[BigstickSylph]

Just hit 75. So far my equips are:

Weapon: Blizzard Toporok
Secondary: Pole Grip
Ammo: Bomb Core

Head: Wally Turban(TP)/Sipahi(WS)
Neck: PCC
Body: Hauberk
Hands: Dusk Gloves/Pallas Bracelets/Fourth Division Gauntlets(when neccessary)
Legs: Exorcist Hose
Feet: AF
Back: Amemet+1
Earrings: Assault/Coral(Just about to buy a fowling when my stuff sells)
Rings: Woodsman's x2/+4str x2 for WS

I pretty much don't have sky, and don't do assault. I suppose my next priority would be Berserker Axe? And since I'm a hume, the RSE feet look pretty swell. But, like any graduating high school senior, I don't have my priorities straight..

[Ture]

make time to do sky so you can get some heca

[Aragon]

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If not for the Heca for the B.Haidate, they would probably be the biggest improvement in 1 piece your build can get.

Also better G.Axe/N.Gear/Aurum Sabatons/Rajas Ring.

Some forms of end game are a MUST in order to gear War properly, if you don't wanna do any of them then just give up on War.

[Inquisitor]

I would urge you to do sky, if nothing else. Haidate, N. feet/hands should be a part of any competent set up.

Also, you say that you don't do assaults for whatever reason. You need to start dedicating yourself to assaults here and there and grab a Perdu Voulge. It's tedious, but definitely worthwhile.

As for earrings/rings, if you don't have the time for limbus, then a Fowling or Ethereal would work, but if you really want the best, spend the gil on 75 ABCs or join a limbus shell(If you have access to sea of course) if time frees up for a Brutal Earring to pair with your Assault. Rajas is an obvious upgrade, as well as an Ulthalam's whenever that time comes.

And for feet, you can start with Dusk Ledelsens and upgrade to Aurum Sabatons or just go straight for Aurum, just anything other than those AF1.

Other than that, I think everything else is mostly optional, like Nyzul gear and HNM gear(granted I don't think you're in a HNM shell yet). If I missed anything, I'm sure others will pick up the slack to help you out.

[Corrderio]

Main places I'd focus on working on is your main, feet, and possiblely hands.

Like Inquisitor said, Perdu Voulge is awesome, however Byakko's Axe can work til until you get to the ranks.

For feet I'd focus on getting Dusk, hell maybe even think leggings since I never really noticed my DA suffer once I stopped using the AF feet. Aurum awesome, but can be a pain to get. However I'd consider them worthwhile.

For hands you're fine as long as you're only using Pallas for Steel Cyclone.

[BigstickSylph]

I'm definitely down for getting sky, it's just a matter of finding an LS that'll help me with ZMs. I definitely want a Haidate. And the other missions are going to be my main focus. I guess the next time I mass some gil I'll spend it on Dusk Feet.

If not Pallas, is there something that would be better for my WS? I just got into a Dyna LS with free lots, so if I score WAR Hands should I use them?

The main reason I said I don't do sky or assault was because I never took the opportunity to do them, not saying they were worthless and I see how it comes off that way, my apologies.

So as far as the AH goes: Berserker Axe, Dusk feet?

[Inquisitor]

You should only be using Pallas/Alky bracelets for Steel Cyclone, so if you got a pair of AF2 hands, yea you can potentially use those for your multi-hit WS until you get Hecatomb Mittens or even Ares's Gauntlets.

Berserker's Axe and Dusk Feet sound like a good initial plan as far as AH spending goes.

[Ture]

war afv2 legs are great till you get haidate, and should be macro gear for steel cyclone after you get haidate.

[Byrthnoth]

Join a sky shell to start accumulating points/being on lists, and try to organize Sea missions whenever you can. Priority for sky (if you have to do lists or something) should be B.Haidates->N.feet->N.hands, because there are better replacements for hand WS armor than feet WS armor. Do Assaults whenever you can, because ranking up to Perdu will take you some time, but obviously don't skip either of the other things for it.

Sky is your best TP piece and solid WS gear, and sea is your 6-hit. Try to get into an established sky shell, though it might be difficult without a mage job.

[byte.xi]

Join a sky shell to start accumulating points/being on lists, and try to organize Sea missions whenever you can. Priority for sky (if you have to do lists or something) should be B.Haidates->N.feet->N.hands, because there are better replacements for hand WS armor than feet WS armor. Do Assaults whenever you can, because ranking up to Perdu will take you some time, but obviously don't skip either of the other things for it.

Sky is your best TP piece and solid WS gear, and sea is your 6-hit. Try to get into an established sky shell, though it might be difficult without a mage job.

On the subject of sky, Adaman Solerets aren't a bad piece if you can't afford Dusk feet and Genbu's Kabuto will be your best Steel Cyclone WS piece til Heca Cap. Obviously Byakko's Axe will be a great thing to have because you shouldn't underestimate how long it will take to rank up with assaults.

My advice to all warriors is to clear out all the Sky drops you need first before spending time elsewhere. There really is just so much to gain for WAR in sky and the upgrades are much more time efficient than some of the other endgame activities that it's not worth putting your time into anything else until you're clear. imo

[Byrthnoth]

Well, on the subject of Sky being a more efficient expenditure of time. If you get into a good sky shell, sure, you can cap out your entire LS in a few months. If you get into a less devoted/active one, I've known guys who have gone 1-2 years without getting their B.Haidates. Sea is a pretty good for reward/time. Once you get sea, Rajas is sitting right there for you practically, then you just need to do Limbus for ~2-3 months and you have Brutal. Then again, the process of getting sea is somewhat like sky. If you get in with a good group you can blitz it in a few weekends. If you get in with a less devoted group, it could take you a year.

Personally, I joined an endgame linkshell that was already well established (actually didn't do much sky due to being capped) and ran around low-manning pops for a week or two with some other guys. We had 5 Byakko pops or something, and I got the Haidates from the third. I got N.feet from Suzaku in that same round of sky, though on a different day. Then I helped a friend kill some Byakkos for his Haidates and won a lot on N.hands. Being able to lowman popsets is a huge boon to any sky shell, but having WAR onry doesn't help with that.

Having a well-geared BLM or RDM really just makes the game easier. For instance, you can solo over 20 coins/run in Limbus. You can solo everything in sky but BB and MG. You can solo organs for your gorgets. Everyone wants you for their linkshell.

[byte.xi]

Well, on the subject of Sky being a more efficient expenditure of time. If you get into a good sky shell, sure, you can cap out your entire LS in a few months. If you get into a less devoted/active one, I've known guys who have gone 1-2 years without getting their B.Haidates.

I was one of these guys Soooo glad that's over now. My advice, pick your linkshells carefully because they are afterall what you're going to be investing your time into.

[Requim]

I'm guessing you're asking about meriting, which first glance at your gear you're suffering in some accuracy.

Weapon: Berserker's axe is pretty expensive for 3 base damage and judging by your comment on sky/assaults I'ld say you're better off upgrading some other pieces first, like dusk feets. Byakko's axe is a great great axe, which many shells have it free lot now so it should be pretty easy to get once you have sky access personally I didn't notice anything substantial in parses from upgrading it to perdu, so it would last you a long, long time

Ammo: Bomblet would be an expensive improvement, so save for later

Head: turban is solid to tp in, but if you could gather the components for a hakkutu eye cluster for optical hat it would be good. the Celata from thick set is also solid with 3acc/4atk and is dirt cheap ~7k (I'd guess acc(/atk) would do more good than 3 str since I doubt your rushes are all landing)

Hands: if you did dynamis you could aim for war AF2 gloves which are pretty good for multi-hit ws, dusk are solid for
Legs: Askar are also a nice option if you do Nyzul, but exorcist are decent if you can't get askar or haidate

Feet: Dusk, get dusk. WS in hume rse if it has decent str/dex

Earrings: Assault is basically the best earring for war with brutal, acc and atk, win. I don't remember the prerequisites for limbus items, but once you meet them (which might just be CoP?) you can just buy ancient coins for brutal earring. fowling earring would pair nicely with assault til you could get a brutal

Rings: unless you are landing all your WS hits, don't use str rings. And by the rest of your gear I doubt you're landing all your hits. 8 str won't make up for consistently missing hits on your ws. I'ld just full time woods. Ulth ring is nice, gives a little attack boost. Rajas is awesome, but requires CoP. Iota ring is good as well if you do Ein

I would suggest getting dusk feet asap and a celata for your first steps and full timing your acc rings for the easiest and most noticeable improvement. Also merits will easily off set some of your gear's deficiencies, e.g. 8/8 GA , 5berserk/5DA > bomblet, brutal earring optical hat. 8/8 GA alone gives you 16 more accuracy, which is bomlet and ohat combined on top of having 22 more attack (6 from core)

[Corrderio]

If not Pallas, is there something that would be better for my WS? I just got into a Dyna LS with free lots, so if I score WAR Hands should I use them?

W/o Relic Hands I'd say you got 4 options until you get those or Heca for TP:

AF Hands (+4 STR)
Tarasque Mitts (+10 Attack NQ, +12 Attack HQ)
Custom M/F Gloves (If you're Hume M or F: +3 STR/DEX)
Creek M/F Mitts (If you're Taru M or F: +6 STR)

[Saxonian]

Obviously Byakko's Axe will be a great thing to have because you shouldn't underestimate how long it will take to rank up with assaults.

I lol'd. You fucking gimp. :3

[Hyriu]

^this true, i'm now >.> 10 assaults from mine !

[byte.xi]

I lol'd. You fucking gimp. :3

I don't see what there's to "lol" about. It did take me a long time to get rank up high enough for Perdu even when I was spending almost all my tags on it. I was using Byakko's axe for years before Perdu even existed. It's a great piece.

[Saxonian]

Nah not lolling at Byakko's Axe, nothing wrong with it. Was just lolling at you

[Skorn]

Hey man, i'm not some expert , elite geared WAR like some of the others posting here but i'll let ya know what i'm workin with. Currently using Berserker's axe till i can get a byakko's from sky and sell it off lol. I use WAR relic hands for my ws's and dusk hands for TP . for my feet i have dusk for TP and rutters sabatons for my ws's (Which isn't too hard to get if ya have a few friends) on head gear i use O-hat for RR and Genbu's kabuto for my Steel Cyclones(tp in turban). basically i'm holdin out for some Heca gear from my sky LS (already got B-Haidate ^^) and yes, i did use war relic legs till i could wear byakko's haidate.