The Pirates' Lair: A Guide To Corsair

Unless I'm mistaken, Pursuer's gets rapid shot, not snapshot =[

Pursuer's Doublet path D does have a Snapshot augment, although I don't see any info that specifies the cap at rank 15. Judging by its growth compared to other Escha gear, I believe it should be in the 5-7% range, making it a competing snapshot body. You are missing about 10 AGI by going the Snapshot path, though, so augment at your own discretion.

Other than that, the current Snapshot set-up in the OP is up to date outside of Taeon augments. I think it's only missing a mention for Haverton Ring and 5% Snapshot on Mirke Wardecors, but that's probably because it's a waste of an augment, especially if you use it outside of COR. I think you'd be safe using what's laid out in the guide if you don't care to carry any more Taeon sets (and who does at this point?), but I'd still considered at least getting a full Leaf augment for snapshot on Taeon feet. If you already have Wurrekatte Boots, then you might as well use them, but Taeon boots have a higher Snapshot value and are arguable far easier to get. But, yes, I know: We all say "Just ONE more niche Taeon piece, then I'll be good", but 10 mil gil later, we end up with another full set.

Without Haverton and JP gift, though, non-Taeon should give you close to 40% Snapshot, so you should be at -or- near cap with Flurry II.

Mehhh, I'll just stick with that Skopos jerkin instead of lose all that AGI. Thanks for the correction, though. And yeah, I have Taeon sets for melee, MAB, DW, and multiple for BST, so I literally cannot add more, even as much as my min-max nature wants to.

I'm currently using Aurore +1 for head, Skopos for body, relic for hands, emp for legs, and Taeon with 5% for feet. I'd love to go for Haverton, but with how often I'm on BST these days I can't justify losing my Thurandaut. I thought that Nahtirah was 9% snapshot, so wouldn't that be better than empyrean legs, then?

Honestly, I've always been skeptical about Nahtirah being +9%, but I do use them on both RNG and COR. I don't see too much of a difference between them and, say, Mirador +1, so they would at worst be +7 and +9 at best.

Either way, I don't see any problem in using them if you have them. I think it's just a matter of some people preferring tangible numbers over numbers that have been ambiguous for 12 years.

Could definitely understand the hesitation. SE hasn't exactly been forthcoming about previous gear pieces. I'll stick with my empyrean then, as I need all the room I can get. Appreciate the help.

A difference of 2 Snapshot you wouldn't notice by just eyeing it out, pretty sure it was tested by Byrth to be between 9-10% depending on how SE has their formula set up.

Rank 15 Pursuer's body is Snapshot+9 I think. I'll have to double check.

Pursuer's body is +6 Snapshot. But it also has STP+6

This is important

TL;DR: We were too lazy to adjust our spaghetti code, so QD has no effect on new spells.

Does anyone know which neck between Stoicheion Medal and Satlada Necklace is better? Does Mab>Mdmg?

deviant necklace is the best for basically all of our MAB situations.

I understand, but for one who does not have deviant, which between the above two would do better?

Stoicheion.

Hey guys, have you notice that Taeon sets can get Snapshot+10 augment ?(+5 from leaftip, and +5 from dusktip)
That could make Snapshot+50 with only Taeon set, which looks awesome.
Anyone already tried and can confirm it's true ?

Yes, it's been confirmed. There's been discussion about it on and off for quite a while, now.

With Teaon it is +50 Snapshot, without Teaon it is 44.5 Snapshot.

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Up to you if you wanna deal with the augmenting system or farming the gear.

The only Teaon piece I'd farm is feet since it is hard getting people to farm Hall of Mul.

Noooope.


With the abjuration gear update coming it might be a good window to start trying to get them to do that.

This is sort of a necro bump, but I was wondering this very question so I searched the thread:


I understand to application for QD, but is there a source/explanation for WF/Leaden? The current formula for magic WS damage is:

(( 1.5(Lv + 1)+2+ floor(2.45*(iLvl-99)) + WSC ) * fTP + fINT ) * Resist * Elemental Staves * Weather * MDIF * Magic Damage Adjustment

Which is referenced in the OP. The magic damage statistic is absent and so is D, the term used when calculating magic damage that is defined as: D = mDMG + V + (dINT × M). I don't see how magic damage is used, am I missing something, anyone?

Unless you're getting Flurry II, you would still need augments on Taeon feet to cap Snapshot.

+MDMG gets added in after fTP is multiplied but before MAB/MDB adjustments. This is why it isn't particularly potent for elemental WS.

I was talking about head, body, bands, legs ans feet for taeon to hit 50%.
With navarch mantle ans impulse belt, you hit ~60%. 15% more than the other set. Not forcing anyone to get it, just saying it's much better.

Aren't Lanun Gants +1 better than Iuitl?

Ya, you are right but the Skirmish Augmenting system is daunting to some since it is so random. Hell I'm still working on 2 WS pieces and I haven't started SAM set.


This says it gives +10 which means we can add another +3 to it. Unless that is NQ only then NQ would be better for Snapshot.

A couple weapons questions:

1) Best current melee weapon pair? Not sure how this shakes out since the more recent additions (Demersal Degen/+1, Escha weapons, etc.).

2) Gun: what are you all using for a ranged focused gun, for times when being close is too dangerous and magical WS aren't all that great? Or are you bothering to tote around a second gun? Guessing a DMG, Racc/Ratt, <something> Doomsday wins for this application, but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking something before wading back into augments.

I already have a pretty nice Doomsday with STR/AGI+16, Macc/MAB+16, WSD+5% that's my standard gun choice, but it's a little disappointing in scenarios that aren't especially melee or Leaden friendly (say, Vagary zones that aren't Palloritus, a lot of Escha stuff), and I'm not really that pleased with the gun when I want to sit back and pretend to be a RNG. Or should I just give up in those scenarios and play it /RDM support style... :P

Sounds like a lot of you guys are shooting away a good bit lately; if not, I don't get the excessive interest in COR snapshot sets these past couple pages ;)

Byrth was unsure of that data:


I find it unlikely that the HQ would have less Snapshot than NQ. I've confirmed that the HQ is true to it's printed value. Details here.

Demersal +1/OAT Atoyac wins in most situations. Odium is really good too. A well augmented Doomsday (MAB/WSdmg/STR+AGI) is good most of the time, although depending on your augments Nibiru may have a small edge when shooting Last Stand (especially if you're ranged attacking for TP).

Ok, I've been wanting to post for soooo long (seems like I've had to jump thro hoops to get here)

OK, I'd like to talk Quick Draw.
In the guide, Racc seems to be used for QD accuracy - is it proven that Racc helps QD accuracy - I know it can skill-up marks but it never used to and the norm was to use Macc (and AGL with 2AGL=1Macc)

Secondally, I think your main hand weapon is very important as it has macc+188 on it, Atoyac, while good for QD with the MAB+10 augment lacks 42MACC a 119 main hand weapon has. (I'd like to be told if any of what I'm saying is incorrect for sure, I just want to iron this out)

With Macc to me being so important so QD doesnt get resisted my build for Light shot is pure MACC (I augmented Taeon hands with Macc+20, and for damage shots I made Taeon hands with MAB+20 AGL+9 as hands is an area we lack those stats).

I also would like to question using the elemental staves as the MACC on them is ultra low compared to a 119 weapon.

Lastly, Vagary - I love playing COR in Vagary, it seems so many of the NM's can be shot for nice dmg, as im buffing blm's I have wiz&warlocks roll up - my highest QD's have been on Plouton, just today while he was weak to fire my Fire shot hit for over 5K dmg, I wish I took a screenshot. But regardless using Macc (not Racc) all Vagary bosses seem to be weak to QD, I do sometimes get resisted, but I hit around 2700 most shots. Also, while some bml's are struggling to make much dmg on Plouton we have Wildfire which hits for ~5K (10K when fire is the key to victory etc etc). I go to Vagary /Rdm, I suppose I should go /rng but I've just seemed to settle as cor/rdm (obviously not for Fomor run)

So this is my first post, I've been lurking I guess since I returned about a year ago and im so happy I can now post! I just seriously question some of the Quickdraw choices in the guide, mainly main hand weapon choice and using Racc for QD accuracy. There are many other debates I'd love to respond to now but I guess QD is my starting point. Its my fav feature about Cor, it boosts magic dmg of the same element after a shot (which is a massive boost if you have 7-10 nukers) and obviously adding to buffs, dealing dmg, and Light shot.

Guide has not been updated in two months. I will update it again for august update. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I had more important things to take care of.

QD damage set is about damage only, if more accuracy is required, swap as needed.

As for racc, it does increase accuracy, which is probably the reason why skill increases it too at all. But as for comparing it to macc, I'm afraid no one can help on that, we can only vaguely assume that 1 equals 1, but it is what it is, speculation. If in doubt use macc I guess. Or agi if you have more than double the macc amount(2:1).

yeah, for NM's now you do need alot of macc, that's why i'd always say mainhand has to be a 119 weapon.

I still don't know or believe if Racc affects QD acc, it never used to give marksmanship skill-ups, that was introduced around the lvl80-85 cap rise. Maybe Racc does, but I know Macc does so I'd personally rather stick with that, like you said, each to their own kinda thing.

I'm not sure if people still put their merits in 5/5 QD acc and 5/5 QD dmg, but 5/5QD acc to +10macc isn't very much, and Im thinking the -10seconds to Phantom roll would be much more useful.

If you have the gift for QD delay in addition to the merits, you can free up either head or body for more M.Acc options. Blood Mask/Mirke isn't required to cap QD delay (you just need one), and since neither of those are ilvl they really hurt you on M.acc. With the upcoming abjuration update, Blood Mask will probably be the keeper.

So really I think the QD recast merits will net you more M.Acc than QD accuracy merits when you take that into account.

edit Sorry I think I misread your post. Phantom roll merits are pretty standard and imo more useful. QD recast is more valuable for reasons stated above.