the hachiman domaru setFollow

ok i just hit 70 yesterday and i also got tachi gekko

at this time I am wearing a hauby (cuz everyone says you need a hauby)
and i have Okote R/e version (cuz everyone says i needed it for sam)
and woodmans rings (cuz everyone said its these or nothing)
you get where i'm going with this.

I think i am a pretty damn good samurai. I was super excited to get all my AF gear. i wore it for days cuz i felt so good. I know i'm not the best nor will i be the best in my server
when I looked ahead at the AH I saw the hachiman set coming up so i decided to farm and save up for the whole thing.

now i cant wait to put on the hachiman set but my friend keeps telling me if i go ahead and do this i will be laughed off the server. wtf! what is wrong with wanting to use a new set of gear. god forbid i stray from the norm. god forbid i dont follow guides and charts that say 'its our way or the highway' >_< i realize there are ppl that have gone through this game and back and have found the best combonations for each job,(btw mad props for these guys,thank you) but damn it! if those pieces of gear are the only choices then wth do we have a HUGE SELECTION of gear in the AH to choice from????

with or without this set on I will still be the same samurai I was the day before. I use my ws when I have the tp, mediate when i dont have the tp, i use the kind of foods that suit me, try to keep my weapons capped, try to stay on top of the fight, make SCs when I can, voke when needed, 2hr when needed. try to do the best that i can.

if I feel that the whole set isn't the way to go then that should be my decision right? I'll make adjustments when I can afford them.

but really fellas have you ever kicked a person off a party just by looking at their gear before they even have a chance to fight??

sorry for the rantiness of this post...it just errks sometimes ya know

No... but if you're the type of person who use town gear as fighting gear, expect you got kicked from my party in 2-3 fights.

Yes, blame the game design. Too bad this game is party-centric for most of the part where if one not doing optimally means the whole party won't work optimally.

If you do your own stuff, no one other than jackass will laugh at you for using the whole set.

Edited, May 26th 2009 12:16am by VZX

i don't usually kick bad players (someone who joins a party in 5/5 hachiman and full-times it is a bad player), but i remember them and never invite them again. i also warn others about their sh*ttiness, not to humiliate or punish the bad player but to save my friends from suffering through a bad party or letting a really sh*tty player into their ls.

I'll consider kicking someone just for owning 5/5 Hachiman.

People can go on about snowflake BS all they want, but at the end of the day my tailored gear/playstyle lets me do 4x+ the dmg of someone who doesn't know what they're doing. It matters.

so you guys are saying. Wear whatever pleases me for soloing/downtime but when its time to get to the nitty gritty, then come ready to rock and roll?
If thats what you guys mean then I totally understand. I forgot to mention that the other reason I wanted to wear this particular set was I 'visually' dont like to miss match gear. ^^; but obviously have to when I must.

If there was a way to augment the set to make it better, do you think they would be accepted amongst the community?

btw here is what I'm currently using for sam. I believe it is acceptable
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?164037

Edited, May 26th 2009 5:15pm by TheJoe

See, here is the thing about Domaru. There is a whole discussion in the thread about why people hate SAM (or at least hate all the excessive hype surrounding it). In my linkshell, it has become understood that a fulltime Domaru SAM is a bandwagon SAM, because they are basically riding on the hype of the job alone, rather than making wise decisions about gear. Not to mention the agreed about alternative to Domaru, Haub, is so much more affordable than it was years ago.

And nothing irks the Haidate-less more than to see a Domaru SAM with Haidate.


That not compensating. The SAM wearing the right body armor is not barred from using all those things.

Edited, May 27th 2009 8:45pm by Ketaru

if you do not use gear swaps that make you flash in final fantasy xi, you are a bad player and should quit the game. if the lack of realism is what bothers you, IT'S A MAGICAL GAME ABOUT MONSTERS AND CRYSTALS.

edit: at 75* i mean.

Edited, May 28th 2009 4:45am by milich

Wait, I'm confused now, are you saying a 6-hit is not worth it before merits? I'm not there yet, but when my SAM hits 70 I was planning on substituting some pieces for Hachiman for a 6-hit.

I was going to change my O Kotes, Royal Knights Breeches and Sarutobi Kyahan for Hachiman for TP, which together which Rajas and Chivalrous Chain would give me +47 STP. This would allow me to swap all these out for STR pieces for WS, but swapping in a Hachiman Domaru for +37 STP on WS. If my calculations are correct, this would give me 100.2 tp in 6 hits (including 1 WS).

These gear swaps for more STP mean I would lose 10att, 1acc and 3% haste whilst TPing. Surely that is worth it for 6-hits over 7? Unless my maths has gone wrong somewhere...

Personally, I don't like spending countless hours leveling, getting people together, going up to <insert giant mythical beast I want dead here> and failing because numerous people want to be "different" or "play the game their way."

You cannot in one hand say "I don't want to be like everyone else" and then at the same time demand acceptance for going out of your way to fail because you feel like it.



Sure thing.

ActionJaxen, I really don't understand the point of your posts. If you want to play the game "your way" because it's "just a game" then fine. Just don't expect people to invite you to events in future, and certainly don't expect people on these forums to pat you on the back for it. Really it just seems like you're bitching about karma.

I was actually being pretty civil to you I think. You were insulting by calling "Sages" intolerant and too serious. I rated you down because you are basically trolling. You aren't contributing to the conversation anything more than a generic "I play my way and have fun lol! You guys don't play like me so you must be having no fun!" Which you know, is fine. No one is forcing you to play in any given way. Go do your snowflake thing and have fun doing whatever it is you do. The OP asked for information, they got it. Don't shoot the messengers.

Also: "Idiot" was your word, but hey, if you think it fits, who am I to argue?



I didn't make the parties. In general they did alright for no-BRD no-COR pts. 10k/hr with no deaths usually. They got me to 75 so they served their purpose.

You know what... You're right. I was trolling. There are opinions and then there's ranting. I could have formed it better. I'm sorry.

I shouldn't complain too much given that I profit off of it, but it's not something I can really recommend for normal use.