DRG Gear question

[Jotaru]

What weapon did you have equipped? Are you accounting for the extra attack you'll get from having a 2H as opposed to 1H weapon?

[drewbixcube]

The earring shares a spot with the helm in the BC's. And we're focusing on beadeaux raids moreso than la vaule.

[Ryphen]

Figure out a way to ninja helms into the box and we'll stop doing it. No one wants to see that earring anymore.

[Tsukasaz]

No one wanted to see that earring the first time. The second time was just shit piled on top of diarrhea.

[Eticket]

I got forked on thursday so I'm not so concerned about Skystrider anymore.

It's a good thing too. Since our first run we haven't tried again for any of the BCs since our shellholder has all the pops and keeps getting rl'ed. If we ever manage to get the set for one of our other DRGs, I'll post some testing here.

[Gunslinger]

Anyone care to input on a drakesbane build? I'd put this in the "What's Better?" thread, but it's a bit more open ended because I have a few options in each slot. Bolding areas where I have some choices and advice would be appreciated . I will be working towards heca hands/feet, etc, once my LS revisits sky :3

Main: Valk Fork
Sub: Pole Grip, Claymore, Brave (I'd use pole, but leaving it open for the sake of the argument)
Ammo: Tiphia Sting
Head: Hecatomb Cap
Neck: Love Torque, Light Gorget
Ear1: Ethereal (no thanks to carrying an assault, too), Triumph
Ear2: Brutal
Body: Aurum Cuirass
Hands: Wyrm Finger Gauntlets +1, Alky. Brc., Aurum Gauntlets
Ring1: Rajas
Ring2: Flame, Iota Ring
Back: Amemet +1, Cerberus
Waist: Wyrm Belt, Warwolf Belt
Legs: Aurum legs, Dusk Trousers, Af+1
Feet: Rutter Sabatons, Aurum Sabatons

My gut instinct is to go balls-to-the-wall str build because of the huge 50% mod, but I'm not sure how well that's going to work for a crit multihit (since my penta still has a pretty good chunk of acc in it, whereas my Wheeling Thrust is almost all str/att and used situationally with a gorget). For calculations sake, I have full polearm merits and capped crit % merits, etc. Thanks!

[Yugl]

Main: Valk Fork
Sub: Pole Grip, Claymore, Brave (I'd use pole, but leaving it open for the sake of the argument)
Ammo: Tiphia Sting
Head: Hecatomb Cap
Neck: Love Torque, Light Gorget
Ear1: Ethereal (no thanks to carrying an assault, too), Triumph
Ear2: Brutal
Body: Aurum Cuirass
Hands: Wyrm Finger Gauntlets +1, Alky. Brc., Aurum Gauntlets
Ring1: Rajas
Ring2: Flame, Iota Ring
Back: Amemet +1, Cerberus
Waist: Wyrm Belt, Warwolf Belt
Legs: Aurum legs, Dusk Trousers, Af+1
Feet: Rutter Sabatons, Aurum Sabatons

Pole Grip

Flame Gorget, but more testing is needed to see if the 5DEX will make a difference on the amount of critical hits you land

Triumph Earring

Alky Bracelets (Probably would use L torque to counter some of the -DEX on this, but against birds the STR will benefit you since its ~50% STR MOD)

Flame Ring

Cerby (Would probably try for Foragers since it's the same STR, but more ATT. Not to mention it's cheaper.)

Warwolf

Aurum Leg

Rutter Boots

Edit: Pretty much STR and some DEX where you can afford to make up for the -DEX on Alky (Until you replace it with Drachen hands+1 or Heca hands). Since you don't really have enough DEX+ items to make it worthwhile, you might as well play off the STR Mod until you get Heca hands and feet.

[Howard Roark]

I'm level 70, been using Gae Bolg, not sure if I should be using Skystrider instead

with SAM sub how much store TP gear will I need to make a 6hit if I even can? I was unable to locate a store TP calculator that worked for me

I have 2 snipe+1s I'd prefer to avoid doing rajas/ecphoria combo over them -- and as a relative newcomer to store TP gear, do I just WS in that? or do I have to fulltime it (I hope not)

[Yugl]

For the 6-Hit build I think the minimum would be:

Askar Body (+5)
Rajas Ring (+5)
Chiv Chain (+1)
Brutal Earring (+1)
Sub SAM (+15%)

Skystrider wins v Gae Bolg, but unless you plan on getting the earring as well, you're going to resell that lance in two levels anyways.