Random Question Thread XVIII: Just an Ordinary Sword of Legend

[cdgreg]

@cream soda: T1 VNM and low tier popped NM's to cap lights. cleave mandy or bats for fun and profit. it's pretty quick.

Does anyone have a rule of thumb of how many vnm kills cap a light?

[Yugl]

6-8 it seems.

[rog]

I've always auto-sorted spells, but have finally decided to manual sort. Came out amazing, but I have the bad habit of auto-sorting without thinking about it. Is anyone aware of a hack or app that lets you customize the order of magic when you do an auto-sort of spells? Would be great to populate the order across all of my characters and prevent me from f'ing it up.

No, but you can just save the sort file and replace it any time you accidentally sort it, though that'd require you to log back in to reset it.

[rog]

I always do 7 vnms, which definitely caps lights.

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

While there's recent talk of Kannagi - the last post has pretty much settled my debates about atma/equip for nin. Although, I always see people who have Kannagi, run around with either an Agi katana, or have heard talks of (OAT) Katana being a good offhand katana. I have Kamome, but I just want to know if the AGI or Other katana are worth having for different situations. They are both partially complete.

[TheDirtyHobo]

While there's recent talk of Kannagi - the last post has pretty much settled my debates about atma/equip for nin. Although, I always see people who have Kannagi, run around with either an Agi katana, or have heard talks of (OAT) Katana being a good offhand katana. I have Kamome, but I just want to know if the AGI or Other katana are worth having for different situations. They are both partially complete.

The only time either of those come even close to Kannagi is when you're using something like Sanguine Scythe as third atma due to needing extra HP. At that point, I think the DA katana would win by a decent margin for best offhand.

[Kidnoftle]

Apocalypse?

uh wut. Why would you use 15%TA over 30%crit rate and Agi minor (10?) for Hi...

[Darkmagi]

Dark depths is 30%? Also won't you have excess crit rate when you make use of innin?

[Kidnoftle]

It's the same rating as RR which is 30% so pulled from that.

[rog]

I can't read.

[Darkmagi]

It's the same rating as RR which is 30% so pulled from that.

derp moment. But any serious math on DD vs apoc for nin?

[Kidnoftle]

Doesn't really need serious math. In any situation where you're not getting the full benefit from innin DD will be better and even if you were (and I highly doubt it) able to constantly stay behind a mob without it turning to you (I guess apademak?) DD would still be better.

[Motenten]

From my own math/spreadsheets, Apoc should be considerably better than DD as the third atma (6%+ better).

Also, whether it's 20% or 30% doesn't really matter; 20% along with RR and GH would put you at 94% crit rate, 1% shy of the cap, and also means you don't get anything from the "crit rate varies with TP" part of the weaponskill.

[IronPandemonium]

Kannagi/Kamome/x/Qiriz tath
Iga+2/Iga/Iga/Suppa
af1(iga+2)/dusk+1/Rajas/Epona's
Iga/Goading/Iga+2/Iga+2

i figured as much, though my only doubt was ocegloves/twilightbelt vs dusk+1/goading, albeit because store tp doesn't seem attractive at all for ninja, but i'm sure 2% double attack's not too amazing either by any means, and besides, dusk+1 still looks more boss >B|

i've pretty much got all that available to me (thankfully) bar kannagi/goading atm, but i'm sure i could get goading without breaking a sweat, and kannagi just merely comes down to me not being a lazy piece of shit

basically, i was mainly asking just in case there were some somewhat "hidden" pieces per se that i haven't been taking note of (albeit as an example, didn't ever really consider cavaros mantle as a viable dd piece until as of late from looking into it), though on that note as a closure, i'm sure hi itself on a jack-of-all-trades build would be

kannagi|kamome|empty|qirmiz
aias without maat?|gorget|drone|brutal
loki's|seiryu's|epona's|stormsoul?
cavaros/iga?|angunius?|ambusher's|hachiryu

looks acceptable to me at least, otherwise if not, fixing it shouldn't be a problem thankfully

appreciate the input overall, might i add

[Kidnoftle]

Would do iga over cavaros and Elemental belt over angunius. Not sure about double Stormsoul or epona's/storm. Use bersail cap (agi8 ).

[Massimo]

DD is 20%. Cream Soda tested it in the atma thread and all three together gives 94%.

[Massimo]

Does anyone have Sadhu Bracelets, a link to someone testing them or have tested the things themselves in the past?

Wiki's got it as active without food on, which some guy on FFXIAH seem to have copied, but I don't see any source or evidence that it's true.

Thanks.

[fredjanx]

Updated Altana Viewer?

[Massimo]

Updated Altana Viewer?

Updated list.

[Koyangi]

I have completed the quest 'Hope Blooms on the Battlefield' in Abyssea - Konschtat and Raibaht will not flag the Martello quest which should logically follow. I even zoned in and out. I even waited a game day. Neither wiki states any other form of prerequisite. If it matters, I even did the quest delivering linkpearls to the 3 camps, subsequently zoned and still nothing. Any help would be appreciated.