The best waist peices.Follow

So im looking for the best waist slot items for whm, post any you have seen and what the stats are please.

Korin obi too, on lightsday

I can see the appeal to Pythia Sash, but honestly, I've never been that impressed by it. I roll with Austerity Belt which I see as being roughly equal and much easier to get. In particular I really like the extra CMP from Austerity Belt, which I see as being one of the most under-rated WHM stats in history, although it's been less useful since Abyssea became popular.

Aside from Austerity, I sometimes use Swift Belt for haste. Also for enfeebles I use Cleric's Belt, which if you have a Pythia you could probably just use that.

Really, there aren't any great belts. The only other thing that comes to mind is a complete pain to obtain, and that's Siegel Sash which is great for your enhancing spells.

It depends, just be aware that enmity down has a cap of 50, including atma. So if you use Minikin and have four enmity down merits, that's 24 right there. You could only benefit from, at most, 26 enmity down on equipment.

Even then, enmity -50 is pretty drastic and is usually not necessary. Before Abyssea, I rolled with about -30 and it was never a problem. In Abyssea, I just stopped paying attention to it completely. If I pull hate, it won't be off a DD that's for sure, and if hate is on something other than a DD then I actually WANT to pull hate. I'd rather have the monster attacking me than say... a BLM. Hell, I can actually tank pretty well thanks to nearly unlimited MP and tons of fast cast from atmas. I've avoided quite a few wipes by simply kiting or even face-tanking things while the DD's unweaken. (Bukhis comes to mind... that evil bastard)

Ahh I didn't know about the 50 cap on enmity down either. Thanks for the info!

It's to cap off -enmity, the -7MND/VIT really does not impact cure5/6 (and cure3) as much as capped -enmity would inside abyssea.

Eventually I'd like to get out of Acerbic and use Austerity or Pythia, but for now I'll use Acerbic until I can cap -enmity inside abyssea.



iirc there was less than a 15HP cured difference between using acerbic and using no belt.




Edit: I just realized I should rebuild my cure setup now that I have orison earring; I can toss this Acerbic Sash and use Pythia Sash [Or spectral belt] + Delta Earring and still get the -enmity cap, but without finishing cast in loloquac.

Edited, Mar 15th 2011 2:33pm by SakkaofValefor

I cap out -Enmity on the chance that after a hate resetting move that lowers the tank's HP enough to warrant a cure, that cure won't pull hate off the tank's 1 melee round's worth of hate. Nobody likes repositioning.

Plus I think that it was capped before I gave it a moment's thought anyway, so I left it that way. I find it hard to say no to keeping something useful at cap when it's already there, and nothing at-hand to outdo it.