Augmented GendawaFollow

The past 2 days we've gotten Gendawa with following augment

#1: RATK +15, delay -9% (Should place it at 550 delay)
#2: RATK +14, store tp +3

Either of this comparable to Ebow?

 
E-Bow:        DMG 71, DLY 490, AGI +3, STR +3, RATK +23, RACC +2 
Gendawa:      DMG 76, DLY 600, AGI +2 
Aug. Gendawa: DMG 76, DLY 546, AGI +2, RATK +15 

Aside from the delay, they look comparable. How important the added delay is depends on how good you are at mashing your ranged attack macro.

Store TP is hard to judge. With a bow delay of 600 and ammo delay of 120, you only need Store TP +6 to reach 100 TP in six hits. Store TP +8 with ammo delay of 90. I think I did that math right. How useful that is, I don't know. Also depends on how much ranged accuracy you get for having over 100 TP on Sidewinder.

getting there is about the bitchiest part of the entire thing, 6 ghost add, 1 djinn that wanders around and just attacking anything within its range, but every now and then enter a dormant state where you can just destroy it.

Keep spamming the ANNM, there are still better Aug's you can get on the Gendawa.

The one on BG I saw had like +6 STR, Ratck??, and -Delay.

no its not, unless you mash differently with the different bows, lower delay is lower delay



without delay-:
gendawa + 90 delay ammo = 15.6 tp, sTP+7 to get a 6 hit

with delay-:
gendawa(aug) + 90 delay ammo = 15.2 tp, sTP+9 to get a 6 hit

pretty sure you missed a truncate...

sTP+3 by itself, like most sTP+ that's less than +5, is worthless. its use comes from not requiring you to swap out good gear pieces, for lesser pieces that have sTP.

ranger doesn't have access to a lot of sTP gear, and a large chunk of it is nigh worthless outside of that sTP(cobra gear/enkidu legs/brutal/almah).

there are basically 2 pieces of gear for ranger with sTP that would be worth using if they didn't have that sTP. skadi legs, and rajas.

assuming 90 delay ammo:

600 delay
skadi pants by themselves give a 6-hit, sTP+3 isn't enough to give a 5-hit
rajas by itself does not give a 6-hit, sTP+3 will give you that 6-hit
skadi+rajas gives a 6-hit but no 5-hit, sTP+3 isn't enough to give a 5-hit

546 delay
skadi pants by themselves do not give a 6-hit, sTP+3 will give you that 6-hit
rajas by itself does not give a 6-hit, sTP+3 will not give you that 6-hit either
skadi+rajas gives a 6-hit but no 5-hit, sTP+3 isn't enough to give a 5-hit

it's late here, so i'm not gonna run through the math for /sam, or the various sTP only gear, suffice to say, unless you have skadi pants and get the delay- augment, sTP+3 is more or less worthless

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on the real comment of these bows vs e-bow... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

Even if you get every augment that's been mentioned in this thread, and end up w/ a bow thats:
DMG 76 DLY 600 AGI+2 STR+6 RATK +15 delay-9% sTP+3
it's STILL worse than e-bow

56 delay 8 RATK beats 5 dmg 3 str

e-bow beats every bow in existence with the exception of stage-5 relic, and even then its not a huge loss for e-bow until you factor in triple-damage procs, the e-bow is just that good.

it(the augmented gendawa) would however beat out s-bow and cerb bow+1, and would give futatokoroto(stage-4 relic) a run for its money(5 dmg -6 delay vs 6 str 15 ratt).

15.6 * 1.07 = 16.6 unless I am mistaken about how TP is truncated.



Aside from the delay difference, the augmented Gendawa and E-Bow ARE comparable. How big a deal is 56 delay? Depends on how well you time your ranged attacks.

E-Bow is a good bow, but it is not so much better than this agumented Gendawa or S-bow.

Not saying VZX is a god or anything, but there is no one posting in this forum or any other FFXI forum that I read whose opinion I trust more.

Now, how does the bow "Feel" is a good question. If the bow "Feels" the same or better than an e-bow it might be worth looking into. I'd rock one and sell my E-bow then turn around and buy my K.O.