Pre Destiny Update Buccaneer Overview

Table of Contents:

Note: Skills, Bossing, and Training information are found in their respective tabs of this guide

1. Overview
2. Energy Charge
   • Charging Up
   • Quick Charge Methods
   • Energy Skill Utilization
3. Inner Ability & Legion
4. Critical Hits

1. Overview
Aka the TL;DR

Welcome from the future Buccaneer, those from v233 onwards! You are probably here because you wanted:

• Flat Strength Legion Bonus
• Saw some Damage Per Minute (DPM) charts on some forums
• Want to pretend to be a Super Sand Saiyan
• A Storage Mule

Whatever the case may be, feel free to get an in depth guide on buccaneers.

Pros:

• Strong attacks with horizontal reach
• 100 percent Knockback (KB) resistance by second (2nd) job
• MP is not an issue due to passives
• A strong rushing skill that can cancel other skill animations
• Exclusive explorer pirate skills that boost storage space and swim speed
• Very strong if given a boost to critical hits
• Really good Fifth (5th) job skills
• Ability to job change to Cannoneer or Corsair

Cons:

• Micromanaging required to maximize damage output. Buccaneer's energy system weighs in on this
• It takes at least 40 seconds to fully set up (Hyper skill)
• Requires multiple sources to boost critical hits
• Pre 4th job might feel like a chore to play
• Compared to explorer pirates (Cannoneer and Corsair), bucc has no verical mobility until 5th job

2. Energy Charge
Here's the in-depth part of the Energy Charge system.

The three skills below are what cause a buccaneer to glow in power:

• Energy Charge
• Supercharge
• Ultra Charge

Here's the two states of the energy meter. If the meter isn't showing up in-game, there is zero charge :

Uncharged

Charged


Both gifs have similar amount of energy stored in the bar. The difference is one gain energy while uncharged from any hits dealt towards an enemy. While charged up, some attack skills will drain the energy bar until completely drained. This will result in the bar disappearing. A bucc will lose their energy bar if they die without safety measures, or if they disconnect.

Charging Up
How many hits does it take to actually charge up completely? I calculated the amount based on owning just Energy Charge skill, and the two upgrades that follow from gameplay.

Upgrade	Monster Hits	Boss Hits
Energy Charge	34	34
Supercharge	34	17
Ultra Charge*	29	15

*To show you the difference between the boss and mob hit with Ultra Charge upgrade:
Boss

Mob


Hitting multiple monsters monsters (mobs) in one skill will only count as one instance of a charge up.
Summons from boss souls will not procure any charge.

Quick Charge Methods
Here are three ways to quickly charge up your energy. I set this up so you can click on the spoiler to see the example gifs.
Skill Activation

Spoiler: Stimulating Conversation

Spoiler: Meltdown

Spoiler: Meltdown Orb

This method is partially effective to mobs.

Energy Skill Utilization
The tables below just summarizes every current skill in relations to Ultra Charge. You really don't need to know this information, unless you end up curious and start counting stuff.

• Number of Uses = (10,000 Energy / Energy Cost), rounded up
• Energy cost = Energy amount required to cast the skill while charged

Skill Name	Cost	Uses
Energy Vortex	85	118
Hedgehog Buster	140	72
Static Thumper	180	56
Octopunch	150	67
Double Blast	260	39
Dragon Strike	180	56
Power Unity	1500	7
Howling Fist	1750	6

Lord of the Deep


The skill has been changed to use the same amount of energy regardless of charge status.

Spoiler: "Old Stats"

Mobbing

Charged	100	100
Uncharged	110	91

Bossing

Charged	40	250
Uncharged	44	228

This video shows the drain rate on mobbing. Note, factors such as multi kills and the time to kill will impact the drain rate.

3. Inner Ability & Legion

IA
This is what is preferred on a bucc's inner ability:

Line 1	20% Boss	+30 ATK
Line 2 & 3	20% Critical Rate	38% Buff Duration

Depending on play style, one can either choose boss or attack. Critical Rate IA will help reaching 100% easier than alternative methods. This would help conserve Legion Board slots for critical damage.
The buff duration is solely for convenience.

LEGION
For the Legion Board, these are the options that are prioritized from top to bottom:

• Critical Damage
• Boss
• Ignore Enemy Defense
• Main Stat
• Attack

4. Critical Hits

As as buccaneer, another source of a buccaneer's power comes from chocolate nanomachines critical hits.

By 4th Job, A bucc will have this amount of base critical rate/damage from it's own skills, excluding active skill and IA:

• 40% critical rate
• 15% critical damage

It doesn't look like much, but buccs gain passive skills by third (3rd) job that gives the ability to critical hit any stunned enemy. One issue with this ability is only having 20% chance to stun with any attack, or 70% with Energy Burst/Hedgehog Buster. The other issue is the stun effect is resisted by bosses.

With hyper skills and hyper stats alone, it can raise it up to:

• 55% critical rate (65 post 5th job)
• 65% critical damage (70 post 5th job)

The closer one can reach 100% crit rate, the more stable the damage output will be. For bosses, only 80% crit rate is required to guarantee critical hits. Gaining more critical damage is basically more damage output, but it does get the job done.

Some methods to obtain critical rate:

Second or Third IA line (Up to 20%)

Phantom Link Skill (10-15-20%)

Decent Sharp Eyes (10%)

Beat Tamer Link Skill (4-7-10%)

Marksman Legion Card (1-2-3-4-5%)

Night Lord Legion Card (1-2-3-4-5%)

Weapon and Secondary Potential (8%)

Some Boss Soul bonuses

Legion Table (Up to 40% with 6000 Legion levels)

Roll of the Dice (15-25-35% based on 4-faced dice rolled)

Some methods to obtain critical damage:

Base Stat on certain gear (Usually rings)

Decent Sharp Eyes (8%)

Potentials on gloves (8% crit dmg per line)

Bonus potential (3% per line on gloves, 1% for the rest)

Kinesis Link Skill (2-4%)

Jett Legion Card (1-2-3-5-6%)

Shade Legion Card (1-2-3-5-6%)

Hayato Legion Card (1-2-3-5-6%)

Legion Table (Up to 20% with 6000 Legion levels)