Killer Instinct: The Beastmaster Compendium

The axe isn't a requirement. It's just a huge -DT slot (-25%). You can easily just remove the Chirich Rings for a Defending + Murky Ring combo for 48% DT.

The focus of the set is the Counter+, which is going to come down to RP on Gleti's Mask, and the gil for upgrading Bathy Choker.

Counter set isn't possible for me. I'm not doing any Odyssey augments anytime soon. I was looking to see how possible it is to solo Dyna D without having to resort to making a set like that.

I was hoping someone had tried it and had first hand experience. I'll do it myself at some point. If I get killed doing it, it's no problem.

Youll lose 10 counter by not having that. Bit of a blow but still fairly effective overall

you can go for statue first or last. I prefer First


Statues can hit a bit harder than the normal mobs, but as long as you not feeding them tp, they are moderate risk.

Ankusa axe works fine instead of pangu and costs much less. In fact there are many alternative builds that can be used. I just showed what I already had a itemset on bg-wiki made of.

the point was that adapa shield and counter make an incredible tanking set which can hold all the mobs you worried about.

you could use any axe and murky ring, defending ring, alabaster earring to have just as much damage reduction. lots of other combinations as well.


edit: looks like others replied already.

I like gleti's for dancer counter build too... but there are other options. Not sure what jobs you take seriously or not based on posts. if you don't want to gear up your jobs well, then goin w/ a group is alot more reliable. Soloing activities requires better gear than w/ a group.

I think counter set is very good option for any of the jobs that can do it. may of the pieces are all jobs anyway: amar cluster, cryptic earring, bathy choker, and cornelia's belt. None of these are high cost or hard to get. bathy choker most expensive... but I farmed it all myself. Its not niche use for just bst solo'ing dynamis.

the jobs I know worth making counter sets: Mnk, bst, blu, dnc, drg, sam, nin

not sure but I think would be great for:
Pup, Drg, War, thf, drk

I really should figure options for pld and run too, but they seem to have less need.

You'd be completely out of range. Patrice takes half physical damage, ski they're not a threat if she super tanks them. They have no magical attacks, so there is no threat. Pull all and hold on Patrice, kill one by one.

Name Presto Julio Jug jug of chirping grasshopper broth Natural Lvl Cap 93 Maximum Lvl Cap 108 Attack Adj. - Defense Adj. - Species Flytrap Ecosystem Plantoid Job WAR TP/hit 70 Damage Type Slashing iLvl 108 Stats: Max HP 5110 Accuracy 640 Attack 617 Evasion 544 Defense 731

Used Atma of the Bushin to confirm Presto Julio has a MaxHP Modifier of -20%.
Master Level 50 gives pets 350 Max HP before the modifier, so using the stats table above:
iLvl 108 Max HP = 5110 + [350 * 0.8] = 5390

2695 * 2 = 5390

With a similar process, the Pet's growth looks like this from level 108 to level 113:

Condition Level MaxHP iLvl 119 Axe Mainhand 108 5390 iLvl 119 Axe + Nukumi Earring 109 5396 iLvl 119 Axe + Nukumi Earring + Gleti's Boots 110 5404 Spalirisos III 111 5410 Spalirisos III + Nukumi Earring 112 5416 Spalirisos III + Nukumi Earring + Gleti's Boots 113 5424

For Pets that are above Item Level 99, there is currently no reachable cap on Pet:Lvl+ gear. :)
The idea extends to all of the Level 114 cap pets which can be raised to Level 119 with all of the available Pet:Lvl+ gear.

Respect Falkirk! I was just curious if the gear might have brought older pets up to level that made them usable for anything. Xilkk mentioning Julio made me think about others, but after looking at the list, there's not much utility. I hope SE continues to add Pet Level+ gear, though I would prefer new pets to call. Everything charmable should have a familiar version (camels, scorpions, bugards etc)

a little late in more ways than one
this is how I was doing dyna d daily before the nerf to aoe damage
I haven't tried once since that update

was making great gil
kinda just dont want to be disappointed if the aoe dmg is lower because it would slow everything down but im sure it is
still id imagine the strategy would work fine it would just be slower and make less gil, the enemies would start at 100% not 40-50% and no unleash for a quick group kill.

What’s everyone off hand weapon lately when melee master focus?

If you're able to get maxed out Ikenga's axe, I think that's still one of the strongest offhand choices.

In Limbus, I've been using single-wield when partying with full buffs (Tri-Edge Calamity spam or Prime Blitz spam) - and when solo I often use Kraken Club offhand.

Just following up on this, now that the gear has been available for a few weeks:

1629 Digest (1540 TP)
1743 Digest (1540 TP with Magnificent Cyclas)

Confirmed that the Envy/Justice body works as described with its Pet: DMG+X% effect, which places it among the strongest gear available (outside of Nyame Mail Path D) for physical Ready moves and Digest/Infected Leech/Drainkiss.

I much prefer /war, so axe/shield. Chose diamond aspis for it too.

BRING BACK DIGSET

I was trying to find another dual wield option as it felt like an eternity when dual wielding axes. Agree that single wield might be the way to go for now.

In a side note, it’s refreshing to see bst benefiting from limbus gear :)

Aymur/Agwu
Dolchenus/Crepuscular Knife, Ternion dagger +1
Spalirisos/Fernagu, Ikenga

Digirbalag and Purgation can be good offhand axes. However I think Agwu's has them solidly beaten and faster to get.

If you have the money, Kraken Club is a great offhand, though I wouldn't purchase it solely for BST (or at all, price is now outrageous and IMO not worth the cost). Otherwise, Blurred Knife +1 is decent to use, especially when the non ilvl weapon like Fernagu/Kraken whiffs on higher level targets when you're soloing without acc buffs. It gives BST OAT40%~50 (or that's what I have heard reported) and Haste Proc buff (15%, but I'm not finding any sources of this). I carry one on me anyways just in the rare cases I lose my RDM trust for any of my Dagger-usable jobs, so I can give myself Haste (with Cornelia its 40% magical, which is nice). It's not a phenomenal option, but it's for sure faster than double axe. However, I think for brute damage, you want Spalirisos+Ikenga's Axe and just suffer through the slow TP speed (can be made better with Malignance/Limbus gear, Hoxne Ampulla, buffs etc).

BST is a slow job when DWing but hits like a truck when it WS; I'm considering picking up Diamond Aspis if I ever win a Bonanza in the future.

This gives me hope. I hope to bring BST to Limbus one day. I have a toggle for TP'ing as BST with consideration for:

Master Only
Pet Only
Master+Pet

...Is there any reason these days to even have the separation of Master Only or Master+Pet when TP'ing? Same question, but with Hoxne Amp effect added?

There really isnt, especially for BST, the only thing that should be a consideration for the pet would be maybe DT so it can survive, the dmg of auto attacks dont amount to much, ready sets your TP at minimum to 1k, gets anywhere from a decent bit to a lot of tp bonus(aymur) and then add on bst pets being largely war so even more fencer

Hybrid was more of a pup thing but the puppets fallen behind so much even that's kind of a waste, just go all in on master if you're engaging

I have a R30 ikenga's axe and it's a good toy.
It shines with Tri-Edge main and Calamity spam.
However, if one day (huge IF) I'll get the perfect augments on Digirbalag (QA + DA) i think i'll go for it when wearing 5/5 Duty max augments (so 2027 i guess).

how does the duty set fair us on bst? any of the items considered must have?

The set looks completely busted for BST as far as a TP set goes. It's the one set I had my eyes on primarily. Double Attack, Triple Attack, Store TP, and Subtle Blow along with -DT in the same set. BST suffers from a slower TP phase, and it getting a huge chunk to multi attack helps out a lot. Of course, Hoxne Ampulla solves for it if you prefer to pay. BST comes prepackaged with innate subtle blow when engaged with the pet, so the set enhances that even further. Falkirk confirmed the body is already BIS if no pet Nyame.

I feel like BST could get a high native multi attack set before but it was rather squishy. This set solves for that problem in a number of ways. Just sucks it will take forever to finish augmenting it