Arms race (FFXI, RL/books)

[thistlechaser]

@10K to COR 74. It's sort of sad to think I'd be 74 today (with buffer) if I hadn't spent all day yesterday working on Coffinmaker, but it had to be done... sort of.

I used Coffenmaker all day today, but saw no difference at all. Looking at the stats, it's not surprising:

Shark Gun: DMG: 39, Delay: 582, Ranged Accuracy +5
Coffinmaker: DMG: 40, Delay: 600, Ranged Accuracy +9

I don't need racc, especially when I keep Hunter's Roll on me. It sure is a pretty gun though, which counts for a lot. Even if no one sees it because I blink so much while WSing. :P Unfortunately both guns are rare/ex, so I have two weapons which I'll never be able to mule off.

If I had thought about the stats, really seriously thought about them, I'm not sure I would have put almost 10 hours into breaking the Coffinmaker.

And, as you can see, I took a third route instead of the COR AF/Assault P-whatever body armor -- my HQ scorp harness, with the AF macroed in for WSs. Slug Shot gets me way too much hate, so I wanted the evasion more than anything else.

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FFXI wasn't what I wanted to write about tonight, but I'm too restless and my brain isn't cooperating on what I do want to go into. I just finished A Strong and Sudden Thaw last night, and I'm restless because I'm supposed to be in bed reading right now, but the book (well, genre) I want isn't on my bookshelf and I don't want to read anything else.

I wanted to go into how thankful I am for small publishers, and that Amazon carries books no matter the size of the publisher, but I don't think I could convince anyone of anything tonight. So I'll just leave it that I'm really happy that small/independent publishers exist, because there are so many good books that would never be published if they had to be sold to "average" Americans.

I ordered a giant collection of books put out by non-major publishers, I just hope I can hold out until they arrive. Wanting to read something you don't have is just like a food craving -- an itch in the back of my head that never goes away.

Comments

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to bust my ass to finish my thf before you finish your COR :(

I'm 10k on the other side of 74, but COR get party invites.

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you wrote what you did about the Coffinmaker... I really felt like I was doing myself a disservice by not having one and my schedule has been absolute crap as far as taking people up on their offers to help with Copycat. So I spent the money on a Martial gun, which I really like actually. I am a very strong believer in what Beanie tells me I listen, so I was holding for 150TP minimum on SlugShots... being able to fire at 100TP again and knowing i'm really firing at 200TP as far as the game is concerned, makes me more excited than +9RACC. And seeing as I'm slowly planning out and hopefully going to work more on melee... I really think the Martial Gun is where I want to be.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I felt like you. Even knowing the stats were close, I've been told so often that Coffinmaker was the best, I felt like I "had" to have it to be a good COR. If COR were my only 75 job or I was going to be doing lots of stuff on it, Martial Gun looks like at least as good an option as Coffinmaker or Shark Gun and I'd probably invest in one... I'd rush right out to do so if either of my two current guns could be muled away.

I wish I had thought about all this before spending my entire Saturday on it...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm doing COR through Campaign only. :) XP static broke up at 68, and I've done Campaign only since then.

[faliffxi.livejournal.com]

I love my martial gun. It means being able to WS at 100 instead of 150~. But I mostly melee for TP. :P