Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

[capitalistnihilist]

Hello there fellow Shadow-warriors!

This is my first thread here and I just wanted to know if anyone besides myself here has tried using Mercurial Kris offhand as ninja. I've had some remarkable results with it so far. The only mobs that it kinda stinks against are crabs >.<. Basically using this dagger I can get 2-3 blade: jins off per mob.

Anyone else have a chance to try this dagger or does anyone have any opinions regarding its usefulness in exp pts?

[Jei]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

i heard the multi-attack weapons only work main hand, no?

[Intensity]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

I'm pretty sure they work in both. I've heard of NIN's Off-Handing a kraken club for spamming WS's.

[Omni]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

they work on any hand. ive seen rdm/nin dual wield kraken and joy for 0 + 16 additional dmg x102981428394723 ftw.

[Patchinko]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

I'll dual weild YOU, nub-NIN.

[Avoklex]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

It works in both either slot. Tried my friends once when we were fighting for the skull for opo crown quest. It was pretty sweet.

[Kakusaijin.]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

I don't see why you would want to, as it has pretty low damage, and Ninja doesn't have a spectacular rating in Dagger. >.>

But yeah, it would work in either hand.

[Rai|Kye]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

it multihits in off-hand but still it sucks

maybe for EP i could see this making sense ... but on IT or VT ... nah

[capitalistnihilist]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

Uh, it worked INSANELY well for me in the 50s and 60s. There were many parties where I was solo tanking and leading all melee DD in damage thanks to this dagger. ESPECIALLY in bibiki bay on tragopans where my kris damage per hit was nearly as much as my katana damage per hit ^^. I will say that they sucked a bit on crabs and dhalmels but I just avoided those mobs when I could or switched to 2xkatana if I couldn't.


EDIT: Also, for fun one time in a TP burn in sky I decided to parse M. Kris vs. Senju/Fudo and I was very suprised at how close they were. I think Senj/fudo beat Senj/kris by only a couple percent per fight.

[Avoklex]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

wouldn't be that bad if you wanted to just spam Jin the whole time. might be kinda fun.

[Kakusaijin.]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

I don't see how...

My Thief has a hard time hitting for more than 10 with daggers that are MUCH better than Mercurial Kris. (Cerment Kukri +1, as I'm currently level 64.)

So I honestly cannot comprehend how you are hitting for more than 0 at 75, with a C(?) rating in Dagger, and how your accuracy with it is good enough to be better than Fudo/Sen[tabkeyprz] at all. >.> Seriously. You'd have to be wearing a good amount of Attack, Accuracy, and some Dagger Skill+.

[Rai|Kye]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

i totaly agree with the poster above .... every tried to of-hand a hornet-needle on aura statues ?

[UnnamedGalka]

Re: Offhanded Mercurial Kris FTW?

i heard the multi-attack weapons only work main hand, no?

Oh no, they definitely work in the offhand as well.

My friend lends me her Kraken Club for Ballista sometimes. As WHM/NIN, I equip it in my offhand with my Purgatory Mace in my main. I'll tell ya...with a Kraken Club, a WHM becomes a Hexa Striking fiend. Man...if only WHM had access to En- spells...the DoT that we could do as WHM/NIN would be insane.

The only really bad part is that the Kraken Club, and all other multi-hit weapons for that matter, gives your enemy tons of TP of their own. Personally, I'd never use one in an EXP PT, lest enemy skills such as Healing Breeze and Bomb Toss get spammed. And in Ballista, I try not to go against hard-hitting melee...I swear, it gets them to 100% TP faster than it gets me there. >.<

But against non-RDM mages...heh heh heh. Black Mages and Bards are especially tasty morsels.

But yeah...to get back on topic. Like I said, I'd kind of advise against using a Mercurial Kris in EXP, due to it giving the mobs mucho TP while it does crap damage. Sure, spamming WS is nice, but the mob can seriously mess you up with their own TP skill spam.