"Official" Puppetmaster achievement threadFollow

Just hit 75 on my puppetmaster, being the first of any of my jobs to hit 75 in the years and years i played FFXI! Even though 90 is cap now i have wanted to have a 75 job for such a long time i was very happy to finally make it there, 8')

Fantus

Very nice! Congrats!

PUP was my first 75 job too.

Was able to get an Attowha chasm boss win so i can hold two atma, then got GH and RR, going to have fun playing around with these. Also almost finished capping automaton magic skill, <3 Afflictors.

Fantus

So, in case anyone else has the OA2-4x Ursine Claws, I inadvertently discovered an amazingly easy way to complete the new trial (700 vermin). I was mass pulling last night in Tahrongi while farming Glavoid KIs. Some of the preferred Charged Whisker mobs are scorpions and gnats... which both happen to be vermin. I usually equip my eva h2h, but occasionally switch to Ursine to finish off stragglers. Noticed the trial completions and put away my eva weapon lol. So we knocked out about 400 in no time bwahahahaha.

Bruiser's Earring, now to get 6 more H2H levels so it makes sense to equip it.

Personal achievement; did not troll the thread about the haste knife after reading part of one of the latter posts.

You mother f*^ker (kidding), jelly doesn't even begin to say how much I am of you. I'm working my way there too. Congrats :)

Finally got my anwig! Pet: -10 dt 5% haste.

Working on too much at the same time!!

But... Fire Taipan Claws +3 and Ice Taipan Claws +3.
Now back to trials for either Vere/Revenants and maybe pet -pdt claws for Ve tanking... too much to do!

Grats man! Did you get them on your chest, or bought it? Last time I checked the price in AH was prohibitive...

Edited, Nov 7th 2011 10:44am by TaimMeich

The gaiters I bought. Nice little footie upgrade :-)

They arent cheap, i got them from a friend I did a lot of voidwatch with so i only paid 1.5m for em, but they are going for 4-5m on the AH now cause it is a terrible mob and a pain to max lights on.

After 7 days of grinding Chloris and Ulhuadshi via shout pick up parties. It has been made...


http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/316/c/a/verethragna_by_takomunch-d4fwi3h.jpg

yes, chloris veggies and ulhuadshi croutons, amazing verethragna salad.

99 PUP, 5/5 Shijin, 12/12 dex merits, and 9 ifritites left to finished fire paths.

Oxyrani X2 complete :). And Shijin is very consistent. Wearing just my cirque +2, and a couple of dex rings, I'm pulling 3.3k+ 8/10 times in aby.

I'll let you know as soon as I put together one :). Oh and on that note on some of the new vw mobs I'm still getting 3ks here and there.

Went to a Gaunab run as PUP, lots of PUP jokes before, mr PUP ends up parsing 4th overall after two Ukon WARs and a Wildfire COR, and over Masa SAM, Kanna NIN, DRG, DRK, RNG.

Changed the minds of many Ragnarokian endgamers today ;)

Wow... Don't know the usual prices on your server, I bought mine for 2M and was cheap at the moment.

No, you get both lower TP phase and WS damage. Never subestimate 22 attack on a low attack job like PUP. And the STR is better on the TP phase, and helps even if it's not as good as DEX when doing Spiral.

just started to do VW with the LS I'm in and got Deluxe Animator 1/5 and joined a pick up group just now. 1/1 athos boots :D

Well that's a tricky question. A lot of people will yell that +2 haste feet will do better, but someone posted long ago that cirque+2 feet beat out a lot of the feet haste options. I think savatuers of maybe even Athos might challenge it.

I personally am having an internal struggle myself, maybe someone here can assist with numbers.

Currently using /war
oxy str path, turbo ani, automaton oil +3
Ocelomeh, rancor, brutal, kemas
Toci harness, cirque +2, eponas, heed
The new +2 DA cape, twilight belt, cirque pant +2,Kokugetsu+2 haste,

For the most attack rounds, will this give me more, or less than if I switched body to cirque +2 to cap haste?

Keeping capped haste is more important than Cirque +2 feet (or 5/5 set). If for whatever reason now or in the future you can cap haste without feet, then 5/5 Cirque +2 set is a viable option [much like the generally accepted MNK setup using 5/5 AF3+2 including feet with no haste, since MNK can cap haste with only Black Belt and head/hands/legs]. As it is today, I use Cirque Scarpe for WS, pet nukes, Tactical Switch macro.

Even without getting haste spell, capping haste should come out on top over Scarpe. With haste spell, samba, marches... even better.

Khayn, FWIW, Savateurs have dropped a bit in price recently on our server after being inflated for a while. I just picked up a pair this week to replace my Haste+3% Kokugetsu feet. Savateur are the current ideal PUP haste feet since the other stats are also very good (Acc+8/KA+3/SB+8). Just think of the KA as extra TP in 3% of attack rounds - not as good as DA since DA can proc on each fist and KA just once per round, but still quite useful.

EDIT: Messing around with Kinematics's DPS spreadsheets, with no haste outside of Abyssea, Savateur still barely edges Cirque +2 but it's almost even. As you add other sources of haste (spell, samba, marches), capped haste pulls away more and more. Also, when you're inside Abyssea, prioritizing haste shows better results since more TP swings = more atma-enhanced crits. So it's better to just get in the habit of using haste feet for TP even if it's nearly a toss-up in no-haste outside situations, because it's never a worse option and is significantly better when you add outside haste/atma into the mix.

Edited, Jan 10th 2012 2:19pm by Anza

i was too messing around with the spreadsheet a little while ago, and it seems that upgrading my taipans +2 to oxys seems to have the largest impact, its just that freaking fire geodes are expensive as hell :/, i guess i'll have to make do.

Pantin Taj +2
Pantin Dastanas +2
Toci's Harness

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