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interested in SIRD/Enmity sets while maintaining 3k-ish, hp, what you guys got?

From 2 pages ago. Doesn't cover SIRD, but it does cover enmity and various High HP sets.

This is a few of the sets i have for PLD.
ItemSet 355164

ItemSet 355163

ItemSet 355162

ItemSet 355165

I cast all my /BLU spells in 106%+merits SIRD

ammo="Staunch tathlum +1", --11SIRD
head=SouvHead, --20SIRD
neck="Moonlight Necklace", --15SIRD
ear1="Odnowa earring +1", --
ear2="Odnowa Earring", --
body="Rev. Surcoat +3", --
hands="Regal Gauntlets", --10 SIRD
ring1="Apeile ring +1", --
ring2="Apeile Ring", --
back=JSECapeEN, --
waist="Creed Baudrier",
legs="Founder's hose", --30SIRD
feet=OdysFeetFC} --20SIRD

so with merits im way over cap @ 116%, i could drop regal gauntlets for more enmity but they have massive HP.. hmmmmm

C path souveran hands +1 would have 239 HP, and +9 enmity. More HP than regal, significant enmity+, And a bit of extra DT from the set effect since the helm is also in this set..

Thank you!

You can swap in either Srivatsa (15) or Ajax +1 (11) for extra enmity while also increasing your overall hp

yeah, i havent bothered getting either of them

Good morning Paladins of XI! The wife and I finished her Burtgang last night...yay trials....

Anyway, it doesn't appear to be up to date, but is the Atonement set on the op up to date?

Can anyone give me any advice for atonement trials aside from the suicide prevention hotline?

I firmly believe Burtgang trials are the worst thing in this game. Your only hope is to find someon else doing them, or even better someone who is completed because their atonement will do way more dmg, somewhere along the line it gets a boost.

First of all congrats on the sexy sword! Unfortunately Atonement is a terribad WS in term of damage as its base dmg caps incredibly low (<2k with capped enmity) for today's standard and the only way too boost it is to cap enmity and use WSD gear. Since there haven't been any new PLD WSD gear since Odyssean augments, the set on OP is still up to date (only update I see is ambu+2 feet).

Regarding the killshot trials, they are really as painful as people make it sound as you need to WS at a very low % and very often won't even kill the mob. A solid tip is the one given by Martel here where you should AE cluster of mobs in Abyssea and spam Atonement to finish them off. It's going to take at least couple hours per trial anyways so just find few good movies/show not to lose your mental health.

Thank you gents! I figured those were the responses I would get I was just hoping. It's not going bad in abyssea at the moment. flash/voke and ws under 15% so far so good.

I found the trials very quick and easy. Just mass pull and tp in enmity/haste gear and use wsd gear.

no. old zones don't have the new hate mechanics

Well, in the case of UNM the issue is that they are actually lvl 99 monsters with scaled up stats. And on a lvl 99 mob the damage to enmity modifier is waaaay higher. Making it very difficult to keep up via non dmg enmity actions. Merit BCs have the same issue.

Source: http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/37086/endeavoring-to-awaken-a-guide-to-rune-fencer/93/#3096728

I think SE did this because they didn't want to remove level correction from old zones and have to re-balance Everything pre 99. So they made lvl 99 mobs so there'd be no level correction, then jacked up their stats.

Anyway I don't think there were any zone specific enmity changes, that I can recall anyway. Feel free to link to them if I've forgotten.

yeah, that's it. i knew it's only in pre-seekers zones, I just always forget why

Decided it was time to learn to play a tank. Chose Paladin. Could anyone maybe give me a priority list of what to work on first? Something like what af/relic/empy I should make in order and things like that. Working on last stage of ochain and on the 10k stage of aegis so those are coming shortly. I have a perfect brilliance already and most likely won’t make a burtgang for a long time. Should I still try and get a nixxer or will the brilliance be fine?


Thanks.

I used Brilliance until Burtgang. Finish Aegis ASAP.
Relic +1 body until AF+3, but need it for Fealty anyway. Relic feet for Sentinel.
Relic head for Rampart.
Souveran hands/feet for Phalanx.
Make an ENM set first for every JA, nothing is more annoying than not holding hate.

From there, you can do Phalanx, spell interruption, divine, fast cast, etc.

with all the extra stones i have form orb campaign, is there much use for yorium armor now? guess it's still best for phalanx

Augmented hands have the highest enmity+ in game so they are BiS for enmity spell/JA but yeah the rest (head/body/legs) is only phalanx set unless you get lucky with DM augments on odyssean (up to +5 there vs the +3 cap on yorium)

Alluvion Skirmish Armor

Provoke,etc.

Phalanx

Capes

Phalanx
Standard/Idle	TP (Non-Mythic)
Rampart	Sanguine Blade/Atonement
Elemental Magic/Dark Magic Defense	Savage Blade
HP/Fast Cast	Chant du Cygne
Cure	Requiescat/Cover
Flash
Banish/Holy
High HP/Knights of Round/Reprisal Option
Enlight/Divine Magic/Etc.
Resist Charm/Cure Potency Option

DA instead of WSD for savage blade? ??? O.O

Where?

That was a very quick fix!

STR 30 Acc/Atk
Double Attack 10

Was it so embarrassing you won't even admit you did it?
Whatever, it was a tiny mistake, just laugh it off.

When you edit a comment its best do put in *edited tbh people make mistakes. Seems sleezy to change what you had posted and not acknowledge you made a error.

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