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

You're the one who "moved the goalposts" for me, by making broad, stupid statements that are clearly not true.


So...you wouldn't tell a SAM about kusanagi, because it's not a goal anyone without empy+3 should be looking at, regardless of how realistic it would be if they spent "all their points" on a weapon?

Even stupider because if you're doing 8-boss for ~6 months, you'd have enough points for a stage 4 weapon and 16 sets of empy+3. So much for spending all your points on a stage 4 earp/kusanagi. Oof.

which piece of Clemency are you making for your Corsairs and why?

Just finished head, working on feet now.

For legs: empy is already insane.
Hands: STP+12 on Malignance beats the pants off Feet/Head
Body: STP+11 on Malignance is also similarly much better than the 8/9 on Head/Feet

I think there could be a decent argument for any of Head/Feet/Body. Hands/Body are very good, but I think the others are better. Even despite the head having 1 less QA (2 than body).

Frankly, I think I have this exactly backwards mathemagically. Body with highest QA should beat Head/Feet, even though you lose 2~3 more STP, the extra QA should more than make up for it. Then the 1 STP difference on head is nothing compared to 1 more QA on feet. Should probably be Body -> Feet -> Head -> Hands? And never do the legs, IMO. Not for COR anyway.

Agreed with this ordering. You also gain hp/def/att/acc with each swap but you are losing meva- along the way. It might be worth considering stopping at 2-3 pieces if your focus is a high meva set and you have other sets you want to make.

Now that subjobs go past 49, what new utilities unlock with that that are helpful for COR? Is there a guide?

DNC - Chocobo Jig
WAR - Another Fencer trait, 2% DA
DRK - Attack Bonus III trait, PDL III trait (Aminon strat sub)
WHM - Curaga 3, Auspice (don't think people go COR/WHM anymore, but 50% Cure Potency is easy with a Doomsday)
DRG - WSD trait, Super Jump

Don't know if that's considered "new utilities". Most of the time its DW sub for the extra weapon.

Can confirm, I basically live in /DNC sub unless I feel like /WAR.

Any thoughts on using Mercurial Kris as an off-hand for a Savage Blade TP set (besides "use more acc")?

Seems like it could be good in theory.

It's like a bad Kraken Club. That's not an insult, obviously, because COR isn't on Kraken Club... but, you know. Meh.

Which TVR ring would be best for COR? Does the WSD+ always beat out the stat boost and Damage Limit+?

Ephramad for Savage blade.

Cornelia for Leaden/Wildfire/Hot Shot.

PDL+ does nothing for magical WS. Only affects the physical part of hybrid WSs.

Most Cors are savage blade machines with their own attack+ buffs and would benefit most from Ephramad.

For the COR who has everything except Earp/Limbus armor, would you think the Ephra would give you more mileage vs the Cornelia vs other options for either ring? Assume COR 95% of content, WAR/PLD/DRG for the other 5%.

Absolutely Ephramad, yes. It's a big dmg boost for savage, which is 99% of the time what you will be using on cor (and war/pld).

Found the BG gear guides, at what mastery rank does Hoxne become better than Friomisi?

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

Hoxne Earring assumed Mastery Rank 7

Returning player here from 5 years ago, was doing some Omen, Dyna D and such at the time, and had COR on a second character, but looking to make it my main now.

I have fomal and planning on working on DP, but been told by some people on my server that COR tends to end up just using Savage Blade most of the time in current content. I have Naegling so covered there but is this true? If Savage Blade is used that much, wondering if I should spend the time/money on other stuff than DP, like getting Malignance pieces.