4th job Corsair Bossing Build

I skipped level 120~150? I trained my ass off those levels. I have very limited training time and have to fully optimize the x2 events to get to my current level (154).

Everytime I use air strike, it just aggros skeles. By the time I kill my plat, air strike hasn't killed the top plat yet. I go up there, and theyre blasting me with 3.5ks. If i don't use air strike, I go up there, freeze, and only take bump damage or nothing. Wipe them all out in <5 seconds with torpedo.

ice, canon, torpedo = all I need to train with. When ship is down, rapid fire, occasional flame thrower for mob, and ice is all I need. I only use AS for lols and octo but they tend to just get in the way.

Until air strike actually makes a difference in my training, then whatever. So far, I haven't seen a single good point of getting AS when canon/torpedo can do the same job, and better. It's like telling F/Ps to go mist grims when they can go mist skelegons.

Well you did mention you leeched and you are 15x.
I assumed you mainly leeched to 15x

But i highly doubt you went to the Skelegons at your low 12x since Cannon doesn't kill them fast enough.
As i also said before, yes Air Strike loses its funciont the higher you level.
At 14x i doubt i'm going to use it myself either.

At the moment i only use Air Strike at the Skelegons when my ship is down, or to help my Bishop training partner kill Skelegons in 1 hit.
I hardly train with him, but he's hitting 7xk on Skelegons and said it helps alot if i clear them up with Air Strike every now and then.

But really, i don't see why Air Strike is such a bad skill.
While you wait for monsters to respawn (like i mention when you take the bottom att he newties) you might aswell do some extra damage to the monsters a platform above you.
This of course isn't a good idea to try at the Skelegons.

I'm just talking about that 1 point in Air Strike by the way.
Perhaps that should clear up alot, i'm not telling people to max Air Strike over Cannon, Torpedo and Rapid Fire or anything.

Just so we are clear on this:
I don't use Air Strike at the Skelegons as a normal, regular attack.
I started training on Skelegons around level 13x and only used Air Strike in almost any non-Skelegon map.

You can kill the 3 of them with Cannon too. That's how I train usually. I never thought of using Air Strike to hit the monsters above me though, because I usually have a party member up there.

I haven't even put a point into Air Strike yet.

I will though. Only 1. For now.

I don't have Air Strike, and only level 1 Torpedo and can train fine.

Like I said before, it's easy to survive at skeles with just Cannon alone. Although Torpedo would help to kill the very bottom.

Pumping points into Air Strike after Cannon is already out of the picture for me. The choices now are Rapidfire or Torpedo. More then likely I will be pumping them into Torpedo, at least till it's lvl 21.

Reasons being:

- What Bribery said about KMS Updates (I have a feeling we will be getting them soon )
- It does help to kill major ass mobs faster, not having to re-freeze monsters as much as you would have to with Cannon
- Rapidfire doesn't make that much of a difference compared to Burst fire, and you can't really notice a difference till its late stages.
- Air Strike may kill monsters without having you to climb, but it also slows down the pace at the same time, resulting in time wasted, and less damage being done.


That's how I see it all.

That's true, but i found Torpedo to be faster compared to Cannon at the low 12x.
Not to mention Torpedo needs 1 point, and Cannon alot more to come close to Torpedo's damage on just 3 monsters.

At first i wanted to get Air Strike after the bossing skills for my zakum solo, but i already threw that idea out of the window because of our new Skelegon mini dungeon.
Torpedo is going to help alot more for sure.
The dungeon is do-able with a OHKOing Bishop once you can 2-hit them, but i'm sure Torpedo is going to help alot.

One of my Corsair buddys re-made his Corsair a few days ago.
He mentioned going for a Torpedo-first build just for this dungeon.

I only don't really agree with your last point against Air Strike, but i kinda want to drop this discussion.
All i do know is that i won't get Rapid Fire anytime soon, but i'm getting Torpedo early on now.
Rapid Fire looks like a total waste now.