Heavy Strike low accuracy problem

[Kwate]

Eyeballing it, I've had some pretty decent luck with:

ammo: Mavi tathlum (until i get mantis's eye +10 Acc)
head: Aias bonnet
neck: PCC
earrings: stay with tp
body: magus jubbah +1 (unless i read another piece outperforms) (also debating if i should just keep AF3 body piece on)
hands: Palla's bracelets
rings: spiral, rajas
back: cuchulains
waist: warwolf
legs: AF3+2
feet: Homam

don't really use food much tbh.
swords: Almace and DA (thought about offhanding Dex for Acc, but not sure a single spell or losing DoT on aftermath is worth offhand change)

I do get those annoying, gut wrenching misses, but i seem to hit pretty often ranging 800~1400, Eff 1800~2800 (i can't bring myself to gamble CA, I save those for my Quad casts)

Made some revisions:

ammo: Mavi tathlum
head: Aias bonnet
neck: Chivalrous Chain
earrings: stay with tp
body: Alcide's Harness +1
hands: Palla's bracelets
rings: spiral, rajas
back: cuchulains
waist: Anguinus Belt
legs: AF3+2
feet: Homam

Did some testing last night with gear set changes on La Theine T2 VNM's while attempting to get T3, landed 17/18 didn't jot down exact damage (mainly keeping track of hits vs. misses), had RR/GH/SS, good to see it landing pretty often. I'll play with it more vs. VT~IT and boss types.

Edit: no food

[Nightfyre]

La Theine T2 VNM's

80 cap Abyssea content, the penalty isn't that bad.

[Prothscar]

Low tier 80 cap content at that. :X

[Kitkat]

Found another slap in the face with this spell, the fTP was lowered along with the accuracy. Their reasoning behind the accuracy nerf, making it a very powerful spell with a high chance to miss, is completely out the window.

I knew something was off on this spell other than accuracy. Wasn't able to produce no where near the numbers I could on test server. Max at this point I've reached is mid to upper 5k range with CA/EF. Seems other than trait it really just isn't worth quite as much as we had hoped for initially.

[Defiledsickness]

you easily hit 5k dmg inside abyssea with Razed Ruins alone. more accurate spells are better use of CA and Efflux as the chance of missing on those have been rather high for me :P

but the spell is still useful. 2set points to help make DA or TA and the spell does do good dmg (and pairs up with CDC swapping dex for str). i've had good success on Voidwatch with it as well.

if you think about it, were acc to be improved we wouldnt really use any other spell. the mp efficiency and 100%crit rate would be too much. if anything i would be up for less crit rate with more blu-equips to increase crit rate (the main problem with CDC atm), with the increased acc of course.

[Kwate]

yep, i geared it pretty tight, its a definitely a keeper in my eyes. It really comes down to if the spell is worth gearing in your opinion, but you NEED to gear for this spell to be useful in anyway.

[Rambus]

Can anyone make heavy strike out damage 2 delta thrusts? From a recast standpoint that is what it would have to do for me to use it regularly for damage. Right now it is just a trait spell that I’ll never cast><

acc penalties seems rather pointless for this day and age.

[selond]

No just no. First off if you have to cast two delta thrusts to equal your heavy strike damage then your doing it wrong
1. casting two deltas should never out do a single heavy strike. hell three casts maybe... MAYBE. at that point your just wasting your mp. strike = 32 mp delta thrust = 28 mp
2. yes strike has intense low accuracy, however even on higher nms(void wrought, Hahava and that damn harpy nm whose name escapes me at the moment) im hitting around 70-60% of the time. i tried delta thrust on the harpy and got like 200 damage off it. so idk what your doing but i'm sorry you doing it wrong

[Kwate]

Can anyone make heavy strike out damage 2 delta thrusts? From a recast standpoint that is what it would have to do for me to use it regularly for damage. Right now it is just a trait spell that I’ll never cast><

acc penalties seems rather pointless for this day and age.

I don't spell spam too often tbh, I tend to try and keep up aftermath as much as possible. When I do I tend to lean towards more damaging spells like HS or QC.

[Rambus]

No just no. First off if you have to cast two delta thrusts to equal your heavy strike damage then your doing it wrong
1. casting two deltas should never out do a single heavy strike. hell three casts maybe... MAYBE. at that point your just wasting your mp. strike = 32 mp delta thrust = 28 mp
2. yes strike has intense low accuracy, however even on higher nms(void wrought, Hahava and that damn harpy nm whose name escapes me at the moment) im hitting around 70-60% of the time. i tried delta thrust on the harpy and got like 200 damage off it. so idk what your doing but i'm sorry you doing it wrong

I was playing with both spells trying to get white wind and i really do not like heavy strike, it missed to much and when it hit it was around 900 daamge, delta thrust was 200-400 without a full miss. My point is the acc hit seems stupid.

I don't spell spam too often tbh, I tend to try and keep up aftermath as much as possible. When I do I tend to lean towards more damaging spells like HS or QC.

uuh what is HS? sometimes i used gob rush for fusion but i love QC, shame it dont sc with it.