What's you method of play?

[Akuun]

My first time on the PUG forum, exciting times. I see some areas where I can improve my PUG, and I have questions, so here goes my questions:

1. Stat Allocation. I play only PUG and ARC so I think it is time to reallign. Here are my stats and my guess is I should move some of my magic stats over into DEX/STR/VIT???

STR-96, VIT-95, DEX-100, ING-67, MND-66, PIE-66

2. Gear Anything I need to do differently?

Head - Silver Tricorne
Body - Buccaneer's
Legs - Tarred Leather +1
Feet - Padded Duckbills
Hands - Spiked Guantlets
Waist - Tarred Voyagers +1

3. Jewelry. I've rolled for as long as I can remember 3 STR and 1 DEX rings, but now I'm ready a lot about the Mythril Choker. Is it worth it to roll with that?

4. Weapon - Got a Boarskin +1 and a Peist +1. I'm only R46 right now, but from what I'm reading Boarskin +1 is a great everyday weapon unless I can score a +2 at some point.

5. Evasion - Okay so in anticipation of Simmian Smash at 50, what are some of the evasion macros you guys use? I'm guessing a light strike/featherfoot II will work fine, but would putting some evasion jewelry help with that?

6. WS Macro - I've got a Raging Strike/Hawk's Eye/Ferocity/BloodBath set up for my Vicitimize move, but is that too complicated? What about having a separate Blindside II to start out fights?

7. Misc - I use light strike-Heavey-Flurry-Flurry as my main attack pattern. I use consussive blow II and Aura Pulse to back up my Vicitmize. I've got Jarring Strike II macro'd in for when I evade. Can't wait for Vicitmize II and Simian Smash though.

Thanks again for any responses and comments.

1. Unless you're going for a hybrid build of mage and pug, then you'll only need Mnd for magic defense.
(I'd say put those points into Vit Dex and Str)

2. Depends on what you want to gear for, Evasion, Defense, or Magic Def., I go for a balanced gearing myself but have pieces for focused defensive types as well.
If your leaning towards def I would rep the shoes with Armored Caligae, and If you want an extra 7 def, you could use a Harrier's Jacket, it also has +Dex and Vit. The rest looks to be the top Defense gear you can get other than + versions

3. Jewelery I feel is for adjustment, wether it be stats, magic def, accuracy etc, so just use what you'd like to improve

4. That's what they say, I still haven't seen it in my own experience, but yes for farming and grinding, they are a cheap easy repair and do a solid job for the rank and to 50.

5. The only thing I use is Featherfoot II, I don't bother with light strike, to be completely honest.
I gear balanced and have I think around 180 evasion, 310 def, and 310 m.def.

6. I have it setup for my archer, but on my pug I like to do it manually. The only macro I have set for attack is Simian Thrash so I can pop it quickly when I evade

7. I'll explain why I don't use light strike so as to share some understanding I may or may not have lol.
If you use light strike regularly, then every 10 secs you are restarting your flurry from the beginning.
While I only stop my flurry of flurries, when I absolutely must or have hit 3000tp.
By doing this, I should be maximizing my dps, optimizing my stamina and building tp 2-3x faster than most classes.
Prior to approaching 3000 tp I will do a stamina burn, but before that, I rarely drop below 50% this is resevered for OH! $&*@! moments. While I'm manually popping my attack buffs my stamina is regenerating and I have time to coordinate BRs.


On the subject of stamina, I hear many on my server complain about not having TP for a move, that they run out too fast.
The other is that the controls feel unresponsive and they can't perform moves or it repeats the last move.
All I can say is stop mashing buttons ^^. It's fine to burst, or slow your attack because you have pulled hate off the tank. At the same time, your normal pace should be about the length of the full animation for heavy strike and flurry.
It can be a little faster if your using other low cost or free abilities as well as they will allow your stamina to recover a bit.

Cheers