The Pirates' Lair: A Guide To Corsair

How about a tricks of the trade section? I'm about 70% done with my gun and have been observing how CORs play. One of the things that keeps me going is perfecting a new job ^^

Some things you can add:

- Having an eleven roll gives you several bonuses such as: resetting phantom roll timer, halving the phantom roll recast, unlimited busting on the 2nd roll.

- In an event such as provenance, most alliance leaders will have the CORs in each party get double 11s while outside the bcnm to save time. Once this is achieved you can lock yourself in a cut scene to preserve these buffs if other CORs are wrestling lady luck to get their 11s.

- When is the best time to use fold? Nowadays the trend seems to be double 11s or go home. Therefore I think it's best to use fold when you get that first bust even if you do have the augmented gear to have a chance to remove double busts, just one bust can ruin your day.

- When is the best time to use snake eye? With the new description on the merit ability this can become unclear. To me personally I would only use it when:

1) My first roll is 10, and I want that initial 11
2) I've busted and used fold, my re-roll is 7+, I'll chance it for that 11
3) I have an 11 roll, I've rolled a 10 or just 1 below the lucky number on the 2nd roll, use snake eye to save time and preserve buff timer on 1st roll

- Logging out or zoning clears bust statuses

Just my humble 4 cents or so, I'm still wrapping my mind around the job so feel free to add or correct anything.

- In an event such as provenance, most alliance leaders will have the CORs in each party get double 11s while outside the bcnm to save time. Once this is achieved you can lock yourself in a cut scene to preserve these buffs if other CORs are wrestling lady luck to get their 11s.

Thaumas hat is 8 more AGI than you have now, take off gloves to see the difference its that easy.

4/5 is +10 AGI for set bonus.

Read all of it. Something I would definately include would be to strive for 11s for Voidwatch. I've seen so many CORs give bs rolls when they can easily reroll/fold/random deal/log off a double bust and use Snake Eye even. A 11 or 11s, makes a huge difference for the DD.

Ultimate is better instead of Lone wolf?

I've never done the math, just eye trials. I've also not done serious Abyssea at all and only hopped in on on Corsair (mostly just popping in to kill the diremite boss for revitalizers) since I got Hell’s Guardian anyhow.

Previously I was using Ultimate/Lone Wolf/Smoldering sky to great effect.

I just figured the massive MAB from Ultimate/Hell’s Guardian would edge out one of the fire affinity ones based on previous results, but again. No math to back that up what-so-ever.

proc tier 2 magic in VW(you shouldn’t, but it happened to me once, never say never! Crazy stuff.)

Notes: AGI Bonus from /BLU beats out the slight MAB increase from /RDM for a slight decrease in QD damage. In Voidwatch, where you'll WF more than you QD, this is worth considering. Also, you can proc some Blue Magic, but whatever.