Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Itseotle]

Well....I've had the wolfram tassets and mask made. I've been lucky enough to get them both pentamelded for less than 500K with materia I had on hand. Looking at Lucael_Shikaree's pentamelded wolfram cuirass has convinced me to obtain that next. Now that I'm out of materia, though, I don't look forward to pentamelding it...

I'm really not so sure its worth it. I mean, I want it to be, because farming for it would give me something to do, and our High Allagan chest drops in T9, but crunching the numbers it just doesn't seem to be worth it to me. The Wyrm's Mail (i90 Myth) has a stat weight of 41.696 while a Wolfram with Crit+33 & Det+6 would have a weight of 43.207. That is basically only 1½ STR more than Wyrms, which granted is better, but you would need to overmeld a grade 4 materia into slots 3 AND 4, which could be a financial disaster if you got unlucky. I suppose it could make it ok to use if you needed the acc, or could replace another item with a non-acc item, but that would depends on the items you have available and could change depending on your next drops.

[JetBrooks]

I'm really not so sure its worth it.

Don't forget that it looks neat.

[whiskeybravo]

I'm really not so sure its worth it. I mean, I want it to be, because farming for it would give me something to do, and our High Allagan chest drops in T9, but crunching the numbers it just doesn't seem to be worth it to me. The Wyrm's Mail (i90 Myth) has a stat weight of 41.696 while a Wolfram with Crit+33 & Det+6 would have a weight of 43.207. That is basically only 1½ STR more than Wyrms, which granted is better, but you would need to overmeld a grade 4 materia into slots 3 AND 4, which could be a financial disaster if you got unlucky. I suppose instead of adding crit, you could add Accuracy, but would that be any better?

The cuirass already has 34 accuracy on it so you can't add to it. Try to get to 23 Det then meld straight crit. Would have to be all IV materia to cap. $$$

[BlackThought]

That's what I did, sorta.

[Itseotle]

The cuirass already has 34 accuracy on it so you can't add to it. Try to get to 23 Det then meld straight crit. Would have to be all IV materia to cap. $$$

Yea thats what I mean, huge dollar signs lol. Det IV and Crit IV are 100%, but then you would still have room for 3 Crit IVs, which on my server run for about 90k+ each, and at less than 15% chance of success that seams VERY expensive. When you look at it, your basically paying that much money for 34 acc. So I guess it depends on what items you currently have if its worth it or not.

[Itseotle]

The cuirass already has 34 accuracy on it so you can't add to it. Try to get to 23 Det then meld straight crit. Would have to be all IV materia to cap. $$$

Yea thats what I mean, huge dollar signs lol. Det IV and Crit IV are 100%, but then you would still have room for 3 Crit IVs, which on my server run for about 90k+ each, and at less than 15% chance of success that seems VERY expensive. When you look at it, your basically paying that much money for 34 acc. So I guess it depends on what items you currently have if its worth it or not.

That's what I did, sorta.

Ah nice, not to grasp at straws, but you wasted the last meld. A crit 1 materia would have netted you 0.404 weight as opposed to the 0.325 weight of 1 DET. You could have even squeezed a Grade II materia in that slot with relative ease. But your stat weight is only 0.6874 higher than mine, so we are basically even. If you could convert that excess 14 accuracy into something (cap is 510 right?) then the gap would get larger. But thats the point I'm trying to make. The crafted body is only good if you can make use of the ACC on it. At least in my opinion.

[mythicrose]

I'm really not so sure its worth it.

Neither the high allagan spear or liberator have accuracy on it. Accuracy does become an issue (for me at least) if I want to continue using Buttons over Deviled Eggs. The wolfram cuirass will have a little lower accuracy over the astrum chestpiece but will have a higher dps potential. For me, it'll work nicely as I continue to mix n' match gear to suit the situation.

Side note : At least spirit binding for the materia is a decent way to level my chocobo.