headgear @ 75

[Spinnthrift]

Re: headgear @ 75

Armando - yes - you're right, but listen to what the OP's saying.. this is a 74 monk who's not got god gear. I might be wrong, but I'd wager that means no BB either. Or a lot of things we assume for granted won't be ready in this case.

The whole Pahluwan set gives a decent modicum of acc.

If you were asking, what would *I* wear, right now.. I'd be all over that Walmart Turban like a rash, but prior to getting the gear and merits I have - if you're whiffing, whiffing faster doesn't help.

To hit Lolibri (fairly standard meripo mob) with 95% acc you need 408 total accuracy (skill + dex + acc), an unmerited monk won't have near that. You're right, for a decently gear meriting monk, but without at least meriting H2H up and getting some decent finishing gear.

With decent gear, haste is king - I won't argue that, you and I both know it, but if my gut feel is correct, she won't benefit fully from the haste *yet*. Little down the line, and the story changes, but it's easy to be at less than 80% acc without an O-Hat on merit party mobs, and since he's asking about the P.Head... I'm guessing no O-Hat either.

[Sabaron]

Re: headgear @ 75

It's pretty dangerous to stay in the orange 24/7.

I seem to have missed the fact that the effect on attack is "Latent" when reviewing the list of high-level MNK gears... MB.

[Aeolus]

Re: headgear @ 75

Armando - yes - you're right, but listen to what the OP's saying.. this is a 74 monk who's not got god gear. I might be wrong, but I'd wager that means no BB either. Or a lot of things we assume for granted won't be ready in this case.

BB in this case = black belt right? Theres no excuse for a 74 monk thats got no equip at all not to be able to quest the brown belt, its not hard anymore and its not expensive to buy either.

[Armando]

Re: headgear @ 75

Aeolus: Good catch. I always forgot about the MNK belts. With Brown Belt the improvement with Turban would be 0.77/0.72, almost 7%. For O-Hat to be better her hit rate would need to be lower than 72%, and for P. head, it'd have to be lower than 50.4% (but that's not really an accurate comparison since the Attack increase needs to be taken into account as well, and that would get messy. Let's just use 72%.)

Spinthrift: Is the difference between 75 merited MNK and 74 unmerited that big? The 75 has 13 more Skill in his favor, and the Lv.74 has one more level of acc penalty (-4 Acc). That adds up to 15 Acc, or a 7.5% hit rate difference. That's painful, but it's not the 30 Acc difference between 95% hit rate and 80%. Is there something I'm missing? Granted, using 95% is a worst case scenario comparison, but still.

In either case I'd still recommend getting the both of them since even if W.Turban is slightly better, it doesn't do anything for WS, and your hit rate is going to vary at different camps too.

[Spinnthrift]

Re: headgear @ 75

My personal experiences with an A ranked weapon and parses said that until I'd started putting merits in and a lot of +acc gear, the haste wasn't helping as much as it does now.

Brown Belt means they're losing another +10 or +8 possible acc depending on belt, with back piece most often as Amemet, so another possible acc slot gone, leaving Rings, Neck, Ammo (which at best is +2 for Monk).

The other benefit of the P. Head - is the attack bonus, which also helps the damage.

On Thf, when I hit 75, I thought Yay! Haste gearz! I'll be leet, and so swapped out all my funky gear like AJ/SH/etc for haste set, and boy was I disappointed. Felt like I couldn't hit the side of a barn. So it all came back till I started getting merits/gear to replace the lost acc.

I realise in other threads - I've espoused the merits of haste, and - I know exactly what haste does, but with an unknown quantity, I'd say go for Acc/Attack first until you get the gear available for it.

[Aeolus]

Re: headgear @ 75

Mnk - never take your brown or black belt off, ever.

8/8 hand merits, sniper/+1, Pcharm or Faith torque should be enough acc even too eat meat. Ive never had trouble hitting.

[Spinnthrift]

Re: headgear @ 75

Yes Aeolus, now read the OP. Level 74 Monk without God gear. No Torque, I doubt muchly Snipers +1 and no merits.

[Aeolus]

Re: headgear @ 75

Ok but sniper ring x2 anyone can afford these days.

[Spinnthrift]

Re: headgear @ 75

That's the difference between monks though and why I was saying - go with the Acc/Attack gear for now. When they've got that margin better - full speed on full haste gear. I agree with everyone on that point, but not till they're really getting the best out of it.

You see what I was trying to say now?

[Aeolus]

Re: headgear @ 75

I understand what your saying.

Im saying, get 2x snipers, turban, brown belt and the fuma sun-ate(like 100k now) which gives a total of +16% haste and is alot better than wearing optical hat full time. Its far from perfect for a haste/acc/atk setup but it will maximise your dmg on mnk with a small budget and no access to end game items. Eat sushi if your still missing.