Lack of gear available holding you down?Follow

Hello fellow COR!

I am writing this because I am having a problem acquiring a specific piece of gear for my level 30 COR, and being as much of a completist as I am I will not join another party on COR unless I obtain a Beater's Aspis first. As you can see here none have sold on the AH for more than 6 months now. I have gone to great lengths to obtain one even going so far as offering people who would join me on a BCNM 30 (Toadal Recall and Dropping Like Flies) run to keep everything but the Beater's Aspis if it drops, but, to no avail. Nobody I know is willing to even try these 2 level 30 capped BCNMs, and the months keep going by with not a single one on sale. I know this because I have been verifying the AH everyday religiously, since August 2008, when I reached level 30 on COR.

Anyway, on to the meat of the post:

Has there ever been a time when you didn't go forward with leveling a job because you never obtained a certain piece of equipment?

I'd skip it too. Evasion +2 is not something a COR has much use for. Even on pulls, if you shoot from close to max distance you really shouldn't get hit too much.

Personally I've never been one to wait for a specific piece of gear. There really aren't that many pieces that are game-changing on their own. I remember on my way up as a COR, I didn't have the assault rank to buy a shark gun at 60 and got stuck with a crappy gun for a while. Then I dinged 68 or so and started camping AH for a martial gun and couldn't find a single one till I was 75 (this was a few weeks, not like I zoomed to 75 in a day). Also had trouble getting a peacemaker for the longest time. Have all 3 guns at my disposal now though.

I could see a COR waiting on a martial gun or a PCC but an evasion shield? You really don't need it. But yeah if you're always waiting on getting the gear before the level you'll never ding 75. My COR has been 75 for.... I wanna say 5 months now. I've got all the good limbus stuff, whands, denali head and body but I'm still working on skadi and a bucc belt etc.

Aww...

I thought this thread was going to be about the complete lack of non rare/ex decent leg pieces for CORs to Melee in.

I'm just really sick of my Vendor's slops... They're so ugly.

While I admire your completionist attitude, trying to get a Beaters Aspis is pretty pointless.

It looks stupid. EVA +2 does little for a job with lol D ranked EVA skill and did I say it looks stupis already?

Personally I will only delay levelling if the piece is a) extremely important to the job and b) reasonably attainable.

It took me a while to get a Joyeuse but I wasn't going to stop playing COR for that. However I did stop playing to raise funds for all the dice. I did stop playing until I got a Paluwhan Body because that was obtainable with some effort. I don't have CFG, or most endgame equips because my schedule really limits my ability to play endgame things. So I'm not going to forego playing COR becasue I can't get all that nice endgame gear. For many things there are reasonable alternatives, esp for a versatile job like COR where the emphasis is purely on numbers. That being said, I may end up joining a Dynamis shell just to work on a few relic pieces that seem pretty important (tricorne and body piece esp).

Tell me about it,....

Martial Gun (I'm surprised the price doesn't sky rocket due to demand)

Gun Belt

and Beaters Earring all took a ton of AH Camping for me to aquire.

I wouldn't bother with the shield at all,

IMO the +3 def from the easier to find Varlet's Targe is a bigger benefit than the +2 eva from Beater's.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5349

Edited, Feb 2nd 2009 4:11pm by aerynsuun