Chant Du Cygne Worth It For BLU?

Would make sense to me if they didn't do that... I mean a ws that can use 6 different gorgets crazy

question im working on Shamshir +2 str path and was wondering does it matter if u main hand Almace over Shamshir +2?

What?

Why would you not want to main hand almace?
To answer your question though, no it doesnt matter what hand your weapon's in, just as long as it's equipped.

You don't get the WS (and thus no aftermath obviously) if you offhand the weapon, just the 10/15 DEX.

I think he's asking if he can mainhand Shamshir +2, because it has 1 more base damage (than 85 Almace). No, for weaponskills exclusive to the weapon, they are required to be in your mainhand to gain access to the weaponskill.

Well I meant for the actual Trials mainly, but this ^ pretty much.

To disagree with the statement above, it does matter in which hand you have the sword equipped. Unless you have Almace80, The sword MUST be in the main hand for the aftermath/ws to be offered.(I would provide ss to prove, but meh.)

edit: bleh someone else got to it before I... Lol but yeah... what was said above.

Is there any self SCs worth making with CdC other than Fusion with Goblin Rush or Darkness with Benthic Typhoon?

Right now I just use CA + Efflux for Vanity Dive because Fusion's dmg has been pretty meh, and Benthic Typhoon is conal AoE I don't mind it just gets annoying sometimes.

85 Almace is D57 to Shamshir +2's D54. I guess if you were using 80 Almace (D52), but... why would you use 80 Almace?

Cdc is darkness? It makes Light with most other weaponskills....

edit: wow my bad... Distortion part of darkness etc... ._.
that and i forgot about relic ws properties...
light > light = light
darkness > darkness = darkness

Benthic closes Darkness with CdC

i asked cuz a few ppl posted their WS sets and almace is off hand maybe its just how ffxiah is

Pretty sure that's juat FFXIAH, I have problems with the same when dual weapons, earrings, or rings (because those matter to me!)

That's just how FFXIAH is.

was wondering if anyone could show some pics of CDC's dmg outside abyssea with different gear sets or give some examples, ty

I don't have any pics on me but soloing random stuff like Wotg missions or limbus I tend to get around 1.8-2.4kish. Kinda dissapointing

What kind of test set up would be required to confirm if a light gorget works for CDC? It is what I currently use and I'd be a little more than pissed off if it has been doing no good this entire time...

I have seen a PLD with it. I wants for my PLD!!

theres the completely naked test...

use the WS x aamount of times (say 50) without any gear
then repeat with the neck piece on and see if you notice a difference in WS
then try with a different neck piece etc. (just make sure you WS with same tp on all tests)

you then should have enough data to work out a good avg.

Seeing as chant's a crit ws, you can ignore the tp value if you go /thf and SA ws.

I'd also want to use a lvl 0 mob. The higher dmg should make the ftp change more visible. Capped fstr and atk would(I think) make the dmg range a bit more stable. And, each ws would always one-shot the mob removing the mutli-hit variable from the equation, and closing the dmg range further.

The biggest issue at this point, would just be getting tp in a place where there's lvl 0 mobs. One-shotting itty bitty mobs for each hit of tp is pretty annoying.

I think what I would do is, go to an area like east ronfaure and pop T1 VNMs and tp on them. Then SA WS on the nearby lvl 0 mobs. Assuming you don't have any issues holding a T1 VNM, this should work alright.

Or find a cor or sch friend and chill with some regain up.

I don't really know what kinda sample size you'd need for an accurate test. I'm not really that mathy. I think this sorta test got alot more difficult back around the 2Hander update when they screwed with the melee dmg randomizer.

Well. Hurray for insomnia. I went ahead and tested Chant with and without light gorget.

Out of 25 ws without the gorget, the high was 973. The calculated max dmg for a 1 hit chant without gorget is 980. So that seems pretty spot on.

In 30 ws With the gorget, the high was 1014. Btw, calc'd max with +0.1 to ftp would be 1020.

So yeah. Light gorget will work on Light SC property WS, not just on transfixion or fusion.

I thought this was widely accepted, since like.... ever.

There's been alot of debate about it on and off on BG. Way back in the day, it was proven that a breeze gorget wouldn't work with a light property, which was sorta at odds with how gorgets seemed to work.

Since, for example, a fusion property would work with light and fire gorgets, it was thought that any of the 4 light based elemental gorgets should work with a light property. As a light SC is composed of those four elements. When the breeze test didn't work that some how became "Light/Dark properties don't work with gorgets."

I Thought that a light gorget would work with a Light property, and I'd seen a couple ppl say it did, and some say it didn't, and pretty much no actual testing.

I've been using a Light gorget with chant pretty much since I got it, but it's nice to know for certain that it's doing its job.

i was told there was some fuss over the light elemental belt as well. as that been sorted out yet?

i've been using a cuchu belt myself, but my pld ls mate swears by the light belt. he also says that unless the gorget and belt match elementally match that they wont work (i'm skeptical thats why i've just stuck with the cuchu) and insight into this?

I can always count on Martel's boredom.

Only reason the belt is an issue is because there are actually decent belts to compare. If we had a 6 dex 10 attack neck then I'm sure the gorget would be falling out of favor as well.

Yeah if I had a gorget for it I would've done it myself long ago.

You'd be suprised how often I get asked why I'm raping lvl 0 mobs in sarbuta for hours at a time

Lol, yeah. I got some loooong weird looks from some ppl doing the feast of swords event in East ron. It must have looked pretty strange though, as I had two sunderclaw(T1VNM) following me around punching me in the face. That worked pretty damn well btw. I didn't even need to tp on them, I just let em hit me, and every time SA was up i'd have TP again.

I usually just /sam for ws stuff if I can. Whatever for mage stuff.