What's Better?

[buddha_masta]

Tachi: Fudo, proper sea WS Gorget or Justice Torque?

[Malacite]

If you're going to use Zanshin: Superior atma, you might as well merit Ikishoten, too.

I hear Blind Potions work wonders with Zanshin builds.

I can't wait to see your Masamune/Zanshin build. Assuming you can make it past those dastardly second-tier VNMs, of course.

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5/5 Blade Bash, unless you absolutely have to give your TP away. An extra stun is too useful to pass up.

Usual BG sarcasm -.-

I was leaning on 5/5 Blade Bash, just thought that maybe 1 point into Shiki might come in handy.

[Tahona]

low man, give your whm some tp to do a red !! ws? situational is situational and not really needed but i'm sure if you really wanted to you could find a use for it.

[TheDirtyHobo]

low man, give your whm some tp to do a red !! ws? situational is situational and not really needed but i'm sure if you really wanted to you could find a use for it.

If you were lowman and proccing red, you wouldn't bring a SAM. Just WAR NIN WHM

[Tahona]

fair enough.

[Fwahm]

Wings of the Goddess Earring augment choices for a DRK: Attack +4 and Latent Regain, or Accuracy +4 and Latent Regain?

I usually use scythe, but sometimes use other weapons to proc red in abyssea.

[Max™]

Tachi: Fudo, proper sea WS Gorget or Justice Torque?

I'm surprised this still gets asked.

I don't think enough has changed since I was fully up to date to make a 0.1 fTP boost beatable by less than 10 or 15 Str, has it?

Gorget/WS Belt = for the motherfucking winrar.

[Dooom]

I've got the one merit in Shiki and find myself using it often enough that I don't regret it at all, even if 5/5 Bash would have been nice. I certainly recommend it, if only for utility's sake.

[Yugl]

I'm surprised this still gets asked.

I don't think enough has changed since I was fully up to date to make a 0.1 fTP boost beatable by less than 10 or 15 Str, has it?

Gorget/WS Belt = for the motherfucking winrar.

If anything, it favors gorgets even more since fSTR is assumed to be capped with atmas.

[Byrthnoth]

Has anyone reported what the fTP bonus from the belts is?

[Motenten]

From the sample weaponskills someone posted, I'd guess they're +0.15 fTP (compared to the +0.1 of the gorgets). No definitive testing provided yet, though.

[Cream Soda]

From the sample weaponskills someone posted, I'd guess they're +0.15 fTP (compared to the +0.1 of the gorgets). No definitive testing provided yet, though.

I just got a thunder belt. What would be a sufficient test? Something I could do on sam would be preferable.

[Malacite]

I've got the one merit in Shiki and find myself using it often enough that I don't regret it at all, even if 5/5 Bash would have been nice. I certainly recommend it, if only for utility's sake.

That's more or less what I was thinking, thanks I think that's what I'll do. 1 Shiki 4 BB.

[Motenten]

Seeing as faith torque breaks a h2h skill tier again, whats better for Ascetics Fury in abyssea? gorget or torque?

Gorget. +0.1 fTP will heavily outweigh +1 base damage when WSCs are getting so high.

[Zerk]

Has anyone found out whether the DMG+6 to keito's WSDMG+10% GKT is better/worse than the new-hagun keito?

[chazzyphizzle]

pretty sure 100tp bonus keito blows that keito out of the water

[Kirschy]

I just got a thunder belt. What would be a sufficient test? Something I could do on sam would be preferable.

Rock Crusher is elemental WS which should give consistent results, and should be affected by Thunder Belt. Use 300tp, as damage varies with tp. Do 2 at 300 TP on too weaks outside a starter city. If the damage is consistent, do one more with thunder belt and you should have your ftp change nice and simple~

[Kirschy]

Has anyone found out whether the DMG+6 to keito's WSDMG+10% GKT is better/worse than the new-hagun keito?

At 100 tp, the TP Bonus gives 20% WS dmg. At 200 TP, the TP Bonus gives 33% WS DMG. Unfortunately we can't see where the paths will end up, but atm, the TP Bonus+100 is amazing for Keito, assuming you're not using Rana

[Neviskio]

generally speaking for mnk before I get tantra cyclas, should I use shura togi, aurore doublet, or mirke wardecors with mnk augments?Question comes up again since I don't have another job that can use the ACP body right now, but plan to ONE DAY(might be never) lvl pup or blu, so maybe I should use my aurore/togi before tantra?I say for both tp and ws.My set is pretty sucky you can check me up on ffxiah ragnarok - neviskio I'm mostly gimped though.

If the acp body is a clear upgrade on one of those 2 items I can redo the fight in the future...

[Kirschy]

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.htm...0726910&page=1

Throwing together a quick estimate on bodies at level 90 (361 base skill before merits, lvl 97 mob), taking full Tantra +2 otherwise:

Usukane: 272.965
Mirke-haub: 273.265
Tantra +1: 274.337
Aurore: 274.497
Shura: 275.409
Mirke-att/da: 277.216
Mirke-att/cr: 277.494
Loki's: 279.271
Juogi: 282.173
Hachiryu: 282.482
Tantra +2 (-10 MA delay): 283.157
Juogi +1: 285.599
Tantra +2 (-20 MA delay): 291.054

Post was by Motenten, he's usualli spot on when it comes to mnk maths, so should be accurate~