Random Question Thread XVII: Toy Surprise Inside!

[Rocl]

@Audumbla:

I had issues with its defense, but the only real "threat" is Mighty Snort hate reset, but the most damage I've ever seen it do was like 1200.

A MNK and a WHM is pretty much overkill

[zard1977]

Easily, if your monk is half-decent. Hits hard and fast but has pretty low accuracy and evasion. Easily tanked by nin/thf/mnk. Snort does nowhere close to what otherwiki says.

[Deader2818]

Alright, figured as much. Do I need /NIN or does /WAR work since low acc and eva?

[Guitarman]

complete brainfart. hands are 8 seals for +1 6 item for +2 right?

[blue]

Does Smiting Blow stack with tp-bonus weapons?

[Motenten]

@Audumbla:

I fought it a couple times on mnk, and a couple times on thf (switched to get TH). On mnk I had a decent evasion rate, but would still be a pain to keep up with healing if /war (am fuzzy on damage done since it didn't hit often, but am thinking in the 300-400 range per hit?); most likely not as much an issue of individual damage, but of it getting a few hits in between heals and then getting hit with a high-damage Mighty Snort (more of a concern for me since our healer was a rdm; unlikely to be a problem for a whm healer) . Fight took about 3-4 minutes with mnk + nin meleeing it (I seem to remember Impetus wearing off towards the end of the fight) and blm nuking, though that was without food to give the blm more time to test procs.

On thf, I think I may have had capped evasion even in normal TP gear (no evasion gear). It took a loooong time for it to get through shadows. Oh, I was using Siren Shadow as one of my atmas (RR+GH+SS). While it does have a high defense, my 85 thf was still doing better damage than the numbers on the wiki for the 87 thf.

[Deader2818]

Alright, thanks for all the info guys. Ill give this ago later!

[blue]

Answering my own question because Martial Analace popped up at AH finally. It stacks. Tried Sanguine Blade and always got 100% back.
Now my question 2#: Does it work the same for Trial Bonus weapons?

[Eldelphia]

Is there anything besides completing Mihgo's Dominion Ops to obtain Atma of the Fetching Footpad (MAB:minor, Mcrit: major, Conserve MP: Superior)? For BLMs with the AF3 set bonus, would this be a major player, possibly replacing Ultimate or Beyond? If the conserve MP is 15% or higher, that seems like a nice boost to the number of procs.

I probably wouldn't use it if I'm honest. With three atma, I'd go for minnikin, beyond and then either Hell's guardian or Ultimate or Baying Moon

[Francisco]

@Audumbla:

The "hardest part" is the hate reset, and your WHM needs to be ready to deal with it. Duo'd with MNK/NIN and WHM easily - although my WHM died and reraised on the first fight. It wasn't an issue though. Also trio'd with MNK/DNC, RDM or BLM and BRD. Even easier, although it took longer because I was messing around and using weird atma for the fight, and we were trying to proc !!s and I was using a lot of TP towards Haste Samba, Curing Waltz and Box Step.

This is one of those abyssea NMs I'm convinced I can solo on MNK/DNC - but might get humbled in doing so. I got ballsy last night and tried to solo Adze. That fight wound up sucking fast.

[Kidnoftle]

What's a very basic gear set for mnk? It's for a mule, so nothing too fancy, trials are out of the question, af3 will be limited to +1, i have black belt, etc. Don't want to spend more than 1-2m max.

might as well +2 the legs at least, would take all of 30minutes

[Kirschy]

Tantra cyclas +2 testing:

Barefisted, 90MNK/NIN in kuftal on crabs, 10 attack rounds:

no body:
112 tp, 2 kicks, 3 crits

body:
117 tp, 3 kicks, 1 crit

you need anything further from me to test i'm more than happy to.

Seems you're getting 5.1 tp/hit in both cases, which turns out to be 400 delay. Does martial arts affect tp gain?

[Cream Soda]

yes

[Julian]

Southeast of the gnat area (vaguely towards the corse spawn point) is a miasma block. You can run around the rock north-ish a bit to get to either side. Pull to there and have one person on either side who can grab hate in some way (voke, nuke, whatever), since you can act through the miasma wall. When Warbler is on one side, let that person fight it until they get petrified/hate reset. Warbler then makes the long trip around the rock to get to the people on the other side; generally enough time for petrify to wear off on its own, but of course can have the whm deal with it as well. Would guess mnk on one side, rdm on the other, and whm probly with the mnk. Mnk can use ninjutsu to get hate back up enough to pull Warbler after the reset on the rdm. Very easy fight.

Thanks for the tip, can't believe I didn't think of something like that. I already have the fight down pretty well, this should make it even easier, since I have to repeat it to get my whm the abyssite :/

Any word on Boosting before WS being worth it or not?

[Francisco]

Mnk/nin and whm duo Ovni? (or is /war better).

RL friend of mine wants it, casual player, so I wouldn't expect her to have refresh atma (though if that's a prob can bring my taru to refresh II and slow the NM as well). That being said, doable?

I took Ovni to 85% solo with 3 Gigadelphia things casting Fire IV, Firaga III and Burn (high DoT) on me.

[Pandorablue]

RDM merits: What do at this point in the game?

For Group 1, is Convert recast a complete waste? I rarely find myself in situations where I need to use it, but I'm not sure about non-abyssea ventures. Also, for macc, I would think 5/5 in ice/earth for slow/para, but what about considering fire for addle, or wind for grav/silence? Could maybe do 3/5 ice/earth 2/5 wind/fire... I dunno.

Group 2... well it's kind of obvious, slow/para II at least... but how many in each, and what else should I consider?

Tips/advice/considerations? Much appreciated~

[Marcicus]

Where do you get Snow Gems from?

[SephYuyX]

Where is the best area for fire weather? I can never remember.

[gnat]

Essential MNK artifact/relic pieces?

[Kidnoftle]

Is the txt for the abyssite of Discernment linked with battle damage or is it a diff type of message? I want to make it a bright color so I see it over battle spam

bamp.