/ra hands? (other than CFG)Follow

Outside of Abyssea, its stack racc is usual. You should look into getting praeda shoes to replace +1 feet. Also sky is rpetty cake, so getting the gloves shouldnt be any harder the obtaining paeda really. Id stick with af3 all around. Crit bonus benefits ranged attacks a lot more now then it use to especially in abyssea.

Snap shots only good if you have a snap shot set, I personally dont due to the fact I have to much gear as it is on COR to begin with.

Thanks for the input.

Yeah I guess I don't really see when to use Snapshot. Perhaps I should visit the Porter Moogle and just store the Relic hands to save some space... Does anyone here actually put a Snapshot build to good use, and if so, what do you use it for - Odin in Einherjar maybe, some of the new Voidwalker stuff perhaps? Would Courser's Roll ever make a less than full Snapshot set more worthwhile? I guess such a build would include things like:

Head - Aurore or Zha'gho Barbut
Hands - Commodore
Waist - Impulse Belt
Back - Navarch's Mantle
Legs - Navarch's +1/+2

I suppose for now I'll just stick to Trigger when I don't need R.Acc, and Navarch's if I do need to up the Acc a bit. Though honestly, I don't really feel like I'm wanting for R.Acc very much with stuff like Navarch head/body and a couple R.Acc+4 earrings, and if I'm ever actually shooting for TP I'd be eating R.Acc food anyway. I already go a little heavier on damage over R.Acc in gear by choosing stuff like Jalzahn's/Rajas and Qiqirn Collar over pure R.Acc options, and I always waffle on Libeccio versus Terebellum for back (though the tiebreaker usually lands on Libeccio for the Recycle).

Praeda look interesting, guess I'll work on getting those too. But the set bonus is a little less impressive considering that regain from Atma/Tactician's Roll does mess things up a bit for a traditional x-hit build.

Maybe I'll get CFG, but I'm not really making a big deal out of it since I don't get into that many situations where I need to shoot for TP/damage. If it happens, it happens. Not gonna go sky-crazy just for that though. If it was just for getting to 100tp fast, I guess Navarch hands or the Praeda set would be ideal anyway.

Is this inside or outside AByssea?

Inside Abyssea I almost never shoot. Between Tactician's roll, QD and Sea Daughter Atma, I get to 100 TP almost too fast to bother shooting. Additionally, inside Abyssea, if I'm on COR its mostly to provide tactician's roll for the red proc'ers or fast cast roll for the yellow proc'ers. My damage output is generally superfluous. Speed of most NM kills in my experience is largely dependent on speed of obtaining red and yellow weakness proc. What hands I'm wearing won't change that.

For trash mobs (i.e. dom ops parties) I just go COR/DNC and DW Twilight Knife and Yhatagan with DA/haste gear, RR/VV/apoc atma and use evisceration.

Outside Abyssea I'd look at store TP if X-hit is your thing. You shouldn't really need AF3+1 against most things in Vanadiel with 350 marksmanship skill. So Praeda is an option if you have feet and need 5 STP for an Xhit build. Otherwise Trigger is a good compromise to CFG. Sadly some of us play on 360 so we can't do the Snapshot -> switch to RATT gear macro swaps.

Have you try Voidwatch NM yet?

I haven't really get into it(really haven't play much nowadays), just randomly helped twice when it was out, but from what I've heard:

1.COR is really useful for this new event.

2.Even A rank melee jobs need sushi/hunters roll.

So I can imagine by next half an year, main game content may focus towards outside NM and acc become relevant again. Don't give up racc pieces just yet XD

I haven't jumped into Voidwatch yet, but interesting to hear the input.

Tying this back to the topic question... if what Afania says re: need for Acc even on A rank jobs, that seems to point to Navarch's +1/+2 as an ideal hand choice due to the large amounts of R.Acc.

Edited, May 23rd 2011 12:27pm by Anza

Not yet. But if they are nasty NM's that need RACC, I'm fine with that. Have all this RACC gear I barely ever need to equip.

I'd love a fight that required COR buffs and a need for slugshot once again. But right now our LS is still working on Empyrean stuff and New Dyna.

I can't say i do either. I rarely get to play COR, but when I do now its the 'Gun Mage' approach using MAB build and atma's Quick drawing, Leaden Saluting and buffing RAing inbetween if viable - also I'll take up Haste duty aswell. I got all my +1 for COR from redundant drops and a couple of +2 pieces that I actually think matter (inc the boots obviously).

Abyssea changed the way COR is played on a massive scale (introducing 2-3 different ways to play the job that beat the Slug/Det style), but it does look like more 'old skool' style playing will take place post abyssea.

Totally agree, as a macro piece for Tactician's it is amazing.

~Ath