Magian trials -- what are you working on?Follow

Ha, Fyn, we teamed up the other day at Hippogryphs. It was like 4am for me by the time Kotan-kor Kamuy popped. Dealing with that thing completely knocked me out. :p

Still trying to find the motivation to continue with that Hippogryph trial for the DA dagger... Might continue with it at some point. Right now I'm working on the STR dagger. Currently about 40-odd beasts to go before I have to contend with 200 flans on firesday/weather. Really looking forward to that... >>;

I'm still considering getting a scythe for my DRK. I'm leaning towards the DEX scythe purely because I cannot bear to camp NMs for the Ultimatum. Of course, the OAT scythe is all kinds of sexy, but I would prefer to get the dagger for my DNC. >>;

Also, Teiwaz with Cure Potency +15% is all kinds of sexy. Completed that last week.

Edited, Apr 21st 2010 1:46pm by Secretkeeper

Yeah, Joy/Justice blows it out of the water. 40% DA proc on the Magian weapons, compared to 55% from Justice. Justice can be obtained for free if you know someone in a consistent Sea linkshell. In the time that you would spend getting the Antea, you could farm up enough Virtue Stones to last for life.


15% Teiwaz + 12% Aristocrat's + 5% Roundel Earring + 3% Selenian Cap + 5% Tatsumaki Sitagoromo + 3% Fylgja Torque =
43% Cure Potency in normal situations. Toss in a Medicine Ring and a convert set to trigger it's latent you have 58%.

Now, if you go into unrealistic situations, you can push it even higher. Obtain and use a charge of Healing Feather for another 15% and bring your total to 73% Beseiged started?! Toss on your Volunteer's Khud instead of Selenian Cap for a total of 75%. Oh, you're WHM/NIN for the lolz? Dual Weild your Dweomer Maul (augmented with 6% of course) and Templar Mace for 16% in hand slots (and a nice chunk of MND) for a total of 76% Cure Potency. Beseiged just ended and it's time to do an Assault run. Throw the Selenian Cap back on and a Lambda Sash for 77%. You used all your tags and now you're heading to Upper Delkfutt's... and it's Lightsday with Double Light weather! Take off the Lambda Sash, throw on your Korin Obi for 35% (which I think is calculated after potency gear?), the absolute highest possible at this time, even though that situation isn't at all realistic.

Now, I'm not sure how much MND one could pack on with all that potency gear. I'm going to guess around 120-ish, and maybe around 80 VIT. If I'm doing my math right, that would put Cure V at around 1630 without Divine Seal. Crazy stuff.

Edit: I just happened to need WHM for Assaults and checked gear. 120 MND and 80 VIT isn't realistic, but you get the point.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 5:41pm by chewzer

Yeah I do like the concept of playing WHM. It's unfortunate that I've dumbed down my WHM gear recently.

The absolute plethora of gear WHM has for every situation is amazing. Haste sets, potency sets, conserve sets... it's a fun job to tweak and maximize, since there are so many ways to squeeze just a bit more efficiency into every action you take.

I'm reconsidering making the Cure potency +15% staff, now debating the dark acc+3 staff to see how much of an improvement it is over Pluto's. I don't really have the hard-on for Cure potency that other healers do, because I tend to overcure as it is (particularly so if I'm not the only healer present, but at least in those cases it's not entirely my fault)

I'm still at the point where I can change my mind about what I make, but eh...

By the way, Grauberg kinda sucks for that first staff trial (100 saplings/treants in any weather), unless possibly if you have a sync. The saplings in Grauberg are Too Weak to 75, meaning you have to do a considerable amount of running around to find the treants, and you're probably bound to stumble over chigoes while you're doing so. Pain in the ***. I would just stick with Bhaflau Thickets (you're probably more likely to find people there to team up with, as well). Be sure to check the weather guy.

I spent more time in Grauberg looking for treants and fending off chigoes than I was actually fighting treants. If I could have also fought the saplings too that would have been another story and I wouldn't have needed to wander QUITE so much, but even then the mobs in that area are kinda spread far apart, which is no good when you're working on a limited timeframe.

At least in Thickets I am never hurting to find a mob, largely due in part to the fact I can fight saplings too, and that a whole bunch of both of them are packed in one space. There's loads of weather there too (I have yet to see a forecast where the current next 3 days are all "sunny", as opposed to Kreutzet camping in Cape Teriggan where I've regularly seen such forecasts ~.~), and even if you suspect there might not be weather, there is always a weather checker you can use to be relatively sure.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 6:51pm by Fynlar

Besides... in Grauberg, they're called Knotty Treants. I mean, how awesome is that?

It still makes me giggle.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 6:29pm by chewzer

Chew are you sure you don't have a magian weaspon augmented with "Occasionally posts twice" on it?

Getting the Antea done doesn't really take that much time. The longest part is the Ruthven's nails, but if you're in a shell that does VNMs regularly, you're already killing Ruthven anyway.

But yeah, I'm getting it for BLU as it's the only real job worth using it on.

I shoulda kept my mouth shut... found a sunny/sunny/sunny forecast for thickets last night and I see another one today >_>

What are the spiders for? (In other words, do you need a weather effect, and if so which one?)

Unfortunately, yes Boyahda is the best choice for spiders. It's Autumn in-game today, which means there's virtually no chance of water weather in the Tree, which gives you a much better chance for Thunder.