Sole Sushi  

If you have a 33% accuracy rate on Colibri as a WAR64/NIN32, you can't be wearing any accuracy or DEX gear. In fact, you have to be using accuracy- gear to parse that low, since turtle PLDs even manage 40% and they don't have Aggressor. Oh wait, did I say parse? Because I know you didn't parse, you eyeballed the chat log for 20 seconds and decided you couldn't live without sushi.

If your gear isn't terrible as this WAR's clearly was, you shouldn't need Sushi. Don't listen to the bucket of fail known as XxBloodRavenxX.

Cooking like other crafts, can be very profitable provided you farm (or in this case specifically, garden/fish) your materials. But Doda, you should be grateful. The fact that you can profit alone on a NQ synth is something to be thankful for. On most HQ-able synths, the NQ will sell for below crafting cost.

hmmm why is this related to sole sushi??

Edited, Thu Jun 15 15:27:22 2006

Important:

At low levels, using meat and parsing 65% accuracy will FAR outparse using sushi and parsing 70% accuracy. If your accuracy % isn't being bumped up from an insanely low value such as 70% or less to near cap (accuracy cap is 95%), meat is simply a better option. Hitting somewhat less but for far more damage is a tested and proven to perform better. At merit levels, if you can parse 80% accuracy or more, use meat. If you're in a merit party and can't parse 80% accuracy... your gear needs help, but sushi will give you a stronger boost than meat.

Also, for you low level WARs out there, use a Great Axe. Shield Break gives +20% accuracy for every melee against the mob you're fighting. This is an INSANELY potent accuracy boost for the low levels when accuracy is so scarce. The only greater accuracy boost in the game at those levels is a Hunter's Roll with a RNG in your party on a lucky number or 11. Shield Break should be your preferred weapon skill of choice up into the 50's when you should have enough gear to parse respectable accuracy without it, at which point you can start using Sturmwind. Before that, the damage boost you'll see from giving all your DDs accuracy+40 is phenomenally stronger than one extra hit on your WS.



Stop breathing, you haven't the slightest idea of what you're talking about.




Edited, Jan 28th 2008 2:55pm by bsphil

but, many people believe that 1 skill point = 1 accuracy point...
so...
26 drg polearm
Skill=81
Dex=42 so acc+ = 21
Acc = 81+21 = 102
Acc+ 15% = 117.3
Acc+ 10 = 112
its still 67, but its just which system you want to base your beliefs on...

As Darknight elaborated above, it's a high level synth, before this synth, most cooks will have spent more than 1 - 2 million getting their levels and their trade skill items. (Yes you make some of that back, no not fast enough that your gil doesn't visibly go down.)

At 75 cooking I'm not looking at what I should be levelling on once I cap at 80 with Shallops Tropicale, and this food is not even worth making anymore.

The rice + Wasabi + black sole prices are so insane. (Yes I buy wasabi off Tenshodo, not AH, and I grow my own rice.) The profit margin, IF you grow rice, is about 10-20k/stack when you have no breaks. So it's a huge loss if you're levelling on this food.

Most of the people selling these sushi are lvl 100+ (with belt, hat, apron, and other + gear). They don't need to worry about breaks much, and they can easily profit off these (especially if they fish.)

These are definitely not overpriced, I regularly make more profit synthing low level foods with ingredients that are cheap as dirt than with some of the higher level stuff. If people want the sushi prices to go down, they'll have to start undercutting when they sell blacksole and we all know that won't happen.

Most weaponskills are based off STR, DEX and Accuracy Bonuses.

Please see: [link=www.iluvitar.com/sections/ ffxi/skill/jpwstranslated.html ][/link]

Sole sushi is a core food for melee from mid to late game. It increases your potential WS damage with direct stat and accuracy boosts. In the past year, I have seen such a huge movement on my server from Meat Mith to Sole Sushi. People are catching on.

It is one thing to hit at all for "regular" damage and another to have a higher attack and miss dozens of times. It's damage over time and strong WS delivery... and not just watching the attack go up in your equipment box. It's quite clear what your priority should be.

...sigh.....

These were recently up to 100k on pandy, down to 80-90k atm but who knows. People are dipshi[/b]ts and buy it when its waaaay overpriced so nothing would surprise me.

heh... someone got rids of the Botters and no sole is up now... because of this they went up from 45k to 70k in Asura... for once in a lifetime I feel it that the botters are gone...

Nobody has given a decent answer yet so here goes nothing. (I know its an old post)

When you check a mob it will check as either 'low evasion', 'nothing', or 'high evasion'.

You adjust your acc to go from 'nothing' to 'low evasion' by adding +acc/dex.
When you can change this line in the /check from low > 'nothing' by adding one more acc/dex you stop.
Eat the Food.
Now unequip acc/dex untill the mob checks as 'nothing' again.
When you can change this line in the /check from low > 'nothin' by unequipping one more acc/dex you stop.
Add together acc/dex.

This is roughly how much acc the food added.

One wrench is thrown into this method of checking acc because if you use a +% food like sushi the more +acc you unequipp the less +acc the food will add.
... but with a difficult algebra (I think its called that in english anyway) formula this can be worked around.

The other wrench would be the straight +dex on the sushi which will make the formula slightly more complicated and the fact that we don't know if the acc from the +dex is also multiplied by the sushis +%.

The theres the problem of 'how much' acc does skill add? It would seem that different people say different things. It could be tested with the same technique.

Then theres the problem of mob agi. Does dex have diminishing returns once one has surpassed mob agi by a certain amount? Nobody knows. I don't know of a way to test it either.

Since this last problem makes our testing method slightly inaccurate the best resuslts we can get is 'estimation'. Since dex only seems to influence acc in the 0.333 to 0.5 acc per dex regions (from what I have read anyway) our results should still be of value to estimating the percentage increase in acc on sushi in any case.

Now actually testing all of this would be rather time intensive and getting the gear to adjust your acc by 1 all the time would be rather expensive.

If you have the gil and time to do it. GL.
In the mean while I'll go with these nummbers, they seem accurate enough for me anyhow.

I can understand that as Elvaan you may not be lacking STR, and ACC is what you need, but not all races are the same. I play a taru monk. My accuracy is pretty good but I need STR any place I can get it. I already wear the best STR rings at my lvl. I love sole sushi. I fortunately have friends who can craft this for me at a small savings but still I don't mind paying 40k for this stuff if I have to buy it from the ah. I would of course love the price to go down but I'm not giving this stuff up anytime soon ;P

Why pay 20k extra per stack for 5 STR? It seems retarded to me... Go with Squid Sushi, you'll save money and if you feel you need the STR put STR rings on and dont bother with snipers. I can guarantee the only real worth this stuff has is accuracy. Fast TP gain is where it's at. ;)

finally another drk with some commen sense, i mean if u cant fork out the 30-40k, then its kinda depressing for you and your party

15% ACC* is what I've heard and experienced. Along with everything else you've just said.

Edited, Sun Jun 19 06:16:02 2005

I tried this at level 72 with Advanced Support and failed 5 out of 5 times. So I'll try again at level 74 if I ever get there.