Augmented HecatombFollow

Any good news ?!
Anyone ?!

That isn't a bad augment for legs or feet though. Not too impressive though, don't know that I will go out of my way for 3 acc/4atk and 2% crit rate.

The cap gets double attack 1-3% and the legs can get crit rate, I assume also 1-3% though I've only seen 2% personally. These always appear when you HQ the synergy, and I believe in higher value if it's an HQ2 or HQ3, hence the 1-3 range. All the augments form the update appear to work that way as well.

I can't speak for the other augment slot for cap/legs as so far I've only seen stuff like vit/resist stun/subtle blow

So I decided to play around with augmenting hecatomb pieces and focused on the hat, legs, and feet. This is the best augments I've gotten so far. All three of these were HQ 3 synergy results with 130 pnz of cinder.



I guess they're not bad

Edited, Jun 11th 2011 8:08pm by Melphina

I've been trying to weigh the pros and cons myself. Raiders armlets +2 has a cumulative 20 attack/16 accuracy, 8 str/8 dex (mods) and a 15% dexterity bonus on the first hit of sneak attack weaponskill. My augmented hecatomb has a cumulative 10.5 accuracy, 7 attack, 8 str/5 dex (mods) and a 3% bonus to critical hit damage. Canceling out associativity you're left with

Raider's Armlets +2
3 dex, 13 attack, 5.5 accuracy

versus

3% critical hit attack bonus


Critical hit attack is not at all the same as normal attack, and when you're dealing with the large base damage on the first hit of a stacked weaponskill or the ending strikes of evisceration and your attack is already high a 3% bonus may be better. Then there's also the consideration that critical hits raise pDIF by 1.0 and thus normal attack is less important (not unimportant however). The 15% dex bonus on sneak attack is added after fTP bonuses so it's just 15% of your dex, which favors heca better outside abyssea than inside, however trick attack weaponskills is a much closer comparison. Outside abyssea my crit hit rate is normal so af3 +2 easily win when evisc doesn't crit almost every hit, but inside I don't know.

These paws particularly interest me in a rudra's storm build because of the massive first hit critical. Rudra's/Mercy stroke considerations would weight towards heca moreso than evisceration.

With that said, I plan to tinker with them a bit more and see if I can get something different. If the 5 accuracy had been... say.... 5 attack or I had gotten 5 dagger skill instead of 3 then the tables would change around. I can possibly see heca mittens +1 outperforming raiders +2 in a rudras/mercy build at the very least, but you would need a darn good augment. The augs I have above are all HQ3 so it could take a significant hit to the pocketbook before you got THE augmentation. I'm sure my heca subligar could have had 2 stronger secondary weaponskill augmentations as well other than "pet stats" and subtle blow, but yeah....... this definitely shows the potential a lucky augment can provide.

My HQ hecatomb set is my most treasured possession in all my playtime. I do intend to pursue stronger augs in the future, but considering how rare HQ3 synergy is alongside the cost of tatters I'll take that task slowly. I already spent a decent sum on these augs and I want to make some more gil before trying again.

Edited, Jun 11th 2011 11:07pm by Melphina

This may be my jelly talking, but over time wouldn't AF3+2 still be better than those heca? Despite:



this, there is also the comparison of slow +7% which of course will give you less DPS VS the small chance that set bonus would proc (assuming you're using another piece along with it of course).

Don't deny those are some kick ass augments though, but it also reminds me why I've never liked the heca set.

...again, might be the jelly talking =P

Possible augments are:
HQ3:
Critical Hit Damage (2-3%)
HQ only: Critical Hit Damage (3-4%)
and two of the following:
Accuracy (4-6), Dagger Skill (2-4), Sword Skill (2-4), Axe Skill (2-4), Random Pool (?)

with the Random Pool being:
Resist Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Thunder, Ice, Light, or Darkness: (1-9)
Resist Blind, Bind, Sleep, Slow, Stun, Silence, Gravity, Virus, Paralyze, or Poison: (1-5)
M.atk./M.acc/Atk./Acc/R.atk/R.acc/Eva./M.Eva.: (1-8 )
STR/DEX/INT/MND/CHR/VIT/AGI: (1-5)
HP/MP: (1-31)

So in theory could get them with crit dmg +4% dagger skill +4/5 and dex +5

although you'd probably have more chance at winning mog bonanza than seeing those together

Here is the full list of augments for all heca gear

Cap
HQ3:
Double Attack (2-3)
HQ only: Double Attack (3-4)
and two of the following:
STR (2-5), VIT (1-5), CHR (2-4), Attack (7-10), Random Pool

Not sure if you could get augment of str+5 then random pool of +5 too

Harness
HQ3
DEX (4-6)
and two of the following:
Conserve TP (4-5), Store TP (4-5), Attack (5), Pet: Store TP (3-6), Random Pool

Subligar
HQ3
Critical Hit Rate (2-3)
HQ only: Critical Hit Rate (2-4)
and one or two of the following:
Evasion (3), Accuracy (5-7), Subtle Blow (2-3), Pet: Accuracy/R.acc (3-6), Random Pool

Feet
HQ3:
STR (3-4)
and two of the following:
Great Axe Skill (2-4), Polearm Skill (3-4), Scythe Skill (2-4), Attack (6), Random Pool



Edited, Jun 12th 2011 2:51pm by buddyslack