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To be honest, vermy isn't gonna do alot for you. It's not like you're main healing and your MP pool is only there because of /whm. It's easy to regen that back with balads (that you should have on half the time, the other half when you have melee songs on)
I doubt you'll have to do alot more than chuck out a couple of cure IIIs if things get rough in a party, so to be honest the vermy seems a bit like a waste of money. Get something with more CHR or use the AF body.
I doubt you'll have to do alot more than chuck out a couple of cure IIIs if things get rough in a party, so to be honest the vermy seems a bit like a waste of money. Get something with more CHR or use the AF body.
Vermy is one of those situational peices that you will definitely have to deal with one bard. If you find yourself in a particularly long, or drawn out fight where you have to cure a lot go ahead and throw it on to help regen some more MP. Full time? Hell no, it's useless a large majority of the time. Like Blabj said, wear your AF body, or Minstrel's Coat when you hit 62. Swap in the vermy when you're using a lot of MP.
Been playig for 4 days, straight leveling... deleted Blazn and all gil, items along with it... How do you have money to buy a Vermillion Cloack?
f you've got the money sitting around for a Vermillion, go for it. If you don't really have the money for it, it's not exactly crucial.
CHR is worthless if you're not debuffing, and skill may as well be, as much as it takes for as little benefit as it gives buffs. You can always macro in CHR/skill equip for debuffs and keep the Vermillion on the rest of the time.
CHR is worthless if you're not debuffing, and skill may as well be, as much as it takes for as little benefit as it gives buffs. You can always macro in CHR/skill equip for debuffs and keep the Vermillion on the rest of the time.
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Drystyn said:
CHR lengthens your songs as well. Vermy coat isn't crucial. You can either use the AF Body, Minstrel's Coat, or Justaucorps +1, or Healer's Justaucorps, or whatever. Usually, at 59+, the party probably won't need you to cure unless if someone is coming close to death. Nothing a Divine Seal + Cure III can't do. And if you're keeping good pace and distributing melee and mage songs evenlly, then Ballad I + II will keep your MP going up.
Oh yea. Once you hit 65, get the Opo-opo Crown. Yea, has CHR - 7. But when you eat Pamamas, they give you a CHR + 14 bonus. So, it comes out to CHR + 7. It also gives you HP and MP + 50 when you have the crown on. :biggrin: AND, Pamamas are only 400 gil each last time I checked, so it's some ownage.
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CHR does nothing for party buffs, period. It does nothing for max duration of mob debuffs, only lowers the resist rate. This means your elegy/requiem/threnody are less likely to be partially/fully resisted. Out of the three, elegy is the only one worth a damn in most cases (threnody is useful situationally.Torqameda said:
Standard duration of buffs - 120 seconds
Duration with appropriate +1 instrument - 132 seconds
Duration with appropriate +2 instrument - 144 seconds
CHR has no factor in that.
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If you have access to Phomiuna Aquaducts, I'd recommend getting a gaudy harness. It's got CHR+3 and give auto-refresh when you're at low mp, so it's a good combination. It's also free if you can get it, so money isn't a big deal.