What earring do you use at Lv. 75?Follow

What earring are you guys using?

I am 74 right now and using merman's earring & fowling earring. I will be able to use brutal earring at 75, which earring can brutal replace?

isn't fowling earring > assult earring? at least for ws...

Edited, Jul 6th 2007 12:41pm by wingod

For Wheeling Thrust or Impulse iTs debatable if Acc+3 and STR+1 > Acc+2 and Attack+5. But more than likely the extra attack and 1 less point of acc will do more for you than STR+1.

I don't have a Brutal Earring yet, so I use Assault Earring and Minuet Earring in parties where I have a Bard around. When I don't have a Bard around, I use Assault Earring and Storm Loop.

Suppanomimi

no. for pentathrust, jumps, melee strikes, assault earring will always do more. for wheeling thrust, assault earring will usually do more. small illustration:

there's 3 possibilities for what 1STR can do for wheeling thrust. it can: a) not raise base dmg at all, b) raise fSTR or WSC (but not both) by 1, and therefore base dmg by 1 (fSTR is what STR does all the time, WSC is what people mean when they talk about "secondary mods"), or c) it can raise fSTR and WSC both by 1, and thus raise base dmg by 2.

one can compare in advance the effects 1STR and 5ATT will have on dmg. suppose your fighting greater colibri, which are around lv81, VIT67, DEF330. (incidentally, the bird killer effect would be nice here, but i'm talking about dmg). say you have 600ATT. i'll leave STR open since we're talking about the effects of raising base dmg.

4 scenarios, 4 wheeling thrusts:

1) assault earring:
(93 + 10 + 41) * 1.75 * 1.5333 =
386 dmg

2) fowling earring when it does nothing:
(93 + 10 + 41) * 1.75 * 1.5181 =
382 dmg

3) fowling earring when it raises base dmg by 1:
(93 + 11 + 41) * 1.75 * 1.5181 =
385 dmg

4) fowling earring when it raises base dmg by 2:
(93 + 11 + 42) * 1.75 * 1.5181 =
387 dmg

notice it takes raising base dmg by 2 to get fowling to outperform assault earring. there's a 25% chance that fowling will raise fSTR by 1 (it goes up every 4STR, and is determined by subtracting mob's VIT from your STR--plus some other stuff). with a 50%STR mod, WSC goes up by 1 every 2 or 3 STR. the chances of raising both at the same time by adding 1 STR are very low.

for pentathrust, you're pretty much guaranteed to never be in the fortunate situation where fowling earring outperforms assault earring. this is because pentathrust has a 20%STR mod, and therefore requires 6-7 STR to raise WSC by 1.

the difference is somewhat small, but assault earring is clearly better. fowling earring will NEVER raise base dmg by more than 1 for melee strikes or jump/high jump, and therefore assault earring will ALWAYS be better for those things. fowling will very rarely beat assault even for wheeling thrust, and virtually never for pentathrust, so all in all, having brutal makes fowling earring a "soloing birds onry" piece.

Edited, Jul 6th 2007 5:27pm by milich

i would/will do the same.

i agree with all of this. the only reason i'd use 2STR for wheeling thrust (if i bothered macro swapping for it or were SATAing) is that i have bushinomimi for SAM. fenrir's earring daytime is definitely the best non-brutal earring too.

i don't plan on selling assault when i get ethereal, but i agree that ethereal fulltime is a fine idea. any evasion at all is nice, really, and inventory space is even nicer.

on that topic, if i didn't wear bushi on SAM, i'd consider selling assault and wearing fowling fulltime, just to save space (since SAM can't wear assault). alas, i do have bushi.

these are all small tweaks, but there's no reason not to consider them. and by the way, if anyone read my post about ATT, fSTR, and WSC, and didn't understand it, you can read more here.

Brutal/Assault for TP
Brutal/Bushinomimi for WS
Brutal/Ethereal for /mage, no swaps.

Too many times i've swapped out ethereal as /mage and forgot to put it on.

Why do you expect us to get inside jokes from other forums?

And beastly is the ultimate earring of shame (aside from wearing suppa on the right).