The official "rate my gear" threadFollow

TP Gear:
Weapon: Thalassocrat >> V. Fork/Skystrider w/Supremacy earring
Sub: Pole Strap
Ranged:
Ammo: Tiphia Sting

Head: Walahra Turban >>(Possibly Askar Zucchetto soon, yes I'm aware that Ace's would be best)
Neck: Peacock Charm >> Love Torque/Ancient Torque
Ear1: Brutal Earring
Ear2: Assault Earring

Body: Askar Korazin
Hands: Dusk Gloves >> Homam
Ring1: Rajas Ring
Ring2: Sniper's Ring >> Ulthalum's/Divisor/Sniper's +1/Toreador's
Back: Forager's Mantle
Waist: Swift Belt >> Speed/Velocious
Legs: Conte Cosciales >> Homam/Ares/Barbarossa/Askar
Feet: Dusk Ledelsens >> Homam/Aurum





WS Gear
Main: Thalassocraft
Sub: Pole Strap
Ranged: None
Ammo: Tiphia Sting

Head: Wyvern Helm, /wait 1 and equip Wyrm Armet for increase in breath damage >> Askar Zucchetto/Gnadbod's
Neck: Peacock Charm (Working on Sea Gorgets)
Ear1: Brutal Earring
Ear2: Assault Earring

Body: Hecatomb Harness
Hands: Hecatomb Mitts
Ring1: Rajas Ring
Ring2: Flame Ring

Back: Forager's Mantle
Waist: Potent belt >> Hopefully Wyrm belt soon
Legs: Conte Cosciales >> Askar(Working on Ares's Flanchard)
Feet: Hecatomb Leggings


As for Homam, I don't have very much room for any other events with my current schedule, but a new Limbus shell doing Apollyon only just opened for recruitment so I may join. Any realistic suggestions that I haven't already listed and that aren't very time/money consuming are more than welcome and appreciated. Will be getting Drakesbane very soon so this is my current Penta WS setup, any suggestions on a Drakesbane setup are welcome as well.

Edited, Nov 6th 2008 11:33pm by JMorrison

Edited, Nov 6th 2008 11:45pm by JMorrison

Considering you already have Homam Cosciales, if you aren't capping accuracy, Barbarossa's Zerehs will be a downgrade. If you are capping accuracy, it will be a very small upgrade, and considering the work that goes into getting a pair (and it's sh*tty drop rate) it's not really worth the effort in my opinion. You can still go for it if you want, but it seems like a monumental waste of time unless you can put them to use on another job.

you probably don't have the ACC for askar to beat homam body. everything's pretty good, except hands which should be dusk (and should be your first upgrade). PCC would be nice, but it's a bit pricey for 5ACC. note this thread.

forager's is fine, but it's a waste of gil if you're not rich and/or have no other upgrades to make. (forager's before, say, PCC is folly). 1STR on its own has a chance of doing nothing at all, and it does rather little when it doesn't do nothing.

edit: replacing dusk feet with amir boots isn't a bad idea, though it looks like you might get homam feet eventually, which would remove all situations where amir wins. if you like temporary r/ex gear, amir boots should beat dusk unless you have 2 marches and haste or so.

Edited, Nov 20th 2008 4:14pm by milich

I've got a quick question about lances pre-75; Gae Bolg, Skystrider, and Imperial Neza, in particular. They all share the same base damage (aside from Skystrider, which is 93), but different delays (551, 492, and 478, respectively). Starting from zero TP, Gae Bolg is a 7-hit; Skystrider and and Imperial Neza are 8-hits (Skystrider has +5TP bonus to jumps to account for also). The one-hit difference in TPing with the Gae Bolg is throwing me off a little; which one would be the best polearm?

My guess is that Skystrider may win out in the end, but I'm really not a good number cruncher, so I have to ask.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Corrected Skystrider's base damage. Edited a little more for structure.

Edited, Nov 21st 2008 1:54am by jprvoices

im an elvaan drg lvl 51 and here is my gear atm:
polearm:mythril lance+1
head:emperor harpin or walkure mask
neck:peacock charm or spike necklace
earrings:beetle+1 x2 gonna update to lvl 45ish soon though
body:brigandine+1
hands:spiked finger gauntlets
rings: 2x woodsman or puissance
back:jaguar mantle
waist:life belt or swordbelt+1
legs: subligar att and Ratt+
feet:volans greaves for jumps or bounding boots

lemme know what i can upgrade ty^^

Well i dont have much gil atm, but i do plan on doing major farming..... but this is what my current gear setup is currently

not the best but some is only temporary

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?193356

level 62 DRG... i need to be 75 already

Edited, Nov 30th 2008 2:16pm by Trixtaaaa

Edit: slowly upgrading.. gave up garnet for a Ecphoria Ring (personally for DRG/SAM i think this is better than woodsman, cheaper and adds store tp +1 at the cost of 1 acc i also farmed it myself, makes me slightly happier) and traded in sword strap for pole grip

Edited, Dec 2nd 2008 4:46am by Trixtaaaa

nvm... miliched covered it as usual.

Edited, Nov 30th 2008 7:22pm by ketrel

In Dynamis we have regular points and "Pahn Points".

True Story.

ok, so after reading this thread, I've realized that I should prolly be going with an ACC build. I've just gotten a lot of conflicting info in-game from various peeps, and wasn't sure what to do.
So, as a lvl 50 Hume DRG, this is how my gear looks atm. Please keep in mind that I'm pretty new, this is the first job I'm taking to 75. So I'm working on it slowly so that (hopefully) I can do it justice.


MAIN: Mythril Lance +1
SUB: Brass Grip +1 (Pole Strap in storage)
RANGE: No Item
AMMO: Balm Sachet (Tiphia Sting in storage)
HEAD: Walkure Mask (What next, and when?)
NECK: Spike Necklace (working on PCA or PCC, and have Chiv.Chain fin storage)
EAR1: Tortoise Earring +1 (Have x2 Assualt earrings in storage)
EAR2: Tortoise Earring +1
BODY: Brigandine Armor (SH in storage)
HANDS: Spiked Finger Gauntlets (what next?)
RING1: Ecphoria Ring (Haven't finished CoP, so no Rajas yet ;_; )
RING2: Woodsman Ring
BACK: Jaguar Mantle (Amemet Mantle +1 in storage)
WAIST: Swordbelt +1 (Have Life Belt, guess I'll start using it lol I always bring it to pt's, and change into it if I'm missing)
LEGS: Republic Subligar (when do I change this?)
FEET: Leaping Boots (Gonna work on getting Tabin Boots +1 now that I know)


any and all help would be appreciated, like I said, sorta new (I started in late Apr., and mini-lvl'd a lot of jobs to get an idea of game mechanics before focusing on DRG) and haven't met many people that are willing to help a n00b, so
I've just been trying to figure this out on my own, and wanna make sure of what I'm doing right and wrong.
Thanks in advance XD

Name: Nothing
Server: Asura (switching to Titan soon)
Nation: Bastok Rank5

Doesn't really matter, the difference is minimal between each. Go with the cheaper weapon. Or the one you like the most.

Excellent stuff, especially for being a new player - kudos on looking forward and having key pieces of gear set aside in storage to level into. Just a few notes on what to improve on:



Very good. Try to get an Optical Hat at 70 for TP until Turban and for a WS macro piece depending on camp. Wyvern Helm and Walahra Turban @75, along with Askar if you get into Nyzul.



I assume you mean Spike Earring x2? Assault Earring is Rare, so you can only have one on you but Assault is the best Earring you can wear, paired with a Brutal at 75. Fowling Earring at 70 to compliment that Assault and the aforementioned Brutal at 75 if you get Sea access by then. If not, Brutal/Fowling combo is totally fine. Assault/Brutal being the best combo.



SH is great. Try to camp Assault Jerkin if you can but no one's gonna think less of you for not having it as soon as you hit 67. There's a few superior pieces but you can work on that once you hit 75.



Perfect, and the best you can get for a long time. The next upgrade is Tarasque Mitts, or the +1 version, at 70. Dusk Gloves at 72 are optimal but by no means mandatory until you can afford them. Definitely something to work on though, as they're cheapish nowadays. Keep the SFG/Tarasque for WS regardless.



Both pieces are great. Work on a Swift Belt for later on, depending how far into CoP you are. Warwolf Belt is another option for a WS piece when you can equip it, depending on your other gear.



Feral Trousers at 63 are an option but not gonna give you much over the Republigar. Depends on if you want to see your bare legs or not (I'm a Mithra, so that sh*t is sexy regardless) but I personally went with the Feral just for a change of look, although it was a slight upgrade. Keep your Republigar around for leveling lowbie jobs and level capped stuff. Trust me - I've sold and bought back those things so many times for various jobs.



Tabin +1 will be just fine for a long time. Amir are great if you do Assaults, Aurum are optimal if you're in a shell that does ZNM and Dusk are great if you wanna stick to AH stuff.

I already owned Dusk Trousers for my RDM and THF, I bought Barone when I reached 70, should I keep the Barone for Jump? I have Wyrm Brais for High Jump already, so I basically use the Barone for Jump right now and WS. Not real sure they are even better than Dusk for WS anyway.

Thanks so much for the info!
It's good to know that I wasn't too far off with what I was doing XD

I do only have one Assault Earring, I don't know why I thought I had 2 lol.
I got my Tabin +1's, and bought Feral because I've been looking at my male Hume legs since lvl 25, and I'm over it lol.

I've recently realized that If I wanna do DRG justice, I'mma have to get another job to 75 so I can do some of the high end stuff required to get the best of the best (I truly love DRG, have since Kain in FF2(or 4, depending where you are from) lol)
So I've been working on MNK, cause it's simple enough, and pretty powerful.
What can I say?
I like to hit stuff XD

So again, ty for the advice!
I will be posting my questions and progress as I go!

Name: Nothing
Server: Asura
Nation: Bastok
Rank: 5

lol,
To answer your question,
I like to be able to lvl into stuff at the earliest possible lvl. Call it being over prepared, it just makes me feel good lol.
BUT.

After thinking bout it, I realized that lvl'ing another job just to get a few items I'll be able to get when DRG hits 75 is just silly. I love the job, but I don't HAVE to have and Assault Jerkin 67, I just WANT to.

So, it's back to the ol' purple armored grind.


a side note.

Tonight, myself, my gf, and an LS mate attempted Under Observation BCNM40 with a sorta unorthodox setup, we went RDM/BLM, NIN/WHM, and DRG/NIN. I had never heard of it working with a DRG in pt, so I was skeptical.

After 6 tries, I walked out with a shiny new Peacock Charm.

So, my DRG is just a little closer to having everything I can give him XD.

I had a good night.

Zahak's is much, much better than Askar. It's probably better than Heca too if you're using Drakesbane, but by a closer margin. Since I am using Drakesbane, I'd proabably hold on to it and never let it go.

On the other hand, Zahak's is not likely to stay as expensive as it is so the PCC + extra gil tradeoff might be worth it for your situation, but probably not unless you have Heca to fall back on. Definitely keep spamming Swift Belt runs regardless of how frustrating it is, and take a shot at the Toreador Ring Solo strategy (1, 2) rather than shelling out the gil for it yourself.

Potent/Tiphia are not really upgrades at this point either so count those out. Wyrm Belt is great, and supposedly easier to come by these days, so I'd just wait for that to drop.

Edited, Dec 25th 2008 9:20pm by MoguePhoenix

Ok I just recently hit lvl 70 and still need to beat maat which I hope to do soon. I'm not to worried about that part. I just don't want to have gimp gear on my way to lvl 75. Keep in mind I'm not apart of any End Game LS as of yet. So mostly I will only be doing exp. partys. So here is my gear so far. Please give some suggestions

Weapon: Grand Knights Lance
Sub: Pole Grip
Ammo: Tiphia Sting
Head: Walkure's Mask
Neck: Chiv Chain
Ear: Assault Earring
Ear: Spike Earring
Body: Scorpion Harness
Hand: Spike Finger Gauntlets
Finger: Woodsman Ring
Finger: Woodsman Ring
Back: Amemet Mantle +1
Waist: Life Belt
Legs: Barone Cosciales
Feet: Leaping Boots

I was thinking about upgrading my weapon, feet, maybe hands and finger slot with some str rings. Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated. Thanks.

actually, Tiphia's better than Smart Grenade any day of the week, and it's easily verifiable.

Lowballing it with the Attack a little because I simply cannot be bothered to do a pDIF calculation at this hour, and taking Bsphil's standard "Attack 400, 85% hit rate" parameters (I think they're his), Tiphia Sting's Accuracy boost alone does more than the Attack from Smart Grenade - if you wanted to, you could compare the effects of Acc+2 with those of Attack+2 instead, but I was simply too lazy to fart around with differences and so I did the calculation with the equipment's stats as they are.

Ignoring the HP and Evasion, because HP-25 is a drop in a bucket unless you're a Taru, and because Evasion-4 is meaningless to a job that's already at the Evasion floor even with capped skill, it's fairly easy to see that Smart Grenade is an optional downgrade, UNLESS he's soloing or in some other situation where the HP loss would have some inordinately detrimental effect.

the rest is pretty spot-on, with the sole exception that Life Belt is better thanSwift Belt if Swift's your only source of Haste.

Edited, Dec 26th 2008 5:13pm by Lucinus

Be that as it may, Tiphia Sting's available a lot earlier than Angons (I myself only managed to get the merit points for Angon a couple of weeks ago. Yes, I'm slow)

Sorry to butt in, but just a pet peeve of mine here.

"Life belt is cheaper, but you can just do assault and get potent" or any other similar comparison with two AH pieces, one of which is obtainable through something like assault or IS/CP/AN purchases, is stupid.

Yes, you haven't spent 100k of your gil on a potent belt, but if you get one through assault and then use it, you're still wasting 100k that you could have if you sold it.

Basically, if your choice is:
A) Get Life Belt
B) do assault for Potent Belt
Then the answer is actually:
C) do assault and sell potent belt, then buy life belt.

Ok, Drg61. Tarutaru.

Polearm: Dark Merz
Grip: Pole Grip
Ammo: Smart Grenade
Head: Walkure
Neck: Chiv
Body: SH
Hands: Spiked WS: (penta) Battle/Jaridah gloves (others) Pallas
Waist: Potent
Legs: Herder's Subligar (Pet Acc+)
Feet: Leaping Lizzy Jumps: Af
Earrings: Spikedx2 (Minuet Earring incase there's a Bard.)
Ring1: Ulthalam's
Ring2: Woodsmen


At 62 I'm thinking to swap out the Leaping Lizzies for my RSE boots, being Taru i'm hoping that'll help more.

I have plenty of gear already set aside for drg. Barone pants, Hydra Mail, Dusk gloves, afv2 gloves and pants already, Ohat, Walmart turban, askar gloves. Have Coral earringsx2. Don't see the need for Assault at it's current price.

Currently have Life belt too and swift. I don't use my swift tho till i can use other haste gear. Prefer Potent over life since I'm Taru.

Thinking all i need for the rest of my Drg days is a Colassal lance, then Thalassocrat... And a saurian helm. Maybe a Fowling earring too. Have a nyzul static for armor there, but askar drops go to the static melees 1st since I'm rdm75.

I finally hit level 75 a few weeks ago and desperately need help with some things.

I am having a lot of problems making gear choices all the different stats really confuse me.

Main: Thalassocrat
Grip: Pole Grip
Ammo: Angon
Head: Wyvern Helm, Optical Hat, Walahra Turban, Drachen Armet (for when I sub Blu)
Neck: Chivalrous Chain
Earrings: 2X Spike Earrings
Body: Assault Jerkin
Hands: Spiked Finger Gauntlets
Rings: Echphoria / Snipers
Back: Amemet mantle +1
Belt: Potent Belt, Sword Belt
Legs: Wyrm Brais, Barone cosciales
Feet: Feral Ledelsons

So there is all my gear the main problems I am having is what do I wear on my head for what circumstances. Should I be macroing something in for different situations. As well as my belt should I be going with the potent for accuracy or the sword for attack. I also have been looking high and low for something to replace my foot piece. So mainly are there any pieces of gear I can ditch completely and also are there some that I should be picking up? I have been told to camp an NM in Upper Delfukts tower for Alkyoes Bracelets or something, are these a worth while thing to have?

Also some people are telling me to get STR gear while others are telling me to get attack gear which should I be getting? I thought that each STR+ is equal to 0.75 attack up so it would make sense to go just straight for attack gear. Am I missing something here?

Also if it makes any difference I am galka

We can't exactly explain why you'd be doing less, there's alot of things that go into damage dealing. When you say they're doing more damage, do you mean in parse, or eyeballing? If the latter, then don't trust it. Anyway, back on variances, it could be alot of things. Playstyle dictates alot of how well you do: How fast you are at gear swaps, WS every 100%, ride Jump/High jump etc. Food of course as well. I've outparsed people better equipped than me because of simple things like not using food at colibri and sitting on TP.

You also seem like you think STR does more than it really does. Every 4 STR above enemy vit, your weapon damage raises by 1. The max damage that can provide on a swing is probably 4 damage on a crit(it's actually 3.15, but in rare occasions that can be 4). 3 STR on a belt piece may be giving you a small increase, which is about the same as the increase life belt's 2 acc gives you. You shouldn't really concentrate on stats like STR and DEX and instead concentrate on ACC/ATK. If you manage to have a piece that has a larger amount of STR increase than you can get ATK/ACC without any detriments, then of course it's good to wear it. However, pieces like that are rare.

On to the gear suggestions:
Feet: Tabin Boots +1, 3 Acc in my opinion would do better than 4 STR, but it's probably close. RSE should be good jumping boots though, I'd honestly use it over AF.
Ranged: Tiphia Sting: another close one, but 2 ACC>2 ATK

Be very weary of what you're eyeballing. Multi-hit WSs by law of probabilities will tend to seem inaccurate. With an 80% hit rate, you only get a 5-hit penta 32% of the time. WS damage varies a lot, that just happens. However, adding attack+12 will in most all cases perform better than accuracy+3, because it's adding more DoT to each landed hit than adding another 1.5% hit rate would do.

Merits, skill being capped or not, and eyeballing all contributes towards skewed results. Download kparser, track the other DRG's exact gear and ask him for all of his merits and what his polearm skill is at, run the parse, and THEN post the results. I don't buy that argument in the slightest.

That depends on the validity of the statement from that JP book someone posted on BG saying that AF feet added attack+10% to jump. Been meaning to look into that myself, got a few test results too, but got busy and never finished that up. Now I've got more merits and my gear has changed around anyway, so I gotta start over.

Edited, Jan 7th 2009 3:53pm by bsphil

No, by eyeballing you didn't actually know how much damage any of you were doing. Ask your party next time if someone can run a parser.