[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

[ManaKing]

Enspell II's arent half bad if your /war or /paladin and cant dualwield. they were only intended as an alternative spell for RDMs who arent dualwielding so their damage dosent get horrigimped. if you actualy sit and take a look at the effects of phalanx and enspells, youll notice that if your wearing the proper enhancing gear, and the proper Enspelldamage + gear, you can actualy get all the way up to a 20-40% DOT increase Via your Enspells. with the enhancing sword, chimeric fleuret and Fencers ring, i can quite easily hit 40-50 damage based on day, per swing, which translates into 40-80 damage per swing on an enspell II when /warrior.
another underrated spell is phalanx. when im /warrior i take about 200-150 with NO PDT gear on, just Food protect and defender. my Phalanx's currently negate arround 44-50 damage, that puts it at the equivalent of 20-40% PDT for most incoming Melee swings from Non NMs. stack on some PDT and your taking 10-50 damage per swing no problem.

my personal hopes for RDM, would be a DD set of Hands with haste, and a DD set of feet with haste, anything else i could care less about.

I use Enspell 2s when I use /DRK or /PLD. In aby, I like using atma of the Lion and using Enthunder II to get more DPS. Against higher defense mobs, it actually makes a decent difference. If Enspell 2s went off on every main hand hit, it would be fixed. I don't enjoy that I run around at 20-35% double attack and I don't get additional applications of Enspell 2s on my double attack procs. It just needs more damage all around to be acceptable. It's one of my chief gripes against why RDM is going so poorly.

Phallanx is awesome. I run around in close to 50% PDT all the time.

As far as Hands go, Alucinor' Mitts are the best you can get. For feet, Eurus' Ledelsens, Legs Calmecac Trousers.

The part that I hate is the chest piece. Your options for Haste are Goliard's, Nashira's, or Blood/Crimson Scale Mail that is Augmented to HQ3. None are particularly easy to get. You certainly can't pick up a pink chest piece or a Loki's like most jobs, but I'm in love with Blood Scale Mail. I always have been. If you can't get anything with Haste on it, I would go with Antares Harness.

[saevel]

I use Enspell 2s when I use /DRK or /PLD. In aby, I like using atma of the Lion and using Enthunder II to get more DPS. Against higher defense mobs, it actually makes a decent difference. If Enspell 2s went off on every main hand hit, it would be fixed. I don't enjoy that I run around at 20-35% double attack and I don't get additional applications of Enspell 2s on my double attack procs. It just needs more damage all around to be acceptable. It's one of my chief gripes against why RDM is going so poorly.

Phallanx is awesome. I run around in close to 50% PDT all the time.

As far as Hands go, Alucinor' Mitts are the best you can get. For feet, Eurus' Ledelsens, Legs Calmecac Trousers.

The part that I hate is the chest piece. Your options for Haste are Goliard's, Nashira's, or Blood/Crimson Scale Mail that is Augmented to HQ3. None are particularly easy to get. You certainly can't pick up a pink chest piece or a Loki's like most jobs, but I'm in love with Blood Scale Mail. I always have been. If you can't get anything with Haste on it, I would go with Antares Harness.

I use Enspell II's when /DRK, their ~ok~ that way but still sorely underwhelming.

You can cap haste or nearly cap haste pretty easily now.

Head: Zelus Tiera: 8%
Hands: Dusk +1: 4% (Alc hands virtually don't exist due to the new Dyna Tav being utterly ridiculous)
Belt: Either speed belt (6%) or the 5% one off the big turtle in abyseea T.canyon.
Legs: Calmeric Trousers: 3%
Feet: Eurus' Ledelsens +4%

Will put you at 24~25 haste without using your body. For body I just use ACP body Atk / Acc. Only alternative I see is using Goliard body and the 10 acc / 12 atk feet, I'll be looking into this but not entirely sure if it's worth the effort.

[ManaKing]

If you HQ3 Blood Scale mail you will get 3% Haste, you will get 1 of 4 specific enhancements, and you have the chance to get some other random augments. Of the 4 specific augments you can get, there is Acc, STR, AGI, and CHR. AGI and CHR are pretty much horrible, but Acc is not to be scoffed at in conjunction with Haste and STR makes this body piece one of the best Sanguine Blade bodies. The kicker is that it is possible to get even more Acc or more STR in the random augments. You could even get MAB or Atk. This is a pipe dream of a piece, but I still want it and have no intention of giving up until they make something better.

If you put Haste on the Body you can use a Brisk Mask for your Head and still get pretty close with a 6% Haste Belt. 26 Defense, 6 Acc & Atk, and 4 Store TP isn't bad.

[tyrantsyn]

If you HQ3 Blood Scale mail you will get 3% Haste, you will get 1 of 4 specific enhancements, and you have the chance to get some other random augments. Of the 4 specific augments you can get, there is Acc, STR, AGI, and CHR. AGI and CHR are pretty much horrible, but Acc is not to be scoffed at in conjunction with Haste and STR makes this body piece one of the best Sanguine Blade bodies. The kicker is that it is possible to get even more Acc or more STR in the random augments. You could even get MAB or Atk. This is a pipe dream of a piece, but I still want it and have no intention of giving up until they make something better.

If you put Haste on the Body you can use a Brisk Mask for your Head and still get pretty close with a 6% Haste Belt. 26 Defense, 6 Acc & Atk, and 4 Store TP isn't bad.

Also it's one less piece you have to swap out during WS, which is always a bonus.