Endeavoring To Awaken --A Guide To Rune Fencer

Considering the recast on Embolden you would hardly find a use for it other than Protect or Shell, and about the above question, mdt is so easy to cap, Embolden is mostly better spent on Protect.

cool thanks for the answer

I use it on Shellra V in foret because it allows you to be near capped on MDT in full TP gear and magic damage seems to be what is killing everyone these days. If I'm in lowman / solo stuff then I use it on Protect for the same reason. Another interesting use is if you have a SCH you can time it with their extended haste. Pretty useful right before a boss or other big fight.

Is this the new GS to strive for on RUN?

vs. Senbaak
+12DEX, +12AGI, +2%TA, +15MAB, -13D, -7STR, -12ATK, -15ACC

vs. Senbaak+1
+12DEX, +12AGI, +2%TA, +15MAB, -14D, -8STR, -25ATK, -27ACC

The Great Sword to strive for? No, Senbaak/+1 will still be better. A Great Sword to strive for? Absolutely, should be better than Crobaci +1.

probably this

http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.sg/2013/11/ffxi-5th-november-2013-version-update.html

I just upgraded from Crobaci+1 to Kaquljaan and wanted to ask, if it is worth to try to keep a 5-hit build? Or is it not important for RUN with all the DA/TA/QA (Thaumas coat, Epona's ring, Windbuffet belt)?

Since Senbaak nagan has the same delay than Kaquljaan this question might not only concern my cheap ***.

With Crobaci+1 I only needed Hagneia stone, Asperity necklace, the DA set earrings, Rajas ring and Iuitl tights to keep a 5-hit with Resolution. Now I need 5 sTP more and I don't know what to sacrifice. Tactical mantle is a great loss of Attack, but worth it? That delve boss ring is out of reach at the moment, but better in this case than Epona's? Goading belt better than Windbuffet? If going with Goading belt, anything worth to replace 5% Haste at another slot?

Thanks for any reply!

Just go with the 6-hit.

Do the sets change with the last update gear?

Is the acc bonus for Swordplay quantified? I'm surprised there's no info on bgwiki or anywhere.

From the update today on 12/10, I can see the following equipment being useful in some way:

Anahera Sword (More damage than Halachuinic Sword for Requiescat)
Tunglmyrkvi (More damage then Senbaak)
Eminent Axe - For those who Ruinator for some reason
Antican Axe - Ditto
Dosis Tathlum - Lunge
Wayfarer Circlet - Lunge
Felistris Mask
Lithelimb Cap
Crematio Earring - Lunge
Manabyss Pigaches - Lunge
AF iLvl 99+1 Armor Set - Enhanced durations/effects/M.Eva/etc.
Saw some new Great Axes with RUN on it for Fell Cleaving I guess? Though there's likely no reason to do that on RUN unless you don't have WAR.

Not sure if there were any other pieces from the previous update before this one. I think there was some other lunge gear (An earring, or ammo maybe?) I'm forgetting.

Can spam worms turn now for Dosis Tathlum (the +magic dmg piece). Magic Damage affects Lunge, right?

Last I had heard, it did affect it. I can't confirm firsthand right now.

Interesting to see RUN on the Eminent GA, I'm debating on grabbing it and skilling up. Has anyone tried the new GA yet? I'm interested in seeing some Upheaval numbers.

Ruinator is awesome for when your attack isn't being capped. RUN's problem was that it had really crappy weapon selection but now with an iLevel 117 axe / sword combo it could be something to look into. Also swaps to convert into a Req setup.

Pretty sure it's either 20 or 25 I did test it before, but forgot to post it and I don't remember if either it was 20 or 25.

RUN Lua for GearSwap: http://pastebin.com/vrtD0kmw


Will get around to updating gearsets/weapons at some point.

Would a Ruinator build be viable with Eminent axe/sword combo for fodder/old content?

Anyone use run vs aa on normal with any success they care to share???

i did use it on AA hume. Seemed i parsed 11% with 65ish acc.
didnt get hit much, probable cos of my acc and wiffing much lol
but the final 2 %went down fast with me casting all the protection i could, in that moment we didnt get damaged at all lol.
hope my ls will let me use run more cos its fun.
I did tho made a more acc set for my run, mostly full rank 15(A) manibozho gear, to get my acc as high as possible. Need to test it out tho.
On a side note, was trying out sword/axe on run/nin and it does pretty well to. Guess time to get the requscat ws and maybe ruinator to for more fun :)

Ruinator is a beast for sure. I see the new changes a new lunge type ability called swipe and healing from runes but no direct help to pdt should be interesting....

The rune fencer ability Rune Enchantment will be adjusted.
Runes will no longer be nullified by the effects of Dispel. In addition, the recast time and enmity generated from harboring runes will be halved.
* This adjustment will occur in light of the need to quickly change runes due to the implementation of the above new abilities.

They mentioned that the reasoning behind giving us natural acc bonus is in itself a buff to the gear because we can wear more defensive stats over acc related ones.

Seeing as DRG and DNC get their first Acc bonus at 30 and they get 3 bonuses at 30/50/76, gonna presume RUN will only get 2 bonuses. So does 22 acc really make/break anything? Well I don't think so but I guess it does somewhat.


Anyone bothered by the name of the Lunge-1? Swipe just sounds like a generic low level mob TP move. I bet it will be a low level Effusion (since there aren't really any before Lunge, so maybe @ level 10). Probably have a smaller recast since it only consumes one rune, so maybe @30-60 seconds?

I still think that's some terrible reasoning on their part.
Iuitl with both +acc and -pdt augments was not hard to get, and worked pretty well in my experience when getting smacked around by physical attacks from delve bosses on RUN.
I'm pretty disappointed with their planned adjustments.

I was really hoping they would give RUN a JA to convert all damage to the respective rune element for a period of time.

I like the adjustments. I think the reason we are getting the acc traits at 50 is so you can't sub RUN to get them which leads me to believe they maybe a little bit potent. We will have to wait and see. Also, SE giving us self curing is a defensive boost. This is them pushing RUN more in the direction of a tank instead of a make shift elemental DRK like how some people are trying to play the job.

Has anyone tried to spreadsheet RUN/NIN? Best DPS I can get using Eminent Axe with Anahera Sword offhand is 861 with superbuffs. This is a fair bit crappier than I expected (I was hoping for at least 1000). I'm curious if any of you managed to get higher DPS and/or if possibly there are some spreadsheet bugs in the RUN/NIN+Ruinator calculations.

I think the Dev's are a little misguided in that approach, many jobs are used almost exclusively as a sub and many of their defining traits are locked out or nerfed for subjob.