Random Question Thread XVIII: Just an Ordinary Sword of Legend

[Azuark]

Oh god your right. RDM are useless. hahah

[Thix]

Useless in the "I only want to bring the minimum jobs needed" aspect, but if you have one then sab slow/para2 is very nice, dia 3 doesnt suck, and added MP for your whm from refresh 2 is nifty.

[lolwut]

Aside from solo'ing shit as rdm, what is rdm generally useful for these days? I pretty much called it a dead job for current times and had a bunch of ppl whining and complaining at me, lol so trying to see if I missed a hidden usage for the job or something.

It was hands down my favorite job pre-Abyssea, but I couldn't tell you the last time I even bothered gearing it up.

[Massimo]

RDM is very useful for cleaving. You're all crazy.

[Deader2818]

If you are just looking to cover Red/Yellow procs with bare minimum then yes, RDM doesnt have much of a use. But to say its useless isnt really correct because having enfeebles that RDM does is still useful to have if you have the one extra slot. Generally when we do events, after yellow/red is covered, the next job ill have someone come is RDM because it does make things easier.

[Salmijr]

Rdm's best use atm is as a puller for cleave-style burns.

[Azuark]

Hey now. i Pull and Tank cleave-style burns. as RDM

[Martinius]

ok so at the moment my mnk has capped haste from tantra +1, tantra legs +2, black belt and usu feet. today i finished hands +1, and while i'll probably continue using usu gote/usu feet when i'm tanking, for pure DD, it makes more sense to change my feet. i don't have tantra gaiters +1 yet.

only thing i could think of until i get those last three seals is poise shoes. something i'm forgetting?

thanks!

[wipers]

Quick question about problem logging into playonline. I keep getting wrong password or playonline ID when I log in on my new computer. I know for a fact that I'm entering the right password and ID. I've checked the online customer support it did nothing to help. Any ideas how to figure out what is going wrong ?


Edit: My playonline ID and password works fine on my older computer. And I am using a brand new copy of the game not the same on on my old computer. I'm using Windows 7 also if that helps. Thanks for any help.

[Dathus]

Anyone have a link to the newest UI/FFXI Style mods?

[Andradi]

http://forums.windower.net/topic/115...rface-1262010/

[Beave]

Torn on DRK merits...care to share your thoughts?

[Guitarman]

Quick question about problem logging into playonline. I keep getting wrong password or playonline ID when I log in on my new computer. I know for a fact that I'm entering the right password and ID. I've checked the online customer support it did nothing to help. Any ideas how to figure out what is going wrong ?


Edit: My playonline ID and password works fine on my older computer. And I am using a brand new copy of the game not the same on on my old computer. I'm using Windows 7 also if that helps. Thanks for any help.

I had this problem too when i got a new harddrive. You're not entering your pol password to be saved in the settings. click on your handle in pol, click "settings" and type in your pol password in the area for it. (4th option down from the top)

Torn on DRK merits...care to share your thoughts?

group 1: last resort effect/recast, group 2: desperate blows/your choice. I actually like having dark seal for when i really need drain to land fully, but some DRK never use it. None of it is groundbreaking but definitely cap desperate blows for cat2.

[wipers]

Thank you guitarman. I'm going to try that now.

[Jeryhn]

Aside from solo'ing shit as rdm, what is rdm generally useful for these days? I pretty much called it a dead job for current times and had a bunch of ppl whining and complaining at me, lol so trying to see if I missed a hidden usage for the job or something.

I'm always in Abyssea so I'm never on RDM anymore.
Outside it's still a pretty good job.

[Zirk]

My linkshell was talking about how the next relic trials are probably going to be kill your respective animated weapon, and we were kinda planning out how we'd do all the weapons.

Anyways one member is claiming that the Animated Tachi is confirmed to warp faster the more you weapon skill it. Has anyone ever heard this before or can confirm it?

[hykiri]

What color type of "!!" is needed on bosses to make more Empy Weapon items drop?

[Zirk]

None, its pretty widely held that only Treasure Hunter can make empyrean trial items drop.

[Sylvrdragon]

Looking at the Abyssea - Konschat map there doesn't seem to be any mobs that are aoe-able. Is there some tactic people use that can farm time easily in there? So far we just cap lights on VNMs then farm mobs between fistule kills keeping our fingers crossed, I am just assuming that particular zone doesn't have such luxury. Any ideas?

Usually I end up BLU AOE burning the Slugs. There are only ~11 of them, but they aren't too spread out and they're quite manageable with Phalanx2 and a decent PDT set (Single digits, a lot of 0s). If you have 2 pullers, you can have the other gather up the Leeches at the same time and meet you in the middle for a ~22-25 mob pull, but be careful, cause they'll drop you fucking FAST if they're awake and hitting you without your PDT set on (like just after your initial nuke wakes them). Of course, this was just duo with me on BLU and a friend on RDM. If you add a SMN for Perfect Defense, or perhaps someone to time some very nice sleeps after your nuke lands, then you should be able to get everything with no danger at all. If you're completely decked out, then perhaps you can 1-shot everything. Personally, I have trouble breaking 4k without a Gambir, and that's not really even close to 1-shotting Kon. mobs (Sometimes gets Chigoes though).

Has anyone else noticed that when a roaming NM of a particular family is DOWN, that the mobs from that family seem to repop much higher? Whenever someone kills Tunga at chigoes or Cujitender at Mandies, the mobs go from always EP-DC (regardless of how fast I AOE kill them) to EM-VT, and subsequently start breaking through my defenses. As soon as the NM repops, the next pull is back down to EP-DCs with 0 damage hits across the board.

[Yugl]

Never had the LVUP:NM correlation. Two BLUs should be able to kill them in one nuke, so typically, sleep is unnecessary. If solo burning, then you usually need 1-2 sleeps because Thermal and Leafstorm are significantly worse than Whiskers due to atma choice.