~First And Final Line Of Defense V2.0~

Hey Martel,
I'm not sure how you got 102% SIRD as you describe it. I only see 91% SIRD in gear explicitly stated. If you add 1% from Nour.Earring Augments and 10% SIRD from Ambu cape, you get 102%. ....Did you mean to say that both Ambu capes for "Cure" and "Cure SIRD" are actually NOT the same? Thanks again for taking the time to make these sets and sharing them.

Hmmmm. I don't have a SIRD cape made, so that wouldn't be it.

Ahhh. Merits. 5/5 While I mentioned them in the enmity SIRD set post, I appear to have neglected to do so here. Perhaps I felt it was already established.

Will edit the original post.

Sorry didnt know about it. I dont really use this fail macros, just throwing ideas.

Reprisal with 80% fast cast is a 0.2 second cast time. I don't think you could even hit the second macro before the spell finished. Although, considering PLD, might not have 80% even with siegel sash helping.

But that aside, this isn't a problem of the length of in game waits, or of vanilla macros. If you try to use an equipset within less than one second of using another equipset, it throws a command error and fails to swap.

So even assuming you hit the second macro before the spells fires, if the time elapsed since the first equipset was equipped is less than 1 seconds, then it's going to fail anyway. So what was the point of breaking it up into two macros?

Reprisal with 80% fast cast is a 0.2 second cast time. I don't think you could even hit the second macro before the spell finished. Although, considering PLD, might not have 80% even with siegel sash helping.

I *think* i saw someone list a <wait> of .5 before, so might be worth seeing if <wait .5> works. But i honestly havnt used equipsets in forever.

You could also put yourself into precast and wait before casting spell, then equip midcast upon casting said spell.

Either way, it wouldnt be the most ideal due to actually being in precast for any duration, but its something if you dont have gearswap/ashitacast setup yet and are still learning the ropes.

Would the Fotia set not be better than Lacono and Sailfi for SB?

At 2k TP, savage has an ftp of over 10, making fotia pieces really, really bad. Sailfi +1 gives 15 str, and a lot of multi attack.

I think he is asking, because he is one of those poor souls who still don't know how Fotia pieces work.

Fotia is not 10%WSD, it's +0.1 to fTP on first hit or all hits (depends if WS has ftp transferred to all hits)

I think he is asking, because he is one of those poor souls who still don't know how Fotia pieces work.

No, I'm one of the poor souls that sees Weapon Skill Accuracy +10 on both pieces and have had issues with accuracy where I've had anywhere between OMGWTF great damage to absolutely abysmal.

So, please excuse me if I wanted to know more about WHY something without the added accuracy was better.

And thank you Felgarr and Nyaarun for elaborating, but I perhaps should have specified the totality of Fotia and not just the damage portion. You're not doing damage if you can't land the hit.

Since first hit of WS has +100 accuracy bonus and only really the first hit of Savage Blade matters, it would be a very rare situation that you will have capped accuracy on TP/hybrid set and not on SB first hit. Unless you tanking something evasive and only get TP from blocks I guess? Not sure if using Savage Blade would be optimal in such scenario anyway tho.

Btw that neck is not optimal for SB. I think JSE +2 neck is, unless there is some other neck I cant remember now.

No, I'm one of the poor souls that sees Weapon Skill Accuracy +10 on both pieces and have had issues with accuracy where I've had anywhere between OMGWTF great damage to absolutely abysmal.

So, please excuse me if I wanted to know more about WHY something without the added accuracy was better.

And thank you Felgarr and Nyaarun for elaborating, but I perhaps should have specified the totality of Fotia and not just the damage portion. You're not doing damage if you can't land the hit.

Time for more sets. Cures this time.

HP Cure.
ItemSet 353475
3023 HP*
Cure+53%, 3% over. Cure received capped.
Enmity+87(+117 w/crusade)
PDT 76%/68%. way overcapped.
39% DT
39%MDT, 46% BDT

Augments:
Sourevan: C path
Rudianos: HP+80, meva+20, Cure+10, PDT 10%

*Regarding the HP. My unity is currently in 2nd place, making the HP+ on Macabre+1 +79(+50 from the unity stat +29 from base.) I think you could probably drop two ranks before HP drops below 3k.

But you could also add more HP with moonlight riing, or Gelatinous. Personally I'd like to keep Defending to maintain moderate DT, but you could do gelatinous or another moonbeam to really crank the HP up. Nothing wrong with having some extra HP gap to cure for more enmity.

HP Cure SIRD
ItemSet 371844
3008 HP* (unit rank 2)
SIRD 102% 5/5 merits(Rank 6 nourishing aug for 1% more)
Cure+50%
Enmity+66(96 w/ Crusade)
68% PDT
29% DT
33% MDT, 39% BDT

Souveran and cape augs are the same as last set.
Odyssean has a Cure+6% aug.
Nourishing needs to be at least rank 6 for 1% SIRD.
Gelatinous+1 is R15.

I initially tested this set at 101% SIRD, having heard some rumors that 101% would cap when using larger SIRD value pieces. A plausible scenario considering how the exact haste values on gear work.

But this turned out to not be the case for the specific pieces this set uses despite nothing in the set having less that 10%.

lvl ~139 mobs. I disabled my fast cast set for cure precast and spammed cure with my back to the mobs.

So, not capped.

I will note that these interrupts were quite rare at 101% SIRD. I estimate that the per hit interrupt rate was around 3.1%. Rough numbers and small sample.

But Still, I'd rather this be capped, and with the unity augment on Nourishing there is a way to do so without messing anything else up. It takes a rank 6 augment to ge 1% SIRD on the earring.

Retested.

Better.

102% SIRD
83 cures
307 hits.
3.69 hits per cast.
No interrupts.

So I believe that 102% is capping in this set.

Similar to the non-SIRD set, this one is relying on a fairly high unity rank to creep above 3k HP. R15 Gelatinous ring+1 is giving +130 HP, at unity rank2. So +100 from the augment and +30 from the unity stat. Assuming the drop in HP form rank 2 to 3 is that same as 1 to 2(5HP), then you can only drop down to rank 3. Any farther will put you below 3 k. only by a tiny bit, but it will. Probably using Miso anyway.

I think there are a few alternative variants to this set, but most that I've looks at either uncap PDT, drop below 3kHP, or both.

What's the best way for me to get CP/JP solo on PLD?

On the topic of AE cleaving, does anyone have a rough AE set or some key pieces I should grab? I haven't AE cleaved since Abyssea was new so my gear there is quite dated.

This set posted by Martel a year ago is still pretty relevant (make sure to read his comments in the post as well). Improvements I can see with new HTBF/Odyseey gear are:

• Sacro Breastplate

• R15 Augury Cuisses +1

• R15 Metamorph Ring +1 over Acumen