[rambus]

what would you pick?

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/addon/

sheild skill+ 5/ vit +4
magic damage taken +2%/ + 4 Emn

can also do some different haste and fast cast combos

[Knight Of Apocalypse]

Hmmm.

I really don't know what to pick... only because I have bahamuts mask as an enmity macro piece and the shield skill to me is pretty meh, only another macro piece for ichi recast. Valhalla has damage -% but I guess this could work for a magic - build until you got that, I just don't know what I am going to pick haha. I'll have to see what others get, I may get a helm for my SMN instead


I wonder how the counter will work hmmm, I think it looks badass to say the least though, Onion Knight all right!

[Corrderio]

Current fad people seem to say is VIT +4/Shield Skill and Fast Cast +3/Blood Pact ability delay +3 for an Utsu casting piece.

Personally. I'm turning this isn't a slugshot piece for my Corsair.

[Rhadamantis]

For Shield Skill, Koenig head. Enmity and -Magic damage taken, Iron Ram.

You can turn this piece into an alternate Walahra Turban with less HP and MP, some lolDEF and STR, DEX, VIT or AGI+2, or put Fast Cast in it...
I'd rather turn it into a WS piece for my WAR, imo.

[Godin]

You guys are failing to realize the usefulness of Counter+3. That's basically like giving you 3% damage avoidance with a (very) small amount of hate attached.

[AsDraBael]

You guys are failing to realize the usefulness of Counter+3. That's basically like giving you 3% damage avoidance with a (very) small amount of hate attached.

Far less than 3% damage reduction unless you're bloodtanking. Its about as useful as idling in jelly ring while tanking /nin. Pretty meh piece, even with the options. None of them are good enough to replace any gear I can think of unless the weaponskill damage +2% also affects atonement. This piece definitely wasn't designed with a paladin in mind, because its mediocre at best.

[Knight Of Apocalypse]

See and that is why I dont know what to put on mine....

I career PLD so all my gear priority goes to PLD first, plus I think the helm looks badass....


I would love to bring back bloodtanking honestly, but even so Valhalla would be better than this helmet.

I guess the best bet would be to use it as a fastcast headpiece? What do you guys think that are career PLDs?

[Selamis]

More than likely going to go the mage route and get the cool looking hat for my whm and not use this at all for pld. Then again, I still need to buy ACP and get the Nuevo reward. Limited playtime though hasn't had me in a rush to buy the expansions, so I probably won't get this expansion first thing either. Out of the three head pieces offered though I think whm would get the most use over my pld, war, or drk.

[Zantetsuken 「斬鉄剣」]

Lets take into account a few things though since after reading 11 pages on BG I still cant see a clear consensus on what to put on the bad boy.

Excali Build PLD: Would you want to make it a tp piece to replace existing?

Blood Tanking: /RDM or /WAR

Ichi Recast: Self Explainatory


While I know this piece is going to end up being just a macro swap piece (which sucks) What about making it a TP piece or an idle piece since there seem to be better alternatives for the head slot.

[AsDraBael]

For TPing theres better options there too.

Askar Head, Ohat, turban, and ares mask all are better don't cost 10 bucks to get. Not to forget Nhead for weaponskills if you're not using atonement for something squishier.

[Zantetsuken 「斬鉄剣」]

Hmmm I just dont know what to get =P

[Thelian]

after the body was so nice for pld i wasnt expecting anything from this one. i will probably make this into a sam ws piece once its 75.

[Zantetsuken 「斬鉄剣」]

I want it cause it matches the set too lol....




But really I guess just wait and see what other PLDs get =P

[Kaslo]

Hmm though I'm making an Asuran Helm for my MNK/BLU/THF usage, I have a friend who only has access to Iron Ram Helm and I brought up the idea of 4MND +3% Cure Potency +4enmity -2% magic dmg. Actually sounds kinda tempting to replace Iron Ram Helm.

[Rulob]

For TPing theres better options there too.

Askar Head, Ohat, turban, and ares mask all are better don't cost 10 bucks to get. Not to forget Nhead for weaponskills if you're not using atonement for something squishier.

Well those still cost you at least coupe hundred bucks, so....

[Rhadamantis]

For TPing theres better options there too.

Askar Head, Ohat, turban, and ares mask all are better don't cost 10 bucks to get. Not to forget Nhead for weaponskills if you're not using atonement for something squishier.

Not '06 anymore

And Turban > Askar for idling.

Anyways, with the proper augments, this can be a better piece than any of those items you listed...you just wouldn't notice much of an improvement if used on PLD, though.

[Furisouls]

/swoon

AGI+4 Increases Weapon Skill Damage +2%
AGI+2 Haste+2%

SE is just feeding the goodness of AGI+ tanking gear. Just wow.

[Hitoseijuro]

For TPing theres better options there too.

Askar Head, Ohat, turban, and ares mask all are better

Not really. Having a piece with 3% haste and 10 acc and 5att beats out all those pieces above.

You know, you are allowed to pick 2 combinations right?

Think the +3% haste snapshot+3% + 10 acc 5 att combo would be a good tp piece.(if ya like meriting on pld)


For ws, idk, I think the 4str/ 15+ ws accuracy + 10acc /5att combo would beat out heca head for ws. 25 acc on a ws on 1 piece is a lot. Esp on a multi-hit ws like vorpal. Its basically 7str vs 2att 22.5 acc.


-note- Hopefully I understood it well, as far as what we are allowed to do, as it gave an example of how you can pick what you wanted. Seems you can pick 2 sets to have on 1 piece. Defensively I cant really see much for pld, offensively, yea I can.

[Wolf~Knight]

Current fad people seem to say is VIT +4/Shield Skill and Fast Cast +3/Blood Pact ability delay +3 for an Utsu casting piece.

I might do this since I don't have m head and not sure I want to go back to sky for it, though 10 acc/5 att 3% haste seems nice for pld tp.

[Solidmoose]

atm I'm leaning pretty heavily towards doing Shield+ and Fast Cast for an Ichi Macro/blood tanking piece (yay dropping 10 bucks for a situational gearpiece) considering I'm a Career DRK and for anything that shits all over Multihit WS Damage, such as Dynamis Xarc mobs/HNMs/stuff like that I'm swinging an Algol anyway. i don't really envision that beating out Heca Cap for most of the situations id be using it in anyway. but who knows my ideas may change as this gets closer to being released.