Quote Originally Posted by tachikoma View Post
I wonder how stats affect your dps as mages, do you mind posting stats?

I have a very hard time with stats since I always am crafting for hq, right now i'm working on WVR crafts with high DEX and I need to keep 130'ish DEX. Am i killing my mage ability with such low DEX?

Also what wand does Kaeko use? I was using the Jade crook+2 but your usage of Aegis Boon II makes me want a shield.
I'm using a Walnut Wand (of something, I forget). The best wand to use for the role I play in this (basically lots of Curaga spam, taking hate, and staying alive) is Gridania Wand since you get a reasonably high Potency with MP and MND (your curing stats) but I've been too lazy to pick it up. The shield is essential. Aegis Boon and Deflection are very broken, especially with a +2/3 Square Ash shield.

My stats are 174 MND (cap), then 132 VIT (dumped everything I could into VIT after capping MND). INT doesn't seem to make an appreciable difference in damage currently in 1.18 so there's not a huge benefit to stacking INT for nuke damage, especially when nukes do so much on normal mobs at 0 +INT. Really the concept of the build I play is pretty cheesy:

(1) Get the maximum amount of MP possible from stats and food (use divine Stone Soup)
(2) Go purely HP and MP gear on equipment
(3) Lots of defense buffs (Sentinel, Featherfoot, Aegis Boon II, Deflection, +/- Diversion and Decoy)
(4) Spam Curaga I/II +/- Spiritbind blindly with no regard for enmity or MP efficiency
(5) Use defense buffs for temporary safety with the assumption mobs will die before they break buffs

Our main healer Katsu Kobashi has a similar stat build but a much different strategy regarding play-style since he's the designated "main healer" and has to worry about other issues like enmity and MP efficiency.

EDIT:
Also, you can definitely sleep the skeletons for Batraal. They are slept a number of times during the video that was posted. I even accidentally wake one due to the clumsiness of auto-attack in 1.18.