Cloudsplitter

[Zaknafein]

What sort of numbers are you putting up exactly, and against what target/zone?

[Areola]

What sort of numbers are you putting up exactly, and against what target/zone?

i was testing it out on the tabar beaks out in sauromugue champaign. The highest ws i could get was 1100 at 300% tp
Str at 79 +43(122) Mnd at 68 +42(110) Mab at 11% moldy and hecate's earring. at 100% TP cloudsplitter was averaging 750where primal red averaged 850 Chr at 81 +15(96) same Mab. i did both ws on the same mob so I'd know there was no lv difference tping on other mobs in the area. i don't know how to do exact extensive testing. so i'm probably doing it wrong by most peoples standards. If anyone else can test it correctly please let me know what I'm doing wrong and let me know your results

[Keinn]

After working hard and getting a lot of help doing the trials to unlock the weapon Farsha, it was very disheartening to see just how weak Cloudsplitter was. It isn't any where near as strong as other Empyrian weapon skills, even with optimal gear and optimal atmas. SE developers, if you're reading this, please address this in a future update if possible. m(_ _)m

[Keinn]

Extras

* Additional Planned Adjustments
o Weapon skill refinements

Here's hoping.

[RAIST]

reminds me...I gotta get back to making my @#$@#$ sea gorgets one of these days....

[blowfin]

reminds me...I gotta get back to making my @#$@#$ sea gorgets one of these days....

In the context of what we are discussing here, Sea Gorgets are a poor gear choice.

Atma of the Lion(? I think thats Fire:Major)

Lion is lightning, Smoldering sky is fire.

Back on topic, it does kind of suck that the Axe WS is so poor. People are right though, it can be boosted substantially with Atmas, Meds and /Rdm (why do people use and talk about /blm when /rdm gets the same MAB boost by the way?). Realistically, there are probably situations where Cloudsplitter is the right choice, depending on what you're fighting. We're just not in a position to regularly boost up our MAB to take full advantage of it like COR for example.

Also, for the sake of it. Here's a pretty complete build for CloudSplitter:
Ugly Pendant
Twilight Mail
Twilight Helm
Flame Sachet
Suzaku's Sune-ate
Fortis Mantle
Aqua Ring
Aqua Ring
Novio Earring
Hecate's Earring
Heafoc Mitts
Teutates subligar

[Atomic_Skull]

(why do people use and talk about /blm when /rdm gets the same MAB boost by the way?)

Because Wizard's Roll gets a bonus from BLM or /BLM being in your party.

[Areola]

IF there where any forums or sits that said anything about Cloudsplitter being < or = primal rend i would have made the bow and then got a charmers merlin. or maybe i didn't look in the right place for that info. Inside or outside of abyssea cloud will never compare to rampage.

[Zaknafein]

IF there where any forums or sits that said anything about Cloudsplitter being < or = primal rend i would have made the bow and then got a charmers merlin. or maybe i didn't look in the right place for that info. Inside or outside of abyssea cloud will never compare to rampage.

Yeah I hear ya there wasn't much info on it. I'm currently making farsha. While it not having huge #'s is sorta crappy I am still gonna finish it. Considering it's the best option for my Bst. Not interested in putting the time/effort and huge amount of gil into a mythic.

Out of curiosity do you have the corresponding lightning gorget/belt? Also what are you using as your off hand weapon? I'm doing the empy, and occ attk 2-4 axe. Spose worst case scenario I can use cloudsplitter to have aftermath active then spam rampage/primal rend till aftermath needs to be reapplied.

[Karbuncle]

Almost all of the Epic Wildfire numbers i see are using Epic Atmas to enhance it. Atma of the Lion(? I think thats Fire:Major), etc. Ultimate, etc. Which produces great numbers. However I dunno if it hurts their DPS as much as it would hurt a BSTs or WARs, cause of the relatively small damage from their TP phase and large in WS phase.

If you geared your Atmas towards pure MAB, You'd likely get higher numbers, But your TP-Phase would suffer greatly, Which is the flaw with magical weaponskills (In Abyssea anyway, Not outside as there is no Atma outside). Cloudsplitter is basically "Primal Rend +1".

If you ever get a Farsha, Inside Abyssea you're likely better off knowing the WS damage is going to be crap, and gearing toward your normal DD ways (RR/VV/GH/Apoc/Etc), and using Cloudsplitter to activate Aftermath, and continue using Rampage.

Though, I'm wiling to humor the Idea it might be a glitch, But something tells me its not