Donn1e's Buccaneer Guide - Updated for 2025

1. It only becomes useless when you reach lvl 70, so you can skill it if you want to grind all the way through.
2. I'm not an expert with grinding those low levels, but if you find me on Donn9e in-game when I'm awake and not afk I'll give you free orbis etcs to reach level 30.

 

One more question. I'm level 33. Is it too late to start putting AP into INT for washing, should I start over?

 

Just do it now it's fine, fix with hp quests later in 4th job

 

Question for auf if you may, as I don't do this boss enough to fully know.
I saw that in your guide you said you're comfortably doing it with 19.1k HP, but I've been told it's necessary to have at least 20k HP so.. what is it? Maybe a stupid question but rather ask it, cuz rn I got 19k~ HP, maybe can get like 100-300 more from excess mp I get as I level.

Also, is hw5 good enough to survive as a bucc? I've managed to clear it with hw5 on my dk (zerked, ofc) but it was kinda stressful and maybe lucky, might as well ask.

Thanks

 

19k is enough and hw5 is all you need, I've done it myself for years.
It's enough to both survive royal guard touch and double orb (even more so after the nerf to orb damage).
Just step back a bit in main stage after a few combos in case your barrage brings you too close to touch range, so you won't get sed into touch damage + orb.

 

Hmm, noted.

And I assume the best combo would be Barr demo to avoid damage as much as possible?

or is it Barr DS? cuz I use Barr DS for von leon but is it different with auf?

 

Barrage + Demo should be the default combo.
If you run with a party that can't pin (no other shad/buccs or nls that can hit pin damage) auf can sometimes escape the pin during Demo, so it's better to just Barrage + DS.
For the other bosses:
Royal guard: Barrage + Demo
Core: If you do the right side, Demo spam from the edge of the right most platform is usually the best choice since it's much safer and doesn't deal much less than the full combo, but if you have enough smokes to cover all the mob spawns at 90% and 50% Barrage + Demo is better.

Edit: ill update the auf section later to make it clearer

 

Hey Donn1e, any recommendations for leveling 80+, I noticed a small gap in the guide.

 

Hi, sorry but it's not this kind of guide, that's why I specifically said that I will only give advice for certain levels, and for the rest you will have to look up an actual leveling guide.
Look up the leveling guide or the quests worth doing one, this is not exactly my field.
Good luck!

 

Just wanted to thank you again for this guide. It's been helping me grow and become better. Was able to solo my first "boss" the other day.