Fencer Is Useful

Fencer gives increased crits while using a 1handed weapon while not dual wielding, as well as a 40 tp bonus. Ravager's Cuisses +1 gives another increase to crit as well as another 40 tp bonus, so while AoE farming with aeolian edge and a martial knife, with proper atmas I was hitting 1400 at 120 tp. After we had finished AoE farming something else struck me. I popped out my joyeuse, went to misareaux and geared up atmas for sanguine blade. Using Atma of the Cosmos, Atma of the Baying moon, and Atma of the Ultimate Sanguine did about 16-1700. At 120 tp with the 2 fencer traits this allowed me to drain 75% of my dmg straight to HP. Using a martial anelace this drains 100% of dmg at 120 tp straight to HP. Combine with Defender + Retaliation. ????. Profit.

Or you can Fell Cleave and do like twice that damage and have good atmas.

You're talking about dual-wielding while using fencer. Wut

I could fell cleave if I wanted to, got 5 pages of atmas. The point was to try skill up shield while doing it so I could AoE farm bigger things, also Fell cleave only gives off ruby light. On things other than mandies having amber on every kill is nice. Quit being so closed-minded.

no, 1 handing with shield

what exactly were you killing in misareaux?

T Spiders,T murexes, bastion mobs. Max sanguine blade was 2200 on a murex, with ascetic's and restraint on. After 1 1/2 hours I had gotten 11 merits, and was getting big gold boxes the whole time while WAR/SAM.

and furthermore that means you'd have to WS in the AF3+1~2 pants for the fencer bonus.......but i suppose if you're really using fencer the extra tp would outweigh stat mods lol

It's not like there's alot for WAR to put there anyways lol, the fencer is the best mod I can think of for that slot due to only MaB, INT and MND being pretty scarce on war legs, besides the main point is that I am getting a cure VI- cure ??? on each tp move.

sanguines dmg is still modded by str which you can get +5 on AF2 legs or +10 on hachiryu pants or even use ares pants (though i think they have -mnd which would deplete another stat mod)


though you are correct, that 40tp will give you a decently higher % healed

Right but you get such a small return on the STR mod, that the cuisses was the obvious choice. To be honest I don't even have a stellar set for this, just pieced together stuff from my nin nuke set + whatever else INT and MND I could equip on warrior. Gear wise I only have +13 MaB +22 INT and +17 MND

well it comes down to more dmg vs. more hp healed..if you really dont need that extra 100 or w/e hp it comes out to, STR would be the way to go..but thats not the point of this thread...impressive numbers though btw for just a sword and shield...

Sorry, exhausted and misreading ftw. On topic though, cap amber and just FC burn stuff. I guess this could be nice if soloing on war, but then, why would you be soloing on war? =S

While soloing with joyeuse before I had gotten a martial anelace off the AH I was more often ws'ing at the 100 tp mark than the 120 just so I could get more dmg out faster since I didnt so much need the healing.

It's late, nobody else in my shell is on atm, and I was testing out this new combo on bastion. I could drop a surveyor in about 30 seconds using sekkanoki 2x sanguine blade, meditate and another sanguine which would net me about 3k xp.

Just tried it outside of abyssea with my varangian and warwolf augmented with INT+1 so another 17 STR and 1 INT, which netted me a whopping 14 dmg increase. I had been using a RNG hachimaki for the conserve tp and goading for extra tp after ws, which is a small increase in tp but might save me a swing or 2.