The March update new gear thread Follow

I haven't found anything to update from my current set-up or change my current goals in gear yet.;-; I wanted us to be on fierce belt, with the increase in skill I feel like I have to much acc and not enough attack.


Edit: square had a nasty habit lately with just making sure all jobs can use a weapon so that they can feel apart of it with little regard to it being reasonably. See the blue weapons last update.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2010 1:42pm by Laxedrane

This makes my poor solo pup a lot happier than any of that gear :P
Let's hope its not just a mission reward.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2010 1:48pm by RattyBatty

They gave us another @#%^ing STAFF!?!?!??! WTF?

Epic Win.

Agreed Anza. Me personally, i haven't been this amped about an update for PUP since....prolly a tie when Stringing Pummel was added and when WHM/BLM heads were added.

Mostly i responded cause xbobbobx annoys me with his constant prattling and his lack of resolve to actually quit if the game is so perennially not to his liking.

Can you tell us how it feels to be the laughing stock of the laughing stock of all ffxi forums?

You know, i've been coming to Alla since i started in '04 and posting since my whiny debut with a "woe is me" post about the initial ranged attack adjustment in '05; and in all that time xbobbobx that has to be the dumbest crap i've ever read. You've got a lot of anger pent up too it seems and that isn't a good combination.

I'm not gonna resort to calling you out of your name or even giving a point for point rebuttal, because you aren't worth the effort of me building a logical response. I will fully give my opinion however.

[opinion]You and people like you are tiresome. If something annoys you, instead of doing all you can to remedy the situation and then saying you tried when that's proven to be untenable and moving on; you worry at it like a dog with a sore on its ass that can't heal because the poor bastard won't leave it be. And that in itself would be ok, be you feel the need to show your "ass" whenever possible and make a spectacle in the name of "but i love this game." Feh i say.

SE does things you don't like, take it up with them. You send them suggestions(repeatedly), you organize with others to do the same; and if that doesn't work and you find the problems to be more than you are willing to bear, you exercise the ultimate form of recourse available to you-you take you money elsewhere. What you don't do is constantly cry about how SE if full of retards and drop little nuggets like ppl must hate the game since SE gave PUP a boost that didn't totally obsolete 99% of the other classes in the game and some find that acceptable.

And as to you self-imposed role of down-trodden visionary, stow it. That's all, just stow it. You made an educated here and a intuitive leap there and that gives you just cause to spew idiocy the way you have been forever and in the MNK forum more recently? Don't think so.

1) Loudmouth on a forum annoys me.

2) I say my peace.

3) I move on.

4) Repeat in future as said loudmouth will undoubtedly appear in future threads.

See xbobbobx? It goes like this(you should really try it only in your case, replace "Loudmouth on a forum" with SE, "I say my peace" with an email to SE, "I move on" with cancel FFXI account, and "Repeat in future as said loudmouth will undoubtedly appear in future threads." with avoid all future SE MMO products.

Very simple.

That said, get a clue and play the game, or not. I'm done and there will be no further response from me, so rage until your tiny, sad, lttle heart is content.[/opinion]

Looking through the Magian, there's some really nice upgrade paths, Claws with Pet Atk/Ratk +12 or attack for us +12 with STR +4, Pet MAB, and a few other really cool things. Time sink ahoy, I think.

I figured i'd tack this post on this thread as opposed to starting a new one.

We've all been gung ho on getting the Aesir Mantle, that is if we don't have Relic Cape yet(its never gonna drop lol ; ;). And i agree with this pursuit whole heartedly. But dudes and dudettes, after you snag the mantle, do what you have to do to fight Odin at least one more time for this

Aesir_Ear_Pendant


As stated by Anza above, you can possibly have a better setup(Brutal/Hollow), but if you don't, try for this ear. It is pretty nice imo, ATK and an awesome added effect, very sweet.

I've been playing with it today and i'm really digging it. I'll have to actually start jotting down my TP returns and doing actual math, but just from my anecdotal eye-balling, its looking like when Conserve TP kicks in i'm starting with a nice chunk of TP in the tank. Over 20 and under 30. Like i said will have to actually pay attention to the exact amounts, but its noticeable.

Anyways, just wanted to share and say, go get one if you don't have better...after you get mantle of course!


Edit: Removed failed attempt at linking a pic and my fat-fingered 8 that shoulda been a 7.



Edited, Apr 8th 2010 12:32am by spiritreaverdiablos

Good question, but i'm loathe to say it absolutely does not add on top of normal TP return. It might, but just from what i've seen i am gonna go out and say i don't think so. I'd have to see it fire off alot more to be sure, but i have a hunch that Conserve TP is prolly like Conserve MP in how it actually works. And this would explain the fluctuation in above normal TP returns.

Not gonna promise a huge test, but i'll try to put my observations in some kind of order.

I did some testing on Conserve TP last week, here.

Summary: It appears to return between 1 and 20 TP per proc, added to whatever your normal TP return would be, and it can proc on a missed weaponskill. The +3/+6 is the proc rate.

Assuming you're referring only to the Conserve TP aspect, I'd say that that clearly favors 1-handed/h2h weapon users. For 2-handers with an x-hit build, only 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 (depending on exact gear) procs will result in a saved hit (or 1 in 20 for 5-hit builds). For 1-handers, at least 2/3 of all procs will save a hit or two, and many will save a hit on almost all procs due to not being aimed at an exact target TP.

On the attack side, in general that will favor 1-handers, though it can still be useful for 2-handers depending on the weapon and target mob.