Random Question Thread XVII: Toy Surprise Inside!

[Ocara]

Any secret to dark rings? I've been here like 4 hours now with nothing to show for it. Fairly sure I'm capped Amber (nothing but big boxes), but only getting keyitems and temp items. Occasional chest w/ baramnesia.

Just gotta kill fast and get lucky. In ~4 hours of solo killing on mnk last time I went (friends built lights and left) I saw 1 refresh pin and 2 shitty dark rings the whole time.

[Massimo]

Is there a decent way to solo your own time extensions? i.e. can i get to 120 mins time saved up by myself, or would TE chests not come by often enough? Mainly want to do it so I can start doing fame quests and solos.

Have blm and rdm at 90.

BLM. DoT/staff kill some VNMs for pearl, cap azure on ephemerals > ga groups of easy mobs.

Any secret to dark rings? I've been here like 4 hours now with nothing to show for it. Fairly sure I'm capped Amber (nothing but big boxes), but only getting keyitems and temp items. Occasional chest w/ baramnesia.

There's no secrets. Kill, kill and then kill some more.

[cdgreg]

Is wiki right that twilight cloak shares a slot with cape/belt/torque? I'm after cloak and trying to determine if I can go CS a few down, or need blue!!

[Guitarman]

Little hazy on how damage tiers are calculated. Mostly concerned about monk and Victory Smite. Right now, with the +2 tantra gloves and 8/8 merits, i'm sitting at 384 H2H skill. Does the faith torque still bring me up in damge at this point? Or had i broken that tier with the gloves already?

[Thorny]

Is wiki right that twilight cloak shares a slot with cape/belt/torque? I'm after cloak and trying to determine if I can go CS a few down, or need blue!!

It's wrong. I don't know of any shared slots at all, but am 100% sure that cloak doesn't share a slot with cape/belt/torque/scythe as I've seen all 5 in one pool. 3/18 cloak atm, all blue !! TH9.. definitely bring !! at least.

[Byrthnoth]

At some point, somewhere, I saw a screenshot of a plugin that monitored key items obtained from chests in Abyssea on an alliance scale. Does anyone know where that was?

[Rooney]

Little hazy on how damage tiers are calculated. Mostly concerned about monk and Victory Smite. Right now, with the +2 tantra gloves and 8/8 merits, i'm sitting at 384 H2H skill. Does the faith torque still bring me up in damge at this point? Or had i broken that tier with the gloves already?

Torque would be just enough to break the next tier, though a WS gorget will still give better numbers.

[Roundelk]

Anyone have a strat for Azdaja lowman with say 5-7 people?

[Cream Soda]

is there any way to assign priority for items w/ diff augments? Have a few dark rings, and don't want it to fuck up my MDT and PDT sets :/

[Deader2818]

is there any way to assign priority for items w/ diff augments? Have a few dark rings, and don't want it to fuck up my MDT and PDT sets :/

Nope!

[Massimo]

At some point, somewhere, I saw a screenshot of a plugin that monitored key items obtained from chests in Abyssea on an alliance scale. Does anyone know where that was?

This?

[barber2006]

Does counter check before or after shadows? If before, is there any explanation why my nin/mnk had a 9% counter rate with counterstance up? Acc was capped. Eva not close to capped against the mobs I was fighting.

[cdgreg]

To whoever asked about Myrmecoleon thank you. I had sort of given up on owleyes since the kited fight was annoying and drop rate sucked. Now with abyssite that tells you blue weapon and melee + mage win it was a piece of cake. 2/2 owl eyes with blue !! and TH.

[Massimo]

Does counter check before or after shadows? If before, is there any explanation why my nin/mnk had a 9% counter rate with counterstance up? Acc was capped. Eva not close to capped against the mobs I was fighting.

Have you ever seen yourself counter with utsu up? After.

[barber2006]

Have you ever seen yourself counter with utsu up? After.

Have not seen it because 4 hours ago my mnk was level 9. Thanks for the quick reply though even if it does make /mnk kinda worthless.

[Cream Soda]

Wiki still fails.

9/9 card of ardor. What's the best thing to farm for tantra body seals?

[Juxtaposition]

Regarding Slow II and Paralyze II, is it safe to assume that a moderate MND setup (130 MND before any buffs) combined with cruor buffs that potency will be capped against Abyssean NMs?

To add: Can Phalanx II ever beat out Phalanx I in terms of damage reduction?

[Greatguardian]

Have not seen it because 4 hours ago my mnk was level 9. Thanks for the quick reply though even if it does make /mnk kinda worthless.

Counterstance, don't use Utsu unless you're about to eat a T5 nuke or you're at <1k HP, ???, profit? Even when I do Mnk/Nin, I pretty much never use Utsusemi

[boo]

Why do you sj nin then if you never use Utsu?

[TybudX]

Just hit 90 on RDM, in the market for a better spellcast xml than the bastardized BLM one I have been using.

a) Yes, I've tried learning spellcast on my own, I'm not that smart and I really don't have time to figure it out after working my hours.

b) I'd like something that cover the following things:
- kiting pdt & mdt sets
- standing pdt & mdt sets
- some way to figure out keeping melee weapons equipped if I start out with them on.
- uh, not sure? Just normal RDM spells and shit.

Can anybody help me out, or pm me with some info? The only xmls I ever see are geared towards cureIV RDMs, and I don't know what to look for in other job's xmls to steal stuff.