Subs For COR?

ANY MAB you can find is worth it
Moldy Earring
Uggy Pendant
Nimhue Tights
Denali Legs
Mirke Body with QD recast down and +4 MAB is a GODSENT

Also... Unless you go Murderer+Supremacy Earring...
I've seen REALLY nice Augments with a Corsair's Gun where they get MAB or M.acc.

My Corsairs Gun wound up getting +2 M.Acc on it when I augmented it in VoS

Also... Don't forget!!! Elemental Staves and Obis!!!!!

Fight it all you want, but it is a useful sub endgame.

I sub RNG and War mostly...sometimes i sub drg in campaign just b/c its fun. WHM for endgame...if you are one of THOSE people but i personally prefer /blm for endgame (especially in sky) I never, under any circumstances use /nin. I hate it. More survivability yes but less of everything else and if u want survivability go /dnc (which is one of the best subs for anything in this game) I also think /blu would be fun but i have yet to try it

I agree. When it comes to endgame situations (especially Dynamis), COR/WHM is the best route, although I've found it hard to get a good mix of AGI along with MP, and in City/Beaucedine Dynamises, I've had no trouble landing Light Shot on mobs using just my Denali Jacket.

130,000 MILLION? and another 580,000 more (million) to go?

Just subs I've tried, haven't tried BLU sub, so not gonna comment on it. It would probably be somewhere between Red Mage and Black Mage I'd imagine though.

I've come to like /SAM more than /RNG.

Meditate is 3min recast not 5min like Barrage and you always get 60TP. Meditate isn't going to miss or only get one or two shots to land like sometimes with Barrage. Ok, ya might get lucky and land more than 60% with a Barrage but I don't think it's worth nearly double the recast time.

With StoreTP job trait from /SAM I get 5 shots to get 100% instead of 6 (with CM or Martial).. could say that saves on bullets a little..

Having Segain/Third Eye gives some protection while on /RNG you have nothing.

The benefit to BLU sub is that you get your buffs like Metallic Body and Cocoon, as well has healing spells.
But you can also set spells for MAB1 and +5 more AGI without taking up any inventory slots!

My personal favourites are probably the ones already explained:

/Rng: When i feel spamming bullets and more accurate slugs.

/Nin: For general use and imo it's the most fun sj.

/Blm: for increased Mab though i only really use this when i'm in a party with my whm friend who sometimes gets recall meriph happy to annoy me <.< warp ftw.

/Whm (yes i do sub this.) Although doesn't mean i like it. I sj whm strictly for dynamis only where i am a support and not for DD. Einherjar and such i prefer /nin due to all the AoEs

/Blu i haven't tried yet but i have heard many many good things.

/Dnc: for merit pts when we have a brd.

/War tried once although i did powerful damage and was extremly fun i also got my *** handed to me on a plate.

/Brd and /Rdm i'm not to find of personally.

Would just like to point out that waltz is slightly not as good as erase as it can't erase bard songs (Stupid brd yags in campaign)

Lol! :P i've not seen campaign in like half a year <.< lol i can't stand the place.

Well I finished off RNG and used it in a party today as a sub for the first time. And yeah... the person that told me Barrage was bad should go play in traffic. My only problem was once I pulled hate I was kinda screwed, haha. Luckily I had 2 DNC's in the PT though, but I'd like to try again but with a PLD instead of a NIN as a tank.

But thanks again for all the help! /rng is one of the coolest things since sliced bread.

Most important subs (probably repost, but just want to reiterate)

/nin: if pulling or in a zone where you need damage mitigation, make sure you have accuracy food and gear to make up for it.

/war: in a merit party or event that you don't fit the above requirements to need to sub /nin. Also recommended to use accuracy setup/food. Best sub for filling a DD role.

/rng: if you want to eat meat or do ranged attacks, the accuracy bonus here helps a ton.

/rdm: if you're in a blackmage party or soloing with quickdraw. Magic Attack Bonus will help, the cures and buffs as well.

/whm: if you are in a situation like /rdm but need -na spells or curaga.

Just my initial thoughts from playing the job the last few years.

*** the haters, but I do /nin in nyzul, /whm in Einherjar, /rng in merit. Dynamis depends on what party I'm in and I sure hope to finish RDM and WAR this month as well, but I exp like once a year :/

/drg don't get enough love for merits. There acc bonus, att bonus, jump, high jump(-50% hate), and +6% HASTE. Cap haste build + M. kriss = sex and with the new ASA pants its pure win. The only thing that make this sub job better is if we can summon parrot.

Your going to kill me for this but currently I'm level 16, raping Easy prey with COR roll and emperor band.. /BST <.<

Getting hurt isn't really my issue. My issue is kill speed.
Its nice just shooting/meleeing the hell out of something while an Akbaba attacks it. For Solo /BST is working out nice,

Necroooooooooooooooooooooo

Bump

Only times you will need /WHM endgame is Wyrms (Jorm, Tiamat)

Other then that, if you need heals, /DNC.

I use /WAR for just about any event.

Ontopic:
If you need the acc, \rng ofcourse.
If you want epeen-numbers, \war by far.
If you want the best overall performance \drg is better as far as I've seen on other cors(working on \drg myself atm). With \drg you'll be able to both cap acc and haste with alittle effort.(as long as you eat sushi)
\nin is situational, when there's lots of nasty aoes is really the only time you should need this.
\whm can be handy, depending on the setup i actually go \whm to mamool camp sometimes.
\dnc -> \whm probably tho, but i dont have dnc leveled.
\blm if you just spam quick draw!

Agi helps quickdraw acc , didnt see anyone mention this

bout time Corsair page gets alil (Bump)
at low lvs /war is awesome. with FoV and treasure caskets soloing is a joke, but e z mode and effective.

/dnc you only have drain samba for a few lvs till COR/DNC lv 30 curing waltz
I myself havent tried /drg but hell seems interesting.

Have you tried /blu?
several cures, cocooon, mettalic body.
even Magic attack @ lv 64.
but im a QD ***.


Corsair is such a viable job, its hard to say what is the best /sub job.
but depending on your play style, race and available leveled /subs
try out what you want till you get in the groove.

:My subs :

/WHM: namis and l.s events because no one in my l.s lv's bard,
Mount Z BLM meripo. ( asesome XP less moving about leeching off BLM's)
/RNG: used in a few missions, solo bird camp.
/SAM: fire staff, Hasso, not as great as rng/sam but works
/NIN: not a big fave but solo has its perks with ninja roll and choral roll + cheaper snk, invis than pots and oils.
/DNC: campaign and Bird camp parties.
/BLM: QD kite
/THF: Evasion set, solo ninja and dancers roll.
/WAR: Campaign and M.gun for big # syndrome.
**Coming soon**
/BLU: Solo
/RDM: QD kite with some defence
/BRD: again because i know no bards.

Lol at metallic body... especially a /blu metallic body

/blm is fantastic fun for soloing NM's, got a 577 watershot (except it had a water obi)


/whm i use for endgame, i rock about 600 MP as a mithra & help with alot of heals

/dnc is what i like best for merit pt's

/rng or /nin should be all u use while lvling though (unles u have an m.kris or joytoy, then /dnc works great

well mettalic body lv 16 or @ still under lvs.
not metttalic body tanking a HNM in the face.
/think alil.
it helps

What about the new agi grip?

Reaver grip +1?

if i can find a +1 on ah or a crafter.

but AGL = Mag ACC+

ele grips give the magic acc+

!!Rovers gloves ! ><

0/9!

Very well summed up subjobs there overall and I decided to bold the /drg part just because you were the first person to mention it in this topic, which I was looking for. :) Just leveled /drg and it feels like a powerful sub ( when you melee tp with multihit weapon) with wyvern earring for added 5% haste, accuracy bonus and jumps are nice extra as well. Haven't got to play around with it much yet and compare numbers though, but it seems good, it feels very solid. Still hard to judge anything based on short meriting session, but gut feeling says it's right. :)

Usually I've went /war.

Note: this was just concerning merit parties and such.

Well you aint using it under 16 /blu...

And max stoneskin for that at lvl 75cor/blu is lol 63. On a spell that takes a full 7 sec to cast and 60 sec recast... yeah it's rarely worth it blu main.

I prefer /RNG, myself, and rarely sub anything else, since I refuse to pull in parties and have found /WHM to be essentially useless due to the low mp.