| More Roll 'em, less Fold 'em? COR Group 2 Revisited The update to Group 2s is pretty huge for any job. For COR, it seems to eliminate the chane's of busting almost completely. The lowest we could get Snake Eye and Fold down to previously was 10 minutes, now we can get either or both down to five or even the potential of achieving a 6 min, 40 second Phantom Roll duration with Winning Streak.
Loaded Deck's chance's or failure would be reduced by 50%, but given how little it actually fails with Random Deal, I'm inclined to just leave the one minute on it. I don't use Random Deal for much aside from when I see a RDM use DS/Covert (it always hits Covert since RD prioritizes main job JAs) and other people using their meritable JAs.
Busts are extremely rare since the addition of Snake Eye and maxing out Snake Eye would reduce the chances of busts dramatically. Almost so much that I don't see the need for Fold.
Almost.
So I'm thinking the best way to go about this is:
5/5 Snake Eye = 5 min recast on Snake Eye
1/5 Fold = 15 min recast on Fold
3/5 Winning Streak = 6 minute Phantom Roll duration
1/5 Loaded Deck = 10% failure reduction for Random Deal
The recast of Fold would be long, but given the amount of control Snake Eye would give you now, Fold would hardly ever be needed. You'd get to manipulate one out of every five Phantom Rolls. One Fold should be safe enough. I've never been one for playing it too safe on COR anyway. Want a sure thing? Bard is this way -->
I would love to have full Winning Streak, but I think this setup layout for merits lets you get the most out of Group 2. 5/5 for Fold would be extremely safe, but you'd have to give up anything Winning Streak or Loaded Deck offered or give up the chance to manipulate Rolls as much with Snake Eye.
Snake Eye has better uses, so it gets the 5/5. I'd usually say merits are about preference, but this seems like it would apply well to any COR in any situation. |