Best Attachment for partyFollow

For Sharpshot, in a merit party, these are the attachments I use that either benefit the party or boost DD capabilities:

Attuner/Tension Spring II/Flame Holder
Scope/Turbo Charger
Optic Fiber/Flashbulb
Target Marker/Heat Seeker/Coiler

Defensive attachments are left more to personal preference, and I change them up from time to time, so they aren't really all that note-worthy.

I typically keep up Wind >> Thunder >> Fire. When it comes time to fire off an Armor Piercer, I try and work a Dark Meneuver into the rotation in lieu of the Thunder Maneuver. Of course, if timing won't permit, I'll put it in anywhere. Depending on mob HP at time of WS, I may activate Flashbulb or Ventriloquy off.

With my attachment set up, it's probably best to run Thunder >> Thunder >> Wind most often for the big boost to Double Attack(the gains for Coiler are better than the gains for Turbo Charger going from one to two Maneuvers), but you have to watch puppet TP more closely and be ready to Retrieve/Deploy as necessary to prevent being forced into a Daze.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 11:33am by order

Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 11:34am by order

See also these other relevant recent threads:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?fjob=18&mid=1265249936318335899&num=10&page=1
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?fjob=18&mid=1271042065145698428&num=4&page=1

Since apparently nobody else uses thunder/wind/thunder for automaton TPing, here's why I do. 2x Thunder and 1x Wind plays off of the biggest tiers of increases for coiler and turbo charger which are going to be your two big TP gain attachments.

Stat increases 
		Coiler		Turbo Charger 
Neutral		+5% DA		+5% Haste 
1 maneuver	+5% DA		+10% Haste 
2 maneuvers	+15% DA		+5% Haste 
3 maneuvers	+15% DA		+5% Haste

Relative increases (DoT) 
		Coiler		Turbo Charger 
Neutral		+5% 		+5.26% 
1 maneuver	+4.76%		+11.76% 
2 maneuvers	+13.64		+6.25% 
3 maneuvers	+12%		+6.67%

Note that for the Turbo Charger I'm assuming a 0% haste baseline for the DoT increases. Pet haste+ in gear will increase those values but not change the overall point of the chart. It would be impossible to get so much haste that subsequent maneuvers will provide more DoT than the first due to increasing returns from haste, due to the unbreakable 80% haste cap. (40/30 = +33.33%, 25/20 = +25%)

Having double thunders also incidentally helps the next two important TP gaining attachments, target marker and heat seeker. And you will need that acc+ because sharpshot has a pretty poor melee hitrate.

Fire maneuvers aren't helping your TP gain. Armor Piercer is going to account for 50% of your total automaton damage, so your maneuvers will be best spent trying to increase the frequency of those. Light maneuvers for optic fiber don't do much either, since the boost to all attachments is relatively tiny compared to the boost you'd get from the one maneuver you need for TPing.



Edited, Apr 22nd 2010 7:01pm by bsphil

Turbo charger, dear god get a turbo charger. Scope too, no reason not to have that one at least.

And i second thunder/wind/thunder rotation

Also i think new weapon skills are lvl 49.....or 45 its been awhile since i checked

Edited, Apr 23rd 2010 6:53am by xxAnikalxx

Its Lv.49 for Daze/Cannibal Blade which are 150 skill and Knockout is Lv.50 for HQ and Lv.51 for SW. For AP/Bone Crusher its 71 or 245 skill, but Magic Morter is gained at 225 Melee skill on the mage frames, Its Lv.71 for Harlequin Frame/head, Lv.74 for SW Frame + Head, and Lv.75 for the Soulsoother and Spiritreaver.

So....pertaining to Sharpshot, Do I actually need Turbo Charger? or is it more of a "luxury" to have, luxury defining as its a great addition but not something I need to 100% halt everything I"m doing in order to get it lol. Also, I got a Drum Magazine soooo long ago and I was just wondering is the Racc- worth the amount increase of Ranged attacks? It seemed not really worth it with Scope being the only attachment with a form of Racc+ but did Coiler just create DM as somewhat useless to have due to the increase of TP gain through DA? Any Advice/Suggestions appreciated thx :)

Oh ok Thx :D Yeah It'll be my next purchase for pup when I actually feel like making about 3M, its 1.1M for it on my server and I'm only missing that and Tranquilizer(I know its important D:) which hit 2M lmao...before the new pups came (lol..) I temperally quit for like 3months and they were both like 600kish lol >< so my life sucks :)

Was just wondering about Drum Magazine because I never found it useful and I didn't know if anyone had actually used it but you answered my question so thx for the info ^^; well I better start cooking again for my gil again lol...

not a whole lot of parsing in here but, http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?fjob=18&mid=1243963309285571261&page=1