endgame equipment

[grunion]

if money was no object and you were playing the classic brd/whm role, what would the ideal setup be? for normal party XP/boss fights, not bcnm 40

head: noble ribbon +3 chr
neck: bird whistle? +3 chr
ear: mistrel, +MP
body: vermillion/royal cloak (mp regen) or combat caster +1 chr
hands: af4 +1 chr i thnk
rings: mistrel , +3 chr
back: jester +1 (i heard there's a mistrel cape - what is that?)
waist: corsette +1
legs: ?
shoes: something for chr or mp?

weapon: signa
instruments: all the + of course plus mary's horn

other than the vermillion cloak, all this stuff seems relatively easy to get, compared to peacock's charm, scorpion harness +1, and other multi million gil items, etc. that other classes aspire to. or is there stuff like that that i don't know about?

[Seance]

hey Grunion!, just wanted to say hey

[Aniga]

Re: endgame equipment

Originally posted by j0e
if money was no object and you were playing the classic brd/whm role, what would the ideal setup be? for normal party XP/boss fights, not bcnm 40

head: noble ribbon +3 chr
neck: bird whistle? +3 chr
ear: mistrel, +MP
body: vermillion/royal cloak (mp regen) or combat caster +1 chr
hands: af4 +1 chr i thnk
rings: mistrel , +3 chr
back: jester +1 (i heard there's a mistrel cape - what is that?)
waist: corsette +1
legs: ?
shoes: something for chr or mp?

weapon: signa
instruments: all the + of course plus mary's horn

other than the vermillion cloak, all this stuff seems relatively easy to get, compared to peacock's charm, scorpion harness +1, and other multi million gil items, etc. that other classes aspire to. or is there stuff like that that i don't know about?

Well for starters, you can't equip that cloak if you're wearing a head item.

Secondly, our AF Hands are +4 CHR.

For rings, you can get up to +5 CHR per ring (High Quality on level 72 CHR Rings)

A better neck item would be the Star Pendant, which is +3 CHR and converts 15 HP to 15 MP.

Melody Earrings +1 (+2 CHR Latent Effect: +6 Evasion) have been the best earrings I've seen thus far, though a Bloodstone Earring (+25 HP) isn't bad either.

Also, you can get Errant Legs and Chest, which both add a total of around 17 CHR and -8 Enmity (Hate). The Errant equipment at 72 is actually pretty good. It's a lot of the stats you need (CHR, MND) for the stats you don't need as much (STR, DEX, AGI). It does decrease VIT, but it also decreases Enmity by quite a bit, and you shouldn't be getting hate anyway.

Look around the AH, I bet you'll find a lot of nice items that are over 70.

[grunion]

hi seance

thx for the info aniga. it sounds like the stuff i listed is good til level 70 or so. also do you know what the "minstrel cape" is?

[Aniga]

Can't say I've heard of a Minstrel Cape. Might be Rare/EX, since I've never seen it in the AH. A quick search on google comes up with nothing except one item from DAoC, so I'm begining to wonder if it exists.

[ajg126]

no such thing. You mean minstrel COAT. and it is armor lvl 62 with +3 string and wind skill (or maybe its wind and sing skill). its rare/ex and ill let you find out where it drops but jus think where there are lots of bard mobs........

[xarddrax]

Aniga,....you're such a know-it-all

[Rekiem]

I've seen a couple Bards with the Minstrel Coat. It looks like the black robe most mage wear at level 50. I cannot remember the exact stats but I know its gives some + to your sing, wind and string skills. It drop from a NM in Sea Serpent Grotto.

Back on topic. The best equip to me is:

Main: Monster Signa.
Head: Opo-Opo Crown
Body: Minstrel Coat
Hand: Choral Gloves
Legs: Choral Slippers
Feet: Mahatma's boot
Ring1: Serket Ring
Ring2: Astral Ring
Earring1: Melody Earring +1
Earring2: Melody Earring +1
Neck: Wind Torque
Back: Jester Cape +1
Ammo/Misc: Morrion Tathlum

[ajg126]

hmm i dont think this your setup was quite the best rekiem.............

Main: Monster Signa.
Head: Opo-Opo Crown
Body: the lvl 72 HQ errant coat with +11 chr *maybe its 12)
Hand: Choral Gloves
Legs: there is a drop from NM rabbit in the boyahda tree that gives you +7 chr on new moon and +3 every other time
Feet: Mahatma's boot
Ring1: serket Ring (HQ chr +5 is prolly better)
Ring2: HQ chr +5 ring
Earring1: Melody Earring +1
Earring2: Melody Earring +1
Neck: Wind Torque
Back: Jester Cape +1
Ammo/Misc: phantom Tathlum is better than morion

[Aniga]

Originally posted by xarddrax
Aniga,....you're such a know-it-all

Lies.

[Kweh]

I'm nearly a lvl 35 BRD now.

Anyone got any pointers on what equipment I should be getting?

[grunion]

Main: Monster Signa.
Head: Opo-Opo Crown
Body: the lvl 72 HQ errant coat with +11 chr *maybe its 12)
Hand: Choral Gloves
Legs: there is a drop from NM rabbit in the boyahda tree that gives you +7 chr on new moon and +3 every other time
Feet: Mahatma's boot
Ring1: serket Ring (HQ chr +5 is prolly better)
Ring2: HQ chr +5 ring
Earring1: Melody Earring +1
Earring2: Melody Earring +1
Neck: Wind Torque
Back: Jester Cape +1
Ammo/Misc: phantom Tathlum is better than morion

that is really what i wanted to know! :spin: thanks a lot!

could you possibly elaborate on these items - where to get them and what they do?

Head: Opo-Opo Crown
Body: the lvl 72 HQ errant coat with +11 chr *maybe its 12)
Feet: Mahatma's boot
Ring1: serket Ring (HQ chr +5 is prolly better)
Neck: Wind Torque

[ajg126]

Head: Opo-Opo Crown
Body: the lvl 72 HQ errant coat with +11 chr *maybe its 12)
Feet: Mahatma's boot
Ring1: serket Ring (HQ chr +5 is prolly better)
Neck: Wind Torque


sure......

the head item is a rare/ex piece of head equipment attained from doing a quest in kazham involving you trading items to monkeys. The crown in itself gives -chr but it enhances the effect of a certain food you can eat ultimately boosting your stats by quite a significant amount

the body is simply a synthesis item- the one listed hwoever is a HQ version of the normal errant coat which can simply be bought in the auction house

the boots are the same story- a HQ version of errant boots, check your local AH

Serket ring is a ring that converts 50 hp- mp. As an elvaan my chr is naturally high and mp is low so this is good for me, but there is an obvious argument that the HQ lvl 72 +5 chr ring is better. This serket ring drops from the HNM serket found in garliage citadel. its a HNM for a lvl 70 PT.

Wind torque is attained from BCNM 60- it gives you +7 to your wind instrument skill. Pretty tight. You can buy it in your AH probably

[Huaua]

You have to be kiding me........
only one thing scares me here, all of you are bards, and yet none of you disagree with the range/ammo slot being phantom tathul or morion one.
YOU ARE A BARD, YOU CAN NOT USE THESE (unless your the worst bard in the game and dont wna use songs)
well, you "CAN" use them, but for god sake, your just going to be un equiping them when you want to use a song.
If you want a fancy piece of equip to fill that ammo/range slot that is an instrument use the lvl 70 (72?) one +1 that gives verilai +2 and chr +3 :sweat:
If you really want that tathulum then why dont you just sing your songs with your beautiful voice, sigh...
the only point of bard being main is so you can use instruments and have more than 1 song effect

[EFigaro]

Ummm, Huaua? The Instrument uses the Range slot...meaning where bows normally go. The Tathlum goes in the Ammo slot, where the arrows go. They do not go into the same slot.

So no...they don't conflict.