going to pick BLU for less things, because we were already picked for NOTHING (if you have another job). We're still above PUPs, and DRGs still don't have survivability to have passed us. I don't think we went anywhere in the ranks.