Doing it wrong: Askar Korazin

Looks nice, doesn't it? Well, it is nice, and is a great situational piece for SAM. I'm focusing on SAM because I recently had to watch two of them gimp it up in this body piece while I dumped cures on them for hours and that put me in a bad mood, but I've seen other jobs use it needlessly, like WAR and DRK. DD PLD and BST can get away with it, because nobody parties with them so they can do what the hell they want.

DRK (scythe) is the biggest waste of this piece, because with 528 delay, they can get a 6-hit as /sam naked with a Brutal Earring.


Now, as a body piece this replaces the Haubergeon, so a loss of 10 acc + 5 DEX for 2% double attack and 5 store TP. In most conventional 6-hit builds, this allows for the exchange of Hachiman Kote for Dusk gloves/Askar hands and they can still retain a 6-hit as long as their WS build has a little extra Store TP somewhere. This is a good tradeoff when you're still hitting 95% accuracy with the korazin on, but most people have the mad idea that you can just ditch the hauby forever and rock askar fulltime. No.







Either that, or people have a strange idea of when they're sitting at capped accuracy. When it comes to meriting you need something over 400 accuracy to cap on the highest level birds (even more for mamools, especially NIN/THF), so around 400 will average to a 90~95% hitrate.










Both SAMs were under 80% accuracy, the DRG (also using Askar) was just under 90% thanks to accuracy bonus traits.









And for comparison, the DRG who outparsed them;



Askar SAM is fine for non evasive stuff, like Salvage/Nyzul fodder mobs, Dynamis city mobs(?) maybe even some limbus stuff, but for when accuracy isn't easily capped, it's not worth swinging 3%~ faster if you're missing 8%~ more often. And 2% double attack DOES NOT JUSTIFY FULLTIMING ASKAR. FUCK.