What did you get (MKE Style)Follow

So beccause things lately have on this board have been pretty serious, I thought I would liven stuff up a bit. MKE has been out for a bit and I know some of you have it completed or are clsoe so what did you get.

I finally boiled it down to WS ACC+15 Str+4 Racc+10 Ratt+5.

Also did anyone else have a hard time hitting the moogle with ranged attacks??

I'm pretty happy with the +25 acc. I was landing slug consistently without food /war on birds with it. Im gonna work on getting dusk pants which should end my acc issue with slug on /war.

Just wish that hat wasnt so ugly.

I'm planning on going with +15 WSACC, +4 STR; +4 AGI, +WS DMG.

This is mostly to give it more utility on my other jobs (NIN and THF); but also because I want to wear my Cor Tricorne (hopefully +1 soon) for ranged attacks...not because it is better than the +10 RACC MKE noggin, but because it looks 10000% better.

Went with WSAcc and WSDMG.. And I think getting Skadi's Bazubands only makes that a better choice (+5 AGI instead of -6 on pure damage hands). All the Raac improvements were going to let me exchange a piece for pure damage anyway (AF +1 Tricorne and Bottes, Cuirie, 12 Raac ring opposit Rajas instead of 11, and 8 Raac from Commodore Belt).. Now with 15 Raac and 4 AGI, the 17 total Raac from this Anwig Salade easily trumps AF+1's 11.

I'm tied to sushi, as without sushi a Haste set-up is going to have a poor hit-rate even if /Rng.. So pushing Anwig Salade towards damage while still besting AF+1 by 6 Raac seems logical. Can't go wrong with this decision though, as the math in the other thread suggested.

went STR/WSacc plus Racc/Ratt myself. Liked the idea of being able to slug reliably in my STR rings (both of them). Plus its a better shooting for TP piece than AF+1 hat even.

Also liked that on /mage, I can push my racc total to insane heights if needed. I already use 3 palettes per sub on COR so I have the max racc slug on my main /mage palettes (the STR-heavy one on main for /rng /nin /dnc and /war) and if I scroll down one palette, I have the opposite slug macro on the same ctrl-number so I can easily switch between the two as I deem necessary.

As for the moogle boss, I think I missed a few shots on him and pretty sure I missed a slug but our fight was just chaos from start to finish (it's on YouTube lol). The SAM got hit by some type of amnesia apparently and lost hate immediately. What resulted was a kite fest. I think the fact that mob was constantly moving (often further away from me and out of my sweet spot) gave me a few issues. Plus the knockback move interrupted me more than once.

Also, as for other jobs I have 3 others than can use. RNG (win), THF and my rarely-used NIN (well i use RNG rarely now too). For THF, this anwig clearly beats OHat for WS (even with the racc/ratt augments) and imo tops enkidu's cap (which I had JUST gotten 3 days prior... is now borderline useless lol). I use anwig for shooting on THF (i'm a big fan of status bolts) and it's (slightly) superior to Ohat there also.

Edited, Jul 31st 2009 12:46am by TDGSW

I'm not sure where you got these figures.

AF+1 is STR 4, AGI 4, RACC 9
Anwig is STR 4, WS ACC 15, RACC 10, RATT 5

So for straight shooting the relevant stats are AGI 4 vs RACC 1, RATT 5.
That's kind of a wash.

Where the Anwig wins is in WS where it adds the extra 15 to WS ACC and blows AF+1 out of the water.

So I just got mine tonight, I chose Anwig with WSAcc + RAcc over Champion's because I love my COR more than I love my WAR in the long run. I've been trying it out, and so far I'm in love. I do need to finally get back to meriting on COR and I can't wait to see how it goes.

I think a better TP piece would be +3% haste; +10 ACC, 5 attack. I almost went with this.

I agree the WS version is a bigger upgrade than the TP version. I was just saying 5% haste and 4 dex isn't as big a boost to DoT as 10 ACC, 5 attack, 3% haste for most COR's.

You lose 2% haste, but gain ~5% DoT boost going from ~86% acc (4 DEX 5% haste Salade + average gear set) to 90% acc and a little attack. It would take unrealistically high amounts of haste for 2% haste loss from going from turban > salade to cause a 5% loss to DoT.

That being said, I'm going for WS helm too...so I can blink that thing in and out as quick as possible.

For those who happened to go with Weapon Skill Damage does it boost Leaden Salute?

This.

Moron was probably using Denali Bonnet or something.

Denali Bonnet graces the head of many bad players, yes. There is no world where 3 attack is better than 1% Haste.

Also, it's one thing to 'customize' gear, and while there are a variety of ways you can make the MKE head which are not 'wrong', 5% Haste and +2(random stat here) is the absolute weakest combination of stats that you can put on it. you literally gain 1 accuracy from this, or, 0.5% hit rate. It's such a small 'improvement' over Turban that it isn't worth getting. in the face of other possible combinations.

As has been said, mathematically (no opinion involved, just cold, hard facts, backed up by a game built with math, run by math, and supported by math) you will get more out of 3% Haste w/ 10 acc 5 att as a TP piece than a piece with 5% Haste 2 DEX. No amount of railing against the 'bandwagon' is ever going to change that, because it is the way the game is designed. Don't get mad at people giving you advise based on facts.

LOL good job.

I was tempted by the 3% haste 10% acc combo but the killer for me was that snapshot would have been basically a waste. No question it'd be better than a turban for meleeing in and melee is a relative area of weakness for most CORs. The things is though, CORs are not like most DD jobs in game. DoT does not (well... rephrase.. should not) make up the majority of our dmg. WS dmg wins out by a mile, at least in my case. If you use a joyeuse or an mkris, you're geared to WS quickly. If we wanted to pile up DoT numbers, I'm sure a diff weapon would be better but the fact is we want to spam slug shots because that's the heart of our dmg.

I'm of the opinion that a single piece can never have too much racc. If this head piece had WS acc +100 it wouldn't be wasted. You could literally ignore racc in every other spot and pile on STR, rattack and produce even bigger slugs.

As for denali vs turban, not to pile on or beat a dead horse, buuuuut...

You lose 1% haste and gain nothing that helps you damage wise really. Would I wear denali over turban on NIN? Possibly. The def +23, AGI+4 would represent significant upgrades for a tank with just 1% haste loss. But none of those things are helping you land hits as a COR. On a job where melee acc is so hard to cap, I think you've got to take your full haste where you can get it because you don't have the luxury to wear 4~5 pieces of haste gear and still have a good hit rate, even with sushi.