Grips/Straps

[Larrieux]

For those who've purchased obtained a Grip/Strap, are you impressed with them? Is the improvement (taking in consideration the buff to 2h) slightly, moderately, or highly noticeable with the Grip/Strap equipped? Is it overrated? Underrated?

I'm reluctant to purchase the Gaxe Strap/Grip for 20k from sanction at the moment and wanted to pose those questions here.

[Spekkio]

i just bought the staff strap (career mage: blm/whm/rdm/brd/smn) and i wouldn't leave home without it. -2 enmity and 20 mp may not be the most staggering boost ever, but when you consider that's worth 50k xp for 10 mp in merits (not even counting the enmity due to the double edged nature of meriting that.) to a mage, you're getting a 50% value add from meriting MP. alternatively though, you can wait and see if the AH prices drop, since they're not R/EX since there will be XP whores out there who will gladly sell of 20k IS for a chunk of cash, since they're already doing that with coins. if you value it at the same rate as gold coins (10k ea) an average IS grip should go for about 200k which isn't too awful for the boost you stand to get from them. alternatively, you can go with something crafted for likely far less money.

[Larrieux]

Thanks for the info and opinion. Since I have a few mage jobs I've considered the mage grip as well since I wouldnt have to work as long for the exp for another mp merit. Likewise I could use the gils like anyone else and would consider selling now while the market is hungry.

Has anyone obtained one of the IS melee straps and noticed anything significantly positive about them?

[Rafbacca]

Do the grips unequip when you change staves?

So the +20 MP would really be a waste no?

[Bxbaby]

I think I remember someone posting that they don't unequip when you switch staves.

[Amele]

like offhand weapons, they'll stay equipped as long you equip *another* legal combo in the main slot.

they won't stay equipped if you just take the staff off; however.

[Spekkio]

like offhand weapons, they'll stay equipped as long you equip *another* legal combo in the main slot.

they won't stay equipped if you just take the staff off; however.

bingo. just think dual wield rules and you're set. the trigger for un-setting the grip is main>NULL, and since swaping from an aquillo's to a pluto's does not transition through null, but instead goes directly from the old to the new, the game will never see the trigger event to detach the grip.

[evilpaul]

Fucks up using an Asklepios for Sorc's Ring macro though if you want to use a grip.

[Amele]

Fucks up using an Asklepios for Sorc's Ring macro though if you want to use a grip.

it does? just /wait 1 /equip any staff /equip any grip after the swap.

although I suppose that depends on how much space your sorc macro has lol

[evilpaul]

I think I might have space left actually. Hmm.

edit: Nope, I don't. Meh, I'm not going to get one until the price settles down anyway. I'll survive w/o INT+1 or MP+20.

[Suiram]

Fucks up using an Asklepios for Sorc's Ring macro though if you want to use a grip.

it does? just /wait 1 /equip any staff /equip any grip after the swap.

although I suppose that depends on how much space your sorc macro has lol

Without going into a complicated description of my BLM macros, I only use windower macro for hMP, but for casting I use standard ingame macros, which means I have 2 macros in addition to latent macro (which has asklepios) I hit before spells, one that does head/body/hands/legs/feet/ear1, and one that does staff, waist, legs, and now grip. In that second macro I have staff listed first and grip listed fourth and I have yet to have the grip fail to equip, even in high-lag situation like whitegate or aery/dominion.