Tipping the scales.

True, it may seem that they have over a 2m damage lead, but you cannot forget that that is with battleship. As stated, you'll be in battleship less than 50% of the time, as it will break fairly fast. At bosses like HT and Zakum, you take damage extremely fast, which would probably cause Battleship to break pretty soon. With being able to be in ST for a solid two minutes, chances are a Buccaneer could easily make up for the variance in damage between them and a Corsair.

1) Depends on the corsairs level, which makes that argument retarded.
2) I was in the process of figuring out who would out damage who with a certain % of time that the battleship would be out, you're just fueling this.

64k HP, I see. I will also use your calculation of 8k HP. That means every time HT were to 1/1, you lose around 8k HP off the ship. For every other of it's attacks, you lose more damage. Say they attacks hit you for 5k. So another 5k off. Let's say you get hit 3 times, that's 15k off. In about 15 seconds, you've already lost about 25k HP. Now that's a lot, right? Battleship certainly is not a durable thing to use at a boss, and as stated by other users, you'll be in it less than 50% of the time at bossing.

Also, ST is NOT a 4 minute cooldown. After the skill is used, it's a 2 minute cooldown, which gives you time to use Barrage + DU combo, which is also very affective.

There's reason to believe that 1/1 doesn't even affect the ship anyway.

Quit using that horrible 50% estimation as justification. It depends on the level of the corsair. End of story.

I refuse to believe a brawler does more damage then a corsair with a.homing and max rapid fire will until saph rapes me with numbers.

What kind of monster? What W. Def does it have? You need to note these things, because Buccaneer's attacks work in a similar way to Assaulter in which W. Def is not a key factor.

What the hell? W.def would have such a minimal effect on the situation that it's absolutely pointless.