What's you method of play?

My DPS Setup:
STR: 174
VIT: 81
DEX: 174
MND: 0
INT: 0
PIE: 15 (Will be 0 when I get more CON marks)
My Stats Screenshot


Weapon Choice: Boarskin Himantes because the 10% more blunt damage is greater then the att and acc you get with rank 49/50 weapons. If mob is resistant to blunt then 49/50 weapons are probably better. I'm finding rank 49/50 weapons are better for nms.

Heavy Strike then Repeat Flurry until party does BR. Use att up and acc ablilities with Victimize II. Repeat.


Flurry is where your damage is, it's greater then every other melee's normal attack.

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hence why you are not evading that much, light strike increases your chance to evade. and for pugs its pretty much spamming featherfoot and using light strikes to boost our evade rate.

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I know, thats what I said, I dont use light strike because I don't really care to evade that much in my play :P

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Originally Posted by Pseudopsia

Weapon Choice: Boarskin Himantes because the 10% more blunt damage is greater then the att and acc you get with rank 49/50 weapons. If mob is resistant to blunt then 49/50 weapons are probably better. I'm finding rank 49/50 weapons are better for nms.

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Sorry to burst your bubble but I've tested these as i have a set for farming (because i can repair myself) and a pair of jade hora, the jade hora consistently deals more damage on both weaker mobs and the world nms

From what i can tell is the weapon % simply converts the base damage type to another
So if you use an attack from gladiator that says slashing, it still deals blunt if you're a pug using boarskin himantes
Now, if you were to use bahnaks, then you should see some of that slashing type damage
Why they specify a damage type for the attacks, and the weapons is beyond me, unless it was another planned but unimplemented feature

When you equip Boarskin Himantes the damage difference is very apparent. Following test is against a tough mob first using Jade Hora then running away letting very same mob heal to full and attacking with Boarskin Himantes.

Pair of jade hora +1 equipped in Main Hand slot.
The roadrunner is engaged.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner from the rear for 104 points of damage.
Critical! Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner from the rear for 137 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 82 points of damage.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 292 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 75 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 81 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 82 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 76 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 78 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 74 points of damage.
Critical! The roadrunner's attack hits you for 321 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 78 points of damage.
Your Flurry misses the roadrunner.
Critical! Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 92 points of damage.
Critical! Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 90 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 71 points of damage.
The roadrunner readies Rancid Belch.
Your Hawk's Eye grants you the effect of Hawk's Eye.
Your Victimize II removes your Hawk's Eye effect.
The roadrunner evades your Victimize II.
That command cannot be performed.
The roadrunner's Rancid Belch inflicts you with the effect of Sleep.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 294 points of damage.
You are no longer asleep.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 105 points of damage.
Your Heavy Strike misses the roadrunner.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 78 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Readying Flurry...
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 80 points of damage.
The roadrunner readies Regurgitate.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 82 points of damage.
Critical! Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 102 points of damage.
Readying Flurry...
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 75 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 76 points of damage.
The roadrunner's Regurgitate fails.
You use Second Wind II. You recover 586 HP.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 291 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Heavy Strike.
Your Heavy Strike misses the roadrunner.
Your Heavy Strike misses the roadrunner.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 328 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Heavy Strike.
Your Heavy Strike misses the roadrunner.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 111 points of damage.
Readying Flurry...
Your Flurry misses the roadrunner.
The roadrunner readies Regurgitate.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 83 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 76 points of damage.
Readying Flurry...
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 76 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 80 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 81 points of damage.
The roadrunner's Regurgitate places 3 statuses on you.
The roadrunner readies Rancid Belch.
The roadrunner's Rancid Belch inflicts you with the effect of Sleep.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 316 points of damage.
You are no longer asleep.
Your Victimize II misses the roadrunner.
Target will be disengaged in 20 seconds.
The roadrunner readies Rancid Belch.
The roadrunner's Rancid Belch inflicts you with the effect of Blind.
You are no longer slowed.
The roadrunner leaves combat.
You are no longer blinded.
Heavy Strike set.


Pair of boarskin himantes +1 equipped in Main Hand slot.
Your Featherfoot II grants you the effect of Featherfoot.
The roadrunner is engaged.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 131 points of damage.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 129 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 90 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 84 points of damage.
Your Flurry misses the roadrunner.
The roadrunner's attack misses you.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 83 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 84 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 76 points of damage.
The roadrunner evades your Flurry.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 90 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 89 points of damage.
Critical! Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 111 points of damage.
You partially parry the roadrunner's attack, taking 191 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 88 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 82 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 88 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 95 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 92 points of damage.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 87 points of damage.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 222 points of damage.
Your Hawk's Eye grants you the effect of Hawk's Eye.
Your Victimize II removes your Hawk's Eye effect.
Your Victimize II hits the roadrunner for 758 points of damage.
The roadrunner readies Rancid Belch.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 122 points of damage.
Your Heavy Strike misses the roadrunner.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 89 points of damage.
You are no longer under the effect of Featherfoot.
Your Flurry hits the roadrunner for 83 points of damage.
Your Flurry misses the roadrunner.
That command cannot be performed.
The roadrunner's Rancid Belch inflicts you with the effect of Sleep.
That command cannot be performed.
The roadrunner's attack hits you for 335 points of damage.
You are no longer asleep.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 122 points of damage.
Your Heavy Strike hits the roadrunner for 123 points of damage.

My base stats are dex 137, str, 128, vit 90 with mind at 43. I usually partner with an archer friend and have to tank for him which is fun keeping aggro =D. I use leather gear for def. In a battle I usually start with Featherfoot before aggro and hit jarring strike II when it goes off (even a short stun stops some damage). Other than that I use heavy strike into flurry and keep hitting flurry until I can max victimize II with a couple buffs on it. If its a long fight I'll keep featherfoot up and when it pops hit jarring strike. If its a group of more than two like the Jigga's I use Aura Pulse (long as im not getting sniffed by something nearby). I also use taunt II when my archer friend pulls aggro so the mob runs back to me. Kinda fun, but often we can manage aggro so the mob keeps running back and forth without attacking much.

Wait, how do you use Victimize II at 42 pugilist?

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Originally Posted by Akuun

Sorry to burst your bubble but I've tested these as i have a set for farming (because i can repair myself) and a pair of jade hora, the jade hora consistently deals more damage on both weaker mobs and the world nms

From what i can tell is the weapon % simply converts the base damage type to another
So if you use an attack from gladiator that says slashing, it still deals blunt if you're a pug using boarskin himantes
Now, if you were to use bahnaks, then you should see some of that slashing type damage
Why they specify a damage type for the attacks, and the weapons is beyond me, unless it was another planned but unimplemented feature

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sorry to say but Pseudo is right, from my testing on reg mobs my boarskin+1 will out dmg any other knuckle in game
but as said already the peiste or jade will do more dmg on NMs

not sure if you are correct about the weapon% from what I;ve been told the weaponskill dmg type is constant. So using your example a pug with boarskins doing a glad weaponskill that says slashing will do slashing dmg even though he is using a blunt weapon.

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Originally Posted by Meleena

Wait, how do you use Victimize II at 42 pugilist?

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lol I'm just getting ahead of myself with wishful thinking. Nah I just use normal victimize.

Ah ok :)

Can all of you rank 50 guys post here your stats while wearing you best gear of choice?
I am still Rank 45 and I wanna get some gear and accessorie ideas if possible.
It can be either a screenshot of your status screen (like Pseudopsia did), or just wright them down.
I believe it will help other players too, cause I don't wanna spend my money buying what I think it's best and get items that don't worth their price.
Also please clarify if you have the +1 version of an item.

What I wanna see is:
HP:
MP:
Attack:
Accuracy:
Evasion:
Defence:
Magic defence:
Magic Accuracy:
Magic Potency:
(the last 2 are optional)

Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by Meleena

Ah ok :)

Can all of you rank 50 guys post here your stats while wearing you best gear of choice?
I am still Rank 45 and I wanna get some gear and accessorie ideas if possible.
It can be either a screenshot of your status screen (like Pseudopsia did), or just wright them down.
I believe it will help other players too, cause I don't wanna spend my money buying what I think it's best and get items that don't worth their price.
Also please clarify if you have the +1 version of an item.

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Right now, gear doesn't completely function as it should. With the coming updates this should be resolved, then players can start to make better gear choices

Here's a list of best overall evasion defense and magic defense
Head Tricorne
Body Buccaneers
Waist Bucaneers
Hands Mitt Gaunt.
Legs Kecks
Feet Buccanner

For weapon, jade hora for damage and parry, pieste cesti for accuracy

+ on armor is pointless unless you're main tank (save your gil)
+ weapons are a good investment as they will benefit you whether you are tanking or DD (but look for a good price. 5-15% isn't going to make you godly)

I gave most of my bucc set to an ls mate
I currently use the above and for the bucc pieces, toad harness, tarred longsash, and armored caligae
None of it + and i usually tank gobby pieste and buffalo nms for my ls (better hate control with accomplice)

Ps: for weapon i use Jade hora +1 and occasionally NQ pieste cesti when i don't want to use food or save on repair costs (10-20k for hora repair from players)