Chariya wrote:
I actually throw in Haste/Fast Cast gear into my SS macro. It's easy to hit SS Cap on RDM due to the high Enh and MND that a Rdm has access to. So I throw AF2Body, AF Hat, Vbelt, Dusk Hands/feet for haste to get that recast down to ~14Sec and finishes casting around 47-50%. When I get home I can post a full set when I'm looking at everything. No MND merits or enhancing merits. I use the formula off FFXI Wiki and it seems to be spot on. I'll definitely have to test more with 1000 Needles.
Yea, as RDM you can actually pre-cast all of your spells with Fast Cast, if you only want the speed and don't care as much about the recast timer. So some people will want just the FC, some rdm/nins tanking the harder content will want the extra Haste to bring down the recast timer.
/equipset ### (only Fast Cast pieces, AF Relic and Loq Ear)
/ma "Stoneskin" <me> <wait 1>
/equipset ### (all of your +Enhancing, MND, -Spell Interrupt in the best slots)
/wait 8
/equipset ### (back to melee/TP set, or Idle set if doing Mage duties)
Edit: I am only going off that link I included, that posits that one needs +20 MND on top of AF+Relic in order to hit 350dmg, tested with 1k Needles. Have not tested myself, and of course Retail numbers don't always match what happens on Nasomi. I might test soon as well, because I definitely noticed my Enspell dmg hit another tier from putting in some Enhancing merits, and I should be hitting 9th MND merit tomorrow morning. Would be nice to greatly lower or remove completely the need at all to have special gear on for casting Stoneskin. Sometimes I love lazy casting it from menu.