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in VW you're going to have march generally, so you should probably build a set around that. I believe with +4 march you only need 13% haste to cap with LR up.

You could do that, I've thought about it before. It isn't the safest thing to do with pugs though. Here's me attempting to do some basic math and probably failing:
17.2% from Victory March with +3, 25% Equip haste, 25% JA haste from LR. That's 67.2% Haste of 80%, can be easily attained with either: Haste spell, Advancing March, Embrava, Soul Voice, or possibly Marcato?
With Haste Spell: 67.2+15=82.2% can lose 2% Haste
With Advancing March (+3): 67.2+11=78.2% not capped
With Advancing March (+3) and Haste: 93.2% can lose 13% haste

I'm not really sure what to do in VW pugs honestly, in a LS where you can be sure of your buffs you can drop tons of haste. As far as what I do (mainly shout pug VW, Pil, Qilin, stuff like that) I can only really guarantee having Victory March. Getting mages to cast haste is like pulling teeth and I'm not sure about Brd songs because with Marcato up Marchx2 is wasted, but with Marcato down Marchx2 is great. Instructing pug bards to do one set of songs for Marcato and one set of songs for non Marcato sounds like it would probably backfire at least to me.

tell your pug mages to quit *** sucking. they're not level 39 anymore.

I do, then I get blacklisted and the entire alliance gets mad at me.

I kick any mage that doesn't buff properly.

That and you should be getting procs enough to fulltime champion's drink. A brd that can't keep up 2 songs deserves a swift kick.

I don't understand what Champion's Drink has to do with this. As far as the Bard thing, what I was saying was I'm still unsure whether it's worth telling the bard to Marchx2 (Possibly wasting most of Victory March when Marcato is up) or March+Min (Meaning uncapped haste without Haste spell or only 2% above cap with haste spell). I feel that trying to instruct a pug bard on changing songs during Marcato would end badly on my part.

champs gives haste.

Champion's drink gives haste spell, you were saying you wouldn't be able to rely on a mage to haste you. Also march x2 always, other people will be uncapped haste etc.

I like getting procs fast enough to not even need melee.

I'm not going to lie, I never knew that. It isn't even listed anywhere in the description or on the wiki. This makes me very happy and feel very stupid.

Not need melee as in dusty wing spam? Pretty sure using a wing at capped haste will actually slow your ws frequency in most cases unless timed perfectly.

No melee, not just no meleeing. Mage orny! Manaburn the things!

Yeah, it's really really really pathetic how clueless, slow, and bad 99.99% of mages are now.

I have returned with something very silly:

Capped haste with Valiant, Marchx2, Haste. 17% DA, 6.5% TA, 1% QA, 5% Crit, 34 Strength.

Angr bomblet, Armada hauberk, and ganesha's mala. I don't see why you would use Homam body over af3, porthos, or armada with DA.

I mentioned Anger Bomblet and Mala in my gear posts last page, definitely would use but probably will never have. Armada is probably better, the Homam is kind of a joke, although I'm not entirely sure how good armadas STR is when you are attack capped. There is also the question of how much attack can you really drop before you have to worry about not being capped.
Edit: Homam has more TA than Porthos.

I'm going to assume that the 2.5% was just due to small sample sizes, but it likely is the same amount or 3% TA. Both still seem like silly choices for the vast majority of VW despite having capped ATK on most.

I thought it was unconfirmed as to the % of TA in homam. Said to possibly be a percentage increase and not a straight increase.
from 1-2.5%. in any event if i had to choose between the two id say porthos would be better.

I agree.

So taking all this into consideration, the ideal VW TP sets using Double March (+3 in gear) and Haste would be something like this?

For most VW mobs:


For T6 Jueno, Provenance, Tav, and CoP mobs:


Anything I got wrong or should change?

Assuming you need accuracy and don't need haste, Anguinus Belt is an improvement in the latter set.

Good catch, I didn't even think of that.

Why not:
Phorcys salade > Bale Burg. +2
Ganesha's > Bale neck
Avant Gauntlets +1 > Bale Gauntlets +2

On the second set

Too lazy to do STP math; isn't that neglecting a potential bump in x-hit? Leaving out Tyrant's Ring, Phorcys Salade, and Ace's Leggings intuitively leads me to believe that's the case.

Let me see. Assuming at least a 40 TP return WS. At least 1 tic of regain (3TP). 12.3 TP per hit. The T6+ set has 5 hits to 100%. Add in Tyrants, Aces feet, and Phorcys Salade and you get 13.8 TP a hit. That's still a 5 hit. To make it a 4 hit you would need to use another piece like Belt or Body.

So basically
4 hit
5 hit

or this for your 4 hit

Would Mala actually be better in an uncapped Acc/Attack scenario? But yeah that also would do the job nicely.

tbh you can even swap Valk in for Armada and Hagneia Stone for Fire bomblet and maintain your 4 hit.