Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Arthars]

wtf.... u never been to einherjar before? XD

[Atoreis]

wtf.... u never been to einherjar before? XD

I was but as DD/thf (and once as kiter for adds) with 17 other ppl at 75 so I never got hit by Gagnrath and even if I did I wouldn't know if that's add effect or not (I only know from my friend who tanked many that if you blink it with shadows terror wont proc)
Geirroth on the other hand was only "all ppl come close" and that's all XD Idk if I even had MDT PDT sets for jobs I was asked to come.

[GImpers]

Everytime time I use it I always just ricked clicked and hit run as admin, but I went ahead and gave admin rights to launcher.gui and it still only get me to where it switchs to the final fantasy window and stops saying (windower enabled).

Edit: got it to work where it does the transition. now it just crashes when it goes to update resources, abilites/spells etc.

Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but, when was the last time you updated your plugins? Usually, when it crashes during the loading of everything, it's an out of date plugin.

[Arthars]

Geirroth is magic, shellra V helps

terror WS duration is random like all other terrors

[mcb]

Lamprey Lord Soloable on DNC at 90?

yes

[Byrthnoth]

In order to be about the tenth person to reply, yeah Dancer can solo Lamprey Lord. Antidotes obviously, stun Acid Mist. If you don't Stun Acid Mist, erase the Attack down it gives you with Healing Waltz. The key to making it an easy fight is keeping him in Blood Weapon mode, which is actually easier than normal melee mode (because he won't use Acid Mist). Start with TP, use your best WS combo to try and drive him to his first BW. After that it's just evasion-conscious DD-ing. Knock him out before he gets lucky.

[Beave]

Burned my whm from 49-88 yesterday and was curious what most whms merit these days?

[mcb]

Burned my whm from 49-88 yesterday and was curious what most whms merit these days?

i did regen/barspell for group 1. group 2 5shell, 1protect, 4devotion.
regen isn't used as much inside abyssea as it was prior to abyssea so cure might be a better group1 merit (but i've not had trouble with recast timers for V and VI)

[Pezant]

Burned my whm from 49-88 yesterday and was curious what most whms merit these days?

I think you will find most WHMs chose 5/5 Cure Cast Time, 5/5 Barspell Effect, 5/5 Shellra5, 4/5 Devotion, and 1/5 Protectra 5

[Kalisa]

Is there a more effective way to farm AF in Vunkerl? Last night I was building amber on Devegetators then moving to Russet Rarabs for pearl+chests, but I got maybe 1 AF per hour I spent down there (in 6 hours). Is there a particular mob that puts out a little better, or is that about the standard drop rate I should expect?

[Atoreis]

Is there a more effective way to farm AF in Vunkerl? Last night I was building amber on Devegetators then moving to Russet Rarabs for pearl+chests, but I got maybe 1 AF per hour I spent down there (in 6 hours). Is there a particular mob that puts out a little better, or is that about the standard drop rate I should expect?

Maybe you did to much amber? 2 days ago I went to cleave chigoes in Attohwa for Raider's feet and I did 6 amber and I got 3 AF feet dropped in 15 min and it was with 4-5 chest drops from 20 chigoes cuz I did no pearle.

[Kalisa]

Maybe you did to much amber? 2 days ago I went to cleave chigoes in Attohwa for Raider's feet and I did 6 amber and I got 3 AF feet dropped in 15 min and it was with 4-5 chest drops from 20 chigoes cuz I did no pearle.

Hm, that's entirely possible... I was capping amber getting tons and tons of gold chests, but they all had mob pop items, key items, and temp items like megalixirs and revitalizers.

Would love to hear some opinions on the ideal amount of amber light before I go straight to pearl+chest farming.

[Kidnoftle]

Best atma choice for sam in abyss xp? I figured quint spear is probably the best choice for xp mobs so yeah, with that in mind I figured I'd just RR/GH then idk for the third.

[Byrthnoth]

Raiden Thrust spam?!?!? Quint Spear's DPS is atrocious. It would need to average about four hits per round to keep up with the melee DPS any other weapon you can use. It's silly to sacrifice WS damage for TP damage with it, and GH does nothing for your WS damage. The real answer is probably just not to use Quint Spear or SAM, but if you were going to use Quint Spear I'd say you should aim for Atma that maximize your WS damage.

[Mercilessturtle]

Burned my whm from 49-88 yesterday and was curious what most whms merit these days?

I'll give explanations since this question tends to result in arguing. For group 2: 5/5 shellra V and 5/5 devotion. Wasting a merit on protectra 5 is stupid, it is only +5 defense. If you actually need that +5 defense for something, cast your single target protect 5. Martyr isn't useful often enough to really bother with, but dropping a point in devotion to unlock it would be ok if you manage to use it ever.

For group 1: 5/5 barspell is the obvious choice. For your other 5 do as many cure cast merits as it takes to make up for your lack of gear, and then remove them as you gear up until you are down to no cure cast merits. Put the others into either: regen would be ok if you do something outside of abyssea ever, otherwise divine seal recast is a better choice.

[Mojo]

I think 4/5 Devotion and 1/5 Protectra V is better for convenience factor.

[Mercilessturtle]

Protectra V is not more convenient than protectra IV.

[Mojo]

Maybe. But really, how often do you actually use Devotion these days?

[Limlight]

outside of abyssea if they do revamp content and make it relevant again then devotion is most definitely useful to have fully merited, still that's an "if"

[Nightfyre]

RE: Lamprey Lord, when I was killing it a while back it I didn't stun Acid Mist. Paralyze is ass (I don't know how often/long his aura procs but seriously, I fucking hate para) and I don't recall a knockback effect on Acid Mist so you'd be just fine putting up shadows as he uses the move. Also didn't have issues relying on Healing Waltz to remove poison on the rare occasion he'd get a hit through. I do have MKD hat augmented with -waltz timer but it wasn't essential.