monk gear nowFollow

So now that the level cap is 95, is there any point in stopping XP'ing to get the good level 75 gear?
Or does it make more sense to just grab 75-95 'cheap' gear you can buy on AH, get to cap and then spend your time getting good gear (IE: rare/ex) that's level 95 (empryean armor?)?

skipping over AF and Relic?

right, i know that stuff is the best, but what im getting at is it necessary to have for XP parties to 95 and in order to get the af3+1 gear?

Or can you just rock out cheap gear to get the best gear in order to save time.

Honestly dont even bother with byakko or walmart turban.

Wear full pink
go 75-95
Then bust out the ridiculously easy af3+1
get some of the good atma
get the af3+2 gear
profit

75-95 will take like 4-5 hours depending on the group and no one will care that you are wearing pink gear at this point in the game.

Yes you should do some of the af1 gear for its macro purposes, and get the relic feet eventually, but none of that is NEEDED to go to 95. All you need is caped melee skill for 75, full pink +brown belt is plenty good.

Yea that will work to get you to 95, but you will probably want the Aurore Doublet Set at 78.

Edited, Nov 8th 2011 6:59pm by Sandinmygum

So upgrade weapon and belt asap is what you're saying, then focus on getting the level 95 stuff? I have most of the other stuff you said is good, Anza, with the exception of Aesir Earring. I never got around to doing Einherjar, which is a shame. The moogle mini-expansion is the only one of the three I actually bothered to buy before I quit so Anwig Salade would be doable.

I had a look at that pink stuff before I posted and it didn't look any better than what I currently have. Perhaps the gloves, I suppose. What with the 2% haste probably being better than Bandomusha Kote.

Thanks for the tips, guys.

I capped my staff skill a long time ago out of boredom. Plus I has a Primate Staff +1 made for me by a friend which was pretty much the best DD staff going for a long while.

If I get enough time I will be going for the Magian h2h, I'm sure my friends won't mind helping me out.

Again, thanks for the advice. I can't believe how cheap old high end gear is now! Crazy.

Yeah, weapon ASAP, as well as working on Tantra+1 set. Eventually Tantra +2, and the other good single pieces (Atheling Mantle is one that comes to mind as a great one to get right away).

Belt just get when you can do it, but it's obviously an awesome upgrade any time you can move to Black Belt. No shame in continuing to use Brown Belt though as you work away.

Even more important than gear, make sure you get the good atma from defeating Abyssea NMs, which will be a bigger difference when equipping them in Abyssea than any piece of gear. There are three Abyssite key items that allow you to equip one Atma for each - you get one from your first Abyssea zone boss win, one from spending 100,000 Cruor to buy from NPC, and the last from your 7th Abyssea zone boss win. Get the first two right away as a big time priority - you can build up cruor fast while in an exp alliance in Abyssea.

For Atma:
* Razed Ruins and Gnarled Horn are musts. Beg for help for these as soon as you can!
* Voracious Violet and Sanguine Scythe are also very good.
* Apocalypse is great, but will take you longer as it comes from the boss of Abyssea bosses (Shinryu). A common setup for MNKs is RR/GH/Apoc, it's my default set.
* Stout Arm is a solid placeholder that's fairly easy to get (and comes from a zone boss you'll need to kill anyway). * You probably have Proto-Omega title from Limbus, and with that you can spend a small amount of cruor to buy another solid DD atma (Alpha & Omega) from the synthesis NPCs in Abyssea, to hold you over.



Aesir Earring actually doesn't require Einherjar! It does require having the ToAU missions complete, but once you have that it's just a short quest to get the temporary key item needed to enter the Odin BCNM-style battle. Aesir Earring is one of the possible rewards you can choose after winning - it's like the prime avatar reward system, so no need to worry about drops either. With a few friends you can easily knock it out in a couple hours.

There are other good earrings, but Aesir is definitely a solid option and not that hard to score. Lots of 95 MNKs TP in it. I prefer Moonshade Earring (WotG final reward, choose regain and either Acc or Atk augments) for TP. Tantra and Bruiser earrings are also solid choices. Brutal remains stapled to your ear (except for Asuran) just like always.



Two good points - Ascetic's is indeed your go-to WS in Abyssea unless you get Victory Smite from the Empyrean weapon.

Staff/Club come into play when triggering weaknesses with the relevant WS. I'm often using a staff to get red or blue weaknesses triggered, then switch back to H2H to kill stuff. Look up "weakness targeting" on wiki for a good summary. (I have managed to still slack off on breaking my trial club since I'm always with others who have Black Halo... Need to finish that up one day.)

Anyway, welcome back to a long time MNK. Enjoy the crazy differences XD

so when should I start doing abyssea and saving up cruor for pink set?
I've never done any of that abyssea stuff, have no idea where when or how to start it haha!

hmmm i guess ill just stick to my plan of getting mnk, war, and dnc to 50 first, then I'll worry about cruor and doing those annoying level break quests

Nil is actually coming back!? Maybe I should come back and beg him for gil/help...

I'll be back as soon as I've got my crap together. Computer Science is kicking my ass in the 2nd year lol.