Merit Choice Abilities?

Because Tamas isn't anything but a mish mash of ***you can get from other rings, so instead of choosing something to save space you get something that makes a difference.

And lol'd at only sam gets a use out of rajas.

If you have every mage job at 75 and decide to level sam...and choose rajas over tamas, you are an idiot. Just saying..its pretty obvious this guy uses jobs OTHER THAN SAM, so why get a ring that is only really useful for that ONE job? Hell I got Bushinomimi instead of the DW earring b/c more of my jobs get a lot of use out of it, does that mean that I'm a gimp nin?

Which SAM in 2010 doesnt have 8 pizzas for every Odin? As much as i *** it for things like Einherjar and Salvage, this food isnt practical at all until we have pizza bits.

So wait. Am i seriously reading an argument saying that you should gear yourself to had terrible accuracy and pump the Zanshin/Iki merits because it gives you more TP on Zanshin hit with said Iki Merits?

I think my IQ has dropped.

Oh Well:

"Zanshin, We aim To miss"™ has never come across so hilarious, i always thought it was a joke who knew it had such adamant followers.

Edit: Oh dear god did someone just seriously say "By your logic you shouldn't use joyeuse for TP Gain because its relying on a 45% Activation rate?"

Oh, oh lord, I can't stop laughing. You know that Joyeuse procs with or without your initial hit Missing right?

and that its the fact you have to miss a hit that severely lessens the realistic activation rate of Zanshin right?

Its because Tamas only offers what you can already get on a Ring, theres no ring to date with a perma Store TP, and to a lesser extent, Subtle Blow.

MP 30? Serket Ring, Ether Ring, Vivian's Ring, etc etc
INT 5? Snow Ring, w/e the HQ ~70 ring is.
MND 5? Aqua Ring/Communion Ring.
Enmity-(?), Serene Ring?

Everything on a Tamas is replaceable by buyable armor, not to mention now with the Stat 6 Rings available Tamas is slightly more outshined despite their difficulty to obtain.

In the end, the benefit of Rajas to that ONE job as you put it greatly outweighs the "Benefits" that Tamas gives to his other jobs. i say "Benefits" in quotations as the only known benefit is saving you about 2 inv. space

No spell is effected by both INT and MND at the same time. You don't need all of that ***at once.

you mention all of those rings but is there any 1 ring that gives all of that at once? No. I would rather have 1 Tamas and 1 int ring and 1 mnd ring than to NOT have tams and have 2 mnd rings, 2 int rings and some -enmity rings (which would take away the mnd or int that the other rings gave) if I know I'm about to do something that might get me killed.

If you are serious about mage jobs, int merits and tamas.
However if you are serious about dd jobs you get str merits and rajas. You can try to balance between the mage and dd, but the person who is focused more on one will outdo the person who is trying to balance between mage and dd jobs.

and what if, for example, Sunday Dynamis (outlands)I am asked to go BLM and on week dynamis (cities) I am asked to go Cor or Drk, what would you suggest I do? Try to Balance or make 1 awesome job and the other gimp?

God do they sell Bagel Bites anymore, i can't find any .-.

You're only argument is being too lazy to use Macros and carry around a few extra pieces of gear at the sacrifices of severely gimping any DD job you have.

You're wrong. You should never-ever need Enmity- Rings to be perfectly frank, so the only thing Tamas ring is saving you is ONE inv spot.

its 1Tamas/1INT/1MND ring vs
2INT/2MND rings

If you're ever in a situation where you're in desperate need of that oh so pimpin -3 Enmity you suck, i only mentioned it on the off chance someone was stupid enough to use it as an argument to why Tamas is good.

Now, if you can however, show me even a single ring that gives you 5 Store TP allowing several jobs to easily obtain an X-hit build. i concede to you.

btw, my argument is toward someone who has at least 1 Melee job leveled to 75 and is serious about it, no matter how many mage jobs they may also have, incase you're mixing things up

Taro, you need to remember though that 90% of people that play the game, play to merit - they merit their jobs so they can merit better; which has never made sense to me, but what do I know?

"Look at me, i'm hitting at 95%! My character is the ULTIMATE MERIT MACHINE! and i'm getting 30K/hour"

"Look at me, i'm hitting at 80% and getting 30K/hour"

"Look at me, i'm getting HUGE sidewinders on colibri and getting 30K/hour"

"OMG, I totally won that merit party parse by 5% - you guys all suck - and we still got 30K/hour"

If you are serious about mage jobs, int merits and tamas.
However if you are serious about dd jobs you get str merits and rajas. You can try to balance between the mage and dd, but the person who is focused more on one will outdo the person who is trying to balance between mage and dd jobs.

Rajas is completely useless to mage jobs, SO if I use mage jobs for all events and DDs are only for merits, WHY would I possibly get rajas over Tamas? Enmity- isnt needed? Ok so Enmity has no impact on the game? Let me run out and put full merits into Enmity and go to Dyna as blm -.-

If you're serious about your job(s) you'll gear them well regardless, str merits/int merits don't have anything to do with using a shitty INT/MND 30MP ring for the sake of saving space.

Tamas is nothing more than a compilation of equipment you can already buy, it has no benefits outside of saving 1 inv space.

So you're only defensive tools is taking something i say and blowing it out of Context? Dont you have a Heartsnatcher to go break?

I Said you should never need the enm-3 on Tamas ring, Never said you never needed to WATCH your Enmity gain or control it, or that it had no effect.

Secondly, I said, IF SAID PERSON HAS AT LEAST ONE MELEE JOB HE IS SERIOUS ABOUT AT LEVEL 75, HE SHOULD OWN A RAJAS RING.

Not that "Well i have a 75PUP but i always go BLM's to my Events hur dur".

If you have the above qualities, read: 75 Melee job you are serious about, You should own a Rajas Ring, period, there is no excuse.

Tamas is nothing more than a compilation of equipment you can already buy, it has no benefits outside of saving 1 inv space.

All I am saying is.

Person A has dd jobs and merits.
Person B has mage jobs and merits.
Person C has both.

Will person C beat person A and B?
No, they will not.

All I am saying is.

Person A has dd jobs and merits.
Person B has mage jobs and merits.
Person C has both.

Will person C beat person A and B?
No, they will not.

So apparently having a DD job that is meritted means you'll beat another player if he has a DD job AND mage jobs meritted?

Damn no clue how I'm outparsing people when I have 5/5INT merits.

You would need the exact same gear on said DD and said mage to get beat by 5/5STR 5/5INT, and using the exact same food.