Kujata.Argettio said:
'Real' meriting always includes a COR for Corsairs roll.
I know I'll get flamed for this... but this is only personal experience being a 75 COR in merit parties.
I facepalm and laugh at anyone in my merit party that asks for a Corsair Roll. Its a waste of time and a waste of your parties potential.
In a "typical"
(and I use this term only because its the trend with my merit parties) It's usually RDM-BRD-COR-DDx3
In this setup, Maintain the following:
Evoker Roll: for RDM
Chaos Roll: a MUST
(even without DRK in party) to up Damage combined with songs from BRD
Depending on the DDs in the Party, apply the following Roll:
Fighter's Roll Double Attack proc is amazing for faster kills
Samurai's Roll Because watching the DDs (especially DRG @ birds)witha 4 to 5 hit build is amazing.
Now my reasoning behind NEVER using Corsair's roll in a Merit Party is simple:
its Gimps the Party.
If you can have your BRD non-stop pullling, and your DDs taking out birds in seconds based on the fact that you've increased the damage output so much... Corsair's roll is not needed and you will chain MUCH higher.
EXAMPLE:
When a COR takes the time to use Corsairs roll...you have now taken away a beneficial effect from your party that helps them knock out as much damage as possible... just for a tiny percentage of extra EXP.
To explain a little better:
Say the DD's have Fighters and Chaos roll (Chaos was rolled first)
you now apply Corsair roll.
Corsairs overwrites Chaos. to re-apply chaos... you knock out Fighters.
Taking into consideration that the COR has the recast merited down to 50 seconds...
that's about a minute and a half to 2 minutes that your party is not at full potential...
possibly more if you take the time to apply Evokers to the RDM.
That's about 3-4 birds worth if everything is going as planned.
this not only slows down the Chain... but in the long run is not worth the small percentage of EXP.
As well as running the risk of breaking the chain with Slower Kills.
Granted, I'm from Siren... and the exp-bonus we get out at merit camps is nice due to our besieged record.
So perhaps COR roll MAY be needed on other servers. I don't have a good comparison to go by.
And Again... this is just MY opinion.
and I'll let that Screenshot speak for itself.
IF anyone has Screenshots to prove me wrong, I will gladly admit my ignorance.
P.S. SS above was RDM-COR-BRD-DRG-WAR-WAR
With Chaos and Fighters maintained