Average Brds Up To The Well Geared Ones.

Victory March now caps~ (Sad Face Here)

Went through and tested it to hell. Victory March now caps at 600 total skill. Very easy to see with decent gear and Lv 85 skills.

Victory March caps at 600 total skill for 96/1024 Haste. (+2 Instrument adds +32/1024 making this total 128/1024 Haste. 12.5% Haste.)

What does this mean for the future of marches?
(Champion's March is just some fictional new march tier I'm using for the purposes of this post.)

Advancing March caps at 64/1024 (96/1024 /w +2 Instrument) [9.375%]
Victory March caps at 96/1024 (128/1024 /w +2 Instrument) [12.5%]
Champion's March will probably cap at 128/1024 (160/1024 /w +2 Instrument) [15.625%]

Right now the non-SV cap for marches:
Victory + Advancing = (128 + 96 = 224/1024 = 21.875% Haste)
Haste Spell + Victory + Advancing = (224 + 150 = ~35.5% Haste)

SV'd Victory + Advancing is exactly 43.75%, the Magic Haste Cap. (No need for Haste Spell.)

Currently +2 is the highest march instrument available. Assuming SE will release a +3 instrument in the future and hopefully Gjallar trials, the following will work:

Advancing March: 64 + 48 = 112/1024 = 10.94% Haste
Victory March: 96 + 48 = 144/1024 = 14.06% Haste
Champion's March: 128 + 48 = 17.19% Haste

Just to add: Lv 85 BRD has 560 total natural skill. You only need 40 skill from either merits or eq to cap. Pretti much any BRD can cap now, and next update every BRD will be capped.

Sooo, the good news is I can take out my BRD merits and finally do Enfeeb/Elemental, right?

Unless they remove that cap, pretty much.

*** yeah.

cheers, I'm way behind though, my MNK gear was crap before these updates and my BRD gear was mediocre. I'm not even sure if a Sha'ir manteel is worth it any more with Atma.

My brd isn't the most awesome in the world.. but some nice gear has come out thats pretty cheap..

here are a couple new pieces

quire grip 8K >>> singing skill +3

mesmeric cape 100k >>>> chr +8 magic acc +4

I been using atma of thrashing tendrils (+30 chr) and atma of the deep devourer for my brd (song cast -20%)...

both of the nm's that drop the atma are fairly weak and can be soloed easy enough by the right jobs.

i'm not at the song fast cast cap (i haven't felt the need to go out and spend a billion gil on all the new hp convert stuff for my minstrel's ring) so thats the reason i use the song speed one >_>

AF3 is your 1st stop i'd say. movement speed feet, af3 legs HQ+2 is ballad+1, new horn that's ballad +1. And make sure you can land elegy on mobs that are weak to it.