BM's about to hit 100

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

So yes, my BM is about to hit 100.

I've got a 100 Sin already, and thus, I have the TT99 PDef Neck and Belt, and the TT99 Wrists and boots. Since my Sin is Sage and I wanted maximum DPS, I also have TT Nirvana leggings.

So my question is, for my BM, would I get the most benefit if I use the PDef Ornaments and LA Wrists/boots, or is there another combination that gets better pdef/mdef and HP? Keep in mind... I've also got an Archer, so I have sharded (slathered, as Sacrea put it) the TT99 and Nirvana pants in Vit stones. Refines are +8 on the wrists, boots, and pants, and +4 on the ornies.

I'm unsure of leggings, should I use the LA leggings (not really wanting to, but...), or should I get the HA Lunar leggings?

I'm also unsure of the chest, should I get Lunar Nirvana HA chest, or should I go R8 for chest? I can see that Second Cast Nirvana gives +5 attack levels, and better PDef/MDef than R8 chest... But it's a bit expensive for Nirvana second cast chest and leggings. @__@

And last question, if I do R8 chest, is the R8 pole worth it, or go for R8 axe instead?

Pytharia - Lost City

The best advice I can give you is try it yourself.

pwcalc.com

You know your gear/money better than us, we can only assume what you might get.

I would go for this, this lets you use a 5% hp necklace with elemental defence, which outshines any evasion and also the +5 attack bonus with the helmet/legs. If you add nice refines (in your case i'll put wrists/boots at +8)/flawless gems (assuming you might shard flawless until you get endgame shards)

You'll get this.

If you chose evasion ornies, you can't have that nice necklace, you can replace the plate with lunar/r8 like this which has more p def but bare in mind the more you refine those evasion ornies... nothing, but the more you refine that lionheart belt, the more pdef you'll get so if you raise the refines to end game gear you'll find that not only will you have better mag/phys def but your hp difference will be minimal thanks to the necklace.

There are some people who claim a mix between la/ha like ha boots/belt with la wrists/necklace but honestly I think the cube necklace is too good to not have. Just make a calculator with what you have and your refines/shards.

About r8, I suggest you go r8 axes if you don't really plan on getting r9 or G15 in the near future, r8 axes make up for not having zerk on them. R8 pole isn't really worth it, I don't use pole much so I think the best pole to have is green tt99 purge ones (monarch spear).

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary

Hehehe... I've got the Warsong MDef belt, but no Cube neck.

i like the idea of doing TT99 HA chest though. As an interim build, I may do something a little odd though, since I have a LUAD tome for Sin/Archer (Archer is gonna be 5.0 base).

I do like this idea, though, thanks.