Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Mojo]

Amarok is retardedly easy, WHM NIN will work fine

[nikia]

Dont want to ask the same question over and over and be an annoyance however for Mithra NIN would STR DEX or AGI merits be best. At the moment I have STR. I am so like to melee on RDM if that factors in at all. Thank you again.

[DNAval]

I just killed 2 bukhis last night and I tanked mnk/nin whm a warrior that was just there to proc red a nin in case I died and his friend that needed Atma (whm) but not really helping at all, I had never lowman him before but it almost seemed as tho /nin for tanking was useless any ideas if /war would be better?

[Renzy]

If you are going to /War on Bukhis I would bring a stunner for Ruinous Scythe to avoid losing cruor buffs and HP down, without shadows that move could be quite damaging.

[DNAval]

Yeah the funny thing about that and the reason I asked about /war was that move, last night that hoe cought me without shadows and took it to the face.
Other than that move he's actually a little punk

[noodles355]

Does anyone know what the auto-trans phrase {Good luck!} reads as in japanese? It's not on otherwiki's auto-translate list.

Edit: Actually, on a related point: Is it possible to change the language of your POL/FFXI? As in change it so items/npc text/auto trans phrases etc are in a different language?

[Isiolia]

Dont want to ask the same question over and over and be an annoyance however for Mithra NIN would STR DEX or AGI merits be best. At the moment I have STR. I am so like to melee on RDM if that factors in at all. Thank you again.

Your most generally useful stat to merit there is STR. About the only time it won't help you a little when hitting something is if fSTR is capped (unlikely on anything worthwhile outside of Abyssea), or you're doing a magical WS.

DEX varies more, since you can cap accuracy, value for crits varies greatly on dDEX, and it'd only apply to WS when DEX is a mod. AGI is similar. While they could certainly have their uses, you'd probably want a more specific rationale behind meriting them, which in turn would probably not be as universal as meriting STR.

Inside Abyssea, with cruor buffs/Atmas, the value of an extra 5 of any of those stats is significantly reduced.

[Nemesio]

Raging Rush neck/belt?

[nikia]

Ix'aern (Dragoon) any solo duo strats on it that dont involve zoning/nuke?
NIN+BLM or THF+RDM
Thanks

[nitsuj]

Would it be possible to do:

Precast - Rapidshot/Snapshot/Recycle
Midcast - ranged acc/attack/str/etc

for a COR build? Or do rapid/snapshot need to be in midcast?

[Mojo]

Ix'aern (Dragoon) any solo duo strats on it that dont involve zoning/nuke?
NIN+BLM or THF+RDM
Thanks

Either of these combos works fine. Movement speed will help the RDM or BLM, who can kite the wynavs away while the THF or NIN solos Ix'Drg (not even remotely difficult at 90.)

[Esvedium]

I remember seeing a kanji table flip emote thing on ffxiah somewhere, like on a random screenshot... Can't for the life of me find it anymore. Anyone got it? google failed me.

It was something like •.•∕ ┴─┴ but didn't look as retarded.

[Alolbont]

My groups been doing a lot of glavpids lately and we have encountered some strange behavior with it. It seems that randomly Glavoid will act like it has dread spikes on, melee hits during this do snywhere between 600 or all of that persons HP.

There is no message in chat log about Glavoid doing any TP move or the players taking damage. It occurs very randomly and only for a few seconds. We can seem to figure it out.

We are positive that its not a TP move or a normal hit. Anyone else notice anything similar?

[Koyangi]

Doesnt he steal buffs with 1 of his TP moves? Maybe a DRK had it up and they had Spikes stolen?

[Mafai]

Can Glavoid steal dread spikes with Extreme? Does your group have a DRK?


edit: beaten

[Norellicus]

So, I left the game back when Abyssea 1 came out because I was disenchanted by the fact that they leave you thinking it's a highly compressed event that you can get in short bursts, but still turned out to be 3 hour marathons that required lots of people. I keep toying with the idea of coming back, but can't discern whether or not this fact has improved any. Input?

Also, is there anything interesting about the game anymore or is it just an exercise in power creep with bigger and bigger numbers flying around while you beat down the lootsack of the day? Seems like even the "final boss" of abyssea can be cheesed thanks to powerful atmas and that primeval brew, plus the atma you get from him is just ridiculous.

[Esvedium]

Are WoE coin drop rates affected by treasure hunter? Obviously casket ones aren't, but just straight mob drops?

Also, first time going into WoE, will be going with a few ls mates, but what job would likely place in the top 5 out of RDM, BLM, DNC, THF, NIN, MNK. I assume RDM would allow for several types of damage done, ability to cure myself, etc, that it would win out... yes/no?

[TheDirtyHobo]

I linked my SE account to my POL account to register for SE's new forums, and now it says I have to log into the SE account as well to get into XI, which it won't let me auto-save the password for. Is there any way to fix this? Either via de-linking my POL and SE accounts, or by making it auto-save the password.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Are WoE coin drop rates affected by treasure hunter? Obviously casket ones aren't, but just straight mob drops?

Yes TH affects coin drops off normal mobs

Also, first time going into WoE, will be going with a few ls mates, but what job would likely place in the top 5 out of RDM, BLM, DNC, THF, NIN, MNK. I assume RDM would allow for several types of damage done, ability to cure myself, etc, that it would win out... yes/no?

Of the jobs you listed:
Rdm > dnc > nin > everything else probably wont place if there's more then 5 people.

So, I left the game back when Abyssea 1 came out because I was disenchanted by the fact that they leave you thinking it's a highly compressed event that you can get in short bursts, but still turned out to be 3 hour marathons that required lots of people. I keep toying with the idea of coming back, but can't discern whether or not this fact has improved any. Input?

It doesn't really require lots of people, you can do just about anything in a 3 man set up. You just have the option of doing shit with a lot of people. You can be in the zone doing shit for hours or you can just spend an hour a day farming up mobs and seals and still feel like you've accomplished something.

Also, is there anything interesting about the game anymore or is it just an exercise in power creep with bigger and bigger numbers flying around while you beat down the lootsack of the day? Seems like even the "final boss" of abyssea can be cheesed thanks to powerful atmas and that primeval brew, plus the atma you get from him is just ridiculous.

Old days where FFXI was difficult is gone, everything is currently on easy mode til they take the game out of abyssea. If you want a challenge go play WoW, if you getting gear with minimal effort then come play XI again.

[Esvedium]

Of the jobs you listed:
Rdm > dnc > nin > everything else probably wont place if there's more then 5 people.

Same basic theory as Campaign? Get a mob to do some (but not overwhelming) damage to you, spikes, en-spells, joytoy, toss a few cures/nukes/enfeebles, and win?