Rajas Vs Sattva?

I just want decent gear to play the game as I like, for fun and not just to impress others or avoid hearing crap from elitists.

I was just asking for an opinion, not a judgement.

Peace!

Are you spying on me lol?? That could not be more accurate.

About the Organics comment... the thing I do the most in this game is Campaign Battle, so with all the damn DD out there I can't just go with a Macuahuitl +1 and expect to hold hate, do decent damage and get good exp. Some could use this comment to say that Rajas would work better in campaign battle, but again, I guess I am "old school" and like to take little damage and hold hate on a regular basis outside campaign.

I just want decent gear to play the game as I like, for fun and not just to impress others or avoid hearing crap from elitists.

I was just asking for an opinion, not a judgement.

Peace!

Well I should also add, it says Multipurpose if you click the Item set link.

Are you spying on me lol?? That could not be more accurate.

About the Organics comment... the thing I do the most in this game is Campaign Battle, so with all the damn DD out there I can't just go with a Macuahuitl +1 and expect to hold hate, do decent damage and get good exp. Some could use this comment to say that Rajas would work better in campaign battle, but again, I guess I am "old school" and like to take little damage and hold hate on a regular basis outside campaign.

I just want decent gear to play the game as I like, for fun and not just to impress others or avoid hearing crap from elitists.

I was just asking for an opinion, not a judgement.

Peace!

Turtle builds die around level 50ish or so for PLD eh?

This is why I gave on PLD. You need too much ***to even be a slightly good pld lol.

well, it's still nice to have an oshit set for when shadows go down no matter what the level

but yeah, that's around when turtling begins to stop working

This is why I gave on PLD. You need too much ***to even be a slightly good pld lol.

And yet you are also judging people by saying they are elitists.

Afk ironing my shirt.

For a career PLD which one is more convenient? I don't plan to level many DD jobs, I have SAM79 and will end DRG but that's it.

Patronus Ring comes from Campaign, which you already do. Jelly Ring comes from a short repop lotto NM that is soloable by PLD and it's a guaranteed drop. Both beat the piss out of Sattva for damage mitigation. There's also Succor Ring and the augmented Dark Rings.

If you want decent gear, get Rajas.

The way people play this game, it's the same way for a lot of jobs to some people.

I could probably run around as a purple PLD and be the best PLD ever. Gear doesn't make someone a good PLD.

The way people play this game, it's the same way for a lot of jobs to some people.

I could probably run around as a purple PLD and be the best PLD ever. Gear doesn't make someone a good PLD.

I've tanked DI in 5/5 Purple just to prove that point, fact of the matter is, it wasn't nearly as efficient as it could of been on support and DD.... Macros separate good players from bad, not necessarily gear...

Personally I feel that Rajas is more than twice as good as the other two combined.

No matter what you're doing on a mage job, you'll never need both INT and MND. Basically it's just a Snow and Aqua ring combined. The MP and enmity- are a bonus of course, but don't make or break the job.

Sattva is of course the best enmity ring, but VIT gets worthless later on and AGI gives a tiny Shield boost, but ultimately unnoticeable. Again, HP is a bonus, but not essential. Hercules Ring and Bomb Queen Ring basically do the same thing, to an extent.



In remarkable contrast to the first two, EVERYTHING you do on ANY DD job (And by extension, any meleeing RDMs, or mages in general, and even PLD, to an extent) is improved by both STR and DEX. This will, of course, increase your per-hit damage and accuracy, critical hit rate, and of course, WS mods. If you left it at that, it would still be preferable to the other two, in my opinion.

The thing that truly makes Rajas shine is the sTP+5, which is effectively 5% faster TP gain (Give or take). On almost any two-handed-weapon job, you will be /SAM. And in nearly every situation, /SAM leaves you at ~5-10 sTP to bump up your 7-hit build to a 6-hit build. At which point, it's not a 5% increase to TPing speed, it's a 17% increase, as removing one hit drops anywhere from 400 to 500 delay.

Any SAM will tell you what a nightmare it is to not have Rajas, as you'll be forced to drop Haste gear in order to get the necessary 6-hit (Or in Polearm/Pachipachio's case, 5hit) build. At this point, Rajas improves your TPing speed at 20% and 25% respectively.

I know it's an extreme and that only really goes for one, maybe two or three depending on the weapon, but that makes Rajas essentially a 25% boost to your damage. This, unlike Tamas or Sattva, WILL make or break your performance.



Ultimately it's your choice, but I can't ever recommend anything but Rajas to anyone, even if they have no DD jobs past 37.

Macros separate good players from bad, not necessarily gear...

The way people play this game, it's the same way for a lot of jobs to some people.

I could probably run around as a purple PLD and be the best PLD ever. Gear doesn't make someone a good PLD.

Well, nobody here knows if he uses macros or not.

no. no you absolutely could not.

A. good gear doesn't make a bad player good, but completely confused/wtf gear can make what would be a good player bad

B. knowing what gear to use and understanding when and why you need to use it is all part and parcel of being skillful. if you don't have any concept of when to use flash/ni/ichi/fire resist/magic defense/oshit/tp/enmity/idle-refresh/kite sets, than you can claim to be skillful all you want, but the truth is you have no idea what you are doing

By Best PLD ever, I'm saying that I know my job, know how to hold hate etc. I had a PLD and NIN in my sky ls who had gear that some people would say is "terrible". But they were actually some of our best tanks. And the people with above average gear would never line up, etc, things that caused them to die.

the fact that he said he was "defense/enmity-focused" earlier in the thread gave it away.

it's just like how you would know a SAM fulltimed his gear if he told you he "focused" on STR gear

Is where skill comes into play, but give those badly equipped tanks better equipment and they WILL do their job more efficiently, they wont become worse at tanking

Knowing how to gear is part of the skill for pld.

Gearing incorrectly makes you a bad pld imo.

(Note, not Gimp, INCORRECTLY)

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