Outlaw equips and general scrolling questions

I would first get an idea of what armor and weapon you want to wear.

I would also wait to upgrade at lvl 120, to have access to the HT pendant and highest/attainable lvl guns. Get all the STR necessary from Pendant + Helm + other crappy common equipment until you can wear your equipment of choice. Get nice Gun, get decent ATT potential class glove (or a nice WG), work on armor + potential. Slowly replace equipment that haves STR with DEX if you have an excess of STR. Etcetc.

The order depends on your funding/availability of NX. If you have NX up to your nose, you can easily start with the armor. If you don't have NX and do not have mesos up your nose, armor potential will probably be one of the last things on your list due to how expensive it is to get a single piece of armor with >3% stat.

Also, have in mind that professions is right around the corner and plan accordingly. And most importantly, be damn sure that you want your Outlaw to be your main character.

I definitely want to main a Corsair. The ship + crazy DPS is really fun. I'm always about ranged/magic classes, and I feel like Corsairs are moderately underplayed. But as it stands, I'll start thinking about this stuff for sure, thanks.

The one thing I'm still a bit confused on is the "optimal order" on potential/scrolling/enhancement? Also, can you protect failure for enhancement scrolling??