Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Appie]

That CD key should be the code for all the addons that were advertised. So only have to enter that in the POL menu for registering keys. SE has been doing the 1 code thing since they started with collections. Just saves you the hassle of entering 3-5 codes. I thought they included the first Abyssea add on in the latest pack too though?

[Nemesio]

Just curious but... Whats the max distance on cyclone?

[mcb]

Aeolian works fine on Azdaja. Getting 3 kills in shouldn't be an issue assuming you don't get terror/amnesia fucked. I wouldn't try for a fourth though. Usually did about 10~12K per ws. Gales, Smiting Blow, Ultimate. Make sure you have someone watching you for en-petrify/sleep/doom etc. We never lost a brew to doom, but we had a close call cause of Cyclone wing.

how would you get a 4th kill in if brew lasts 3min and its a 1min wait between pops? can you stop the timer by sitting on a chest like other buffs?

[Nemesio]

how would you get a 4th kill in if brew lasts 3min and its a 1min wait between pops? can you stop the timer by sitting on a chest like other buffs?

Check a martello/conflux/box and the brew stops.

[rigormortis]

Quick question: is the April billing cycle being skipped for all players or just those who paid in the beginning of March?

[Martel]

Cyclone wing range is 30' around azdaja. So, really, you either have to run in to cure status, or have one person standing at 15~20' away and another outside 30' to chain wake people.

[Bling]

It's been posted here as well as on Studio Gobli, so I'm sure it's accurate. Also I have no idea why that would even make you question it. If anything, it should confirm it. Starting at +900 MAB essentially reduces the gains from additional MAB to 1/10th of normal thus potency atma would make a much larger relative difference (and you stated that their atma were different.)

So is MAB from gear fairly trivial when brewing? What about ascetic tonic? I don't have much experience brewing but have been trying to use up my whm mules beer money and was thinking about putting something together for a flash nova gearset. Is it not worth the bother getting junk that I wouldn't use otherwise?

[Alkimi]

Since INT and MAB are 'capped' or near enough you could probably do it naked with an Onion rod and see no difference. Most beneficial would be +light damage atmas like Beyond and Holy Mountain. Maybe get a SCH to aurorastorm you and use twilight cape (if it works with ws) and obi for an extra 15% damage.

Pretty sure someone said the Ascetic's made 0 difference to numbers. Maybe the magic accuracy might help but I'd guess it was floored anyway.

[Xera]

So is MAB from gear fairly trivial when brewing? What about ascetic tonic? I don't have much experience brewing but have been trying to use up my whm mules beer money and was thinking about putting something together for a flash nova gearset. Is it not worth the bother getting junk that I wouldn't use otherwise?

How much it will improve will vary by MDB and such. It doesn't hurt to add in MAB or gorget to raise fTP really if you're already carrying it or know you'll be trying to push multiple mobs on a single brew.

MAB isn't capped from gear under brew, on a neutral target you can expect a ratio of around 50MAB=900~ish damage with no affinity atma. Much less in practice since mobs usually have MDB.

I've seen claims also that brew autocaps MAB from items making the as tonic do nothing, I've not actually tested it yet. If it doesn't autocap it, the tonic is 25 MAB.

[notsblarg]

That CD key should be the code for all the addons that were advertised. So only have to enter that in the POL menu for registering keys. SE has been doing the 1 code thing since they started with collections. Just saves you the hassle of entering 3-5 codes. I thought they included the first Abyssea add on in the latest pack too though?

Not that I know of, at least it's not listed in the text they list for what unlocks. And if they did that's too late for me now as I bought all 3 Abyssea already, which isn't really a huge deal. I tried posting the CD key steam gave me on one of the Prophecies expansions before and it says it was invalid.

When servers come up I'll try putting in the Steam CD key again after I take a look around. There might be another input screen that I'm missing.

[Kirschy]

Obscure information but Atma of the Burning Effigy is +50/256 (~.2) to fTP and works just like gorget/belt. Griffon's claw should win for third atma fairly easy.
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/100...=1#post4339711

[Lyramion]

Cyclone wing range is 30' around azdaja. So, really, you either have to run in to cure status, or have one person standing at 15~20' away and another outside 30' to chain wake people.

Arthars mentioned Flail wouldnt hit you out of Party... so I guess same for Wing? Could just have 1 dude outside never getting slept or something.




Question:

I havent heard much talk or many people using "Atma of a Future Fabulous". Anyone confirm it´s 50 MAB you get?

On an average Heroes Zone Jewel NM, around how much would 50MDB reduce damage considering -MDT is capped already? I´m still stuck on the "1MDB is a little less than -1MDT" for Dummies rule.

[Mojo]

So is MAB from gear fairly trivial when brewing? What about ascetic tonic? I don't have much experience brewing but have been trying to use up my whm mules beer money and was thinking about putting something together for a flash nova gearset. Is it not worth the bother getting junk that I wouldn't use otherwise?

Yes, it's fairly trivial, but still one of the few things you can do to further improve WS damage.

[Jeryhn]

I havent heard much talk or many people using "Atma of a Future Fabulous". Anyone confirm it´s 50 MAB you get?

On an average Heroes Zone Jewel NM, around how much would 50MDB reduce damage considering -MDT is capped already? I´m still stuck on the "1MDB is a little less than -1MDT" for Dummies rule.

I'm not sure that its 50 MDB, but its definitely pretty up there.
I use this atma very often when I'm doing T2 and T3 VNMs in Heroes zones on WHM.
The most I get hit for is some 500 damage on avatar 2hrs.

[nivlakian]

On an average Heroes Zone Jewel NM, around how much would 50MDB reduce damage considering -MDT is capped already? I´m still stuck on the "1MDB is a little less than -1MDT" for Dummies rule.

If it's 50MDB and you have no other MDB, it's going to increase the MDB term of MAB/MDB in the damage equation from 1 to 1.5. MAB/1.5 = 2/3 * MAB (or .66) so you will take ~33% less damage than you would without it. Due to multiplication order, flooring and possible truncation, it's not exactly that of course.

[Alkimi]

Arthars mentioned Flail wouldnt hit you out of Party... so I guess same for Wing? Could just have 1 dude outside never getting slept or something.

Fairly sure it's only Spike Flail that won't hit outside party. Patched in from the days of MPKing at Fafnir etc. If you have a WHM outside party curing he'll still get hit with everything but Spike Flail.

We use this method to kill Azdaja normally, just tank him from behind and have a WHM outside party to cure.

[Atoreis]

I havent heard much talk or many people using "Atma of a Future Fabulous". Anyone confirm it´s 50 MAB you get?

On an average Heroes Zone Jewel NM, around how much would 50MDB reduce damage considering -MDT is capped already? I´m still stuck on the "1MDB is a little less than -1MDT" for Dummies rule.

Assuming they have no MAB:
1*0.5*(1/1.5)=~0.33 so 50MBD would be around 17%more reduction from base dmg and 34% reduction from reduced dmg after MDT (ie. 1000DMG spell would hit you for ~330)

[DhankTitan]

Are all bard buffs capped at 600 combined skill like march is?

[Jb1210a]

I use 266.58 for a 9500GT, same bg res as screen res and mip maps to 9. Made most of the lag from VCs and avatars go away.

Downloaded and installed, I'll let you know how it goes once servers get back up.

[Alkimi]

Are all bard buffs capped at 600 combined skill like march is?

Valor Minuet V caps at something like 670 skill. Only one I can think of.

Maybe Scherzo caps higher aswell, but I can't think of a situation to use it. Indrik maybe?