Help me solve a merit dilemma.

[Charismatic]

Look at his DRK's gear in the OP, there's only so much better he can get...
(Hint: Barely)

[Eanae]

Get a Justice Torque so Demon hates you imo

wot

I think you might've missed a word.

typotypo

[Khrno]

I'm not sure about your DRK, but mine dies if I leave up SE unless I have a dedicated mage....equip your DRK better?

I'll meddle in with the following:

Xrave DRK > Van DRK

Look at his DRK's gear in the OP, there's only so much better he can get...
(Hint: Barely)

Oh I can see more than just "barely", there is room for improvement, and unless he has better WS setup than last year, it needs work too.

[SamanosukeShiva]

brd + cor > all.

QFMFT!

[Therin]

Oh I can see more than just "barely", there is room for improvement, and unless he has better WS setup than last year, it needs work too.

My WS setup is perfect aside from a Cerberus Mantle +1 (had to give mine back). <_>

TP needs improvement, yeah. E.Body, Velocious Belt, Toreador's Ring or Divisor's Ring and Rajas Ring.

Anyway, as long as you've got 2x BRD and a RDM that doesn't suck leaving SE up should be no problem at all. Khrno and I were both doing that when we parsed last time, and we fulltimed Hasso too. Never broke chain, so no "downtime" as you're saying - how high did we get? 180?

You keep talking like my setup is bad. Last time we parsed, you beat me, yeah, but it was a very close parse and if I remember correctly you were pretty surprised at how well Great Sword did versus your Scythe.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...se10-10-07.png

Scythe versus Great Sword versus WAR/NIN with Axes who got absolutely floored.

[Cadena]

I'm no melee, but it looks like that WAR was poor by looking at the 88% accuracy.

[Khrno]

Oh I can see more than just "barely", there is room for improvement, and unless he has better WS setup than last year, it needs work too.

My WS setup is perfect aside from a Cerberus Mantle +1 (had to give mine back). <_>

TP needs improvement, yeah. E.Body, Velocious Belt, Toreador's Ring or Divisor's Ring and Rajas Ring.

Anyway, as long as you've got 2x BRD and a RDM that doesn't suck leaving SE up should be no problem at all. Khrno and I were both doing that when we parsed last time, and we fulltimed Hasso too. Never broke chain, so no "downtime" as you're saying - how high did we get? 180?

You keep talking like my setup is bad. Last time we parsed, you beat me, yeah, but it was a very close parse and if I remember correctly you were pretty surprised at how well Great Sword did versus your Scythe.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f174/ ... -10-07.png

Scythe versus Great Sword versus WAR/NIN with Axes who got absolutely floored.

I'm not saying your setup is bad per se, It's obviously pretty good, but as for the posted on OP and for what you had back then, it wasn't the best.

Remember that parser was during the 2-handed buff, unfortunatelly GS doesn't come close to Scythe now, It did before because it showed how awesome Algol is as a weapon.

Remember than in this forum something -good- is just short of -best-, that's where all the discussion is coming from.

Btw, for many situations an Accuracy ring is better than Rajas, so don't sweat about it, enjoy your Tamas, I would use another Toreador over my Rajas on HNMs and North camp merits anytime, I'll get another one soon enough, but skilling up subs is going deep into my pocket, so updates to gear are on hold right now, such as trying to get those Harmonius Rings, a Harmonius Earring, etc.

[Khrno]

I'm no melee, but it looks like that WAR was poor by looking at the 88% accuracy.

Merited WAR dual-wielding Axes, short of Adaberk and Speed Belt.

Nothing wrong about him, there was no Madrigals for him, and he was spamming food in a mix of sushi and subs iirc.

Besides Dual Axes vs 2-handed during the 2h buff, there's nothing to do there.

And let's leave the 1h vs 2h argument at that and continue talking about how to ungimp Van

[Chupunpupun]

I'm no melee, but it looks like that WAR was poor by looking at the 88% accuracy.

Merited WAR dual-wielding Axes, short of Adaberk and Speed Belt.

Nothing wrong about him, there was no Madrigals for him, and he was spamming food in a mix of sushi and subs iirc.

Besides Dual Axes vs 2-handed during the 2h buff, there's nothing to do there.

And let's leave the 1h vs 2h argument at that and continue talking about how to ungimp Van

Which 2h buff?? The first one? Where SAM was able to do 2k Gekkos on just about anything? The second one? Where it was nerfed but 2h still owned 1h or the last one where they changed str/dex to .75??

Any parse done during the 1st and 2nd should even count cause 2h had an advantage that couldn't have been overcome by gear/merit/whatever.

edit: Btw, to help you solve your merit dilemma, I suggest dropping WAR merits and focusing on DRK and PLD till you're willing to drop a couple of millions on haste gear/HQ ACC rings because I have about 20ACC over you and I still don't feel I'm at the point where my ACC is godly. This is with WAR/SAM, 0/8 GA, 6hit build (rajas, ecphoria) and seigan (I'm not good enough to survive with full time hasso).

[Therin]

Not sure which update that was during. Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 was the date the parse was made though.

[Chupunpupun]

Not sure which update that was during. Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 was the date the parse was made though.

2nd 2h buff, 3rd was on Nov. That parse just shows how overpowered 2h was before the .75 nerf. Thank god it didn't stayed that way cause I was in the process of dropping axe/sword merits.

[Maxxthepenguin]

As far as my gear suggestion that haven't been mentioned: I don't see why you are using warwolf + abyss cape over potent/haste belt + amemet+1/forager/whatever for TP. It's STR+5, Acc+7(+3.75 from DEX) versus STR+5 or 6, ATK+15, ACC+8. Do you consider 2.75 acc better than 15 attack? If so, why are you using Ares over Haub?

That's my main criticism aside from NO ABYSSAL, NO RAJAS, NO HASTE ADDING BELT, YOU DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING

[Therin]

As far as my gear suggestion that haven't been mentioned: I don't see why you are using warwolf + abyss cape over potent/haste belt + amemet+1/forager/whatever for TP. It's STR+5, Acc+7(+3.75 from DEX) versus STR+5 or 6, ATK+15, ACC+8. Do you consider 2.75 acc better than 15 attack? If so, why are you using Ares over Haub?

That's my main criticism aside from NO ABYSSAL, NO RAJAS, NO HASTE ADDING BELT, YOU DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING

I actually didn't think about that. @_@ It's a good point.

Hopefully it won't matter soon, though, because I'm going to do a few more runs for Swift Belt.

[Xrave]

(I'm not good enough to survive with full time hasso).

Cuz taru HP!

[ninjafox]

Personally, I'd keep the GSD merits. I prefer using GSD on my drk and honestly have yet to see scythe outdamage it (no merits in either). Plus you can use it for the random warrior ground strike