RDM - Physical Damage Taken set

[lolwut]

Trying to build - physical dmg (not defense bonus, just straight mitigation) set, while still allowing for a one hand weapon for enspell dmg. So far I have:

Louhi's Mask
Genboob's Shield
Cheviot Cape
Jelly Ring

for -23% day/-25% night.

Doing regular runs for Goliard Trews to put me at 26/28, will upgrade cape to Umbra once the rest of my set is filled out.

Outside of dark steel sets (which do not exist), any other options I'm missing?

inb4 defending ring/shadow mantle, I'm a melee main in events and Rdm for personal use mainly, ls will never give up either of those drops to me over the tanks.

[Araelus]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/ffxi-...rdm-tanks.html -BG thread has all your needs
http://belkinator.livejournal.com/ - Belkin answers the question more ways than you can shake an Earth Staff at

[lolwut]

Thank you sir. ^_^

[Araelus]

No problem!

(Literally, since if I was really helpful I'd have dug through all of that and posted a tl;dr version but this way you get to see all the available info and decide what is relevant for youself... I do vaguely remember some of them use the mysterious darksteel gear that no-one likes to craft, though.)

[lolwut]

Pretty much all the phys def down sets use it, no hoped for alternatives popped up. Looks like I'll be heavily investing in mats and pestering people instead.

[Tsuko_Asura]

Have fun. Full Darksteel +1 cost me in the neighborhood of ~3 million to have crafted. Don't even get me started on Coral +1.

[lolwut]

I wish you had sold yours before you got hammered. ;_; Do you know if the person you gave it to is willing to sell?

I'm not even going to attempt the coral stuff, got Goliard Trews last night, so I'll probably settle for using the set for the 10 mdb bonus until I decide to jump in with both feet.

[Syntex]

- FFXIAH.com

-44% during the day, -50% at night with constant 16+ enmity at all times.

My MDB setup isn't too shabby either :D


Just player search Syntex of Ifrit to see my other sets.

[Unstable]

Costed me 1.2m to get my hq Darksteel (not got legs as going to do nyzule) and i am still after my +1 back. :/

[Ophannus]

Cheviot Cape:

Hidden Effect

During Night Only: Physical Damage Taken -10%

[Shinryuu]

- FFXIAH.com

-44% during the day, -50% at night with constant 16+ enmity at all times.

My MDB setup isn't too shabby either :D


Just player search Syntex of Ifrit to see my other sets.

Topic over, this is, to my knowledge, the perfect idle set. Assuming you swap in fast cast/haste for stuff (and perhaps some more enmity in spells [mermaid's ring, chainsaw swords] if your inventory allows it) you're golden. Work towards this for PDT tanking.

[Darkslitter]

Refresh is nice in an idle set up. Macro body/head in for when you're about to take shots imo

[Araelus]

Just so I'm clear on this,
Goliard Trews are not preferred over Darksteel Subligar +1
because of the Enmity-down on the Trews, right?

[Ultimagi]

Yes, don't use Goliard Trews. Auto Refresh isn't necessary when you have Ballad or Evoker's Roll and Refresh already. At most you may want to use Duelist's Chapeau since you lose less Damage Reduction from the head than you do from the body.

[Jeryhn]

Just so I'm clear on this,
Goliard Trews are not preferred over Darksteel Subligar +1
because of the Enmity-down on the Trews, right?

Really, with an RDM's way of tanking, it won't even matter.

I've tanked plenty of mobs with somewhere in the neighborhood of -12 enmity over decked out PLDs and NIN/DRKs. Just takes a bit longer, or a huge Cure, to establish hate.

[[Cookies]]

Costed me 1.2m to get my hq Darksteel (not got legs as going to do nyzule) and i am still after my +1 back. :/

Cost me about 500-800k. Went 1/1~2 on all pieces except the body lol.

[Airenn]

- FFXIAH.com

-44% during the day, -50% at night with constant 16+ enmity at all times.

My MDB setup isn't too shabby either :D


Just player search Syntex of Ifrit to see my other sets.

This boggles my mind since you have a gimped WHM sub.

[Unstable]

Having -Enmity does not matter when getting hit there is only one weapon that stops enmity decay when getting hurt (Burtang) I prefer the legs over those subligar.... as they look better. If casting i use W.Legs atm till get me some nash legs.

[Tsuko_Asura]

For things like Ixion or Byakko, you're better off performing all actions in your physical reduction set. Its a negligible amount of enmity, but if you're going for ideals, yeah.

[Syntex]

This boggles my mind since you have a gimped WHM sub.

Oh hush I have been busy lately with more important things, you act as though I don't have erase or something >.>

Either way its @37 now so

And I stole that build from Tsuko in the RDM tank thread we had a while back