By Lakshmi.Rylis 2009-04-14 12:46:52
Heh, my SAM is only 66, but I went from 57 to 66 as /RNG. Soboro makes it better, but at the same time, you skew all of your damage to WS, so you have to make sure you've a solid WS gear set..
The method I used most often was literally to just run back to WS.. Parsing it against other SAMs using a GKT or Polearm, I usually beat them out, in the long run, even with the short time spent running around, but where it really shined was in damage spikes. Meditate, Sekkanoki, Barrage, all with Sharpshot on could pump out ridiculous damage in a very short amount of time. Was drooling over 70 and using my Shigeto Bow+1, but I ended up getting caught in COR, and then that just had me all over the place (leveling subs, somehow got NIN way past sub level, and even settled on MNK, somehow..)
Doesn't have the damage potential you'll get from Yoichi+Soboro which still allows you to go /WAR and WS with Namas Arrow, without the accuracy issues you get with Sidewinder.
In all, though, even with a solid build, you're unlikely to do that much better than a GKT or Polearm SAM, and you have to pay for another consumable in order to get even that slight bit ahead. However, /RNG is easily one of the most enjoyable things I've done on SAM, with the closest second being /DNC with Soboro..