SE, Temper Activation Rate

[Karbuncle]

http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Goliard_Saio
vs
http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Mavi_Mintan_%2B2
and
http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Tantra_Cyclas_%2B2
etc etc
Also -acc makes for some good tp pants on a job with horrible acc~

rawr such good stats

w/e I don't care, don't call me ignorant

You keep comparing it to what others get...

So because WAR has a Pair of Haste+5 Feet with CritDMG+10%, Should i say DRG, DRK, and SAM aren't DD's because they don't have those feet? The Feet they get are worse in comparison, So that, by your logic, means their DD choices aren't DD choices?

Your arguments are irrelevant comparisons. One job having DD armor doesn't mean other jobs don't have DD Armor because their DD Armor isn't as good as the first jobs.

Its not a difficult concept. I'm not saying their DD armor is the best and I'm not saying they're DD. I'm saying they have DD ARMOR SELECTIONS. Other jobs choices are irrelevant in the matter and I'm not sure why they keep being brought up.

The only point i was trying to make was that they have DD armor selections. I didn't say that made them a good DD, or that their armor choices were better than what others got. Stop taking what i say out of Context and we can stop arguing.

We're basically on the same side here anyway.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Rdm with Calm trousers in best setup would be about ~11(17 without N sash) accuracy and ~15 attack under Blu while whose best body armor is Mextli harness.

[Karbuncle]

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1) No, I'm a man

2) No, I've been on Asura my whole FFXI Career. Since before CoP Release. I got plenty who can vouch for that.

Edit: I think i know who you are talking about though. I read it on FFXIAH and on BG, I wish i could dig it up, It could be some lulz. I think that chick quit a long time ago though.

[Cursed]

1) No, I'm a man

2) No, I've been on Asura my whole FFXI Career. Since before CoP Release. I got plenty who can vouch for that.

Edit: I think i know who you are talking about though. I read it on FFXIAH and on BG, I wish i could dig it up, It could be some lulz. I think that chick quit a long time ago though.

ah sorry found the BG thread, it was "thesummoner" not "realsummoner"
apologies. I was hoping that chick had resurfaced... she stole my HQ staffs

[Karbuncle]

ah sorry found the BG thread, it was "thesummoner" not "realsummoner"
apologies. I was hoping that chick had resurfaced... she stole my HQ staffs

TheSummoner, Now i do remember. Thanks for that >_> Also my In-game name is Karbuncle, the sig i have was a joke on KORPGs' sig :3

[Daniel_Hatcher]

No. You can tell this by the fact that it get NO good WS. NO good Job Abilities. Lackluster armor choices. The list goes on. Please don't tell me that it is supposed to be something it's not. That is like arguing that humans are supposed to fly because we built planes, then jumping off a cliff and flapping your arms expecting it to work. Just because you want it to be true, and the statement doesn't sound blatantly false, doesn't make you right.

And btw, I'm not saying this just out of spite for RDM. Mine is level 90, with an Almace and everything needed to bring a strong melee game. I just know it doesn't stand up compared to say... BLU in anything. I can do most of the same debuffs (and more!) on BLU and DD better on BLU than on RDM. What makes my RDM competitive is using staves and nuking stuff down, while tossing buffs/debuffs/cures.

There is no WAR component to a RDM. You are clearly unfamiliar with the job if you think there is. It begs the question: Are you trolling people? Did you just read this forum and side with every idiot that thinks FF1 RDM has something to do with a FFX1? It's a different game. The class is not the same. They didn't intend it to be melee, and it still isn't. The day I see RDM get vorpal/sanguine/ any red proc, I will reconsider the argument, but never until then.

Wow! Just wow...

Like I said the JOB was advertised as WHM/BLM/WAR whether SE is now scared because of a select few RDM's soloing the stronger enemies in the beginning of the game isn't my problem, this doesn't change what the job is advertised as.

The armour choices again are a SE issue, they've stopped giving RDM the light armour it could always wear and started with giving it only mage-cloth armour, even to the point of limiting it off the same armour as BLU which they used to be on.

Interesting fact: They also said they'd be adjusting Weapon Skills in a previous post about RDM.

Final note: I never said as it stood it had any WAR style DD capability, only that it's what the job was originally classed as the mixture of, with SCH being the more capable WHM/BLM mage.

[Rayik]

Doesn't Composure give a melee Acc bonus? Just sayin.

Dusk feet and hands +1 are easy as hell to get now. I'm a broke-joke when it comes to gil, and I was able to scrape up a +1's of both. Gil is easy to get for anyone who feels like getting it. Just go to an Aby zone, get some pop items, sell them on the AH. You can make 100k from Aby-Altep easily, more if you get a Tiger King Hide from a chest. No synthing required. Re-buying Calmecac trousers asap.

Pretty much, everything on that list Karby stated above is within reach to anyone with a couple buddies. Two friends and I whooped Lacovie for a friend's Goading Belt, and I'm next on the list when I farm KI's. You can get KI's for Lacovie from chests now. Atheling Mantle is an amazing back piece, and 100% drop. You could probably find a group doing Orthrus, who would give you the item since the chances are good they all already have it. Goliard shouldn't be hard either, just do some Nyzule runs with someone who has floor access that high if you don't have access. That's next on my list.

The only snag I'm running into is the Zelus Tiara. Haven't got a lead on that yet, but between my couple of friends(and wife), we'll get ours when it's time.

Point is, between the capable Haste gear, Food for lolAccuracy, and spells like Temper(whose % scales with enhancing), and let's not forget SE has already said they have RDM in mind for the upcoming WS adjustments, I think there are plenty of valid reasons a RDM could melee something significant in the near future. Really sort of hinges on the WS adjustments, but still, we get several good Dagger WS's as is(Evisceration, Aeolian Edge, etc).

By significant, I mean something that other DD's are already melee'ing on. If it's one of those "OMFGTPMOVEGONNAKILLUSALL!!!!" mobs that not even the DD's are melee'ing on, then yeah, we're not gonna melee that(Voidwatch, some Caturae, etc).

[Urteil]

You're a man?


Well that explains a lot.

[saevel]

Ok if you guys haven't figured it out yet most of the people your responding to are just trying to troll you. Add them to your ignore list and go about your business. They'll go away once they realize there's no one listening to them and nothing they can hotlink to on BG.

For RDM melee gear, that is one of my beefs. We get no "uber gear" and everything we do get is moderately easy to obtain. I'm up soon to get my Tiara and after that my "upgrade" options become rather limited. There literally isn't much left other then a Maats cap (CDC WS piece).

We got Awesome weapon's, mediocre WS choices until CDC (Evis is pretty bad a$$). Of course CDC pretty much destroys anything else we have. My highest so far is 5.6K with averages of 3K ~4K on normal mobs and 2.4~3K on NM's, really depends if TA procs or not. Outside Abyssea it really depends what I'm fighting, 2~3K on things like Fafy / Nidhog / Jormy and T4 ZNM's is common. Did the same on that T4 VNM (the Dark Dragon of death). Haven't had a chance to test it on PW, I was purely a support mage during that fight.

VWNM's would depend on which one, I've seen UF's hit for 400 before and Fudo's hit for 100. VWNM's have crazy weird damage resistances / modifiers. Sometimes you hit them really hard, sometimes they laugh in your face.

Getting spike damage out of RDM isn't hard, especially if your there for stun. Most fights these days seem to be endurance contests that focus on quickly dealing spike damage then getting away before the NM kills the DDs.

But honestly, why are people trying to predict new "content" from SE? We don't know what their going to create next, nor do we know what direction their taking things in.

As far as the idiots claiming "Abyssea is Over", well just ignore them. The best gear currently comes from Abyssea, including the best weapon and weapon skill for each job. Abyssea also produces the best XP and easier way to cap merits, should they introduce another type at 99. The only way for Abyssea to "be dead / over" is for SE to create another system that gives better gear for similar effort and more XP then Abyssea. And seeing what the drop rate on VWNM's has been like, somehow I doubt they'll be doing that anytime soon. It's possible that they could release a new expansion for PC/360/PS3 (assuming new client) only and have it contain a different continent with a completely new rewards system. But that's far in the future and none of it is pertinent to the right now. So for the time being, Abyssea is still "End Game", as much as the elitists want to hate it since it means everyone can have the shiny gear not just them.

[Karbuncle]

You're a man?


Well that explains a lot.

Sexist against your own Sex? Shocking!

Sarcasm aside, never tried to hide it.