UserWiki:Ddaydj

Summoner Gear
Primary focus would be lowering the cost of avatars through Avatar perpetuation cost and Refresh. Currently my gear shows a strong focus on "Blood Pact" ability delay but its only useful during the use of the Blood Pact so I plan on replacing the Summoner's Bracers with Nashira Gages and Summoner's Pigaches with Evoker's Pigaches +1. This will give me an additional Avatar perpetuation cost -2. Both Summoner relic pieces will still be kept and used as swap gear for Blood Pacts. The drawback to this is I lose both the Enhances avatar attack / accuracy, however, I currently don't see a noticeable benefit in that stat so its not a really a loss.

Next would be MP. I also play White Mage and Bard, so I try to use gear that benefits them all, this is where a lot of accessories come from. I plan on upgrading Insomnia Earring to Loquacious Earring and replacing Summoner's Spats with Zenith Slacks but still keeping it for gear swaps. Its important to note that when you switch between different sets of gear your MP total will drop, so its best to get strong MP pieces in slots that aren't going to be swapped first.


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!width="50%"|Current Gear !width="50%"|Benefits HQ Elemental Staves Staff Strap Hedgehog Bomb Zenith Crown Beak Necklace +1 Antivenom Earring Insomnia Earring Yinyang Robe Summoner's Bracers Evoker's Ring Serket Ring / Conjurer's Ring Blue Cape +1 Hierarch Belt Summoner's Spats Summoner's Pigaches Adds "Refresh" effect Avatar perpetuation cost -4 MP+290 Converts 120 HP to MP Enhances avatar attack Enhances avatar accuracy
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!width="25%"|Ideal Gear !width="25%"|Benefits Bahamut's Staff Staff Strap Hedgehog Bomb Zenith Crown Beak Necklace +1 Antivenom Earring Loquacious Earring Yinyang Robe Nashira Gages Evoker's Ring Serket Ring / Conjurer's Ring Blue Cape +1 Hierarch Belt Zenith Slacks Evoker's Pigaches +1 Adds "Refresh" effect Avatar perpetuation cost -6 MP+290 Converts 170 HP to MP Enhances avatar evasion
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 * Bold items I plan on upgrading when possible.

Gear Swaps
Gear that lowers "Blood Pact" ability delay is the same as Haste for Summoners. You can get a max of -14 using currently available gear, I'm pretty close at -13 which I plan to fix when I upgrade to a Penance Hat. After that everything else should be focused on Summoning magic skill. Though aside from the Penance Hat, I don't plan on upgrading any other pieces of this set. I know its possible for me to get more Summoning magic skill but I don't see it being worth the effort to get those pieces.

Gear swaps are used on all Blood Pact: Rage and on Blood Pact: Ward enfeebles and buffs that are normally 90 second duration. For buffs with lower durations I go ahead and use to Summoning magic skill swap which puts Rolling Thunder at just under 180 seconds with merits. The Summoning magic skill swap is also used for Elemental Siphon (which gives 303MP on matching day) and when using Elemental Spirits (with Summoner's Spats), which is usually just Light Spirit for Protect IV and Shell IV.

Its possible to get the benefits of both sets of gear when using a Blood Pact. Setup your macros for Blood Pacts to look like this.

/equip <"Blood Pact" ability delay gear> /pet "Blood Pact"  /wait 2 /equip  /wait 2 /equip 

This will give you the lower recast on your Blood Pact timer while also giving you the bonus from the increased Summoning magic skill.


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!width="50%"|Blood Pacts !width="50%"|Benefits Austere Hat Yinyang Robe Summoner's Bracers Summoner's Spats Summoner's Pigaches "Blood Pact" ability delay -13
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!width="50%"|Summoning Skill !width="50%"|Benefits Evoker's Horn Summoning Torque Summoning Earring Summoner's Bracers Evoker's Ring Austere Slops Austere Sabots Summoning magic skill +41
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MP is important but after its gone its no good, so I have worked on getting a strong hMP set to use when resting. Yigit Gomlek Set is excellent for this as it gives hMP+8 and Refresh if you use the complete set. When I was searching for hMP gear I ignored any piece that only gave +1 unless it had a strong bonus in another stat I needed, like MP.


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!width="50%"|Healing !width="50%"|Benefits Pluto's Staff Yigit Turban Beak Necklace +1 Antivenom Earring Yigit Gomlek Yigit Gages Hierarch Belt Yigit Seraweels Yigit Crackows Adds "Refresh" effect MP recovered while healing +23
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 * Items in bold are the ones actually being swapped, other items in a set should already be equipped.