Monster Signa or elemental Staff?

[Gbz]

The earth staff and light staff are working great. I get some resists here and there in dynamis (elegy and lullabies) compared to being resisted more than 60% of the time.

Tried it out as well against Hakutaku, about L80-85+ NM. Compared to other bards in the alliance that had Monster Signas, I landed Elegy more often than they did. You can't sleep Hakutaku, so I didnt bother trying that song on it.

Put down your monster signas and grab these staves

[LockeCole]

Wow thnx for the advise. Gonna sell my signa for light staff this weekend, then find a way to get that earth staff. Although Signa does feel like a part of my AF now hehe . Same dusty look

[antony]

You're going to sell your signa to buy a Light Staff? What about threnodies? I was under the impression the two songs that are on the mob are Threnody and Elegy, so Requiem doesn't matter. The optimal situation would be a Signa and a Light Staff, but is it really worth it to sell the Signa?

[Laehn]

Lullaby is the most important enfeebling song for bards. Threnodies are situational. Light staff helps not only reduces resists more so than signa, it also gives +1 to all stats and will help with downtime (+10% cure potency). Signa staff cant do that.

[tnt118]

Originally posted by Vilurum
I think it's fairly safe to assume, then, that they don't influence song power. So I'd be interested in seeing some statistical data about resistance rate. Say, 50 lullabies with Monster Signa vs. 50 lullabies with Light Staff vs. 50 lullabies with no special weapon, otherwise loaded down with a reasonable amount of +CHR, against the same VT+ enemy, not on light or dark day.

Others are saying the same thing, but I'll put in my personal experience as well. I haven't been able to test Lullaby yet (trying to talk friends into hanging out with me while I crowd-control a high level mob is not an easy thing to do) .. but the rate for landing Requiem has simply shot through the roof. I don't have exact data (I want to do some personal testing in the near future) but the resist rate for Requim was somewhere around 50% during my levels 57-62. Three nights ago I bought my Light Staff. I've had *ONE* Requiem resist since. I'd guess that's near 150 times I've succuessfully landed it in a row ... I stopped counting after 50. Last night I finally had a resist on the song. Needless to say, I'm *very* encouraged by this, and I will get an earth staff when I start doing Dynamis and HNM fights.

I'm taking a Light Staff into BCNM60 soon... hopefully the results will be good!

-jamison

[LockeCole]

Originally posted by antony
You're going to sell your signa to buy a Light Staff? What about threnodies? I was under the impression the two songs that are on the mob are Threnody and Elegy, so Requiem doesn't matter. The optimal situation would be a Signa and a Light Staff, but is it really worth it to sell the Signa?

Well with Signa my threnodies were still getting resisted pretty consistantly. Thing is you usually try to make a monster even weaker to the element it already is weak in (Earth T for Torama), which is already hard because it's based on the element it's strong against (wow... that made.. so little sense lol). Anyway ignoring that junk above, I rationalized that light staff would help my White mage and Black Mage(53) as well, while Signa would only help my bard (although I haven't noticed it "helping" that much). If I need a little extra Charsma I'll just slap on my (cheaper) Shellbuster . Personally I would have gotten an Earth Staff... but for some reason that's the most expensive staff out there <_<";. We're not all rich enough to afford 3 elemental staves and a Signa ._.;;

[Nodachi]

After switching to light staff myself i don't think i would want to go back to signa. CHR seems to be so abundant for me even at level 54 that the extra 5 character signa would offer me doesn't seem worth it over the mind and cure +% of the staff. IMO it truely is the overall better of the two.