COR + Meat?

[Zoot]

TP:

AF head
Pln. Body
Faith Torque
Blood Finger Gauntlets
Vision Earring
Beater's Earring
Merman's Ring
Merman's Ring
Dusk Trousers +1
AF feet
Gun Belt
Amemet +1

Vulcan's Staff
Coffinmaker+Steel Bullets
Sole Sushi
5 Marksmanship Merits

Before I got my Gauntlets I was using Hume RSE hands and I parsed at about 10 accuracy flat below 85%. After I got them, I was sitting at about 85-86%.

I use Gorget for Slug. I messed around for awhile with adding in STR on WS, and my Slugs went from 900-1000 average to around 600...I kept body, legs and hat, switched out the rest to STR. I fire Slug at 200%.

Meat just really isn't the way to go with COR. Sadly.

[Mikayla]

Sushi is definetly the way to go with COR most of the time. As far as gear setups go /RNG

Ranged TP:

Vulcan Staff + Axe Grip
Coffinmaker/Steel Bullets
Corsair's Tricorne
Faith Torque
Vision/Beater's earrings
Skadi Body
Blood Finger Gauntlets
Jalzahn's + Rajas (Sometimes Behe+1 if more RACC needed)
Amemet+1
Buccaneer's Belt
Skadi Legs
Skadi Feet

Ranged WS:

Vulcan + Axe Grip
Coffinmaker/Steel Bullets
Corsair's Tricorne (Skadi Mask here and there)
Faith Torque
Suppa/Drone (I know I should really invest in something else earring wise)
Skadi Body
Skadi Hands
Jalzahn's + Rajas
Amemet+1
Buccaneer's Belt
Skadi Legs
Skadi Feet


But yeah, Sushi is usually the best option, I've played around with meat some, but usually end up going back to Sushi in the end.

edit: 8/8 Marksmanship merits as well.

[Kirbyprime]

Eh, oh well, guess there goes my hope of being able to use meat. I guess I'll try switching off some R.ACC gear in my slugshot and see if I can crank up the damage that way. Thanks for the help!

[Sonomaa]

COR is not ranger, there seems to be some sort of assumption that because they get slug shot they have the same ranged accuracy traits and the raw agility bonus corsair gets. COR gets rapid shot traits, they do not get any accuracy bonus traits like ranger, which gets four of them. As a ranger I can TP in -acc rings when I forget to hit my macro, while eating meat, and still have a quite respectable accuracy.

And honestly, when people do COR/WHM, dont bother shooting, no r-acc gear, no fucking mas. I hate it when people say "you has bullets, you should shewt!" NO DUMBASS. COR/WHM or Bard with guns as I say is pure support cor, not DD cor, you have to pick, you always get rolls, but you either get DD or MP, not both. RNG is basically the required subjob for shooting, otherwise its a crapshot thats going to miss more than often.

[Zoot]

Only situation I disagree with that in is salvage, because it's so easy to hit stuffs

[Kylen]

And honestly, when people do COR/WHM, dont bother shooting, no r-acc gear, no fucking mas. I hate it when people say "you has bullets, you should shewt!" NO DUMBASS. COR/WHM or Bard with guns as I say is pure support cor, not DD cor, you have to pick, you always get rolls, but you either get DD or MP, not both. RNG is basically the required subjob for shooting, otherwise its a crapshot thats going to miss more than often.

Only situation I disagree with that in is salvage, because it's so easy to hit stuffs

And Nyzul Assault. I usually go COR/WHM with a DD build and sushi to Nyzul; the /WHM is mostly because every damn mob in there spams status effects and it's nice to have 2 people who can erase/paralyna/poisonga/blindna instead of just 1. I don't really need much of an mp pool for status removal spells, and my accuracy and damage are respectable; at least as good as they'd be with /NIN . I suppose /DNC would be as good as or possibly better than /WHM in this case but I haven't gotten around to leveling it yet.

[Sonomaa]

depending on your MP setup, mine gives me massive boats of MP but doesnt leave me much room to carry additional gear. Its really situational, I wouldnt bother trying to shoot at the bosses though, itll be better I stayed full support mode in that situation

[Bakthi]

Skadi legs versus Pahluwan for WS? I'm going to TP in the Skadi, obviously, but I was wondering if the STR on the Pahluwan beat the 5 ratk on the Skadi for WS since COR needs STR so badly. Not that we have heaps of ratk, either, but if I'm meriting on COR it's because someone else is going BRD (whenever I can make that happen).

[Zarath]

What the kitty says rings true about /whm, why I utterly hate seeing CORs sub it in meripo and try to be DD, but it does have it's uses (o yea on Remora, JPs are always like COR HAS TO USE /WHM, fucking pisses me off lol), like in HNMs and what not, it's a trade off imo either need the nas that /whm gives or go /rdm to get the best of both MAB and heals. IMO in merit ur either contributing to damage or pulling, I feel subbing mage is kinda lame in meripo but that's just me.

When I sub mage, I just don't bother shooting and just use Quick Draw most of the time, of course there are those two exceptions but even then I'm never COR unless it's a boss run for Salvage otherwise I'm THF.

I'd WS in skadi for the Store TP+7 which should put u at 17.5 tp (with a raja's ring, which is probably but u never know) when u WS so it's a net gain of 2 TP of when u shoot (assuming ur using coffinmaker, martial gun might be 17.6 but never really calced it lol)

Damage wise, the STR+3 probably will win out... probably, but the difference between the two is so nominal where is the store TP+7 is much more significant.

[Sylphet]

If you're going to melee for TP you pretty much need to use sushi since you will be hard pressed to convince a merit party to let the bard waste a madrigal on you. If you shoot for TP and have a BRD (or better 2) then meat becomes a more viable option and really will increase your DoT. Personally, I both (shoot for) TP and WS in max ranged accuracy gear and there's pretty much always a BRD in party so I will use subs on COR in XP. I'd just like to re-iterate what Sonomaa said: that COR is NOT RNG (this is extremely apparent to me now that I'm leveling RNG), and while I'm a firm believer in playing every job to it's fullest, you also shouldn't have unrealistic expectations about your damage dealing capability. My advice to anyone who's concerned about meat vs sushi is the same for any job really. Use a parser or ask a friend in the party to parse your accuracy and see how you fare. It's always a good idea to bring both (sushi and meat) to a party.

[Callisto]

For those that suggested COR/WAR and Sushi as opposed to /RNG and Subs, I finally got a chance to try it out this weekend, and holy shit is it better, thanks for the suggestion.