You disgust me, nuked from GW.

3/3 read em and weep

so close yet so far

Augments like that are actually more common than you think. At some point while augmenting my grios, all three characters had stats very similar to that. I'd actually recommend using it over lathi too as it's barely weaker in exchange for an additional 40 magic accuracy. If you wanted, you could use snow cone to boost your damage past lathi, or if you've got enough macc you could switch Geo buffs around

sitting at (using all amarlic+1 except head)
8 int
25 mab
2 macc
10 burst

would of been fine with it if i could of got a nice chunk of macc.

How are you getting airride to 40% burst?

Mind posting your full set? I'll run some numbers when I get to work. I suspect that this set is actually going to be significantly worse than Lathi+Merlinic since you didn't get a real M. Acc augment. I've actually been keeping Crackows on and using Shiva Ring +1/Friomisi over Static and Locus

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Also have the Elan Strap+1, but waiting till I get my mag acc back on Grio to put it in


How are your Merlinic hoods?

Oneone: 37mab 30macc 5mb
Airride/Bacon: 26mab 35macc 10 mb.

What are your Merlinic Crackows like? Mine are all 7-10mb, 15-20macc, and 30-33mab

CHR+8
31 MAB
22 MACC
10% burst

Nails/Grio/Locus
INT MAB MACC
48 117 36

Crackows/Grio/Shiva
INT MAB MACC
60 104 38

12INT Crackows
13MAB Nails
11MAcc Crackows (including 9 from the INT difference)

so really it's 12 INT 11 MAcc vs 13 MAB.

Could go either way really, I guess

Bonus: Looking at your non-mb Grio

Crackows/Grio/Locus
INT MAB MACC
58 106 49


This would have actually been your best option in terms of well-roundedness. The damage difference is approximately the same between your current 2 options but with an additional 11 Macc

Way more up to date than Psycloth, get the legs, augment them for fast cast. Then concentrate on Merlinic set..

get spaekona's coat +1, every body that isn't that, or at least a capped witching robe/amalric doublet or better is probably worthless imo

Just make a list in notepad of items you need, then work on them one at a time. For items you can't obtain solo, try grouping up with ls members, pugging, mercing, or seeing if an alternative exists, which the guide provides. What personally started off as a huge list for a fresh 99 black mage now only has amalric+1 remaining.

PUG = Pick up group
Merc = Mercenary (pay people to get you gear)

Items to upgrade relics, mythics, and empryeans still sell well and quickly. Joining HTMB runs for Pluton, Beitetsu, and Riftborn Boulders will net you a nice profit if you just sell them on the AH. A stack of 99 Beitetsu goes for 1.3M on my server, for example.

Reisenjima augment stones are about 60k per stack of 12 and also sell fast.

Eschalixirs all sell quickly and efficiently as well. Eschalixir +2s are around 400k for ONE, and Eschite Ores are about the same for a single.

Do your RoE quests and Unity Objectives. Buying upgrade items there (especially ones that pop Geas Fete monsters) is nice, but so is also NPCing items you can buy with sparks, which sell to an NPC at a 10 gil/spark rate.

There are other things you can do as well, but given my limited playtime these are generally efficient moneymakers.

It's much much easier to make money in this game than it used to be.

Is the first page still showing best in slot for each situation?

As far as I know, you just have to find a synergist to help you craft them. You can claim a furnace and put the items in, and they can craft it for you I think. Dont quote me on it though, but from what I could figure out Synergy is a group crafting thing.

Taranus's Cape + Wicce Sabbots +1 then toss on whatever PDT you have. With those two items and capped job points in Mana Wall you wont be taking much damage at all anyway.

No, it's a bunch of sets. If you don't have every item in the set some pieces may be needed to be changed around (Anything with set bonus, death sets, and MB sets can vary in this way... maybe more).

MB sets: get as close to capped MBD (40%, not including amalric gages and mujin band) as you can while maintaining high INT, MAB, and MACC. Job traits, job points, and gifts work outside of this cap.

Death sets: make sure none of your sets for death drop your MP below what MP your death set casts with.

Also, pretty sure they're not updated to include Taranus's Cape or optimized with Grio augments in mind.

Any MB set without amalric +1 is going to heavily vary based on the MBD augments you get on merlinic.


Yes, but Synergy does not need to be done by a group.

Also besides the gear sets, a TON of BLM power comes from the Job Points. You could have all that gear but without a large chunk of Job Points your going to be getting resisted like crazy.

They are all updated for Taranus's Cape, but not Grio. There are just way too many variations on sets you can get with Grio so it's really up to the discretion of the player to decide how to gear around Grio. I can personally make 5 different MB sets with different strengths and weaknesses per character with my Grios, so it seems kind of silly to make item sets for it when it's entirely dependent on the augments of your other gear