Gale Windhawk Luxury Sub-Guide by Sophie/Joan: Difference between revisions

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= Gears and Min-Max Technicalities: Calamity Gale Build =

=== About Physical Damage Modifiers for Gale WH Build ===

===Gears===

# Instant Cast (Damage Flow)

# Survivability, HP pool to survive boss mechanism (put it on lowest on priority if you have devo on the team)

# Damage Flow: acd% at around 50% (could be less if ur laggy like me), ASPD 183 (or more)

The general aim of the min-maxing process (as of Date: 10/Dec/2025) is to equalize these damage modifiers while maximizing their overall multiplicative result. You should be aware of diminishing returns as you adds up a single damage modifier. The contextual discussion of this part will rely heavily on Calamity Gale Build part as the precedent (or as The Standard); if there's any confusion arise please go back and try again to regain the contextual sauce. I was only able to start to talk about this matter as I only completed all the needed gears for the test recently and I also do not provide the guarantee that this setup and version of min-max understanding will provide absolute peak damage but y'all are welcome to bump me to test with stuff listed. TL;DR this part is, beside it is for CB instead of Gale Build, is when we ditch {{#item:400539}} for +15[A] {{#item:400723}} and {{#item:300595}}.

* '''Enemy_Element%:''' [moves 1 upwards] Rare modifier mostly seen on more modern iterations of items (post 2016), but is less expensive than Class%. You will have around 40%-130%. The reason it moves upwards in the worth list is in the case you will want to use {{#item:470260}} or {{#item:470303 }} instead of {{#item:470174}} (the meta shift will be discussed later). Main Sources: {{#item:27126}}-like MVP cards on body slot, Maximum Mammoth Shadow gears, HoL garment 2nd slot enchant, Varmundt Boots 2nd slot enchant, Dimensions/Time Gap Weapons 3rd slot enchant, Jitterbug combo and proc.

===Gears===

**{{#item:24912 }} and {{#item:24913}} most likely becoming the new BiS, but unconfirmed (10 Dec 2025) because I have yet to test it myself.

* Enable sharing non-core Equipment among characters of different classes Alts Mass Production (coming soon) as much as possible, while only core items for WH will be highlighted on this guide.

* Not cost conscious, though time and stress speaking it is worth it if you plan to make more than, say, 10-15 characters of various jobs (just switch out the core item) each reaching lvl 250. I will explicitly say it here that basically you are investing in multiples of low level gears, which cumulatively in total may worth up to hundreds of millions zeny just to save time around 30 minutes to 2h per character creation and leveling up to lvl 250. Only do this when you're theoretically losing more potential value from that lost of time farming.

** +9/+11 {{#item:400023}} combo with {{#item:490099}} or its derivatives (red/blue but not really recommended unless you need HP/SP leech early and you don't need acd% this early) starting at level 1.

** Temporal boots and manteaus for level 100 and up.

** Illusions set starting at level 120/130 up to 150/160.

** Convertible wings/Celine Set/Automatic/FWM/EDDA set starting at level 150/160/170.

** Grey Wolf set starting at level 190.

** MVP equips (e.g. PCC)/Good and Evil set starting at level 200/205.

** Varmundts pieces/Glacier set starting at level 230.

* Other methods out there might be more efficient and effective than mine, I just don't know it yet so be adaptable and don't treat this guide as if written in stone. Mine is expected to reach level 230-250 in around 30 min, and 250 in around to 1-2h depending on your performance and investment level.

*+9~+11 {{#item:18110}} with 2x {{#item:27361}} at lvl 100.