What's Better?

[Cream Soda]

I'm going to do the maths later, but this is basically the same argument as destroyers vers hades sainti+1 for monk, basically; for H2H weapons, 1 base dmg on hades+1 does not beat 6% crits, but 2 base dmg do. So you just have to make sure that your extra accuracy on the weapon are actually used, either by giving you +2~3% hit rate ( uncaped acc), or allowing you to swap in more attack on other slots. We are talking about polearm sams, even with sushi they have to use cuchu mantle to get a decent acc with max haste, so tomoe should win. That said, for a polearm, 1 base dmg should be less percentual increase than 1 base dmg on H2H so its not that clear that for example, 1 base dmg + 4 str from a ring or 15 attack from a mantle beats 6% crits.

Have to use cuch mantle w/ sushi? I know i'd be dropping full usu to mix/match build, but still seems excessive in acc, seeing as I can clear 90% on a meat build

[TheCaptain]

OAT gun is one of the largest upgrades compared to the old standards among all magian weapons. If you're worried about hate, get better tanks, sub DRG, put more merits into Stealthy shot (if not capped) or just plain and simply use more -enmity gear during TP and WS. Or you can take the free hate reset every 5 minutes route.

I fully expected flame central for my question.. Thanks for the response.. I'll certainly look at the gun and try to be more proactive in my emnity..

[Airenn]

For nuking on BLM:

Morrigan's Coronal or Demon helm +1? (IDK why I thought AF1+1 is better, sorry)

Morrigan's Body or Igqira Weskit?

Missing Morri Legs, but obviously once I get those Full Morri, I'll use that.

[sruon]

Nuking is a really vague description, and DH+1>AF1+1 btw.

[mdkuser]

Have to use cuch mantle w/ sushi? I know i'd be dropping full usu to mix/match build, but still seems excessive in acc, seeing as I can clear 90% on a meat build

depends on merits. an unmerited sam will get just enough acc with crab sushi and cuchu mantle to cap at birds iirc.

anyway for the maths of tomoe versus gondo-shizunori ( 1DMG versus 6% crits), I've got gondo-shizunori 1% ahead under the following assumption: true 5 hit, 67% haste, melee pDIF of 1.0 for tomoe ( and thus 1.06 for gondo), WS pDIF of 1.2 ;

Swap an acc ring for a str ring and tomoe has an advantage of 8.75 attack and 1.25 fstr during melee phase. Both weapons have about 30% melee damage, so it's enough to beat +1% global dmg. This also means that gondo is better when you can't do the swap, ie when you cap accuracy with no back/ring/near/neck item.

[Omniyoji]

For nuking on BLM:

Morrigan's Coronal or Demon helm +1? (IDK why I thought AF1+1 is better, sorry)

Morrigan's Body or Igqira Weskit?

Missing Morri Legs, but obviously once I get those Full Morri, I'll use that.

When people say just "nuking" I assume they mean pure DMG output.

DH+1 > Coronal

Morri > Genie > Igqira

[Airenn]

Thanks.

[Viserdes]

For a long time now i have been debating with myself and asking others on their opinion but i think i will ask here and maybe get a more concrete answer.

For guillotine i have two feet pieces i can use to ws in, either ares or af1+1, working on n feet +1, but between ares and af1+1 i cant decide. The af1+1 feet has +5 str/mnd both modifiers for guillotine and ares has +7 atk/acc. So my question is which would perform better overall?

[Andradi]

AF+1 for low acc sets, Ares for high acc sets.

AF+1 possibly beat Nfeet+1 depending on your prior stats.

[mallister]

you're going to need several guillotine sets with varying accuracy depending on what you're doing and what buffs are up.

[Edrakali]

Reign grip or Light/Earth grips for BRD?

[sruon]

Reign grip or Light/Earth grips for BRD?

Earth for elegy since potency is unaffected by CHR,

Lullaby I'd go with Light personnally but I'm not a BRD.

[Nishida]

Reign grip or Light/Earth grips for BRD?

Ele grips unless you need the CHR to hit softcap? I'm no bard..just going off of what I read on wiki >.>

[rog]

Brutal vs assault for punisher/rid?

[Cream Soda]

Gax

but if you're using failstatus, then assault earring.

[Marcicus]

oh god not this ridill vs gaxe topic again.

[Arximiro]

Claymore Grip Vs. Pole Grip when your main WS is RR.

[pchan]

Gax

but if you're using failstatus, then assault earring.

Punsiher+ridill is better than Gaxe unless you use hasso. Soon as you don't use hasso 100% of the time, dualwield is better. And no you can't use hasso 100% of the time. And the answer to the question is obviously brutal earring.

[Callisto]

Trying to figure out where to work Nocturnus Mail into my sets for WAR and DRK, mainly versus Askar body, wondering how 10 STR 1% TA stacks up against 5 STR 12 Attack 2% DA.

Edit: I have it the obvious places, Steel Cyclone, normal TP, etc, more for times when Acc isn't an issue but Attack might be.

[Raen Ryong]

1% TA ~= 2% DA if that makes it any easier for you (not quite equal but close enough).