Carbuncle.Maletaru said:
»I've run a ton of Sortie, including months on RUN, runs on BRD, RDM, COR, and various other jobs. While I agree about the stun specifically, there are other things that meva can help with, like resisting the damage being dealt by TP moves, fetters, or autos, and there are other status effects you will be hit by during the 8 bosses in a Sortie run. Your run could go more smoothly from a healing perspective (and possibly DPS) by wearing more meva. DPS isn't the only consideration you have to make when putting together sets.
Sure, if that was a problem to begin with. The only person who tends to die on our runs is the COR, and used to be the DRK. My SAM in what you'd consider a "not as survivable" set has never been a problem when it comes to survivability and healing stress (keep in mind that I'm also not getting special treatment, the WHM is spending more time erasing Fetter DoTs than healing most of the time and the heals are practically all Accession C4s and Curagas).
The Fetters are only killing you when the fight lasts too long or you don't get the Burn off from Aita's fire Fetter because it reduces your INT to 1 and causes you to get completely nuked. Once again barspells cover the other things like Amnesia already. I've been Amnesia'd on G maybe twice ever thanks to barfira and baramnesia. The only other debuffs of consideration are Paralyze from Trib's pylons which is going to land eventually on everyone to begin with and Slow on Aita which is difficult to resist even on RUN and is counteracted by double march anyway.
I'm not ignorant on how to build sets. Sortie just isn't dangerous enough to need to wear Ken +1 gear and I've had no appreciable difference in survivability between DPS hands/feet and mpaca/ken+1 sets.
Valefor.Prothescar said:
»Simplest explanation to all of it is that for some reason they decided to make Gartell's Stun have no macc check. He is a clear exception as you can resist stun on all the other Sortie NMs.
Would be worth to recheck with Metal :)
Probably. Still wouldn't be worth the time to get it but it'd be nice to know if it works