Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Atoreis]

Few questions:
- Can you resist stun with high thunder resist?
- Can you resist death with high dark resist or only shadow ring, atma, flawless ribbon etc.?
- Is mateor non elemental, dark or light and if that varies with mob then which is what (Behemoth's and AV mainly) and can it be resisted with high resist?
- What's the strategy for lamps on PW fight? Diaga them from main fight and zerg one by one? How many ppl would be needed for lamps itself?

Reposting.

[Darkmagi]

Meteor(from AV at least, but I'm assuming all mobs) is dark based.

[Ozzy2]

Nyzul was never capped. Yes it an be lowmanned (minimum of 3 needed to enter all assaults so 2 is out of the question) but I think you could get screwed by a lamp floor unless that scales down, not sure.

Quite a few of the pieces are situationaly useful still.

Alright, had forgotten about the minimum req's for entry lol - been away a while thanks for that.

i did the initial climb from 75-100 at lv90 and never had a lamp floor that couldn't be completed without the team we initially entered with (max 4 i think?). unless you get screwed with some really dumb luck, you can do 5 floor jaunts at a casual pace, 10 easily if you're coordinated and not completely retarded.

Guessing being level 90 makes it more of a walk in the park, monsters going down easier and whatnot, in anycase, thanks for the info, has given me some food for thought. :D

[Tifrece]

Anyone getting the "You dont have an active content ID blah blah blah" message when trying to log in? Wondering if this is my problem or if SE fucked up giving everyone April for free.

*edit* Apparently more people than me are having this problem. There is a thread on the official forums about it.

[Zieara]

Anyone getting the "You dont have an active content ID blah blah blah" message when trying to log in? Wondering if this is my problem or if SE fucked up giving everyone April for free.

*edit* Apparently more people than me are having this problem. There is a thread on the official forums about it.

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. Wife has an account on the same card and she is not. Someone at SE fell asleep at the wheel~

[Sekundes]

Meteor(from AV at least, but I'm assuming all mobs) is dark based.

I was under the assumption that it was non-elemental magic damage.

[Zieara]

I was under the assumption that it was non-elemental magic damage.

Was tested to be dark ele back in this thread (at least when AV uses it): http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/812...8OP-Updated%29

[Thuronn]

Let's say you've taken a fair break from the game (played up til early wotg, came back briefly during 1st abyssea). You come back lacking any sort of linkshell, most friends no longer playing.

How hard would it really be therefore to get back into the game, at any sort of real level? I feel like I'm too far behind on a lot of things, both gear/atma wise and just pure knowledge and experience of the new content.

Have a 80SAM, 75NIN, RDM@~65, to put some context.

[mdkuser]

Was tested to be dark ele back in this thread (at least when AV uses it): http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/812...8OP-Updated%29

Nope anectotical evidence against the behemoth boss of limbus is all there is . The truth is there is nothing certain.

[Aihree]

I had thought, back in the day, that since Fealty blocks Meteor damage from behemoths that it was non-elemental. AV obviously throws everything out the window tho'.

[Chun Liroy]

Is Fafnir soloable?

[Tahona]

yes, well someone in the lvl 90 solos thread soloed nidhogg as nin/dnc

[Tahona]

anyone figure out how to fix the you have no content id nonsense going on right now?

[Skeelo]

Is Fafnir soloable?

watched a bst solo fafnir infront of me as i wept

[Skeelo]

Are the augmented knives from grauberg still best choice for a jishnus radiance rng? i managed to get x2 +5% crit dmg ones, do they go up higher than that?

[Niiro]

Nope anectotical evidence against the behemoth boss of limbus is all there is . The truth is there is nothing certain.

Absolute mentions multiple resists on AV as well, also anecdotal but given it's AV resisting it at all is noteworthy.

Did no one ever bring out Fenrir/Diabolos and see how they fared? I'm sure someone must have thought to try it at some point but I don't recall if anything relevant came of it.

I guess the only way to know for sure is to see if Dark Carol 2 works on it, but by the 99 cap who's gonna care really.

[mdkuser]

Absolute mentions multiple resists on AV as well, also anecdotal but given it's AV resisting it at all is noteworthy.

With 95 % accuracy at least one person in an alliance will resist a large majority of the time because the chance to resist is 1/20. Do a train of lowbie mobs and use sleepga, you will see some them wake after 30s.

[NynJa]

With 95 % accuracy at least one person in an alliance will resist a large majority of the time because the chance to resist is 1/20. Do a train of lowbie mobs and use sleepga, you will see some them wake after 30s.

uhhhhhhhhhh yeah....

[Niiro]

With 95 % accuracy at least one person in an alliance will resist a large majority of the time because the chance to resist is 1/20. Do a train of lowbie mobs and use sleepga, you will see some them wake after 30s.

I'm not saying it's definitive but if the 1 person wearing the dark resist gear "happens" to be the lucky one more often than a random distribution would explain it's something worth looking into. Or rather it would be if it was worth making a dark resist set anyway, at this point the information would be a neat.jpg at best since no strategy used for AV depends on resisting meteor to begin with.

On that note, how many sources of non-elemental magic damage are there in the game to begin with? I've never heard elements attributed to archaic machinery TP moves but neither have I heard of anyone trying different barspells in an effort to find out. Avatars would, again, be the easiest way to test it but, again, who cares.

[Cookiecutter]

New poster here, a user of the Bahamut server, I was refered here as the best source to find an answer for those who seek to learn. Formalities aside, having not played for a while, I would like to regain some sense of what is worth leveling these days. (Like SAM back in the day.) Initial results pointed me toward NIN, MNK, and WAR, but I'm not quite sure what's the best route to take. Some basics:

-I enjoy soloing
-I prefer questing/fighting NMs for gear instead of spending ludicrous amounts of gil.
-I love tanking
-I love making big numbers appear in my parser.

Now, which of these jobs has the most benefits entailing most of the criteria above? I would love some basic gear set ups too to get me started, and which subs work the best these days too. Thank you for assistance, and what not.