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I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but its gotta be said. CORs that full-time the Luzaf's Ring are just as mentally retarded as BRDs that full-time a harp.
Look, I know some people face immense inventory limitations. If that's your problem, you picked the wrong job in COR (or BRD if you're rocking that one harp in your inventory). These are very gear intensive jobs if you want to play them right. Hell, that can be said of any job.
But full-timing that Luzaf's Ring says "I just don't care." You don't care about achieving a four buff cycle on the PT. Maybe you think you've done your part if you've hit everyone with Evoker's and Corsair's Roll, but you haven't. If you have frontline MP users you should be considering a DNC subjob so you don't have to worry about hitting the frontline with Evoker's at all. BRD got Pianissimo and that's nice, there's no way they could make such an ability work with COR. Aspir Samba is our best bet if the PT is lacking a DNC.
OK, so with the DNC subjob and having Aspir Samba under sub, this allows you to give the frontline melee buffs. They don't need mage buffs, they never needed mage buffs, I don't care how much that DRK or PLD cries, they have ways of getting MP these days, Aspir Samba is support enough for thier MP needs. Two buffs for the frontline, two for the back. Pretty easy to do.
Luzaf's Ring is really just for when you need to hit everyone with the same thing. Meaning, A manaburn PT. BLMs and SCHs are good COR buddies, they like the things COR can give them. COR is our best mage buffer in the game, hands down, with SCH coming in second there. BRD just has ballad, unless they have Gjallarhorn, they got nothin' on a COR.
But yeah, a BRD would use Harp when faced with a manaburn, so Luzaf's ring is applicable there, too. Any other time you're throwing on Luzaf's Ring should be when your PT is really raking in the EXP and has a BRD pulling. then we can tone down a four buff cycle to three and make one of those three buffs that Corsair's Roll.
Any other time you look like a moron for Luzaf's Ring on. You could be putting accuracy or ranged accuracy in that slot. I don't care if you're wearing it with COR relic. Most of the COR relic sucks, it just makes you look like a bigger twit. Hat and body were the only good things to come of it. Sure, snapshot on the hands is cute, but without more snapshot gear its kinda pointless. And really, if you can get relic and other Snapshot gear, but not Crimson Finger Gauntlets or Dusk Gloves, I have to wonder if you really give a damn about the job at all.
Of course, anything less than Steel Bullets at 75 with Luzaf's on is probably saying you don't care at all. Hey, I know they set the bar low for BRD, doesn't mean they set it low for COR, too.
Bottom Line: Luzaf's Ring is a macro piece for specialized situations and that's all its meant to be. If you can't grasp that, I don't know what else I should tell you about this job because you probably don't deserve to know.
Look, I know some people face immense inventory limitations. If that's your problem, you picked the wrong job in COR (or BRD if you're rocking that one harp in your inventory). These are very gear intensive jobs if you want to play them right. Hell, that can be said of any job.
But full-timing that Luzaf's Ring says "I just don't care." You don't care about achieving a four buff cycle on the PT. Maybe you think you've done your part if you've hit everyone with Evoker's and Corsair's Roll, but you haven't. If you have frontline MP users you should be considering a DNC subjob so you don't have to worry about hitting the frontline with Evoker's at all. BRD got Pianissimo and that's nice, there's no way they could make such an ability work with COR. Aspir Samba is our best bet if the PT is lacking a DNC.
OK, so with the DNC subjob and having Aspir Samba under sub, this allows you to give the frontline melee buffs. They don't need mage buffs, they never needed mage buffs, I don't care how much that DRK or PLD cries, they have ways of getting MP these days, Aspir Samba is support enough for thier MP needs. Two buffs for the frontline, two for the back. Pretty easy to do.
Luzaf's Ring is really just for when you need to hit everyone with the same thing. Meaning, A manaburn PT. BLMs and SCHs are good COR buddies, they like the things COR can give them. COR is our best mage buffer in the game, hands down, with SCH coming in second there. BRD just has ballad, unless they have Gjallarhorn, they got nothin' on a COR.
But yeah, a BRD would use Harp when faced with a manaburn, so Luzaf's ring is applicable there, too. Any other time you're throwing on Luzaf's Ring should be when your PT is really raking in the EXP and has a BRD pulling. then we can tone down a four buff cycle to three and make one of those three buffs that Corsair's Roll.
Any other time you look like a moron for Luzaf's Ring on. You could be putting accuracy or ranged accuracy in that slot. I don't care if you're wearing it with COR relic. Most of the COR relic sucks, it just makes you look like a bigger twit. Hat and body were the only good things to come of it. Sure, snapshot on the hands is cute, but without more snapshot gear its kinda pointless. And really, if you can get relic and other Snapshot gear, but not Crimson Finger Gauntlets or Dusk Gloves, I have to wonder if you really give a damn about the job at all.
Of course, anything less than Steel Bullets at 75 with Luzaf's on is probably saying you don't care at all. Hey, I know they set the bar low for BRD, doesn't mean they set it low for COR, too.
Bottom Line: Luzaf's Ring is a macro piece for specialized situations and that's all its meant to be. If you can't grasp that, I don't know what else I should tell you about this job because you probably don't deserve to know.
tends to forget the same thing proponents of RDM melee for get - Oh yeah, we're supposed to buff the party, too right.
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