Ferris Ullr's Day Off: A Guide To Ranged PLD

People will often expect you to tank in segment farms, but for PLD/RNG, that's like putting a square peg into a round hole. Make your own party that can supply the buffs listed above in this guide. You will need a GEO with proper gearsets, because they will be supertanking on GEO/BLU. Have the support buff the GEO with minnes, mambos, gallant/ninja rolls. The GEO will be buffing themselves with Cocoon and Indi-Barrier, so while that only leaves Entrust Indi-Precision for you, their DEF will skyrocket. The GEO's tanking set should include full Nyame, DEF accessories like R15 Loricate Torque, and a Genmei Shield paired with a VIT, Eva/Meva, Enmity+ and "Blocking rate" augmented Ambuscade cape. All of this is easy to obtain. The GEO should also have an enmity set in case things go south and they need to tag mobs; this will include items like Petrov Ring, Eihwaz Ring, and Searing Sash, but as this is a PLD guide and not a GEO guide, I won't go into further detail.

Grab an Acro set from Yorcia Alluvion Skirmish and augment with Snapshot/Rapid Shot +5 (both of them, they're different stones). Add ranged attack and accuracy if you're using this for midshot too, but you should only do this if you're low on inventory space from having RDM.

At any rate, if the GEO does have to tag mobs, then once they're secured, the RDM should be ready to Manifestation Bio III to get -20% attack on the pack, then /assist you to get Dia III on your current target. (Make sure you've pulled it out of Bio III range, because Dia III won't overwrite it.)

For you PLDs
MB your strongest Banish for shits and giggles.

Since you're not at the cap for MBD, isn't Locus ring just a better Mujin band? Unless I'm missing some trait or something obvious, it seems like you have 28% MBD.

Or you could swap out the Metamorph and wear both.

Really though, can you call yourself a PLD nuker if you don't have a Weatherspoon+1 for your Holy II MB set?

I had considered Locus Ring, I felt the direct stat increase from Metamorph +1 would be the better option. On top of that could go Static Earring, but the number of people that likely have that earring is pretty low. You have a lot of Additional Burst + from Path C Nyame so increasing your base MND and Magic Atk will likely still provide a better nuking experience.

And it'll be a cold day in hell before I give up Schneddick for Kiting on PLD/RNG, duh.

What stats do you so desperately need in your leg slot that you can't use Carmine Cuisses +1? It's dummy-easy to cap DT on PLD, do you desperately need the extra 40 DEF in order to survive kiting on a tank job?

Hp, still a PLD, like to keep my HP level. Swapping around between high HP legs down to Volte for TP, then to Carmine, you'll be all over the place. Rings are easier swaps without sacrificing numerous stats such as HP, Meva, Def, etc.

OK, very confused then because you can easily use the ring slot to balance HP, there are rings everywhere from 50-150 HP. Also Carmine have the same HP as your high HP legs so...it's the same as swapping from your high HP set into Volte.

I realize this is just a silly rabbit hole we've gone down, but if we're gonna be sticklers for optimal PLD/RNG gameplay, we've gotta be sticklers!

...is Haverton necessary to cap Snapshot on PLD/RNG...?

In a valiant effort to conserve arrows, how about using opo-opo necklace and a Nesanica Ring to sleep tp up?
You can even set your alarm clock with berserker's torque to WS.