Voidwatch

[Afania]

Right. You're working under the assumption that Corsair is not putting out 10-15 thousand damage before Gnostic's wears. In my experience, this is most certainly not the case.

You also seem to be taking Wildfire's -Enmity and multiplying it with the -50 Enmity you have from gear/buffs. Is there some testing that you can link me to that confirms that Wildfire is able to bypass the -50 Enmity cap in this manner?

Either way, I find it's of little consequence if I do get hate because I'm perfectly capable of using Fanatic's and Fool's drinks like everyone else. On NMs of any real value in Voidwatch, the difference between a Corsair's survivability and that of a Warrior or Monk is negligible. The end goal of the alliance is still to proc consistently enough to ensure a steady supply of Fanatic's Drinks so that the DDs stay alive, regardless of what job they're on.

I can do the test for that when I get a friend to help, since I'm curious myself now that you brought it up, but even if it doesn't, you're still not gonna hit cap with Pax + -25% fom WS. The worst case sceneriao is to adjust the set/merit so only -15~25% from gear to reach cap.

Although that can be a bit disappointed if the best is -50% instead of -75%, it's actually less dmg output from WF before reaching cap.

And I agree that in optimal situation keep fanatic/fool refreshed with HQ proc and go all out none-stop is the best way to go(that's why I said you don't NEED it, if things goes well) But I wouldn't rely only on HQ proc to keep doing dmg....considering most of the none-JP /shout pt isn't that efficent in terms of getting proc and recharge fana(I join /shout pt most of the time). Most of the time it's semi-wipe/full wipe on T6s and fanatic/fool isn't always up. 90% of time is if I get hate, I will die after fanatic wears because it won't recharge that fast. If you have a group that proc that fast by all means do it, you can skip MDT- PDT- set even, and just carry DD gears. But that's just not my case with /shout pt.

EDIT: The reason why I assume WF enmity- 25% stack with gear is because enmity-50 cap applies to gear only, and other enmity changes such as JA is calculated differently and not restricted with this cap. So I assume WF is same as JA but different fom gears. But I can test it regardless if I can get someone to help.