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My fire set is

Main: Water Staff
Range: Cerberus Bow
Head: Green Ribbon +1
Neck: Buburimu Gorget
Ears: Ruby Earring x2
Body: Legionnaire's Harness
Hands: Tarasque Mitts
Rings: Malflame Ring/Ruby Ring
Waist: Water Belt
Legs: Crimson Cuisses
Feet: Power Sandals

Basically just get gear for each slot that has the maximum fire resist you can afford.

Upgrades on my set would be things like Hrotti + Numinous Shield +1, Cerberus Mantle, Black Ribbon, Assault Breastplate, etc. But what I have is relatively cheap and easy to get except for the bow and cuisses, and can easily get you above 250 without those pieces, which is where you should be for a really effective resist set.

Thanks for the link I will check it out...

300 is where you should be for wyrms; Jorm, Ouryu, Tiamat. 250 is fine for lesser mobs. I recently did the KS99 Wyrm with 305 and was taking a consistent 24 damage per hit. Dropped down to 280 and was taking the exact same damage. I've done Jailer of Faith with less than 300 and resisted everything he hit me with (200 damage Stonega 3's with me as the only target). Same with Kirin.

A better option is hrotti/Numinous shield +1 for 30 fire resist instead of water for 15. Also if you can afford a cerberus mantle, get one. Ruby earring may be hard to find at times, so also look for sapphire earring for the same resist resist.

With those changes and the set above you get 169 fire resist. A BRD with proper equipment(Crumhorn +1/2) gets you up to 219. A WHM with capped enhancing magic is 86 getting you up to 305, while a WHM/SCH gets you up to 310. Add 20 for WHM relic pants and potentially +10 if WHM has barspell merits.

Depending on the gear you have and the WHMs you have you may always have a different fire resist.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?197420

A set that lets you get full resist and not lose your TP when you switch (you fulltime the hrotto and cerberus bow).

Any whm not entirely too gimp should be able to put you over 300 resist with this and a bard. If your whm is gimp, just keep a green ribbon +1 and use the power sandals handy. With those too, a RDM can put you over 300 if needed. If your whm can't, you really need a new whm.

Notice its not too expensive either, with the most expensive item being cerberus mantle (you can usually get hrotti for dirt cheap from an LS if you don't kill fafnir) and the most difficult item being wlegs.

Here is what I got so far. Let me know what ya think.

Weapon: Neptune staff - 20
Ranged: Lamian Kaman +1 - mdb +2
Head: Black Ribbon - 12
Neck: Buburimu Gorget - 10
Body: Scorpion Breastplat - 9 (10)Hq
Hands: Scorpion Gauntlets - 5 (6)Hq
Legs: Blood Cuisses - 21
Feet: Power Sandals - 7
Ring: Malflame Ring - 10 (11)Hq
Ring: Ruby Ring - 9 (11)Hq
Earring: Ruby earring - 10 (12)Hq
Earring: Ruby earring - 10 (12)Hq
Back: Cerberus Mantle - 10 (12)Hq
Waist: Water belt - 20

This set gives me 153 right now. I can push it to 164 if I upgrade to Hq in the above slots. My question would be is 153 enough or do I need to go ahead and spend the gil for the Hq upgrades so I can hit 164?

The hardest piece gil wise is Cerb +1. The others I can pick up off AH without breaking the bank. As for the Scorp gear, I am crafting that myself and have to farm the Hq Shells which are rarley on AH. I am hoping for an HQ soon, so those 2 upgrades are left up to the crafting gods.

BTW ... This set is for my Rdm. I posted in the Pld forum to get some good ideas for a fire set since that the job class that noramlly uses it.

Your NQ set listed should be plenty to get you to the cap on Tiamat, and it's way overkill for KS99 Wyrm. (Assuming your BRDs have HQ Crumhorn and WHMs have a decent Barspell setup).

Okay, so I'm a little curious now.

Here's what I have for my Fire Resist set atm:

Main: --
Sub: Numinous Shield
Ranged: Cerberus Bow
Ammo: --
Head: Iron Ram Sallet
Neck: Buburimu Gorget
Ears: --
Body: --
Hands: Iron Ram Dastanas
Rings: Ruby Ring
Back: Cerberus Mantle
Waist: Water Belt
Legs: Iron Ram Hose
Feet: Power Boots

Now, I do plan on going for a Hrotti eventually, but my main question is, how does the Iron Ram set stand up against the other items that typically go in those slots?

IR Sallet
IR Dastanas
IR Hauberk
IR Hose
IR Greaves

Would give me a total of +30 Fire, 22 Enmity, and 17 MDB.

The others:

Tarasque Mitts
Assault Breastplate
Power Boots

From what I'm seeing here would only give me +27 Fire [I don't count Crimson Cuisses because it has hidden Dragon Affinity, so I probably wouldn't use them).


Am I missing anything I should be thinking of when looking at this?

Why would Dragon Affinity matter? Unless getting intimidated while casting on a DRG or someone wearing a Bahamut's Mask will spell disaster for you or you're fighting a demon (which you aren't if you're worried about a fire resist set), then it doesn't make any difference.

Also, why aren't you counting Green Ribbon +1? Its cheap, easy to come by, and has no negative effects. So even without the Cuisses, its the 30 of full IR versus 37 with the alternative.

Edited, Jul 28th 2009 8:34am by Foustian

My resist isn't a great set, but it's better than nothing. It doesn't work 100% of the time like the people at 300+ say it does, but it does work still. I've got the ks99 wins to prove it works decently(and definitely better than no resist)


Green Ribbon+1 10 resist, 10k
Buburimu Gorget 10 resist, 9k
ruby ring x2 18 resist, 100k(roughly)
ruby earring x2 20 resist, 40k
Water belt 20 resist, cost: an hr of your time
Numinous Shield 10 resist, 30k

total:
180-200k depending on price fluctuations
resist total:
88
Since you want roughly 100? resist before barfira and brd song(correct me if I'm wrong on this guys, never knew for certain how much you get from those) to break 300, this is a very, very easy setup to get. Consider how many other setups use 8 or more gear slots and count up how much money any of those would be. Acc or Tp setup. STR setup. HP setup. MND setup for mnk CHI blast. These items listed above is one of the cheapest gear setups you can buy, and 200k is not hard to get...I farm twice a week and could manage to get this set in 2 weeks, and that's after buying the mandatory food + 1 stack of ammo for my COR. 1 week if I managed to skip ammo purchasing and didn't need food. I also shell out for limbus and am known for being poor.


I don't have C.pants, cerb mantle, hrotti or power sandals, and could also throw in cheap tarasque mitts for another +5 on the hands.

These items listed above are a great and easy set and will put you in a higher safety range to help you survive situations you'd want a fire resist. Like said above though, 300 is that magical number you should aim for. For gear though, I -think- it's just 100 in total.


In my setup above, power sandals (7) and tarasque mitts(5) would add another 12, which would...actually...cap out at 100...maybe I need to revisit the AH shortly. XD;

Other items that are extremely difficult /rare to obtain but can make this build a lot easier:

Cerberus Bow ( have to take a hit to your pocket because it's a loss to synth this) but quick +12 fire resist
Bowman's Ledelsens.(or w/e- comes from first lieutenant assault ??? item appraisal) but they give +15 in the feet slot.

You might also get lucky(lol) with some augmentable cheap AH gear that might get some fire resist+. Other people have so far considered this type of augment a blunder, but in the sake of looking for cheap resist options, depending on your luck, this might be a good alternative as well. Just pick on a cheap item <5k that you can buy multiples of and try some augments on the lot till ya get a fire resist...more risky, but something you could do on a steady daily/weekly basis until you got it. Just another option. Farming gil for real fire resist+ gear might be more of the safer option.

@FenrirXIII: 100 resist from gear will not get you above 300. Carol with a Crumhorn +1 gives 50 resist, so to get 300 with 100 in gear you'd need a 150 Barspell, which isn't possible with even the best gear and full merits.

100 in gear will most likely get you above 250 assuming your WHM has a semi-decent barspell build, but to get 300+ you want to aim for at least 130 in gear, preferably 140-150+ if your WHM is lacking some key pieces of gear or merits.