RDM Relic +2 Armor

[saevel]

Wish it had one more point of Haste, but alas, that would be too perfect. Guess us White Mages will still be forced to choose between different haste pieces. They even released a pair of 98 gloves that are a merger of our AF1+1 gloves and the NQ Blessed... once again, one more point of haste would have been nice...

On Gravity, I've already said it before, but I'll repeat it incase SE decides to listen. For Gravity and Gravity II, please separate the movement effect and evasion down effect so that mobs can't resist the evasion down part of the spell.



This one upset me a bit... the stats aren't even broken for Red Mage either, so restricting it is just being mean for no reason.

Overall, it is interesting but the gear is pretty much sidegrade status. Would it really kill them to make it slightly easier to cap gear haste for mages?

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On the Goliard Saio, I wonder what stats it will be getting, I think I may have seen them, but my memory is a bit fuzzy.

The "upgraded" Goliard in the .dat's on the test client had lost it's haste and gained more "every mage" stats. I'm curious to see if they keep it like that or change it into a mage-melee body piece. Going to get it as there's not much else for our body and it should upon up some other slots. I'm interested in the legs because our current "best" legs include accuracy-8 along with Haste+4% and some DA/TA. Going from Acc-8 to Acc+10 is 18 accuracy, which would be a boon for situations where I'm stuck using pizza+1. If I throw up Goliard body them I'm +5% haste (already at 25%) so I can afford to lose 3% from head (tiara) and 1% from legs and still be capped. If they upgrade Nashira or something I might take a look at those if they have more +haste.

Frankly I'm just really getting tired tired of "every mage" gear. It makes for a god aweful set when your trying to make pieces for BRD/SMN/WHM/BLM/RDM.

[Economizer]

The stuff about the Goliard is painful if true. Losing 4% haste is not acceptable. I would much prefer it if it was the mage body of choice for melee rather then focusing on other stats... other piece of gear in the set can do that.

Thoughts on what the siao should get?

I'm interested in the legs because our current "best" legs include accuracy-8 along with Haste+4% and some DA/TA. Going from Acc-8 to Acc+10 is 18 accuracy, which would be a boon for situations where I'm stuck using pizza+1.

I don't follow Red Mage melee perhaps as much as I should, but hearing about the Calmecac Trousers is kinda sad in a way. I generally look at mage melee from a White Mage perspective, and while the set isn't cheap even now, the HQ Blessed set pretty much sets the standard for a TP gear for White Mage.

Now, while I understand the "every mage" gear sets being not as good for some classes as others - maybe Summoners, Black Mages, and Scholars would be very impressed with those pants, the jobs with better access to melee gear, White Mage and Red Mage, should be asking "Why is this just a sidegrade?"

And maybe it would be acceptable on some level with some other gear - like those cure pants - any healer that isn't White Mage would be interested in them. But honestly, I don't see what giving a small upgrade compared to current gear would hurt... and one point in haste is a very big deal. Especially with the Goliard being up in the air...

Another reason this upsets me so much is that this goes beyond generic "every mage" gear.

Iuvenalis mittens
98 WHM
DEF:20 MP-15 STR+7 VIT+7 MND+7 Haste+5%

Would it have killed them to make it Haste+6%? I mean, this is pretty much the love child of the AF1+1 and Blessed Mitts... If SE is going to be combining gear as the new standard for new gear, can we at least get the HQ gear combined?

Having this happen on one piece of gear might not make or break gear selection, but it is happening on multiple. I want a real upgrade on gear, not a slight one or a sidegrade that is mainly there for inventory space consolidation.

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I could go on, but honestly, it would just be a bunch of ranting and repeating.