The Pirates' Lair: A Guide To Corsair

it would be asked to sub whm and main heal a CP party.

QD gift still isn't fixed, only getting 35 second recast.

I'm shocked.

What's the best option for replacing one of the -5 delay pieces?

I have a sinking feeling that this might be the cap.

Taeon Chapeau: DEF:100 HP+36 MP+23 STR+16 DEX+23 VIT+16 AGI+23 INT+16 MND+16 CHR+17 Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10 Evasion+44 Magic Evasion+53 "Magic Def. Bonus"+2 Haste+8% Critical Hit Rate +2%

+20 Magic Attack Bonus (no debate on adding that), but +10 AGI, +20 Magic Accuracy, +8 Recycle, or +3% WSD. Might get rid of recycle on my hat for +20MAB, +10AGI, +3%WSD.

Rawhide Vest: DEF:130 HP+59 MP+44 STR+30 DEX+35 VIT+26 AGI+30 INT+25 MND+25 CHR+25 Accuracy+15 Attack+15 "Magic Atk. Bonus"+25 Evasion+49 Magic Evasion+64 "Magic Def. Bonus"+6 Haste+4% "Triple Attack"+2%

No real path that will help QD damage.

Rawhide vest is easier to swap since you don't have to deal with the STUPID augmenting system. But Taeon chapeau would be better overall since it can get more AGI which means more M.acc (2 AGI = 1 M.acc) therefore less resists.

By the way, they sneakily fixed the phantom roll recast while under XI roll, which is nice.

Wasn't a sneaky fix, was in the update notes.

Woot, got +17 STR/AGI augment on Doomsday ;p

Anyone got info on how arendsi fleuret/demersal degen would do?

I am also curious about this.

Anyone have more updated gear sets? Haven't played in a few months and there's a lot of Eschan gear now.

*** if I know. I haven't been able to be on corsair for events more than twice since early spring. With our small group mules end up being corsairs and I end up black mage, ranger, and samurai all the time.

At least I can now lockstyle my corsair gear (including Death Penalty) on ranger and pretend.

Pew pew...

*sigh*

Seha said that (s)he will update the front page set on the next major update or the last one. It is understandable since it can be frustrating to keep up / wait for items to be loaded to this site.

As far as Leaden Salute is concerned, I tested it a while back and found Taeon with 10 AGI augments to have a commanding lead over 3% WSD ones. Even pursuer gloves down the AGI path were superior to Taeon, even considering the higher possible MAB on Taeon. For Wildfire, I believe Taeon and WSD will be superior, since it doesn't have the colossal 100% AGI modifier that Leaden does.

I'm using Pursuer's with 10 AGI. Easier than getting stuff on Taeon, and is a total of 27 AGI and 20 MAB.

Ya, I've been playing with AGI more since Recycle was to save Orich bullets (shits hard to come by on Quetz unless you're a crafter).

Can use Lak. Hat +1 and Chas. bottes +1 if you want to reduce elemental resists.

I feel you there. Orichalcum is basically non-existent on Sylph. I'm considering stacking the crap out of Recycle solely for them.

Aiming for mab/macc 20, ws acc 20, agi 10 for taeon wf and leaden build

Thanks for posting this. Gotta try and get some Escha going. I completed the first Rhapsodies patch and stopped playing for a bit.

MAB/Macc caps at 15. You can get 20 of MAB or MAcc on their own, though.

So question about snapshot. Taeon can get +10 each, but we have a couple JSE pieces that offer that. Cap is 80%, right? How easily can we reach it? Anytime I have to play as a ranger instead of as a melee I feel like I do so little, and would really like to get this together.

If 80% is the cap, flurry would be 15%, so we need 65% from gear? Empy cape is 6.5%, impulse belt 3%, so max taeon of +50 is still a few short, yes? There any snapshot neck/earring to fill that gap? That's probably close enough it's not a huge deal, though. Are there any pieces that rival/beat max augmented taeon here?

Nahtirah Trousers are +9%
Iuitl Wristbands (+1) are +10% and can be augmented with more.

Aurore Beret +1 is +5%, maybe +10% since the item doesn't actually have a "%"
Lanun Gants +1 say +9, so again that could be +18%.
Chas. Culottes +1 say +7.

Looking at the BGwiki page it has Iuitl Wristbands+1 at 5% with only a 3% max augment, is that wrong?

Or are you saying that sometimes snapshot is listed inaccurately on the pieces?

Not sure that wsacc helps for WF/LS, the WS itself doesn't miss, it can only be resisted, and I don't know that wsacc would help with resists

Matsui issued a couple posts on Snapshot a while back that states:


And


However, this claim has long since speculated to be incorrect, and that the cap is, indeed, 80%. I also believe it to be 80% based on circumstantial evidence; I currently carry about 60% Snapshot on RNG, and notice a very clear difference between having Flurry (75% total) and Flurry II (90%, capped at 80%) active on me. So, I would say there's no real harm at aiming for 80%, despite SE's claim otherwise.

That said, I currently don't have the means to actually test a full 80% snapshot gear build, so "easy" is relative. It is pretty easy to aim for on RNG (10% from merits is already a good start, and perhaps an extra 10-22% from Velocity Shot, if it actually factors as a Snapshot value), but COR needs to shell out a bit more to hit that. You can get a full 50% from fully augmented Taeon, and another 5% from JP gift, 3% from Impulse Belt, 6%(?) from Navarch's Mantle and 6% from Haverton Ring. That's 70% already, but the last 10% is gonna come from 7% Doomsday augment and 6% Acinaces, which is kind of a waste of a main-hand. The biggest obstacle is pretty much putting out enough money for Dusk augments on Taeon, but I don't think there's anything that gives more Snapshot per slot.


Since the old errata was replaced with visible numbers, they were meant to be taken at a 1:1 ratio. So, when it says +5, it's really just +5%. Players only believed otherwise because they thought it meant +1 to RNG's merit category, which was a 1:2% ratio, but there has been no evidence to suggest this is true.

Iuitl were actually tested, though, and while the testing was deemed to be possibly inaccurate, I kind of doubt it'd be off by a factor of 2. Of course they could have changed their method of labeling on items released since then, but for those in particular it seems that the 1:2 rule is correct.

I wouldn't really recommend using Doomsday as a source of Snapshot unless you happen to get it and you're past your level of patience for augmenting.

Has anyone tested the new rolls?

Glad to see snapshot was brought up, as I'm curious as to how up-to-date the OP is in regards to it. I'm working on my COR again and want to make sure I have the best of the best. Would anybody be willing to share the best snapshot set as of now, excluding dusk augments from Taeon? I'm willing to make a leaf slot snapshot, but dusk needs to remain AGI for my MAB set. I currently have 7 sets of Taeon, so I really can't justify an entire new set for solely snapshot. Thank you in advance for any assistance.

I know Pursuer's can get snapshot, maybe check that out.