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The stats are what I expected; the amounts of said stats, though, are much higher than I anticipated.

Pretty cool... Couple of issues come up:

1) Barring Avalon, Coral body is our only other magic defense option... so now, just need to do the math to see what's the best MDB/MDT build with both Coral and IR available, given the MDT cap, Shellra V, IR set resistance bonus, etc. Maybe even taking into account Askar Gambieras, WLegs, and other MDB/MDT options. Will have to do this once I get home from work unless someone beats me to it!

2) What about situations where you aren't worried about magic defense? If one were to have 5fc/5enm on ACP body, then IR body replaces ACP body for JAs. Personally, I macro in haste for Flash/Reprisal, so my only other consideration is Cure and shadows. 5fc is still awesome for both, and with cures, 5enm/fc from ACP probably outpaces 6enm from IR on cures. Still, I wonder if anyone plans to use IR body for Cures in situations where you're able to time them between taking hits. I guess then you could always add 10 eva to your ACP body instead of enmity and use it only for Ichi :P.

Overall, this seems like a great piece for kiting (unless you're using shadows), MDB/MDT, and +HP builds. I'm happy with it :D

(Of course if your healers can't deal with blinking, your situation is different, but I'd rather not talk about that again here~)

Edited, Jul 20th 2009 2:09pm by soopafeen

Pretty darn sexy! Now just to see how much AN we are going to have to shell out for it.

Well, now IR wins for cures/JA and ACP wins for flash/utsusemi. Argh, @#%^ you SE and giving me so many different items to use in the same slots! :(

On the upside, I really like that campaign ring with -10% physical damage in campaign. That will put me up to -42% physical damage which will make pretty much all melee type mobs easy as hell to solo the entire waves and not share any mobs. Maybe I'll be able to start pulling some of the less ridiculous NMs (like not the yag monk with en-doom fists) and soloing those and leaving the normal wave.




Edited, Jul 20th 2009 2:39pm by Asdrabael

True, however I don't see very many people to Cover in a tank party nowadays unless you plan on Covering another PLD :P Almost all tank party I see consists of tanks, brd, rdm(refresh/phalanx whore), whm, and quite possible a smn(stoneskin/Phalanx whore),BLU(Diamond hide whore), SCH(Stoneskin/Phlanx whore).

Cover other tank with valor = recover MP. Is that outlandish?

Well, first equipping the whole Iron Ram set, I notice the set bonus doubles : 4/5 pieces gets you 15 elemental bonus in all elements, 5/5 gives you 30. So it's pretty good, not sure it makes wearing full set of Bastok armor more viable though.

75k AN for Sandy...

Edited, Jul 20th 2009 4:07pm by EvlSmily

For those with ACP body ENM 5 and Fastcast 5, would you switch to ACC 10 and Fastcast 5, for an Idle set/Tp for Atonement? I am leaning towards making my ACP this, or go with Mirke for MNK and THF now.

I don't have Ares [which I would use as idle,] and I blink enough as it is with head/hands/legs/feet being swapped almost per spell/JA. The body wouldn't matter except for getting more TP for Atonement. Just wanted to see the opinions from people. I still might do it. As I'm on PLD the most [or SAM doing Nyzul to get PLD gear.]

I bet I'm the only one more excited about the Patroclus Ring than the IR Haubert. -42% physical damage in campaign will be enough for me to solo a few NMs while I also solo the entire wave with them.

sh*t will be crazy!

Oh you're right, I was thinking the 10% would overwrite the 2%. Never occurred to me that it would end up being 12% in campaign.

Thats even better. Its actually making me consider getting some darksteel +1 leggings for 47%, and darksteel +1 gloves for 49%. Too bad theres no way to get 50% unless I gave up my gallant leggings for askar boots.

I'm really pleased this has finally been released; it means that when I finally get round to buying ACP I can go with BST/PUP stats, which is nice.

Also means I feel a lot better about the fact that in years of xarc I never once saw a surcoat, only for one to drop shortly after I left lol.

However, I *realy* don't see why these bodies weren't added last update, or even the update before that (or before that). They're nice, but they're all pretty much what we expected and not totally game-breaking. It makes no sense we've had to wait this long for them.

Because they're @#%^ing lazy and are trying to go as long as possible before having to come up with new content.

I bought WoTG a year and a half ago, and the @#%^ing thing still isn't done. Not even close. CoP by comparison was done in 1 year and already had everything added except some tweaks to stuff in sea like droprates.

Not to mention wheres the blm, pup, and smn tweaks promised? Where the hell are the old style updates I remember from years past where every 3 months you'd get a good update. Now its every 4 months for little to nothing except disappointment and anger followed by 3-4 emergency maintenances to fix their spaghetti code.

Then to make stuff worse, they're insulting to the playerbase by releasing this retarded 10 dollar expansions that have so little content they should be available at the regular monthly fee. All 3 expansions together cost as much as cop or wotg and will likely be able to get all 3 done in less than 1 day worth of time. The first was 6 hours, and the second isn't much better. I'm not holding my breath on the third.