Nariont said: »
Asura.Ayahuasca said: »
If we're talking about running content up to lvl135 or so then maybe glass cannon TA/QA tp sets with ambuscade/abjurations/dm augments or other low magic evasion "outdated" pieces of gear can still work, but for anything like lvl140+ content, Ody gear/empy+3 etc magic evasion/defensive stats are so good that wearing glass cannon tp sets will just make you hella squishy and your group could suffer for it, if you end up dying or you're the only one taking 1000 AoE dmg when rest of the team takes 200-400
For these reasons i wouldn't say Ambu+2 gear "still performs very well, just no defense on them compared to Sakpata"...as you make it sound like it's no big deal when in reality it's an insanely huge deal.
In 2025 unless you're starting out and cannot get high m.eva gear like Ody sets/empy+2-3/Malignance etc. yet, wearing hybrid DT/high m.eva tp sets is a MUST imho.
I know it's tempting to still use FLamma head+2 or other gear with Triple ATk, Store TP/DT etc in a TP set but ultimately it's not worth it as a trade-off, to TP slightly faster or to increase DPS/WS frequency by a bit if that makes you hella squishy and extremely susceptible to debuffs etc.
As a WHM main, i beg you, stop using glass cannon tp/ws sets in high end content <3
For these reasons i wouldn't say Ambu+2 gear "still performs very well, just no defense on them compared to Sakpata"...as you make it sound like it's no big deal when in reality it's an insanely huge deal.
In 2025 unless you're starting out and cannot get high m.eva gear like Ody sets/empy+2-3/Malignance etc. yet, wearing hybrid DT/high m.eva tp sets is a MUST imho.
I know it's tempting to still use FLamma head+2 or other gear with Triple ATk, Store TP/DT etc in a TP set but ultimately it's not worth it as a trade-off, to TP slightly faster or to increase DPS/WS frequency by a bit if that makes you hella squishy and extremely susceptible to debuffs etc.
As a WHM main, i beg you, stop using glass cannon tp/ws sets in high end content <3
Maybe i worded it poorly but so long as you keep your DT capped, which aint too difficult these days with all the dump of DT gear, you can typically keep your received dmg fairly low even with 1-2 pieces of non-ody/sortie gear. You're losing 7 magic def bonus in those 2 pieces for example, meva's fair but atleast for sortie it seems like basement NMs have stupid high macc, even run can struggle to bypass some effects.
Think it more comes into play with fetters which are breath dmg and so shell aint covering that, in those cases yeah full sakpata might be needed and/or a DT or MDT cape(least in the past augmented MDT was also BDT)
Otherwise i think most jobs are fin with 1-2 pieces. Not like the days of old where people ran around in full argosy or used that NNI DA/TA/QA body
I always have one peice in tp sets (head usualy) but never more. Though capped in dt, think the main issue would be loosing neva. Loosing 100 meva is noticeable, especially on a job that loves to pull hate like drk.
