HQ Staves

[Releena]

Re: HQ Staves

HQ staves are going to do much more than HQ of other gear i.e. Mahatma. They are also going to do more than Enfeebling Earring, although of course that has a much broader scope of use.

Bottom line: HQ staves should be a goal for any 75RDM, if you can get them earlier, so much the better.

[Saku]

Re: HQ Staves

I'm a little confused on some of the advice I am getting, so I want to clarify to make sure I have my bases covered.

Yes, I was in the low range for the party. I also understand the importance of the AF body and enfeebling torque skill boosts I will get.

However, I have already purchased in advance my Enfeebling, Elemental and Dark skill torques. I have sets of +4 int and mnd rings, and bought a pentinents rope. With the gil I had left, the gear I imagined would be most useful for the money was High Quality Staves, and that was the first part of my question, followed by what order. Was I wrong? I could have saved for some Mahatma gear later on, or +1 Wise gear I suppose, but my reasoning was that of the higher priced items, HQ staves were the most useful and could help me not only immediately, but also late game as well, moreso than an extra mnd or int from HQ armors. Is there any other gear that I have missed, that I would benefit more from before the staves, outside of what's been mentioned?

My apologies if this is getting redundant. I'm just trying to get things right.

Auremir

HQ staves will serve you better for the rest of your RDM career and in addition, it will also be good investment if you decide later that you want to play SMN and/or BLM. However, if you don't have $$$, NQ staves will do for now and you can buy the HQ staves later in the order that Jei mentioned in his post (HQ Ice,Wind,Earth and Dark if you want).

IMHO extra 1 int ,1 mnd and -1 enmity from Mahatma Body(for example) compare to Errants body is worth the extra gil you have to spend and same as Wise +1 gears. Up until now, I still don't have wise gears because I couldn't see the value and I have already too many gears that I need to carry ( Yah, I have inventory problems ). In addition, I would rather spend $$$ on mp gears to get 1:1 ratio.

When you are at lvl 75, you will unlikely need +enfeebling stuff in EXP/merit PT since the mobs you will be fighting are Ts-VTs so what I usually do is get as much as +int and +mnd as possible and use only my HQ staffs and torque to enfeeble. I rarely have problems landing my debuffs to exp/merit mobs. I still can't debuff sky Gods >.> sadly even with my HQ staff,AF tabard, torque and earring.

Just my 2 gils