Rdm personal wishlist.

[Crimson_Slasher]

Greatguardian, just a note, Seriha said "Particularly in abyssea" not "this is occuring in abyssea." It was a statement to how it could occur and where it can be seen at an extreme.

Aside from that, i dont have numbers, or proof, or records, so i could be wrong but... Wouldnt a CDC RDM (With gain str and temper) while /nin outdamage a CDC PLD if they were /war (and therefor have less DA before gear, and no offhand hit to improve the ws?) My logic would side with the rdm in that circumstance, both in TP gain, overall DOT and possibly WS damage. Not to mention a pld/war is not far out of the realm of reality. But i could be wrong, just my reasoning.

[saevel]

Greatguardian, just a note, Seriha said "Particularly in abyssea" not "this is occuring in abyssea." It was a statement to how it could occur and where it can be seen at an extreme.

Aside from that, i dont have numbers, or proof, or records, so i could be wrong but... Wouldnt a CDC RDM (With gain str and temper) while /nin outdamage a CDC PLD if they were /war (and therefor have less DA before gear, and no offhand hit to improve the ws?) My logic would side with the rdm in that circumstance, both in TP gain, overall DOT and possibly WS damage. Not to mention a pld/war is not far out of the realm of reality. But i could be wrong, just my reasoning.

An extra off hand hit puts your potential damage cap higher. A PLD/WAR would have about the same DA as a Temper RDM for WSing, /WAR has 10% and brutal is another 5% and atheling is 3%, they might have another 2% or so in there somewhere. The difference comes with attack, a PLD is going to have higher natural attack by virtue of their slightly (26) higher skill. Also their WS gear is better then what a RDM has access to. To the RDM (and BLU)'s favor they have an off hand weapon, in my case I'm using the STR Shamshir+3 for +20 (25) attack and +10 STR. Toss in meat and temps and you can hit ridiculous attack which is why the RDM/NIN and BLU/NIN (or /DNC) would have higher average CDC's.

Plus these monsters often have hate reset maneuvers or altered hate mechanics. Hate isn't who dealt the most damage, it's who dealt the most damage recently. A Ukon WAR could go in there and do the exact same things and the results would be the same.