Finally did AM42-44 yesterday. Uthalam ring {yes please}.
For AM42, we went as nin, war, drg/sam(me), brd, rdm, rdm. 4 of us were same ls mates, doing it for first time. While I pride in keeping up with the best, war was as completely decked out as I've ever seen (ares/dusk/byakko, ridill, velocious belt to name a few). Pity I forgot to take out party dmg filters ; ;
Note for Drgs: Penta works best on the imperial gears, 1k+ easily for me (+meat). We wiped on gears first try, AOE got us good >.<
For the boss (soulflayer), Penta did low 300's. Skewer was a little better, high 300 to low 400's. (Again, filter prevented me from comparing numbers relatively. Was on mezraq, was afraid to try this on Love spear lol.) My penta was landing with 4-5/5 hits with meat food. I'm guessing Wheeling Thrust would be best, boss has ridiculous defense. (normal swing 50-80ish) Boss died before I thought of doing wheeling after spamming on Pentas and skewers lolz;; Took us 1 try on boss, so not too much time to experiment.
For AM44, one of the rdm and me went blm to balance out melee/magic damage balance, so not much to report there. (The only thing amusing to note was we made the war hold back for first round of blu boss so to kill with magic majority dmg, b/c first try apparently war dot alone tilted it towards melee death lol, 2nd round nin and war unloaded their ws, while the blms rested, so gave blu melee immunity last round orz.)
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For WSs, base dmg = (weapon dmg + fSTR + WSC)*fTP.
After receiving the above ring, I'm wondering, is it better to WS on certain att gears, if it gives higher attack rating then the str alternative? (ie - uthalam > flame, swordbelt+1 > warwolf?). I know it depends on overall gears and merits, so I'll have to experiment a bit, but wondering if anyone else has already made such comparisons.