~First And Final Line Of Defense V2.0~

If you need accuracy in the Ring slot, I personally think Ilabrat ring is better than Chirich +1. Not quite as much acc, but it gives +25 atk.

Honestly though, the best thing you can be doing is getting segs and RPing that Nyame. I know that sucks, but Nyame is legitimately amazing.

Another Ring Option for PLD is Beithir ring

Souveran head will get you killed in super high content. Still tweaking but this is what I use.
sets.midcast['Healing Magic'] = {
ammo="Staunch Tathlum +1",
head={ name="Souv. Schaller +1", augments=
{'HP+105','Enmity+9','Potency of "Cure" effect received
+15%',}},
body={name="Adamantite Armor", priority=1},
hands="Macabre Gaunt. +1",
legs={ name="Founder's Hose", augments={'MND+2','Mag. Acc.+7',}},
feet={ name="Odyssean Greaves", augments={'Mag. Acc.+7
"Mag.Atk.Bns."+7','"Fast Cast"+6','"Mag.Atk.Bns."+10',}},
neck="Moonlight Necklace",
waist="Audumbla Sash",
left_ear={name="Tuisto Earring", priority=2},
right_ear= "chevalier's earring +1",
left_ring="Defending Ring",
right_ring="Janniston Ring",
back={ name="Rudianos's Mantle", augments={'HP+60','Eva.+20 /Mag. Eva.+20','"Cure" potency +10%','Phys. dmg. taken-10%',}},
}

Is there a known cap to status ailment resist?

90%

thank you!

Note that the 90% cap is applied after the 50% NM nerf, so it's possible to stack 180% of mixed all ailments and specific status resist, which is then nerfed to 90% on NMs.

dang I doubt its reasonable to incorporate enough -ailment gear that your just not a soft punching bag in sortie. ill just stick to mdb and magic evasion I guess. ty for the info on the 50% nerf for NMs.

It takes... a lot to get up there for NMs, and you wear some gross stuff. Even then you can only hit 180 for certain statuses that also have large chunks of specific status resist gear/traits.

Most of the time, I don't wanna wear all that junk anyway, but there are some cases that could be worth it, like charm if it's happening to often for fealty to cover, etc.

Nothing gets resisted in Sortie. As a PLD just hold hate and help cure.

Aminon just stack INT,meva,MDB as you get comfortable you can drop some for roller's ring and regain gear etc.

thanks for this, just gonna dump this idea and stack as much meva/mdb possible. thanks.

-- Cure Set -- CP 54% / HP 2915 | MP 1203 | DT 39%
sets.Midcast.Cure = {
ammo="Egoist's Tathlum",
head="Chevalier's Armet +3",
neck="Sacro Gorget", -- CP 10 --
ear1="Cryptic Earring",
ear2="Chev. Earring +2", -- CP 12 --
body="Souveran Cuirass +1", -- CP 11 --
hands="Macabre Gauntlets +1", -- CP 11 --
ring1="Eihwaz Ring",
ring2="Moonbeam Ring",
back={ name="Rudianos's Mantle", augments={'HP+60','Eva.+20 /Mag. Eva.+20','"Cure" potency +10%','Chance of successful block +5',}}, -- CP 10 --
waist="Asklepian Belt",
legs="Souveran Diechlings +1",
feet="Chevalier's Sabatons +3",}

I use this and cannot remember why lol.

I'm just tinkering around w/ magic damage for holy. and banish. I haven't found clear information on how important divine magic skill is for these.

This is the set I've come up with:

ItemSet 400574

anything I"m missing or suggestions for improvement?

Beyond making a dedicated cape for it that looks about right. As far as skill goes i think it just acts as macc for banish unless divine emblem is used where it becomes a damage bonus, but there's not really any good divine swaps worth looking at iirc


Will note though that if you're going to burst with either spell then nyame can probably take the lead in most slots

I have a question about the effect of using Caballarius leggings with Sentinel. BG-Wiki says with the +3 leggings, PDT reduction starts at 128% instead of 90%, and that the effect decreases by 8% with every tick whether they are worn or not. Is there a benefit to keeping the leggings equipped throughout the duration of Sentinel, or do you only benefit from using them on activation?

As an example, say you use them on activation and start at 128% PDT reduction, but immediately switch into other leggings once Sentinel is in effect. On the next tick, would you go down to 120% PDT reduction? Or down to 90% or 82%?

You should only need them for the activation as far as I know.

No, definitely not. You wear Cab. Leggings (and all of it's upgrades) on activation only. (Same as what Dekar said as well)

Thank you both to Felgarr and Dekar. I had it set up in Gearswap to work on activation only, but was going over my gear sets and started to doubt whether I was getting the full effect.