About the LGS

One-handed weapon
Attack: 322 ~ 324
Attack speed: Very fast
Added bonus:
Hit rate+10%
Attack speed+15%
Required Job: Mercenary
Required Level: 105

The Dretra is probably the most commonly used weapon at the beginning of a high str blades career, it gives 1/3 the atk speed and double the hit rate. At early levels a lot of 1v1 players struggle at maintaining a good hit rate, to compensate you end up sacrificing your wallet or your stat points. By end game you don’t hear of hit rate being an issue, but this is mostly due to how upgraded an endgame players set is. I believe with the LGS an endgame blade could maintain his/her hit rate without having to add extra dex or upgrading any set beyond +4. So what exactly would a blade designed for LGSs look like?

XX STR
40 STA
38 DEX

Well that looks mighty similar to your every day blade build now doesn’t it? With the 38 DEX base dex you would be able to reach the sword speedbreak with max cannon and just 1 lightning B in each sword, very easy to afford off of just grinding drops. 40 STA maintains your survivability and uncapped STR keeps your damage good. Now the next part is equipment. There’s only really two phases to this builds equipment and the early stage is where most the expense comes from.

At lv 60 you’ll need to be sporting 2x Dretra Swords and a full Panggril/Stitch or Recorn/Rescorn set. The use of Taytras may be advised as well but with the added dex required to reach the axe speedbreak the increase spending in piercing and awakenings nullifies the decrease in the weapons cost. The upside to this phase is all your gear can be +0 with no awakes and you will be very well rounded. Your expenditure around now will probably be around 100m, as long as you keep your lv 1-60 career wisely it shouldn’t be too difficult to save up that much.

Next is all the way over at 105, 45 levels is a long way to go with the same gear but just think of all the money you didn’t spend getting here. Now you could argue that this would occur at 95, but that would require reductions which are not exactly within the realm of “cheap.” You will now of coarse be using your long awaited LGSs, since they have the build in speed bonus from your old suit you can now switch to either einy/akan or blain/virain. I’d advise the latter, the price difference won’t be much of an issue as it is in your best interest to buy clean and upgrade it yourself as getting to +4 is moderately cheap, depending how much you’ve saved in the past 45 levels you could go around trying to get some good awakes in the process.