Random Question Thread XVII: Toy Surprise Inside!

[Salmijr]

How much of a fool am I for trying to farm myself a refresh hairpin from abyssea-kon? I spent 6 hrs there last night, and another 6 hrs tonight with capped pearl/azure/amber and ended up with a bunch of npc fodder. I kept track tonight and got 5 rings, 4 shields, and 8 pins. I don't expect refresh pin instantly, but what kind of long haul am I in for here? Is refresh like 5% chance on pin?

We just did a 20 hour marathon run, and ended up with 3 refresh pins, about 60(?) dark rings, and 10 stacks of purple polypores. This was with 3-4 people actively killing stuff, then falling asleep inside abyssea with capped lights since we had 1400+ minutes left when bed time hit. the DDs would focus on saplings for no ruby light, and 2 blms were ga burning funguars. Over the 20 hours we probably had maybe 5 accidental ruby kills.

[Heslon]

a friend has war 75 and didnt play for very long he played when dual wield axe was the best and now he is wondering if skilling great axe is worth it or is dual wield axe good again because there are so many wars running arround with axe´s again?
and the same guy also has mnk+nin and since we are returning to ff (4 friends) we are trying to low man the new stuff etc. and every post here is like mnk+rdm+whm can kill xx nm´s lol is nin+whm+rdm good too or is mnk better? and why is mnk better "tanking" the mobs etc i thought nin had way more eva/parry etc?
he only wants to take mnk OR nin to 90 and rebuy equip etc so what would be better for low man and why?

[Julian]

First two big gold boxes I find give me the ahriman and fistule items I were missing, lol.

Quick question abut Kukulkan: His gaze move: Is it the actual move that does the zombie/curse/terror/whatever that lasts a short time, and then the actual aura that remains from the move is just poison? Otherwiki isn't very specific. Depending on answer, I guess straight tank MNK/WHM/RDM, then kite when the aura is up, or do I even have to? guess I'll see. Building up some time and farming more gold boxes before I try him out.

And Eccentric Eve: I'm guessing MNK WHM RDM should be able to kill it easy? Is the charm move easily stunable, or anything else I should watch out for? Are his moves actually conal and not retarded like Vivian? If I get multiple pops, I might try one as WAR to try and proc red :/

PS: Cataclysm "Cleaving" is fun as hell, even though I only did like 4-6 mobs at a time so I wouldn't die >.>

[Kegsay]

Twilight Cape testing:
Casting Aero II on Skinks outside jeuno:
-Base = 294
-With Weather = 323 (increase 29, as expected 1.10x)
-With Weather and Cape = 338 (increase 44, 1.15x)

Unsure if this is adding 50% to the bonus or just a straight up +0.05. As in, I don't know if double weather will add 0.125 (50% of the 0.25 bonus double weather normally gives). Playing it safe, I assume it's just +0.05, in other words it's like Sorcerer's Tonban, but it works for weather as well.

[cdgreg]

I've done roughly 6 5hr+ runs to give you an idea.

To clarify did you get one after the 30 hours or still no luck?

[Cream Soda]

How many Tier 1 VNMs in visions abyssea zones and repop on them? I see 2 dead t1s in highlands

[Rehn]

First two big gold boxes I find give me the ahriman and fistule items I were missing, lol.

Quick question abut Kukulkan: His gaze move: Is it the actual move that does the zombie/curse/terror/whatever that lasts a short time, and then the actual aura that remains from the move is just poison? Otherwiki isn't very specific. Depending on answer, I guess straight tank MNK/WHM/RDM, then kite when the aura is up, or do I even have to? guess I'll see. Building up some time and farming more gold boxes before I try him out.

And Eccentric Eve: I'm guessing MNK WHM RDM should be able to kill it easy? Is the charm move easily stunable, or anything else I should watch out for? Are his moves actually conal and not retarded like Vivian? If I get multiple pops, I might try one as WAR to try and proc red :/

PS: Cataclysm "Cleaving" is fun as hell, even though I only did like 4-6 mobs at a time so I wouldn't die >.>

Oppressive gaze gives kukulkan glowing blue eyes and so long as your char is facing/making eye contact with him, you will be terrorized/zombied. If you're the only melee, you're pretty much dead unless a mage can pull hate off you. If you're straight tanking, having a 2nd melee is best, since he pretty much keeps that gaze up move under 50%. Another option would be to kite it around the rock where the NPC for picture quest is (thanks to rog for letting me know about it) and nuke it down.

Tainting breath and extremely bad breath both have long charge up timers (3 seconds?), so they are easily stunned. However, some of my stunners have encountered problems with chatlog about 1 or the other move not showing up (maybe something about their filters). If you only have 1 stunner, backtank until stun timer is ready again. Can slap on your evasion gear, since eve isn't too accurate at 90. Bad breath is conal, not sure with eev or tainting. Thousand spears seems like aoe centered around eve? Never had more than 1 or 2 melee on it at any time, so unsure about that either.

[Kyte]

Anyone else get bad lag around objects that teleport to or from somewhere (Conflux, Crag crystals, maws, etc)?

[cdgreg]

Anyone else get bad lag around objects that teleport to or from somewhere (Conflux, Crag crystals, maws, etc)?

Always and forever, also there's a current known issue with blinkmenot in high traffic areas.

[cdgreg]

Is there a decent way to skill evasion from 330-361? I used chigoes in attowha previously but now that they're all DC the skill ups are slooowwwww.


edit: actually I guess it isn't that bad, already went from 337-343, just need to watch tv or something lol

[Kyte]

Always and forever, also there's a current known issue with blinkmenot in high traffic areas.

For you, is it just because there are often people crowded around those spots, or do you get it regardless? For me it's the latter =(

[Clash Perez]

A lot of systems have always had issues around these sorts of sprites, as well as anything with a visible 'aura' (GMs, SMN avatars, maws, etc.). Personally, I've never had a system that hasn't had at least some noticeable slowdown around these.

Have you made any recent changes to your system?

[Julian]

EE was a joke, popped during blunt, got the blue, then luckily got the red on my last WS (2 staff on mnk, 1 club on whm, 2 dagger on rdm, so only covering 5) got my sam shoes + atma :D gonna do Kukulkan next I guess

edit: also got a refresh pin on the last sappling before heading to EE (*'-')

GG is being a bitch and not dropping though, like 0/10 so far I assume that neck piece is optimal for NIN, yes?

[Azuark]

To further the Twilight cape stuff got one last night. nukes went up 5% in dmg when nuking day havent nuked day/weather

[JustaWAR]

How many people are needed to kill Ironclad Triburator and what's the basic strat? My ls tried the other day and really couldn't make progress with anything.

[Dammerung]

Hexa and mystic boon sets for whm?

[Khajit]

As lol as PLD is right now, I've nothing else to dump merits into.

For Group 2 I have Chivalry 5/5 and Fealty 1/5. I'm wondering which other should I go 4/5 or cap: Iron Will or Guardian? Iron Will seems like a a decent choice but I'm unversed in how Spell Interruption rate actually works. Aka, don't know is -100% is actually 100% in the game.

108% caps spell interupt to make it impossible for you(or those his with the aoe from rampart) to get interupted and guardian is kinda meh since its hard to lose emnity during sentinel and hate is easy to cap.

[Khajit]

a friend has war 75 and didnt play for very long he played when dual wield axe was the best and now he is wondering if skilling great axe is worth it or is dual wield axe good again because there are so many wars running arround with axe´s again?
and the same guy also has mnk+nin and since we are returning to ff (4 friends) we are trying to low man the new stuff etc. and every post here is like mnk+rdm+whm can kill xx nm´s lol is nin+whm+rdm good too or is mnk better? and why is mnk better "tanking" the mobs etc i thought nin had way more eva/parry etc?
he only wants to take mnk OR nin to 90 and rebuy equip etc so what would be better for low man and why?

Does he have rdill at minimum? If no then get a gaxe. If yes then probably still get a gaxe. keep a spare axe on hand for blu proccing at least.

[Roundelk]

Where's the ??? for Ningishzida?

[Kyte]

A lot of systems have always had issues around these sorts of sprites, as well as anything with a visible 'aura' (GMs, SMN avatars, maws, etc.). Personally, I've never had a system that hasn't had at least some noticeable slowdown around these.

Have you made any recent changes to your system?

I think on this laptop I've always had these problems, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I changed laptops last August. I want to say I didn't have them on my old one.