What to get?

[Nodoka]

Back when I was in my early 50s I would look at the AH and go 'Wow that must be so awesome!' to higher level gear etc etc etc. Well Im higher level now and richer, and I got most of the stuff I want. Ive been looking at the HQ staffs, but does anyone know if they FURTHER help lower resist rates compaired to the regular staffs? I know they help more damage, but what about lower resist rates? And if I were to get the HQs, which ones should I start with? I was thinking Ice staff because on really hard stuff, the +10 ele skill also helps resists against hard stuff, and the HQ part of it might also help. So anyway below is my gear, and if anyone has any ideas of what I can get (besides cursed gear or af2 stuff) please lemme know. ^^

Fire/Ice/Wind/Thunder/Dark Staff
Phantom Thally
Ele Torque
Moldy Earring
Healers Earring
Black Cloak (also have on me AF body/hat)
AF Gloves
Serket/Astral
Blue Cloak ( I <3 that 30 MP)
Merc Capt Belt (I have Ocean Rope for 70)
RSE Pants (I have the RSE on me)
RSE Boots

[SephirothYuyX]

Geez.. you really love your +mp.. I know your a hume.. but you have like no +int e.E;

If you where to get a HQ staff get Ice first, then dark.

[Gavin]

I'm in the same boat as you my friend. I had ice,wind,water,fire thunder and dark staves, and the same gear as you cept astral and serket (<3 taru hehe), and of course i'm not wearing rse :p. Yesterday i spent 1.2million on an acquilo's staff, and i can say i'm enjoying it so far! Out damaging a 71 taru blm when i'm 69 is priceless, and so much fun ;).
I'm going to be buying a fire staff or thunder staff +1 soon, but the 2-3mil price tag will hurt :o

[Nodoka]

>Geez.. you really love your +mp.. I know your a hume.. but you have like no +int e.E;

I see INT as useless.


>If you where to get a HQ staff get Ice first, then dark.

I was wondering about this.. Dark+1 wont help heal more when resting, so I dont think Id really need this except for more aspir/drain, and I dont think thats really worth the price tag on it.


>and of course i'm not wearing rse :p.

>.< Hey if you can find something better then RSE pants/shoes for hume, I'd like to hear it. BLM af shoes SUCK! >.< (Im hoping to get AF2 for that spot)


> I'm going to be buying a fire staff or thunder staff +1 soon, but the 2-3mil price tag will hurt

All the HQ staffs on Baha are around 400k. :x But anyway, Im mostly thinking about Ice fire and thunder.. but I'll get the ice first. ^^ I see water/earth staffs are pretty much uesless for me. I NEVER cast water or earth spells, because they suck and theres always something better. I just got Wind Staff because I didnt want all my aero spells to be either gimp (with ice staff) or crappy (with no staff at all).

[Gavin]

400k?????
Let me move servers SE :D

[Gavin]

oh btw i meant i'm not using RSE cos taru RSE sucks ;), didn't mean to say you shouldn't hehe

[Tetsura]

What does a HQ dark staff add to the mix? other then increased drains/aspirs and likely a better chance for sleeping.

HQ dark staff is about 400k on my server but Aquilo's is just under 500k so i think the choice would be obvious to go with Aquilo's, is there something i dont know here?

[Gavin]

Nah not that i know of :o. Bah dark staff +1 is 700k here and ice staff +1 is sitting at 1.2mil > 1.6mil