What's Better?

[Siniroth]

It will be noticable if you parse everything, and it will be a 4% decrease in frequency, but I hardly think that should be construed as 'noticable' in any sense

[FailureMidgard]

No. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.

1% crit up isn't noticeable either, does that mean none of us should merit it?

[Severance]

King's Justice. Tarutaru Warrior with capped Great Axe merits.

Alkyoneus's Bracelets or Hecatomb Mittens?
Amemet Mantle +1 or Cuchulain's Mantle?
What if it was a Forager's Mantle?

Perdu Voulge / Pole Grip / - / Fire Bomblet
Hecatomb Cap / Soil Gorget / Triumph Earring / Brutal Earring
Ares's Curiass / ??? / Rajas Ring / Triumph Ring
??? / Warrior's Stone / Warrior's Cuisses / Hecatomb Leggings

Obvious improvement is Ares's Flanchard. Anything else?

[Max™]

With Are's body go for Cuch/Heca > Foragers/Heca > Cuch/Alky's > Forager's/Alky's.

Go -Interrupt, Sath.

I'd do it instead of Enm if I wasn't such an Enm whore.

[Starr]

King's Justice. Tarutaru Warrior with capped Great Axe merits.

Alkyoneus's Bracelets or Hecatomb Mittens?
Amemet Mantle +1 or Cuchulain's Mantle?
What if it was a Forager's Mantle?

Perdu Voulge / Pole Grip / - / Fire Bomblet
Hecatomb Cap / Soil Gorget / Triumph Earring / Brutal Earring
Ares's Curiass / ??? / Rajas Ring / Triumph Ring
??? / Warrior's Stone / Warrior's Cuisses / Hecatomb Leggings

What are you fighting?
What food are you using?
Aggressor up or down?
Any Madrigal?
etc

but probably best to use Cuch+Heca

[Khajit]

str+2 agi1 vs str1 agi 1 raac1 for a lowbie lv 30+rng(or cor i suppose eventually)

[Siniroth]

str 1 agi 1 racc 1 for lowish level colibri sync levels (35-37~) (assuming you get locked into colibri)
str 2 agi 1 for higher sync levels (37-end)

If you're eating pot-au-feu for everything second option can probably be used all the time, if dhalmel pie go with the above... I didn't level on non-colibri because of lack of invites so I can't tell you any advice for anything else

[Severance]

What are you fighting?
What food are you using?
Aggressor up or down?
Any Madrigal?
etc

but probably best to use Cuch+Heca

Likely Carbonara.
I'm lazy and don't have 2 sets for Up/Down. I have 5/5 Berserk Aggressor and trigger it on wear, so it's up most of the time though.
Likely no on Madrigal.

I was leaning towards Cuchulain's Mantle + Hecatomb Mittens though, so thanks.

Edit: Gonna go Cuch/Heca on Aggressor down and Foragers/Heca on Aggressor up.
Edit2: What if I used Toreador's Ring over Triumph Ring? ... In other words, what's an ideal KJ set with Aggressor Up/Down? I'll model off that np. lol.
Edit3: Ulthalam's Ring? lol. Thinking Ulthalams/Cuchulains/Heca and Flame/Amemet/Heca.

[Meat]

1% crit up isn't noticeable either, does that mean none of us should merit it?

comparable if mobs hit us 95% of the time

[Wolfknight]

Likely Carbonara.
I'm lazy and don't have 2 sets for Up/Down. I have 5/5 Berserk Aggressor and trigger it on wear, so it's up most of the time though.
Likely no on Madrigal.

I was leaning towards Cuchulain's Mantle + Hecatomb Mittens though, so thanks.

Edit: Gonna go Cuch/Heca on Aggressor down and Foragers/Heca on Aggressor up.
Edit2: What if I used Toreador's Ring over Triumph Ring? ... In other words, what's an ideal KJ set with Aggressor Up/Down? I'll model off that np. lol.
Edit3: Ulthalam's Ring? lol. Thinking Ulthalams/Cuchulains/Heca and Flame/Amemet/Heca.

For down I'd say get Aurum legs over Relic, since 1 str/1 DA/4 att for 7 acc is a good trade off.

[BerenTebogo]

If you're 5/5 zerk aggressor the simple answer is 'don't use KJ when aggressor is down'

I have aurum in my kj down macro and it never gets used except to close SC

[Wakabo]

Sam penta thrust hands, enkidu mittens or sam hands +1

[Shinryuu]

Bando kote if your ACC is capped, Hachiryu kote if not.

(Enkidu)

[FailureMidgard]

comparable if mobs hit us 95% of the time

Huh? How does this matter? I'm not trying to ascertain whether or not crit up or crit down is more useful, I'm commenting on whether or not something is noticeable. If you are arguing that it is not noticeable because we have shadows, then I will respond that a shadow mantle is not noticeable because we have shadows, or shield skill is not noticeable because we have shadows, but we both know that's not a correct statement. If we go with the assumption that the only time you are at risk of dying, or having spells interrupted is when your shadows go down, then they really should be equally noticeable. I'm not trying to say -crit is the way to go, but I think Tsuko's comment is stupid. You do not need to be able to eyeball/notice a change outside a parse for it to be useful.

There are times that spell interrupt down will be better, and there are times that -crit will be better. As for an overall, I'm not sure what's best, but Khim can kill you by wiping shadows with a TP move, then DA criting.

But ya, my only argument is that Tsuko's response is pointless, not that -crit is the way to go (but in Sath's case, if he plans to potentially be tanking some things, intentional or not, as say war/sam, -crit will help, marginally, and spell interrupt wont).

[BerenTebogo]

I think enemy crit -% is gonna win it just because of the comment about khimaira. God bad memories of dreadstorm -> DA crit

[Havok]

I don't understand the hate on enemy crit-% merits. How high is an enemy's crit rate on you anyway? I think even 30% sounds too high...but use that and lower it to 26%. That's a relative change of 13%. And the lower the enemy's crit rate, the more effective the merits are. That's pretty noticeable imo.

Unless my understanding of it is way off.

edit: fixed wording

[bunz]

DRK 6-hit Naglering with Pizza, let's say meripo just for scenario comparison purposes:

Adaberk + Rose Strap (able to use Walmart Turban + Blitz Ring)

or

Askar Korazin + Pole Grip (need Ace's and probly Sniper+1)

Don't have a lot of GS data to fall back on-- zero GS merits but with Pizza I can cap acc. in CoP Dyna zones using Askar Korazin (the only real recent parse data I have on GS, was using Askar for 7-hit Subduer before I got Nag).

[Yugl]

Adaberk + Rose Strap (able to use Walmart Turban + Blitz Ring)

or

Askar Korazin + Pole Grip (need Ace's and probly Sniper+1)

Adaberk set up just based on what you've posted. 2% Haste > 4% DA.

[bunz]

I just realized what a silly comparison I was trying to make. Still stuck on the mindset that I need to use Askar but with Nag now there really isn't a point anymore. Askar just helped to get 7hit Subduer.

[Miroku_Asura]

I finished my prereqs for AN and I can't decide between the Magnetic Earring or Static Earring. My jobs are: Whm, Blm, Smn, Sch, and a Rdm that is soon to be 75.

Now before I had leveled Rdm, I was set on the Magnetic, but I'm wondering now if I should get the Static earring for a Mnd potency setup. I don't magic burst on Blm or Sch too often, so should I even consider it a factor?