Corsair gear, is it really this tough?

[Kyreth]

At 34, I was happy with my Federation gear (+14 RAttk, rowr) and at 43, my Iron Musketeer's Gambision. And Mage's Cuffs, etc.

Now I'm Cor 50. Aside from Shikaree and the usual rings, belts- what's a modestly financed Corsair (ammo eats my soul and my money) to do gear up prior to/during getting your AF? I don't really see too much COR gear that helps me...well, shoot things better other than the superexpensive stuff.

[shukuffxi]

At 34, I was happy with my Federation gear (+14 RAttk, rowr) and at 43, my Iron Musketeer's Gambision. And Mage's Cuffs, etc.

Now I'm Cor 50. Aside from Shikaree and the usual rings, belts- what's a modestly financed Corsair (ammo eats my soul and my money) to do gear up prior to/during getting your AF? I don't really see too much COR gear that helps me...well, shoot things better other than the superexpensive stuff.

There's no zomg awesome gear really. Keep your R.Acc as high as you can, and use the best bullets you can. /cry when you hit Steel Bullets at 19,000g/99 bullets if you don't craft them yourself/have a friend who will craft for you. Since the update, your buffs are even better than before. Your DoT is nothing special on non-piercing weak mobs, fastest you can get TP, the faster you can Slug Shot

[riddaraan]

Too bad COR can't wear Homam Cosciales.

[Kerberoz]

Make sure to pick up a Gun Belt and Beater's Earring. There's not a whole lot of choice in COR gear until 70+ though. It's faster to shoot for TP than to melee at that level so just worry about r.acc for a bit.

[Sylphet]

Levels go by fairly quickly at that level still and you'll be in AF before you know it so I honestly wouldn't worry too much about your gear now.

(The following is assuming you'll be /RNG and shooting)

AF feet, body, and head are all good and you can fill in the blanks with Jaridah legs and hands. Then you're basically stuck in that until the 70s where you'll (hopefully) have Crimson, Pahluwan, Dusk, and Skadi gear which can all help out. The rest of the gear is pretty self explanatory. Load on on all the Racc you can find and make sure to take advantage of the /RNG latent gear.

[Kylen]

Noct +1 -> Jaridah/Akinji -> AF are pretty much your best options for gear at those levels. Deadeye Gloves are good too if you shoot for TP. Enjoy your free inventory space while you can; at 70 if you go the Joyeuse route you get to worry about managing a melee gear set, ranged/barrage set, Slug set, and a Quick Draw set.

[LinktheDeme]

Only things for corsair that would be hard would be skadi stuff and the legs from ashuf talif

[Kisetai]

My cor is lvl 60 at this moment and up until about this point I didn't really find many good gear options (aside from the awsomeness that is Gun Belt). Especially from about 50-55/56 it was pretty painful as mobs seem to get much tougher while for those levels there's really not much room for gear improvement. Just do your best to stick it out til 56 for AF boots and then 58-61 for AF body, Spectacles, AF hat, Deadeye Gloves, Trailer's Kukri and Amemet Mantle+1, it's worth the wait.

[Kyreth]

Yep, that's where I was at. 50th and the gear options just seem to be a desert until AF, unless I want to spend 2 million on a piece of gear.