Ok, I usually don't do stuff like this, but I finally farmed my Archon Ring cause I was informed that that ring is the best for Leaden Salute. However, I'm a pessimist so I decided to do some testing to see if it really was best.
Mind you, I didn't do the most "scientific" testing, and my gear isn't the best, and I'm not Master COR either.
I'm also sorry if this has already been proven by somebody else. I didn't look hard to see if this has been touched on.
My testing is to see which combo of the following 3 rings would produce the best damage:
archon ring
Epaminondas's ring
Dingir ring
Methodology:
Solo (no trusts)
No Food
Gearswap unloaded
COR/NIN (JP 491)
5 Leaden Salutes of each combo of 2 rings (Archon/Epa, Epa/Dingir, Dingir/Archon)
Fire Day on all 15 shots (no day bonus)
Mob Target: Huge Hornet (Level -10
No weather.
Each LS was shot between 11.5 - 12.5
Each shot was made at 3000 TP
Only rolls on each shot was SAM and Tactician's Roll
Gear:
Naegling/Fettering Blade
Fomalhaut/Chrono Bullet
Pixie Hairpin +1
Commodore Charm +1
Hecate's Earring (Moonshade would be worthless in this testing)
Friomisi Earring
Lanun Frac +3
Herculean Gloves (Augments - MAB+20/WSD+4)
Camulus's Mantle (Augments - AGI+30/MAcc +20/MDMG +20/WSD+10/DT-5)
Eschan Stone
Herculean Trousers - (Augments - AGI+15/Accuracy +13/Attack+13/MAcc+20/MAB +20/TH +2/SIRD+8%)
Lanun Bottes +3
All 5 shots from each ring combo were the same, so average = data. I know that 5 shots is a very small sample size, but since there was zero differences between shots, I think it's very reasonable that 100 shots each would be the same, barring resists.
Epa/Dingir - 33727
Arch/Dingir - 33684
Arch/Epa - 33324
Again, I'm sorry if this information has already been posted that, apparently, Epa/Dingir is the best combo of the 3, again, I was going by what I was told that Archon Ring is BiS for Leaden, but apparently it isn't. Damage is very comparable though.
Thank you for reading this.