Easiest gear to obtain for 50% cure potency cap?Follow

As the title says. I'd love to max out my cure potency, but a lot of the gear which grants it seems to be either very rare or extremely expensive. I've heard a lot of people say +50% potency is an easy cap to reach though, so I'm curious as to how best to approach this and which pieces I should focus on most.

Thanks in advance.

You could also go for the serpentes set which is 5% and not too hard to get. Less difficult than getting Augur hands at least.

The best way though is to definitely focus on the staff and whilst it takes time, it's straightforward. Then I'd work on Orison Head.

The backpiece isn't too bad to get but you'll need help with the earring. You might find it worth hanging out near the chariot or shouting to see if anyoneis doing rani.

The other piece which some forget are the legs from ASA but the orison legs are so nice you'll want to replace them.

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 12:05pm by eldelphia

I agree on Augur's Gloves, super easy to get. Serpentes Cuffs are about as easy, but the matching Sabots are a major pain.

When single healing, I use AF3+2 body for this exact reasoning. When doing AoE healing, I swap in Nefer Kalasiris to bump up my potency. I think at last count I was at 45% without a cure potency body, so when I switch in the body, I also change out a couple of other pieces for more MND. I am saving up for a roundel earring currently which will cap me without body.

If you play any other mage jobs, the N. Kalasiris is definitely worth the price tag. I use it on blm, rdm, sch, brd, and smn for my cure macros.

That's a good point actually about Chloris but funny how this game messes you about. I got my serpentes set really easily but Augur's took quite some time to drop even with blue proc and TH >.>

Thanks for all the info. I'm currently sitting on about 31% cure potency (Still using Apollo's Staff, but I'm working on a Surya's through magian trials at the moment). Of note, the Augur's gloves look very useful. Decent stat bonuses as well as cure potency, so it's a win-win for me.

I'm one seal away from getting my +1 body, so quite some ways from getting a +2, but one of the reasons I'd like to hit a higher cap on potency is so that I don't lose out by equipping it. While it's possible my maths is out, the best I can hope to achieve as a bonus is +50 hp in Stoneskin, while an extra 10% cure potency could easily add up to 90+. If I can cap out cure potency in other areas (Surya's will be a huge help) then the Solace bonus on AF body will become infinitely more useful.

Was looking at Chloris on the Wiki, and it looks like there are a LOT of pop items required to unlock him. The pop items are dropped from NMs, and the NMs which drop those require NM KI's to spawn too, assuming no luck on gold pyxis. Are the NMs I need soloable, or am I better off buying the pop items I can and getting a team together to work on the KI's to pop Chloris?

Thanks for the info :)

It's a pain in the butt to get a Chloris pop. I second what Elspetta said, find someone who's already doing it. In fact, you might just try running out to the pop point and see if there's anybody there doing it already. Last two or three times I did Chloris, there was 2 other groups out there fighting it at the same time.