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

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Hello I'm Sophie/Joan (Guide Start Date: 28/Aug/2025). You would often see me playing in D1/D2/HoL/LoF/ToT/CT/Villa/Mjol with my Windhawk char R.ClickToRename242812 or with characters of other jobs. Feel free to hit me up to join my #LFG calls.  

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

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

===Gears===

*Currently not-haves list: {{#item:300377}},{{#item:27126}},{{#item:4408}},{{#item:300007}},{{#item:300021}},{{#item:300445}},{{#item:300280}}

# Instant Cast (hurt others faster than they can hurt you)

# 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 184 (or more)

=== About Physical Damage Modifiers for Crescive Bolt Build ===

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 {{#item:400723}}.

* '''Class%:''' [stays the same] still the hardest and most expensive to get and even slightly harder to get because you will generally want to to go with {{#item:300530}} instead of {{#item:300473}} (will be discussed later). You will have 20%-75%. Main Sources: {{#item:300533}}, {{#item:4602}} combo, {{#item:4529}}, Demigod Set, HoL accesories and enchantments, Abysmal Knight Pet.

* '''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 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.

* '''Skill%:''' [moves 1 downwards] For Crescive Bolt it is easier thanks to the Episode 21 Heroes cards and Yorscalp Crown combo. You will have 160% at +15 {{#item:400723}} and {{#item:300595}} and even more with {{#item:24912}} and {{#item:24913}}.

* '''Res_Ignore%:''' The effect is roughly 5-10% pure damage increase every 20% res ignore, though it is nice, because it is outside all other modifier calculations. We have more now that we use {{#item:400723}} and that {{#item:24912}} and {{#item:24913}} you could pair them with {{#item:1270015}} and {{#item:1270016}} for even more Res_Ignore%.  

* '''Critical%''': and other '''critical related modifier''' like C.RATE: You will have around 200-450% critical% and 80-140 C.RATE. We suffer here on mainly on critical and critical% from {{#item:400539}}. In my case I only have around 175 critical without {{#item:300530}} that is the reason of the sudden high demand as people realized this very thing. Main Sources: various for Critical%, Shadow Gear Enchantments for C.RATE

===Gears===

| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:400539}}

*Enchanted with {{#item:312753}}, {{#item:312712}}.

*The reason we don't use {{#item:312700}} is because we dont need '''acd%''' for this build. Instead you just swap out for {{#item:400723}}(BiS for CB Build).

**'''1st line''': DEX +5   

**'''2nd line''': Critical Atttack +6-7% ''or''  Long Ranged Atttack +6-7%

| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:700108}} <br> and/or <br> +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:700093}}

*Can be carded with the following combo:

**{{#item:4399}} & {{#item:300240}}

| align="center" | +12 [A] {{#item:470174}} <br> and/or <br> +12 [A] {{#item:470175 }} and/or <br> +12 [A] {{#item:470197}}(Experimental)

*Pets: {{#item:9132}} or {{#item:9193}}  

*Shadow Gears:

**Double Maximum Mammoth combo: very strong if not BiS, theoritically explained by the 12% gain in Enemy_Element% modifier. Only wear double with {{#item:4399}} otherwise just wear one pair.

**Needing full penetration/infinity otherwise wear {{#item:4399}} for 100% def pierce and {{#item:24386}} or {{#item:24733}} or {{#item:9193}} for ignore weapon size

**Otherwise double +10/+10 Bow/Fatal/Sword Master Shadow Gears is not bad, however it will lock you into using {{#item:9193}}. There's also possibility of using one set of +10 Bow/Fatal/Sword Master Shadow Gears and {{#item:27294}}(Experimental) and then the rest of the shadow gear will be a pair of Maximum Mammoth

**With {{#item:4399}} use +10/+7 Bow/Fatal/Sword Master Shadow Gears instead so the 50% def pierce won't trigger

*Currently not-haves list: {{#item:300377}},{{#item:27126}},{{#item:4408}},{{#item:300007}},{{#item:300021}},{{#item:300445}},{{#item:300280}}

*BiS: Best in Slot, refers to items/cards that are considered the best according to the ongoing meta. May be subject to change, that is why I put emphasize on dates whenever the term BiS is mentioned on that part.

*Old BiS: Old Best in Slot, was the BiS on previous meta. Some have the potential to be BiS again in the future (e.g. Bio5 MVP Ranger Shecil card in the case future Job 4 Wind Hawk Bio MVP cards will give strong combo bonus), so they are generally still top tier recommended items, though not to die for.

*Experimental: Strong items that could possibly be BiS on some setups, but are not widely accepted as the BiS and still need a lot of testing and discussion for it to be universally designated as BiS. Or items that are situationally considerably better than BiS or offering niches that are considered worth trading with the boons gained from the BiS items depending on your personal playing style.