well as of last night algar will no longer pimp the old vermillion cloak.
due mainly to the new WS spirit taker. IN the past I used my cloak mainly for solo adventuring. Just to keep the ol MP in check. But, after fully lvl my staff skills. I truly don think I need it any more. PLD can actually do some badass damage with an assualt staff, and on the usual too weak to really easy prey that one would solo for farm or a quest item I can recieve 100-300 MP per 100% TP. Along with an equal amount of damage.
last night in monastic cavern I kinda linked a few orcs on accident. I was looking for gold orc mask and got 7 orcs on me at once. I didnt have a warp scroll and my cudgel wasnt charged. there was a PT kinda close to the entrance to I would have had to train on to get out . So i just equiped the Old Earth staff and went to town. After a good 30 min of soling the orcs they where all dead and i had full MP and HP. one of them was an easy prey orc warcheif. at no time did I use the cloak and only used staff.
well this pretty much made my mind up and now i got an extra 3,759,000 in the pile.