The Pirates' Lair: A Guide To Corsair

dark shot can increase the potency of bio on a target same with light shot and Dia

I thought it was the other way around. o.o

What Sehachan said was correct. Also if you use light shot on slept mob it'll display "no effect"(because the mob is already slept), thus unable to boost holy dmg.

The first post on the first page, the guide, is in serious need of an update. Is the original author still or around and if not can others get editing permissions somehow? I'd like to edit a few points on it if so, or at the very least suggest some edits.
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This is the ranged DPS/TP set I have nearly completed. Given the significant evasion nerfs to high end content a set like this might be a good investment for career COR.

ItemSet 345336

Store TP as 3rd slot JSE cape.
C Path on Adhemar Wristbands.
D Path on Pursuer's Doublet.
A Path on Pursuer's Beret.

Possible alteration I can see is losing the NQ Kustawi for Fettering Blade when Leaden Salute is being used as the primary WS. Otherwise it seems better to use x2 Kustawi for Last Stand. Can lose the two rings for Ranged Accuracy ones if need-be.

Is there anything glaring I am missing?

Anyone able to help me out? Fresh 99 and still working through missions (just got done with ToAU). I am mainly sporting sparks gear and gun and was wondering if anyone had some entry level COR sets until I start getting further into missions and doing RoE intermediate. Wanted some easy sets to progress through if possible.

I checked the previous pages but didn't see any listed. Looks like I just missed a decent ambuscade reward set, looks like it is caster gear now?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Alluvian skirmish gear would be an easy place to start if you can get a group together, Doomsday is a very good gun and will last you a long time, taeon is still decent till you can get better stuff. mainly anything 119 will be better than sparks gear, and don't forget the Relic pieces and empy pieces when you can.

Speaking of Dooomsday in regards to LS. Is LS effected by weapon dmg or just stat mod and mab?

LS you mean leaden? Since both leaden and last stand are LS I avoid calling them LS.

Leaden isn't affected by DMG.

Yes, Leaden Salute. Is WF the same and the rest of our primary WSs are affected by DMG?

Magical WS are not affected by the physical damage of a weapon, they are affected by magic damage though. Wildfire is a magical WS, so it won't be affected by base damage of a gun either. Things to look for though is magic accuracy skill and magic accuracy in your main hand weapon slot, marksmanship skill in your ranged slot because they affect magic accuracy. Damage will be gained from MAB, magic damage, weaponskill damage, and AGI for those WS. So what you said is correct, physical WS will be affected by base damage of the gun + ammo and magical WS will not.

Would this make Oboro JSE gun augmented better for LS and WF than Compensator?

It does, the JSE weapon has AGI on it as well.

Biggest thing is the compensator actually supplements your job with Roll Duration and is a fantastic shooting gun.

Hey so while we're on the topic of Leaden and Wildfire. What are the stat weights? I always thought it was something like WSD > MAB > AGI

The most accurate way to calculate leaden and wf dmg is to use the formula on first page, or use my excel that I posted pages back.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/riphone.do?rid=n7dt9737650532eb84988a9ce4192efd00fff


The weight of each stat is different depending in other gears in your slot, your buffs, and targets. For example the more mab you have the less weight it has when you add more, same applies to AGI or WSD.

Your rule of WSD>MAB>AGI is probably correct, but I wouldn't just blindly follow it without considering other slot of gears and buffs that I have.

Neat thanks

Hey Afania, how do we download that from Zoho or use it out of Zoho? I created an account but I can't seem to be able to reuse. :<

Hmm I'll look into this when I got home(at work atm), sorry for the inconvenience.

for the amount of money you would be putting into Deathlocke at oboro it really is not worth it, the gun from alluvian skirmish Doomsday is far superior when spending that much money on it, or even staying with compensator since it is ALOT cheaper to upgrade and be an ok cor gun.

Try this! (I don't know why previous link was broken and won't let you export :X)

https://docs.zoho.com/file/n7dt9737650532eb84988a9ce4192efd00fff

YES!
Thank you. <3 <3 <3

Currently gearing up COR. I've recently fallen in love with it and the potential for support/DPS.

COR is a phenomenal job, you will not be disappointed. If BLU didn't exist, I don't think I'd ever play anything but COR.

:p I start my FFXI career as a selfish stinky immortal, until an arrow hit my knee and I discovered what it means to be a pirate: freedom, friendship and gambling for a brighter future.

This job has tons freedom in terms of how to play it, it's all about helping camarades, and it's also about taking risks for the better result. I was deeply obsessed with this job, maybe because it reflected a life that I want irl but unable to accomplish because of responsibility and circumstances.

I'm never a hardcore gamer nor anything close to it, and I never play any MMO longer than 2 months. But in this game I start doing endgame and grind tons of stuff, learn how to make parties and lead people, learned how to create excel to calculate dmg, learn how to min maxing gears just for this job. I can never imagine I would really get into a mmo if COR doesn't exist in this game. There are times that I try to learn and gear another job, they all end up horribly since I quickly lose interest in any other job that I tried.

Like what Oraen said, COR is awesome, and I don't think I can play anything but COR. That probably makes me a horrible player though.

Looking at your spreadsheet for leaden salute I can't work out in the formula why its 201+agi. Where has the 201 came from?

Also mythic bonus =1 means not using death penalty?

I just hard coded weapon ilv to 119 because I didn't make a slot to set your weapon ilv....you think I should?

1=no mythic, set it to 1.3 with mythic.

Nah I was just trying to work out why but I realised it minutes after I posted (154 + 2.45x20 = 201).

FYI just in case anyone missed it on the General forum, somebody noticed that Holliday's listed stats are incorrect and are actually higher. Actually AGI+20 STR+20 Racc+20, not AGI+15 STR+15 Racc+10 as shown on the in-game text.

http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/49373/se-stat-typo-on-gun-called-holliday/

I am jumping on the Corsair wagon and making this my next project!

Any general tips on the job? Some members of my LS said leveling THF or RNG to 99 and using one-eyed is an easy way to cap marksmanship. Both being level 1 it seems like that would be a lot of time >.>

Also, I have NIN WAR and DNC subs leveled. Is it worth leveling RNG to 49 for a sub option these days?

For capping combat skills, I use some trusts.

Apururu, Ulmia, Jaochim, Koru-Moru, Moogle

You can afk against the uraganites outside of adoulin (windower has auto ra I think.) Make sure your gear is weak enough so that you don't kill them and you'll just wake up with capped combat skill.

You should use Sakura instead of Moogle if possible. You could also replace Joachim since he doesn't add much to skilling a ranged weapon.

Also

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Awilda%27s_Gun

Is an easy to get Gun that can be used to level up marksmanship.

You may need to use a high level gun if your skill is sub 200.