DD belts

[Jei]

After level 48, is it better to stick to the pruple/brown belt for haste when we are DDing? Or better to switch to life belt?
The haste looks so sexy imo but 10 accuracy is hard to ignore.
what do you think?

Planning to level up Mnk next \'A'/

[Balfree]

give it a test drive, i'd say haste, tarus have some decent dex right ?

[Spinnthrift]

I'd wear brown belt personally...

I drool over that thing on other jobs...

[Tirrock]

I wear life belt if it means I can eat meat - assuming I do noticably more damage per punch (10 more a punch on average) with meat while keeping at about 80% accuracy. If I'm using sushi, I don't need the 10acc on life belt.

With a bard using madrigal, I generally don't need sushi (and on lower IT, no life belt). Which is incredibly sexy. Last party I could do that in, I was punching for 70-90 a punch on the birds in bibiki at 64... I was doing more damage per punch than the SAM was per swing, and the RNG was doing per bolt.

Bard + Monk = <3

Uh. Back on topic.

If you go with sushi and brown belt combo, I really recommend o.kotes if you can afford them. +20 attack is very good for MNKs using sushi.

By the way, avoid sushi until level 50+, rice dumplings work great for attack and +5acc.

[Aeolus]

I wore the brownbelt, its silly not too really. Str+ and Haste+ is alot better than a +10acc belt which you still hit as much without. 2 x Snipers and sushi are fine. PC if you can otherwise Specticles once your 59.

[Feba]

If you let that haste go ignored, you make other melees cry.

[AngryUndead]

As a career monk (without a brownbelt yet, *frown*) I find that anything where you have to sacrafice str for acc (or visa-versa) you should carry both (if you can afford it) so that you can swap them out.

Sometimes those freaking raptors evade too much or the "low evasion" on that crab is a lie. Its good to be able to swap things in and out to figure what works best for you.

[Jei]

thanks for al lthe input \'A'/ time to go level up, got to 10Mnk right now. gotta do the purple belt quest hmmm

I talked in my LS and there's this 1 galka monk who keep mentioning taru melee is "weak" everytime I mentioned I'll take up melee jobs.... not that it matters... just annoying...

[Aeolus]

Just tell him he's very open minded :) Taru own the melee, I just can't play as one altho I love them D:

[Feba]

lol, morons that think taru can't melee.

I just laugh at them

[Amiraphe]

I've seen excellent taru melee's and tanks, so ignore them. I personally use a brown belt and eat sushi for added accuracy, I love it. But if you can, I recommend you get the life belt as well and carry it with you to each exp party.

The reason why I say this is because of two things, it depends on your food of choice, meat or sushi. Also, in the new areas, you mightl be fighting Colibri's and these nasty tucan's will eat your food and steal your TP if you happen to draw its attention for a moment.

So rather than cry everytime he eats your sushi (like I did), you may want to stop eating food all together when you fight them and switch your brown belt to a life belt. It'll help you make contact.

[Jei]

wow been soloing for 2 hours. Only guard once, for 0.2 skill. I'm level 12 now with only 7 guard skill :/
Anyway to make me guard more? Boost up AGI?

[Dryhus]

wow been soloing for 2 hours. Only guard once, for 0.2 skill. I'm level 12 now with only 7 guard skill :/
Anyway to make me guard more? Boost up AGI?

I don't know if it's worthwhile to actually skill up guard with intention. Probably just solo, farm, and tank lower-level mobs that you can handle (i.e., mission NMs), and let it come along on its own.

As far as increasing proc rate, I agree that boosting AGI would have the desired affect, based on the affect that AGI has on Shield and Parry proc rate. Unfortunately, I don't know that enough testing has been done to support or refute this. Personally, I'm confident that if you made a dedicated AGI build, with consideration for Guard skill gear at mid- and upper-levels, you'd notice some difference in Guard proc rate over a significantly long period of time.

[Omni]

thanks for al lthe input \'A'/ time to go level up, got to 10Mnk right now. gotta do the purple belt quest hmmm

I talked in my LS and there's this 1 galka monk who keep mentioning taru melee is "weak" everytime I mentioned I'll take up melee jobs.... not that it matters... just annoying...

im an melee only taru.
mp makes my allergies act up.

you show him jei.

[Tirrock]

I haven't had a situation where I needed an accuracy neck piece while using sushi. I tote around +12 accuracy while eating sushi. +5 from sniper, +5 from AF body, +2 from the fairly overpriced tiphera sting that I'll likely sell once I work up 2m more for o.kotes. ._.

[Jei]

camping la thaine for Ram... 6 hours now and all pops are normal version ;_;

Got 5 stacks of ram leather already.

[Murphie]

My LS is 75% Taru, Jei, and half of them are melee. You'll do just fine. A Taru MNK is a thing of beauty, in my humble opinion.^^

I just bought my Purple Belt. :/ I figure I can quest the stuff later on at my leisure. Then again, if I were strong enough to solo Lumbering Lambert and Rampaging Ram, I'd probably have been a lot more inclined to just quest it.

[Jei]

I think I camped them since 5PM. It's now 1:30 AM and every pop are normal Rams ;_;

Man, somepage says it's lottery so I don't suppose I can expect anything.

There's 2 Ram pop spots in LT. Only the one to the east can lottery the NM right?

Double Post Edited:
ok... the NM finally pop and is the first pop I miss the timing because I went to use rest room... and yes, some passing by DRG just killed it.

Dam. How many hours do I have to wait now....

[LadyPeorth]

It's a lottery pop with a 1hr minimum refresh.

Yes it does suck...
Yes it does get worse...
Yes Nue will drive you insane, the Dodo will make you wanna slap farmers, and Morbolger will annoy you.

But the final result...is worth the trouble.

[Jei]

for morborger do i need to kill the stroper in that room? Or are they unrelated?

[lionx]

http://ffxi.somepage.com/mobdb/338

Spawns around H-10 on the third map approximately every 21-24 hours.

Dx....and i think the others are unrelated. Doesnt say lottery there.

[Jei]

Got Lumbering horn... Next the konshtat one. >.>

Double Post Edited:
got both horns for purple belt yay \(@_@)/
gonna leave my char in ordelle tonight for the morborger ToD.

[Aeolus]

for morborger do i need to kill the stroper in that room? Or are they unrelated?

Marabolger isnt lottery. Itll pop anytime between 18-24hours I believe. Bleh, I had no trouble with Nue, its not camped much and spawned after I killed one tiger xD. Dodo drove me nuts. 1/5 with TH2...wtf. Also Rams dont have a minimum refresh at all I dont think. Spawned second one 30mins after someone else killed the first one. That was on rampaging tho.

[Murphie]

If I decide to level MNK, I don't know what I'll do about a Brown Belt. It's simply not possible for me to camp NMs with spawn windows that large (I guess unless I magically had TOD) because of my job. :/

Good luck though, Jei.^^/

[Spinnthrift]

Aelathir - get LS friends to help with that one... owe them favours for ToD etc... with friends - it's an easy claim.

- Saeriel.

[Murphie]

Aelathir - get LS friends to help with that one... owe them favours for ToD etc... with friends - it's an easy claim.

- Saeriel.

Sounds like a plan. MNK is one of the jobs I'd really like to level, so this is good to know.^^;

[Spinnthrift]

I'm owed stuff for getting people through missions and the like.. it all works if you use a friendly barter system.

Just need to do enough now to land my Thf in a static. ^^

[Jei]

I got ToD on morborger @@; 4 hours spawn windows starting around 5AM it seems.... fun >.>

Not sure if I want to camp dodo and nue yet. Mnk still only 15. Might as well just do it now to get this quest out of the way.

Double Post Edited:
hmm the tenshodo isn't giving me the purple belt quest o.O I think I have pretty high fame, enough for leviathan and all ninja scrolls. Do I need even higher than that or do I need to recieve the quest as higher level monk?

[Murphie]

Somepage says you just need level two or higher fame. I'm not sure why they won't give you the quest. You're talking to Paujean in Bastok?

[Jei]

yea Paujean. He only says his usualy default conversation "we do underground bussiness blah blah." I wasn't using my monk when I talked to him tho. Will try again when I got my monk to 18.

According to somepage's rice dumbling price I should be at least level 6 tenshodo fame now.

[Jei]

what
the
hell

I spent my whole day trying to recieve the purple belt quest. been running around checking fame and doing other tenshodo quests. Still no luck.

Then I talked to Vola in tenshodo HQ, he said
"Well well... I see you have attained your purple belt..."
and gave me the brown belt quest....

I don't remember ever doing the purple belt before ><

[Tirrock]

Haha, well that would explain your problems.

[Jei]

^^b

[Tirrock]

That was pretty fast. Congrats.