The Pirates' Lair: A Guide To Corsair

Was in a CP party yesterday of Blm, Blm, Sch, Pld, Geo, Cor on Apex Crabs/Pugs. The Sch was SCing so I could almost afk after rolling. I got so bored I started healing with Waltz.

CP was nice though. Would clear Trizek/Capacity rings in a single kill.

Tbh I've been wanting to do 5 man crab/pug pt and use kupofried for a while. Seems that if COR closes SC with leaden and use 1 nuker instead of 2 it's a lot more efficient than using 2 nukers(or 2 SCH). Leaden+ darkness SC dmg is easy 60~80k total from 1 WS, the highest I've seen was 138k total, that's without additional mattk/darksday buff too, just malaise+ voidstorm. Having 2+ dedicated nukers in the pt are just over kill.

Idk about SCH, but I think it's faster to start SC by having 2 hasted melee do WS too?

Let SCH start SC and have COR roll and afk is also waste of spot IMO, since leaden+ darkness can take out at least 50%~80% of crab/fish's HP, that's enough to replace 1 dedicated nuker with kupofried.

I just got my Herculean Helm today, randomly played around with Aug stones and got



INT+9, MACC+23, MAB+29
Pellucid Stone

RIP Pixie Hairpin+1 T_T

Pixie should still win, honestly. Affinity is absurdly powerful. That is, however, definitely the best you can use for Wildfire and QD when capping recast reduction.

Mind sharing which NM dropped it?

It was the Ixion NM that dropped it.

I just shitpost on this forum instead of not playing, it works a lot better than his approach.

Not in this thread. If you want you can be booted too.

Well that isn't nice at all.

Edit: Just saw noticed that helm can get higher than 35 mattk, my bad.

It has a base of 10mab so it would be 39 mab but that only me doing 10 tries, as seen in other screenshots, might be able to stack more MAB on it D:

As much as I wish Pixie would last forever, these crazy augments on Herc gear might easily replace...well, everything.

Keep the info coming.

This... a quick spreadsheet check and plug in the number from formula on the 1st page showed that 25 AGI and 39 MAB from the helm has higher leaden salute dmg than 28 affinity from Pixie +1.

(time to sell the hairpin :P)

Does your spreadsheet take into account that Pixie is affinity or does it simply consider it to be MAB?

Just double checked, yeah it seems that in the original version of spreadsheet, pixie +1 has mab instead of affinity, which is incorrect.

But even with corrected version, 25 AGI 39 MAB still has higher numbers.

Or you can check with the formula listed on the 1st page:

{[2 * (Your AGI – Enemy INT)]} + fTP * {[152+(WeaponLevel-99)] * 2.45 + (AGI)]} * mab * staff bonus * day/weather bonuses

If player TP 3000 Base AGI: 200 MAB: 10 mob INT: 180 mdb: 50

225 AGI 49 MAB(use helm)=
(90+10x(172x2.45+225)) x 0.9= 4076

200 AGI 10 MAB 1.28 affinity = 3251

Unless I miscalculated something it seems that the helm in the SS still wins?

The problem is that affinity becomes more powerful the more MAB you have (since it's MAB * affinity factor), so you need to compare with realistic MAB values instead of just 10. On my spreadsheet, with about the ideal set from the guide, 3k TP leaden on 'Delve fodder' with no extra buffs is:

Pixie +1: 18474
Herc helm with +29 (+39 total): 18157

If you can get +35 though, herc helm with 45 total MAB: 18520

This isn't factoring in all the extra MAB you can get from augs on other herculean pieces though, which would swing back in favor of pixie. Not to mention MAB from buffs. I'm not sure we'll ever phase out pixie completely, even if it becomes just a high MAB piece.

Edit: I should mention that these calculations were with DP, using a Doomsday with MAB+25/WSD+7% I'm seeing pixie pull even further ahead with ideal Leaden set:

Pixie +1: 17655
Herc +45 total: 17391

If you're using Montenten's spreasheet, one thing about it is that the mobs there has no mdb values, just evasion/def/agi/vit/level etc.

I'm not a math wizard like some of you here, so I may be wrong. It seems that the higher mdb the mob has, the more effective mab is?

Using the same formula, if the player has 200 AGI 100 mab, mob has 180 INT 200 mdb:

With pixie+1:
6254(base)x0.6(mab/mdb)x 1.28= 4803

With herc in SS: player has 225 AGI 139 mab
6554(base)x 0.79(mab/mdb)= 5177

Seems that as the target mdb goes up, mab becomes more effective?

I never understood the whole affinity thing and I regret not buying Pixie +1 when I hit COR 99 like 6 months ago. I can't justify paying 11M for it now. T_T Anyone ELI5 Affinity on Pixie and Archon Ring? They're the two pieces I'm missing from my Leaden set.

Before I go to bed I got these tonight
Herculean Trousers
I couldn't figure out how to just post the pic here I don't usually post screenshots.

I haven't gotten any higher yet but I threw about 30 of each stone at them and you get macc/mab no matter which type but I saw fern had wsd+ also on them so I went for that.

Couldn't get that and high mab yet sadly and only stat+ I have seen so far were for str mnd and int I guess I will toss more at them later.

No idea what the ranged/melee glyptics can get.

Affinity is a separate multiplier from mab which is why it's so powerful.

ADL at least is not too hard(just bothersome to farm), give it a try with some friend, you'll also make some marrows in doing so.

I just remeember, My Leaden's at 3K tp going from 15-17K DMG to 17-20k+ DMG (unresisted depending on buffs).

I always looked at my Pixie pin and wished the INT+27 was AGL+27.

Ah! Well, it'll probably be even easier now that we can bring trusts in to Dynamis now.

That seems like more than enough reason to get one even now. Haha.

Got MAB+35 and Macc+24 on my Herculean Boots.

RIP my Adhemar+1 for Leaden.

If I understand how mab/macc works on leaden correctly, seems like we should use pixie +1 on fodder and mab/macc aug herc helm on higher lv NM when you start seeing dmg drop or getting resists?

Looking forward to seeing how this does on last stand with those new bullets!

Is that the gun added to Sinister Reign?

It's from Reisenjima.

Edit: Link to the NM

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Strophadia

Tier 2 reisen NM, believe it was the harpy for that one.

What's the ingredients for the new bullets?