BST Gear Sets

Hey guys!

After a long break I decided to play FFXI again and I have to say that I am really enjoying it again!

First I leveled BLM to 99 to make sure I have a job that can be useful in LS events. A few weeks ago I also finished leveling BST to solo/duo and have some fun with.

As you guys know BST needs lots of different gear sets and I started making different gear sets using the database here. The only thing is that you can not find the augmented gear (like the Moogle expansions head) in the database when you are searchinf for "pet:" items.

Right now I am focusing on the reward set and I have the following set planned:

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+50% Reward
-25s recast timer
+36 MND

This set is pretty easy to obtain and not too expensive. Paying 2.5 million for Neptune's Pearls for 1 more MND is crazy. All items in the set are reasonably priced and reasonably easy to obtain.

I would like some comments and/or suggestions on the set before I started spending my gil on it! Did I miss any items, with augments or something?

I will soon update this thread with more gear sets to discuss and maybe others can use this thread to find the best in slot items for a certain set!

Last I've heard, Beast Jackcoat +1 is better (or at least equal to) Monster Jackcoat +2. If at nothing else, it's probably way cheaper.

If you're meleeing with pet (and quite frankly, since they added Ruinator you should) capping Reward potency with Zoraal x2 is a real waste. Swap in Ogre gloves and Ferine earring for 42% potency and buy some other upgrade with that money.

Monster Gaiters +2 + Ogre Gloves (NQ is fine) plus ONE Zoraal Ja's caps reward potency at 50%. No need to settle for less, and no reason to go farm a Ferine Earring.

I might indeed make a different set for when I actually melee and need/want my TP. There are also certain situations where you can not melee and/or don't need the TP.

The Ferine Earring is pretty nice even when you do no consider using it for the reward bonus on it, so I guess I will end up farming for it anyway one day.

Edit: About the Monster Jackcoat +2 vs. Beast Jackcoat +1. There are so many different stories about those two. So both those items do exactly the same right?

Thanks for the comments.

those two bodies only remove status effects, if you want boosted reward then use something like kirin's osode (more +mnd)

Yea, I am keeping that in mind indeed. In some situations just the extra MND will be more useful then the status effect removal.

I am looking around for a -(P)DT set for pet now. Will post what I think will be a nice set later and hope for some comments there too.

If anyone feels like posting their sets I would really appreciate it also.

So far I think this is what I need as a BST

Reward set

Tank set for pet
DPS set for pet

Ruinator set for master
TP set for master

Am I missing anything?

might seem a little old, but think most of the stuff is still applicable
Help with BST sets

This thread links to the testing done for the Jackcoats

Essentially whichever is easier for you to obtain should be the one to aim for although the relic body can be augmented w/ an enhancement for Feral Howl provided you do it's Dynamis Exp point trial.

You can check out my sets, outside nni or salvage gear they're pretty solid.

Thanks for all the ideas and links! Going to look into it during maint. this evening :)

I adjusted the sets a bit more. Some slots might not be optimal, but I picked the items that are not crazy expensive and relatively easy to obtain for someone that just returned.

Commments are welcome!

Reward set:
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Tanking pet, with idle master set:
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I could not find any useful rings for the tanking set, so the rings are just the reward rings and will probably be just the general TP rings I will use, so ignore those please.

Next sets I am looking into are Ruinator and master TP sets.

RE TANKING SET:

Mirke Wardecors would be better in the body slot, for pure pet DD.

And I'm not sure on those ring choices either, master and pet wouldn't be gaining anything by having them.
Then again when you're playing idle master, there isn't much choice for rings beside Dark Rings

EDIT: and ogre gloves on reward.

I just use sheltered ring and paguroidea ring.

Ah crap forgot about the Mirke Wardecors.

Pet: Att. & Rng. Att. +15
Pet: Double Att.+ Crit hit rate +2%

Those two augments are the best I assume?

And I agree about the rings, thanks for the tips on those. Will look into that.

Or acc, I don't know the math to say which is exactly best.

Yeah, those are the augments I've got on mine.

Augmented Armada/adaman sollerets are something you want to work on eventually, can get Pet: haste/def.bonus on them among other things.

Beast Bazubands are nice to have, especially with the new def adjustments.

Selemnus belt is easily farmed, swap in against magic-heavy mobs. I tested MDef axes once on the test server, however the results were kind of underwhelming so I wouldn't bother just yet.

Last thing, about Solemn ring...it has a rare flag ._.

Great stuff! Thanks a lot.


... and about Solemn Rings .... "doh" That feels stupid!

For every second you spend meleeing on BST there is another second you will spend standing back while your pet does battle. Since your TP is not of use when you are standing back, it is prudent in these situations to use the potency of Zoraal Ja's. The cap is 50%, so in order to maximize the amount cured you will need to remove other pieces (namely, Ferine earring and possibly Ogre gloves) and trade them off for MND.
For a cheap/easy reward set this is very good. This should be your eventual Aim for non-meleeing reward set:
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(MND+11 Astolfo)
You can get Augmented Heaven's rings from ACP final boss fight using Ebon keys that have up to +5 pet Acc, though these appear to be rather rare.
For an easy/cheap/effective Ruinator set I suggest this:
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Eventually leading up to this:
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I don't have a TP set to recommend currently, it's too difficult without knowing what gear is available to the player.

I'm pretty sure HQ ogre gloves have no advantage over NQ gloves as far as reward's concerned.

Good to know about those rings though, I'll see what augs I get from mine later on tonight, if i even get a ring lol.

I'm not a fan of that -acc stuff on the WS tbh. I think Forager's Mantle would be a viable alternative for Ruinator without sacrificing any accuracy. Half the str sure, but got that extra 20 attack. Or an Atheling Mantle for the occasional double attack along with the +attack.

Again in the hand slot I'd be inclined to use Ferine Manoplas+2. 2 less str than those Heafoc Mitts, but +15 attack and critical hits +3%. For me that would out-weight the benefits of an extra 2 str.

Ogre Gloves +1 have +11% NQ have +10%
Though you are correct in the sense that the set I posted is 51% Reward potency. +1 are still worth getting for a set that doesn't swap out Axes because it is impossible to cap Reward potency.
STR is a huge deal for Ruinator, and attack is capped almost all of the time due to the attack boost Ruinator gives and the target levels a BST typically fights.

Critical hit rate does nothing for Ruinator.

Great post Attaxia, really helps me in the right direction.

I would love to see some more TP sets. I am currently in a very nice LS that can handle all the content. However I do not have the time to attend most events, so it will take ages to get items from the high-end events.

So my items will mostly come from AH, NMs you can solo/duo and/or do with shouts (Ferine set and so on).

On the reward macro, I like to use rings and earrings that have different names because sometimes they wont macro in as quickly as they should sometimes. For that reason I use karka and aquasoul rings.

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This will give you capped haste and is relatively easy to farm/cheap on AH. Something you can start from, adding DA/TA/QA, attack and accuracy gear in other slots as you can.

Pssst, aurore/perle feet are fine too

Current tp set for bst. It's primary focus is capped haste with as much double/triple attack thrown in as I can manage. The extra acc on the ferine gausape +2 is actually good for adoulin areas. This set also takes advantage of full mp merit with the oneiros ring. That ring can be removed for another if you can't hit the latent. Aalak' axe or strength/pet attk astolfo (they got put in the wrong order in the set) for damages.

The best TP set ever? Nah. But an "average" one, as I'm an "average" player. Easily obtainable.



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Many of the pieces were chosen to do double duty in ws sets to save on space.

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The head would do better with a mekira-oto (but I'm a cheapskate). Takes advantage of STR, attack, accuracy, and double/triple attack where applicable. I frequently see Ruinators over 4k using this build.

I recommend you work towards this:
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That's because the suggestion is spelled incorrectly, type it out correctly or add an [s] to the end and it will show up.

I have this as my final reward set now. Any comments?

All items are easy to obtain (some pretty expensive, but still doable). The Astolfo is a +11MND one (the one with the Pet: Magic Defense Bonus +11).

Thanks Ataxxia for the comments and ideas, liked most of them so far.

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Final set for pet tanking, while I am at a safe distance.

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Astolfos are the VIT+11 ones (with Pet: Physical Damage Taken -11%)

There are two pieces I did not add to the list for now, since I am not sure how good they actually are going to be. I also think those are not dealbreakers.

1) Beast Bazubands (+5% defense) vs. Ferine Manoplas +2 (+50TP on Ready)

2) Primal Belt (+5 defense, +3 enmity) vs. Moepapa Stone (+5% haste)

If you ONLY look at it from a tanking perspective you might want to go for the defense gear, but I think the replacements are pretty good and will make a fight last a little shorter, which is also an indirect way of damage mitigation.

I did not add any rings to the set since there is nothing with "Pet:" in that slot. Some people wrote down some nice ideas above already, so will look into that later.

Comments are still welcome to change my mind =)

Thank you ^^