Need Help with Galkan BST. Please?

[xShagratx]

Hi everyone, I am very noobish (to BST). So I have a few questions, I hope you don't mind answering. ^_^


I was recently a MNK lvl 45. I got tired of my job and sold all my equipment. Total is about 2 million gil. So I decided to pick up BST as my new Main Job. I hear the best subjob for a BST is WHM. SO I was wondering since im a Galka should I buy Astral Rings to wear for the MP boost while playing both WHM and BST? Also well could anyone give me the best equipment (suggestions atleast). Up to level 40. Like I said I have about 2 million and can mine/farm/fish/synth for some more. So money isn't too big of a problem. Please give me all your suggestions. Thanks for the replies.

[nhusted]

I'd say you'll want as much mp as you can get for leveing whm. For bst just get the best DEF equipment all the way to 40. Get Dex/Acc/Str/MP/DEF gear as needed. There is no set equipment all the way to 40, it's really just up to you and what you find out that you need.

[Vorn]

Personally, I'd only get one Astral Ring if you wear one at all. The most important stat to any BST out there is Charisma, so you're going to want to equip all the CHR boosting gear you can get. That includes rings. Of course, for battles you may want to get two and switch them out with macros. If I were you I'd probably equip one Astral Ring and another Evasion or DEX + ring and switch them out with two Hope Rings when it's time to Charm.

Whatever you end up doing, good luck with BST!

[solmeir]

Lol I was in almost exactly the same situation as the OP. I sold all my MNK gear at lvl 41 for about 1.4mil.

This leaves you are certain of gil that you will not use for a while. SO.....

I am a Mithra, and have 2 Astral Rings which I use for levelling WHM only.

I dont think the MP differance between Galka and Mithra is much pre lvl 30, so I would also suggest that you dont use the Astrals for levelling BST. Once you can equip your RSE, you will recover some more MP, and that should get you enough for a couple of CureII's or more. So even then you probably wont need to use the Astrals. IMO you dont want to be giving your HP away, even for MP, and the amount of times somehow you miss 4 times and the monster crit hits 6 in a row....
And you kill it with 1-40 hp left...
Seems to happen a lot- and I dont think it is just me.
IMO anyways- GL