I got my DRG to 50 last night and immediately wanted to try it out. So I got a good moogle group together and we had by chance invited a DRG with Garuda's Beak and some PIE an STR Melds. Looking at our gear alone, you would assume that he out DPS'ed me by far.

My Setup was something like:

Hart NQ w/ 16 STR
Grid Over Coat
Grid Cap
Drachen Gaunts
Drachen Breeches
Explorer's Boots
STR 15 Ring ACC15 Ring
Grid Necklace
STR +3 Wrists

W/ Sanction ect.

This player was also JP so he had a less delay then I did I'm sure.


Well anyway we get into the fight and from 2 different parsers, taking from three fights. I did about 2-4% more damage then him everytime. I actually did more damage then the BLMs in the fight.

Maybe the point I'm trying to make is that gear isn't 100% everything, makes me wonder if wasting all that time for a GC weapon would be ideal when I can just get a Hart+1 w/ 20 STR meld until I can pull off a Moogle/ Garuda's weapon