Almace Or Kannagi?

i just said it does...

How about an average? Something in me doubts you're always hitting a minimum of 2.5k. On another note, how necessary is x-hit for DRK nowadays? I see a lot of /MNK, I'm no DRK but I've been curious (beyond the obvious /MNK is good for tanking).

Oops, I overlooked that. Hmm... Before I would've dismissed that out of hand, but with Last Resort buffed I could see it being situationally possible. Seems sketchy as /MNK though.

i'd say 3k is pretty normal, but my great sword skill still isn't capped lol

you don't really have to go out of your way for x-hit. i use rajas ring, ace's leggings, and goading belt (+5 store tp each) and that puts me just over 100 tp for ws + 7 swings (with great sword, of course) and i still hit haste cap. i really just like /mnk for the hp boost and extra damage output of counterstance. /war is nice too. i don't like /sam anymore since hasso and desperate blows don't stack, not to mention the extended recast timers when using seigen or hasso have always annoyed me


it's definitely sketchy, fun though. you need a whm who doesn't mind cure bombing you

really the ODD is where it's at, the raising of crit dmg cap makes ss rr apoc a nasty combo for drk

Torcleaver Rarley drops below 3k now with LR up new buff is amazing <3

May i just say his ninja is wearing pink hands/legs/feet and an osode. I think the answer to the OP is obvious. (*'-')b

JUST DON'T DO IT

no but really, don't make a kannagi and wear the gear I'm seeing on your profile right now, you'll just get screwed with.

Dont join the bandwagon.. build a almace :D
dare to be differnt..

I think primarily the choice is yours and yours alone and getting a forum help decide for you isn't the way to go. There have been numerous posts about Almace/Kannagi and the numbers they produce.

If you're not going to take it to 90 then don't bother. I'm sick of seeing 85 versions of eph w/ no trial for 90 stamped.

GL w/ what ever route you decide. At the end of the day you will always like the weapon you choose because NOT everyone has one.

but the trial stamp looks so ugly! i'm saving my upgrade items until i can turn them all in at once

does it *** matter if someone just gets it to 85? Or do you complain about people with the WOE weapons because they arnt as powerful as full emps?

Getting the Lv90 version of Almace / Kannagi is a nightmare with Apak so you cant expect people to just get them. Even as a lv85 Empy it still beats the crap outta the WoE weapons

Truly, getting them sisyphus fragments was the hard part :<

Either way, it's a ***ton of apademak's... same with the harp.

depending on what you play most, and your preferences, any empy is worth it.

No don't complain about WoE path weapons as it was the path available to that person at the time. But there are too many gimp *** people that go around saying look at me I got an eph and it is 85. Working on 90 all the power to you. But if you give up b4 you start and say can't do apademak too hard shouldnt even bother because the fact is it can be taken down with 3 people.

How can you even tell if they're working on it or not, I'm' sure for 85-90 at least, plenty of people just wait til they collect them all before starting/finishing the trial.

I don't know exactly... you know u check a persons bazaar/equip oh thats nice he/she has a eph. 3 mnths later.. Oh there is that person. A bugger they still have 85.

I don't use an LS to help get eph weapons. 75 horns took 5 bloody days through /sh runs. I'm not saying it to make me look good. But the truth is it is not hard. So to take an eph to 85 and give up is useless.

RDM doesn't get native Sanguine Blade, and wouldn't full time PDT unless they were /BLU riding Cocoon. While that's fine for weaker NMs, on anything with the ability to cause some pain you'd be /NIN to conserve MP and lessen the time lost to recasting mitigation spells and cures. The other alternatives are going /Drk or /War, but it would be foolish to give up your defensive abilities on anything beyond fodder mobs.

With uncapped fast cast, easy 50% recasts, Para and Saboteur Slow, it's fairly easy to ride shadows in full haste, and on the whole you spend less time casting than /BLU. In this situation, you wouldn't equip PDT gear unless you were going to take a hit, much like you wouldn't full time MDT against a mob unless you were going to get hit by a spell.

Save the PDT gear for when it's necessary, and gear for haste/atk/acc to make your melee phases more effective. It's also worth noting that beyond the less functional sub job, Sanguine Blade is somewhat annoying to gear for on NMs outside of Abyssea. It's a Str/Mnd WSC but requires a fairly decent fInt in order to be a high dmg option, even on IT's you'll see a visible reduction in dmg when going from a neutral mob to a spell caster. I wouldn't count on it to match the utility of CDC's ws dmg+aftermath on any consistent basis.

If you ever consider (or already have) leveling PLD or BLU, the Almace can be used by those three jobs. It moer versital. If you want it for your rdm, i only see it for soloing but there shouldn't be much, if nothing at all that a nin can solo what a rdm can. So if you are going to solo get the Kannagi on nin. But if you have the two other jobs, might as well Almace. XD

Whats the damage like on the almace for the BLU's RDM's or PLD's?