Garland of BlissFollow

I unlocked this for a friend. About the only real remarkable thing about it is that it has one of the longest player WS animations that I (or my friend) have ever seen. It's rather funny to make killing blows + skillchains with this WS; the mob will sometimes drop dead while the animation is still going, and the subsequent skillchain animation will trigger on their corpse. >_>

I would think it's more for the DEF down effect than anything else, but that can be replicated via several other sources, and you'd probably wanna use Spirit Taker anyway.

I guess the other remarkable thing about it is that it is a staff WS that can create a level 3 skillchain, but is magical and therefore will not ever miss, like BLM's Vidohunir. Can be nice to have if you're helping someone else unlock a WS.

Edited, Aug 13th 2009 8:33am by Fynlar

I unlocked it when trying to unlock spirit taker. Had my own little mini pt of me, carby and my npc, took me quite a few days solo.....the added benefits ofcourse were that my npc was lvling up and that I was actually getting kindred seals.

unfortunately by the time I unlocked GoB my staff skill was still only 191 T_T so no spirit taker yet and I was too tired of staring at crabs to continue.

Im quite sure I remember doing 200s on EP crabs in kuftal but it rips hate off carby >.o which wasnt helping my staff skill ups (or sublimation) very much.

Edited, Aug 14th 2009 12:49am by Glddaisy

The perp cost kinda really sucked though with the nyzul weapon >.o which is why I was using carby. Its 1mp a tick and ability to cure itself when I accidentally got links made me prefer him over garuda or fenrir.

edit: to clarify, the only times Ive used GoB was after I unlocked it and I had a link or 2 to get through before I left, so I just continued using carby as he was tanking for me already (I did switch to light staff drr)

Edited, Aug 14th 2009 1:27am by Glddaisy

Of course garuda probably attacks very fast too with haste on, but that is if you find enough MP to cover a 100 MP hastega rotation.

I unlocked WS'ing with Carby's poison nails. It's a neat WS and can do 300-400 dmg depending on mob.

The interesting thing is that it is enhanced by MAB. So if you equip MAB +20, your WS is enhanced by 20% directly.

Garland of Bliss shouldn't proc that low damage unless the mob has Shell or some sort of magic resistance up. It's significantly more damaging than Spirit Taker.

It averages 300-400 and can go higher too. I have +22 MAB equipped.





Edited, Aug 22nd 2009 9:19pm by Dekusutaa

This is very true. As with almost everything in FFXI, the situation will determine which avatar you choose. I find myself using Garuda in places like Campaign where I really don't want to have to release and resummon. Her ability to heal allows her to tank an entire mob without me having to resummon her. This allows me to melee alongside her without having to worry about hate. If I am more concerned about DOT, then I will use Fenrir.

As for GoB, I was a bit disappointed. I know it's probably just me, but I was really hoping that in addition to being able to make Light with our staff, I hoped that we would finally be able to open Distortion. It is the only SC (lv1-2) we cannot make with our avatars. Somehow SCH got that position on renkei chart, and we know how often SCHs melee! I know it isn't really a big deal, but I would have liked to be able to GoB ---> Double Slap for a nice Distortion. Oh, well.

I just unlocked it not too long ago (Finally got my Runic Key). The damage isn't too spectacular, though admittedly I haven't actually macroed any gear in to increase the damage.

It's purdy, though. :D

The best part is that the animation is so long that you have time to run to the kitchen and fix yourself a snack before the animation finishes.