BST Native Dual-Wield~

[Louispv]

Gausape is no longer situational. Everything in Adoulin but the umbrils is intimidated by BST. And nearly everything in the zone (and everything in delve) is the same family, so one pet gives the killer circle for damn near the whole zone. You never take it off anymore. Hell it even wins for WS's now. I stopped even taking my phorcys body out of storage unless I'm screwing around in limbus for some reason.

And the parse you linked explicitly states you need augmented Huginn gambieras and a patientia sash in order for skadi to be at all useful. And even then you're losing capped haste, and relying on a critical hit rate you can only get on enemies lower level than you. Have fun getting 300 million gil to make your worthless armor slightly useful (but still sub-par) in a FFXI that no longer exists because adoulin was released.

[Chimerawizard]

the parse you linked explicitly states you need augmented Huginn gambieras and a patientia sash in order for skadi to be at all useful.

first, gauspe is situational. If you are in dynamis for some easy Gil, do you bring gauspe or other bodies... End of story, situational, end of story.
The whole rest of the game did not go away, it was just outclassed.

"in order to be at all useful"...you should have read it better. He was saying those were the two TOP TP sets at the time of posting. Yes hq feet were needed to be at top dps. It still does hella better than gauspe when the enemy has no killer effects to exploit.

Just realized, you're trolling, aren't you.

[Louispv]

first, gauspe is situational. If you are in dynamis for some easy Gil, do you bring gauspe or other bodies... End of story, situational, end of story.
The whole rest of the game did not go away, it was just outclassed.

"in order to be at all useful"...you should have read it better. He was saying those were the two TOP TP sets at the time of posting. Yes hq feet were needed to be at top dps. It still does hella better than gauspe when the enemy has no killer effects to exploit.

Just realized, you're trolling, aren't you.

You should read it yourself. He said those were the best set ups for DC monsters you can't intimidate, (dynamis only) where you're eating red curry buns, (which will cut off about half the money you make, with dynamis currency hovering at 4.5k) are solo, and have no buffs. And even then it's a miniscule boost, in dead content, for 1 single job. And the spreadsheet comparison was done before Adoulin came out, and very much did make the rest of the game obsolete.

Are you seriously so thick as to believe that a piece of equipment that requires you to get another piece of 300 million gil equipment to be made at all useful, in only a single event, that you only do to make money in the first place, and is worse than free gear you can get in an afternoon in adoulin, somehow justifies that dual wield is broken and overpowered, and would take BST from one of the games worst DD's to the game's best? Despite the fact that 4 other jobs can already do the same damn thing and are still looked down upon as too weak?!

[sc4500]

It be cool if they allowed us to duel wield, but does it even matter, since /dnc is still going be the best sub job we can use, since if were to do massive damage with other subs, are pets will not tank and we will die faster, since you can not cure yourself, and would waste cures from the mages. When you look at the big picture you will see and pull hate from the pally and other jobs to wipe the party , that were only as good as are pets and if we get to much dd gear you will tank with horrible defense, and die, before you can snarl the pet.

The coolest way would be, we just have 18 people alliance all BST and just zerg mobs, till the cows come home.

[Chimerawizard]

utsusemi, ride shadows til snarl is ready. it works wonders.
/dnc is best for dynamis & I prefer it for solo play.

[Louispv]

Nah, just have an "Oh shit" macro that equips the same damage taken- gear you have for every other job. Then assuming you have maxed killer effect merits, best case scenario gear, and Ferine body+2 you'll have 80% DT-% 4mins/5 while killer instinct is up, and 57% for the one minute it's down and take hits better than everyone but PLD.

If you're using jugs, which you should since it will always let you have the correct pet family for killer instinct, you can just snarl onto them for the 1 minute killer instinct isn't up, if you're somehow getting too reamed to handle healing. I'm sitting at 29%/51% right now and I can almost always heal myself just with /DNC so long as there's just one enemy, since I usually am only taking double digit damage per swing.