Fun Dancer Stuff: Terpsichore

Hey guys!

I'm looking at building sets for Terpsichore, and three things have become evident pretty quickly:
1) If I have Marches, I should be single wielding, which requires a dramatically different gearset from normal.
2) This dagger is excellent for support, because AM3 makes Saber Dance much less important. ~40/40/20 distribution, so 1.8 attacks per round with just AM3. This means it also devalues Double Attack.
3) The dagger is only really going to be worth main-handing in situations where I can ride AM3.

So there are kind of two situations that I'd like to prepare for:
* Marches and supporting role. (Single Wield)
* Duoing with mule and DDing role.

I thought it would be fun for people to make sets and compare them. No holds barred, remember that DA is barely an increase! I already have an Airy Buckler, etc. I'd like 26% Haste if possible, or 25% Haste if it's much more convenient.

what about low delay weapons such as sleight kukri? wouldnt that affect you in a positive way even with marches?

something like idk



takes you down to 12 hit for 100 tp with /sam
omg am i really talking about hit builds on dnc?

edit: this is obviously a single-wield set.

Nope~! It's because:
* AM3 is Main-hand only
* You can reach 78.3% Haste with Samba + Gear + Haste spell + 2x March

So you'd be using Dual Wield to reduce the last 1.7% delay (.217/.2 = 8.5% increase in DPS), but offhanding a shitty base damage dagger that doesn't get the AM3 effect to do it. In the end, it's better to stick with just using the weapon that has an effective 80% DA.

also why are our earring options so lame after suppa is out of the picture?

I don't know. I see Brutal, Regain/Atk Moonshade, Aesir Ear Pendant, and Vulcan's Pearl as the prime contenders.

This was my first attempt!


I think this set would do better damage, but your set may be better for playing a supporting role.

I didn't use moonshade because I know you already have it augmented for TP bonus, but yeah it was a thought :)

Byyyyyyyyyyyyrrrrrrrrrrtttttttth

did you finish? /o/

I got 30,000 Alex something like a week ago, but it'll be months until I'm done Einherjar. I also have about 3 weeks worth of assaults left, but that should be done by the end of the month.

I started at the end of July (25th is the earliest post of mine that I can find talking about working on it.) I started with a lot of gil and got a lot of help from friends (locating Alex). I was also very fortunate that SE introduced a farming-friendly lowman event right around the same time (Neo-Dynamis).

awww ; ; grats anyways

Thanks! The biggest problem is that I'm going to be moving to Germany and entering the EU deadzone for 6 months. I'll have essentially no chance of doing Einherjar.

I'll transfer to Lakshmi and do Einherjar with you~

lol, I couldn't ask you to do that! I don't leave until mid November, so I'll have to see how Ein is going before then. I have teamed up with someone else on the server doing runs twice a week.

good luck byrth!

How lowman do you guys run? Curious what it takes to clear T3 now.

I've heard that 6 can clear a T3 pretty reliably these days. We cleared a Tier 1 in 9 minutes the other day with 6 (4 players, 2 mules). Next time we'll be doing a Tier 2, then after that a tier 3, so I'll let you know~!

If I may ask, how much gil did you spend abouts? :O

I don't know exactly, but I'd guess 8.5k per Alexandrite average and 28500 Alexandrite bought (farmed about 1300 and given some), so something on the order of 240mil.

Definitally able to clear a T3 reliably w/ 6 now. Expecially if you can bring a sch. Embrava is crazy sexy. and pregratz on the awsome dagger!

What's your setup? Normal DDing or some form of AoEburn?

We were normally ukon/ukon/brd/smn/whmmule/whmmule back at 90. primarilly using ukko's. Alex zerg boss. I would rep one (or both) of the whm mules with sch, and possibly brd with cor now a days though. 2 schs would be embrava the entire run(almost), which should be 80%(25gear+15haste+10hasso+30embrava) haste. Marchs wouldn't be as needed then so could cor instead of brd and get chaos/war (or save tp) rolls. Could also AoE Kaustra-ga then Bind/gravity-ga to help with dmg(although sleeping the mobs is probably safer).

Do you waste a lot of time from alex on chair boss?

We only got him once but if I recall correctly we still won. Thats another fight sch would help with. Back at 75 the demons would wake up every time chairboss TP moved, but they wouldn't unbind/ungravity so 1 sch could easilly crowd control the entire fight. I assume they haven't changed it.

This is what I have came up with, tried to avoid too much DA.
If going for a 12 hit build like Asymptotic made, I'd drop the Ocelomeh +1 for Tiara +2 and use Cerberus Mantle +1, maybe?