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[Byrthnoth]

What's better Nusku's Sash (5% DW) or Swift Belt with the following setup?

THF/NIN Dualwield II

Auric dagger - 5% Dual Wield
Suppanomimi - 5% Dual Wield
Mirke Wardecors - 3% Dual Wield or Rapparee Harness - 4% Haste
Raider's Boomerang - 5%? Dual Wield
Rapidus Sax - 1% Haste
Raider's Bonnet +1 - 5% Haste
Dusk Gloves - 3% Haste
Raider's Culottes +1 - 4% Haste
Homam Gambieras - 3% Haste

How much Haste?
Ah it doesn't matter, Swift belt is better.

[rog]

Don't use the other wiki then!

The last time i tried to use bgwiki, all i got was a bunch of blank pages.

[Ceal]

I listed the Haste values adding all the Dual Wield it would be 23 with Nusku's vs. 20 Haste with Swift (both with Mirke) and DW 20 vs 24 Haste with R. Harness. Not sure how Dual Wield II factors into this. Also excluding Haste or Marches (everyone fucking hates THF, I would get 1 Haste at best. Somtimes even 1 March). Does the higher value win?

[rog]

I listed the Haste values adding all the Dual Wield it would be 23 with Nusku's vs. 20 Haste with Swift (both with Mirke) and DW 20 vs 24 Haste with R. Harness. Excluding Haste or Marches (everyone fucking hates THF, I would get 1 Haste at best. Somtimes even 1 March). Does the higher value win?

38 dw+ 16 haste = 0.5208
35 dw+20 haste = 0.52

Rapararee wins regardless


You have more dw than haste, so dw will beat haste in equal amounts, but it's not even equal amounts, you're getting 1 more dw than haste, so it obviously wins.

If you want the math anyway:

30 dw+24 haste=0.532

So the dw wins by 2.3%


That's all assuming no haste/march.


With haste it'd be 0.4225 with the dw belt, and0 .427 with swift, the 5 dw still wins. Marches would be needed to tip it into swift's favor.

[Ceal]

Thanks a lot Rog!

[stewie]

How long is JA delay?

[Nightfyre]

Seems to be 2 seconds per action, think the jury's out as to whether that's accurate for WS though. If you stack JAs you can reduce that to as low as 1 second for all but the final JA.

[Thorny]

DW reduces tp per hit on most occasions. Swift belt.

[Latheille]

I'm thinking of trying to solo Krabkatoa on SCH. Any advice or would it just be a better idea for me to finish leveling my rdm, which is currently 74.

[Thorny]

If you die to it pinning, you should delete your character. If you're not pinning, you'll lose either way. May as well SCH, silly to level a job for one mob.

[Latheille]

Just the basics then? And no, not leveling rdm for one mob. I like the job, so I'm just leveling it whenever I'm bored.

[Holly Short]

I quit before the level cap was raised, so I have a lot of new things to learn. As such, I have no idea what weapons I should be looking at for my RNG , MNK, and DRG. Can anyone recommend me something? So many things I don't know which is best these days. Thanks.

[Villian]

What's an easy to get Gaxe for war? I'm thinking WS DMG +10% or OAT one.

[grevenilvec75]

What's the "Set: Augments Grimoire" on SCH AF3+2 do?

And another random question, why does forum search blow so incredibly hard? Need some way to search for a specific phrase ("Augments Grimoire" for example) instead of searching for each of the individual words.

[Massimo]

Swift and Rapparee.

Managed to somehow miss a page.

The -12 attack for using Adler Ring for tp (Mnk and War) too damning for it to be viable?

Yes, it's not worth it.

[solanis]

Just the basics then? And no, not leveling rdm for one mob. I like the job, so I'm just leveling it whenever I'm bored.

Only part that can potentially give you trouble is the pull; if it spawns too far away from the pin location, it might not be possible to pull it on sch without fleehacking.

[arus2001]

Respawn on Bhumi? For something that allegedly has 3 pops, the fucker sure is shy and the likelihood of people sniping kills from me while porting around widescanning with nobody else in the zone /bst or /rng seems fairly slim (yeahyeahhax0rz).

[Vriska]

Could someone give me viable strats for lowmanning the Gigas that lead up to Briareus? Ideally duo.

The two characters I'm thinking of have the following jobs:
1: RDM, SMN, BLU, COR (PLD in the near future).
2: SAM, BRD, BLM.

Also, what's the lowest Briareus can be done with, and how?

[rog]

Respawn on Bhumi? For something that allegedly has 3 pops, the fucker sure is shy and the likelihood of people sniping kills from me while porting around widescanning with nobody else in the zone /bst or /rng seems fairly slim (yeahyeahhax0rz).

20-30 mins iirc.

[wop]

Could someone give me viable strats for lowmanning the Gigas that lead up to Briareus? Ideally duo.

The two characters I'm thinking of have the following jobs:
1: RDM, SMN, BLU, COR (PLD in the near future).
2: SAM, BRD, BLM.

Also, what's the lowest Briareus can be done with, and how?

Why would you want to do that?