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especially with the very recent merging of AQ to dragonfable

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For the boss fight at the end, I would recommend killing Xhun first. His bleed attack can really eat into you if you do not have a lot of HP. Also since he has the lower HP, he should be able to go down first more easily than Zephra.

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Armor: 2-hit FD Wind Armor. Passively has +Status Resistance (+5 at level 150). Has 2 skills:

First skill "Talon Barrage" is a 4 hit wind skill that costs 100% SP in Melee (392). Has a chance to inflict "Pinned" , which reduces the enemy's outgoing damage. As in the in-game description, it emulates the Panic Status.

Second skill "Wind Fracture" is a 1 hit wind skill that costs 100% SP in Melee (392), and is usable only once per battle. Can inflict a status weakness (-8) and a 2-round EleVuln (145%) to Wind.

Weapons: Wind Element. Comes with Melee/Magic/Ranged, the latter being a Bow. Has a toggle where you can click it to do damage, or pay damage and SP to inflict a wind Siphon effect (like Arms of Carnax, except for HP instead of SP). You deal a Wind element poison and heal 100% of the damage done. Does not stack with itself.

Shield: Wind Shield (-26 Wind). You can click it to additionally resist Light and Ice Attacks, paying 15% Melee in SP (98SP at level 150).

Misc: Wind Misc. Provides -Wind resistance. You can click on the shard to inflict a Wind Siphon, like the Weapons do. Of course, the siphon from the misc stacks with the siphon from the weapons.

Pet: Has 2 modes. The first passively provides a -Status Potence (-9.3) and reduces outgoing Earth Damage (-18.4%). The later you can pay 71 SP to have the pet attack in a damaging mode. Effects scale with CHA. Former numbers are for 0 CHA.

Still trying to find out what the FSB is.

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The shield toggle costs 78 SP (20% melee) per turn and grants -26% Ice and Light resists.
With the Armor and Weapon equipped, it the cost increases to 98 SP (25% melee) and grants -33% Ice and Light resists.

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Armor- Limiting the ele vuln attack to once per battle makes it bad. If it could be used multiple times to stack, it would be good. That one decision changes it completely. Since the panic stays until a save is made, and the save seems to be EASY, since multiple times the monster kicked the status first try, you will need to find several status roll helpers to keep the panic on. Also, the panic is rather weak. Maybe the idea is having the pet out to help. But the armor can and should be used as a stand alone, so if the effects it has is no good by itself, then the armor is just bad. Skills are ranged even if holding magic weapon, so limiting. Prob the worst item in the set. Also the skill isnt weapon based so statuses from it's own weapon isnt implemented with the skill.

Pet- Alright. I would rather use deatharrows cat (wind version) to gain some ele vuln every round to make the siphon from the weapon better. Status potence scales with charisma. This might be a good non BM pet, and IDK where the status potence starts but prob maxes at 300 charisma like other stuff, which gives you 10.4. Might be ok to have out if you want to inflict something, then get back out. Not great, not bad. Will prob locker it. I prefer other effects. Others may like it more than I.

Weapon- I like the effect, but the implementation and the description do not make sense. The description makes it seem like the weapon can heal you over time, but you have to land and have successful infliction every single round. This might be a good weapon for backlashers, especially if they decided to give it a + BTH lean, but it likely wont have that. Would have been better for a bleed or burn based heal, to be better in Neko. Weapon works better with the misc. I think they should have allowed this to start smaller, and stack. Would be WAY better

Misc- Best item in the set. +50 END, +40 Dex. Same siphon as the weapon. Misc + weapon DO stack, and the heal gets better. Prob should alway be used together to make it worth having, like with most things in AQ. Stacking takes care of the lacking.

Shield- Wind shield, pays SP to make it a wind, light, and ice shield. So -26 to 3 elements? Very good for compression if you don't mind paying SP for it. I hat too much SP costs, and I dont use compression shields at all. Some may LOVE this shield, some may hate it. Big time dependent on how you feel.

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Build-in safeguards, mortals uniting to perform divine deeds... I rather like that foreshadowing!

Perhaps one thing I didn't like so much was how easily Xilar was forgiven. It's kind of hard to take his guilt seriously when even his worst victims casually wave off thousand-year-old grudges at the slightest hint of remorse.

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Zephra and Xhun are a very particular case, though even still, neither forgave Xilar easily nor waved him off. They did just put him through a firsthand reliving of his most devastating deceit from the perspective of both groups of victims, visibly traumatizing him-- The entire quest was an ordeal specifically made to torment Xilar, and to get you to abandon him. As they explain, they expected and prepared for a very different response.

When they saw what Xilar was like instead, they pushed him to stop wallowing and actually DO something instead of thinking that there's little he can do due to being unforgivable. Their forgiveness, as they mention, isn't a magic word to make all the past harm go away, but a prompt to actually do something about it.

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The pet's status potence scales with charisma and dex, actually, and a pure build can use this side all the same. This is nice.

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Toggles between two modes
Damage Mode: Has a -6 BtH lean and deals +5% damage as MC.
Wind Siphon Mode: Deals -50% damage and attempts to inflict a (5.5*[MagicMod]*[Hits/Attempts]) Power "Wind Siphon" (renamed Poison) for 1 turn. [MagicMod] = 1 for Melee/Ranged and 0.75 for Magic. This has a +0 save, player [WeaponMainStat]/LUK vs. mob END/LUK.

Additionally the "Wind Siphon" heals HP equal to [PoisonDamage]*[Modifier], where [Modifier] = 1 when using the weapon's poison (or weapon + misc poison), if stacked with other wind poisons [Modifier] decreases, potentially resulting in a significantly lower amount of healing on average.

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Grants +5 Omni Status Resistance and has two skills.

Skills
Talon Barrage: Wind spell-typed skill and is locked to Ranged damage. Has 4 hits and gets EleComp to damage (1.64379 at 150). Deals -17.85% damage and attempts to attempts a to inflict a [Percent]% Pinned* status (renamed Panic). This has a -10 save, player DEX/LUK vs. mob STR/LUK.
*Note: No specific numbers because Panic is weird, especially when the save isn't +0, from testing at lv 150 67.9% (i.e. lowers damage by -32.1%)

Wind Fracture: Wind spell-typed skill and is locked to Ranged damage. Has 1 hit and gets EleComp to damage (1.64379 at 150). Deals -17.85% damage and attempts to inflict a +(28*[EleComp])% damage Wind EleVuln effect for 2 turns, and reduce the mob's status resistance by -(5*[EleComp]) for the rest of battle. This has a +0 save, player CHA/LUK vs. mob END/LUK

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Wind Shield, ranged focused blocking.

MC: Compresses a toggle that costs 78 SP (20% melee) per turn and grants -26% Ice and Light resists. With the Armor and Weapon equipped, it the cost increases to 98 SP (25% melee) and grants -33% Ice and Light resists.

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Wind misc. Grants 50% standard wind res, 50 DEX and 40 END/LUK (at 150)

MC: Compresses a toggle that costs 20% melee in SP (78 SP at 150) and attempts to inflict a (2*[Hits/Attempts]) Power "Wind Siphon" (renamed Poison) for 1 turn. This has a +0 save, player [WeaponMainStat]/LUK vs. mob END/LUK.

Has the same healing thing as the Weapon and works with spells too.

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Wind pet, can toggle between two modes.

Boost Mode:
Provides 0.12*(0.5 + 0.25*[DEX/ExpDEX] + 0.25*[CHA/ExpCHA]) Omni Status Potence and a (1 - 0.12*(0.5 + 0.25*[DEX/ExpDEX] + 0.25*[CHA/ExpCHA])) Earth Eleshield. The Stat scaling for both goes up to the standard max of *1.1 and both get multiplied by the standard LevelAdjustmentMod. So at expected stats, with the LevelAdjustmentMod factored in, the Potence boost is 12.4 and the Earth EleShield is 0.794.

Damage Mode:
Deals +50% damage at the cost of 20% melee in SP per turn (78 SP at 150*)

*Note: The lv 150 gold version is currently using the costs relevant to the Z-Token version, it should cost 78 SP, but is instead costing 71 SP. This is a bug.

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And why does the ele vuln skill on the armor limited to once per battle?