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[greydaze]

I had a 1250+ Sidewinder today on an IT Skimmer in the Boyada Tree, and I was soooooo happy! My barrages were anywhere from 400-700 and SW from 650 (on crabs) to 1100, and one 1253 or thereabouts. ^^ I wish I had a screenie!

So, if you like, post your latest RNG accomplishment, be it AF, PPA, selene's bow, or uber DMG. :)

[Cometgreen]

Well I got my CN key and my AF pants last night, which is pretty cool. I still need that damn body piece, though. It was also nice that, out of three hours of fighting, I only missed three slugs from melee range, without any buffs, on tough mobs.

As for biggest damage, so far my best Barrage was post-patch on Lesser Colibri, hitting for 1218. And my best Sidewinder was from the same group, 1435. I was 60 RNG/WAR, eating sis kebabi, without any defense debuffs that I can remember.

I'm taking a break while I level my subs, so I plan to get the rest of my AF, Selene's Bow, Deadeye Gloves, Precise Belt, Francisca, and maybe even my Obow before continuing.

[Aeni]

Not my screenie, but I saved it somewhere, if only I can find it. :angry:

It's an Elvaan RNG that posted on KI forum a long time ago. Maybe people will remember it. It's his party, chaining flies and doing spiders in BT. I think they were level 68-69 IIRC.

I remember he actually ... "solod" ... a fly. Now, to be fair, this was before all the changes made to ranged attacks, but man, that still was sweet.

1500+ Slugshot on VT fly.
1000+ Barrage on same fly.
1800+ Slugshot on same fly.

Needless to say, I think that was like ... all of 10sec ...

[Vertabreaker]

I solo'ed an Imp in the mire with ease the other day. Rocked out a 1800Sidewinder followed by 1100 Barrage and the finale was a 2050 Sidewinder(assisted by shadowbind so I could get back and get full damage).

I was rocking Ebow w/demon arrows 8/8 bow merits, bard giveing double minuet, eating couerl subs. /NIN as well, still want to try out /WAR.

As Aeni said above, it's over in about 10 secs.

[Skoal]

Had a rng in a party a little while back. We were fighting IT birds. I used my 2hr and jumped to lower its def, then he busted out a 2236 Slugshot.

During Ballista Royale last year, a rng hit me with Sidewinder. Right before the ws animation went off, my hp dropped from 100% to 0%. Man I wish they had that event this year.

[Caspian]

Dinged 63 last night, so finally got to use my Fransisca.
With /NIN, Coeurl subs, one minuet and a prelude i was normal hitting Puks in woodlands for over 200 and crit'd for 300. Unfortunately I was only a mob into the lvl before party broke and I never got to pop off a sidewinder, nor a barrage. Maybe tonight...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

PT on IT colibri the other night, 1340 was my top sidewinder, 1284 was Top Slug. In either case, it was about 200 shot.

Food was courel subs and we had a BRD with enough sense to get March on everyone else, but also minuet x2 for me. Pity we can't have more BRDs like that these days.

[Caspian]

Food was courel subs and we had a BRD with enough sense to get March on everyone else, but also minuet x2 for me. Pity we can't have more BRDs like that these days.
They exist?
Wow, I usually use food and get prelude and single min, but just getting prelude is like pulling teeth.
I know you're busy, but its one song every other fight and you don't have to worry about aoe on it. Once I hit 67 I get to static with a brd. I can't wait.

Out of curiosity, I've always just eaten meat and gotten prelude and single min when I'm with a bard. Does double min and sushi give more damage? I know I need accuracy in there somewhere to make sure sidewinders stick, but is sushi and double min preferrable? Always seemed like I did more dmg with meat than with the other min.

Anyway, the other day I had just dinged 63 in a party, fighting puks, we were finishing the chain before calling ita night, and as soon as I dinged I started doing 250/shot with coeurl sub, one minuet, and prelude. Crit'd for 300, but never got to use a single barrage or sidewinder the after I dinged, It was only two mobs then we finished, and we were killing too fast to build tp. I have a feeling it would have been incredible if I'd gotten the chance.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

They exist?
Wow, I usually use food and get prelude and single min, but just getting prelude is like pulling teeth.
I know you're busy, but its one song every other fight and you don't have to worry about aoe on it. Once I hit 67 I get to static with a brd. I can't wait.

This BRD knew his range, song rotation and knew them well. He'd Balladx2 the mages between fights, throw down an Elegy and occasionally timed it well enough it was reflected to me by the colibri, in which case it just consumed a shadow. One less worry for the NIN tank we had.

When it came to the fight he played March as I was building TP, then Minuet III and then moved out of the rest of PT's range to just hit me with Minuet IV, so March cycled out and I get Minuet x2. Even when kills were faster, he manged to keep both minuets up on me constantly. Quality BRD, I made it a point to thank him.

I've also heard many complaints that the TP Burn Era BRDs don't keep four buffs at a time or even consider getting giving individual ones. Somehow, even with /WHM as a sub on BRD, I can can keep four songs up and pull for 12k+ an hour in camps like Mamool Ja Staging Point. Its really quite simple, two songs a fight. Two melee songs one pull, Ballad for the mages after the next. Since I pull with Elegy and sleep the mob as the PT fights another, I don't spend a lot of time debufing.

Out of curiosity, I've always just eaten meat and gotten prelude and single min when I'm with a bard. Does double min and sushi give more damage? I know I need accuracy in there somewhere to make sure sidewinders stick, but is sushi and double min preferrable? Always seemed like I did more dmg with meat than with the other min.

Minuet III and IV will add a little more than 100 attack when they finally cap off based on skill. If you're eating subs and getting a prelude and one Minuet, you're gonna to get about 40 less attack vs. Minuet x2, assuming you only got Minuet IV and not III.

Sushi itself won't add much damage, but it should be considered when the mobs are IT++ if you're having a hard time landing hits. RNG has it made in the shade on accuracy gear though, if you can deal with a few missed slugwinders over the course of the PT, meat is always an option, which is something I can't always bring myself to say about other melee classes.

To contrast, today I had a PT with no BRD, but I still went with subs on the same mobs. Slugwinders were in the 830-920 range this time. Still pretty good, but with Minuet x2, we're talking quite a leap in damage.

[Saerik]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/saerik/.png?t=1163871872

My first 2k+ Sidewinder ^^, since then my record is 2,500~ on a Puk in Bhalflau with dual Minuet, Berserk and Sole Sushi. (not counting berserked Dhalmels where I hit 3,400~)

Sidewinder is great for damage spikes :>

[VZX]

3400 damage Screen shot on Dhalmel please

[Lmnop]

minuet 4: a little over 50 attack
Coeurl sub: 65-75 attack (you're likely not hitting the cap yet)
minuet 3: +45ish attack.

BBQ could probably tell you if the caps figured @Ffxiclopedia figure in Cornette +1 or not. If not, then add 5 to those minuet figures.

Minuet 3 and 4 are probably substantially weaker for you as of yet since your Bards aren't 75 with maxed skills.

M3 + M4 = 90ish attack while just minuet4 + Coeurl sub = 110ish (I like rounding down). So if you feel one Prelude would be enough to cover your acc, Prelude + M4 + meat should be better than 2x minuet + sushi (also, if Prelude would cover your acc, Sushi would be super-overkill).

But here's the kicker...

If you're geared to eat meat and generally function w/out a BRD, then you can just have like +150 attack with minuetx2 + subs. Just like Bbqkitten was doing in above example.

[Intensity]

Did I already post this? If not, here (http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h306/1nt3ns1ty/shikareeaketon.jpg) it is. If so, there it is again.

And for /cry purposes, here's (http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h306/1nt3ns1ty/slugshot170.jpg) this one again. Twas my first. Now I know how women feel.

[eva00r]

Seen a RNG/WAR slug Imp in caedarva for 2.5k ish with Yellow Curry and Minuet x 2.

[tdh]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/saerik/.png?t=1163871872
My first 2k+ Sidewinder ^^, since then my record is 2,500~ on a Puk in Bhalflau with dual Minuet, Berserk and Sole Sushi. (not counting berserked Dhalmels where I hit 3,400~)
Sidewinder is great for damage spikes :>As impressive as 2,115dmg from Sidewinder is, I'm more impressed with a Lv.1 Skillchain effect breaking 300dmg, let alone 1k! lol

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

BBQ could probably tell you if the caps figured @Ffxiclopedia figure in Cornette +1 or not. If not, then add 5 to those minuet figures.

I'm somewhat still in the process of rebuilding my BRD - its hard to rebuild anything else when you EXP RNG and COR back-to-back - but for what I have now, I can push Minuet x2 between 104 and 112 attack. With other gear I could probably eek out a few more points.

Most skills for BRD cap at 72, if I recall correctly. But basically, Minuet x2 will let a RNG that was doing 800 sidewinders before to do 1200 sidewinders after, so we're talking nearly a 33% increase in attack, give or take. And if you factor in 70+ RNG/WAR with Berzerk and Warcry, yikes, even more.

But really, even long before 70, those preludes are frivelous to RNG, if we really need accuracy that badly in EXP, we can pick up a stack of sushi for 10k. And at this point, I really doubt I need even that.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Some JPs talked my PT in Caedarva Mire into helping them with a quest NM. Turns out it was Lamia No. 24 and her Qutrub friend.

When I barraged the qutrub after Zerking - 3227 damage o.O

I blinked and went scrolled back up the log since No. 24 sleepga-ed us.

3227 damage.

Qutrubs are going to be my merit friends.

[Jei]

My ranger is only 1 level away from sidewinder ^^ Can't wait.
Selling some of my luxury Rdm gear to fund Rng right now... Including my enhancing sword which has been sitting in my mog house forever -.-

[VZX]

As impressive as 2,115dmg from Sidewinder is, I'm more impressed with a Lv.1 Skillchain effect breaking 300dmg, let alone 1k! lol
Fist stage lv1 SC can have max damage as high as 50% of the closing WS damage
2115 /2 = 1057.5 = 1057

[Caspian]

Xp'ing on dahlmels in Bibiki the other day. Sidewindered for 1995 and was still in melee range.
Lvl 67, NIN sub, S-bow, coeurl sub, Minuet IV and Prelude.

[tdh]

Fist stage lv1 SC can have max damage as high as 50% of the closing WS damage
2115 /2 = 1057.5 = 1057I know, just never actually seen an "unresisted" Lv.1 Skillchain. I've closed a Lv.1 Skillchain for 1500+ before and then saw a 100dmg Scission afterwards. Just never seen it done myself. Was almost convinced it there wasn't such a thing as an unresisted Lv.1 Skillchain effect.

[Cometgreen]

I got from 60-62 the last couple days. I still don't have Hunter's Jerkin, but my accuracy was still fantastic. At one point, I ate sole sushi and did not miss a single slugwinder for the entire hour, even when there were a couple times I had only ~105% tp. This was while wearing Shikaree Aketon and using a Crossbowman's ring instead of a Scorpion ring, and with Selene's Bow at about half moon.

And even though I was disappointed at the thought of meleeing again, it is awesome being able to WS every fight. My dagger was over 50 levels below the cap, but I still had decent accuracy (and at times, I had sushi+madrigal), and double attack kicked in regularly. I only wish I had my Fransisca already, in which case I would get 63 tonight.

Oh, and puks are annoying as hell. Flash and blink are not fun, especially right before you Barrage or WS.

[tdh]

Oh, and puks are annoying as hell. Flash and blink are not fun, especially right before you Barrage or WS.Amen to that! Bastards doing that knock back which is annoying, but they always put up Blink when I decide Absorb-TP, Guillotine, or start the Skillchain. Drives me nuts.

My static started to avoid them all together, but found it hard to build a party in non-ToAU areas.

[Cometgreen]

FINALLY got that Davoi key to drop, and I gotta say that I look awesome in my Body AF. It felt so good to see myself wearing it.

[Omni]

I think my favorite epeen place to go is mire w/ brd. dual minuets + meat + new moon phase = :D

with /nin I was popping ~1400-1500 sidewinders. I have yet to go /war which is what I am going to do next. I wonder how high I can push everything with zerk and warcry up. 2000+?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

I think my favorite epeen place to go is mire w/ brd. dual minuets + meat + new moon phase = :D

with /nin I was popping ~1400-1500 sidewinders. I have yet to go /war which is what I am going to do next. I wonder how high I can push everything with zerk and warcry up. 2000+?

Got 2112 on Lamia Idolators in Mire at 74 last night. And I was with a totally pimped on RNG by the name of Zolo, who closed my SC for 3k+ and usually leading to an unresisted Reverberation for 3k as well. This guy had everything too, sky gear, HQ STR build and even Kyudogi.

But then he was also using Hellfire+1 and Silvers while I opted for O Bow and Selene and acid bolts played a bit in that for both of us. Minuet x2 on both of us, too. He ate Red Curry, I had Yellow.

The last PT I had I was /WAR and its was all out TP Burn with no one else in Mire, Turned in to a contest with me versus a SAM/RNG. I'm now wanting to level a SAM sub, lol, you can spam some slugwinders with SAM/RNG, so RNG/SAM must be able enjoy that to some extent. Think my best there at the time was 1900-2100 fully zerked with Warcry and Minuet x2. the SAM averaged about 1500 on Sidewinder, only got to 1900 once in the PT. Still he was competing well. Dinged 75 there and was happy I got to do it as RNG/WAR.

I'm still working out my STR/ATT build. Currently just a Wyvern Helm and Ruby Rings so far (will work on HQ later). Loving the hell out of RNG/WAR at this level, though for Lamia Idolators /NIN is an absolute must because they're very weak to piercing and when you break 2k, not even a PLD can save you, only Utsusemi can :x

[Cometgreen]

After more than 2 hours of waiting and a lot of deaths when he spawned, I got my Fransisca last night. Everyone in my group, save me, fell to Aquarius, mostly because we were all half asleep, but a couple of lvl 75s were running by and engaged him, then invited me. It was sad to see SBow+Demon arrows do 30 dmg a shot, but I got it. I was also able to ding 63 tonight, so I got to try it out. And surprisingly, 121 axe skill just doesn't cut it in the thickets. Strange.

I also crapped my pants at how much a brd + Soul Voice rocks. Over the course of a pt as 62 rng, the brd and I started talking about my damage, and when we decided on last boss, told me to get my berserk ready. Berserk + Sis kebabi + SBow at 10% moon + 2x SV Minuets = 2158 Sidewinder on an IT colibri. First ever 2k+ dmg for me. It was also nice having a bard that always did 2x minuet; when I finally ate meat, my regular shots were at times better than the samurai's Yukikaze. Damn I love this job. (unless I have a nin tank...)