This might be the best equipment yet !!

[Yukk]

This might be the best equipment yet for a bard to be able to solo better and live longer. I got this from Allakhazam forum and credit for this post goes to Alamine Scholar, i thought this was interested and decided to post here.


"Earth staff -20% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2992][/link]

Damask belt -5% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2876][/link]

Dark steel subliger+1 -3% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3899][/link]

Dark steel cap +1 -2% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4326][/link]

Dark steel mittens+1 -2% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4047][/link]

Jelly ring -5% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2973][/link]

Defending ring -10% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2847][/link]

Dark steel leggings +1 -2% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4109][/link]

Minstrels earring latent effect -30% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2969][/link]

Dark steel harness +1 -4% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3995][/link]

Umbra cape -6% DMG taken
[link=http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4311][/link]

So all these armors together would equal -89% Pysical DMG taken, including the latent effect of the minstrels earing. Granted most of these items would be seriously seriously hard to obtain, and some would cost a ton, but I find it funny as hell Bard can get thier hands on this much DMG reduction gear lol."



If you were to get hit for a 1000 damage you'd only take 110
What do you think?

[Rodin]

Statwise that's awesome. But would you really want to wear the level 1-10 S&M gear? The subligar is a little.....iffy to me, and when it's paired with the beret it's like theres gonna be a little spanking with a flute going on...O_o

[grunion]

it's interesting but pretty hard to get all that ... plus if you are taking enough hits to worry about staying alive, 89% really won't save you if you are in big trouble.

an interesting idea though.

[Rekiem]

I always wanted to try this. Equipped like this, a monster that would normally hit you for 200 damage will deal 22. With a THF for Fui, a Bard equiped like this could probably tank monsters very well

The problem is getting the belt and the defender ring.

[Yukk]

This might be a VERY nice farming equipment.

If you fight HNM like steelfleece, he hits you for what 100-150 at a time. He doesn't have crazy magic so he would only hit you for about 11-15 damage!!!! THE POSSIBILITIES!

[Yukk]

Just found these:

Minstrel's Earring - 30% damage taken

That would make -119% damage taken. ..... Ok NOW im confused.

[AurorABLaZe]

Genbu's Shield is -10% damage too.....


But, the only problem is, while it says -89% dmg statistically, you can bet your top dollar that you'll still be taking a crapload of damage..... S-E is just mean that way....89% to them is like 5% to us.....

Have to test it....has anyone tested it? If it works then we got ourselves a boon at last. `('')~

[Yukk]

I doubt it, why would they lie about %, im sure 10% if United States is the same as 10% in Japan

[Reaperx90]

I'll bet there's some innate -damage% that each job has, and the -damage% equips just increase that %.

Like, say the BRD has an innate 10% damage reduction. Having the -89% gear would give you 19% TOTAL damage reduction. Like it just increased the innate 10% by 89%.

That would make it appropriately mediocre for S-E's standards :angel:

[Rekiem]

No. I wear the lv 70 Bard Earring and it gives -30% damage reduction. When I was fighting Maat and my HP were in yellow, instead of hitting me for 70 damage, he was doing 50. This proove that its really -30%. There could be a stacking penalty but I doubt it, S-E would have anounced it somewhere.

[AurorABLaZe]

Hrmm...actually I have to disagree with Minstrel's Earring....

Maat would hit me for 70-100....it wasn't a permanent latent effect, if it worked at all.

Meaning, it has a % chance to work. It didn't always work....that's assuming when he hit me for 70 that was the effect of the earring....

And I wouldn't actually put it past S-E to actually make misleading statistics.

Most statistics in this game feel so hollow, they don't make any sense besides what we can assume about them...or maybe that's just Bard's warped perception coming into play again, lol. They treated us so bad with CHR. ;;

[Rekiem]

Im gonna test this when I got some free time.

[dang everything]

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=14468976

Also being discussed here. Maybe it would work.

[Xccoortri]

Wouldn't -110% damage make you the best tank in the game though? I know it's not physical damage, but you should know ahead of time which type of attacks the monster will be making...and I mean....-110% physical damage just speaks for itself.

this also reminds me of Ragnarok Online...I played on a private server where you could get equipment that was slightly better then in the real game, and I had a knight who's defence was 98+150, meaning I block 98% of the hit and then -150 from the attack as well...meaning basically 1-10 damage each hit...

Also, after reading the Gamefaqs topic I'm more inclined to believe it would stack like the discount in a store analogy...50% off, then 20% off the new total, then 10% off the new total etc etc...and knowing square they'd give precedence to the lowest number probably

[Deodorant]

Just a random unrelated comment: GameFAQs boards are in my opinion the single worst place to get 'information' about the game

[edit] Case in point: This Extremely Entertaining Thread.