Quote Originally Posted by RAIST View Post
@ Greatguardian

yeah...I probly need to redo my sets for aby one day. I was thinking more along the lines of the older content. I spent so much time leveling up old school to around 65 or so before going into abyssea (didnd't want to just squat and leech in there.. wanted to stand a chance at actually hitting crap while in there), all my macros are still swapping in gears to exploit mods for WS and stuff. I need to get some quality time in abyssea to play around and make a new bank of macros for better accessories just for abyssea I guess.

but.. meh...wonder if it would really make much of a difference in there with all the atmas now. It's nothing to give your self +100 STR/DEX and a flat bump to both ACC and ATT with atma in there. Maybe a keen and assailants ring with mermans/coral earrings just to give the ATT a nice shot in the arm. Think I still have a tiger stole floating around too. With 91+ cooking, I always have an assortment of foods on me so I haven't really been arsed to mess with my accessories. Maybe one day I'll get around to tweaking it--so long as no one fusses about my WS damage in aby, probly won't worry about that too much for now.

Raist
Rajas ring is still king, so that helps a lot. For a secondary ring, I'd recommend Epona's if you can use it, Hoard if you can't. When you're sitting on that much Str/Dex, it doesn't really hurt that much in the TP phase and extra Store TP may either drop a hit (1-handers) or alleviate the STP burden in other slots (2-hander). Brutal Earring is also pretty boss if you own one. Since it sounds like you don't, I'd stomp through CoP whenever you get the chance. The lack of level caps on the fights now make them practically soloable up to Airship/Tenzen (which may themselves be soloable with difficulty), and even those are definitely duoable. Agasaya's collar is also a pretty nice neckpiece where Tiercel Necklace is not needed to hit the haste cap, I'd just recommend bringing TH and possibly Blue proc'ing the VNM.

The nice thing about WSC (WS damage mods) is that it doesn't cap, so even if you have +100 Str you can still use 5 more Str on your WS; as such there's probably nothing wrong with your WS sets if you're gearing for the WS mods. If anything, the fact that dDex (that is, Delta Dex, or the difference between your Dex and Target Agi) is often capped in Abyssea with Razed Ruins and Cruor buffs allows you to drop DEX from critical hit weaponskills that don't have a DEX mod; as extra DEX will not increase your critical hit rate once dDex is capped. fStr (a function of your Str versus the Target's Vit) is often capped inside Abyssea as well, so you're pretty safe gearing solely for AGI for Blade: Hi and things like that. Whatever has the biggest mod wins.