Carraway's Guide to the New Archer: 1.18 and Beyond

[TheFatHousecat]

So a decent/BiS "Rich Man's" set for BRD would be:

Head: Paragon's Crown
Weapon: Ifrit's Bow
Body: AF
Waist: Scarlet Sash
Hands: ATK x3 Fingerless Raptorskin Gloves of Slaying
Legs: AF (could meld PIE onto a pair of trousers, but Paeon boost is too good)
Feet: Darklight Boots
Accessories: HQ Spinel set (can exchange for Tourmaline if PIE is a better substitute), HQ Electrum Gorget, Explorer's Earrings

So the final stats would be STR 213, DEX 306, PIE 299, ATK 586+ (dependent on meld)

Please correct me if I'm mistaken!

[Meatdawg]

So a decent/BiS "Rich Man's" set for BRD would be:

Head: Paragon's Crown
Weapon: Ifrit's Bow
Body: AF
Waist: Scarlet Sash
Hands: ATK x3 Fingerless Raptorskin Gloves of Slaying
Legs: AF (could meld PIE onto a pair of trousers, but Paeon boost is too good)
Feet: Darklight Boots
Accessories: HQ Spinel set (can exchange for Tourmaline if PIE is a better substitute), HQ Electrum Gorget, Explorer's Earrings

So the final stats would be STR 213, DEX 306, PIE 299, ATK 586+ (dependent on meld)

Please correct me if I'm mistaken!

Well the goal then is to get dex to 300, then Pie to 330, with the rest in ATK/STR.


Head: Darklight Eye Patch, Paragon's Crown
Weapon: Ifrit's Bow
Body: Rainmakers Tunic with 2x Piety, Darklight Corselet
Waist: Flame Sergent Sash, Scarlet Sash
Hands: ATK x3 Fingerless Raptorskin Gloves of Slaying, or Felt Gloves
Legs: Felt Trousers with 2x str/dex
Feet: Darklight Caligae, Darklight Boots, Explorers Moccasins
Accessories: HQ Spinel set (can exchange for Tourmaline if PIE is a better substitute), HQ Electrum Gorget, Explorer's Earrings, 4 dex or 4 pie bracelet

This should let you interchange to have 300 dex, 330 pie and around 650 atk

[Seiken]

Yeah I'm still trying to brainstorm the best build as well, but one thing about the AF bonuses is that they last for the duration of the ability even if you unequip the AF. For example, you have Bard AF gloves for Minuet of Rigor. You cast Minuet of Rigor and get +43 Accuracy. You unequip the AF. You still have +43 accuracy for the duration of Minuet. I know people dread "gear swapping". But this would be once every 3 minutes, so it's not that bad.

[carraway]

Thanks a ton for the updates, Seiken and others. I'm still pretty busy when I'm not in-game but I will do my best to incorporate everyone's findings into a new guide sooner rather than later (I know I keep on saying this...sorry!)

edit: Seiken, do you have somewhere where all of your findings are collected in articles? You and Kaeko are really doing a service to the community. When I update my guide, I'd like to incorporate some knowledge from your findings with a link and credit to you and your shell.

[Seiken]

Kaeko has his live journal kanican.livejournal.com that has a lot of his stuff and stuff we've worked on together (Crit testing, Def/Vit etc). I haven't really consolidated all the testing I've done into one location, but I'm thinking of starting to use the Lodestone blog and just put everything I've done since 1.20 in there.

And glad my testing is being useful!

[Seiken]

Sorry for the confusion; I've been using some poor terminology. When I gave a rate of 0.7dDamage/dDEX, I was implying that you do 0.7 more damage points on the mob. The actual "Damage" stat that you see on weapons is a completely different stat/term. The "Damage" stat on weapons is not the dDamage I was referring to in 0.7 dDamage/dDEX.

If I am talking about a change in the weapon "Damage" stat, I will usually use dDMG or DMG.

Hope this helps clear things up!

[Enjou]

Sorry for the confusion; I've been using some poor terminology. When I gave a rate of 0.7dDamage/dDEX, I was implying that you do 0.7 more damage points on the mob. The actual "Damage" stat that you see on weapons is a completely different stat/term. The "Damage" stat on weapons is not the dDamage I was referring to in 0.7 dDamage/dDEX.

If I am talking about a change in the weapon "Damage" stat, I will usually use dDMG or DMG.

Hope this helps clear things up!

Indeed it does, thank you for clearing that up!

[cataclysm]

Sorry if this is a bit late. As was suggested earlier by Seiken, the "dreaded" macros are an option. For those that dont mind the extra couple seconds of waits every 3 minutes for the flexibility of DD/AF gear, you might give it a go.

/battlemode off
/wait 1
/equip body "Choral Shirt"
/wait 1
/action "Ballad of Magi" <me>
/wait 6
/equip body "Raptorskin Harness"
/battlemode on

Your mileage may vary with /wait durations, but this setup has been working flawlessly for me for the last couple weeks. Just rinse and repeat for Minuet/Paeon with the respective AF pieces.

[NoctisUmbra]

Sorry if this is a bit late. As was suggested earlier by Seiken, the "dreaded" macros are an option. For those that dont mind the extra couple seconds of waits every 3 minutes for the flexibility of DD/AF gear, you might give it a go.

/battlemode off
/wait 1
/equip body "Choral Shirt"
/wait 1
/action "Ballad of Magi" <me>
/wait 6
/equip body "Raptorskin Harness"
/battlemode on

Your mileage may vary with /wait durations, but this setup has been working flawlessly for me for the last couple weeks. Just rinse and repeat for Minuet/Paeon with the respective AF pieces.

... and so it begins...

*shudder*

[TheFatHousecat]

Sorry if this is a bit late. As was suggested earlier by Seiken, the "dreaded" macros are an option. For those that dont mind the extra couple seconds of waits every 3 minutes for the flexibility of DD/AF gear, you might give it a go.

/battlemode off
/wait 1
/equip body "Choral Shirt"
/wait 1
/action "Ballad of Magi" <me>
/wait 6
/equip body "Raptorskin Harness"
/battlemode on

Your mileage may vary with /wait durations, but this setup has been working flawlessly for me for the last couple weeks. Just rinse and repeat for Minuet/Paeon with the respective AF pieces.

Been using this macro for body and pants and it works great, thanks for putting it up!

While buffing in the circle pre-Mistress pop I use the Ballad macro so I don't have to switch bodies mid-fight. Then at the start of the fight, during Battle Voice/Paeon (mages don't get overwritten since they're in the back), I switch the pants really quickly. It's not as much as a pain as it might seem ;3