How2LNC the Carraway Way

[Krausus]

Good to know. Thanks for the testing.

Next question I have: what will be the dmg and acc of the new versions of the weaponskills, with combos and without? I wonder about the accuracy of the new Chaos Thrust chain.

I'm thinking pre buffing with the doomspike chain might help negate the - acc from the chaos thrust chain but then again that is a lot of animation lock.

[Belial]

I'm thinking pre buffing with the doomspike chain might help negate the - acc from the chaos thrust chain but then again that is a lot of animation lock.

I'm vibrating at work waiting for the day to end so I can go play around with all this shit. lol

[carraway]

Good to know. Thanks for the testing.

Next question I have: what will be the dmg and acc of the new versions of the weaponskills, with combos and without? I wonder about the accuracy of the new Chaos Thrust chain.

No way of knowing without testing. Is your name a Top Chef reference?

[Belial]

Piety actually already affects LNC damage output at a slightly worse ratio than 1:1 to STR (PIE is worth slightly less, point-for-point). One of our guys, Ogun, did some brief testing with 25 PIE vs 25 STR for us. PIE affects both auto-attack and WS as of 1.19.

Interesting, I knew that Scale Mail had some sort of purpose. Quick question, what's the best amount of points for good test results, is the 25/25 good or would you increase this for a bit more accurate results? I wanted to test VIT/STR on MRD AA once the patch goes up before pumping points anywhere, and I was just going to throw on three +7 rings, would this be sufficient as I've not done any -real- testing before apart from visual observations.

[Krausus]

yeah me to bro lol kids choir concert is tonight so unfortunately wont get in as much time as I want.

[Holy_Dragoon]

You guys stirred up the hornets nest on me last night :P I've worn Scale Mail for the entire 1.19, and had my LS mates wondering why they can't match my Doomspikes. Seems that the PIE I have invested into my build was their answer :P

[Belial]

You guys stirred up the hornets nest on me last night :P I've worn Scale Mail for the entire 1.19, and had my LS mates wondering why they can't match my Doomspikes. Seems that the PIE I have invested into my build was their answer :P

May not hold true after patch today though, the patch notes list PTY & STR as damage modifiers for Auto Attack, so they may not affect WSs after this, but we'll have to wait a few hours and see, it very well could but the wording has me wondering.

Also wondering what your top Doomspike was thusfar? Unfortunately I never got a hold of Ifrit's Harpoon so my own are lackluster, but I've couple LSmates that have hit 1030 - 1090 max (this was when combined with Maim.)

[Krausus]

he hit just over 1K without harpoon

[Belial]

he hit just over 1K without harpoon

Yea, not that it is the main factor, it is in my case as I've not bothered looking at beefing up Hart Guisarme, Canopus has slowly been rotting in my inventory since 1.18.

[carraway]

Notes from playing LNC for a little while on the moogle fight:

- Accuracy is not an issue, even with low-accuracy weaponskills
- Maintaining Power Surge x3 is pretty important
- Positional requirements on combos are annoying as fuck during a fight like this with tons of movement by players and targets
- Damage with Blood for Blood'd Doom Spikes was around 850-1k against moogles (some moogles have much lower defense than others)
- STR+23/PIE+22 seems like a safe bet for now; I feel that by the time accuracy may or may not change, stat reallocation will have been implemented by then

My first major update will probably have to be sometime next week when I can get some LNC time on Ifrit.