[BuGGaTon]

How many people bring a dual boxed RDM along to bird camp so they can /war and do some more damage? >.>

So ya... this shield.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Airy_Buckler

+2 acc
+2 Store TP
+1% Haste

How rare.

[Shamaya]

Que rare indeed. Nobody ever conquers Bastok so this is almost never in the game, lol. It's kinda funny that the Bastok items are a bit of a joke. Like they knew Basty would never take over their areas, so instead of making it easier for Basty to do that they just added junk to the BC. What I think really takes the piss is that the Crapaud Earring drops in there; crapaud, which means "frog" in French.. Yeahhh..

I remember I was mildly interested in this b4 but then I just kinda forgot about it. If it had 2% haste, or more acc maybe it'd be pretty hawt but I just dk =/. Basically before Vajra was found to suck (I'm still upgrading it though), I was brainstorming up a hypothetical thf/drg build stressing ws and attack volume. I figured that with the acc bonus on Drg, I could add wyvern earring and still have homam corazza. With speed belt and dusk gloves+1 etc that'd equal 25% haste. If I had skadi legs it'd go down to 24%, but adding this shield would bring it back to 25%. But then after that pizza came out, mythics were found to need 300% tp to get the d.a. effects, and I still don't have skadi legs (ugh, yesterday we had a bad zhayolm run and we got that frog to 1%, and then it charmed us which lasts a minute. 2 seconds later, we got the "1 minute remaining in salvage" method. as if this piece drops anyway =/). I figured such haste would be justified in a double march party with dancer haste samba. And I thought jumps might be nice to use since double and triple attacks get factored into jump damage, and I wondered if Vajra d.a. might make for some nice jumps or sa/ta+jumps.

Other than that level of haste stacking tho I just don't think the haste looks so appealing. Gives me that "if only" feeling. And personally /war in exp I was just never impressed w/. A long time ago I just felt that at 75 and in burn parties it just never enhanced my DPS since I'd be holding back. Then after awhile I figured it just wouldn't even really increase my DPS at all. And I feel that this is true. I've pulled /war off with and without personal outside heals (I have my own 75 rdm alt I leveled myself). But whenever I've done it I was never impressed by the damage I did, only at the surprisingly less than expected damage I did take when I pulled hate. /war is definitely close to /nin for merits but I just don't even think it's better >,<.

[Mayura]

crapaud, which means "frog" in French.. Yeahhh..

Grenouille = Frog, in french. Crapaud is used for a Toad~ \(o.O)/

[Shamaya]

Oh ok. I'm not sure if that's better or worse. It could be construed as a very similar meaning and when I think of the word 'toad' I tend to think of something a bit more 'ick' than frog.