Blood Weapon is not a 2hr Camate, please help!

[Nynja]

Yes some of the Marduk set was useful for SMN. The comment you bolded was meant to refer to both Dynamis and Salvage.

Marduk's Crackows 75 [Feet] All Races
DEF:20 MP+3% MND+10 Enfeebling magic skill +5 String instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 75 WHM BRD SMN

Nashira came out WAY before and had the summoning skill +5, and if you were ghetto and didnt have sea, I guess that extra +2 summoning skill over the 40k Aurore boots is really game breaking.
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Marduk's Dastanas 75 [Hands] All Races
DEF:20 MP+2% MND+6 CHR+6 Adds "Regen" effect Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 75 WHM BRD SMN

Nothing here is remotely useful, other than a regen idle piece.
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Marduk's Jubbah 75 [Body] All Races
DEF:40 HP+3% MP+3% MND+12 CHR+12 Enhances "Fast Cast" effect Adds "Refresh" effect Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 75 WHM BRD SMN

SMN allready had access to plenty of refresh bodies...hurray fast cast?
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Marduk's Shalwar 75 [Legs] All Races
DEF:32 MP+3% CHR+10 Healing magic skill +5 Wind instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 75 WHM BRD SMN

My mind is hazy on what came out first between ZNM and salvage...though my friends think it was salvage...anyways this offers another +2 smn skill over a pair of cheap austere slops. Once again, not game breaking, and were then obsoleted for smn to the Oracle Braconi with a similar skill+5.

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Marduk's Tiara 75 [Head] All Races
DEF:17 MP+4% MND+3 CHR+3 Divine magic skill +7 Singing skill +7 Summoning magic skill +7 Enmity-3 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 75 WHM BRD SMN

Skill+7...yet another mere +2 skill over AF1 head.


so this wonderful gear, that you're dubbing "most useful" offered a mere skill+6 over what was available at the time, which amounts to a 1-3 extra seconds of ward duration and an extra 6 MP when siphoning.

[Camiie]

so this wonderful gear, that you're dubbing "most useful" offered a mere skill+6 over what was available at the time, which amounts to a 1-3 extra seconds of ward duration and an extra 6 MP when siphoning.

Seems odd to be so stuck on the point that there was something useful to SMN in Salvage. Maybe you don't think any of it was worth having for your SMN. Maybe I thought a few points here and there along with the MP was useful to mine. Maybe most stuff back then was side grades or minor upgrades.

I still don't see the point of harping on it. Shall I rephrase it for you? Ok, here, see if this meets your approval because lord knows I sure want to make sure I get it.

SMN was considered useless in Salvage, an event that contained gear a SMN may want to obtain for some sidegrades or a few minor upgrades.

Happy now? Geez... I sure hope so...

[Alhanelem]

Seems odd to be so stuck on the point that there was something useful to SMN in Salvage.

Not useLESS, but not especially useful either. And salvage offers a lot of work for such a marginal gain over existing summon magic skill pieces.

Wait, what was this thread about again?

Oh.

[Leonlionheart]

Aren't two hours kind of niceties and not something you should hinge your strategy on?

The only situations where you focus your strategy on using your two hour is ye olde time zergs. In which case BW is among the best.

I don't care about two hours enough to really want the dev team to work on them over new abilities that would actually fix jobs.

[Alhanelem]

Aren't two hours kind of niceties and not something you should hinge your strategy on?

The only situations where you focus your strategy on using your two hour is ye olde time zergs. In which case BW is among the best.

I don't care about two hours enough to really want the dev team to work on them over new abilities that would actually fix jobs.

news for you: They're already working on 20 new abilities, all of them 2-hours.

The thing with BW is if you're using a 2H weapon, you attack too slow to get much out of it. The duration is just too short. Just changing the duration would already make it significantly better.

[Nynja]

SMN was considered useless in Salvage, an event that contained gear a SMN may want to obtain for some sidegrades or a few minor upgrades.

Happy now? Geez... I sure hope so...

all mages in salvage need magic to be useful...smn to be useful needed abil (which means another melee is being useless untill it drops) or SJ (backup cure) to justify their existance...

[Nynja]

The thing with BW is if you're using a 2H weapon, you attack too slow to get much out of it. The duration is just too short. Just changing the duration would already make it significantly better.

Hasso, Desperate Blows + Last Resort, March/march, haste...seems like you attack just fine.

[Nynja]

you're all the emo ones

are you serious bro?


1-This thread
2- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...oing-to-happen
3- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...AWFUL-PETITION
4- http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Feedback-Forum
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Feedback-Forum
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...k-Knight-Magic
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...DRK-update-DEV
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...to-Weapon-Bash
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...c-Eye-not-suck
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-Dark-Celerity
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ight-and-Magic
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...d-the-Dev-Team
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ob-Dark-Knight
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/442-Help.

What do all these threads have in common?
They were started by you, bitching about how drk sucks, how SE ignores drks because they love their bleeding hearts, and what YOU think would be proper fixes.

I tried to find a thread that you started that DOESNT pertain to how drk sucks and needs to be fixed...I couldnt find one.

[Cljader1]

Hasso, Desperate Blows + Last Resort, March/march, haste...seems like you attack just fine.

What are you talking about?? so to get those buff's mainly you'll announce to your party that you'll about too bloodweapon please march and haste me...thats idiotic, the reason why your even blood weaponing is because either you are about to die or the party going to shit, the bard or whm dont have time to march and haste you for a 30 sec blood weapon, your not even a priority...nor should you be.

[Nynja]

What are you talking about?? so to get those buff's mainly you'll announce to your party that you'll about too bloodweapon please march and haste me...thats idiotic, the reason why your even blood weaponing is because either you are about to die or the party going to shit, the bard or whm dont have time to march and haste you for a 30 sec blood weapon, your not even a priority...nor should you be.

If you're in a party and your mage cant cast fking haste on you, your party was doomed well before you needed to 2hr...