What is your best charged whisker farming setup?

[ShadowHeart]

I seen some crazy blue mages with charged whisker farming in many areas.
Chigoes, crabs fish bombs lots of places farming lots of mobs. They are able to wipe their group in one shot. I am curious what is the best group damage per mob you done and what is your setup? I have heard of setups of over 60k dmg to a group but i know there are people who can do more when they wipe out 20 mobs i one shot at 5k / mob if anyone is willing to share their secret as abysea is now almost a small group farm or almost solo duo now for things like feet etc

Atmas i am still trying working on getting are atma of the lion atma of the ultimate for farming have done over 3k / mob on groups of 10-15 mobs

i try to stack MAB spells and gear
blu/rdm

plen. embrace / ascetics tonic / memento mori / burst affinity / charged whisker / dream flower

Gear

hq thunder stave
moldav earring, loquascious (working on hecate's)
artemis necklace
af + 1 head
+ 1 afv3 hands
dynamis body
wiccan subligar
mavi talthum
snow ring x 2
twilight cape
+1 feet


Spell lists

amplification
plenilence embrace
momento mori
charged whisker
dream flower
actinic burst
goblin rush
metalic body
cocoon
occulation

Atma

Atma of the Beyond
Minikin Mon.
Apocolypse incase things go wrong

[sope]

LINK: Here is my gearset. It's pretty sub-par, but it's worked very well for me so far.

For Atmas, I used Lion, Beyond, and MM, but I recently got Blinding Horn, so I'll drop MM for it.

LINK: Here's me trying to find a refresh hairpin without Blinding Horn or /rdm (was/nin)

You should try setting Whirl of Rage. It's nice to open the fight with, and lets you use CA+Efflux on something. It usually does ~1.5-2k and stuns everything. After that I use Dream Flower, Ascetics Tonic (Which does NOT stack with Memento Mori), wait for Whirl cooldown then I BA+Charged Whisker and Whirl of Rage again.

I have Actinic, Yawn, and Thermal Pulse set for emergency use, but I haven't ever needed them yet.

edit: Why are hyperlinks forced to be the default text color? dumb.

[Gotterdammerung]

LINK: Here is my gearset. It's pretty sub-par, but it's worked very well for me so far.

For Atmas, I used Lion, Beyond, and MM, but I recently got Blinding Horn, so I'll drop MM for it.

LINK: Here's me trying to find a refresh hairpin without Blinding Horn or /rdm (was/nin)

You should try setting Whirl of Rage. It's nice to open the fight with, and lets you use CA+Efflux on something. It usually does ~1.5-2k and stuns everything. After that I use Dream Flower, Ascetics Tonic (Which does NOT stack with Memento Mori), wait for Whirl cooldown then I BA+Charged Whisker and Whirl of Rage again.

I have Actinic, Yawn, and Thermal Pulse set for emergency use, but I haven't ever needed them yet.

edit: Why are hyperlinks forced to be the default text color? dumb.

After your dream flower try boosting up with a couple of fantods.

[Kensagaku]

I do /RDM as well for the natural MAB I (or is it II? I forget which one RDM gets by then, I think it's just I) as well as a better Stoneskin, Aquaveil, Protect, and Phalanx.

My setup for Charged Whisker:

Jupiter's Staff / Bugard Leather Strap +1 / None / Mavi Tathlum (nothing better atm)
Aias Bonnet* / Artemis' Medal / Hecate's Earring / Moldavite Earring
Teal Saio / Mavi Bazuband +1 / Omega Ring / Demon's Ring (Aug'd with MAB+2, M.crit +2%)
Prism Cape / Penitent's Rope / Teal Slops / Mavi Bismak +1

*Bonnet: See note below

Atmas I use are MM/RR/Beyond, actually.

The reason I have the Aias Bonnet / RR atma is because Charged Whisker has a 50% DEX mod. Since BLU doesn't get much for the head slot, the DEX is nice. As for RR, I've actually swapped that out for Blinding Horn now, but that was only a recent gain so I haven't had a chance to test out the damage increase. :P

Still no refresh hairpin. ;;

[xbobx]

What other magic spells are half decent. Been farming the scorp in altepa for jewels and dmg spells do nothing. I am there to get yellow but after that, I only do stun.
You really need magical nukes on him, so its easier warp back change to pup with blm puppet or equip half decent magic spells to help the blm.

I dont have lion yet or ultimate, for pup I use Beyond MM and Baying Moon.

[Zagen]

plen. embrace / ascetics tonic / memento mori

I'm not 100% sure on p.embrace but Tonic and Memento don't stack, I believe the Tonic takes priority.
Fantod is a better option if you're going to be using Tonics a lot.

I do /RDM as well for the natural MAB I (or is it II? I forget which one RDM gets by then, I think it's just I) as well as a better Stoneskin, Aquaveil, Protect, and Phalanx.

RDM gets MAB II at 40.

The reason I have the Aias Bonnet / RR atma is because Charged Whisker has a 50% DEX mod. Since BLU doesn't get much for the head slot, the DEX is nice. As for RR, I've actually swapped that out for Blinding Horn now, but that was only a recent gain so I haven't had a chance to test out the damage increase. :P

With Burst Affinity Active the ratio is about 2INT = 1DEX for damage.

I haven't done much testing yet as I'm still missing the base feet(sitting on 8 feet seals) and I know that will change my numbers by a lot. But without them Atma of the Brother Wolf did more than MM for my damage, I don't think this will change to be honest but it gives others another Atma option if they're lacking the Lightning Attack ones..

What other magic spells are half decent.

Thermal Pulse is pretty good damage (1.2-1.6k without BA) and the added effect blind is nice if you aren't 2 shotting monsters yet.

[ShadowHeart]

i have been using teal body recently and been wondering about loki's kaftan for the DEX would this be better or would u recommend staying with mab ?

[Zagen]

Going off 2 INT = 1 DEX Teal's 6 INT accounts for 3 DEX on Loki, that means you're comparing 4 DEX against 4 MAB. MAB should win.

[Ezekieal]

no zagen you miss understood what 2dex = 1int means, i means that teals 6 int is = to 12 dex

[Zagen]

no zagen you miss understood what 2dex = 1int means, i means that teals 6 int is = to 12 dex

Actually I got it backwards yesterday, under BA it takes 2 INT to match 1 DEX which is why you'll see Whisker builds with DEX over INT.

I didn't realize I had mixed DEX and INT in my first post and just went off that without even thinking about it. Outside of BA its 1.2~ DEX = 1 INT so without BA INT is the way to go but you "shouldn't" be doing whiskers without BA up unless you're lacking Atma and/or Emp +1 Feet.

Updating my previous posts with the correct ratios.

Also keep in mind these numbers aren't exact as they differ slightly depending on your gear/atma/monster. But it is safe to say without BA equal amount of INT is better, with BA an equal amount of DEX is better. And in either case an equal amount of MAB is better

Edit: Here is my build. By no means is this the "best" it is just what I've attained thus far. My midway goal is this: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/209936

Jupiter's Staff | Spear Strap | | INT+2 Satchel
Mavi Kavuk +1 | Artemis' Medal | Moldavite Earring | Loquacious Earring
Mirke Wardecors | Mavi Bazuband +1 | Rajas Ring | Jupiter's Ring
Nifty Mantle | Warwolf Belt | Teal Slops | Lithe Boots

With that I was getting 3.1k~ on DC-VT Peapuks in V. Inlet [A] last night.
Atma: RR/MM/Bay Moon
Buffs: Fantod 2-3x, Memento Mori, /RDM
Mirke has MAB+4