Military Parade - A DD Bard Guide

Would TP sword offhand still be better than Crepuscular Knife?

anytime you have the accuracy for TP bonus (dagger in bard's case, not sword), it wont be beaten unless you're spamming WSs that dont scale with TP.

Depends on the WS, something that scales well with TP like Rudra's or Savage the TP offhand will win, for something like Mordant Rime the Crepuscular Knife will win.

So carn vs Nael

Does it come down to being able to self SC or does Nael just crush carn overall? And lets put the mob on Piercing / slashing neutral

What would "Nael" be? Naegling?

Situational, most of the tims Naegling is better tho.

Can someone explain the math to me on Centovente vs other OHs when Naegling spamming? Potentially a hierarchy for OHs too.
When should I use one over the other, how much am I gaining on each choice?

Someone just requested access to my BRD DPS google spreadsheet.
I don't know who you are and hopefully you will be reading this.
That's not how it works with google spreadsheet.
You do not request access (and do not require it) to the original file.
I'm the only one who has access to that and updates it.

If you wanna use it you need to either download it or make your own copy.
There's a specific option, it's like that for every Google Spreadsheet.

File > Create a copy.
There, done. You can now edit your own copy and input all the data you want to test whatever you need to be testing.

Someone can correct the estimates but 1k > 2k SB is something like a 50% increase in damage when accounting for minor tp overflow and moonshade earring. No other off-hand is going to compete with that kind of a boost, i'm not sure at what level of acc this stops being the more effective OH vs a proper ilvl one you can cap acc on, would assume around 80%

When you can't use the TP bonus OH the next best is a bit blurry, ternion/gleti's/crepu knife are all fairly similar in effectiveness, ifyou had to pick one id say r15 ternion since that works for a wide selection of jobs where if its not the best OH dagger, its pretty close.

Max rank Gleti should be better than R15 Ternion+1 but then again pretty close.
Not sure on Crepuscular, which is by far the BiS option for those willing to MH Carnwenhan... which is not the best DPS option for BRD and by now we all know it, but some people insist on willing to use that no matter what.
I totally empathize with them btw lol

So uh, my 30 acc 2 QA DM aug chironic goves looks pretty close to Bunzi gloves at a glance. Is there anything I'm not considering that would push me towards buying the Bunzi for melee?

lose a large chunk of atk, meva, and DT are the main draw backs

For C segs am I better of using Mordant w/ Carn or Evis w/ Tauret as my piercing option?

The correct answer probably is Rudra with Twashtar MH and Centovente OH.

If you need an OH with acc then your best option might be Aeneas MH with one of the good OHs (Ternion R15, Gleti, Cerpuscular, Twashtar)

Would need to doublecheck on the spreadsheet to be 100% sure but I think you might need AM3 for Carn to trump the others, which is clearly out of the question here where you mainly use Naegling and swap to Piercing only for a few mobs.


Concering your question of Mordant with Carn vs Evis with Tauret, more likely than not Carn is gonna win.
Keep in mind though that Mordant Rime has the big con of not benefitting from the extra TP you get from TP overflow, which is a shame.
Rudra benefits a lot from it.
Evis... gets a small benefit, but not particularly relevant alas.

If I'm BRD/Nin at ML40, how much dual wield do I need to cap?

I'm currently using a cape with dual wield 10 and Reiki Yotai and I'm wondering if I can redo my cape to like double attack instead.

Assuming haste cap: 11, but 10 is close enough. Either go with the 10 on cape, or reiki + eabani for 11. Depends on if you need haste via the waist slot.

With the 17 you currently have, you're significantly overcapped and losing TP/hit.

Thanks for the quick response.

Alternate belt options? I do not need haste, I'm 26/25 currently on my current engaged set.

Edit: I'm running Telos/Dignitary in my earring right now.

Edit2: I swapped in Kentarch Belt +1 fully augmented for now.

1357 acc, 1216 attack, 32/25 haste, and 49/50 DT in my hybrid DD set.

You are losing out on quite a bit of store TP and multi attack in that set. Have a look at the DD gear guide I posted a few months back: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/46553/military-parade-a-dd-bard-guide/34/#3610312

I'm confident BRD can hit 7M damage in a seg farm at ML50

Hi looking for an UpToDate Brd Aeolian Edge set if anyone has one, thanks.

Sub Ammurapi shield
Head/body/hands/legs/feet Nyame r25
Neck TVR Windurst Neck
Waist Orpheus's sash
Ring1 Epam ring.
Ring2 Metamorph ring+1
Ear1 Moonshade earring
Ear2 Regal earring
Back Ambu cape with int wsd mdmg/macc?

Idk for ammo prob ghastly Tathlum or TVR WSD ammo, but that should be pretty much BiS for each of those slots

Linos with MAB+20, WSD+3%, INT+8

Ok great thanks, also one last thing, what weapons? I have access to most Daggers.

Double Malevolence or Malevolence/Tauret probably best options. I know Levante Dagger exists, but I think I remember some testing being done for an AE set that found Malevolence beat it, so probably not worth going out to get it.

Sub daybreak is also fine, not sure exactly where it falls between tauret/kaja/tp bonus/malev but it suits.

Updated the BRD spreadsheet with Fili+3 gear, JSE earrings and a belt I missed.
Ignored NQ earring and +2 Fili because I feel they're irrelevant.
Tbf Fili+3 too is hardly relevant at all now that Nyame is out, but aside from Nyame it can be an interesting option for Mordant Rime at capped attack or for Acc sets.

Link

I got a Levante Dagger recently and tried it out for AE, disappointing result indeed. It was doing roughly the same/a bit less than the previous combo I was using (carn/malevolence - which isn't even the best combo).

I'm a newbie Melee Bard trying to get some gear together. For max accuracy situations (Wave3 Dyna mostly) what is the best offhand to use for Naegling? I already have demersal degen+1 and am thinking about r15'ing it, but before I do I want to make sure there isn't an obvious better choice. I don't have any other REMA weapons besides Naegling and I don't have access to crep. knife. Also no Gleti's knife lol. I currently have about 1200 accuracy with no offhand.

Ternion Dagger +1 maybe? though that is also after augments.

Depends on your gear really. If you're rocking a LOT of STP (Ashera Harness/Bastok Volte/Bunzi Hat) then a OAT offhand will win out barely, otherwise Ternion +1 will be your best option if you want make TP offhand work. Nice thing about BRD is you're the acc buffer. 2x mad, HM and food is a bonus ~400acc. With a RDM Distract you may be able to keep the TP dagger on wave 3, would have to test and see what acc is like. Can just pianissimo a bonus madrigal on yourself so you don't hit the rest of the pty with it and they keep the extra atk.