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According to BG wiki Mistral axe has much higher ftp than Calamity

The only other thing Calamity is has on Mistral axe is the 2nd Modifier of VIT. Which should help, but not be able to overpower the ftp in most situations.

I'm guessing its an attack bonus because of some discussion w/ clearly in bst forum awhile ago. He double checked the ftp values.

Attack bonus seemed most likely. However, Warrior will have less trouble with Attack than Bst does.

Bluntly, RDM has NO problems with melee in the current game. I think where RDM is at now relative to other DD jobs is perfectly fine.

RDM's B skill is made up for, and then some, through Composure & the Gain line of spells. You're able to choose to either boost your STR or your DEX. And it's no longer the same buff a WHM can just pour out to everyone like it used to be, since RDM is now able to exclusively bump this buff up to a +55 stat, leaving us headroom to nudge our Gain-line performance above the WHM's Boost-line of spells.

I do not think gear available to DD RDM is lacking. The gear available to RDM for melee is sufficient.

Odd I could of swore it was higher, ah well. The more you know.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Calamity

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Mistral_Axe

Mistral is stronger in general, unless your at 3K in which case Calamity's extra 50% VIT might push it over. Also realize your working with a base DMG in the 400~600 range, adding another 110~130 (50% of VIT) of that would explain a discrepancy in damage at really high TP values.

Bluntly, not a reliable opinion on rdm melee.

Haha,

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A rdm dd

I went out to play w/ Maliya Sickle for Cross reaper on bst.

Its not terrible. Its like Mistral axe but a bit weaker. using Syvlie, Ygnas and Generous Arthur on Apex Crabs/Jagils I was able to get up to 24k Cross Reapers. Using same set as my Calamity which I have gotten up to 44k in such a situation, but more normally at 30k.

Also Infernal Scythe I got up to 15 using bredo. pixie hairpin +1 and that ring from shadow lord would have beefed it up better, I was just using my primal rend set.

Acc was really bad though. I was bst/drk. so last resort giving me some attack help.

I was not using killer instinct for any of this.

Have you considered the new Ambu scythe? BST can use it, it's got a decent chunk of acc, favorable to magic damage WS, etc. and it's still got at least one more stage of upgrades to come which should beef up the magic damaging aspect considerably further (given that is what the weapon line is stated to be intended for.)

Not to mention Distract III will murder a target's evasion.

I honestly never have accuracy issues on Red Mage.

so what is this update all about!? and why is it longer then THE monthly update?

Surprise expansion to the far north where they'll add Time Gigas - a wonderful MNK that can stop time for 3 hours by using Boost and waiting to swing again

Tempered hopes for wardrobes 5 & 6? I really need space for gear >.<

The things id do for more space -

Game is back online

I'm realm first online

I know this is completely unreasonable, but could you imagine if they changed Dia's defense down to be affected by enfeebling effect+ and Saboteur? Nobody would complain about RDM anymore.

So what did they have to fix exactely?

Probably the potency issue where 1% is just 1dmg instead of %. It would be way too broken.

On the Playonline site, the maintenance bulletin says the downtime was for:


They probably didn't fix anything ingame

Even the Playonline web page was in maintenance mode, so it was probably not just a FFXI thing.

New update being announced. I think normally in jan there arent many news.

One thing i noticed is that it wasnt announced the new stage of ambuscade weapons. I wonder if they will delay the next stage after january

MDGA!

The december update didn't mention the ambu weapons in the preview either so still possible to see the next/final version of them.

Drg is in a very good place aside from having content where a dead wyvren is a real possibility. Hopefully they adjust the cool down timer of Call Wyvren. Anything more would just be gravy.

Glad to see Dancer is getting some love as most of the player base ignores the job completely in todays meta, which is a shame. I've seen a couple pimped out Dancers on my server but its been awhile.

Its always a mix of anticipation and trepidation when your favorite job is under the microscope.

Dnc might not want that attention at all. SE will probably try to "FIX" something... !!!

Reduce cooldown timer on Super Jump to 2 minutes. This will be their fix to wyvern survivability: Avoid TP moves better!

This New years campaigns couldnt be more old.

More job fun. I really thought they were about to say they are working with graphics designers to update the graphics. More lock style gear

How do 75cap purists deal with job adjustments?

They can adjust all they want.

Just dont pull the "nerf" button using "balance" as excuse.

Very .... misplaced.

RDM's accuracy is fine, RDM's melee gear is ***simple as that. They have to build their sets from a hodgepodge of left over situational gear for other classes. They can't wear any of the DD specialized gear like Flamma, Sulvia, Adhemar, Herculean, Valorous, ect. Not even the second tier melee gear like Mummu's. Instead they have Jhakri, Carmine, Merlinic, Chironic, and some multi-functional JSE pieces, even Taeon gets referenced sometimes.

Now with Temper II RDM's can largely fix the MA issue letting them focus on Store TP and accuracy with the gear they do have access to, which works fine for TP sets, but their WS sets suck ***. CDC requires tons of DEX, which RDM's don't get, Savage requires tons of STR and WSD, RDM only gets adequate amounts of the first and very little of the second. They were arguing for using Despair in their savage sets, how long has that gear been discarded by everyone else. So in a game where the melee damage is dominated by WS's, RDM's have ***WS power but solid TP power, that sounds a whole lot like ... Monk.

There is one exception to this, RDM's have great nuking gear. Lots of access to JT's and gear with MAB, MACC and INT which is perfect for Sanguine blade. Thus their powerful WS is actually magical and SE handed them a Godly sword with the Dynamis-D weapons. That sword, fully upgraded, with appropriate buffs, lets RDM's pull out ridiculous low-hate damage for both melee and WS. Now if only SE would make Enspells effected by mDiff.