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Just got mine today, and of course with those augments.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/760/img20090723163007.png

It doesn't look half as bad on WHM as I expected. Kinda matches Noble/Aristo's. Almost like a nightcap for our pajamas. XD

And the storyline was so cuuuuuuute! <3

Magic Crits aren't that great, they're a %age chance of getting +10MAB on a nuke, so you're packing +10MAB every 1/10 shots with this.

As for -enmity, it depends where you're packing the -enm, Novios are quite cheap atm and -7enm on the earring slot is always a plus :P

Personally I might be more tempted to go for the +4MND +3% Cure , +3MACC +3HMP which would make it comparable to an Elite Beret +1 on enfeebles whilst providing MND for potency and 3hmp saving a lot of macro space.

But in all honesty, when you see things like "+15WS Acc +4STR, +10acc +5att" I really have to wonder if it's worth being unique on the cures. It's a very nice and noticable bonus to be sure MND bonus + (2.5% extra if youre using +20%), but a 25 acc WS piece? :S

yeah and I just noticed you said HQ staves give 12% bonus to nukes but it's 15% :P

I stand corrected. 15% potency!

And just to clarify, not getting the augment for the magic crit, but since SE, in their great wisdom chose to pair those stats, I'm forced to get it to get -4 enmity, which is the stat I want.

I'm a goliard chapeau user and do not wish to lose any more -enmity gear. I already swapped out -5 enmity theta sash in favour of my relic belt.

:)

But....curepot? You could be losing 30? 35 MND? and still have higher cures with +3% curepot >.>

(am I missing something here?)

EDIT: sorry, shoulda specified: V would prolly be more like 10 or 15 MND difference, I just thought it'd be obvious, but I prolly play with the calculator more than I should ._.

Edited, Jul 25th 2009 12:06pm by RyaWHM

...yeah (?)

What I'm saying is, 2MND is gonna change Cure V by... like 2 hp

so, I'm preeeeetty sure the 3% will keep you breaking any personal milestones/tiers you were already breaking. :)


I was just trying to reassure you really >.>

if I remember correctly you can keep rerolling your mini-expansion rewards if you toss them and redo the mission. (CHECK UP ON THIS BEFORE TRYING lol)

if you wanna get a piece for WHM and aren't planning on meleeing much at the current moment then there isn't anything really stopping you from rerolling it at some point further down the line... I think :P

as I already said +123% from +120% is a 2.5% (1/40) increase, from 135% it's a 2.2% increase just to give you a general range based on your current heals :P (don't forget to account for any MND VIT adjustments)

The game even tells you that you can re-obtain them after you get them out of the coffer by redoing the fight, so yes, you can.

personally I think a -5% fastcast hat could be very very awesome, definitely something unique.
You could also make a very nice MB hat but I dont think youd make much use of it

-5% hat
-5% body
-2% earring
-2% boots
-10% /sch, it's %age relative to the base time not the current time you're using :P so they stack quite well together, shaving time off of the 5-20s spells by 24% is not to be sniffed at :P You are of course sacrificing 8% haste for 7% fast cast though (assuming no goliard saio). I guess you could macro it out for recast if you were extremely OCD on your gear swaps :P

Also stacks with curecast (assuming it's not capped) so you might even wanna fiddle with it that way, the point is though that it is there *to* be fiddled with, which makes me go all geeky and tingly ;)

and {found it!} curecast thread haven't read it though lol

I said and I quote:


Never said it was not possible to load up on fast cast gear. but you need to spend a lot of slots on it. slots which could be better used for other whm specific bonuses. And looking at your list, your giving up a good headpiece (goliard/+3 cure pot MKD hat), ear (magnetic/novia/roundel), feet (blessed/blessed+1/marduk), body (noble's/Aristo)
for 9% fast cast /4.5% casting timer reduction. And you're losing 10/12 potency, about 10-15 MND, tons of -enmity.

/SCH's -10% already outperforms it without us changing anything, which is part of what makes the SJ so awesome.


I never use loquacious earring for example, because novia/magnetic is better. or roundel/novia/magnetic combination.
Body is always a refresh piece, I can swap in Jubbah for fast case, but why would i use that for cures?

Just saying given we have a fairly accessible 5% haste piece already (which I know isn't quite the same as fast cast, but still out performs a +5 fast cast piece on timers), I don't think its that great to have a fast cast head piece for WHM when you're giving up a potential +3 cure potency in its place, or the much talked about WS macro piece.

There's a theoretical limit to how many pieces of fast cast gear you can load up on whm, and a practical one.


Edit: Rya, noted, and thanks for the clarification.


Edited, Jul 26th 2009 2:33pm by Dekusutaa

Edited, Jul 26th 2009 2:34pm by Dekusutaa

I initially had MND + 4 Cure Potency+3%, MND + 2 Fast Cast +2%, but then I didn't really like the idea of just having a hat that I felt was sort of limited. Then I changed it to MND + 4 Cure Potency +3%, Magic Accuracy +3, hMP +3. I also have Goliard Chapeau and I'll keep that for -Enmity (Cure IV, etc.). But now I can macro in the Selenian Cap for Enfeebs, Repose, Holy, etc. And I get more hMP than Goliard. :3

Was playing around with the new hat and my cures...I believe that I will be pulling hate more often now. Cure 4 = 500 Hp cured.

No...but I did need to play around with my cures to figure out exactly how much my cures would go up.

The taking hate comment was meant as a joke.

I want to get enmity/curepot hat for cure 3 and 4, but I want to get my aristocrat's augmented with enmity- to make up for loss of tiara Q_Q!!!!

I've decided on MND+6 Cure Potency+3% Fast Cast+2%. I see the use of the Enm- augment, but I just don't pull hate often enough for me to consider it.

I see you've glued a moon to the front of your O-Hat.

That's an interesting thread. Based on those tests it seems that single target cures cap at 35% casting time reduction. But the tests for curaga imply that that you must hit somewhere between 48-50% casting time reduction to reach the highest tier for that spell. Anything from 35%-47% had the same results, but when over 50% was used, it shaved off about a third of a second.

Whm/sch with light arts and full cure casting time merits and cure clogs is already at 45% casting time reduction. So it would take 3-5% more cure casting time reduction to reach that tier.

If the fast cast from the "mnd+2, enhances fast cast" option gives 2% casting time reduction, loq earring and the augmented hat could put you at 49% cure cast reduction, possibly enough to break the last tier on curaga's cast time. If the "enhances fast cast, blood pact ability -3" augment is -3% casting reduction, then it and loq would put you at 50%, which should definitely break the tier as 50% is said to be the cap for fast cast.

At the very least I think it'd be worth trying just to find out (whether shaving off 1/3 of a second from curagas are worth it is another discussion...) Maybe someone with a fast cast augmented hat, cure clogs, and a loq earring could test curagas with and without the hat, and see if there's any noticeable difference in casting time?