Corsair Job Adjustments - Answers To User Suggest.

It would likely beat out AF hat on damage too just because you'd be able to fire off more shots.

I agree that in the current game environment shooting is more effective than melee when taken in context.

I think part of the thing is, as I've said a few times in this thread, you've got to be fluid with corsair and understand no one of these things is the way to go all the time.

In all my wordiness thusfar, that's really all I'm trying to get across. If you're stuck in any one set way of doing something and not able to do a lot of things on demand as the situation requires, you're not getting the most from the job.

On a Per mob basis, I can't imagine anything living long enough for the benefits of shorter time to outweigh the hats damage. On an event basis is where the mask may shine, but then you run the risk of wasting damage if you aren't QDing exactly at 40s. Where the mask will probably win out all the time, is QD solo. 40s QD's are beastly when your only source of damage is QD.

7/10 times I'm the only one doing damage when I'm on corsair. I personally would get great benefit from it.

Dual wielding is appropriate if your main WS is Evi in Abyssea to get extra offhand hit/DPS for WS.

If you're in Nyzul/Einherjar/limbus/dyna/Salvage, those mobs probably die in 3~5 sec nowadays with today's DD power, you're not gonna get ANY TP at all without regain if you're using a vulcan's staff, since guns takes 8 sec to fire. So melee still gets TP faster against those mobs.

If you're in Abyssea, not using vulcan's means you're losing nearly 1k WS dmg, therefore melee weapon is not worth it IMO.

If you're doing higher lv NMs such as VWNM, shooting is much better to avoid eating AoE dmg.

Shooting is certainly useful, just when mobs die fast its hard to get TP with it. In situations when mobs don't die that fast it's not really that bad with higher WS dmg and QD.

So I've more or less narrowed it down to shooting and vulcan's staff having the greater benefit in terms of safety, damage and TP gain when mobs are alive long enough to justify using the gun, or dangerous enough to avoid being part of the damage equation.

Meleeing seem to be narrowed down to the fodder of combat where safety isn't a problem and mobs go down with relative ease. Along with ease of providing rolls to the necessary parties without time or distance struggles.
However, I can certainly see the direct benefits of subbing samurai for hasso/meditate/vulcan bonus for both ranged and WS use over /nin or /dnc for self preservation and/or weapon functionality. Strangely single handed option seems to be the choice regardless of having DW available or not.

Not playing COR for nearly 3 years now kinda made me derp, especially having little to no knowledge of how the game is now with Abyssea and all.

I'm also curious in what time frame does a 5 second reduction make up for or exceed the damage bonus from whatever the most prominent QD bonus is now.

The AF hat adds +5 base damage to your QD (essentially like adding +5 damage to your gun).

I can't imagine that dropping five seconds won't make up for the damage loss. Obviously this only matters if you're QD’ing as soon as the timer’s up, but I know for me that’s pretty much always the case. At the very least it’s the best piece out there for sleep/dispel.

The basic math comes out to (I believe) 13.3~ QDs per 10 minutes with Mirke/merits/AF hat vs. 15 per 10 minutes with Mirke/merits/augmented Blood Mask. Which is, essentially one extra QD per 10 minutes. Therefore, as long as the damage drop isn’t more than…7.5’ish percent of your QD from the +5 base damage loss (which it shouldn’t be) over the course of 10 minutes you will do more damage.

Someone double check my math on that, especially the damage percentage. I am neither an expert at game equations nor able to solidly check my numbers at this moment and Luzaf knows I could certainly be pulling a number or two from my rear that isn’t appropriate at all.

But while my math may be off, I’m fairly certain the premise remains correct.

Edit: I will admit that stylistically, I despise losing my hat if this is indeed the way it maths out. I always enjoyed having my original tricorne on me, felt...right. But being a better, more resourceful pirate is always the priority.

Can't say I didn't expect it.

So they can't just like make an omphalus bullet pouch with a timer? Bummer

Until the time SE takes their heads out their ***, people will continue to use third party tools (Spellcast in this case).

Never fired mine, never will, spellcast ftw. *** SE.

Fired mine the other day. Long PW fight and wasn't eyeballing my remaining ammo.

Luckily I had a spare on my mule! Fired that one immedietely, first wildfire out of the gates, forgot to pop my bullet pouch.

Fk that bullet, I'm getting spellcast.

They really should of came out with a Omph. Bullet Pouch/belt that would of been on 1/1 charged and upon use it gets recharged for either 1 hour to 12 hours at the very least, I have yet to get one myself but seen 5+ hekas in my own pool and still haven't seen the bullet

I honestly think that the development team just expects us to use spellcast, at this point.

Game is nigh unplayable to any degree of proficiency without it.

I've heard that WoW adapts their updates to 3rd party programs, I wouldn't doubt that FFXI has been for many many years already.

How else do you explain equipment used to improve a single spell.

Typically they don't, to be honest. Most of the time Blizzard will just update the game and it's down to the addon's individual developers to find a work around if Blizzard broke it.

(Though they can, and have outright broke addons beyond repair before now)

I always got Thaumas hat coming ahead for Quick Draw, but admittedly it could be the targets I was defining (versus AF hat, Blood Mask is a clear winner in my opinion).