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Post by Caller on May 17, 2012 22:27:59 GMT -5
Assassin's Charge, Feint and Sneak Attack. Feint's evasion down is not to be overlooked. Not to mention it's almost a guaranteed TH+1 when it hits now.
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Post by Yvondith on May 17, 2012 23:11:15 GMT -5
Awesome. Thanks a ton. I looked at my merits the other day and went... "Oh! Triple Attack!" Then "Uh..."
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Post by Yvondith on May 18, 2012 21:38:11 GMT -5
So, I noticed that the moogle is trying to give me another decennial ring.
I need to figure out what job I should level next. I'm thinking BST, but I didn't plan my merits around BST. Still on the fence about it. Maybe I should rework my merits around it, long enough to solo the majority of the missions.
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Post by Caller on May 19, 2012 0:53:06 GMT -5
Well remember stats only do so much but STR is where you need to focus the majority if you plan on Job hopping. Don't worry about CHR if you are because BSTs don't Charm anymore. Even THF wants STR because you will do *significantly* more DoT than Sneak Attack every 50 seconds, even with the Empyrian gloves. My SA does roughly 1k (1.3k with gloves) every 50 seconds, if I use it every 50 seconds, but I do *at least* three times that much just by attacking, to the point that wasting the seconds to wait for the Ability animation and the lag that accompanies it is just not worth it. EXCEPT when used with Bully, Assassin's Charge and a WS of course, but that has a hell of a cooldown when used together (but doing a 6k dmg Evisceration is always fun <.<). Help Dagger out with those STR points. THF needs attack and a lot of it. 12 points is significant, to be sure, but you'll be attacking (and criticaling) more often than SA is ready to the point that SA boils down to nothing more than TH+ these days. Even with Exenterator being DEX modified, you want STR (because of the attack) and that's what WS macros are for anyway. A THF who focuses on making only their WS and SA count is nothing more than a TP feeder when they do a flurry of double digit numbers. Make those swings count! My crits do 250-300 dmg a hit in Abyssea, and about 180-250 outside (yay Crit dmg+) in TP gear (Store TP, +Attack, +Haste, +crit hit dmg) and I'm lucky if I break 150 in WS gear (mostly focuses on DEX), just as an example. That's huge.
In general you want to focus on melee stats, unless you plan on career mage of course, which includes HP, STR, Crit hit rate+, Enemy crit hit rate-, and Evasion. These cover a huge berth of jobs. I find it very unlikely you've maxed your weapon skill merits and if not, BSTs still use Axe and almost require Ruinator so keep that in mind. Rampage suuuucks at high levels because of enemies' high defense stats. Wonderful if it crits, of course, but BST's DEX is uh, well, shit, and doesn't have Warrior's ridiculous Attack boosting abilities.
Keep in mind that with our Job ADD we're only able to choose there merit WSs. I have Tachi:Shoha (because duh), Stardiver and Exenterator. I WANT Resolution (because it's cool /vain) but I'm not giving up any of those WSs. It kinda limits me but I really only play THF, DRG and SAM anyway as melee. WHM, BLM, RDM and SCH don't need WS merits because...god...theirs suck. The staff one is sooo awesome looking but it's soooooo awful....
I don't know much about BST but I do know it's extremely gear and Atma reliant to make those pets last as long as possible. The Empy isn't bad but I'm unable to go further than that.
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Post by Yvondith on May 21, 2012 5:35:14 GMT -5
Was BORED, so I played around as an elvaan DRK, WAR, and MNK on the test server. One word: RAWR. 3500 dmg WS outside of Abyssea? Fuck yeah! ;D Sometimes. Most of the time it was around 1800 dmg. DRK was... okay. The last few DRK weapon skills suck, damage wise. Of course, I still managed to pull 3000+ damage Guillotine and Cross Reaper. I dunno how strong Entropy is, I couldn't use it. I'm seeing why a lot of DRKs go with G.Sword... WAR was pretty damn fun. Lots of abilities to use, was using Ukko's Fury, which consistently 1800-3500 crit. Really liking the abilities and WS choices for WAR. Fell Cleave is awesome sauce too. Enjoyed MNK quite a bit too. Footwork and Impetus are... interesting. Victory Smite was pulling 2500-3500 dmg on Sprinklers in Sky. Damage was more consistent for that WS it seemed. Fun to just goof around sometimes.
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Post by Yvondith on May 22, 2012 3:03:28 GMT -5
Unfortunately I need to quit FFXI for the time being. I managed to catch my account one day before billing, so I missed the extra month of charges.
Granny is having a serious operation done on the 28th, and it may take her months to recover. I simply won't have time to play.
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Post by Yvondith on May 25, 2012 19:15:16 GMT -5
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on May 26, 2012 8:30:50 GMT -5
I'm surprised those limit quests still even exist these days. They are extremely out dated.
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Post by Yvondith on May 26, 2012 10:19:42 GMT -5
No kidding. But they just keep adding them. The one for level 96+ is a pain in the ass. Gotta fight some MNK tarutaru, which you need a party of 6 for, and you need to gather 3 items, so you can get an item to stun him/weaken him, much like the Animas from the old Promyvion days. Sucks!
I wish they'd get rid of em all together. Then you could solo from 1-99. That'd be nice. But who am I kidding?
I miss the game. I didn't wanna quit, but Granny comes first.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 5, 2012 5:48:37 GMT -5
I take back what I said... Apparently, you can solo ALL the limit breaks now with the exception of the last one. Well... you can after the next update.
I thought you still needed assistance with the one for level 56+, but they made the ??? points available all the time. The monsters are still there though, so you're probably gonna die.
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Post by Caller on Jun 8, 2012 14:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 8, 2012 17:46:33 GMT -5
Gilgamesh is like, totally cheerleading.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 9, 2012 18:48:58 GMT -5
*squeals* I want to come back now! I'd totally let her kick my ass! *swoon* ;D Gilgamesh is like, totally cheerleading. Ha ha, yeah. He's like "Yeah, beat the shit out of my daughter! Wooo!"Gilgy was her father, right? Its been a while. :/ Btw, that sword that person has looks a lot like one of the Arch Angel's blades. You can get that now? Or was that a dat swap thing.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 9, 2012 23:30:12 GMT -5
Yes, it looks like the hume's Ark Angel's sword, I noticed that too. Quite frankly, I dunno. These are supposed to be official screenshots! So, one would assuming that maybe we'll be seeing a player version of the sword. I was imagining more of Gilgamesh shouting "Arrrgh! Kick er' in da knees!" Yes, Lion is Gilgamesh's daughter. Well, adopted daughter. As far as I remember she was just sort of found by him, and adopted. I think that's a new battleground. We have a few battlegrounds in which we get to fight our favorite NPCs. I guess they added Lion to the mix. I just want to kill Shantotto and make her shut up. Forever. Oh, and Pieuje needs to DIAF too. I'd leap at the chance to kill that crooked bastard. But no. You get to fight Trion for no apparent reason. I am playing the game again on a free trial account. That way I can see if I can handle it and take care of Granny at the same time. She's not as needy as I expected. So I may be able to return. But, I'm restricted. No AH. No delivery box. No trading. No bazaar. Any way I would have to exchange items and money to other players has been revoked on free trial accounts. That, and I have an obnoxious green and yellow flag over my head.
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Post by Caller on Jun 10, 2012 1:30:29 GMT -5
The Ark Angel weapons were a reward for the Mog Bonanza this year. I missed it because of my back. Oh well. I haven't been on the game in almost three weeks now.
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