On Red Mage melee...

[Neisan_Quetz]

Er, your base skill is off, it's 404 +16 merits which is 420. Need Olympus sash or cascade+augmenting (or augmenting Zenith Crown) with what you listed to hit 500.

[Duelle]

Er, your base skill is off, it's 404 +16 merits which is 420. Need Olympus sash or cascade+augmenting (or augmenting Zenith Crown) with what you listed to hit 500.

Oops. I either read the wrong number or was hit by overly wishful thinking. At least that explains why olympus sash is so rare and expensive on Lakshmi.

[saevel]

Oops. I either read the wrong number or was hit by overly wishful thinking. At least that explains why olympus sash is so rare and expensive on Lakshmi.

It's only obtaining through a HKCNM. The one with the five Tauri that get stronger as you kill them.

That's how I got mine, me and some friends did it like 5 or 6 times in one day, got two of those sash's and one Lacotrice. It's a good money maker if you got friends to run it with.

[saevel]

Duelle,

Your off on your phalanx calculations. After 300 skill it changes and it's growth is nerfed, hard.

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Phalanx

Over 300 skill: F = 28 + Floor( (Enhancing Magic Skill - 300.5) / 28.5)

Gets you 35 damage reduction from 501 skill on Phalanx 1. It takes 28 skill to raise it by 1 after 300 instead of 10 for 1 under 300. It's why Paladins' can get 30+ with their own Phalanx and renders Phalanx II as pretty useless.

And yeah it was specifically Bind + Grav that allowed those few RDM's to solo big stuff. You bound in, Doted it and ran away running circles or around big rocks. BLM's ended up being better then RDM's at this after 80. SE could buff the heck out of RDM melee capabilities and it wouldn't break the game one bit. Would piss the pink mages off though.

[tyrantsyn]

Duelle, I just have to compliment you for keeping this thread still alive. 1559 posts!!!

Actually I re~bump the thread after all the rdm melee stuff started to over flow into every other rdm thread there was. It had been pretty much dead since September 9th of last year. Duelle has been so kind tho to keep thing's going here so Kudos to him. I don't really like too post to much unless it's something worth adding or asking.

Wow, think this thread my need a bump so some of the more fanatic RDM melee'rs have some where to post.

That's until the same guys who invaded this thread the first time decide to show up again. I give it 4 days. Today being march 14th. They know who they are, and most likely won't disappoint me.

Been 10 days no invasion yet try not to be too disappointed.

[Crimson_Slasher]

New dagger and hat added that are rdm useable and decent for melee. Shame the hat is a wee bit ugly. And still, our best ws body for non CDC is morrigan body. Names escape me right now but its a 51 dmg jambia, and the had has 8 int, mnd, and str. Happy hunting!

[Kaych]

Actually I re~bump the thread after all the rdm melee stuff started to over flow into every other rdm thread there was. It had been pretty much dead since September 9th of last year. Duelle has been so kind tho to keep thing's going here so Kudos to him. I don't really like too post to much unless it's something worth adding or asking.





Been 10 days no invasion yet try not to be too disappointed.

I'll contribute with another bump someday if necessary ^_-

[Duelle]

New dagger and hat added that are rdm useable and decent for melee. Shame the hat is a wee bit ugly. And still, our best ws body for non CDC is morrigan body. Names escape me right now but its a 51 dmg jambia, and the had has 8 int, mnd, and str. Happy hunting!

There's also that body piece with 5% haste but has healer stats instead of something useful for melee. At least we're not seeing much in terms of "melee gear BLU is on that the devs forgot to put RDM on" again like the last couple of patches.

[saevel]

Looks like SE finally listened ... at least somewhat.

http://juliandev.com/ffxi/2012-03-26/

RDM is on a ton of new gear. Not the absolute best, but we've now got another haste +4% and haste +5% body choices. Also MUCH better WS options are now available.

TP:
Hedera Cotehardie Rare Exclusive
Body
DEF:52 HP+60 MP+60 Magic Accuracy+10 "Conserve MP"+6 Haste+5%
Lv 99 WHM BLM RDM BRD SMN BLU PUP SCH

Kudzu Aketon Rare Exclusive
Body
DEF:60 STR+10 AGI+10 Attack+13 Ranged Attack+13 "Double Attack"+3% "Store TP"+5
Lv 99 MNK RDM THF BST RNG NIN DRG COR PUP DNC

Haste 4% legs
Gardyloo Pants Rare Exclusive
Legs
DEF:46 AGI+6 "Magic Defense Bonus"+4 "Subtle Blow"+5 Haste+4%
Lv 99 MNK WHM RDM THF BST BRD RNG SAM NIN BLU COR DNC

Haste +7% belt
Phos Belt
Waist
DEF:8 Haste+7%
Lv 99 WAR RDM THF PLD DRK BST BRD RNG SAM NIN DRG BLU COR DNC

And it's +1 version which is haste +8%.

And for dagger wielders, some love
Aluh Jambiya Rare
Dagger
DMG:51 Delay:201 STR+10 VIT-10 Attack+15 Increases critical hit damage
Lv 99 WAR RDM THF BST BRD RNG NIN COR DNC

Very interesting sword, looks like a better Cure Sword, nice for Req spamming.

Sanus Ensis Rare Exclusive
Sword
DMG:60 Delay:228 STR+13 MND+13 "Cure" potency +13% Potency of "Cure" effect received +10%
Lv 99 WAR RDM PLD DRK BLU COR

Don't know how to obtain all these, there is a ton of other gear for WS, especially if you like daggers and ext spam. Definitely want those body pieces.

-=Edit=-

Looks like the body's come from Morta, the Tier II mega boss of the Aht Urhgan path. Seeing how bad Rex and Aello are, lets see what they do with Morta.

[Duelle]

Interesting. I was going off the list shown on BG that had us on some cure potency gear and little else.