A guide to performing as a Warrior/DragoonFollow

Edit is done. Ninozz, yes I did mention it right at the start. In fact, I said right there that without the Wyvern Earring(which is the one you are speaking of) this combination is rather worthless. I know, I tried it pre-wyvern earring to no real avail. If you don't have a Wyvern Earring and still want to go Gax, use /thf or tank with /mnk. Jump alone does not justify subbing Drg.

Think of it like this: The Wyvern Earring is to Dragoon Sub as Utsusemi is to Ninja Sub.

Secondly no, I don't need an update on gear. This gear is speaking as to what I have accomplished so far, or what is in the near(i.e. within 5 lvls) future. No, I have not discussed a haste build. There is a reason I have not: At lvl 60 there is not enough haste gear that is worth getting. The earring is fine, it's 5% and I lose what? 5 Attack. What else would you have me give up? My Lifebelt perhaps? I'm sorry, but seeing as Great Axe suffers so horribly with Sushi in my experience, the haste build has not yet justified itself. A 10% gain in accuracy for a 30-50% loss in damage output is not worth another 6% haste(nor is the bloody price tag).

Now, when I get to the lvl that I can use a Rune Chopper, will I? most honestly, no. I don't have any natural MP, and I feel it would be a waste to add onto the Refresh cycle needlessly. Berserker's Axe FTW. Will my opinion change at that lvl? Perhaps. Time will tell.

edited again, with some parser results and another PT build.

Sorry, I should have included it, but as it is stated earlier in the thread, without the wyvern earring, this subjob is rather useless. Unless otherwise listed, always assume I am wearing my Wyvern Earring as War/Drg

Edit: Sorry, just re-read what I wrote...don't list gear when Exhausted><. To Clarify, and it has been adjusted, I was wearing the Wyvern Earring and the Assault Earring. Thank you.

Edited, Wed Feb 1 15:39:01 2006 by blz

I won't call you gimp. They are expensive items. I got Drg to 66 with just a Ven Ring and a Str, eating sushi, and lifebelt of course. Stopped at 60 Drg to farm for SH and my Acc rings, and assault, so I've had the same chunk of gil circulating between jobs as needed for awhile. When that goes bad, I BCNM or Merc-Blm for KSNM 30 and hope for the best while still farming.

Since I'm getting PLD and DRG pretty close to 40, I realised I should go back and level WAR which was stuck at 20.

I quickly discovered the reason I'd not levelled WAR; MNK is only 10.
So, I thought, let's see what Stats /DRG gives me.

Wow!
More STR, more DEX than MNK.

So I got to 24 and outdamaged every other melee in the party by a TON.

Even funnier, the Sam and I had to 2 hour in yesterday's party because the Nin got nailed, and the Sam's 2 hour did around 60 damage total.
I did about 500, and the mob died, so I couldn't keep hitting it.

Oh it was lovely!

It really isn't.

Wow, you say nothing other then I'm wrong. You have a probable 2-12 Accuracy more then me and I have a 90%+ Accuracy rating with 70-80 more attack. Gear can reach a 90%+ accuracy rating on IT, but there is not enough gear to make up the attack difference meat gives. Numbers dont lie, I'm sorry you cant count.

Edited, Tue Feb 7 18:34:17 2006 by Cailee

Edited, Tue Feb 7 18:59:49 2006 by Cailee

I'm personally of the belief that sushi doesn't directly give +acc, but rather affects the accuracy equation in some other way. And if it does directly give +acc, I'm of the belief that the %acc values listed for it is well beneath what it actually gives. All of my experiences with Sushi have been such that I would not achieve a similar accuracy rate if I equipped as much +acc gear as Sushi purportedly gives.

Also, Cailee, there's no way you should have 70/80 attack more than a sushi user unless they're only equipping acc gear, in which place you're bragging about being better than gimps.

Fury,

In her gear she mentions 44 attack, but I think its 49 attack. One drawback in her gear setup is that it is low in strength (+8; 14 with food). With hedgehog pie giving around 80 attack, she would be 56 attack higher than my setup, but 10 STR lower than my setup. And I would say that I am not gimp.

I would try that kind of setup, but unfortunately I dont have a peacock charm, assault earring, second woodsman, or af legs. I did try meat on VT raptors in Ugglerand range in the low 60s with a bard doing madrigal with +32ACC and it just didn't work for me. Now that I am playing NIN in addition to WAR, RDM and BLM, I really don't have plans to funnel another 35-40mil into WAR.

I don't know what her damage looks like, but if I had that gear, I would test replacing the spike finger gauntlets for enkylados or pallas bracelets to make up for the low strength.

I wear my enkylados full time (though I don't have the spike finger gauntlets). They are around the same price on my server. I think the giant bracelet line are great for mithra, because the -DEX/AGI don't bother me and it compensates for mithra low STR. I would think with your high attack, boosting STR might increase your regular hit damage.

If I had unlimited gil, I would keep tinkering with my setup to get the best results. It was kind of stupid for me to switch from sushi in ugglerand to meat; because I did a 989 rampage before switching and was doing great damage. However, something inside just wanted me to tryout a different setup.

My BRD doesnt even use Madrigal, so. . .? I don't understand.

Like I said my accuracy is high 80, low 90% accuracy on IT monsters. I don't need parsing because I know exactly how much accuracy sushi gives at my level and how much most people will wear accompanied with it. Normal sushi user would have in a normal sushi setup, 2-12 more accuracy then me. I'm not sure about you but if there was a choice between a setup having +12 more accuracy or +70 attack I would probably take attack every time.

On Proccessionaires/Torama I had no trouble landing 15/15 Rampages or 17/17 Rampages...so I really dont understand where your coming from, sorry.

Edited, Tue Feb 7 22:44:39 2006 by Cailee

Edited, Tue Feb 7 22:57:26 2006 by Cailee

Actually I was just saying that your current setup will not always beat a sushi warrior.



In fact I am pretty sure that a full haste build ridill war using sushi would probably stomp you flat, or even a full haste build joyeuse warrior, assuming you continued your trend of buying the really expensive items.



Your wallet is whats winning you in parsers. Grats.