Whats your favorite subjob for RDM? What is your least favorite?

[saevel]

Exactly, and you can give up DPS if all you care about is being able to take hits. Nothing wrong with an Earth Sham and Genbu's when all you are doing is going around Diaga-ing everything in Dynamis. So long as you have others that are killing and procing with you, you can hold and process more mobs more quickly.

I was actually debating getting the -PDT sword for off hand during VW events.

[ManaKing]

I have yet to finish my 2nd one because I can't come up with a real scenerio where I would need it outside of BLU, since they don't even have a shield skill, but I would recommend having at least 1. Longevity is somewhat underrated, but that is only because DPS is so important. The DPS on the sword isn't terrible, there is just blatantly better for DPS.

[saevel]

I have yet to finish my 2nd one because I can't come up with a real scenerio where I would need it outside of BLU, since they don't even have a shield skill, but I would recommend having at least 1. Longevity is somewhat underrated, but that is only because DPS is so important. The DPS on the sword isn't terrible, there is just blatantly better for DPS.

They can pry my almace out of my cold dead hands.

On another note, the new 5+1 hit sword WS seems amazing for RDMs. 100% MND mod on a sword WS with an attack bonus.

[Neisan_Quetz]

*Attack penalty if it mirrors the katana one

I ended up subbing dex sword for abit, I refuse to make x2 any elemental trial as saevel said, you can try and pry almace from my cold dead hands.

[Greatguardian]

Aye. The sword WS seems to act like Slug Shot. Negative accuracy penalty that gets slightly less terrible (yay?) at higher TP.

[saevel]

Aye. The sword WS seems to act like Slug Shot. Negative accuracy penalty that gets slightly less terrible (yay?) at higher TP.

Umm what huh? I haven't noticed any accuracy penalty at all. The JP text reads attack bonus (not accuracy bonus), specifically a pDiff boost. Although I won't negate there being a penalty at 100 TP, if there is one I didn't notice it.

[Greatguardian]

Umm what huh? I haven't noticed any accuracy penalty at all. The JP text reads attack bonus (not accuracy bonus), specifically a pDiff boost. Although I won't negate there being a penalty at 100 TP, if there is one I didn't notice it.

I was talking about Slug Shot. That has an Accuracy Penalty, despite the fact that the description reads as Accuracy varies by TP.

The sword WS may or may not have an attack penalty, no one has gone about testing it specifically yet. However, Blade: Shun has the same wording in its description and it is sitting at a 40% Attack penalty at 100 TP... So.... Yeah....

Edit: Attack boost is not the same as pDif boost. These WS seem to affect straight Attack, before correction.

[saevel]

Well then someone might want to be screaming at SE right now to see if they'll change it. It's a low chance as ever since Tanaka got back the forums have become a PR outlet only. An attack penalty is something RDM does ~not~ need.

I know I'm gonna kick myself later, but do you have the link to the BG posting. Is it a straight -40 attack, -40% or -0.4 ratio. Really big differences in what the overall outcome will be vs anything more then solo fodder.

[Greatguardian]

First proposed here in regards to Resolution: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/106...=1#post4921977

Testing continues for the next few pages. Blade: Shun testing is started a few posts later.

According to Nightfyre's results, it's a straight effect on Attack applied before conversion to Ratio (via testing on lv0 mobs). According to Motenten, Atoreis, and Byrth's combined testing, it appears to be approximately -40% Attack on Resolution.

[Doombringer]

well... that's depressing