skirmish: increase difficulty lvl.

[PinkiePie]

You're a pretty funny guy. I like how you use my worst meld (one that happened by mistake) as an example of something I said was awesome.

Clearly your reading comprehension skills leave a lot to be desired. I never said skirmish axe is the best. I said without capped stats skirmish axe with enmity is one of the best for tanking. Your misunderstanding of my post points more to your lack of reading comprehension skills than a lack of understanding on my part.

Why would you even own a tier II materia? That stuff isn't even worth selling to an NPC. It's like plaque for your inventory's teeth.

[Firon]

Why would you even own a tier II materia, much less two? That stuff isn't even worth selling to an NPC. It's like plaque for your inventory's teeth.

Tier 2 materia is good if your not stupid. its how i got my +34 int hat and lighting brand <.<

[syntaxlies]

A bad triple meld is still better than a double!

not really, to high 4's of that materia would have given more hp

[Gokulo]

i dont care if other people want those weapons, i dont need to play with people that use them. Im just saying they are junk i dont want them. This thread was based on me wanting the alternative/option to play content in hard mode.

Then this content was clearly not designed for you. Move along. Devs won't be increasing difficulty of every and each content after people start deeming it too easy. That's not how it work.

[ShivenCasull]

not really, to high 4's of that materia would have given more hp

And would have been more likely to fail in the creation. lol

[PinkiePie]

Tier 2 materia is good if your (WAIT WHO ARE YOU CALLING STUPID AGAIN? I HOPE IT'S YOURSELF) not stupid. its how i got my +34 int hat and lighting brand <.<

Wow that's simply depressing, better off just NPCing that hat garbage. Every BLM I play with has at least INT+40 on their head.

And a LIGHTING BRAND? LOL, did you know relic weapons came out?

[Molly_Millions]

Why would you even own a tier II materia? That stuff isn't even worth selling to an NPC. It's like plaque for your inventory's teeth.

...history of those pants: I was trying like hell to make some pants with two tier IV Ironman's Will Materia. After blowing up 20 or so pairs, I finally got a pair to work. I use those for WAR. I took off the pants I was wearing and in order to try to make some inventory space, I tried to double meld them thinking they would explode like the 20 pairs before them (hence the lifethirst). When they didn't blow up, I tried again. Since they still didn't blow up, I kept them for PLD. And to why I posted an image of them, I was showing off some triple melds I have. They are the worst one in my post.

And, I use tier IIs in triple melds all the time, but generally only if it's a perfect tier II and the next materia is a perfect tier III. For example a perfect tier II STR is +10, and a perfect tier III is +15. Add those together and you have +25 which is as good as a double tier III meld. After that, add a tier IV and you have a meld that's better than any double tier IV. You also have better odds of success with this method than with two tier IIIs and a IV.

[Elexia]

And would have been more likely to fail in the creation. lol

Highest failure rate, so yeah you get a higher turnout for less materia used, but you have higher success on a high level armor with tier II and even III materia...I'm sure he knew that though and just purposefully ignoring it..especially since that wasn't even a serious meld.

[ShivenCasull]

Highest failure rate, so yeah you get a higher turnout for less materia used, but you have higher success on a high level armor with tier II and even III materia...I'm sure he knew that though and just purposefully ignoring it..especially since that wasn't even a serious meld.

Yep, melding is all luck - and like MM just clarified it happened to be a last ditch effort to make a pair of pants.

[Pretz]

you can continue being wrong then.

The single largest benefit of Garuda's axe, as you yourself pointed out, is that you can add more STR before you hit the cap. But that doesn't do any good if you don't take advantage of it and actually add more STR. To do so requires at least triple melded STR gloves with +50 or more STR, which I assure you, most players do not have.

I see why you might think this, but having "capped" stats for your weapon doesn't come with any magical bonus. If you have capped stats on a Giantsgall and change to a Garuda weapon, you're better off since the DPS is used in the final damage calculation for WS's. So the "single largest benefit of Garuda's Axe" is the increase in DPS. Even if you can't cap stats on it.

Back on topic though. I really enjoy Skirmish the way that it is. It's good fun content that you can just jump into knowing that it will go well, when there's nothing else going on. If people would like an increased difficulty setting that's fine. Just don't amp it up and cause fails, please.