Nocturnus Mail looks nice !!Follow

Nocturnus Mail
DEF:49 STR+10 DEX+10 VIT+10
Accuracy+12 "Triple Attack"+1%
Occasionally absorbs magic damage
taken
Lv 75 WAR, PLD, DRK, BST, SAM, DRG

looks like this will replace my hecatomb harness easily especially since my sam will be able to use it as well and another nice piece i saw too

Nocturnus Helm
DEF:24 STR+6 DEX+6 AGI+6 Attack+8
"Double Attack"+2%
Occasionally absorbs physical damage
taken
Lv. 75 WAR, PLD, DRK, BST, SAM, D

so do these win or adaman hauberk and hecatomb/wahjahn turban still win as best warrior gear ?

Diminishing.

Head looks like a possible Nhead replacement WS piece... if for nothing else multi-hits like KJ/RR/Rampage/Penta. Maybe not quite as good eyeballing it, but certainly an option if Nhead and the SCNM head aren't do-able for you.

aren't they adding another form of "enchanting" gear to keep current endgame gear from becoming dated with cap raise? this might make a more desirable starting canvas and/or a viable alternative for those of us who probably wont ever see a heca or adaberk

In any case, that stuff probably drops from Campaign Ops: Fiat Lux, nation has to get icelands control, 1-6 member to dethrone the Shadow Lord...

Dragoon gets a lot of stuff tailor made for them. I'd like Square to, for once, obsolete Adaberk.

I'm with you. As long as soon as they make Adaberk obsolete, they just keep continuing the trend of obsoleting the best gear regularly. Hey, maybe once you rank up to get perdu, spend your Imperial Standing on it, they'll add some new GAXE that requires 100 forest hare kills to get and is better?

Take away: it should always be fixed until it happens to you.

I'm gonna take a stab i the dark and guess that if SCNM/fafhogg/einherjar is outta the question for you, getting this might be too. I could be wrong though....

That was my first thought as well.



Don't mean to sound like a dick at all, but if your WAR is lacking all three of those pieces, it's not really "as nice as it can get".

Seems like a great TP piece, but I'm no PLD. *shrug*

it is when you refuse to suck ls dick to get said items. i play this game to have fun not be a gear whore, i judge my staus in this game by my friends and the people i have helped not by what my gear looks like. unfortunately hunting down a few pieces of gear is all i have left to do aside from the excitement of jabbing my eyeballs out gringind to get merits that become as far as we know useless in a couple months till god knows when.

i have had at least 3 ls's break when it was my turn to lot kitty pants, and when ever i have tried to get people to try and camp nid either get no responses or "we dont have enough people, or its botted and i dont wanna camp" so until they make nihdogg a forced pop or increase drop rates in einhijar immensely i wont have an adaberk either. the perdue voulge i am close to being high enough rank to get but it is a pain getting the point with pick up assaults and nyzul runs.

i am happy for the players that obligated the time neccessary to acheive some of the things in this game but i also think it is a little sad what people give up for it. i am not married with kids so ffxi is not my only escape, i have friends that like to party and go out so ffxi is not my only social outlet, none of my rl friends play this game but like other multiplayer games so i play those games with them. the people i meet in this game are also my friends but unlike rl when i log off they are no longer existant in my world and i refuse to miss out on RL so some pixelated people can feel self important about themselves because they run a shell and decides who gets what or they can spend 1200+days in playtime to get a piece of gear you have to be a math whiz to see the difference in. so yes i consider being 2 items away that need mass amounts of people is "as nice as it can get"(i am not counting voulge because i am on my way to get it...effectivly solo)

note: this is not meant to be an attack or deffence just a reply without being fully awake or close to halfway through my coffee.....now i just need my tv fixed so i can log on ><

Its pretty simple really:
Nocturnus=4str/dex Triple+1% vs Haub+1=12 atk.

For 2handers: Haub+1: 9atk vs Noct:1%TA, 1Fstr, 3acc

As I said before, its a SLIGHT upgrade over Haub+1. Nothing to write home about. 9atk will be around ~2.5% damage. 1 fstr=~1%, 3acc=1.5%, 1%TA=1.8%ish depending on DA.

Basically its a Haub+2. For Pld (or Dual wielding warriors without Adaberk) its a little closer since you drop 1acc/atk from nocturns str/dex.

It would perform virtually identically to a Haub+2 if it existed. It does about 1-2% more damage and 2.5ish% more TP gain over haub+1. Its basically a small step up between Haub+1 and Adaberk for TP. (which is why this kicks ass for drg as they have nothing in that range)

Edited, Mar 30th 2010 2:00pm by Banalaty