Marksmanship only accetable at 75?Follow

I'm leveling RNG currently, and plan on going the gun route because Marks merits from THF and COR crossover nicely. Simply put, would I miss E-bow once I switch to HF+1? By miss, I mean a situation in which I'd say, "Damn this gun and its apparently undesirable quality which is holding me back." I'd rather have Sword merits for RDM funsies than Archery merits I'd want as a technicality, but as this is a DD job it gets preference for DD merits.

Also quick rate my gear-esque question, checking if I'm missing anything painfully obvious out of my intended set.

I haven't used archery on RNG in over 4 years.

A RNG friend whose opinion actually counts told me he kinda held /SAM and /WAR equal for most events where he can stay out of imminent danger, so long as you didn't need to go with some of the more lame sTP options to make it happen. He definitely mentioned that sometimes being able to nail a mob (thus pulling hate) was just not the best decision, and if you have to fire a couple times while waiting for the moment to be right, /WAR has your back where /SAM just smiles and looks pretty. This is especially the case for medium length fights (longer than the blink of an eye, shorter than pushing dinner plans due to late window pop), where you would just become the tank if you let Slugwindervoke go whenever you could.

He also said on /WAR he kills every other mob in dynamis, and /SAM doesn't pull ahead and make it every fight unless Meditate/Barrage is up. I could kinda see the argument that you can Med > Barrage > Med to WS one or two more times per pull, is that the kind of thing that makes it pull ahead?


I think I paid too much attention to someone arguing for well played RNG/WAR over RNG/NIN back in the day, and now I'm having trouble seeing it any other way x.x;



Acids or something? Coulda sworn they got resisted... everywhere. I know the merit of debuffing mobs, I just learned that that was for level 70 and under, the sh*t just didn't stick on targets I was handed at 75. SE must have realized how broken Acids are - heaven forbid the THF can contribute by sticking acid, maybe the player base needed a bitch slap to relearn the meaning of TH4.


Lol bawls lightning struck like 50 feet outside my window.

Edited, Jan 20th 2010 10:16am by tertoonetwothreefour

I'm in lonve with my OBow personally. Pretty much only use the HF+1 for zergs. Acids proc very well on most endgame areas except where you are fighting the HNM level mobs or on wind based mobs. Of course that means ToAU mobs like colibri, puks and mamool are resistant but i never take RNG to those mobs. But in limbus, dynamis, sky farming, Nyzul, I'v had no problem sticking acids frequently.

And holies work well on alot of those mobs too.

And as far as gear goes, with marksmanship I find I get more bang for my buck from S. Kote in the hand slot.

Reason to tp in att versus acc? seems like a trade off now other DD would make. Also I think having a 5 hit with Hellfire is why /sam is so amazing for me atleast.

The reason you use Hachiryu Feet is for the STP bonus when paired with Hachiryu Haiadate to cover the STP you lose from Skadi.