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

End game optimization problem is that for some people, some gear/enchant/MVP setups suit them better as it touches the specifics of their playing styles and consumables consumption patterns (e.g. with {{#item:300473}} you will want to consume {{#item:14536}}), so we will not assume a narrow-minded stance on this issue and would tolerate a bit lesser or bigger DPS and whatnots as long as things work well (shout out to get the DPS envy immunity people!).  

=General Overview=

{{#skill:5330}}: Your hard hitter, but is useless without Calamity Gale/Unlimit active.

The general aim of the min-maxing process (as of Date: 28/Aug/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 reason of the importance on this matter is because of the aforementioned '''One Hit''' (OH) Objective, that we want each hit of our Gale Storm damage to be as high as possible (to be clear it is the '''single instance of the damage''', not the DPS).

* '''ATK%''': this is useless tier damage modifier and should just be ignored for physical build (different case with MATK% of the magical build) unless someone can prove me wrong. Also was tested but not thorough (and I already yeeted the 10% ATK% gambler's seal I'm so sorry)

Recommended gears (as of Date: 28/Aug/2025):

* '''ATK%''': this is useless tier damage modifier and should just be ignored for physical build.

Recommended gears (as of Date: 10/Dec/2025):

=== Preparation Phase ===

Not going to be your typical leveling guide, because this approach will prioritize:

* Monotonous, but will be predictable. Important because this leveling is a not chill routine, but more like 30 minutes of triathlons  

* 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  farming hours loss.

* Is leveling up single character only per attempt (different methods might be needed for mass leveling multiple chars). And that you One Hit or Two Hit most if not all mobs listed on all maps on the Steps part.

* You have done your research, mastered the basic (I leave it to your wisdom to decide which level range you want which non-core equipment will be worn and what equipment you will skip), and that you have invested and plan well for item progressions each level range, e.g.:  

Non-core Equipment and Secondary Skills (passives, buffs, debuffs) will not be specifically named on the phases below (this is not a newbie guide), you will just have to do the best with what you currently possess. Though result may vary if your non-core equipment are far too weaker compared to the original assumption.

{{#item:1702}} with 4x {{#item:27361}}

Steps:

*+9~+11 {{#item:400022}} and +9~+11 {{#item:18178}} with 2x {{#item:27361}} at lvl 130. Recommended setup is either +11 {{#item:400022}} combined with cheaper {{#item:1000521}} or +9 {{#item:400022}} combined with more expensive {{#item:1000522}}. Or source the fixed cast time reduction from other items such as Illusion Sprint Mail + Shoes Set combo at +22 total refinement.

*+9~+11 {{#item:400266}} (upgrade hammer exist) with 2x {{#item:700054}} or Yormi-Scalleg combo at lvl 170. Economically not really recommended though because the gain is miniscule to unreformed version but gain is a gain and there's no other better bows until Gale Storm is spammable reliably.

Steps:

Core item: {{#item:19484}} with acute and +9 {{#item:700052}} fully enchanted at level 230. Get one with 1st slot enchant Gale Storm if you can. Other enchantments could be double elements and physical(ATK).

Steps: