RDM End Game Armor

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Malion

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Ok here goes im sure this has been asked or talked about before. But i would like to know what you all think a RDM would do best in, in end game. For example there is Crimson gear, Zenith Gear, and the Dulest Gear, i plan on getting the best gear (who doesnt) but the diffrence is i have a friend who is the leader of one of the bigger HNMLS on my server helping me. So basicly all the cursed stuff is mine for free because we will collect the items to make it. Cool Guy ^^

Anyways just wondering, please let me know items, ranging in all 15 slots thank you ^^.
 
Well as youve prob noticed ... RDM is all about gear switching macros. Crimson for the most part is worthless. WHEN those few chances you go and kill Demons and have Dragoons in your party, you can be intimadated which can be a hassle. Zenith is good to grab 'cause at 74-75 exp/mrit pties.. RDM main job is main healing or back up healing alone with refresh and some enfeebling duties. (mobs die too fast to really enfeeble). For HNMs grab gear with Enfeebling Magic+ skill (Enfeebling Torque, Enfeebling Earringus Elite Beret, etc.) As concerns with Relic, grab Relic Hat and slap SE for screwing us over with some of the worst relic in the game. Rings and Earrings .. grab MP INT and MND plus ones and swab em out with the spell your using. Hope this helped a little.
 
-ahem- *cough* *hack* *die* umm dude for enfeebling magic check Crimson Mask or Blood Mask....Enfeebling Magic +10 on Crimson and +11 on Blood. As of rings the Snow and the...what ever the water ore rings are, are in line for me. Well im getting ready to buy them. As for a torque i have enfeebling torque, umm the body and hat for the RDM is good as in relic the body gives Fast Cast enhance just to taunt people so you equip that and your hat then you get the new earring they relesed which also gives fast cast and you are instacasting thunder III lol jk but yea it will be a lot faster. Grab the Relic hat and Damltica = refresh 2mp/tick and if i can find something else that gives refresh that is on another part of the body for RDM i would love it cuz thats a constant refresh lol. Ok well post more please
 
Lol i said grab Relic Hat and that has +15 Enfeebling Magic .. *flushes Crimson(Blood) Mask down the toliet. Body, AF is better for HNMs and Dalmatica is better for pties IF you can even get 1 >> <<. Rings sound good.. me personally I got MP rings but if you want more INT thats still fine. Earrings.. go with Enfeebling and the RSE one gained from Mine Shaft#2716 *i believe thats it* has good MP+ MND and INT+ *well Hume at least* Fast Cast is good and all .... but overrated unless your RDM/NIN and don't even get me started on that 1.
 
Which one is the "One of the bigger HNM LS's" if I may ask? Unless it's Kaizen, or one of the JP ones, I highly doubt you'll get your hands on a Dalmatica or Crimson Mask any time soon...

As for gear, there is too many to mention. AF2 hat, AF1 body, Nashira Seraweels, Enfeebling Torque, Enfeebling Earring, Master Caster Bracelets is what you will want for enfeebling though. Those alone gives a +42 to enfeebling magic together.

The single best ring you can get is the Tamas Ring, and then use the second ring slot to macro in +INT, +MND and +MP rings for whatever situation you're in.

It's really too much to mention, you just want gear which fits whatever situation you're in...
 
There is no "one set of endgame armour" for us. Depending on what you're doing, and how you're doing it AF1, AF2, Errant, Crimson, Zenith, and Nashira is all pretty useful in the right situation. MP, INT, MND, Enfeebling, Elemental, Fast Cast, MagAcc, MagAtt, can all be extremely useful.

The only set that I really don't see much point to is our JSE, but I know quite a few RDMs that swear by that too...
 
lol... zenith gear... JUST for merit pts calv? haha no point in getting that crap gear then... all it is for is mp. wait. we have convert...and refresh.. the only rdm's i really see with zenith are leaders or co-leaders of god shells that get it coz' they can. time spent resting for mp in merits > hours getting zenith gear...just my :2cents: on that..

as for crimson? mask is garbage.. i'd only get legs/boots, mabey hands..
And Uzor, i have yet to see many rdm (NA at that) with relic hat >_>;; thats a pretty high goal (not to mention.. isnt nashira stuff from sea?)

what i have atm, and only want from these sets: (72)
errant legs, (river gaiters), master caster bracelets, AF body, errant body, wise cap, af hat
 
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Hmm I have Zenith Crown and Slacks and I'm not a leader of a HNM/Sky LS ... guess you failz. Look at RDM choice in pants wise. Not much of a choice .. Errant is ok ... but when soloing/having fun all those -stats kill you. JSE ... SE laughed at RDMs when they made that. Master Caster Braclets are awesome but unfortunatly not everyones gonna get em. Must have AKETONS!!!
 
>_>; lol why would you have the errant on if u were gonna melee at all? even if you had no pants to swap in, removing em is better than nothing.

and yeah, the wise pants are the biggest joke evar.. only buy it if your rich and want to swap in for drain/aspir or something..

Must have AKETONS!!!
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Meriting at 75 isn't much of a test of gear... You can pretty much wear a Santa hat and coat and still do fine.

When you find yourself in fights where you need to burn a lot of MP, or when your party is roaming and you get zero rest, you'll start to appreciate Zenith.
 
Must people wont waste CP on the godly Master Casters Braclets ... rather save up to get a Aketon and make a quick 500k. If your gonna solo crabs in Kuftal Tunnel .. yea I'll wear Errant instead of nothing. Zenith isn't interily crap ... worth its price no .. but crap NO. MP i a plus and most pieces have MND and INT+s doesn't equal Errants by any chance but the non stats equal it out to me. Yes, Relic Hat is kinda out of the way ... but always good to set a goal to achevie. Crimson Gloves and Feet suck ... I have both and barely use gloves. RSEIII Gloves and Master Casters Braclet <Yes Please>
 
When you find yourself in fights where you need to burn a lot of MP said:
Point made right there ... in 74/75 Merit Patys RDM is healing... and in a WAR/MNK cannon pt you dont get to rest and just waste MP .. I <3 Courtney for this statement lol.
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i've dont plenty roaming pt's with me and a blm.. never had an issue with mp.. but mreh.
 
Sorry to say this Ziphor... but you must suck ... and roaming with a BLM ... <I don't understand.> If you got MP your not healing and enfeebling when need be. I ge few chances to rest MP if any .. have to rely on Convert.
 
lol... zenith gear... JUST for merit pts calv? haha no point in getting that crap gear then... all it is for is mp. wait. we have convert...and refresh.. the only rdm's i really see with zenith are leaders or co-leaders of god shells that get it coz' they can. time spent resting for mp in merits > hours getting zenith gear...just my :2cents: on that..

as for crimson? mask is garbage.. i'd only get legs/boots, mabey hands..
And Uzor, i have yet to see many rdm (NA at that) with relic hat >_>;; thats a pretty high goal (not to mention.. isnt nashira stuff from sea?)

what i have atm, and only want from these sets: (72)
errant legs, (river gaiters), master caster bracelets, AF body, errant body, wise cap, af hat
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Zenith is an awesome piece of equipment to macro in for Convert.

And how can you say Crimson Mask is garbage? Crimson Mask is the most godly head piece we get next to AF2 hat (if you exclude Blood, which is the H.Q).

And yes, Nashira stuff is from gear. Does that make it impossible to get? We're fighting Omega tomorrow, who drop the Homam stuff (we would have fought it earlier, but the person who had all the chips quit the game ; ; )

And no, I haven't seen a NA with AF2 hat, but I'm sure there are a few. And even though it's one of my goals (you need goals to get somewhere, ANYWHERE, in both rea-life and in-game), it wasn't a list of what I want, but the most extreme enfeebling gear you can have.

As for Wise gear, I'd say some of them are usefull. I have Wise legs +1, and while it may not be directly noticable, it does help. Just how +1 STR might not affect your average damage output by a whole lot, it still do help. It's the small things that matter, otherwise every single piece of gear would have +10 to all stats.
 
well, i dont wanna start arguing/flamming. thanks for your input calv/uzor.

hope any view points/discussions here were helpful malion
 
I roamed as blm/rdm. 4mp/tic and ~100mp aspir/min keeps me going a long time. now i've got my relic boots {conserve mp+5} so i might be able to handle it a lil better then i did before. I'd only have to rest maybe once a chain, but the melee could keep going in the room with me getting xp still ^^



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Figured i'd add this to, there is no "Set" gear for everything. Different situations require different setups, same for every job. I've got 8 macro's for gear swaps as blm, if i ever rewrote my macro's for endgame rdm it could be worse o.O. RDM's job is always changing, the role that you play varies from situation to situation all the time. Take you different roles that you could in turn be healer, enfebbler, nuker (yes sometimes rdm's NEED to nuke), are you going to be resting ect. Think of all the possibilities, then search for the best gear to handle that situation. research it a little bit, what gear is good for doing what you need it to. Hell that's half the fun is deciding what gear you need, and what's best to use when.
That's my advice, think of the roles you'll play then research the gear you'll need. as you can see from others post there is MORE then 1 good set of gear and lots of reasons to swap.
 
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Ive lvled RDM to 75 after taking my BLM to almost 75, so elemental magic is something I also put alot of stake in with RDM. This is where our wise RSE body comes to play - masters casters are great, a moldavite and wizard earring (if youre subbing BLM, elemental earring if youre not), AF hat, and druids slops. To anyone who says RDM shouldn't nuke, if you dont run out of MP by the time convert is up, youre wasting free MP. I never really get resisted since that easily ads @ 50 elemental magic, and if you know how to MB (and you damn well better) You can easily drop @ 1k nukes pretty often without straining your MP pool.

And you should carry around an elemental torque, enfeebling torque, enhancing torque, dark torque (helps ALOT with Drains/aspirs, but id stick with enfeebling for sleeps), and start with a free 50 MP with your Republic medal (is that the right name? have one but I cant remember).

Enfeebling has pretty much already been covered, but let me add; dont forget your ammo slot - INT Phantom talthums for int spells, MND with the Hotrok or ampulla, and Hedgehog for MP and emnity when main healing.

Im taru so I have perfect convert without sacrificing my rings, so stack those stats for int/mind based on spell.

But my best friends have got to be my HQ elemental staves ^^ NO RDM should be without 'em.

EDIT: You also asked about body gear refresh? I have a Vermillion Cloak for when I'm not casting and on the move, but you sacrifice alot of other stats for that luxury.
 
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been a long time since i casted tier 3 spells, refresh my mind... They can break 1k in a MB? Not saying they can't i just really don't remember lol, and that one cought my eye.
 
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