PLD/DNC in campaign. Gear optionsFollow

I'm selling off a bunch of my old tanking rdm/nin gear, and i've got a bit of cash floating about, so i thought id invest in some decent campaign gear.

I've already got my Terror shield (pwnage).

Starting at the top, Joyeuse seems like the best choice for weapon.
Terror sheild.
I'm working on AN and rankups to get the +1%/+10% waltz ammo.
Head: Use Koenig for the +10chr and +10vit for waltz, sheild skill and good def.

Neck: I'm looking at the +4/+25 VIT neck piece. Should add +7 HP to a waltz. Or should i go with +30/+200HP neck piece? That should add another 100dmg to a full spirits within.

Ears: Suppa/Brutal.

Body: This is where i'm really stuck. I currently go in a Hauby, but it feels a bit lame. Is there a better choice? Tempted with a Hauby+1, but I dont feel i need the +Acc as my Acc is fine in my ACP body piece. Would a Byrine +1 be any good?

Hands: Orcish Gloves.

Rings: Working on AN for -2%/-10% dmg taken ring. / Hercules' ring.

Back: Boxers/Gigant?

Belt: Swift/Warwolf?

Legs: Working on homam. Otherwise i'm normally in blood cuisses.

Feet: Homam, considering the +refresh feet, but they are currently 1.4/1.5mil, which seems a bit expensive, as they were 600k.

I'm putting emphasis on sustainability. I want to be able to tank anything and everything.

That looks like a pretty good setup so far. Try and get hold of an Ethereal Earring to swap out for Brutal, since Campaign is one of the places you can take huge advantage of the MP return from getting beat up. Also I just use Parade Gorget for the neck slot since it's not that hard to keep your HP high enough to power it, at least against a NQ mob or two.

Glovewise, Dusk or Homam will probably give you more of a return via TP for cures than the regen from Orcish. Hauby is fine; Byrnie +1 looks good on paper but strikes me as overly expensive just for a campaign item. You could always parse yourself for a while wearing a bodypiece without ACC and see how much it changes your overall hit rate. I'll admit I commit the cardinal sin of Askar Korazin because it's a solo event and ACC isn't really a problem.

Swift over Warwolf for sure, and try swapping Kaiser for W.Turban. The loss of shield skill shouldn't be an issue if you macro all your haste/fast cast into Reprisal and keep that up as much as possible. As Blankyy said, grab as much haste as you can for both your survivability and your AN/EXP returns. Properly-gear Vorpals will do more than waiting for a 300% Spirits, but Atonement will crush them both.

You probably still won't be able to grab a NM and solo it down mano a mano, but as long as anyone is helping to cure or co-tanking it back and forth with you, there's a few you can survive against until they're killed.

For the neck I'd use shield torque, will do more TP wise than chiv chain, well give you more survivability then 7 hp on waltz too IMO and parada gorget isn't all that great since you'll prolly be under the minimum HP a lot.

That said, I'd go haste all the way as the other have said. The faster you attack, the more TP you gain, the more haste you have, the most time you spend with reprisal and with mob flashed.

Edited, Aug 16th 2009 1:42pm by Delarius

I full time DD gear PLD/DNC. I never really have any problems with staying alive.

I also have atonement, atonement in Campaign is easy xp.

I use Haste > DD > Shield.

Find it really easy, can easily survive 3 mobs for extended periods of time if need be. Nets good xp. Could probably maximise it, but for campaign I couldn't really care.

As other people have said, gear for DD as it's not hard for pld to solo standard campaign mobs, more specifically...

Weapon: Joytoy

Shield: I know it's only 10k but Iron Ram Shield is great for campaign, I wouldn't use terror shield unless you're fighting a NM.

Ammo: I use Lamian Kaman but I'm saving AN to get the +10% waltz ammo.

Head: Use a haste head, macro in koenig for waltz

Neck: Bull Necklace is awesome for Joytoy users. Also don't use spirits, Vorpal will easily out damage it even with a crappy WS set, Atonement is amazing for campaign.

Ears: very good, stick with Suppa and Brutal.

Body: I fulltime ACP body personally because mob eva is so low you'll be capped on accuracy anyway so Hauby loses a lot of appeal. Byrnie +1 might actually have some use for campaign but I wouldn't waste good money on it just for that.

Hands: Rest in Orcish, tp in Dusk and ws in whatever you have, Pallas's are good and cheap if you can't afford Alky, you're capped on acc remember so the -dex isn't worth worrying about.

Rings: with capped acc just use str rings.

Back: Cerberus or Amemet +1 are both good.

Belt: Swift for tp and flash, Warwolf for Vorpal or JA's

Legs: Homam > Askar > Royal Knight's Breeches

Feet: Dusk or Homam for tp, ws in whatever you have that adds str.

pld/rdm or pld/dnc are by far the best sub job options. /rdm will give you more survivability vs NM's as long as you use turtle gear and can keep your mp up, /dnc is better for everything else in campaign and generates much easier exp due to the fact it takes more dmg but has more cure power. You can also spam steps for more easy exp.
As for Aspir Samba it’s highly situational, Drain Samba II is much better in my honest opinion, even in campaign.



This simply isn't possible, Shadow hand will tear you a new @#%^ if you straight tank her and so will orc NM's with countertance up.

Joyeuse double attacks approximately 45% of the time, which leaves 55% as single attack rounds which the Brutal can proc on. Brutal is 5% double attack, so its effect on those single-attack rounds will give you an extra 2~3% hits total. It also has store TP. This combination of things may or may not help you get to 100TP faster depending on your gear/food/subjob.

If the 2~3 extra hits every 100 plus the store TP doesn't make any difference to the number of rounds you need to get 100 TP, then yes, you'd probably be better off wearing something with accuracy/attack or defensive stats depending on situation.

Obviously, when dual-wielding with something other than justice sword as the second sword, the effect of the 5% DA will be larger (it can proc on ~77% of hits rather than 55%, leading to an extra 3~4% hits total).

Edited, Aug 22nd 2009 4:50am by KisharBlack

Any player taking PLD to a majority of events is going to want two merman's, anyway. They're an effective part of an MDT build. As such, they're usually on my list of things to upgrade first once the basics are covered.

For the neck, try shield torque instead of all the other neckpieces available. I have them all and tried them for a while but the torque seems to profit me the best.

More tp for cures and wses, and your damage take gets cut less than half. I tried the shield collar with the 25 vit and I didn't see any changes to defense and damage taken.

2 cents xD.