Marches increase attack speed. Ranged attacks are unaffected by this. Madrigals increase attack accuracy. Ranged attacks are unaffected by this.

Really. It’s either Minuet or Prelude.

Current gear outline:

Melee Weapon: Fire Staff (+4STR, R.Attack+10) Grip: Axe Grip (+3 STR) Ranged Weapon: [...]]]> My RNG isn’t even 24 hours old with a decent buffer and it’s already being dragged to events. This is both cruel and unusual. Does everyone REALLY hate my PLD, WAR, and DNC that much?! Erm, anyway.

Current gear outline:

Melee Weapon: Fire Staff (+4STR, R.Attack+10)
Grip: Axe Grip (+3 STR)
Ranged Weapon: Vali’s Bow (STR+3, AGI+3, R. Accuracy +2, R. Attack+23) / Othinus’ Bow (R. Attack +18)
Hat: Hunter’s Beret (R. Attack+5, “Rapid Shot” rate increase)
Neck: Peacock Charm (R. Accuracy +10)
Left Ear: Vision Earring (R. Accuracy +2)
Right Ear: Drone Earring (AGI +3)
Body: Mirke Wardecors (STR+5, AGI+5, R. Attack +10, Snapshot +5)
Hands: Crimson Finger Gauntlets (R. Attack +10, R. Accuracy +10)
Ring1: Behemoth Ring (R. Accuracy +11)
Ring2: Behemoth Ring (R. Accuracy +11)
Back: Amemet Mantle +1 (+2 STR, R. Attack +15)
Waist: Precise Belt (R. Accuracy +5)
Legs: Galliard Trousers (+2 STR, -2 AGI, +5. R. Accuracy)
Feet: Scout’s Socks (R. Attack +10)

This totals to about +85ish R.Attack, more or less depending on the weapon, and +56 R.Accuracy (plus another four traits of Accuracy Bonus, or +48 for over +100 R.Accuracy). According to FFXI Calculator (which I highly suggest everyone use if you play FFXI), this amounts to about 88.8% accuracy on a generic level 82 mob with 350 evasion, which seems pretty good. Eating Pot-au-Feu will easily bump that to 95%, as well increasing R.Attack.

So, yeah. I have both a V.Bow and an O.X-Bow, which has made me take pause. I wasn’t really expecting to get either, and to be a full out gun-and-bullet ranger. So I don’t actually own a gun yet. I’ve primarily used V.Bow for the time being, and it’s worked out well.

Do rangers still use holy bolt setups? I think I can build a decent +MND set.

I like using Scout’s Beret (Recycle trait) instead of Hunter’s Beret sometimes to help save on ammo, especially if I’m just futzing around. Demon arrows are going for 90,000 gil for a stack of quivers at the moment. If I need more accuracy, I have an Optical Hat (R. Accuracy +10) on standby. You can bet your ass that the first thing I’m meriting on RNG is Recycle. Yeah, yeah. “Blah blah should merit snapshot first blah blah you’re a gimp blah blah go die in a fire you gimpy fuckface.” You want to give me free gil, then I’ll merit what you want me to.

Really want to work on those earrings. I don’t like either of them, but RNG has severly limited options there that don’t at least cost millions.

I have Seiryu’s Kote (R. Accuracy+10/AGI +15) for times I can’t use Crimson Finger Gauntlets (in other words, anything with Dragon Killer).

The belt… needs work, for sure. Hopefully my dynamis shell will come through there and get a Scout’s Belt (AGI +5,R.Attack +7, R.Accuracy +7) soon.

The “Kurrea is hard. Well used to be.” Galliard Trousers. Man, I’ve used these stupid pants so much for so many jobs when they’ve hit 75. I wonder if they’re better than Scout’s Braccae (which I don’t have yet, R. Accuracy+7). They seem like they should be, since they’ve got the +STR on them. If anything, they’re a good weaponskill piece.

Speaking of, I’m assuming RNG works like every other melee job in that you want to deck on STR/Attack as much as possible for weaponskilling. I could be wrong here, and maybe I am. I’m still kind of new to this rangering thing. Anyway, I wonder if +3STR (Denali Gamashes) would be better than Scout’s Socks (R. Attack+10). Also, there’s a compounded problem of Sidewinder/Slugshot having an accuracy penalty, which is just kind of cruel. So how much accuracy do I remove in favor of +STR, if any at all?

Anyway, the subjob joice for now is /SAM, since that reduces the amount of projectiles I need to hit 100TP down by one without severe changes, plus Hasso, Seigan, and Meditate are all nice. My goal is to get to be able to come RNG/WAR, I think, while maintaining a -1hit build. Berserk does a really good job at increasing RNG damage, especially when there aren’t BRDs available to do it for you.

But we’ll see. I’m still new to this Ranger thing. It’s kind of exciting, since it’s different. Which, in this game, is hard to come by lately.

Seriously. I look like Gay Pride Ranger there. Red to yellow to green to blue. Anyway, it’s 75 now, making it my fourth 75 \o.O/. Gear analysis shall come later when I’m not exhausted.

Sorry for the downtime yesterday. I’m on a new server now! Still working some of the bugs out. Old [...]]]>

Seriously. I look like Gay Pride Ranger there. Red to yellow to green to blue. Anyway, it’s 75 now, making it my fourth 75 \o.O/. Gear analysis shall come later when I’m not exhausted.

Sorry for the downtime yesterday. I’m on a new server now! Still working some of the bugs out. Old posts can’t be found atm. Dunno why, but I’ll get on that.

You should be able to leave comments and find specific post titles now! Yay!

This is fine. I hate doing it for any number of reasons, but I’ll do it. I went in figuring that this was part of the job, so part of the job it is.

But you need to suck less. You’ve made me directly [...]]]> So, fearless party leader, you decided to make me puller.

This is fine. I hate doing it for any number of reasons, but I’ll do it. I went in figuring that this was part of the job, so part of the job it is.

But you need to suck less. You’ve made me directly responsible for the EXP/hr, and it’s the only job I’m focusing on at this point, so I’m flooring the gas. If we’re at that shitty Colibri camp in Bhaflau at 62 that has Eruca too, then I’m pulling the Eruca if we’re killing too fast (which we should be). Marsh Muerres, Caedarva Leeches, Orderly Imps, I’m pulling all of it if we’re at Caedarva at 57. My job is to keep the EXP high and flowing. Everyone else’s job is to be killing it.

So if everyone else is sucking, it’s not my fault. You can yell at me to slow down all you want, and I’ll probably listen, but you can expect me to log off if we’re dipping below 10k/hr and/or can’t hit Chain #5. Manage your MP, eat cheap food for Colibri, get outside healing, I don’t care how it gets done. It becomes irrelevant if I’m pulling.

So, yeah. Suck less.

Also: Go fucking skill up your weapon so you can stop missing. These parties where BRDs or CORs have to give +accuracy because of underskilled weapons are embarrassing to everyone involved.