List your melee/caster RDM set

[hideka]

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/246552
i use the STR shikargar, and i have Double attack +2 Haste +3 on the tatsumaki sitagoromo
i need to either find more effective pants or body, anyone got any suggestions?
Eurus' Ledelsens
Thunder Sachet
Brego Gloves
Almace
Shikargar
Zelus Tiara
Rancor Collar
Phasmida Belt
Rajas Ring
Tyrant's Ring
Suppanomimi
Brutal Earring
Atheling Mantle
Tatsumaki Sitagoromo
Goliard Saio

if i drop the saio im at 25% Haste, if i drop the pants im at 26% haste. i havent seen ANY good new melee gear that rdm can wear in these slots, so if ive missed something please let me know lol. i know im well over haste cap atm, i just havent found anything more effective to utilize yet :/

CDC Build
http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/246554
Tarasque Mitts +1
Rajas Ring
Almace
Shikargar
Thunder Sachet
Rancor Collar
Brutal Earring
Moonshade Earring
Maat's Cap
Royal Redingote
Atheling Mantle
Thundersoul Ring
Cuchulain's Belt
Tumbler Trunks
Rager Ledelsens

sadly so far from what ive been able to scrape together, RDM really gets the short end of the stick for WSing gear. i put DA+2% and Crit rate +3% on the Royal redingote, and 4ACC/25TP bonus on the moonshade earring

Requiescat (when its useful lol)
http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/246556
Almace
Shikargar
Aquasoul Ring
Aquasoul Ring
Brutal Earring
Aqua Sachet
Moonshade Earring
Soil Gorget
Soil Belt
Estoqueur's Chappel +2
Estoqueur's Sayon +2
Atheling Mantle
Tatsumaki Sitagoromo
Estoqueur's Gantherots +2
Estoqueur's Houseaux +2

tatsumaki pants are being used for a lack of a better piece.

im totaly open to suggestions >_> lord knows i probably missed some decent pieces for my rdm in my haste to gear out my blu :/

These are just my Meleeing sets BTW, listing my enfeebling, PDT, MDT, Nuking, evasion, etc etc, would be a too much of a hassle... my RDM opperates on 80/80 slots when melee soloing, and 80/80 when mage soloing >_>.

[Neisan_Quetz]

TP: Switch Zelus for Brego Helm, pants to calmecac unless accuracy issues, ammo tp options suck, your options are oneiros pebble for accuracy, or Tiphia Sting/smart grenade.

CDC: I would drop rager for lithe unless accuracy issues again, Alucinor is best hands followed by AF+1, I have DW body so I use Antares Harness for body. For minimal improvement gorget (mostly nefarious though, gorget/rancor mantle may end up almost tied depending on buffs)/Rancor mantle is -slightly- ahead of collar/atheling. Demonry Core if you can get your hands on.

Requiscat: I can only suggest Morrigan.

[Mageoholic]

Haste Pinion is probably the best RDM can get for the ammo slot, 1% haste, so unless you have capped haste elsewhere it pretty handily beats all other options. (for TP anyway, gernade prolly best for WS).

[Neisan_Quetz]

The pinion's -stp was always a problem for me with DW body, not sure without it. Came out about even to/worse than grenade if it caused you to take an extra hit to 100 I think.

[Mageoholic]

I dunno, which would be better shit is probably situational. I full time goliard saio for TP, my DW/ACC body is in my mog storage, I don't feel like digging it out to parse or to do the math. You might lose a hit if you full time the DW body, but if you use goliard instead haste pinion would likely be better.

Id say the difference would be neglible either way, while you might lose a hit, you are going to gain almost a full hit.

Just quickly punching it into my calculator (i won't bore you with all the math) I got 23.23 seconds to 100TP (on average) using Blau + Joyeuse numbers (I know them by heart) for Pinion + Raja's, and 22.56 seconds to 100TP (on average) using just Rajas. So its about a 2.4% increase in weaponskill frequency, assuming you WS the instant you hit 100TP otherwise the difference will in the end be negligible.

With goliard you are looking at a 2.4% increase to time to 100%, so in the same vein if you hit at exactly 100%TP you will benefit, otherwise it is negligible.

So if using DW body - Tsting is your likely best bet (1% increase from attack would need to be +6 with 600ATK) unless you have capped ACC (in which case Goliard would be better than the DW body)

If using Goliard body Pinion is statistically the best bet.

But in the end it is a matter of small %'s that only matter when you use WS at exactly 100TP (well when you break the 100TP barrier). Otherwise it is a negligible gain.

[Ophannus]

I'm at 76/80 with mage gear alone, no room for DD gear so I just melee in haste gear(which I carry around for midcasting in for refresh/haste to lower recast) and PDT Shamshir/offhand DA sword. WS in MND gear for Requiescat.

[Mageoholic]

how do you have so much mage gear. Honestly.

[Neisan_Quetz]

74/80 /sch or /blm without MDT gear, 78 with, would be 82 with dark magic pieces I don't use + MDT set give or take 1-2 slots.

Tbh unless I'm /nin already I highly doubt I'll suddenly be required to melee so I just shuffle out mage/melee gear with satchel.

[Crimson_Slasher]

I use an astrolabe for tp build and ws currently, using deathblossom, and ive clocked in about 3k deathblossoms in abyssea, havent tried outside abyssea in quite a while though so would need to check, but i like it. Hell of a camp/droprate though, took me 4 days to get the damn thing to drop. Ofcourse i suppose for overall better use, perhaps a lightning (or is it thunder) bow +1? Or appropriate satchet for ws mods.

[Neisan_Quetz]

+1 dex (sachet)/-1 dex (demonry core) at the loss of attack/acc/even 1% haste from pinion, I don't see it being useful.

I've never had DB do 'good' (relativity warning) damage on anything that wasn't fodder.