Medicine Ring  

You need to actually be in yellow HP to make this ring proc, finding the 75~76% mark (and <100% TP) and getting blow it with Zenith/other gear isn't good enough to activate it

If the latent on this is HP at 75% of your base natural (simliar to how the sorcerer's ring for blms work), this is undervalued ring... a year ago the sorc ring was selling for 10K because everyone thought it was yellow HP and TP at 0.. now its running at 3million because people figured out its HP at 75% of your base HP and TP less then 100. As a high level with zenith gear, it is sooo easy to hit that 75% marker. I predict this ring will be worth a lot more down the road when people use it more effectively.

If you're in a party, and you can use the latent effect on this ring, your other members are NOT doing their jobs properly.

trigger when:
- yellow or lower HP ( <=75% )
- < 100% TP

Here's what I do... because the +10% items stack, and I burn off more than 50MPs before I use a cure macro (Dia II, Regen II on tank, Haste on main melee damage dealer), I have the following macroes:

Rest Macro:
/equip Main "Dark Staff"
/equip L.ring "Astral Ring"
/equip R.ring "Astral Ring"
/p White Mage Magic <mp> (<mpp>)
/heal

Cure Macro: (same macro for Cure, Cure II, Cure III, Cure IV, etc...)
/ma "Cure" <t>
/equip Main "Light Staff"
/equip L.ring "Medicine Ring"
/equip R.ring "Aquamarine Ring"

This ensures that I rest to fullest MP possible at full speed (with Astral Rings and Dark Staff), and as soon as I cast the first cure spell, I cure for max (my Cure II does 228 if my health is in the yellow) AND I have MND +3 for things like Bar- spells, magic DEF etc... I don't get the MND +3 for the first few spells I cast while I'm burning off 50 MPs, but it's a small price to pay... WHM is a job that can benefit GREATLY from learning how to use macroes. You do NOT have to put a /wait command in the macro to change multiple items... if you wanted to, you could have a macro just to change 6 items. Another thing I did was to get a bunch of Evasion+ gear, and, using the same format, macroed it into my Benediction and Curaga III macroes. Learn advanced macroes, and get a bunch more gear, it's VERY worthwhile.


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Mariner - Lakshmi Server - Forgotten Heroes Pearlsack
White Mage 59, Summoner 41, Black Mage 30

Edited, Tue Sep 14 10:26:36 2004

hey guys i was reading all your posts b4 i bought the ring. then i said ***** it cuz its only 4k on lakshmi, so i bought it. ok i must say this ring is really worth it. ok this is what i found out. since i have a light staff that adds potency as well, my cures went as follows cure2=110 hp, cure3=229, cure4=436. all of this was on firesday so i dont know what they would be like on lightsday. but yes this is latent effect so i was in yellow when i got the effect...but it was on every cure not random ones. lightsday potency is the one thats random not the ring.



Edited, Fri Sep 17 05:02:49 2004

When you equip this ring it doesn't make every heal 10% higher, its random. Basically, if you're healing for 190, every once in a while it will heal for 209. Essentially, it makes every day like its light day, and makes lightday occasionally add 20% to cures instead of 10%.

EDIT: Ok, I've fiddled with it and figured it out and confirmed it with other LS members who have latent effect gear. Latent effect items work when your hp are in the yellow or lower. So, if your hp turn yellow, when you cast cure spells they will heal for 10% more - every time! Personally, my favorite trick now is to keep electrum rings on, and when I burn the 20 mp off one gives me, I throw on the medicine ring. Usually the mob will AE and put me in the yellow at some point and the +10% heals are nice.

Edited, Sun Mar 28 03:15:25 2004

It raises it over cap easy, my cure III normally does 191 with this it was doing like 220 per cure III. I do not change my rings as i was using the windy ring (no mnd and only 3 mana) til i switched to this. Now any good AoE makes me use this to full potential as well as when i solo. I cant confirm as i havent tested it yet but i think it also does more damage to undead when using cure as I thought I was doing more than normal when i was hunting for RSE in Gusgan Mines.