Gear choices for COR & RNGFollow

Question for all you COR + RNG's out there.

Recently farmed/scraped together 1.6 million gil and was looking at options to improve my so-so state of gear.

Here are the things I'm missing from AH gear (still working on relic and sky gear, don't really care about salvage gear ATM and will be getting to Nyzul gear sometime when life gets less hectic... yeah right).

In gear slot order:

HF +1 (have NQ HF)
EBow (I know, I'm still short of gil for that, but i could not spend and continue to save up - and keep in mind I'm mostly a marksmanship RNG given capped merits on COR)

PCC (still have specs, but always wanted this item and it's good for other jobs)
Quiqurn collar

Triumph Earrings

Alky Bracelets (have Pallas', won't help RNG and I'm going to be working on CFG soon)

Flame RIng

These are the big ticket items that could improve my gear and for the most part sit in slots that don't have superior Rare/ex gear I could be working towards.

So I'm sort of leaning towards either PCC vs. Alky/Q collar/Flame Ring combo. But any advice is appreciated.

At least this post is better than the "rate my gear posts" of people with every great endgame piece you could wish for lol.

Re: Nyzul and Sky gear.

If you're looking to boost both COR and RNG, sky isn't doing a whole ton for you. There's Crimson/Blood Finger Gauntlets as a piece that really helps both jobs. And Crimson Cuisses for the movement speed+, but that's not something you can't get elsewhere for both jobs (Strider/Trotter Boots for RNG, Hermes' Sandals for COR). That's it. It's possible that your time would be better spent elsewhere. And remember, you can always buy an Osode if you want it for your RNG.

Nyzul... Not sure what you wear on RNG, but Denali body and legs are very good pieces for both jobs. Both are THE best Quick Draw item for COR (outside of a QD-focused Mirke Wardecors, which I assume you won't be getting if you like getting items that help both COR and RNG). Both are also good pieces for ranged attacks on either job, though your unknown RNG gear here is relevant (e.g. Relic legs for RNG beat Denali).

I'd personally recommend taking some pick-up runs on Floors 40 and 80 for Denali pieces. It's such a short event that it's easy to fit into a busy schedule. COR is great in there too, especially on boss floors to buff some zerging melees. I static with WHM, COR/DNC, and 4 melees (some combination of 1-2 SAM, DRK, THF, BLU). Works great.

As for the R/E stuff, yeah I vote PCC above the other stuff you mentioned. QQ Collar second place.

Edited, May 28th 2009 4:01pm by Anza

Well I think it boils down to what are you really gonna be playing the most. Yes you can do both but its gonna cost you/take up more time.

I think a Hellfire+1 would be good for your RNG if your gonna stick to Marks over archery. Also I would recommend getting your ACP body and make it Acc+10 Ratt+10. This will make a decent shooting body for RNG and COR and good WS body for COR, possible RNG (not sure if K osode is better for rng or what.)

If you have specs then Id suggest Q collar over PCC. You can get a PCC pretty easily from the BCNM/camping so id get the Q collar first.

Triump Earrings are an excellent choice and would highly recommend them.

Alky brac I wouldnt really worry about for COR. Id take barbrossa or Crimson over them for the racc, unless your confident your gonna be landing det with Alkys.

Overall get the triump earrings first.

Well I think it boils down to what are you really gonna be playing the most. Yes you can do both but its gonna cost you/take up more time.

Well COR is my main, but I like RNG and will try to use it as something different when COR gets a bit monotonous. I do have an ACP body with RATT/RACC so its certainly no slouch for a body piece for COR or RNG. Big difference over my P.Body.

And why are triumph earrings such an excellent choice? I get that earring choices generally suck for RNG and COR, but all the work I've done on the WS calculator suggests they make a very small difference over Drone.

Admittedly a PCC makes a very small difference over specs, but I can use PCC for other jobs, capped events etc where they are very powerful.

Right now I feel my mog satchel has handled all my space needs for the time being.



Admittedly Nyzul doesn't take much time but I find alot of pickup groups want experienced Nyzul people only. So its not as easy as setting aside an hour to do it. Whereas Sky occurs regularly in my LS so I know when to set aside RL time to get involved.

I also thought about using the money to buy a wyrmal abjuration from another LS, but I would rather earn them with my sky group.

This has been my impression working with the WS calculator spreadsheet. Its very much a 2:1 thing 1 STR ~ 2 AGI or 2 RATT at normal level 80 mob levels.

That's why I'm not so keen to chase after Triumph earrings. Drone is so close as to make it a ridiculous expenditure of money.