Random Question Thread XVII: Toy Surprise Inside!

[Trix]

Will atmas affect avatars?

[Mercilessturtle]

Yes.

[Sylvrdragon]

Can I maybe get some more help on this one?

Did she get FFXI from Steam? If so, and if on Vista (and I think 7), the file path is something like:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\ffxi\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ToolsUS

[Atoreis]

Any idea how to pop Sippoy? I tho they are up most of the time now but we waiting like 1h now and nothing.

[Skeelo]

Any idea how to pop Sippoy? I tho they are up most of the time now but we waiting like 1h now and nothing.

Join the club, camped him night before maint. for 5hrs. Killing every roaming nm/ramuh/giant. Kill night of maint. for 3hrs. killing everything. And nothing. So good luck.

[Dooom]

Where do monk AF3 hands sit in the hierarchy of TP hands, both +1 and +2, assuming the haste and acc isn't needed; or put another way, how does the H2H skill on them compare to the attack on relic/kotes/etc (full merits, no faith torque, does this give me more base damage? I'm not sure)? Will it depend on how many +2 pieces I have?

[Deader2818]

With no torque, you should be sitting at 377 skill so the +1 will give you what you need to break a tier level. If you get Torque and +1 hands, they will leave you one short of a tier, so you would need +2 to break a teir.

As far as if they beat, im not sure. I think its 1 dmg, 7 attack vs 22/20 attack.

Im guessing its going to depend on where your attack is at.

[Scary]

Does anyone know if Gruesome Gargoilles are glitched? I killed so many and never got a Stone item to pop, but just Gargoille Eyes and Shanks only.

[Tortalius]

so spell cast is not recognizing the Blue Mage Spell Wild Carrot as separate from the bst ability. even if I type /ma wild carrot <t> it says that it's getting an error as /pet.

How do I fix this?

[Ocara]

Does anyone know if Gruesome Gargoilles are glitched? I killed so many and never got a Stone item to pop, but just Gargoille Eyes and Shanks only.

In my experience the droprate on those stones just suck. Certain mobs seem to have a better/worse droprate on their pop items from what I've seen, but could just be eyeballing.

[rog]

so spell cast is not recognizing the Blue Mage Spell Wild Carrot as separate from the bst ability. even if I type /ma wild carrot <t> it says that it's getting an error as /pet.

How do I fix this?

Are you using the newest version of spellcast?

[Koyangi]

another question, has any testing been done / is there any information on the augments solace on whm af3+2 body?

I want to know this too.

[Motenten]

Is fSTR on footwork/kick attacks based on your knuckles you have equipped, or your boots. I.E. with ursine claws and tantra boots+2, will you be getting floor((0+3)/9)=0 weapon rank, 8 fstr cap; or will you be getting floor(45+3)/9)=5 weapons rank, 13 fstr cap?

And on a similar note, do 1-hit h2h weapon skills get an 'off' punch the same way dual-wielding 1h weapons does? Does a multi-hit WS still get his off punch too, or dies it just count as the second punch in the WS?

Footwork's weapon rank is based on Footwork's bonus base damage of +18, so will always have a max fStr of 10.

Most H2H weaponskills are one mainhand hit plus one offhand hit. Anything that specifies the number of hits (except Tornado Kick) is that number of hits with the offhand hit already included (eg: Raging Fists is 5 hits, which is made up of 1 main, 1 offhand, 3 additional hits). Tornado Kick had a different dev team write the description, who probably used the standard from other weapon types, and is 2 hits (from the description) plus the offhand for a total of 3.

[Buffy]

Good place to skillup rdm enfeebling, blm dark skill/elemental skill to 90 cap outside abyssea?

[rog]

Just skill it up while playing. Having your skills capped isn't nearly as important as you seem to think it is, especially for magic. I still don't have elemental capped for 85 blm (2 levels short as of yesterday), and it really doesn't matter, especially now with ultimate.

[Gun-it]

easy way to get level 3 fame in Abyssea - Vunker?

[Francisco]

easy way to get level 3 fame in Abyssea - Vunker?

Spamming the quest where you turn in NM pop items worked well for me.


Question: What's the best way to farm AF3 feet? We were in Vunkerl for 12+ hours the other day trying to get COR and SCH AF3 boots... we got like 3-5 of every pair except COR and SCH, which we got none of.

It seems like too much amber may be a bad thing, as 90% of our gold boxes were temp items or key items, which we already maxed on. Is there an ideal amount of amber to farm if you only care about getting AF3 boots, and not about key items or XP?

[Neviskio]

Just got my BLU to a decent lvl(75) but I'm a bit baffled on the merits, I'll be using it mostly to solo things in abyssea so I have access to more lights choices, and !! weakness on bosses, but I can't decide...I've read on some old posts something like

5/5 Physical Potency
5/5 Magical Accuracy

3/3 Assimilation
3/3 Enchainment

but there was a huge debate and also I'm not sure...convergence and diffusion seem to have their good uses ...

Also on a related note, can anyone point me to an updated blu xml for spellcast?I'd love to write my own but my knowledge is kinda basic so I would break it like I did for my MNK one.

Thank you

[Sylvrdragon]

Just got my BLU to a decent lvl(75) but I'm a bit baffled on the merits, I'll be using it mostly to solo things in abyssea so I have access to more lights choices, and !! weakness on bosses, but I can't decide...I've read on some old posts something like

5/5 Physical Potency
5/5 Magical Accuracy

3/3 Assimilation
3/3 Enchainment

but there was a huge debate and also I'm not sure...convergence and diffusion seem to have their good uses ...

Also on a related note, can anyone point me to an updated blu xml for spellcast?I'd love to write my own but my knowledge is kinda basic so I would break it like I did for my MNK one.

Thank you

5/5 Physical
5/5 CA Recast

5/5 Assimilation
5/5 Enchainment

Diffusion and Convergence blow.

[Koyangi]

Spamming the quest where you turn in NM pop items worked well for me.


Question: What's the best way to farm AF3 feet? We were in Vunkerl for 12+ hours the other day trying to get COR and SCH AF3 boots... we got like 3-5 of every pair except COR and SCH, which we got none of.

It seems like too much amber may be a bad thing, as 90% of our gold boxes were temp items or key items, which we already maxed on. Is there an ideal amount of amber to farm if you only care about getting AF3 boots, and not about key items or XP?

It's just luck, however, you can get af3 from just 1 amber light iirc now, it's just with 1 amber light kills arent going to be dropping lots of amber even with capped perle, your route seems to be best way to go, you just had shitty luck.