The Brakki Dragoon Guide

[DakAttack]

Re: The Brakki Dragoon Guide

Back on topic!

Food is situational, as is almost everything in this game. You'll often hear me say that meat is better than sushi, and for 99% of the situations out there, it is. It is far easier to make up the amount of accuracy that sushi gives you with gear than it is to make up the attack that meat gives.

I can refute this by adding that the only thing different in availability between Acc gear and Atk gear is the price. It costs far less to outfit your character in Atk gear than it does in Acc gear, as well as being cheaper to use Atk food rather than Acc food. If you want to play at the next level so you can equip all the Acc gear in the world and eat meat, that's your problem, but as with all normal people sushi will be the number one food of choice.

It's a fallacy that you need to try to get 100% accuracy each fight. 80% is a find amount of accuracy to have, and if you have the best accuracy gear for your level and eat meat, you'll probably parse out with the highest damage during the party, even though you may not have the highest accuracy.

Not only is it a fallacy, it's impossible to achieve a 100% hit rate. Even 80% is pushing it beyond the realm of attainable. If you were to graph your stats each base stat would be on a slope, meaning it would be impossible to achieve 100% by purely adding that single base stat. Luckily, you can raise the graph upwards with the use of normal stats, but it's only a very slight increase. If you think you'll get to an 80% hit rate with Acc gear alone you're going to be sorely disappointed. You'd need a lot of Dex to raise the slope, and the general consensus from ArsClickyBrakki is Dex is evil and should never be on any single piece of equipment you own, ever, period.

Case Study for Sushi vs Meat
The other day Brakki is partying in Boyahda Tree fighting Steel Shells and Elder Goobbue. The Bard demands that Brakki eat Sole Sushi so he can sing Valor Minuet x2. Brakki hits for ~60 damage per swing, wearing such gear as Feral Jerkin/Trousers, Enkelados's Bracelets, Spike Necklace, and Vanguard Belt. The party averages around 3k EXP per hour. Brakki "accidentally" eats a Couerl Sub and puts back on his accuracy gear and starts hitting for 80-100, and the EXP per hour goes up to about 5k.

Oh no, an anecdote! I find it amusing that the efficiency of the entire party depended solely on what Brakki ate and wore for equipment. Of course we must believe that since he's such an advocate of Acc equipment, that the Atk equipment he has on hand is just as great! I'm sure he took into consideration the current day's element, the moon's cycle, and the weather, or did he? Either way, I'm sure he hasn't forgotten to follow his own advice about parsing EXP sessions.

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Case Study for Sushi vs Meat 2
Elliot (DRG60/WAR30) says:
As for why my melee damage was so low it was because I was fooling around with food. Half the time I had Meat Chiefkabobs but because I blew 40k on Sushi I decided I'd use some of that up. When using sushi I was only hitting for 20-50 rather than my 80-100 with meat and the accuracy wasn't all that better. I keep giving sushi a chance because everyone always goes on about it but I've yet to be impressed.

More anecdotal evidence about how +15% Acc didn't actually improve his accuracy. As Brakki has said in the past, you must always provide a parsed log, what gear everybody in the party had, what you were fighting, where you were fighting it, what it had for lunch and it's maiden name before you can make any conclusions about the session.


Good guides can cover all aspects of a job, not just the "ZOMG ACCGEAR 4EVER" aspect as seen here. Of course I can write my own guide, and recieve kudos from those who coincidentally share the same view, but I'm not looking for fame. As I've said in the past, if you have any questions regarding the Dragoon job class please feel free to send me a private message. I've already recieved a lot of PMs in the past, so don't be afraid to ask.

[Lmnop]

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I really don't like that second "case study." It seems way too "casual observation." However, I do believe that meat dishes are better than sushi. However, I don't always find this to be the case. 60-63 in Bibiki bay, no matter what I wear, I miss like mad. I don't want to add up my acc gear right now but it's around +35~40 acc. It's still not enough. I just need the sushi if I want to be happy. However, eating sushi has it's upsides. I ditch my Viking axe(acc+10) for my Tungi (greatest dmg/delay ratio axe in the game, it's a nice offhand) for some added DoT.

I know I keep giving WAR examples for a DRG thread, but I think this is rather relevant.

Right now, the real flaw in the sushi system is that Sole Sushi is the only good one. They made the food update to get rid of meat crackkabobs. Instead it's Sole Cocain.

I don't care what you eat, but do beware of your food equip choices. People eat the same +acc gear they used to PLUS sole sushi and get angry when they miss once.

Another thing that hadn't really dawned on me 'til my brother and I were talking about acc: If a fight lasts 60 seconds, you get to swing about 7 times. If you miss once out of those 7, you're looking at around 85% acc. If you get unlucky, that's 71%. People who parse will see 71% for one fight and be like "OMG, meat dishes suck." from just one or 2 fights. Granted, when I eat meat, my chance of hitting 70% is higher than on meat, but what's 1 swing every 3 fights?

Impaction, you make some pretty good points though. I still think sushi is good. Though you could keep the cynical author-targetting down a bit

[Stockyboy]

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want to play at the next level

Not RMT are you?



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[DakAttack]

Re: The Brakki Dragoon Guide

Not RMT are you?



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Yea that's where I got the phrase from. I think I actually picked the phrase up after I saw Ars use it. =/

Edit: Weird.

[Brakki]

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Of course I take everything into consideration. In fact, the only thing that's worse than a DRG eating sushi is a BLM who doesn't face the correct cardinal direction when nuking. Seriously guys, if you're not going to play right just don't play. It's worst in manaburns, probably because manaburns make crappy BLMs, but I've seen a lot do it in skillchain parties too.

[Kailea]

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what the hell..... since when does faceing a direction effect nukeing........ and a DRG does not suck just because they eat sushi -.- the more you post the more I find your whole guide BS, or should I say BS that you wrote it...... some of the guide is good like others have said, but if everyoen followed your guide, then there will be alot of new Dragoons buying gil

casting a spell and its strength has nothing to do with what direction you are faceing -.- Direction is for crafting only, and even that has not been proven 100% yet

[Jei]

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Of course I take everything into consideration. In fact, the only thing that's worse than a DRG eating sushi is a BLM who doesn't face the correct cardinal direction when nuking. Seriously guys, if you're not going to play right just don't play. It's worst in manaburns, probably because manaburns make crappy BLMs, but I've seen a lot do it in skillchain parties too.

... are we talking about FFXI?

[Kailea]

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... are we talking about FFXI?

lol we are...but I dont think Brakki knows what the heck he is talking about :p

[Stockyboy]

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Admitted, it is a rumour, but supposedly it works the same way as crafting, facing one way or the other increases elemental magic strength.

[Murphie]

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I've been playing for three years, and this is the first I've heard of it. Is this like that terrible guide that came out when the 360 launched that said staves help with crafting?

[Stockyboy]

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Says the person with his highest level at 30. I've heard they do, and seen people craft with them.

[Murphie]

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Classy. Attacking my levels. This isn't my first character, genius. Or did you miss the part about three years of play?

Just because people craft with staves on doesn't mean that they actually do anything. But since you heard it from someone, it must be true, right? Right?

[zagex]

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a BLM who doesn't face the correct cardinal direction when nuking. Seriously guys, if you're not going to play right just don't play. It's worst in manaburns, probably because manaburns make crappy BLMs, but I've seen a lot do it in skillchain parties too.

I guess I'm repeating what other people said, but seriously, I've never heard of that before ever from anyone, or seen that on any forum. If anything, it's not a very popular rumor...

I won't say that I've never noticed it, because I've never thought to pay attention to it. The only time I pay attention to what direction I face in a pt is face away from dhalmels and whatever other mobs where facing away from them prevents their special abilities.

[Stockyboy]

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More making a statement than attacking. No, I didn't miss the 3 years part, thought you might have got it confused with 3 months. Happens you know. But no..there is no solid evidence about the staves thing, since we don't have the exact formula for the crafting process yet, but hidden effects are called hidden for a reason am I not correct?

[Murphie]

Re: The Brakki Dragoon Guide

You are correct. But I'm pretty sure folks have tested out the staves theory and found no real change in HQ or Break rate while using staves. I seem to recall reading quite a bit about it back in April when the guide I mentioned came out. If I can find a link, I'll post it.

I have serious, serious doubts about facing in a particular direction for increased magic potency. Surely if that was a real issue, someone would have made a guide about it by now.