Corsair SJ, having trouble deciding.

[Soul Side]

I'd do

1-10: WHM

11-27: WAR or RNG

28-59: NIN

60-75: NIN or RNG

NIN just for dual weilding Archer's and it seems like COR would be a good puller as the rolls barely take time to cast and last a good while, and A skill in evasion. Once you hit 60 you get Barrage which besides the accuracy traits would be the only real draw for a RNG subjob, Sharpshot sucks.

[Maxxthepenguin]

Sharpshot sucks.

Not anymore :wink:

[XxSlusherxx]

Sharpshot sucks.

Not anymore :wink:

1 min out of every 5 min = sucks it could be acc garunteed 100% and it would not be worth subbing

[Maxxthepenguin]

Sharpshot sucks.

Not anymore :wink:

1 min out of every 5 min = sucks it could be acc garunteed 100% and it would not be worth subbing

Of course that alone is not worth subbing for, but that + barrage + quick shot (or whatever its called) + acc bonuses is most definately worth subbing for.

[Awoir]

Will mnk mnk mnk cor brd rdm be viable is all I want to know

[Soul Side]

Sharpshot sucks.

Not anymore :wink:

If it was 3 minutes like Aggressor, it would be good. If Racc wasn't broken in the first place, it would be good. But seeing as how in limbus last night I still missed 3 barrages completely and a Sidewinder with sharpshot on, it sucks.

[XxSlusherxx]

sounds to me like /whm /nin and /war are the best subs.

whm for support

war for DD (berserk > SS/BARRAGE)

nin for pulling, racc weapons

[Maxxthepenguin]

Is berserk really better than SS, Barrage, Acc bonus, Rapid shot (yeah I remembered its name)? I'd say most definately no, especially since one TP gaining is very important for those levels. A chain opener is vital during those levels, and with the skill COR will have it will need the help from RNG skills to be reliable.

[XxSlusherxx]

Is berserk really better than SS, Barrage, Acc bonus, Rapid shot

yes

[Maxxthepenguin]

Is berserk really better than SS, Barrage, Acc bonus, Rapid shot

yes

Well, it will be interesting to see how it all works out then wont it.

[Ankiseth]

From 20-30 there are only 2 really viable subs for a lot of melee geared jobs, RNG and DRG and most people don't really understand this.

RNG offers Accuracy Bonus at Lv10, which ups both melee and ranged acc.
DRG offers Attack Bonus at Lv10, which if you're good on accuracy this is fantastic. In addition it offers Jump, which again if you have good accuracy you almost never miss.

If you aren't counted on for voke, I'd say these are the best two bets if you are going for melee. I went MNK/DRG from 20 to 37 and destroyed the hell out of stuff and missed a total of 3 jumps in all 17 levels. At 30 might want to switch to WAR for berserk if accuracy is okay, otherwise keep RNG for that reason.

[Robert]

At least the COR card moves look cool.

[Navia]

I've leveled thf, drk and sam to the 20-30s with their less than 'A' ranged abilities duoing with an equal leveled mage as a partner so my personal instinct is to go with cor/rng.

If a drk/rng with their craptastic E rated crossbow can get to 25 in an evening or two from scratch focusing on worms and flying creatures, a cor/rng with a B rated gun is going to rape the same mobs and level much faster (especially with xp bonus roll).
At higher levels I think cor can put up enough damage to draw hate with /rng even

[Quixotic]

I've always leveled all my melee jobs 20-30 with /rng or /drk (DRG isn't even unlocked yet, otherwise that would be the best choice).

On the topic of /rng as a possible DD sj:

berserk definitely eclipses sharpshot, barrage, acc bonus, and rapid shot. Take it from a RNG main, barrage is unreliable, sharpshot recast is too long to be truly useful for a rng sub and its only a 30 second duration, 1min duration is only for RNGs with AF pants equipped. When you have A- level skill, +80-90 racc from gear along with all your acc/racc up traits and you still miss barrage, something is broken, so why would you take a random chance at extra TP once every 5 minutes, instead of +25% damage 40% of the time.

Rapid shot is shit, your shooting delay is removed yes, but you still have the delay from actually pulling our your bow/gun to shoot. Acc bonus won't matter THAT much for a lot of people because a B rated weapon will hit just fine using sushi and gear revolved around using sushi under normal conditions (i.e. mobs that aren't IT++).

And I will say that sharpshot still sucks because even if I fired from far away and landed, the damage will be somewhat random; if i stood close, great, i landed my shot, but it did crap damage. A proper ranger will always be in the correct spot with the most racc and damage and should be landing 85%-ish of his/her shots anyways. Its great for that .5-1min out of every 5 minutes when you're fighting kirin or KB.

[Robert]

so cor gets rng ws without /rng