You'll Shoot Your Eye Out! - New FFXI RNG Guide

difficult to consistently take advantage of and even harder when hovering.

This is my no flurry set

AGI/MAB/WSD, Will give you a nice set for Trueflight and Wildfire.
AGI/RATK/WSD will be for last stand
if getting STP guess you'll be shooting for tp

I was kinda curious whats the DPS on ML20 RNG with Naegling/Savage setup with capped acc/att (and standard buffs I usually use, so capped magic haste and 70 sTP SAM roll). I changed few things in COR sheet to simulate RNG. It's not perfect, because this sheet kinda lacks qRatio and wRatio, but for capped attack it should still be pretty close. I got 13800 DPS against Apex Bat (136). Thats like miles ahead of any other melee jobs with regular buffs (so, no SPs and probably no WAR's Warcry, tho WAR's Warcry would still boost RNG too). Ofc even with 20ML Kraken offhand won't be viable everywhere, because of accuracy, but it should be viable for a lot of content. For example my friend Weeew said, that when he was using Kraken in W3 year+ ago, he was parsing around 80% hit rate with it. That means at 20ML it should be capped now.

Also Im well aware that at W3 Trueflight or Aeolian Edge might be way better anyway. I mentioned W3 only as reference to comment about Kraken club accuracy.[/quote
[quote="SimonSes" pid=3601841]I was kinda curious whats the DPS on ML20 RNG with Naegling/Savage setup with capped acc/att (and standard buffs I usually use, so capped magic haste and 70 sTP SAM roll). I changed few things in COR sheet to simulate RNG. It's not perfect, because this sheet kinda lacks qRatio and wRatio, but for capped attack it should still be pretty close. I got 13800 DPS against Apex Bat (136). Thats like miles ahead of any other melee jobs with regular buffs (so, no SPs and probably no WAR's Warcry, tho WAR's Warcry would still boost RNG too). Ofc even with 20ML Kraken offhand won't be viable everywhere, because of accuracy, but it should be viable for a lot of content. For example my friend Weeew said, that when he was using Kraken in W3 year+ ago, he was parsing around 80% hit rate with it. That means at 20ML it should be capped now.

Also Im well aware that at W3 Trueflight or Aeolian Edge might be way better anyway. I mentioned W3 only as reference to comment about Kraken club accuracy.

Even before master levels, I was consistently getting 6-7m damage in sheol c segment farms just using Savage Blade. Aside from crabs I rarely changed weapons.

336 native club skill with merits puts me at about 1100 offhand acc. I can't wait to play around with actual buffs.

To be fair I tried KC Savage RNG in C too and while its amazing on parse, it's not really that amazing in reality. Most of that parse damage comes from 55k HP Savage blade on mob with 5-10k HP left. You can only one shot first floor mobs (maybe now also 2nd floor with ML20?), but after that it's 2x Savage Blade per mob and it's a lot of overkills and virtual damage. KC RNG is still faster than most other jobs that need 2x WS to kill tho, because WS frequency is much higher.

So.. its pretty good in reality?

So.. its pretty good in reality?

The reality where the mobs have more health and it's effective damage instead of overkill, yes.

This is my no flurry set when not using gastra or perun
I always prioritize snapshot and velocity shot over rapid shot because of rapid shot's random nature making it very difficult to consistently take advantage of and even harder when hovering.

probably expecting too much, but i'm extremely underwhelmed with coronach while i gear up rng. missing the two big wsd pieces as i make capes, farm cards and do unlocks, but what else should i change in the meantime? perun and nusku or ternion for main/sub.

I love my Gandiva but have never really found a good place for it. How does Gandiva fit into Ranger's game play these days? Considering playing my Ranger again. Thank you.

I love my Gandiva but have never really found a good place for it. How does Gandiva fit into Ranger's game play these days? Considering playing my Ranger again. Thank you.

But is there a good way to fit Empy body in here? For instance, worth swapping head/waist for Taeon head/Impulse belt for a set with Snap+68 Rapid+24 and Empy body?

TBH, I hope Empy reforge eliminates this problem (give us some snapshot on body!), but until then...

Gandiva is a high white damage option next to Armageddon. Typically used for long boss fights where there is going to be a lot shooting (physical damage) involved. With the introduction of Hover Shot, the performance of Gandiva has been improved. Although, Armageddon still holds the top white dmg spot. So it all comes down to what you have in your arsenal. If you currently have both Gandiva and Arma, have fun with both of them on boss fights like Arebati. It is certainly worth R15ing and Chrono Arrows needed for top performance.

I currently have all bows/guns except for Armageddon (I'm on the Isgebind phase and working on it) and the Yoichinoyumi. I figured Armageddon would win because of AGL instead of DEX.

Do you gear the same for either, in other words crit gear for both because of white damage?

Thank you for the info.

Serious question. What exactly is a sky-kitty?

I currently have all bows/guns except for Armageddon (I'm on the Isgebind phase and working on it) and the Yoichinoyumi. I figured Armageddon would win because of AGL instead of DEX.

Do you gear the same for either, in other words crit gear for both because of white damage?

Thank you for the info.