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**Feenicks** · 03-12-2005, 08:08 AM

Well, at 66 WHM I was wearing AF all the time.

Weapon: Light Staff when curing, Dark Staff when sitting, Dark Maul + Holy Shield for soloing. You can use Apollo's/Pluto's Staff if you really want to but there's no noticable improvement for WHM if you do.
Head: Healer's Cap, you can wear Noble Crown if you really want.
Neck: Star Necklace (rare/ex SOB quest reward)
Ears: Bat Earring and Enhancing Earring (WHM can get away with nearly anything on ears)
Body: Healer's Briault, switch to Noble's Tunic at 68 if you're insanely rich/well connected.
Hands: Healer's Mitts. Nothing else really compares.
Rings: Astral Ring + Electrum Ring. It's up to you but you should probably have at least one Convert HP->MP or HP-, MP+ ring. It's ok if you have an Astral and a MND+ ring for example.
Back: Red Cape, switched to Empowering Mantle at 67. Or Blue Cape is good too.
Waist: Druid's Rope, then switched to Hierarch Belt at 71.
Legs: Healer's Pantaloons.
Feet: Healer's Duckbills.

Regarding chat filters, I never saw the need for them myself but it's up to you.

**Icemage** · 03-12-2005, 01:18 PM

- Healer's Cap is more powerful than Noble's Crown (by a good margin). I personally hate the way it looks, though.

- Noble's Tunic > Vermillion Cloak > Healer's Briault, but all 3 are useful for different reasons and situations.

- Promise Badge is better than Star Necklace unless you're Elvaan or Galka.

- Nothing overly special in the earring category, use whatever tickles your fancy. Medicine Earring at 70 is both incredibly cheap, and also incredibly useful.

- Electrum Ring/Astral Ring is fine. I preferred using one Peace Ring at that level for the extra -1 enmity.

- Empowering Mantle at 67 is awesome. Blue cape is overrated, I think.

- Penitent's Rope is your best friend at level 60 (and beyond). Heirarch is good for resting, Penitent's is better for casting.

- AF legs and boots are fine. It's not that they have such fantastic stats.. it's because there really isn't anything that's better (until you get access to Errant/Mahatma gear at 72).

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Re: Chat filters

- Attacks by party: filter ON, unless you're magic bursting Banish/Cure
- Attacks by others/NPC: filter ON, always
- Attacks you evade: ON, always
- Your attacks: filter OFF if you're enfeebling using anything other than Dia, ON otherwise
- Your missed attacks: filter OFF if you're enfeebling using anything other than Dia, ON otherwise

That helps cut down on the battlespam quite a bit for general XP purposes. I tend to tailor my chat filters based on what I'm doing, though. In Dynamis, for instance, I turn a lot more filters on, since there's 40-60 people in the vicinity.

Icemage

**TheGrandMom** · 03-12-2005, 01:28 PM

Oops that was silly of me. I should have said I'm a Taru! LOL Little Granny Taru whm...but watch out I wield a mean staff! LOL

**Aelith** · 03-15-2005, 03:48 PM

I'm not quite up to your level yet, and I'm not sure how my gear will have to change until i investigate it a bit more myself.

So far i'm under the impression that we have a big lattitude choice wise.

My rings are currently one astral and one electrum, and they're likely to stay that way for the forseabl future.

I've got a penitents rope on my waist which is, pretty much, going to last me until the end of the game if it has to. A belt with more mana would be a perfectly reasonable (and maybe cheaper) alternative, although as a Taru I bet you don' t have many many worries anyhow. I think all the extra -enmity on my belt is super cool. I can get away with almost anything. It'll be more useful in a few levels when i get into an hnm ls.

For my back I still have a +mp cape (forgot the name) instead of the read cape. Personal preferance really, both kinds can work. And since by belt gives me no mp it's nice to have on my back. I've heard good things about the blue cape though, and will probably switch into it at your level when it becomes equipable.

My neck is ... I forget the name. Holy Phial maybe? The one that gives some defense, plus mp, and plus mind. I don't have anything I'm planning on switching to.

Earings - We have tons of earings that are usable at almost every level. The new astral ones sound nice if I can find a pair ever. Failing that, I'm going to level a summoner sj and get a magicians earing. Other might just remain enhancing or that other one i've got now that gives a tiny bit of mp.

The rest of my gear is AF, and is going to remain AF for quite sometime. I never had an interest in Vermillions - I think it's incredibly overrated, but to each their own - although I'm absolutely obsessed with getting the nobles tunic before reaching lv 69. ... That could take me a long time. .... but i'll have fun trying to think of ways to get it, so that's ok. It certainly isn't a needed piece of gear by anymeans, so if you don't have my random psychological hang up on it, don't worry about it :p.

**eriiko** · 03-16-2005, 12:32 AM

I just wanted to add a few equipment I wear as a hume.

Body, I switch between Black cotahardie & AF body.
Hands, I switch between AF Hands, & RSE2 (+35MP, +4mnd)
Legs, RSE pants. (+32MP, +3mnd)

I don't really see other whms wear this gear who are hume, but I think it is a good equip.

**Tifa** · 03-16-2005, 01:44 PM

If you party with a bard a lot, consider buying an Ice Staff, Earth Staff, and Wind Staff to better land your three enfeebling spells, since you won't have a RDM to do it for you. (Paralyze, Slow, and Silence)

I'd shoot for that Vermillion Cloak if I were you. In EXP situations MP recovery is far more important than how much you start out with.

**Aelith** · 03-16-2005, 09:36 PM

Legs, RSE pants. (+32MP, +3mnd)

I don't really see other whms wear this gear who are hume, but I think it is a good equip.

-------> To be honest, the RSE pants really are better than the AF legs. It's just that I HATE the look of invisible shorts under my tunics, and I really love the look of the AF pants. Add to that the fact that, while somewhat worse, the AF pants are still perfectly respectable gear in their own right, and it's easy for me to take them over the RSE. I don't know what motivates everyone else, just thought I'd explain why I do it.

**GiaCorleone** · 03-17-2005, 02:38 PM

On Blue Cape vs Empowering Mantle:
If you're taru, Empowering Mantle all the way. Blue cape is +15mp convert 15HP to MP and Enhancing Mantle is +10hp +1%hp +10mp +1%mp. Since you're taru let's say you have 650hp and 900mp. Blue cape will change that to 635hp 930mp. Empowering Mantle will change you to 666hp (>:D) 919mp. Small difference in mp, notable difference in hp (which a taru lacks anyway). Blue cape's elemental resistances are nice, but not worth the hp reduction IMO.
For other races, it's personal preference I guess. On Midgard however, Blue cape is considerably pricier than Empowering mantle. Since the mp bonus is about the same and the hp bonus is much larger, I went with the cheaper piece which suited me better anyway. (yeah yeah I know I'm only 60 but I plan ahead...)

Death Earrings at 67 are nice if you can afford their 250k price tag (last time I checked..got mine for 245k each >.>). Pretty expensive, but 10mp in the ear slot and no hp penalty = rawr!

I wear a Steppe Stone for waist, but I may switch to Penitent's rope. My mp is high enough and -enmity is hard to resist.

As for chat filters, being a RDM main I'm a FREAK about my filters. Basically, the only filters I leave off are
"Damage taken by Party"
"Party attacks" (interesting to see ws damage, not everyone wants to see this)
(not exactly sure on wording) "Effects of actions on/by you"/"Effects of actions on/by party"
"Effects of actions on/by foes"
Those last 3 are the biggies. You want to be able to see when someone is paralyzed, just as you want to see if your own paralyze stuck (in case you're stuck enfeebling). The most important filters to turn on are "Effects of special actions on/by others" and "Effects of special actions on/by NPCs." Especially in Labyrinth of Onzozo, having those filters on keeps me from seeing that the other party's tank was paralyzed or silenced so I only had to worry about my own. Streamlines everything. ^_^

Edit: Changed info on Empowering Mantle/Blue Cape, typos, added filter, fixed scatterbrainedness.

**Rones** · 03-18-2005, 12:10 AM

Just a correction but Blue Cape gives a total of +30 mp. It does a +15mp bonus and then a 15hp->15mp conversion. So at best for taru with enhancing you get 10+1%(~1000mp)= 20 mp while the blue cape is still giving you 30. That's 10 mp difference, or the same as going from two electrum rings to astrals. The difference is slightly greater for non taru like myself who get slightly less out of the +1%mp bonus. Blue cape is only 55k on Quetz and enhancing was around 30k last I checked.

**Icemage** · 03-18-2005, 01:22 AM

I've been actively pushing UP my HPs lately as WHM75, since 95% of what I kill at that level when not XPing likes to deal damage in the 250+++ range. Slowly phasing out all my -HP and HP>MP gear, and am now sitting at a nice, healthy 825-885 HPs. Funny thing is, I have more HPs and equal MPs to most of the hume WHMs I know who are wearing crazy Zenith gear (which I've already turned down a couple pieces of in favor of other mages who actually want such suicidal gear...)

The only 2 pieces I'm still struggling to replace are Penitent's Rope and Errant Pigaches. The -Enmity is really hard to sacrifice, I may just bite the bullet and take the HP loss from those items in cases where enmity matters.

Icemage

**GiaCorleone** · 03-18-2005, 05:43 AM

Originally posted by Rones
Just a correction but Blue Cape gives a total of +30 mp. It does a +15mp bonus and then a 15hp->15mp conversion. So at best for taru with enhancing you get 10+1%(~1000mp)= 20 mp while the blue cape is still giving you 30. That's 10 mp difference, or the same as going from two electrum rings to astrals. The difference is slightly greater for non taru like myself who get slightly less out of the +1%mp bonus. Blue cape is only 55k on Quetz and enhancing was around 30k last I checked.

Ah yes, I stand corrected. I keep forgetting that it gives straight up MP bonus plus the conversion.

I still hold to my assessment that taru should go for Empowering though, and I believe Icemage would agree. We can afford to have 10 less MP from an equipment piece if it means 15-20HP. And I wish to hell I was on your server, because my Empowering Mantle was ~60k and the Blue Cape runs for ~85k. Stupid inflation...

**Zempten** · 03-18-2005, 08:58 AM

I am wondering why no one has brought up Hierachy Belt. It has a nice boost to MP to it and +2 to MP regen, stacked along with a Dark Staff and the Errant Body gear that sounds pretty good.

Well I'm saying this from the point of view that I am a RDM and I party with a WHM so I am doing all the debuffs where as the WHM cures HP and status stuff and sometimes even MBs a bit ^^

**TheGrandMom** · 03-18-2005, 09:09 AM

Originally posted by GiaCorleone
...because my Empowering Mantle was ~60k

; ; I bought my Empowering Mantle last night....100k! The price history had them listed from 80-100k. I tried to get it for less but there were 6 up and the lowest I could get it was 100k. If your on Midgard and need one, you better grab it soon! I have a feeling its only going to go up!

**Rones** · 03-18-2005, 11:01 AM

I am wondering why no one has brought up Hierachy Belt.

Its too high for him atm. He was asking about lvl 66 gear. But you are correct in that the H. belt and errant body are a good choice during the 70s.

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