Hmm... I wonder if it is worth it...

[BloodRedPoet]

Now that I am pretty much lvl 50(under 300 tnl) I am thinking of making a very good upgrade of my equipment for my BLM. Keep in mind I am a BLM/RDM. Midgardsormr

3 questions mainly... (not sure on prices as I am away from game)

List
-Ice Staff................................400K~ (I might be wrong on this one)
-Dark Staff..............................500K~ (")
-x2 Zircon Rings (+3 Int).........150K~ Together
-Tactician Magician's Coat........not sure

1. Is it worth it? (Talking +1mil)

2. Anything else I should add to the list? (Mainly Earrings)

3. Outside Fishing(which pisses me off since update)... what is a good/quick way that I can spead under 2 weeks to get all this? (About 1.2 mil)

Thank you very much... ^^

[Andry]

if you're from windurst, just use conquest points to buy your tactical magician's coat.

i used san d'oria's conquest point Royal Squire's chestpiece till i got my AF.

[AtraposBLM]

Ice staff is still about 600k on midgard, dark staff is hovering around 500k, and dropping.

As far as are they worth it - the dark staff is worth it immediately at 51. That's around the time you'll be leveling on crabs...meaning it'll help out your aspirs (huge), and it'll help a ton with resting (huge). Ice staff would also be huge, as it helps your blizzard line land better (good against crabs), but to be honest, you can hold off on the ice staff until you stop exping on robber crabs. Just getting the af gloves at 54 let me land spells without a problem all the way until I started leveling on torama at 60-61.

As far as zircons go...they're not really worth it unless you have dark and ice staves already...so no, not really worth the money. the +2 int you'd get over 2 eremites will be barely noticeable.

And finally...I don't really have a good way to make money fast. The only things I'd suggest are BCNMing, mining, and trying to just straight farm leaping lizzy for 2 weeks solid with /15 thf. You're guarenteed to get the claim a few times, which should be good for at least 2-3 drops, which is good for 600-900k.

[BloodRedPoet]

Thanks!

I will use my CP for Coat(kinda hoping to save it for the cape, but I can just EF like crazy with WindurstAlliance(too bad they barely EF anymore). I guess I will skip on the rings. Too bad I can't play for a week ><.

Anyway, Atrapos, I consider you the idea BLM and I was hoping you would post in my thread. Thanks ^^.

Btw, which earrings should I get 51~?

[AtraposBLM]

I'm flattered

Anyways, as far as earrings, try to get some handy dandy high levels (ask bonovoxspu...he's due to help some people now ^^), and get yourself a Moldavite earring. Adds a good 5-10% damage. For the second earring...my enhancing earring never did me wrong. You can go for morion if you like...but unless you have ice/dark staves, it's a bit of a waste of money.

Another note - the back item (cape) you want to be wearing is a Black Cape +1. It's the most effective item you can wear for the cost (come on, it's 30k for crying out loud), and it'll last you for the rest of the game. I don't intend on switching it until I level my rdm to 60, and then I'll buy a red cape +1. Nothing else offers you anything you'd want (+3 int = thanks). So buying the tactician magician's cloak with CP isn't a big deal.

About the TMC...I didn't bother with it. I kept my combat caster's cloak until Jaustacorp (which was swapped out for AF when I got it). I didn't see why I should bother...combat caster was +2 int...which was the same you got as with TMC + erudite's headband...so I always went that route. The tunic thing gets old...but hey, sacrifice looks for performance.

One final note - depending on the current going rate on the /rdm latent effect earring (warlock's earring perhaps? I don't remember), you may want to pick that up for a swap for resting. I don't know how effective it would be, but if it's less than 50kish, I'd say it's worth it.

Also - try talking some chefs into giving you a nice discount on +1 food. I have a real nice guy that lets me buy Apple Pie +1 for 5k/stack...so thats +2 more mp recovered while healing. Makes a surprisingly large difference. Plus, I replace food half as often...which is nice

[Raiyu]

Ice Staff and Dark Staff are definitly a must. Hands down. Everything else is just gravy.

-My equipment at level 60-

Main- All elemental staves besides Light and Wind (they were out of stock ><)
Throwing- Morion Tathlum
Head- Wizard's Petasos
Neck- Black Silk Neckerchief
Earring 1- Moldavite Earring
Earring 2- Morion Earring
Body- Wizard's Coat
Hands- Wizard's Gloves
Ring 1- Zicron Ring
Ring 2- Zicron Ring
Back- Red Cape +1
Belt- Ocean Stone
Legs- Wizard's Tonbon
Feet- Wizards Sabots

From what I've seen the staves and moldavite have helped more than anything else on that list (besides AF of course), but then again, I like to out-damage tarutaru Blms too. :spin:

*Edit: Spelling error*

[AtraposBLM]

You're not on midgardsormr, therefore you don't really understand. I try to help out lower level blm's by giving obtainable goals, not goals reachable after 2+ months of farming

I'll give you a list of prices per staff now (keep in mind they are HIGHLY deflated due to the current ore farming bit):
Ice Staff - 550k-600k
Dark Staff - 480-500k (plummeted in 2 weeks from 800k)
Earth Staff - 700k
Thunder Staff - 350k
Wind Staff - 300k
Fire Staff - 450k
Water Staff - Who the hell knows, it almost never sells
Light Staff - ~450k

So having all the staves on midgardsormr is a multi-million gil affair. Having them all on another server is like a ~1 million gil cost.

[Kirara]

worth it even when one staff was a multimillian deal
i can't believe i lost at least 80% of their worth from when i bought them to now...

[AtraposBLM]

that's why I'm waiting to buy the rest of the staves until I get my rdm up to full af (after taking blm to 72). I figure at least 2-3 weeks will have passed, and I'll give the ore-farmers time to stop farming just dark ores, and spread to the other ones. Then I can buy all the staves for real cheap

If by the time I get 60 the other staves are still relatively expensive, I'll just farm zitah with the rdm and use the saplings to fund my own ore-farming scheme

[Beener]

Leveled sub is a must, definitely. hands down. The rest is just....i dunno.

[Raiyu]

To AtraposBLM- Heh yeah I know, all the staves on Rag are roughly half the cost of them staves on Midgard. But it still didn't take me too long to save up enough for my equipment. Oh yeah, I bought my Ice and Dark staff back when they were 600k gil as well, so I know how it goes. I JUST WANNA HELP OUT~! :p

To Beener- If that was referring to my SJ, then you're right, I do need to level it up. However Yhoator owns me when I level there so I put it off. I just can't stand the "What's renkei?" comments, you know what I mean... (| Run Away! |)

[AtraposBLM]

heh...I bought my ice staff for 600k...and it's still around that...and I waited until it dropped from the 2 million gil pricetag ; ;

What I notice about midgardsormr is that we have an abdsurdly large portion of high level NA's given the fact that we have so many JP's on the server. However, since most of the people on the server are level fiends, there isn't enough demand on the high level equipment to make the price drop. No demand on an item means nobody bothers to supply it...means you have a low demand with an even lower supply...means you have an absurd price tag for a while. That, and there are some bitching JP smithers that have a stranglehold on the upper level crafting....yeah, it sucks ; ;

As far as Yhoator goes...with my whm, I just grinned and bared it. Even in shitty partys, you manage to get 2.5-3k exp/hour if you know what you're doing..also, I found it's easier just to find out what weapon skills everyone has, and use a chart to just tell them what to do when. I spent more time explaining what/how/why a renkei was...but when I stopped explaining and just started telling them what to do when, they picked it up much quicker. Even given that...seriously, you need less than 4k exp to level...so you're looking at 2-3 hour commitment to get your subjob to 30. Smile, nod, and just get it done. It sucks...I know. I hate it too ; ;

[cld]

omg 600k?
on leviathan ice staff is "stable" at 170-200k for 2 weeks now. dark staff 380-400k and it seems it's gonna drop even more.

[BloodRedPoet]

Wow you guys have it easy , but then it wouldn't surprise me if Midgardsormr was a lot more advance than your server in other (very very high level) areas. We are a big server.

Looks like I won't be playing for 1-2 weeks from now ;_;. I know it sucks, but maybe Dark/Ice Staff price will fall ^^. Anyway thanks for the help. Keep on posting if you all like, I will be reading and responding.

[Kirara]

can't get better than ragnarok
where we turbo our nidg kbehe and aspido with style!