Bushido - The Way Of The Samurai (A Guide) V. 2.0

I wouldn't call doji niche when it's still the second-best performing gk option. Koga's niche, if you want to make a counter build.

At R15, Masa > Doji tho. I'm not gonna make arguments trying to boast a situation where Doji excels. Masa just got the edge with the augment, that's all.

If you want to get into samurai and it's easier for you to make an aeonic than an empyrean, though, make Doji without hesitation. It won't do you wrong.

Thats the issue with this debate.

Masamune is NOT limited to Fudo spam. Fudo is literally used in every Skill chain combo and almost always the finisher. So yes you can Fudo spam for great results but you can also 3,4,5 step and still be benefiting from Fudo+10%, 70str and triple procs.

I'm in total agreement here, part of the problem is people act like TPBonus increases your maximum damage potential, but it doesn't. It only gets you to maximum at lower TP values. For a job like samurai abusing TP overflow the way we do, it's pretty easy some times to hit that maximum potential. Masamune has higher maximum potential than Doji, on all weaponskills (except perhaps Shoha). Doji just gets to it's maximum easier.

That being said, both GKT are amazing.

Edit: This from a non-Masa owner.

Just make all GKs so you're fine in all situations forever. Never fear any update, pure enjoyment.

FFXI is like Pokémon sometimes.

Wish I had a Master Ball for Dojikiri.

Bg's guide still accurate for shoha set? flamma head/feet over valorous? no DM augm.

i'm not incredibly active anymore but i don't think there's been any new gear that particularly outperforms flamma in most scenarios

but i could be wrong

shrug

Anyone give the Kaja Lance a whirl? There's talks of it out damaging Fudo with Masamune... I'm a little skeptical about that tho

Impulse Drive will do less than Fudo at 2000TP (Fudo 2k 3k more) and slightly more than Fudo at 3000TP (Impulse 2k 700 more). White damage will obviously be way better with Masamune. Impulse wont selfskillchain. Impulse Drive will have hard time sticking that 2nd hit and multi-attack proc on anything serious.

Masamune will win, but I'm comparing R15 weapon that costs like 300M to free weapon from Ambu.

Kaja might be better for 3 step Darkness skillchain tho.
At leats Stardiver > Sonic > Impulse sounds better than Kasha > Rana > Fudo. Of course only if you can hold that closing Impulse to 2k+.

EDIT: Actually I still had pdif from DRG when I calculated this, so Impulse is a little weaker.

only reason i'd get a kaja lance is for fun w/ pierce-weak targets like delve bosses and the like; not for serious content

and even then people dunk on the idea of a plrmSAM so

Kasha->rana->fudo is a pretty crappy darkness sc because no matter how much you want rana to do damage it just doesn’t....lol

I prefer jinpu->shoha->fudo, makes the exact same gravitation->darkness 3 step, or I do ageha->jinpu->shoha->fudo for a solid 4 step dark with non ***ws with some defense down sprinkled in there

anyone have an up to date ranged set they use that they can share?

Someone made a thread on this - last post has, I think, a decent set.

Realistically, you're pretty screwed in terms of options for pre-shot since most snapshot pieces are volte armor unless you go the way of skirmish augments, which can be prohibitively expensive.

Can obviously swap out haverton and +3, feet. Also use Ru'Ann GK if you need higher acc and can reach it for whatever reason using food/buffs. But i think my set still remains the same. If i recall it's a 3hit set. I can post an updated set after work if you need.

Could use Marked Gorget or Combatant's Torque for neck, Cacoethic Ring (+1) to replace the Haverton, Kendatsuba hands (+1) and Eschan Stone if you really want to go all out on the ranged accuracy.

is /drk any good for sam? I'm still using my i119 koga for everything atm

Whats the reason for choosing Wakido hands +3 over Kenda hands +1 for tp set? is 4% JA and some stp really worth losing 4 Triple attack? Given most content your likely to be capped haste anyway, Wouldnt the kenda hands +1 prevail?

you don't cap haste without wakido hands unless you have a dnc in the group.

I see. Hmmm

43.75+25+10(hasso) puts you shy of the cap.

The stp is also a major factor since you should be gearing for zanhasso over TA.

SAM can get away with pretty much any sub it wants, so feel free to pick a sub that best applies to the content you're doing.

/DRK and /WAR: Good for situations you need more attack, but also lowers suvivability if you use LR/Berserk, which, ironically, is most needed in content where you're most likely to die if you use them. I personally try my best to never use Berserk and try to cap pdif from buffs.

/RUN: Amazing for magic damage heavy fights, like Omen bosses or Trove BC.

/DRG: Amazing for dynamis wave3 when you really can't afford to pull hate. High Jump allows you to go max DPS for longer.

Those are my most used subs and there's probably many more that work for different situations like /DNC for soloing, /NIN for things you need shadows on. The overall point is SAM can kinda sub whatever it wants.

So I was told that on Valorous head/hands/feet I want at least STR+15/WSD+3% or STR+10/WSD+4%... is there a certain amount of attack and accuracy I need on top of those to make them superior to other things? Before these I was using Flamma+2 in those slots. (For Fudo and similar ws)

Its actually 15 STR 4% WSD using Taupe, or 10 STR 5% WSD using Fern.

They tend to focus on these two because they almost always assume capped scenarios, however; a 20+ Acc/Att is the sweet benchmark.

Yeesh, that sounds like one giant RNG nightmare I really don't feel like dealing with, with a thousand other things to be working on... what's the next best thing? I've burned thousands and thousands of stones on those three and none of them meet that benchmark.

Yours seem fine as is by the way as a benchmark, getting 3% on Taupe and 4% on Fern is quite common.

I'll try to get them higher eventually, just so much other stuff to do atm lol. (I just came back to the game less than two weeks ago after a long break) Thanks for the replies ^^

I actually focus on wsdmg5 and acc. Acc in WS sets will be an issue. Praying to the RNG gods for STR/wsdmg could take 10s of
Thousands of stones. I’ve seen it once.

Emp+2/3 feet will probably have wsdmg so focus on hands and head.

Let's also not glaze over Masa's +20 AGI for the MADDEST SAM bow game

I found 10STR/4WSD pretty easy to get, 15/4 is currently taking a lifetime.

I was lucky to get WSD5/6 relatively quickly, I didn't even think about the other stats. I got some acc here and there, STR + WSD is just asking for suffering in my experience.