With all of the magian daggers available now, is X's Knife useless at 85+?
What's the best offhand for Mandau these days? I'm thinking STR Kila is probably hard to beat...
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Is X's Knife useless now?Follow
Wear it proudly on your mannequin. I know I do!
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It's obsolete unless they decide to make some of the older rare drops into trophy items for Magian trials, which I can totally see them doing.
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I thought of it first:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=130073657654872218#20
If you happen to be doing some NM with a "TP on other mobs, then run over and WS" strategy, it should still be good. That's all I can think of though. DPS/tp gain is just miles behind level 85 magians.
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X's knife still has a special place in my heart even if it is useless. I hope SE integrates it into Trial of the Magians eventually.
I've been wondering this too, as well as the viability of Cavaros Mantle now with the ability to stack % crit damage and crit rate atma's in abyssea.
Atma of the Razed Ruin DEX+: Superior, Critical Hit Rate: Major, Critical Hit Damage:Major
Atma of the Sanguine Scythe HP+: Major, Critical Hit damage+: Major, Enmity+: Minor
I don't have these yet (/cry) but will soon. I am wondering if it would be worth the mathematical excercise to see how an additional 10% on top of these already significant % based bonuses would play out for TP and WS phase now (in abyssea)
I'm not sure that it would be worth it either, but it does seem to me that X's 10% is more of a bonus that it used to be, pre abyssea.
Edited, Oct 24th 2010 9:42am by ThiefKiller
Atma of the Razed Ruin DEX+: Superior, Critical Hit Rate: Major, Critical Hit Damage:Major
Atma of the Sanguine Scythe HP+: Major, Critical Hit damage+: Major, Enmity+: Minor
I don't have these yet (/cry) but will soon. I am wondering if it would be worth the mathematical excercise to see how an additional 10% on top of these already significant % based bonuses would play out for TP and WS phase now (in abyssea)
I'm not sure that it would be worth it either, but it does seem to me that X's 10% is more of a bonus that it used to be, pre abyssea.
Edited, Oct 24th 2010 9:42am by ThiefKiller
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Well, I haven't looked closely at all the newer weapons, but if it's somehow possible that X's Knife in the offhand will still produce a stronger weaponskill (in the case of Mercy Stroke, etc) than any other weapon, then it would still have a use as a fight opening weapon. You could store TP before a fight, and open the fight with a powerful SA or TA WS, then change to another weapon. Of course, you also lose TP when you do that. But when the cap was level 80, I used to start some fights like this in order to help me tank better.
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