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I get good resist results on BRD also.

That..doesn't answer his question but thanks for the typo correction!

Still, I find the O.P's post interesting, that is one annoying little move those evil things do. I'm hoping other scholars are finding they're resisting it so I know what I'm getting into later on as SCH.

ummm... seri, i thought that when i read the way he said it at first, but then i reread it and realized that he was talking 5/52 of it landing, not of resisting. kinda felt backwards to me too.

Approximately 10% is pretty much par for the course when it comes to player resist traits most of the time. Now if it was a monster resist trait we were talking about, you can add another 0 to that percentage >_>

I have NEVER seen Deafening Tantara from a VT Heraldic Imp fail to land on anyone, ever, unless they were BRD, /BRD, Garuda/Shiva, already silenced, or had some other source of Resist Silence. I'd assume a crapton of wind resistance might work also, but what my RDM's Baraera provides isn't enough.

Edited, Jan 5th 2008 6:07am by Fynlar

Proof, please? Nothing personal, I'm just not fond of unfounded claims on something like this. It's too easy to pass off one's own beliefs as fact.

There's probably more to it than just wind resists (Like higher INT, or needing an insane Wind build like tanks do Fire for Tiamat). Sure, it's possible there's an off-element silence just like there are light and dark sleeps, but SE creating that almost practically for one mob family seems a bit extreme.

Though, now that I think about it, aren't Requiems called "sonic damage" in the hover text? Haven't messed with BRD enough to really look into if an elemental staff would help landing them, but if they don't, it might lead to the potential of another resist class that players don't have access to beyond the RS trait.

Either way, I'd want to say a good SCH shouldn't even be in range of the AoE. Don't depend on the trait, just thank your lucky stars it kicks in if you are in proximity. An Echo Drop saved is... well, more gil for you.

A good scholar will likely be buffing the party which will require them to go in and out of aeo range frequently, just as a brd or smn would. You are bound to get hit with something.

I don't know if resist traits have anything to do with accuracy. For example, mobs in Dynamis are incredibly easy to sleep, but that doesn't stop the PLD mobs from getting "Resist!" messages quite frequently.

You assume the SCH is buffing only with their JA's and not taking advantage of /whm buffs as well. Either way, it is frequent enough that you will occasionally be hit by aoe attacks.

Edited, Jan 7th 2008 6:09am by Sasaraixx

When i leveled sch I got the same rate of resists on that silencing ability. It may be not only because of the traits, but also because of the mage stats involved with resisting the silence spell as well (MND).

I was just looking for this thread to see if anyone else has experienced resist/duration of the tantra.

So far I've yet to resist it or anything such as that. But so far since all I do is spam Cure / Regen / Silena / I replaced only 1 piece of gear so far when I did my first Imp party.

I did notice the silence wore, real quick each time, sometimes it wasn't worth using an echo drop because it would just wear off. I was with another sch he said he evaded it and resisted it a decent amount.

So my question is that are people still seeing these results? I got my grasp on conserving my MP as long as I got a refresher or a 2nd helper for oh sh*t situations, so I want to maybe put some gear on that would help me resist this silence so that echo drops are a perk and not so much 100% needed as I've had with my first party with Imps as sch.

I notice MND / Elemental Resist / Resist Trait / Magic Def. Bonus. are all there to get, and rather cheap. So if anyone who has any experience in resisting these spells or help with short duration of the spell has any advice on what I could wear, it would be helpful. I don't need to be told to wear more MP or anything, I just want to play with resisting the tantra to a decent extent and want some advice before I spend the money on some equip.

That's about so far all I've bought and yes I'm using bar spells with enhancing skill+ gear on to add a few extra points, then switch back to mind gear. I'm subbing WHM for the fact I can JA Accession and give stoneskin which helps me better with any GA's that might come out.

So far I got maybe 30 MND w/ food, my bar spell gives me about 84 with enhancing gear swapping i have no MDB gear on but I was offered a Diamond Earring or two from a friend if the +10/11?? resistance to wind (silence yes?) will help, I put barsilence on as well. I got the ribbon, I'm just trying to figure out everything that I could be missing.

You're right the ribbon was only 5k when I bought it a bit ago, just looked up the quest for it as well might get bored and just quest it, so far it only seems I'm missing those diamond earrings and that's if that 20+ resistance to wind ontop of my bar spell and my curing macro switching me to the HQ Ice Staff while I got to cast NA's or if I'm giving out protect / shell. It's a temp boost to wind but it's there while I do anything that's not healing / resting. So if it hits me while I have my staff on casting a NA or..anything I should have 30 MND / 120-125 Wind Resistance. With the ribbon on me forehead.