Why Do My Weapon Skills Suck?

My weapon skills don't seem to do as much as other Warrior's out there, not really sure why... What am I doing wrong?

Raging Rush: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/174144

Steel Cyclone: http://www.ffxiah.com/members/item-sets?id=174145

You are asking for a lot of trouble with a title like this..

Fixed for simplicity.

Edit: Half-beaten. Sorta.

i am a drk main so take this with a grain of salt but try perle head and warwolf on WS i think maybe to much acc on RR

Do you have capped GA skill?

What merits do you have? (yes I am being lazy)

Do you have support (brd or cor in your pt)?

Are you eatting food?

Lose optical hat, upgrade to Forager's, use Alky on SC.

If you have merits and some kind of acc food... use the warwolf for RR, look into getting n.feet and n.head (or unicorn cap if the latent's active until then, or the MKE head if you haven't used it for something else). Use Hauby+1 for RR instead of n.body, the dex matters more for most things you'll fight. Keep n.body for SC.

As said, upgrade to forager's. And pick up a Snow or Aqua gorget for RR over the PCC. And use a Berserker's Axe. Or better yet, the fire-path Atlas.

RR in hauby(+1), Warworf > Virtuoso (use pizza if you have to)

Edit: Damnit I slow :(

Gorget for Raging Rush, or just get King's Justice. It uses the same gorget as Steel Cyclone.

I don't advocate an atlas without proper sTP, don't even attempt this without a rose strap, as you can't 6hit(easily) without it.

Fixed

Also for your SC build, If berserk is up your pDIF will most likely be capped(much earlier than alot of WS's) so using a bibiki seashell over that bomblet would be more beneficial.

Whoa, thanks for the quick replies.

For the record, I generally eat pizza and have capped and merited Great Axe.

Gonna get to work on a new gorget and MKD ASAP!

(Also, sorry I didn't just post the item sets, I couldn't quite figure out how to do it.)

I would never use Alky bracelets for RR.

And yes I would definitely lose the Ohat, preferably for Nhead but there are other AH items that are better than Ohat also. RR in Hauby (+1). Try it out and compare. And yes, definitely get a Foragers.

The you should be ok to be a lot more aggressive, Bomb core, warwolf, foragers and n.head are all good items to beef up your damage.

Also parse your WS, don't be fooled by a WAR eating red curry and a full STR build (with little or no acc) on RR fluking 3/3 hit and getting a few crits. Its all about average (constant) WS damage.

Even a 7-hit Atlas would probably be better than a 6-hit of either Byakko's or Berserker's, which IIRC is doable with just /sam and Rajas. 6-hit would be better, but it can be worked towards.

Besides the new all mighty V.Bhuj..what other GA are good now?

I haven't been on war much lately so I haven't even really checked out the new gear/axes.

I still am using Perdu but I am looking to try for V.Bhuj soon...but for ppl that don't have that or can't obtain it yet. What other GA are around that would be worth it.

Call me lazy but you ppl know better than I do..I haven't looked at ToTM yet either lol.

I'm not a WAR so I don't know gear options, but I do know how to calculate WS damage, so I can say this, attack is also important. The 35% STR modifier is pretty meager, so don't forget about attack. (One person said with berserk pDIF is capped, in which case more attack doesn't help. Capping pdif may occur with the right buffs, especially on weak mobs, but if your attack isn't over 750, then more attack still helps on any xp or higher mob)

For Raging Rush, if you aren't eating attack food and don't have attack buffs up, and are sitting at a low ~450attack for WSs, then your WSs will certainly blow and you will benefit from gear swaps that give you 2 or more attack for every 1 STR you sacrifice. If you have some attack buffs and have your attack is around 625 or so, then sacrificing 1STR for 2.5+ attack should improve your damage.

Unfortunately I don't have data regarding crit frequency on RR, so that wasn't incorporated in my calculations.

At a glance the STP Sumeru shouldn't be too bad as it's a true 6-hit with Rajas + Brutal with the advantage of being slightly faster than most GAs. STR Atlas is good if you can 6-hit it (minimum 12 STP fulltime /SAM for a fake 6-hit, 14 for true, can rearrange TP vs WS depending on options) though I suspect Vermeil could still be better with HQ gear. Not sure how the Kunluns fare vs other options but it wouldn't surprise me if the DA beat the OAT given your high base DA.

Sumeru is a good choice, and it's also veeery easy to obtain. I imagine Vermeil would still be miles ahead it though.

Honestly this is what I was shooting for when I was still playing. Granted I'm still rocking Perdu maybe I'll upgrade if I return to game but I have alot of ***going on atm.

Raging Rush


King's Justice


Maybe a Flame Ring would be a better choice for King's Justice or Hell a Blood Ring. But Iota is nice for Raging Rush.

WS in iota /point O-o

Thinking back I'd only use Iota for Raging Rush/Drakesbane depending on the mobs AGI :P

A 'real' DEX ring would probably be better

I use iota for WS in my high acc build, but I rarely have to use it anymore cuz I lovvin that pizza :)

As of now it doesn't matter to me currently, since I'm taking a long break, there's going to be more level caps so using a particular set for now may be pointless. As it was that particular set I listed was fine for Greater Colibri and I even said it may be out dated. I'm not really sure what we will be fighting though. I wonder what an Iron Giant's AGI would be? :P

On the side of things the new DEX+6 ring might be very nice for Raging Rush while also considering future equipment that hasn't been released yet. Pretty much dealing with what's needed right now while keeping an eye on further news when I'm bored.


Though I wonder what Magian trials hold? King's Justice Damage+10% on a ToM GAXE would be very cool but following the trend it's probably going to boost the level 80 WS.

All and all I wonder how much things are going to be changed once I'm done with basic and whatever deployments that await me. FF14 will be out by then though so... Yeah x_x

Appreciate the input though I just always found Iota nice for 2 handers crit WS because it effects Crit Rate some while giving more accuracy then a DEX ring.

RR dex builds can be very situational, if you aren't near the dex-crit cap, then all of the dex you are adding to your RR builds aren't even adding 1% per, ofcourse the lower the mob's level is, the better a dex build is.

For old content Dex builds don't require too much effort, for new content, the STR-DEX bonus is there.
However, I have no idea if the extra bonus dex is coming close to dDEX range on abyssea mobs.

I don't know their exact stat values, but I can imagine they would have grown significantly enough to make a dex build less attractive.