70-75 BLM gear

[Samar]

Heyas all =)

Quick question...or...2 >.> :P I was loking at the AH prices and stuff, fantasising over gear i cant wear yet, when i thought of:

Which should a BLM wear: Errants Cuffs, Igqria Hands, or stay with AF? (This is assuming no AF2)

I love me AF hands, but i can see the use of both Errant and Igqira, both have stats i want, and are relatively cheap (Errants: 50k, Igqira: 30k) Sicne there both cheap, should i just get both? ;;, with all the ele staves, im getting good at gear switching macros, just that would be more...troublesome ><

Also~

Petiants Rope, or Forest Rope? Forest is only 1 INT less then Pentiants, but it doesnt have the -enmity, or the +MND, but neither does the Petiants have +60 MP >< I was tryin to get a Forest Stone @ 50...but then the price jumped to 2 mil..and yeah =/ Pentiants rope is 1 mil, while the Forest Rope is about 300-350kish~

Any comments / suggestions would be appreciated =) (Sorry fer all me rather bad spelling errors, for the life of me i cant remember if i spelled Petiants or Igqira right ><)

[borbes]

Igqira* Penitent*

I am also an Elvaan BLM. I have different macro's for different spell's at different times. For my normal nukes I will use the AF gloves. For all other spells, I use Zenith Mitts, and for ES/MB I use Zenith Mitts.

For waist I use RSE. As important as -enmity was when leveling in the 60's, 70+ it was pretty useless. MB kills the mob 90% of the time anyway, and on difficult HNM fights you can just temp-log to reset hate.

That being said, my ES nuke macro currently looks like this:

/ma "Aeroga III"
/equip main "Austere's Staff"
/equip hands "Zenith Mitts"
/equip neck "Philomath's Stole"
/equip legs "Mahatma Slops"
/equip head "Republic Circlet" (sandoria has sky! ^^)

for normal nukes:
/ma "Aero IV"
/equip main "Austere's Staff"
/equip hands "Wizard's Gloves"
/equip neck "Elemental Torque"
/equip legs "Druid's Slops"
/equip head "Elite Beret"

[Asharu]

Weapon: HQ Staves
Ammo: Phantom Tathlum
Head: AF3 Hat or Demon Helm+1
Neck: Phiolomath Stole
Earring1: Phantom Earring+1
Earring2: Moldavite Earring
Body: Igqira Weskit
Hands: Zenith Mitts
Ring1: Snow Ring
Ring2: Snow Ring
Back: Prism Cape
Waist: Penitent's Rope / Elemental Obis from Tavnazian Safehold.
Legs: Mahatma Slops / Relic pants depending on day.
Feet: Relic boots.

That's probably the best gear you could have damage-wise. You could also get items like Genie Weskit, Zenith Mitts+1, Aquilos Rings... but these items are very rare and most likely expensive as hell. :)

[borbes]

Originally posted by Asharu
That's probably the best gear you could have damage-wise. You could also get items like Genie Weskit, Zenith Mitts+1, Aquilos Rings... but these items are very rare and most likely expensive as hell. :)

(Yes, please). You're talking 10mil each for these items IF you have a high level crafter friend who loves you enough to get dibs on it.

[Nodoka]

I fail to see the use of Philomath Stole (+3 Int) over Elemental Torque (+7 ele skill) for any nuke.

[mdn]

i use the rse belt (mine is hume rse) instead of bladhsflkjwhatever rope. the mp is important ;]

[Ariagiovanni]

Originally posted by Nodoka
I fail to see the use of Philomath Stole (+3 Int) over Elemental Torque (+7 ele skill) for any nuke.


For MB's that aren't getting resisted I think it would help.

[2.0]

Wow an extra 3 points of damage. Big F'n deal.

[Asharu]

Originally posted by 2.0
Wow an extra 3 points of damage. Big F'n deal.

It doesn't just add 3 damage. The 3 INT is included in the %'s with Magic Attack Bonuses, so an extra 3 INT on a tier 4 nuke may add somewhere around an extra 20 damage or so.

Also, I always wear Philomath Stole over Elemental Torque because I hardly get resisted. Only on sky HNMs and some particular mobs that are level 83+ and over require the torque because they tend to resist often.

[borbes]

I only use Philomath Stole when using ES. Yes, it does add about 20 damage to my Aeroga III.

[mdn]

before wasting money on stupid stuff like +1 int, get the HQ staves. 5% damage is a _lot_ more important.

[Asharu]

Originally posted by mdn
before wasting money on stupid stuff like +1 int, get the HQ staves. 5% damage is a _lot_ more important.

HQ staves give you 15% added damage. Regular staves give you 10%. The only thing that gives 5% is the BLM relic pants, and that only corresponds to the day of the week.

[nsxtasy]

Originally posted by Asharu
HQ staves give you 15% added damage. Regular staves give you 10%. The only thing that gives 5% is the BLM relic pants, and that only corresponds to the day of the week.


Umm, I'm pretty sure the 5% Mdn was referring to is the 5% difference in HQ over NQ staves...

[FFXITsukasa]

I was wondering if you do alot of equipment swapping at that level. The second poster I beleive seemed to do alot. Im Lv.62 (So close to 63 x.x) The most swapping I do is when resting and swapping staves for spells. About the Philomath thing, I want one but can never find one on AH. I was thinking about just forgetting it at Lv.65 for the Elemental Torque like Kuno said. Just curious what you guys think but should I get both and swap when MBing?

[kazuri]

You could just get an Intellect Torque, lv50 INT+2. I personally would get both INT+ and Elemental Skill+ neck pieces.

[FFXITsukasa]

Both, man you guys are making me poor here. XD I added up the bill of the stuff I should start gathering its already past 8mil.

[Elaron]

My current gear:

Head: BLM AF hat/ demon helm (my friend is trying to HQ one for me)
Neck: Elemental torque
Earrings: moldavite/abyssal
Rings: dimond x2
Back: Rainbow cape
Waist: Penitents
Hands: Zenith
Body: igqira
legs: Errant
Feet: Errant
Ammo: Phantom
weapon: NQ staves

I'll soon be doing dynamis runs hoping to get some Relic gear. But what BUYEABLE equipment do you guys think I should upgrade first? What gives most effect/money ?

I was thinking HQ staffs??

[borbes]

Yes, I am an equipment swapping whore. I overdue it . . . the only places you really need to swap is staves and for resting. I however have equipment for EVERYTHING! I have a total of 5 macro's just for healing and standing! (1 /heal on with all my +mp while resting, 1 /heal on with all +max mp, 1 /heal off to re-equip items that i use for all spells like igqira weskit (this is so that i don't need a body swap equip line in my spell macro's) and that does not reduce my max MP, 1 /heal off to re-equip gear that i use for all spells that does reduce max mp, and 1 demon cloak w/o a heal on or off.)

This is severly overkill but it keeps me busy which makes it fun for me. If anybody ever wants to compare macro's I'm happy to post my entire set, just PM me.