Random Question Thread XIX: Welcome to Flavor Country

[Alvein]

Has anyone else had to wait like two weeks for SE to process a compromised account form? >_<
I chat them on SE support everyday and they say they "have a long queue"

[Kuishen]

Ample gloves

What about af3+1/2? DEX 7/10 and acc + attack, wouldn't that be better than 5 str and dex?

[TheDirtyHobo]

What about af3+1/2? DEX 7/10 and acc + attack, wouldn't that be better than 5 str and dex?

Emp gloves don't have attack, just acc/eva. They're a decent choice anyways, but honestly I think I'd go with O.kote (or Bandomusha), NIN doesn't seem to be capped on attack in a lot of situations, and 20 attack is a pretty significant jump.

Edit: Also, wouldn't Epona's Ring be much better than a secondary STR ring?

[Niiro]

AF1+1 if ACC/ATK is good
Bando/O.kote if atk is crappy
AF3 if acc is crappy

Bando/O is probably the better option more often than you might think (^)

[Eleven19]

Weapon/Weapon/ /Q. Tathlum
Aias Bonnet/Gorget/Brutal/Centaurus
Loki's/Not sure/Rajas/STR ring
Aetheling/WS belt/B.Haidate/AF+2

Interesting, alright that's not too bad. Might have to drag some buddies out to get Aias bonnet. Thanks.

Edit: Didn't see the gloves posts. Yeah I feel like I'm usually underpowered on NIN, to the point where for shit I was capped acc on I would throw on byrnie+1 to experiment with dmg wise. I have B.kotes sitting around, time to pull them out of storage and experiment a little.

[TheDirtyHobo]

The NIN talk got me thinking. What's the estimated defense of Heroes exp mobs and NMs?

Just went through my NIN set to check, I WS in 557 attack in abyssea with no zerk/stalwart/food, set is:

Katana/Kamome/ /Qirmiz
Aias/WS Gorget/Centarus/Brutal
Iga+1/O.kote/Epona's/Rajas
Atheling/WS Belt/Tumbler/Areion's

Add in food for another +75-150 depending on what I feel like spending for food. That's fairly attack heavy set, and it's still only at 1.5ish pdif on a 400 def mob without zerk/stalwart's up. Are people just massively overestimating their attack being auto-capped in abyssea, or am I missing something?

[Fwahm]

How often does Pantokrator drop Torero Torque without blue, roughly?

[Yugl]

NVM.

[Jem]

The NIN talk got me thinking. What's the estimated defense of Heroes exp mobs and NMs?

Just went through my NIN set to check, I WS in 557 attack in abyssea with no zerk/stalwart/food, set is:

Katana/Kamome/ /Qirmiz
Aias/WS Gorget/Centarus/Brutal
Iga+1/O.kote/Epona's/Rajas
Atheling/WS Belt/Tumbler/Areion's

Add in food for another +75-150 depending on what I feel like spending for food. That's fairly attack heavy set, and it's still only at 1.5ish pdif on a 400 def mob without zerk/stalwart's up. Are people just massively overestimating their attack being auto-capped in abyssea, or am I missing something?

No idea on actual DEF but I think people are overestimating their attack. On DRK (yes loldrk I know) there's a noticeable difference in damage between Alpha and Omega and Scorpion Queen when using Catastrophe (on single hits, obviously AO causes more triple attack WS'es) and that's only a 50 attack difference with over 800 base attack.

[Colenzo]

So Dual Wield Radiant Lance and Quintz Spear eh?

wrap d-rings around the grips and give yourself a primeval enema

[Gabai]

People very much overestimate their attack in abyssea. I personally think fully leveled up heroes xp mobs are around the 350-380 range.

[gnat]

Minimum amount of players to make cleaving for KI's in Scars zones beneficial than chasing individual NMs? Specifically chloris/glav.

[Byrthnoth]

How often does Pantokrator drop Torero Torque without blue, roughly?

It's not the blue drop, so it's around 50% no matter what.*

* with TH.

[drwaffles]

Minimum amount of players to make cleaving for KI's in Scars zones beneficial than chasing individual NMs? Specifically chloris/glav.

Too many. Just do the NMs.

[Martel]

Can base attributes(INT perhaps?) affect the magic accuracy of violent flourish's stun effect? Or do I need to use straight Magic accuracy gear?

[Radec]

How often does Pantokrator drop Torero Torque without blue, roughly?

100%

[Foldypaws]

People very much overestimate their attack in abyssea. I personally think fully leveled up heroes xp mobs are around the 350-380 range.

I played around with /check, the mark between normal/high defense (which should be the attack=def mark) is at about 420-430 attack on most IT heroes mobs.

[Chumm]

Taurine or Furor cesti are the best non-magian H2H to use while you work on your trial path of choice.

As far as magian options go pickings are kind of slim for MNK. STR taipans are good but they don't compete with the simple non-magian options until at least the lvl 85 version and weather trials are horrible.

It's hard to recommend anything other than Emp/WoE, which offer a much more significant improvement for the effort required.

VIT/PDT h2h trials are super easy except for wyverns (which is just a pain because of no weather, still simple enough in aby-grauberg). VIT is a mod on Ascetic's fury and presumably you're tanking on MNK so PDT is handy (inb4 don't get hit). This is of course just to hold you over til Smite.

[SquireStrat]

Any way to check the status of LM-11 on SE's website or anything? And is my understanding correct it can be temp and/or perma? I'm borrowing a friend's account while he's on Holiday and it got LM-11'd. Only 3 things come to mind that could cause this: windower, apradar, his bazaar comment had the word motherfucker in it.

I went afk for about an hour when it happened. I've been told more then likely it's the bazaar comment and someone reported it. Also, I guess this isn't the first time it's happened to his account.

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Low man setup for Divine Might? Think wiki said SAM +WHM could take it with rr meds, anything else work as well? Kannagi nin can replace sam?