T3 VNM Brulo ?

Its an avatar like Ifrit that drops a BLM scythe called 'Maleficus'

INT+10, Magic Atk. Bonus+10, Magic Critical Hit rate +10%, Increases Magical crit hit dmg

Better than HQ staves? Magian staves? Opinions?

Depends on the "Increases Magical crit hit dmg" but mooooooooost likely not.

I'm thinking of this equipped with associated elemental grips, I'd think the numbers would be pretty close, no? This is all in Abyssea mind you, not regular zones

Very very doubtful. Unless the increase crit dmg is like +100%

That being said I've fought it a few times and it's a ***. I tanked on thf. 60-80 dmg permanent blaze spikes. 500-600 melee hits with 50-80 enfire. Double attacks alot doesn't seem to be debuffable though steal does dispel its attack boost which is good since it increases it's attack speed alot. Fire IV does decent dmg and goes thru shadows. Most other tp moves take out 2-3 shadows and do a good 1500-1800 if you didn't have enough shadows. Seems to 2hr instead of normal tp moves starting around 40-50%. I've had it do 2k even with earthen armor shell V and barfira from a whm up. Can use multiple times.

Have yet to actually win cause of that lol. Want that damn atma

Ok so doing the math assuming no other magic crit gear/atma and say you are nuking in about 120 MAB (not to hard my blm nukes in 150ish I think) the +crit dmg would have to be at least +238% to crit dmg to average what a trial staff would get you.

What about HQ elemental staves? I lack trial staves, will this compare to them?

No it won't. Only if you have really low MAB.

Short answer no. You it would need to add 46MAB on crits on top of the normal 10MAB just to equal (well slightly better since I'm not counting the int) on the magic crits. And you will probably only be critting the 10% from the weapon itself. Since most +Magic crit that was tested before only added 1-2MAB on crit... seriously doubtful.

Assuming that 120 base MAB I used earlier

I'm no mage but looking at it was semi dissapointing. What gives?

Oh no I want it for wildfire lol. It's kinda meh for anything else hoping to get my wildfires over 60k with brew... on rng. I'd love to see what cor could do lol

I've beat it once and that was with some jp pty steling it when it went unclaimed for a sec. They wipped and we took it back then they decided they wanted to help.

We won and got earring then kick them. We used a thf tank which lived with carol, bar spell and atma of the brother wolf.