Low weapon skill damage ; ;Follow

So i've been in merit parties these last couple of days and my weapon skill damage is pretty bad I do anywhere from 200-700 damage on birds (but it's usually between 200-500). I'm Dwing axes Wood/Man, sniper,ecphoria,Huby,life belt,exorcist hose,amemnt mantle +1,walarha turban,bomb core,chiv neck,fowling and minuet earrings. My axe skill is at 273. For my weapon skill I macro in Warwolf belt and 2 ruby rings atm. Feet and gloves are thick.

Edited, May 17th 2009 2:14pm by Mercediz

thanks for the reply i'll try that out ^^

Yea i know, but reading his post he didnt mention that he swapped out Turban for WS while he managed other gear swaps

If you can get Ohat do, it's awesome.

Keep lifebelt in for ws for the moment and just swap out one ring and see how that does. If it's getting better returns try swapping the belt. Keep at least one acc ring on though, it's too important to get those hits.

As others said, better earrings are essential.

Ya I checked the AH for a Celata but none are there atm. Thanks for all your replies though, like I said a while ago this is my first ever melee job at this level and would rather come here and ask questions (even if they aren't the best questions) and make sure I'm doing it right. So again thanks for answering and being polite about it ^^.

Do not sell your dusk gloves or feet! Assault earring is nice but semi expensive (around 300k on my server) and will not do as much for your DoT as the haste coming from dusk will. Depending on the price of woodsville axes I would sell that and get an Iron Ram Pick (as good if not better than the Woodville's with less cost) and go Man/Pick. Keep on the acc rings and life belt until you get full merits and some gear like Ohat or other high acc gear. You will see much more consistant results and while they may not be uber, you will be much more satisfied than seeing 100-200 point WS's when you only get 2 hits to connect.

What everyone else said, especially Dodi since he mapped it out so well.

Also, yea:

In before Gaxe, nice.

Anyway, Acc > Att > STR > DEX for Multi-hit weaponskills. Or, more accurately:

Acc > Att > 1st Mod > 2nd Mod.

Enjoy.

so you have:
Main: Woodsman
Sub: Manny
Ammo: Bomb Core
Head: Walmart Turban/Sipahi
Neck: Chiv Chain
Ears: Minuet/Fowling
Body: Hauby
Hands: Dusk/thick
rings: sniper/ecphoria/ruby x2
back: amemet+1
waist: life belt/warwolf
legs: exorcist hose
feet: Dusk/thick

my recomendations:
Most of the gear is solid. You should sell your woody though, get an Iron Ram Pick if you wanna keep dual wielding, and use the money in other places, such as getting assault earring and ohat. Don't sell your dusk. You'll regret it forever. Dusk hands/feet are some of the best TP pieces in the game for all the jobs that can wear them, only being outdone by a few hard to get pieces(Aurum Boots, Augmented Barone Hands with a solid augment, etc)

Personally I'd sell your minuet too, since unless the brd is giving you minuet, it's not that good. There are times where you can make the argument for minuet, but generally, if you have enough haste, march will probably be better. Don't forget to get a suppa, either. Brutal/suppa is a beastly DW earring set up, but suppa/assault isn't to shabby. Remember though. unless you're using a sword, treat suppa like a haste piece, and macro it out for ws.

Hang on to your ruby rings and warwolf belt though. You need to level your great axe if it's not leveled. It's not a matter of preference, it's a matter of level it. Outside of combos like man/ridill or ridill/joy, a solid great axe like byakko's or perdu will out do axe/axe every day of the week, both in sheer dot for merits, and better damage on endgame mobs.

I'm not saying you can't bust out dw on stuff, just that for endgame, great axe will help your ls more. That's where warwolf/rubies come in, since they're solid pieces for -Steel Cyclone- (not raging rush, gear for that like you would rampage)

Main: Manny/Perdu Voulge(Byakko's Axe works til you get it)
Sub: IR. Pick/Pole Grip
Ammo: Bomb Core
Head: Walmart Turban/Ohat (adaman celata) (Celata til you get them)
Neck: Chiv Chain
Ears: Assault/Fowling/Suppa/Brutal
Body: Hauby
Hands: Dusk/fourth gauntlets (replaced later by other things depending on set up, I use Relic hands for Rampage/RR personally, and you should get a pair of Alky's at some point for SC)
rings: sniper/sniper/ruby x2 (drop the ecphoria until it can push your Store TP over enough to increase your tp/hit) (get rajas if you can)
back: amemet+1
waist: life belt/warwolf (try to get swift)
legs: exorcist hose (Byakko's Haidate are top of the line for TP, and a solid ws item for RR/Rampage. Exorcist are decent for King's Justice, but Relic legs would be better for Steel Cyclone)
feet: Dusk/thick (thick feet are fine til you get something better, like adaman, amir, or aurum(listed from worst to best) and hecatomb which varies by ws)

Edited, May 18th 2009 6:42am by Jinte

Edited, May 18th 2009 2:50pm by Jinte

Am I the only person bothered by the fact that a Warrior AND a Perdu Voulge are about to walk into an embroidery store? Shouldn't that be a pub or at least a whorehouse (that serves beer)?

Also, when I use DW with Manny/Joytoy, I tp in Suppa/Assault and WS in Brutal/Assault. Am I doinitwrong? Somebody mentioned tping in Suppa/Brutal and that didn't seem as effective for DW with a multihit weapon subbed.
Is brutal better than assault if you are using axe/axe onry?

That picture is so awesome...

that was a misspoken phrase on my part. Suppa gives swords atk+5 acc+4, so if you have a sword in your mainhand, it should stay on for ws. If that sword is anything other than ridill and you're not skilling up or joytoy/dnc, urdoinitrong



that's what I get for posting at 6:30 in the morning

Edited, May 18th 2009 2:50pm by Jinte

Maybe they're rating you down for that 'tarded atk > mod bit.

/sigh, lead a horse to water, etc...

EDIT: I've been wondering why you always say that, even for the good old 30% FSTR mod + 30-35% 2nd mod WAR multis, and I think I finally get it. You've been blinded by Asuran Fists.

Edited, May 19th 2009 5:52pm by Eltio

Now try it /sam and prepare to have your world rocked.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but it's semi-related to the DW/Brutal thing going on. I wonder if you guys could give some advice.

I'm considering getting a Hollow Earring for my RDM. I have Suppa and Brutal at the moment, and I off-hand Joytoy. Basically, would the bonus to enspell damage and accuracy be better than sticking with Brutal Earring?

I see it's been mentioned that Brutal is ineffective if you're pure sword-chucking, but I'm a little confused if you receive any benefit from Brutal if you're only using one multi-hit weapon.

By the way: that picture is hilarious!

I don't see who you are to be complaining, since you actually know that such a business should be called an embroidery store.

And hey, maybe he's getting his Haidate monogrammed.

Don't we already, or has Warrior stopped being bandwagon?

If you click on my name, you can see all of my pictures.


(The page is extremely NSFW.)

I think all WARs approve of these derails.

Would anyone do that as they would get ripped apart? By our drunken antics with vairous Weapons.

Yeah, some of that stuff is just... why? ; ; but thankfully, for every bit of downright creepy FFXI fan-art, it's not too hard to find something which is actually tasteful. And that makes me happy.

Yea, I made it. I was bored . And we say it so much, may as well have a pic instead. A picture is worth a thousand words and all.

The store is actually a front. When you walk to the secret room in the back, they've got gambling, a full bar and scantily-clad cocktail waitresses.

Or they could just be working on their Clothcraft. Either or.