Endgame Gear questionFollow

First off, anytime you sub NIN, you should be going Krieg/Franny. Keep the Vulcan's Staff for when you are /WAR or /SAM.

Most of the gear that an end-game RNG wants is listed in the Ranger 101 Sticky. The trick is knowing when to use what. If you're making RNG your main, and want to trick that job out, I'd go for the following. This is just for gun.

Weapon: HF+1 and Culverin (for zergs only)
Head: AF+ > AF+1 > Turtle SCNM helmet. Kupo Helmet for WS.
Neck: PCC works, grab Qiqirn Neck piece as R Acc may be capped. Faith Torque when you can get it for TP. Elemental Gorgets via sea for WS.
Ears: Triumphx2
Body: Kirin's Osode
Hands: CFG/BFG TP, Seriyu's WS
Rings: Behe +1s, Rajas, Flame/Triumph. Swap STR rings in when able.
Back: AM +1
Belt: Scout's (Dynamis) or Buccaneers (Einherjar)
Legs: Dusk, Scout's/Scout's +1 (Dynamis)
Feet: Scouts/Scout's +1 (Dynamis)

I did not add Skadi gear, but there are some useful RNG pieces here. Most people don't go straight into Salvage as their first end-game activity, but if you do, try and get the relevent Skadi pieces for RNG.

The old saying "sh*t is situational" should be heeded of course. Not everything has the same EVA, so play around with your gear as needed, situation dependant. To be honest, most XXX main jobs have multiple pieces of gear for TP or WS, depending on the situation.

Edited, Nov 23rd 2009 8:51am by Cyth

lol, good catch Lobi.

I don't think Axes are that gimp. See below. They compare favorably to a Fire staff and have a good amount of RACC. And as a Mithra RNG with AGI up the butt, I still don't cap RACC against anything I bring RNG out for (mostly sky gods). Anything where I do have capped RACC I generally go /SAM and use a staff.

dart iono how old the quote you posted is but I do notice that you have axes listed but for staff you don't have grips added to them thats an extra 3 str(sup axe grip).

Not saying that will sway things for SS but it is still a signifcant amount of str along when paired with Vulcans.

gimp =)

its not like there arent a ton of places we can add more racc and still be able to use a v.staff + axe grip. Here's a few options for you if you find your acc lacking:


Optical hat == +10 racc
Behemoth Ring +1 == +12 racc (instead of rajas etc)
Mirke wardecors == you could add +10 racc to it
Dusk trousers == +10 racc
Peacock Charm(ulet) == +10


You get the gist here, there is no need to actually trash your staff/grip because you need a little more racc when you could basically swap out 1 item and voila.

Your point is valid, the only thing i can say is, i may miss one of those slugwinders, but if its happening too bad, then yeah you may want to try dual weilding but chances are, if you missed it that go round, you most likely would have missed it with the axes.