Asuran Fist Gear

Wondering if Anyone had any suggestions on a good setup for WS gear for asuran fist?

Just find Veg's item sets > Asuran fists

Anwig\pcc\atk earrings x2
shura\okote\acc-ring\rajas
forager\virtouso\shura\ then idk feet tbh, other than Usu =/

It's not optimal but it's pretty easy to obtain.
Should make sure to cap acc during this ws (allways if you can), as making sure as many hits as possible land will boost your dmg more than anything.
So multiple asuran-sets will probably help you out!

I'd only had 75 monk for a few days personally, so I'm sure others will guide you better on your way if that's needed.

Denali feet work

Yeah I guess those would do the trick, using hume RSE personally atm <_> just so I didnt have to use fumas on ws lol

No sure if its the best but I normaly brake 1k dmg using this...

Kopu head with acc + 25
Shura togi
Chuchilans mantle or w.e its spelled
Virtuoso belt acc + 12
O kote
Faith torque but thas cuz I don't have gorget yet
Brutals earring, you never should take it off as a DD
Odins earring with + 7 atk
Usukane legs for atk12 str5 dex 5
And usukane feet stp +7 atk 7 acc 7
Smart granade for ammo atk 4
Rajas ring
Toreadors ring

With that setup its rare for me no to brake one k using pizza
In most mobs but some mobs need AF or HF or DK ws for better dmg

It's my understanding that Asuran can't DA, since it has the maximum amount of hits already ~

Yea it cannot DA since its already 8 hits. So a 2nd att earring would be better than Brutal. Or str earring, something like that.

Thas right well any other job who doesn't gets 8 hit lol

Aye lol. Actually it should stay on for monk for everything BUT Asuran Fists. DA proc on a Howling Fist or Dragon Kick is smexy.

Asuran fists, like all weaponskills with 5 or more hits benefit greatly from attack and accuracy. Once you have capped accuracy on your target, stick attack in every slot you have left assuming you're fighting something with relatively low VIT and you aren't attack capped. If there isn't any substantial accuracy or attack gear for that slot, then go for weapon skill mods. As said before, you really don't need brutal for Asuran fists. It wouldn't be that big of a spike in damage if you managed the double attack on an 8 hit ws anyways. In fact, the only way you could get a double attack is if you missed one of your normal attacks, because 8 hits is the max obtainable amount of attacks under any circumstance. You're better off with a consistent return from an attack earring that will influence every WS in this case.

One good way to determine what gear you should utilize to boost damage is using the damage calculator here:
http://ffxi.killvoid.com/page.php?al=dcalc

Level 82 Greater Colibri have Defense 327 and 67 VIT.

You'll have to input all your stats and such and the mobs level/defense/vit values for it to be accurate. At that point you can tell if an attack addition or STR addition would make a bigger difference by altering the values to match the new addition. Typically, I find that even 5-10 attack is USUALLY better than 5 dex for my dancer's DE's. (Dex is a ws mod of the WS) At times it will be necessary to add some str to your build if the mobs VIT is too high though. You especially don't want to stack attack to the point where you go over the cap on that particular mob, though.

What kind of mob are you planning this build for? It's hard to make recommendations without that bit of info, because optimal ws gear is always situational.

I just bumped the Asuran Fists thread last night...

Edit:

The inconvenient truth