Randomerest Question Thread III: This Time It's Random

[Thunder]

Should never want max damage on rdm unless it's for a silly SS. You'll always want the 10skill/5int/fast cast on chap instead of that garbage because you'll nearly always want the nuke finished faster and you'll nearly always need the macc needed to land it.

And if you find yourself nuking a mob where macc doesn't matter you'll be much better off meleeing anyway.

[Starr]

I have 4 DD job at 75 MNK PUP SAM and RNG

Plan to use SAM + RNG for endgame and PUP MNK + SAM for campaign + Merits. ( atm i am 8/8 Hand to hand


How should i separate h2h Great katana and Archery merits?

RNG will surely be for Odin + Ixion only and maybe some sky

8 H2H 8 Polearm 4 Archery :D

[Eldelphia]

A friend and I are going to try and do the Stone Gorget quest.

Anyone here know what the repop timer is like for the Satiator in Promy-Dem? Is it something we could wait around for or should we leave it a day?

[Ragnus]

I'm trying to put together a cheapish elemental wheel set for my Nin at the moment. I was just wondering about a couple things.

Hume Nin

Hands?

Ninjutsu Torque vs. Enlightened Chain?

Koga Hatsuburi vs. NQ Yasha Jinpachi
Other gear is

NQ elemental staves
Bugard+1
RSE Satchet
Cunning Earring
*Insert Moldy here when it drops. ><*
Yasha Samue
Zircon/Diamond Rings
Federation Army Mantle
RK Belt
Sangoma Lappas
AF Feet+1

Any suggestions are welcome. I don't have a sky LS so Osode is out of my reach for the moment.

[Groovebox]

Mage hats:
* INT+4 MAcc+2 and Magic Attack bonus+2 hHP+3
Is the best nuking hat you can make for pure damage. But you would probably miss the 10 elemental skill for all tougher targets, this is mainly a BLM item.

* MND+4 Cure potency +3% and Magic Damage taken -2% Enmity-4
Is amazing for cures if you spend a lot of time main healing and/or have WHM lvled this would be a good pick

For melee:
* STR+4 WS Acc+15 and DEX+4 Crit Hit Damage +2%
Would make a good hat for Evisceration, if you use daggers

IMO the cure hat is best if you don't have BLM or do have WHM.

Didn't really think about the Cure Potency, I'll be adding that to my cap along with the MND+6. Thanks.

[Drace]

I have 4 DD job at 75 MNK PUP SAM and RNG

Plan to use SAM + RNG for endgame and PUP MNK + SAM for campaign + Merits. ( atm i am 8/8 Hand to hand


How should i separate h2h Great katana and Archery merits?

RNG will surely be for Odin + Ixion only and maybe some sky

Same dilemma with the same jobs I had. First off I would say max out the jobs you enjoy/ use the most. If looking at it from a more objective view, I would say you will see the least results from maxing archery - there are just way too many gear/ food options (not to mention JA/Job Trait accuracy boosts) for RNG to sweat over an extra 4 merits in archery.

Also, don't overlook polearm for SAM. If you can get the gear to support it, Polearm SAM can and will outparse GK setup in more situations than most people give it credit for.

I would go with: 4GK, 4 Polearm, 4 Archery, 8 H2H (especially considering you will utilize these fully on MNK and PUP)

[Killkenny]

I have 4 DD job at 75 MNK PUP SAM and RNG

Plan to use SAM + RNG for endgame and PUP MNK + SAM for campaign + Merits. ( atm i am 8/8 Hand to hand


How should i separate h2h Great katana and Archery merits?

RNG will surely be for Odin + Ixion only and maybe some sky

If you are looking at it purely practically then 8/8 GKT would be main priority. If you ls will allow you to DD tank Odin and doesn't mind you tping and WSing aggressively on Ixion then it will beat out rng in terms of damage quite easily.

Campaign is really not a consideration I personally would ever take into distributing my combat merits, you can easily cap exp/min and a decently geared 75 will cap accuracy on campaign mobs without food/merits.

Having parsed most of my linkshell's Ein wing 1-3 runs the sams always beat monks by a comfortable margin (we have a full usu, BB, HQ mnk who plays very aggresively and changes targets fast, WS at 100% etc., still falls behind decently geared sams). Given we use whm rdm brd or whm brd cor in every melee party all the /sam or sam DD fulltime hasso, unless its something like spiders where you could potentially be 1 shotted.

Polearm and h2h merits would probably be my suggestion for the remaining 12 (which you do 4 and 8 in would just be personal preferance). I am biased towards Sam or /Sam melees always as 1 handed DDs cannot compare unless you go mnk/war which is impractical.

[stewie]

I'm trying to put together a cheapish elemental wheel set for my Nin at the moment. I was just wondering about a couple things.

Hume Nin

Hands?

Ninjutsu Torque vs. Enlightened Chain?

Koga Hatsuburi vs. NQ Yasha Jinpachi
Other gear is

NQ elemental staves
Bugard+1
RSE Satchet
Cunning Earring
*Insert Moldy here when it drops. ><*
Yasha Samue
Zircon/Diamond Rings
Federation Army Mantle
RK Belt
Sangoma Lappas
AF Feet+1

Any suggestions are welcome. I don't have a sky LS so Osode is out of my reach for the moment.

RSE2 hands, I'd stick with AF head/koga kyahan personally for resists, same with ninjutsu torque.

[Ragnus]

Thanks for the input. I wasn't sure if the 5 skill on AF head was better than the 7Int on yasha or 5% boost in damage from Koga. I totally forgot about he 10 skill on the Koga feet also.