Luck Of The Draw: A Corsair's Guide *NEW*

If you're /DNC you probably want to use Haste Samba and save yourself the 12 extra DW.

Ah yes the answer is a ring that COR can't even equip, good one.

Again haste samba will cap with DW+9

Dusting off this four-month-old post to ask more about Triple Shot sets with DT:

This is 49 PDT (39 MDT):
Empy Body +3 (13)
Malignance Tights (7)
Malignance Boots (4)
Alabaster Earring (5)
Murky Ring (10)
Ambu Cape (10 PDT)

Does the hivemind think it's likely you end up ahead on damage by sacrificing a few pieces of jewelry to make room for Oshoshi Mask +1?

That's another 5% proc rate on TS (plus +13% damage on the shots lol.)
You could get the full PDT cap if you go with Oshosi feet instead of head, but that's only 3 TS.

For a savage blade spam scenario specifically, If getting haste samba from a dancer main, is /drg better than dual wield sub in terms of dps?

It should be iirc

hey guys, i am trying to optimize my Last Stand set, for Arabati V25, i am doing around 7K dmg atm, and i KNOW i can way higher then that, any new meta cor's wanna share their set so i know what to focus on? Atm i have Nyame R25, ikenga R25 full sets, and AF/relic +4, Empy+3 5/5, fotia neck and belt and Formalhaut R15, also have all 3 Rostams R25 ( A B and C, and i know A is the way to go )

7k is too low even with trust buffs or solo with Chaos Roll. Are you certain your WS set is swapping in when you Last Stand?

You can use this as a reference to help you build a Last Stand/Detonator set

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/All_Jobs_Gear_Sets/Corsair

hmmm they using crep knife, i dont have it ( yet )
and sroda
rest i have covered, so its prolly the build i have thats not great, cause i see my gear changing for WS

Yeah ignore the knife, you cant use sub weapon in gaol. Su5 is fine. Sroda is for attack capped set, but that doesn't matter because 7k ws isn't hitting anywhere close to attack cap. If what you're saying is you have a similar set and your damage is still ~7k, what buffs are you using? What ML are you? That still seems awfully low, again, even with just a single Chaos Roll.

no, we are like 4 people for RP, we have Chaos and Sam from me, and songs from Brd, that about it, and i said i have the gear, just not that setup, so gonna try that tomorrow
epa ring and Dinger is what i use tho, just need to tweak the set and see how number will be
i was using pretty much all the ws gear, so nyame head, Nyame body, Chas hands +3, Nyame legs, Lanun feet +4, Fotia neck and Belt, Moonshade and Isvara ears and agi/ws back piece

guess Inkega is better tho in some slots, even tho its R25 instead of R30 that the website is suggesting

adjusted the Lua, i let you all know if there is a improvement, if not i dunno whats going on lol

ow, i am about to hit Mlvl50 tonight as well

thats why i reached out, cause it was wrecking my brain lol, i let ya know tomorrow after Supercharge if there is improvements

BRD using SV/CC for those buffs? Even still, you're unlikely to do a lot of damage on a V25 with few buffs/debuffs.

With SV/CC songs and a decent Chaos, you should be doing more than 7k, but not a whole lot more than 7k.

Are you walling yourself? Which other WS are you alternating it with? Is there someone else there to help you prevent walling yourself?

No idea what this setup is, which jobs are there, which WS they're using, which debuffs are on the boss. No idea how anyone is supposed to give you a real answer.

Been looking at the new SU4/5 Limbus gear...Is there anything that gets us excited at all? I haven't messed with the DPS calculator, leaving that to people with better math skills than I.

It's not difficult to determine if:
4% QA > 8 STP
6% QA > 11 STP
5% QA > 9 STP

So...safe to say the head, body, and feet are absolutely insane.

I think 5% QA > 12 STP, but it might be more marginal. At a certain point you probably don't want to go all-in on QA, though that's more likely to be a question for a sim than an eyeball.

...Yeah it's going to be months or years before anyone has to consider whether adding another piece of R30 Clemency is worth doing. If I had the RP for free, I'd probably 4/5 it.

Also the accuracy is INSANE, if you need it.

Need, no, want because BiS, sure. Also, because DRG main on the 1/50000 fights I get to bring it.

Thinking about changing my TVR Ring. (Currently Medada's). Since Epam is often listed as just a high buff/PDL swap, would I get more mileage out of Ephramad's than Cornelia's for Savage/Last Stand?

Rostam question:

If I was only to get one Rostam, path C is higher priority, right? Saw a post from about a year and a half ago saying path C before considering A or B. Would be fine getting A and B Lanun knives.

Also, assuming access to everything minus AALimbus gear, for double dagger meleeing, would Rostam/Crep work best, or Rostam/Gleti still be king? Mostly Sortie bosses atm to not WS wall our SB user.

Path C is the priority, it makes all rolls (and group) better. I don't use my Path B as often as C for obvious reasons, and I'm usually Naegling otherwise (unless it's very specific, like B Objective or self SC, or Xevioso). You may not use A very often if you don't COR for shooting a lot. Path A is phenomenal for Triple Shot, though.

As far as dual daggers go, I think they're both generally equal for TPing with the edge to Gleti's OH, Crep OH is better when capped or for magical WS (if you're not considering Tauret). You probably TP faster with a single RA via Triple Shot (with the gear), if you have the Racc for it. You can Hot Shot EG, but Savage Blade on F/H is perfectly fine. There's not really a better secondary WS you could use, unless you have like Terminus. I'd still Savage on F/H. Honestly, you can live with the wall on all bosses because Savage Blade is so busted. I'd argue COR can share Savage with BRD and it would be better than any other combination (Savage+Mordant etc)

I do enjoy being a shooting COR. I have almost all the TS pieces +1(minus legs), and I am working on maxing out a r.acc/r.atk set, because of the fights where it's "COR does rolls then shoots and cries"

Don't have Tauret because my pulse weapon luck is ***. Our group is DNC/WAR/COR/BRD/RDM/WHM atm while our WAR farms an Idris, so we have 2 SBers atm with our BRD finishing Carn recently. When we swap jobs around I can suggest doing 2 SB again. No Terminus yet, and I'm not sure if I want to make the gun at all, but really wanting to make the polearm. Not against being convinced to go after an Earp.

I made a Lanun Knife Su4 for Path A, and I may have used it twice in the past year. Definitely more use out of C. My personal priority is C > B > A, I will finish a Rostam A eventually, just not a priority atm for me.

Earp is not that good Imo. It's used when cor is shooting for physical dmg, which is all of one fight in the game that you clear once and don't touch again.

Earp is just for stage4 for the bullet for better savage blading. Up to you if you want to plop 2.6m muffins for a slightly better savage blade.

I regret making earp on my cor mule tbh
Even though that is it's main job.

Yeah, did some asking around and found that out to be true too. . . Very happy with my Mythic DP!

How is Bayeaux Bullet making Savage Blade slightly better?
Honest question, not trolling, I'm not getting it! °-°

Dex+20 (for the accuracy) and enmity-50?

I did say slightly.

I dunno, when I read about a WS being made "slightly better" by something, I think about the damage.
Your message wasn't necessarily wrong, just a bit misleading maybe? °-°
And you lose 1000TP from using Bayeux Bullet only to gain ~15 acc and -50 enm.
Not sure it's worth it in like 99% of situations?
I thought there were some hidden properties on it lol

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