Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[TheDirtyHobo]

Thats another thing I wanted to ask, is leveling new jobs still a pain-in-the-ass untill art urgahn(sp) then gets better but still slow till abyssea? Or can you go to the new areas at like level 20? I have a job or 2 I always wanted to play but never leveled and really don't want to take months to level say paladin because everyone wants ninjas and my play times are not always prime party time.

Camp Port Jeuno for shouts. A lot of people will either let you leech in return for being key bitch or, on my server at least, will let you buy leech slots. Getting jobs to 30 is really the only annoyance, after that you can get it to 75-90 in less than a week, easily.

[Ravant]

Open the xml in your plugins folder. If the comments at the top declare it to be a build from 2008, do the following:

Unload any plugins that use resources.xml if you have Windower running. Download the latest resources.xml into your plugins folder and open it. At the top is a comment that should look something like <!--T0000001297351996-->, copy the numbers. Open resources.ver and replace whatever is in there with what you copied. Reload your plugins and everything should work.

Ive been having trouble with this too. I made it to the Open recources.ver part. How do I open that?

[Neisan]

I used Notepad++ and edited it that way. Also make sure it's not already open (Resources.xml)/all plugins using resources are unloaded or it won't correct properly.

[mcb]

Thats another thing I wanted to ask, is leveling new jobs still a pain-in-the-ass untill art urgahn(sp) then gets better but still slow till abyssea? Or can you go to the new areas at like level 20? I have a job or 2 I always wanted to play but never leveled and really don't want to take months to level say paladin because everyone wants ninjas and my play times are not always prime party time.

if someone will let you leech (more or less with no atma/crour buffs/lv90) into one decent party then you'll have crour enough to be the key bitch for any party you make. in my experiance the person making the party is planning to key bitch or already has someone in mind so you may need to make your own group (which is not hard).

[Ravant]

hmm ok im not sure what im doing wrong but, my problem is that any new JA etc are showing up on recast as Unknown Ability. My resources xml is from 2008, so I went to windower.net and opened up the updated xml file and clicked Save Page As over my current xml. Then I opened up the VER in Notepad and pasted the numbers at the top of the new resources in and save it. But when I start the game back up it reverts to the 2008 version. Am I doing something wrong? I completely shut down before doing this and made sure everything was closed when I restarted the game.

[Neisan]

I did that and it didn't work, then when I reopened resources it had reverted back to the 2008 file, so I unloaded spellcast and recast (both of them used resources), closed all programs with resources.xml/ver open in them, redownloaded the new resources.xml, copied the numbers (don't need the letter) from the new resources into .ver and it worked.

[Ravant]

Oh... I put the letter... maybe that was why

Edit: Awesome Neisan Thanks! Ya it was the Letter. I put it in the VER and I guess that was why. Thanks again everyone

[Shenrien]

Any easy method of hitting grellow on Sedna other then casting and praying to god it lands, speaking mostly for BLU and BLM... hate this damn NM

[Syntex]

Has any of the game mechanics changed since the level cap has gone up? I ask because it seems with af3+2 and black belt for monk it's possible to surpass the 25% haste cap so unless Im wrong is there any advantage to having more then 25% haste like it still helps just diminishing returns or is it pointless past that point? Also are the general knowledge for other stats consistant with level 90 as they were for level 75?

[Yugl]

Any easy method of hitting grellow on Sedna other then casting and praying to god it lands, speaking mostly for BLU and BLM... hate this damn NM

The only thing I can think of is to plan for bigger spells by having the tank flee while the person casting the spell stands from max distance and starts casting.

*Tank* *Sedna* ----20'----*Caster*

Cast from there. Have the tank start fleeing to and past the caster. The position should look like this when the flee is done.

*Caster*------*Sedna* *Tank*

Has any of the game mechanics changed since the level cap has gone up? I ask because it seems with af3+2 and black belt for monk it's possible to surpass the 25% haste cap so unless Im wrong is there any advantage to having more then 25% haste like it still helps just diminishing returns or is it pointless past that point? Also are the general knowledge for other stats consistant with level 90 as they were for level 75?

It's changed a lot. Capping haste is still priority, but attack means more since fSTR during the TP phase is usually capped. Also, critical hit damage+ and critical hit rate items mean more now that RR provides DDs with 50% Critical hit rate.

[Syntex]

RR? Reraise? I don't know what that is unless it means reraise heh.

[Aihree]

Atma of the Razed Ruin, from Ironclad Pulverizer in Abys-Misar.

[Toxictaru]

What is the most effective strat to lowman in WoE these days? What is the lowest number of people reasonably able to be somewhat successful there, as far as farming coins is concerned anyway.

[Julian]

What is the most effective strat to lowman in WoE these days? What is the lowest number of people reasonably able to be somewhat successful there, as far as farming coins is concerned anyway.

Take 5-6 people, one sacer, and go kill slimes, and afk while waiting on cooldown.

[Ned]

Ive seen a few references to attack speed capping and people not using DW if over a certain haste/DW value but missed the info that explains it. Can anyone link the thread where this was explored or reply explaining what the cap is and at what point you would stop using DW+ on NIN?
Cheers

[Guild43]

When looking for an Abyssea VNM, if the abyssite "quivers ever so slightly and emits a faint light" does that mean the NM is definitely up somewhere or that the window for it to pop is open?

[Raen Ryong]

It's up, unclaimed.

No light means it's dead or claimed.

[Voyage1970]

What are the spawn conditions for Sippoy? Need him for my last cat kill before Shin and he doesn't seem to be up by the Speltercaps for the past 30 min.

Edit: Nvm, it does indeed spawn at 3 in the morning, how silly. -.-

[Tribe]

Receiving medals from doing WoTG missions how exactly does it work? just finished Quest 10 and did not receive a medal, evaluation guy told me I failed and put me on a new one.

[Lyramion]

Missions do NOT give you ranks - you still have to do each and every rankup yourself with Campaign battles. The mission progress just makes it so you can NOT rank DOWN anymore