Dainslaif  

tested and proven, the higher the moon phase the more often the hp drain effect procs. just thought id share that with u guys ^^

So I start leveling pld and get it to good old 67. I see my old Dainslaif and decide to pull it out, and try it out alittle. I dont think I even noticed it proc once for my PLD. So then a couple levels later i decide to skill up on crabs in Kuftal tunnel and use Dainslaif if my hp gets alittle low. Sword does not proc at all, and I start to look around for some information, because I remember it proc'ing alot more. I see a few post about possible INT affecting it, but nothing concrete.. Well my PLDs INT of 47+0 sure isn't helping if that is true. So I switch to drk/blm, and put on some of my BLMs INT gear. Snow Rings and Demons helm +1 ect... sittin around 70+18 INT.. Sword starts proc'ing like 1 out of 3 to 1 out of 2 hits...So i would say there is Definatly something affecting the proc rate, My guess is its some sorta INT vrs the Monster's INT, the more gear I stack on the more often it proc's . I buffed myself up to about 70+44 INT i had more gear just didnt bring it. Also Drain definatly does alot more with int.. with 70+44 i was draining 72+ a hit. So if your Dissapointed with this sword, your probably a paladin or war lol.

WAR75/THF37
STR:70+40
DEX:70+13
VIT:63+18
AGI:69+15
INT:59+7
MND:54+7
CHR:57+12

Maximum HP it would ever drain was 72HP.

Edited, Apr 7th 2008 7:05pm by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Got this Sword the other day.Good sword for farming, although I dont see it as very practical for soloing xp mobs. THe proc rate is totally random, Ive had this sword sword not proc for 5 minutes at a time and then proc 5 times in a row, draining approximately 300 HP altogether. Decent sword if you can get it, but for XP purposes, stick with either an espadon/joyeause/Company sword.

Just some information on the sword. Tis true that the additional effect will proc more often on mobs of lower level. Farming in Rolanberry Fields, it procs enough times you keep you just about at full HP, but not much more.

Soloing against EP Lesser Colibri in Bhaflau Thickets as 73PLD, I think I got it to Drain maybe 3 times in several hours, each drain for approximately 20hp. It was horrid. It still looks good enough that I use it while farming or against EP, but I'm debating on whether or not to even try it in an exp party.

On my second night it seemed to do much better. I actually got it to proc 3 times in one fight, twice in another, and a few more times within the hour I solo'd. It averaged about 20hp per drain, with the high being 30. Again, these are EP. I haven't yet tried it on anything more than that.

Now, SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION! My LS mate who helped me kill proconsul, also has one of his own. He is a taru DRK. He has heard rumor that the proc rate is effected by INT. This makes sense to me, because just in fighting proconsul his dainslaif drained 3-4 times I think. He said with his INT, somewhere around 80, he usually got about 10%, sometimes alot more.

Has anyone else had any experience with INT effecting the drain rate?



Edited, Dec 10th 2006 9:33pm by jschaub

0/7. The drop rate on this thing sucks.

EDIT: 0/8...

Then 0/9...

This sword phails. (Yes, the ph is on purpose.)

EDIT2: Eventhough it fails, I didn't give up.

0/10...

0/11...

Finally, last night at 11:33 PM EST, Dainslaif dropped. I'm now 1/12 on this sucker. I'm hoping Sanguine is nothing like this thing.

My friends and I have renamed Dainslaif to "Fail Sword."

Edited, Dec 14th 2006 9:20am by EllionDRK

Edited, Dec 28th 2006 1:22pm by EllionDRK

Today I got Dainslaif, 1/4, first time, I went with 75pld/nin(me) 75brd/whm 75blm/whm. The brd pulled, cause we needed to get him out, and he tryed to zone, while I flashed ProtXI to get hate. The brd ended up dieing close to zone. I spirits'd at 300% at the start and I was solo'ing until he was at about 80%, and the blm helped me out from there. The brd re-raised when ProXI was like at 30%. We took him down easy from there. Second time: I went with 75pld/nin, 75whm/nin, 70rdm/blm, 75thf/nin. The thf pulled, but instead of pulling links to zone, he just kept em on him. I spirit'd ProtXI, and I helped out thf a bit, while I was tanking ProtXI. He went down with extreme ease. Thrird time: 75pld/nin, 74thf/nin, 60war/nin, 72rdm/blm. Had the thf pull it, and zone the links while I kept hate on ProtXI, once again, Spirits, and the rdm debuffed him, and buffed me. We took him down pretty easy, w/ the war doing mighty strikes. Fourth: 75pld/nin, 74thf/nin, 75rdm/blm. Once again, the thf pulled links to zone, and I flashed and spirit'd and crap. He went down fast once again.
Notes: The Spider did not pop once while I was doing this 4 times, so its not like it took us a while. Also, on the 3rd and 4th ProtXI, I had the THF kill it w/ sharkbite at around 3%. This helped w/ TH2. This NM is extremely easy. As a pld/nin I cept shaddows up almost the whole entire time. With a tank, and a whm, rdm, blm, or brd, you can easily, easily, duo this thing.
He pops every 2hrs.

Edited, Jul 13th 2006 at 12:41am EDT by GodsTank

Edited, Jul 13th 2006 at 12:44am EDT by GodsTank

I'm not sure, but I think I've had some very good luck with this guy. I'm 3/4 for the Dainslaif drop.

I finally got mine today, have yet to test out the proc rate of the HP Drain.

does anyone know the repop time on the nm? im 0/1 on it so far, and wanna know when i can get back out there :3

1/3 on this thing 1/3 on the ore too, easy killed, Aparently it only drains on mobs that are lower than lvl 50, so yeah but its real nice, i have a Csword too, dual weild that, i can solo pretty damn well ^_^;;

Well just Duo'd this one successfully. Elvaan PLD/NIN 75 and Hume RDM/BLM 72. I knew we were going to win just before the fight was 1/2 over when the NM had more than 50% hp left and the PLD had over 75% mp and I hadn't converted yet. (Still had over 150mp to go) We were both buffed, he was debuffed and both of us were refreshed. A Spider that we killed a bit before the pull did spawn on us, but Sleep II kept him a non-concern til the end of the fight. Proconsul dropped the Dainslaif, which of course the PLD got. In the end, and only because of the stupid spider pop we were just around 1/2 hp each and a tad low on mp. Had the spider not popped and aggro'd we woulda been better off at the end. This NM is easily duo'd with a PLD/NIN tank and a RDM/BLM.

One night a LS mate of mine was checking on Dune Boots, and mentioned this mob was up. Seeing how I wanted it, the LS leader dragged 7 people down. When I look back apon it its WAY to much. Out of those people 3 could use the sword, as of 23 July 04 I have gotten myself and those other 2 players there own for helping that night.

3/15 (most battles with just me<74NIN> and rdm)