Monk Gear / Questions / Advice

[Greatguardian]

Faith Torque NM should be easily duoable with a WHM. I solo'd it countless times on RDM at 75, and at 99 it's really a joke. You should really look into Rancor Collar, though. It's a better piece all around for the neck slot, including for WS, assuming you go cap your tonberry hate (pretty quick in Abyssea - Konschtat).

If you've finished ToAU missions, grab an Aesir Ear Pendant instead of Tantra Earring. If you haven't, Merman's should still be better in the meantime until you get Moonshade.

Once you get Black Belt, you'll be able to trade in your AF3+2 hands for Melee Gloves+2 for a net gain.

WS: If you have MKD (Moogle Kupo D'etat), I'd finish that and get a WSDMG/Str head for Victory Smite. Aias Bonnet is also better than Tantra, as is an Augmented Shura Kabuto (+1 ideally). You'll want some Shura Haidate (+1) with some augments on them. These Abjurations should be exceedingly easy to get in a small group or even duo depending on how solid your healer is. The content was easy at 75, so again 99 makes it a pushover.

PDT: Finish this! It's important. Arhat's Gi +1, Arhat's Jinpachi+1, and some Dark Rings from Konschtat will help a lot. Try and find two PDT-5/6 rings, hopefully with at least MDT-5 on them but if not it's not a huge loss. You don't want to have more than 2 dark rings total because otherwise your macros won't be able to tell the difference and may equip the wrong ones.

MDT: If you don't have any luck getting MDT on your PDT Dark Rings, get some Merman's Rings. If you have spare gil, get a Minerva's. There are also Merman Earrings and Avalon Breastplate to work with. You generally only need 23-25% in gear to cap with a decent WHM.

Both PDT and MDT: Twilight Torque. Real easy to get, very handy.

Most important thing isn't just to have these gear sets but to use them too. PDT gear won't do you any good if you're not actually swapping into it.

Guard also sucks. I would not bother, personally.

In general? We're level 99 and the vast majority of the game's content was designed for level 75. That's a huge gap. You can pretty much duo-trio everything from those days now aside from PW, AV, and a couple more gimmicky fights.

Also totally not sure on this but 99 Fire H2H may be competitive with an 85 Vereth if you use Shijin Spiral. Shijin is just much, much more gear dependent. I'd focus on upgrading your h2h to 90 in the midst of all this. Dragua's pretty easy, just time consuming.

[Peldin]

Thanks for the quick reply. Couple of quick things:

You'll want some Shura Haidate (+1) with some augments on them. These Abjurations should be exceedingly easy to get in a small group

What are augments?

You can pretty much duo-trio everything from those days now aside from PW, AV, and a couple more gimmicky fights.

What are these acronyms "PW" and "AV"?

[Greatguardian]

Thanks for the quick reply. Couple of quick things:

What are augments?

http://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Tatter_and_Scrap_Synergy

You can use synergy to add additional augments onto Sky and Abjuration gear. All you'd ever want to know is on that wiki page.

What are these acronyms "PW" and "AV"?

Sorry. Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden. The game's two superbosses from the 75 cap. They're both doable with 6-8 with the right setup these days.

[Peldin]

You can use synergy to add additional augments onto Sky and Abjuration gear.

Do I have a long road ahead of me if my synergy is 0?

[Gokku]

if only there was a free synergy bot to level you 1-80 in 2 days.... if... only... *pssssssst there is*

[Gukumatz]

Hi
I heard Fujito are considering to fix "down" about impetus of TT cyclas +2.
sorry if my english is wrong.

[MarkovChain]

I think it's meant to put the new nyzul body clearly on top.

Thaumas Coat
lvl 99
DEF:63 Accuracy+12
"Double Attack"+3%
"Triple Attack"+3%
"Quadruple Attack"+3% Haste+4%
Set: Increases STR, DEX, AGI, MND
MNK, THF, RNG, NIN, BLU, COR, PUP, DNC

They clearly intended nyzul gear to be good, unlike failwatch. For info it's about the same as 18ish% double attack on body (on average only because you will get bad combo and good combo).

[Motenten]

@Gukumatz:

Thanks for the note about that. It appears that Mizuki-Ito posted something about this today (as usual, no official translation has been made yet; will see if one shows up).

It appears to be that the devs were considering the possibility of removing or reducing the +Crit damage on the Tantra+2 body, but that instead they went with reducing the base crit rate of Victory Smite. I'm not fully confident of my translation, though, so it's still possible that an additional nerf is in the works.

[Monchat]

momkahpa mittens

STR+5 Haste+3% DA+3%

There has never been any on the AH, drops from WoE #15. Is that farmable with a party (like most <12 walks)? Anyone got it? how hard is the walk?

best alternative to tantra for non accuracy set ups, and best zerging gloves.

[Babekeke]

momkahpa mittens

STR+5 Haste+3% DA+3%

There has never been any on the AH, drops from WoE #15. Is that farmable with a party (like most <12 walks)? Anyone got it? how hard is the walk?

best alternative to tantra for non accuracy set ups, and best zerging gloves.

Flux 15: You only need to kill the last boss to win, so it's not as hard as it initially seems. Don't have anyone actually in a party due to party hate from the mobs. If you form a party once everyone is at the last boss, leave 1 person out of the party for when you see 'a fiend thirsts for blood!'.
It's a caturae mob (they all are in flux 15) and if you go straight for the boss you have no temps (yet. See notes about the future updates for WoE), so it's not going to be an easy fight.
Can you do it in a party? Maybe with a pimped out PLD, a pimped out WHM and some pet jobs for DD, all working as a team. If you really mean just 6 people you might struggle though, as you'll have 1 person as your SAC, for when the adds come, so that person will be weakened for most fo the 30 mins and won't be much use.
The worst thing is when some idiots see you go in and join you and stay in a party, agroing the whole zone, kiting them to you and basically MPKing you. Unfortunately, it happens.