Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Avarice]

If you run away from bindga it will never use hell scissors. only venom breath and wild rage.
So you dont even need a stun really. but yea i guess if you have it go for it.

I know I'm late on this too, but I also wanted to point out that if you straight-up resist the bindga, he won't use scissors either.

[Telamond]

Are there any WoE areas I can solo as MNK/DNC or RDM/NIN?

[Esvedium]

Is there any reason to go NIN/xxx to tank Briareus over THF/NIN if I'm after helms and have at least a WHM and BRD with me? Farming pops will be NIN/WAR for procs, obviously.

[Fievel]

Is there any reason to go NIN/xxx to tank Briareus over THF/NIN if I'm after helms and have at least a WHM and BRD with me? Farming pops will be NIN/WAR for procs, obviously.

It'll be a longish fight, but you'll survive no problem.

[Julian]

Is there any reason to go NIN/xxx to tank Briareus over THF/NIN if I'm after helms and have at least a WHM and BRD with me? Farming pops will be NIN/WAR for procs, obviously.

You have to warp and reset lights/timeover120min would be my main guess. Unless you're not bothering with that, then go for it.

[Esvedium]

You have to warp and reset lights/timeover120min would be my main guess. Unless you're not bothering with that, then go for it.

If it's only the 3 of us, I wouldn't bother farming time, so that isn't really an issue.

If I had more people, I'd farm time and pops from boxes with cleave, but with more people, I could just ask someone else to come either NIN and tank or THF for TH, so also not really an issue.

Either way, thanks for the responses, kinda what I was expecting.

[Imoq]

Is there any reason to go NIN/xxx to tank Briareus over THF/NIN if I'm after helms and have at least a WHM and BRD with me? Farming pops will be NIN/WAR for procs, obviously.

Just very anecdotal, but when I was missing only 8 helms, I had 5 pops and was pretty sure I was going to get the 8 helms since we fought with a THF with all TH gear available. 4 of them only dropped 1x helm, last one dropped 2x and yeah, I was 2 helms short from completion.

When we for any reason went NIN/WAR + WHM/THF we had constant drops of 2 helms.

So, yeah, anecdotal but it was annoying as hell.

[Nightfyre]

Should still be a reasonably short fight as long as you're using DD gear instead of eva gear.

[Esvedium]

Should still be a reasonably short fight as long as you're using DD gear instead of eva gear.

What is this eva gear you speak of?

On a similar note, though, assuming DD gear and RR/GH/AoA, how much less TP would a NIN feed (with yurin/myoshu/higher trait) compared to THF/NIN? No Subtle Blow gear beyond Rajas/Heed on either job.

[Nightfyre]

What is this eva gear you speak of?

The shit every gimp duo wore while taking 10+ minutes to kill Briareus. Took me 5 as NIN/WAR + WHM, with a BRD you'll kill faster still on either job.

On a similar note, though, assuming DD gear and RR/GH/AoA, how much less TP would a NIN feed (with yurin/myoshu/higher trait) compared to THF/NIN? No Subtle Blow gear beyond Rajas/Heed on either job.

~30% less with Auspice on the THF.

[Lahan]

DRG
Cuchulain's Mantle vs. Lancer's Pelerine.
I know the old rule was haste then acc then whatever else. But it seems like everyone is leaving that old rule behind and just going all crazy about these magian armor stuff. Cuch has same acc + dex so its a little more acc. I guess it comes down to is 2~3 acc worth that 1% haste. I am thinking tp in lancer ws in cuch

[Hanyoko]

On otherwiki the discussion page for the Abyssea-Grauberg quest "The Egg Enthusiast" says you can accept the quest then flux to #3, get the key item and then walk back. I tried this and twice failed the quest. Pretty sure I never aggroed anything but it's possible I did and just outran it I guess. Anyone know if using a conflux before getting the key item causes the quest to fail now?

edit: nope, just tried doing it without using a conflux at all and still failed. what the hell is up with this quest? I am 100% sure I didn't aggro anything.

I've come to the conclusion that if your hp drops from 100% it also fails the quest. Spellcast gearswaps would adjust my hp and when I disabled sc I had no problems getting completion.

[Jeryhn]

What's the consensus for Magic Critical Hits for BLM these days?

According to old data that we know about, a magic crit is equivalent to 10 MAB.
However, there was never enough Magic Crit Rate +% to outweigh traditional elemental damage gear.

These days, we have available:
Yhel Jacket: Magic Crit Rate +4, (+5 for HQ)
Goetia Gloves +2: Magic Crit Rate +5, Enhances magic critical hit damage.
Hecate's Earring: Magic Crit Rate +3
Witch Sash: Magic Crit Rate +2
Wise Strap: Magic Crit Rate +3

Since I'd be using Hecate's and Goetia +2 hands anyway (and eventually a Yhel too I guess), is it a sensible idea to consider changing from Bugard strap to Wise and dropping Searing for Witch Sash and hope the crit rate procs enough to be a number-dropping boss (especially since Goetia +2 enhances Magic Crit damage)? I ask this mostly because the prices on Wise Strap on Cerberus have been skyrocketing and I was wondering if it really was a viable option compared to last year.

[Guitarman]

Are there any WoE areas I can solo as MNK/DNC or RDM/NIN?

you can solo the babies in flux 1 or 3. bring echos for 3, watch for the linking behavior in 1. you can't kill bosses in any of them solo. (not entirely true, supposedly dnc can solo the giant bugs in 3, but i havent heard much about it).

[Atoreis]

wtf? Ukonvasara no AF2 pieces (salvage).

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4531/wtfyv.png

[Michelob]

Hello,

Sorry if this question has been answered already but didn't manage to find a clear answer. Does proccing same weakness nullifies effect for all weaknesses procced or just the one you spam ?

I mean, if we proc "grellow !!" on a mob and then decide to spam "blu !!" in order to avoid nasty tp moves what happens on treasure pool ? (Mainly thinking about +2 items from a mob like Bukhis for instance).

And I know I should have a better stunner already ; ;

The effect duration decreases the more that you use any given weakness trigger. For example the first time you proc red !!, the terror effect lasts 30 seconds. By the time you use it 3 or 4 times the terror only lasts like less than 5 seconds or something.

[Karbuncle]

DRG
Cuchulain's Mantle vs. Lancer's Pelerine.
I know the old rule was haste then acc then whatever else. But it seems like everyone is leaving that old rule behind and just going all crazy about these magian armor stuff. Cuch has same acc + dex so its a little more acc. I guess it comes down to is 2~3 acc worth that 1% haste. I am thinking tp in lancer ws in cuch

Unless You're fighting Indrik or mobs with equally fucked EVA, You don't need Cuch... Sell it now and never look back.

And then try to get Atheling mantle .

But either way, Cuch is completely dead and buried in terms of DRG usefulness.

[Dathus]

What's some good DRG TP/WS gear for using a Corseca? Coming back and basically trying to rebuild myself.

[ccf]

If it's only the 3 of us, I wouldn't bother farming time, so that isn't really an issue.

If I had more people, I'd farm time and pops from boxes with cleave, but with more people, I could just ask someone else to come either NIN and tank or THF for TH, so also not really an issue.

Either way, thanks for the responses, kinda what I was expecting.

Hmm, depending on your stone supplies, I do think 3 can cleave. If you can get lights capped, I believe you can cleave. If you have the proper atmas, nin can aeolian edge cleave, brd can do it too after sleeping the mobs etc. Yes admittedly, it's easier with more people, but it's doable with 3.

I guess my team has always been more creative in our "cleave" since we didn't have a war to begin with, so dnc aedge+ mnk cata cleave were very much how we started our cleaves. But then again of course you could cleave with thf too.

[Mrbeansman]

Was Guimauve changed from lotto to timed spawn? Failotherwiki claims it is but i'm not trusting it.

Late but when I was farming Fistule yesterday I never saw it up till the group that was competing with me started killing flans to pop it.