Ideal equipment 43-50ish range

[Darkedge]

What would be ideal equipment for Elvaan DRG level 43-the 50s range.


I've been looking at armor and realized that DRG are terribly and horrifically to a near almost undescribable and rediculous extent utterly shafted in terms of equipment. I used to think the only reason people could look down on DRG was because of Polearm, but now I see that DRG are just very limited in equipment.


Head: Valk Mask is 400k, any alternatives?
Body: Brigandine
Neck: Spike Necklace, anything better?
Hands: SandOrian Gloves (for ATK, anything better?)
Legs: not a clue
Feet: not a clue
Earrings: Beetle Earings +1?
Rings: Dex Rings, because snipers would cost around 1.7 million
Back: ???
Waist: no idea on what to wear, maybe Barbarian Belt? (with -1 dex) until Life Belt. Maybe Merc Captain Belt?

Also for EXPing, how good are the AF pieces?

Thanks.

[vampiracarb]

Feet: RSE, Leaping Boots
Hands: Battle Gloves or in your case since your hume use RSE(+3str, +3 dex)
Back: Wolf Mantle+1
Waist: Sword Belt or Barbarian belt(HQ?)

And for head...Valkyrie Mask is a good choice but so is Emperor's Pin. But if your lacking cash you can use Mercenary Captains Headgear (+1str, +1dex)

Hope this helps...if not hope people will post their opinions as well.

*EDIT* For your AF question, I personally used the AF til I could use the Feral gear (+attack) But I continued to use the AF armet(head) and the AF body piece. AT level 67 the Assault Jerkin is a EXCELLENT choice for body wear.

[Darkedge]

Emp Hairpin is 100k or so more than mask, hmm.

Also this DRG is Elvaan, as said in first sentence, and unfortunately because I am a Hume I know nothing about Elvaan RSE :sweat:

Sword Belt, Battle Gloves, Merc Captain Head seem easy to obtain, Leaping Boots are around 400k so I'll see what I can do with those slots.

[Lightseeker]

<-- 48 elvaan drg, here is what I'm using:

Head: Emp Pin
Neck: Spike Necklace, swap for Tiger Stole (ATT +5) if I'm not missing much
Body: Brigandine
Waist: Life Belt, was using Sword Belt until 48
Hands: Battle Gloves
Feet: Leaping boots, elvaan RSE boots don't add DEX, so they're not very useful here
Legs: Raptor Trousers, but elvaan RSE pants have a DEX +2 so they are also good
Back: Nomad Mantle, but Wolf +1 would be better
Rings: Snipers x2, but if I didn't have them I'd go for the new lvl 34 ACC+3 ring and a lvl 36 DEX+3 ring. The 34 ACC ring is about 100k on Fenrir atm
Earrings: Tortoise+1, Beetle+1

ACC: +23
DEX: +11

Elvaan drg really need to maximize ACC and DEX. Nothing is worse than missing repeatedly with a high delay weapon. You're right, we pretty much do get shafted in the equipment dept at this level.

[DeathFromAbove]

Im currently using this setup:

Head: Windurstian Headgear
Earrings: 2 Beetle +1
Neck: Spike Necklace
Body: WIndurtian doublet (until 45 and Brig)
Hands: Switch betwen Windy Gloves and Battle Gloves(but I rarely miss with windy)
Rings: Decided on two Deft rings beacuse of the now high prices vereners/snipers rings
Belt: Barbarians ATM, but i have the lvl 43 +10 atk one
Legs: Bastokan Cuisses
Feet: Bastokan Greaves


As a Hume, and Being the most balanced of the races, I usually like to keep my AGI, DEX and STR bonuses about the same.

As for the cioces of HQ windy/bastok gear they have nice little +acc and +atk when you are in control of the area. Since Sandoria (my home town) often controls the regions I EXP in, i usually end up with a good deal of bonuses

As for those of you that might think about saying "why such low DEF gear" or "You need snipers to even hit anything" this is not true, in fact i rarely miss, and usually get about 100-160 TP in a battle, depending on how fast the PT kill the mobs.

And, as of late, i see a LOT of DRG wearing a lot of +str rings, and DEF only Iron/Steel armor, I dont see how they even get a PT!! they must be missing as much as a BLM (>_<)



P.S. Thanks to those of you that still invite DRG to the party not just because they are the only person LFG.