Returning Bucc LF Advice

I haven't personally done it on a Bucc but Ravana and Pap should be decent options for leveling. They're also decent money. Since Barrage ignores knockback requirements you can (probably) keep Ravana pinned and take no damage, making it a fairly afk experience. You just have to stay to the right of him and he won't be able to cast any damage dealing attacks. Only it requires 2 people to enter so it'd need either a friend or a level 70 alt.

Pap is good but I feel like not having 100% uptime on stance could make it a bit of a pain, as the left side top platform is generally where people kill him from when he's in the left corner, but you'll get knocked down without stance and that opens you up to annoying dispels and stuns.

At 125 you can start doing some cwkpq, one of the modern strategies is to use a bucc to knockback mage with Barrage to keep it pinned in place, so it's a decently valued position on a team. It also opens you up to looting Marks of Naricain, upgrading the Silver Deputy Star slot with up to 5 attack/6 stat/300 hp.

Bigfoot no longer has any iframes, but I hear he's more difficult to pin on melee now as he casts his stomp pretty frequently. I haven't actually tried on melee any time recently so it might be too difficult to get down properly. At least you won't whiff any demo casts against him. Just be weary of getting run over, and try to be smart with iframes to walk through him, and learn where his touch box is as well(the bandaged toe) as you can simply hop over him without taking touch.

I see you've started to add int, but I'd consider adding some more. Buccaneers tend to be fairly close to bosses, so they end up having to tank touch damage quite often, something ranged classes don't need to concern themselves with nearly as much. There's also no damage mitigation in the bucc kit, so unlike warriors they're taking the full damage of a boss. You should be safe to do almost everything with 14-15k hp clean(~16k for PB, but folks rarely get that far in the game), and my gut tells me it should be reachable with around 120 base int or thereabouts, along with some MP washing.

But most of all good luck on your journey, no leech is the most satisfying way to play the game and I'm glad others enjoy it too

 

heyhey welcome back! I'm also a bucc who doesn't have an HS mule aside of storage mule to store skillbooks, scrolls, potions, etcetc. I fully agree with the post above and would like to share my view.

1. When I hit 120 I started to hunt cards for tier 10. The reason is cuz I didn't have any fund and was kinda bored of CDs map in taiwan grinding from 6x to 11x LMAO. While doing this I was hoping to get gachapon tix and hope the roll would be something that can fund my gear/whatever I wanted to do. I ended up with tier 5 and then started to lvl up as I already have the fund I needed (only one CS tho LOL). Then I started to train himes solo until like 130 while also getting leeched from my friend sometimes... I was getting around 7m eph (idr how much % is that per min at that lvl) kinda the same as CDs eph solo (yes, I usually play solo). At 130 I got invited to some CWKPQ runs and slowly lvling up while making some mesos (12 man 10 man 6 man any squad is fine). If I must say, it's basically CWK and Zak all the way from 13x to 15x or even 16x then u can go to 7f or even early 15x if u wish, I personally started grinding 7f at 13x while doing cwk/zak

2. I think ur gear is solid comparing with mine back then.
a. Weapon: I had to use a poorly scrolled 86wa king cent until 14x LOL then upgraded to 99wa
b. Ring: I didn't continue the monster book ring not until late 16x but if u wish u can get it early!
c. Helmet: I was using 17str 27dex scar hat until 17x... LMAO I'm a cheap guy f3
d. Pendant: This is prolly my biggest achievement ever, bought horntail pendant when it was still at 60m after I sold the CS I got. Pretty high dex stat so we can lower the base dex we have while still able to wear our gear and am still using it until now!
e. Earring: 9dex single earring, bought for like 16m ish
f. Face Acc: none
g. Overall: 24str 4dex red belly duke! done wonder and carried my adventure until 15x
h. Glove: red martier 9wa and something something str and dex... so ur 12wa is solid
i. Cape: blackfist cloak from cwk! +300 hp and +3 to 5 wa based on ur luck
j. Eye Acc: 2str 2dex spectrum goggle ofc, but u can get an accuracy raccoon mask instead if u need the acc

3. I don't remember sorry

4. I don't know either, ppl say it's worth it but like I'm just too lazy to make one ahaha but if u wanna make one go for it

5. Daily ravana/pap with a team is good exp/meso! also I'm a quester and there are alot of good quest that gives u good scroll as a reward, u can check guide section here on forum or look up redrebootz's youtube

tldr u can do whatever u want, bucc can do almost everything solo but having many connections is also key

 

Personally, I like doing the Temple of Time kill 999 mobs quest. It's pretty good exp plus it opens up more maps for you in the future.

 

You can bump your accuracy by quite a bit by getting a sad mask, scrolling some dex overall, scrolling an eye acc for accuracy, and scrolling some shoes for avoid. If you can get like like 220 base accuracy or so, 7F should be fairly easy once you have a good amount of points in dragon strike (gold monks require 275 accuracy to 100% hit, but there are only two spawns in 7F so it doesn't matter that much if you miss like a third of the time on them).

I wouldn't do pap on a bucc without max super transform. You can't really stay on the upper plats unless bubble is up and when you're on the floor, you'll get dispelled and stunned a lot. I killed one at level 120 for my TL quest and it was extremely annoying. I also wouldn't do BF without 12k HP to tank its touch damage; you can technically do it without taking touch damage but you'd have to do the fight perfectly. Ravana should be fine though.

If you don't want to do 7F, Temple of Time is probably the best place to level.