You'll Shoot Your Eye Out! - New FFXI RNG Guide

hehe- I was tired and moderately drunk when you posted- this NA guy had to sleep! <3

I will completely admit that my comment of gandiva vs armageddon white damage during AM3 comes from parsing/eyeballing (both, not trying to say the two are equal) the two weapons in Dyna-D Jeuno runs against the wave2 boss, which my current group has done multiple times in either a ranged strat from the bridge above, or a more standard melee setup (we got a lot of good RNGs and CORs, so even though slower, sometimes we wanna stand on the ramparts and rain down hell).

And in that experience (pretty sure the goblin is piercing neutral), within a max buff situation (definitely could skew the dSTAT issue you mention) I see/parse higher numbers from individual/doubleshot damage with bow. Now in addition to being under a bolstered/Soul Voice situation, I'm also probably closer to the sweet spot for Archery from that distance. For information's sake, my Arma is R15, my Gandiva is R12.

I still prefer Armageddon, though. In particular after RP'ing it for that gross amount of AGI, with just a little STR to make it interesting. I find it the most versatile weapon in our arsenal. Not to mention I will always start from a point of assuming the spreadsheets are correct until proven wrong- its just too easy to make assumptions about damage once in game.

The situation I describe is the only time I've tested the white damage between weapons, and only because I never really feel comfortable with either vs just Savage Blading the mofo(correction: THIS mofo- wave2 jeuno boss) into oblivion, but like I said- sometimes its just fun to rain down hell.

edit: I keep forgetting about that piercing bonus in the numbers...who tests ranger on piercing weak mobs?

What augments do you need to beat Cohort Cloak +1? Herc head and body with 30 MAB and 4% WSD each would beat it? 8% WSD vs 40 more MAB? inb4 situational etc. so assume Dynamis D (the only place where RNG matters).

I feel like I'm missing something. What's with the vampirism and odium in Coronach set?

It's outdated and probably only considered the stat mods

There's been several changes with the introduction of UNM augments to RNG "BiS" sets- do give Kunami a moment to breathe, none of the rest of us career RNGs wanted to tackle maintaining a (very needed) new RNG sticky, and he's doing a helluva job so far.

I'm sure the updates to the Coronach sets will come.

I want to bring up something, might turn into a small debate regarding Trueflight, but here goes.

This is my current Trueflight set. ItemSet 375785

I know the guide was recently updated to have a max augmented Cohort Cloak +1 as best in slot, which I believe was +100 MAB but took up 2 slots? (someone correct me if I'm wrong)

However, my luck with getting just the NQ Cohort Cloak has been pretty bad, so I came up with this set instead.

Both of the Carmine +1 pieces are augmented with MAB, grand total of the two pieces comes to +84 MAB. However, since I'm not using the Cohort Cloak, it frees up the head slot to equip +10% WSD from the Orion +3 head on top of the +10% WSD from the leg slot.

So, +100 MAB & WSD +10% Or +84 MAB & WSD +20%?

Why you use those feet for tf?

Thanks for your, always constructive, input. Everyone be aware, no more gear questions until Celebrindal says it's ok.

Why you use those feet for tf?

More like 42MAB and 10%WSD vs 100MAB if you compare head+body and 84MAB and 20%WSD vs 142MAB 10%WSD if you compare head+body+hands+legs.

You confused something. Hands slot is free for Cohort set too.
Also you are like 72-82 magic accuracy behind with that head+body vs Cohort+1.

You know what? You're absolutely right. Sadly, I can't even cop an NQ Cohort Cloak anytime I try farming it. I'm 0 for 150+ at least. I've received everything else from that UNM, even got a bunch of the 3 rocks too. But Cohort Cloak? NOPE!

I've checked all my Mog House boxes to see if there might be one I may have gotten but didn't remember about it, too. None.

ugh that's just evil- I'm sure you're doing it, but always a good idea to hold on to the "wrong" drops while doing UNM until you get what you're after.

Beating AGI+54, macc+110~120, and MAB+100 is almost impossible in any situation that requires legitimate magic accuracy.

I had heard that the gil you get from UNM are a drop that you already have, but I am not certain. I spammed the SSG one for days without seeing the degen, but kept getting a lot of gil so it made sense to me.

Yup. I have pretty great DM WSD augs on Herc head/body - like, unrealistic to assume for most people. And Cohort decimates my Herc set if Macc is relevant.

My relevant augments:
Herculean Helm: WSD+9 MAB+20 Macc+20
Herculean Vest: WSD+8 MAB+11 Macc+11

I dont want to downgrade those augments, but..
Helm is pretty good, but its actually about even with perfect Fern (WSD+5, MAB+35). Body on the other hand is kinda weak. Much below whats possible with Fern.

I haven't gotten proper augment on Herc feet.

And yes, Oseem is on my hate list.

Sure - could do something better with the body, whether awesome Fern aug or some other DM stuff. I'm not trying to claim my gear is flawless, what I have is clearly a solid option though (and FWIW, it has DEX+14 on it too, so I'm pretty thrilled with it for other non-RNG stuff like Rudra's Storm and Blade: Metsu :)) And call it "kinda weak" if you will, but it's still my personal best option (pre-Cohort) than the alternatives for TF/WF, over Samnuha Coat - cuz I don't have a WSD+5%/MAB+35 body.

So is MAB+30 WSD+5% on head and body better than Cohort+1 R15? Assume MAcc+25 on each (-50 difference). Does anyone have parses to show they need that extra MAcc?

I would never use KC if using TF for anything personally. If I'm meleeing I'd go on a DD.

I would be interested to know what MAacc is required for 95% no resist in dynamis. It differs a lot between T3 mobs and NMs and the boss?

i don't own a single piece of gear that uses oseem augments except fast cast pieces