Gladiator/Paladin STR & MND Stat Caps?

[Judge_Xero]

^^ Nice build. I'll look forward to some parse info.

I did some more testing over the weekend as to the effects of MND on the Flat Blade and Spirits Within combo multipliers.

From what I found is that at 240 MND, you get the 4.5x combo bonus on Flat Blade, and the 1.5x Bonus to Spirits within. There is no difference up to 320 MND. So I imagine that 4.5 and 1.5 is the cap (for lvl 50 anyways)

240 MND is as low as I tested this. Which is 8 pts above my base stats.

[Judge_Xero]

Thought I'd test MND to see if it actually effects Auto-Attack damage, and to see if it was close to what STR adds.

I didn't parse my findings on this one, because it was pretty obvious. Went from 240ish MND up to 305 with a 40DPS weapon. There was a large increase of ~40% extra damage on AA.

Test subject Lvl 50 Drubbers. Solo unbuffed.

Added info to the front page.

[Molly_Millions]

Thanks for the updates. It looks like after I finish my triple melds, it might be worth going for a quad melded celata too.

I'm stoked as it gives me a new goal!

[Chadwick]

Will you be using a Cobalt Celata or a Sentinel's Celata?

Personally, I think the latter is a much more admirable goal.

[Molly_Millions]

Will you be using a Cobalt Celata or a Sentinel's Celata?

Personally, I think the latter is a much more admirable goal.

As many times as I've been to farm that Celata, I've seen it drop only once. It'd be f'ing awesome to see a quad melded one, but I wouldn't risk it.

[GreyJorildyn]

I use a cobalt celata +1 (hp+54) with mnd+50 in applicable situation. Just go cheap and pound away at it. Mnd materia is cheap, sentinel's celata probably aren't lol.

[Molly_Millions]

they usually sell for about 7 mil on Balmung. Lat time i looked, there was one for 13 mil.

[TaalAzura]

Yeah, if having a ridiculously high MND effects AA I wouldn't be against attempting a quad-IV meld. +64 MND (Yes, please.)

[GreyJorildyn]

Probably don't need something like that. Without even trying I sit at 311 mnd.

[Judge_Xero]

Yeah, if having a ridiculously high MND effects AA I wouldn't be against attempting a quad-IV meld. +64 MND (Yes, please.)

That would be nice lol. Although 48-50 isn't unreasonable. It's very easy to cap MND. ~312 with Curtana.


There was a post somewhere here where I told someone that MND didn't effect AA. Wish I could find it and correct it. Not too sure when exactly it changed. Glad I re-tested it.