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An idiot made that page, idk what to tell you. Calling a shield the "phase two shield" because you get it AFTER finishing phase 2 is stupid as hell. Calling the stage 1 shield the "craftsmanship shield" is also stupid as hell.

Stage 1 shield is the shield you use in phase 1.
Stage 2 shield is the shield you use in phase 2.
Etc.

There's absolutely no reason to have a Stage 0 shield. "I'm working on my stage 0 shield" is a dumb way to discuss this stuff. "8 have the craftsmanship shield".

Also: stage 1 prime weapons are: prime dagger, prime sword, etc.

Here's the total cost of a stage 4 shield:
Whatever it takes to make GP (a rounding error)
Making a bunch of sets (depends on the craft, but maybe 3-10k/ea?)
Making a handful of mid-tier items for customer requests and ROE.

It's probably under 10m total, which you will make after selling like 5 stacks of spheres.

Either way, it doesn't matter. Stage *whatever stupid name you give them* shields are extremely easy to make, so spheres aren't behind any REAL gate.

Well, it's stage 4 actually but...stage 4 is not a big deal at all. It doesn't take that long and costs basically 0 gil, so it's not exactly a herculean task.

Either way, from a design perspective they opened the door for resources to pour from any number of people directly into one person's shield, so it's designed such that a rich or well-connected person can do it without botting.

Though, as I said, this community will take any excuse to bot literally everything they don't see as worthy of their time so *shrug*

I was getting 15-20 floors a run solo on BST max movement speed /dnc, and spamming cricket AOE. Order lamp floors took me about 3 min on average to clear once I figured out how to actually do them. I think you ran Nyzul with me when I was finishing my mythic staff for SCH. The order floors are a free "give me" when you dont have party members freaking out and having panic attacks *** up your communication and ruining the run.

TP set can atm be summed up with use malig outside of gleti's legs if you got the TA aug on it, though theres alterations you can make to fit in null cape/belt and such as you like such as alabaster earring. there's a solid set in the limbus gear but that's gonna take a while. Gazu's are there just to compensate no haste belt, and honestly only factor in the quickest path to WS according to sims.

BH set is going to basically be the SB WS set with possibly some accessory changes to MND but its pretty minor all around.

Still have to do this during Crystal Paradise, and it's the most exciting part of playing Ninja IMHO

Honestly this was kinda my first thought. 6 keys is a lot. I play on 4 so I was thinking of posting some around the promys snd just making a rotation of empty spheres/keys although 5min respawn may be too fast to do that with.

Just like with plenty of other sets, you likely will not be 5/5ing Revelation/Perfection/Hope armor. In most situations you can afford to wear one, maybe even two, "less defensive" pieces while still surviving. When you have 700+ Magic Evasion, losing 40-50 and maybe 1-2 MDB in one slot isn't going to make or break your run. I'll be making pieces of this set for lolDDbrd anyways, and will probably look at jamming one or two pieces into my Ninja TP set in 10 years when I have them at R30. As Simon said, it's a horizontal progression, not a vertical one (which is why we all love this game, right?).

It's not a matter of subjective opinion. Revelation is weak against debuffs and mediocre against resistsable magic damage. It's good against pure physical damage. Meaning you will need to hot swap it to high meva pieces during many fights. Malignance can be worn full time without issue.
Malignance is better hybrid tp piece. Revelation is better tp pieces.

I hate to break it to you buddy, but you cant make spheres unless you have a stage 3 shield. So no, not anyone can pump the economy full of spheres.

Just wait for lolDDwhm with Sworn and Ampulla having over 800meva, 50%DT, 34%ta and 100%DA in a tp set :)

Here are the links, compare and judge.

Revelation also has a lot more hp, and stats. Whether that matters to you is a personal choice I guess.

Thanks for the help, I had thought this, but I swear I’ve hq2 on T0 synths before.. but I could be wrong it’s been awhile. So basically I need to farm torques for sub crafts now.

I just think actions should have consequences so if you kill a character off in a fight to the death, don't keep bringing them back or letting people off the hook. Darth Maul should've stayed dead. Just like bringing Palpatine back in the last movie was a complete ***-pull.

/equip head 'Optical Hat'

I would've rather either Moff or Bo got killed off. Probably Bo. She wasn't strong enough to lead the people of Mandalore. Then you can do, Mandalore in chaos as the people are divided in the absence of a leader. Show turmoil in Mandalore. Have Din struggle with the feelings of failure, having chosen to give Bo the Darksaber in the first place symbolized as a refusal to accept his destiny causing an imbalance in the force. The spirit of the Darksaber possesses Moff because it's the true spirit of Mandalore. Moff not being a Mandalorian meant he could not control all the feelings of the Mandalorian people. Make it so it's all of the force ability of the Mandalorian people channelled into one as an explanation as to why the Mandalorians are force incencitive whilst allowing for one to wield all of their power in unison. The hero's journey is of him taming his heritage and assuming his rightful seat on the throne of Mandalore. It follows the true prophecy of the dark side of the force showing the dark side isn't necessarily evil in and of itself, but is more often used by those who seek to inflict evil. The rule of one meaning only one can wield the Darksaber and the prophecy of the apprentice slaying the master to assume his title being that of how the Darksaber must be passed down through mortal combat.

Blasphemy!!

Copium.

Because other things I mentioned myself and they are correct, why would I mention them, when I wanted to question incorrect stuff.

You suggested Nyame has higher MDB, Revelation is very heavy on MDB and Malignance lacks MDB. So it's 1MDB that makes set lacks MDB to being very heavy on MDB. Interesting.

I completely forgot about this! Thanks for sharing!

All I wanted from the Mandalorian was some crazy cool lightsaber lore like the darksaber was the Masamune of the universe. Maybe it was some evil light saber with the spirit of the dark side of the force trapped in it, constantly craving more power. The blade being so heavy because it was literally sucking the force right out of you. The only one who could truly wield it is the one who could tame the spirit of the dark crystal.

Instead it just gets crushed like it's nothing undermining the lore of it's hilt being indestructible.



I don't think they went in hard enough on the warrior's code aspect of Mandalore.

So much potential squandered because the franchise is owned by disney adults.

I prefer Maul as an inquisitor tier chronie. All these spin-offs and attempts to ascribe character nuance are ridiculous. They try to make him sophistacted. I would've rather he just died in episode one and they called it a day. No need for more backstory. Instead disney adults will be like: wouldn't it be cool it we gave Maul robotic legs and brought him back? No. No it wouldn't. It would be stupid...

That is one of the two things I mentioned. The other you ignored.

Vain attempt by a failing company to revive a brand they themselves dragged straight into the ground, kicking and screaming and blaming the audience for not liking the slop they got handed to them.

Pass.

~Young hearts~
~be free~
~tonight~
~Time~
~is on~
~your side~

I think it's fair it's horizontal progression, not a straight vertical one.

Perhaps this is common knowledge but since it’s not often mentioned, I’d like to point out that beyond the rank of Expert, there are several (in .dats) that have never been implemented: Authority, Luminary, Master, Grandmaster, and Legend.

My Mahogany Pole synths support the "Tier 0 cannot HQ2/3" rule. I make Mahogany Poles and NPC them (come to my "making mog gardens work 4 u" TED talk). The recipe is level 68 and my highest woodworking level is 70. I have made 56 Mahogany Pole +1s and they were all Tier 1 HQs.

Kind of wild that no shield crafter noticed this before now.

If you have your subcraft capped, yes.

yo came back few days ago, tried some Ambu VD yesterday and could farm it consistently enough with this strat/comp:

2x DD (used WAR and DRG but any well geared DD is fine tbh although main boss is weaker to piercing)
BRD COR WHM
1x PUP tank, but a real tank could work too.

Strat:

WAR or 1 of the 2 DD goes in to pull the Freyja and Frigg to the start corner, PUP grabs Skathi and tanks it far away from the party, while the 2 DDs make sure they're close to each other and keep both NMs close to let 1 dd tp the add and WS the boss.
At that point 1 DD focus Big Boss with piercing dmg, while the other DD can tp and provoke on Frigg while WSing the Boss, which should die pretty quickly like that.
If DD with the add pulls hate from the main Boss, can also WS the add instead of the boss every 1-2 WS, or use jumps if you have them to dump enmity.

At that point you focus the Frigg (weak to slashing it seems) and once it's dead, you join the PUP to kill Skathi (bg says weak to blunt but whatever, any good geared DD will be enough)


If everything goes well it takes like 1 minute to clear, more if you get charmed once or twice or if COR and BRD won't deal dmg.

Things that can potentilly put your run at risk:
Eagle Eye Shot unlucky triple hit on a single DD that could one shot (happened twice but can easily recover, just slows the run)
For this specific reason, I strongly suggest NOT to use Berserk or Last Resort type of abilities until the first NM is DEAD.

WHM gotta stay far away from both pup and DDs to make sure he'll be able to Stone the petrifications if they happen, while if you are NOT facing NM while that move goes off you'll also get 5 count doom on top of petri, so be carefull.

Finally, once you learn the "positioning" for this fight, you're gonna pull to the corner at start and basically never move until you gotta kill the last add tanked by the PUP or tank, use this info to focus all your attention towards the chat log to avoid the charm dances, their animation is very long so as long as you're focused on the chat log you should be able to avoid them!

IF DDs get charmed and everyone is positioned correctly, it's gonna be easy to outrun the charmed ppl until it runs out, no big deal!

Clear time expected, between 1 to 3 minutes per run depending on group dps and how many times u get charmed! Good luck

So all you need to do is use 1 of the subcraft gear?

I understand the points Capuchin is making, but at the end of the day most players (most, not all) also have other realistical aspects they need to consider:

1) The amount of money, time and grind this set requires
2) The limited inventory space

Unless you have like 4-5 jobs only, you need to draw a line somewhere, you can't keep 400 items for a single job, you get to a point where you need to start accepting compromises.

Also, the fact that after all that effort the Revelation is better than malignance in multiple aspects, but sadly not in a couple of critical ones... leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
I dunno, that's how I feel at least.
It's a wonderful set but yeah, very strong sour taste in the back of my mouth alas.


Revelation is a very interesting option for BRD compared to NIN, imho. If not the whole set at least a few pieces.
But yeah, I guess a lot of people would reply with "lolDDbrd".

Sure, my point is Malignance has it all, meaning you don't have to choose, you dont have to swap. It's a perfect all-in-one TP set. Revelation has critical hole (meva) that you need to be aware of and it limits it's usage in many fights.

Since there's doesnt seem to be any super huge changes with Limbus gear for Smn, I've only updated the Guide abit.
And I've added a Melee/WS section. I used Kastra's Dmg Simulator for Tp/Ws setup.

I mean, they (spheres, not cards) are tradable and sellable, so...they didn't necessarily intend for people to bot, though everyone resorts to it anyway.

I haven't farmed many cards because they break a lot and the drop rate is terrible. I think I got maybe 1-3 per set of enemies which respawn every 5 minutes? So probably ~20/hr, but I don't have a huge dataset so don't quote me on it. It's not a lot.

I've mentioned it in other threads but IMO the best bang for buck you can get (by far) is Lower Delkfutt's Tower, provided you have another character (yours or a friend's) who can park there in your party. You get 6 Delkfutt Keys every 5 minutes, plus Lightning Clusters on a regular basis. I've spent countless hours up there and farmed *** of Reverb/Distortion. The ease of farming these formed the basis of my strategy for my shields.