Hopefully, I wont be here much longer...

I am sitting in the office of the place that is working on my car. I expected this to take an hour tops and it has already been 2 and a half hours. This freaking sucks. My battery is about to die so I can't even stay on for very much longer.

I am going to start working on a new RNG post on Monday. And no it is not "on the cheap" that is still on the back burner because of time and lack of knowledge. I am going to discuss the benefit of trying to get a 5-hit build while using an E-bow. Using a S-bow it is actually pretty easy to achieve if you have Skadi legs. With the E-bow it is a little more difficult. The problem is that to take real advantage of a 5-hit build you need to be to anticipate using it at 100TP and even though some people claim they can hit anything while eating meat and full WS gear and that anyone that can't sucks, I think that is overstating the situation a bit. And they are ass monkeys.

I think that to use a 5-hit build is probably the best increase in damage you can do considering the trade offs. Some people claim you shouldn't do it straight up because /WAR and about 20 Ranged Attack is better than /SAM and a 5-hit build. Now I haven't parse that, but I can't really think of a way a sane person could say that. What you eat really doesn't effect the situation all that much, but if you eat meat and then store to 150 TP before shooting for the increased accuracy then you are basically wasting the benefit of a 5-hit build. So you really need to go with Sushi to do this in anything more than an XP party.

This is all going to lead to some place that you may not really want to be in. Meaning the mob is going to be eating your face if you are firing off Sidewinders every 5th shot. So the problem with a 5-hit build for RNG with an E-bow or an S-bow may be rather problematic either way. If you have to hold your TP to prevent the mob from killing you 2 minutes into the fight then you can just pitch the benefit of a 5-hit build out the window...

But there is a solution to this problem...

A very expensive solution...

A very expensive solution that I am considering...

It would mean changing some things around and I don't really know what I would get rid of merit-wise at this point, and hopefully SE will just up the amount of combat merits at some point before it matters all that much.

The reason that it is a solution is because, and I am not completely clear on what causes this at this point but either Yoichinoyumi or Namas Arrow has a massive enmity reduction attached to it.

And so my wild dreams of getting a relic start again. At least this time I am starting it with a higher level craft. :)