Random Question Thread XVII: Toy Surprise Inside!

[Gokulo]

Lame.. Another question I have beat all the WoTG quests in all cities and I want for an evaluation and I didnt rank up any. According I think to what I read on POL I was supposed to correct?

It seems it doesn't mean you will get a rank up, it simply means you won't rank down after obtaining that certain rank.

[Phoenyx]

Lame.. Another question I have beat all the WoTG quests in all cities and I want for an evaluation and I didnt rank up any. According I think to what I read on POL I was supposed to correct?

Your medal only ranks up when you earn the requisite amount of exp/AN doing Campaign. The adjustments to the ranking system just mean you'll never fall below a certain medal as you progress through the missions/quests.

[Mrbeansman]

Anyone got a good brd XML?

[TacoTaru]

Anyone have a link to the .dat modded maps that have NM locations, jungle tunnels, etc on them?

[Kyata]

Couple of questions, if someone doesn't mind answering, please.

Has there been any testing on the "Enhances Double Shot Effect" on the RNG AF3 head? I'm guessing since it's "Enhances", it could be an increase in proc rate.
Got the seals for it, though I won't bother using it over Zha'Go's Barbut till I get +2, unless the Double Shot boost is worthwhile.
As a follow up to that question, would the hat only need to be equipped while activating DS, or while firing shots as well?

Second question is about Blinkmenot. I noticed that the Resources and Spellcast files have been updated, and I heard that outdated files had an impact on Blinkmenot, yet it's still crashing after the update. Do we need to wait for a new version of BMN to have it work, or did I miss something here?

Thanks for any replies.

[Phoenyx]

BMN is still broken as far as I know.

[Pooke]

If I were to reactivate FFXI today would I be billed for the month of December, 21 days of service, or would I get billed for an entire month of activation, paid until January 10th?

[Phoenyx]

If I were to reactivate FFXI today would I be billed for the month of December, 21 days of service, or would I get billed for an entire month of activation, paid until January 10th?

You'd get billed for the entire month of December. As far as I'm aware, SE doesn't pro-rate at all. You could activate on December 31st and still pay for the whole month.

[Pooke]

That's what I was thinking, thanks for the confirmation!

[nitsuj]

Working on getting a Masamune and honestly Lamprey Lord & Chesma are looking like far bigger pains in the asses compared to Carabosse and lolCirin since I can't just juice up on Atma. Any tips for a good low-man set up? (other than the infamous MNK BRD RDM combo) preferably something involving SAM since I need my stupid GKT equipped @ ToD. Looking at LL's stats on wiki now and yeah I just don't see how he can feasibly be melee'd down with such a horrendous poison attack & hate resets (and all the DA & TA).

I had a RDM solo my LL's in Pashow by pinning on a rock. She'd kill in under 60 seconds, I believe. Way easy on a mage job.

[Malacite]

^ wow that easy? Thanks.

Failing that I'd imagine a few SMNs could just keep it at bay and hammer at it with BPs?

Where in Pashow (past or present btw?) did you do it?

[Fiarlia]

Anyone have the .DAT for the entire zone of walk of echoes? I frequently crash in that zone, even w/o windower playing w/ official POL and it's the only zone this is occurring in

Tell me what .dat it is and I'll upload mine, dunno if was already provided as I skipped a few pages.

Working on getting a Masamune and honestly Lamprey Lord & Chesma are looking like far bigger pains in the asses compared to Carabosse and lolCirin since I can't just juice up on Atma. Any tips for a good low-man set up? (other than the infamous MNK BRD RDM combo) preferably something involving SAM since I need my stupid GKT equipped @ ToD. Looking at LL's stats on wiki now and yeah I just don't see how he can feasibly be melee'd down with such a horrendous poison attack & hate resets (and all the DA & TA).

Along with this:

I had a RDM solo my LL's in Pashow by pinning on a rock. She'd kill in under 60 seconds, I believe. Way easy on a mage job.

Could have 2-3 Nukers/NIN do it for you. I'm guessing for Nits's (hi Nits!) the RDM used Chainspell to kill that quickly, as I've solo'd LL and certainly never killed that fast without Chainspell. If you wanted you could gather a few nukers, subbing NIN and the just spam nukes and trade hate. Just make sure they stand away from each other because of Paralyze Aura (though it's weak, can still suck). This way you can do Pashhow present and past, as well as North Gustaberg present and past and knock out 4 kills fairly quickly, with the first repopping shortly after the fourth is killed. Whole process should take less than 2 hours.

If you can only have a RDM solo there's also a pin spot in NGusta, small rock near a wall close to Palborough Mines zone.

[Akairyu]

This question probably seems old hat, but will the emergency maintenance just now have reset NM spawn timers? My wife just leveled her Summoner 40->73 in one abyssea party and now we're needing to do a lot of catchup work. We need to camp Shiki for Yinyang Robe, but will we have to wait till tomorrow for it to spawn or did this maintenance not dick with spawn timers? (I never much paid attention to this issue before, never having been in a major HNM shell)

[Gun-it]

"Kill 50 experience-yielding monsters of the scorpion family under fire/wind/lightning/light weather."
Good place for this?

[Fiarlia]

It resets, but some NM's repop right after maint, while some have a lowered respawn time (til their first pop). Only example I can think of off the top of my head is Boroka, which is normally at 21-24 respawn, pops 3 hours after a maint. Best bet is to check the wiki's to see if there's specific information on when Shiki will pop. Most NM's will have it listed, if not on the page itself, then on the talk page.

[Byrthnoth]

Iirc, he pops 21 hours after server-up, which doesn't necessarily correspond with the end of maintenance. This was a pretty quick Maintenance though, so you should be able to get a good idea of when he'll pop.

YY Robe is a nice package, but you should think about whether or not it's still necessary SMN gear before you camp it.

[Akairyu]

It still the biggest Blood Pact Delay - piece available, so if nothing else It'd be handy to get for that. Thanks for the info, guess I'm waiting till tomorrow to stare at weapons.

[rog]

It still the biggest Blood Pact Delay - piece available, so if nothing else It'd be handy to get for that.

That caps at -15, no?

[Shalafi]

Yes it does

The body is 1/3 of the cap

[Fereydoon]

Magian perp staffs get BP delay -10 at 90. So you can cap it in two items.