Been gone for a while--Gearing Up a 75 WAR

[Max™]

I'd try to merit towards finishing these in roughly this order, but it isn't a bad idea to go around and buy up the cheap ones first (2 gaxe, 2 bergressor, 2 da, 2 crits = 15 merits, which will get you about 2 and a half Str merits >.>)
8/8 Gaxe (yes, if you like using gaxe, this is the simplest way to go, 292 Skill with a 2her is sex)
3 Zerk/3 Agg/4 DA is a good middle ground for axes/gaxe, 5/5 Bergressor isn't bad either
4/4 Crits
5/5 Warrior's Charge
5/5 Str


Get that Rajas asap, with /Sam and a Brutal it's a 6 hit build, which is a HUGE boost to damage given how kickass Raging Rush is now (so yeah, there is a LARGE difference in the output of two War/Sam's, one with Ulth/Sniper +1, and the other with Ulth/Rajas, even giving away 3 and a quarter acc to the sniper +1, it just get's worse when you make it war/sam rajas vs war/nin gaxe without rajas) it really is one of the best effort/reward ratio's in game for a 2hed melee job, far and away.

Echoing the Gaxe comments, except that Rune is an addictive pain to keep going, unless you are /Dnc for some reason against an Aspirable mob, then it's cake
Smilo +1 is for low level mobs, or max buff zerg build (999 + 15 = ???), I am pretty sure it's also a better option for SA Steel's due to forced crits kicking pdif up as they do, Am +1/Forager's 99% of the time

At that point, start +1ing as it's reasonable for you to do so, or just store up merits and use them for other jobs if you prefer.

[travOtaku]

I'm starting to regear my WAR for 75 as well, but I don't have a lot of sky gear as the job I used mostly with that LS before I left it was BLM.

So, until I find the time to be able to actively do sky again (as well as rank up for Perdu), what leg armor/great axe/earring combination is best? I will swap my Tamas for a Rajas and I plan to save up for a brutal as well, but right now the only earring I'm sure about using is assault earring.

[Max™]

R.K. Legs, Askar Legs, Relic legs, Barone legs, Are's legs, Hachiryu legs (lol), Oily trousers, Dusk trousers, Aurum cuisses, Bronze subligar, Barbarossa Zereh's...

All will work decently til Haidate, some being better than others, Zereh's being #2 to Haidate due to the haste, Are's being the best option to keep using after haidate (they're arguably the best WS leg piece) but all have varying difficulty levels to obtain.

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

Rings, Acc rings are hard to err with, Ulth rocks, Divisor too (til you delevel, OH NOES!), Sniper's (+1), Toreador, Woodsman, Ecphoria, Jaeger... any combination of those will work wonderfully til you can slot a Rajas in there, I favor Ulth/Rajas cause it's free and looks nice (bleh@new model sniper/toreador rings) in my opinion.

Fortitude=Perdu=Rampager=Rune Chopper for meriting for all intents and purposes, the differences between them will largely come down to what gear is worn, and what buffs you can get. Some situations will favor one axe, some will favor others, it's hard to go wrong with those four. Mbhuj is a fun toy for plinking shit with steel cyclones, you have Blm though, so odds are you'll rarely have people beg you to come steel cyclone things for them.

[travOtaku]

Advice

Thanks a lot for that. ^^

With regards to Great Axe selection, is there anything wrong with using a Gawain's Axe or, say, a Blizzard Toporok until I get my hands on a Byakko's? They're delay 504 (which, as I understand, is the desired delay for a 6 hit build?) and their damage isn't all that bad (The B. Toporok's is only 2 DMG less than Byakko's), and they have decent stat mods.

[orson]

Store TP is huge to 2-handed weapons as Max talked about. No CoP ring offers the same boost in performance vs slot. The top Store TP bodies only give like +7, Rajas is insane and SE has done a very good job balancing weapons so Rajas makes a huge difference.

Blizzard Toporok is fine, people will be like wtf? but they'll get over it.

[el_tio]

Smilo mantle +1 is going to be inferior to Amemet+1 and Foragers for WS.

In any situation where 2 STR > 15 ATK for WS, the mob is so weak it's not even going to matter.

Well, isn't getting attack cap on Greater Colibri not that hard? At least, in merit pts where I have a cor or a brd giving me attack and eating meat, my melee strikes hit for roughly the same as they do on TWTBW mobs without those buffs. I still wear Amemet +1 tho, just to err on the safe side, since Amemet +1 is obviously superior if attack isn't capped.

[Jakson]

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

What?

[Kaylia]

I wouldn't bother wasting an extra mil on unicorn feet over dusk feet, not often will you be kept above yellow HP for latent to work.

Feet go dusk or the new ones from ZNM Aurum sababaton? if you can get them.
hands dusk, agreed with everything else other people listed

Uh? You will be in white hp almost all the time..unicorn are better than dusk. If you include the "movement speed down" factor that can often determine life and death when you have to react quickly, it make unicorn even better.

amemet +1 for tp > foragers, ws in smilodon +1

Wtf. How is 2str 15attack better than 3 str 15 attack. 15atk 3str is going to beat 4 str any day on everything, unless you're talking about a ronfaure bunny.

Seriously...i hope I'm getting whooshed and you were trolling.

[Kkel]

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

What?

[Capo]

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

What?

thats just him dreaming out loud

[Jedimasta]

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

What?

thats just him dreaming out loud

If only...

[Max™]

Merman's, Diabolos's, Ethereal/Hollow, That one DM earring with Great Axe Skill +5 Crit +5% and Dex +2, Fowling, anything but Suppa while using a Great Axe basically.

What?

thats just him dreaming out loud

If only...

What's that? That earring doesn't exist?

It was a dream?

Where's Padme?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[orson]

Smilo mantle +1 is going to be inferior to Amemet+1 and Foragers for WS.

In any situation where 2 STR > 15 ATK for WS, the mob is so weak it's not even going to matter.

Well, isn't getting attack cap on Greater Colibri not that hard? At least, in merit pts where I have a cor or a brd giving me attack and eating meat, my melee strikes hit for roughly the same as they do on TWTBW mobs without those buffs. I still wear Amemet +1 tho, just to err on the safe side, since Amemet +1 is obviously superior if attack isn't capped.

If you're capping attack on Colibri you should be getting march not minuet.