What is your best charged whisker farming setup?

[Ezekieal]

and that was with 300tp BA?

[Zagen]

0 tp... swapping staves means no tp. Well maybe like 0-10 from hits since I was pulling

[Ezekieal]

nice, i found i didnt need to swap staves
whisker > actinic burst > dream flower
with aquavail occulation stoneskin phalanx etc was never an issue and could keep tp from isl. was breakin 5k easily using
lion/blinding horn/beyond
http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/211843

thinking about it tho i should of prolly used RR instead of beyond, didnt need MM cos of isl/temps

had a few fantods and ascetics up

[Zagen]

Because I don't have boots or lion/blinding horn I have to gear swap not for Actinic/Dream but for Whirl of Rage and Thermal Pulse because I'm not gonna sit there waiting for Whisker recast

I've never played around with TP as a factor, honestly didn't see it as a part of the equation since it is a magical spell and not physical. Though I haven't looked into optimizing for CW yet beyond INT vs. DEX testing since I know the biggest factors I'm lacking is atma/boots.

[Ezekieal]

yeah tp with burst affinity makes it a very noticable difference

[ShadowHeart]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...edwhisker.jpg/ link for current whisker farming kill working on better still

jupiters staff/ thunder grip / snow satchel
aias bonnet / artemis medal / hecates earring / moldavite earring
teal saoi / mavi +1 hands / thunder soul / rajas
hecates cape / thiazi belt / wica subligar / mavi boots + 1

blinding horn / baying moon / RR atmas

have yet to implement fantod or play with which spells are best before ascetics / burst affinity / CW
or should i use spell > ascetics > burst > CW
still playing but getting there slowly got KI for lion atma so doing next week to test with diff atmas at that time

[Malacite]

Why are people using Beyond, if I might ask?

If you're going purely for damage, wouldn't Ultimate + Lion + Blinding Horn be best? You can always use an ISL Chest, Martello or Temps to restore MP when you get too low.


Also Indra's Staff +2 ftw. That's a whopping +90% Lightning attack when combined with the Atma.


OOC though, wouldn't this work better with a BLM's Thundaga 3? (I"d like to say Thundaja but that's not likely to happen until 99 update) given all the native MAB and MAB gear BLM has access to?

I'm just trying to understand why BLU is the go-to job for this - does charged whisker really beat out Thundaga 3 on damage? Or is it that BLU has so much better survivability?

[Neisan_Quetz]

Because Blu can wear Indra's +2... and it doesn't stack with atma in that fashion, it's calculated differently. Or should I say weirdly?

[Malacite]

Bah derp, coulda sworn it could. Oh well, Jupiter's it is then.

[Kitkat]

Currently my setup is as follows:
legs Mavi Tayt +2
ear2 Hecate's Earring
waist Cuchulain's Belt
body Loki's Kaftan
ear1 Moldavite earring
back Cuchulain's cape
hands Mavi bazuband +2
ring1 Rajas Ring
ring2 Jupiter's ring
head Aias bonnet
neck Caract choker
feet Mavi basmak +2
ammo Thunder Sachet
Main Jupiter's Staff

Atma:
Atma of the Lion
Atma of the Blinding Horn
Atma of the Ultimate

Messed around in Abyssea - Altepa and manage around 5.5~6.6K Charged Whisker on Surveyors depending on what I can buff myself with. When critical dmg activates from Hecates I will randomly see up to 9k.