Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[|Heretic|]

Tinkering with the Chatmon/Text/AutoExec combo for weather change notifications. Is there any way to disable CM's tell notification? And are there any other unwanted notifications I may wanna disable? Kind of frustrating the plugins page doesn't list any commands and such that might be associated with it.

Open chatmon.xml which should be in your plugin folder and look something like this:

<ChatMon>
	<settings
		DisableOnFocus="false"
		TellSound="Tell"
		ExamineSound="Examine"
		EmoteSound="Emote"
		TalkSound="Talk"
		InviteSound="Invite"
		SoundInterval="1"
		DisableFilters="false"
	/>

I think you simply delete the TellSound="Tell" line.

Hope that's what you're looking for.

[Plow]

Hocho deserves a mention IMO.

Not really tbh. It was awesome at 80, now even sekkas have higher damage and 10% lower delay.

It might be useful if you had something to fight where the fast cast was somehow better than 25 evas.

[GoggleHead]

Getting my Clear Demilune Abyssite to become a Colorful Demilune Abyssite, do I have to proc something or am I just fighting a random number generator here?

[Atoreis]

Hocho deserves a mention IMO.

I agree...

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... looks best for town gear and on mannequin!

[Plow]

am I just fighting a random number generator here?

yes

[GoggleHead]

yes

God dammit.

[Chronosphere]

Nope. My biggest guesses would be the Pixie NM in Voidwatch or a casket from Toraimarai Canal. I have this sinking feeling it's going to be annoying to get either way.

On the subject! Brewing on WHM vs Dark Resistant mobs-- I assume Flash Nova is best? And I assume, should the monster not resist Dark, Cataclysm? What atmas should I use for Flash Nova should that be the case? Ultimate, Beyond, something?

Beyond/Ultimate/Sellsword

[Mohit]

Sellsword, Beyond, Holy Mountain

[Kaelia]

So I recently started over and a group of my friends was trying to get the Azure Abyssite of Celerity for me (from those tonberries at Abyssea-Konschtat). We've spent something like four hours and killed about 200 tonberries or so and still no luck. I was claiming them/being the first person to generate hate each time, we tried all the rumors of elemental/day killing, etc. However, I was doing this as a level 41 WHM/NIN. I'm just curious if anyone has any experience with getting this as a low level character? Most of the people I know got theirs within the first ten or so kills, often 1/1 or 1/2, with the unluckiest being 1/40-or-50. I'm beginning to wonder if there is a level requirement to obtain it, or perhaps I am just the unluckiest bitch that ever was. (Ruled out the "killing blow" idea, as my sister claims she didn't actually deal a single killing blow to them when she got hers.)

So anyway, ranting and QQing aside, has anyone actually gotten this for themselves or a friend while being relatively low level? On the other hand, has anyone else gone 0/200 or so at high level?

[Fievel]

Did you check your key items to make sure you don't have it already?

[Kaelia]

Did you check your key items to make sure you don't have it already?

Yeah, I made it a habit of checking Temporary Key Items every 3 or 4 kills or so.

[zagex]

Sellsword, Beyond, Holy Mountain

Holy mountain is just magic acc, don't use that, use ultimate

[Alvein]

I think it's a good compromise to make really good augments on old gear. Because that stuff is really hard to get even without augments. Abyssea stuff you don't need to do COP missions, rank up missions, Zilart Missions, WOTG, TOAU, etc. It's good that it is good gear, because they should always release good stuff, but they should give those of us who slaved away back in the day some type of reward that carries over. I for one don't even have any good pieces from sky, just never was in the right place at the right time, and now there is a reason for those who are already fully sky geared to go back up and kill that stuff again, SE has a lot of fantastic content in this game that has rewards that have always been very elusive for those of us that work full time and/or go to school. Can't wait to do some of these fights again with new lowman and untraditional setups.

[Clash Perez]

Cool story bro. Did you have a random question?

[arus2001]

Open chatmon.xml which should be in your plugin folder and look something like this:

<ChatMon>
	<settings
		DisableOnFocus="false"
		TellSound="Tell"
		ExamineSound="Examine"
		EmoteSound="Emote"
		TalkSound="Talk"
		InviteSound="Invite"
		SoundInterval="1"
		DisableFilters="false"
	/>

I think you simply delete the TellSound="Tell" line.

Hope that's what you're looking for.

Seems to have done the trick. I saw that earlier and thought about messing with it, but I'm XML dumb so didn't wanna risk borking something. Thanks.

[Fereydoon]

Can anyone show me some basic blu sets? And an XML if available?

[Mortilox]

Mega large question post incoming.

I've been away from the game for ages now, prior to quitting I had over 100m gil and nothing to really spend it on. The game was boring as fuck. Between Dynamis and HNMs there was nothing to do but make more gil or level another job, which I had plenty of.

Is there any more fun in the game? Do people still do dynamis/hnms/salvage? I noticed a ton of server merges, are there enough players around these days to even be worth coming back? Is the monthly cost still the same? Are there new "relics"? or AF3? if so, where do they come from? What about campaign, anything new there? or any new HNMs?

Anything new or interesting after augmenting? that's the latest update i remember while still playing. thanks.

[Fereydoon]

Alright let me try and quick answer, the best thing to do would be check the wiki logs of version updates from 2009ish, when augments came out.

Abyssea, has been created, a series of "Battle Add-ons", there are 9 (10 if you're finicky) kind of, Bizzaro World, zones. Basically reskins with a red sky, filled with all sorts of monsters and drops. AF3, Empyrean Armor, comes from this, as well as Empyrean Weapons, most of which out class their respective Relic. Someone will have to go more in depth on that, though. I'm pretty tired. Faf/Behe/Ada are now popped via a trigger dropped from their respective KSNM99, they drop HQ pops.

Dynamis has been redone a lot too, it's now a 50k one time charge, to enter once a day (jp midnight), but the system has seen a ton of changes, browsing the "Neo-Dynamis" thread will give you some idea.

Some people still do Salvage, the cost was lowered to 500 Assault points, and you only need 3 to enter.

The cap is now 90, heading to 99 in the fall(?), which is the biggest change.

There is also Trial of the Magians, which let you take a weapon from a box, give it to a moogle, they will tell you to do different things (Kill X amount of Y mob, under Z conditions) for upgraded variants, with nice results. Overall a lot is different.

Edit: Merged servers are fucking packed, and the cost is the same.

[Gokulo]

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The cap is now 90, heading to 99 in the fall(?), which is the biggest change.

95 in the fall, with 99 looking somewhere next year I think.

[Rocl]

Is there any more fun in the game?

Well, I certainly think so, I mean if it wasn't any fun why would I play? (*'-')

Do people still do dynamis/hnms/salvage?

Dynamis was just radically altered, as said above. You get 60 minutes, and by going around and killing the Time Extensions (it appears) you unlock the ability to attack a monster's weakness. The weakness system is something implemented with the Abyssea add-ons, and is now becoming pretty prevalent. I'm sure if you come back this will make a lot more sense, I can't be assed to try to explain! That said, the AF2 drop rate is probably much better than you remember (though some of it is even more useless than before, very few pieces are worth it, I imagine) and coin rate is probably much worse, being that coin drop rate is directly related to whether or not you hit the monster's weak point for massive damage.

Also, related to this, because of the 90 cap and the changes, you can go in and do this all solo for an hour (not recommended) or two hours (recommended to at least get the Extensions, for reasons above), as the majority of the mobs are only Easy Prey to 90. However, there are areas of the zone where monsters are T-VT, and the new NMs I hear are at least a mite bit more challenging than what we've been used to inside of Abyssea. Normally when I go to Dynamis, it isn't a big LS event (do big LS even exist anymore?) and is generally 3-4 friends maximum. We just farm coins mainly though, because I am a poor motherfucker. If you come back, give me gil so I can just pay people to farm rare/ex gear for me.

I am unsure of what you mean by HNM. Fafnir, Adamantoise, Behemoth and their HQ pops are now popped NMs. The NQ pops drops from KS99 and then the NQs drop (rarely) the pop item for the HQ. I've seen a fair people doing these and farming sky now for Abjuration gear again, or Abjurations to shred at least to augment things!

Apparently, if I remember rightly, now that Abshittea is over noobs, there's to be changes (probably augments like Abjuration/Sky gear) to Salvage gear, so I've seen more people in Remnants lately. There are times when the entirety of Salvage isn't empty.

I noticed a ton of server merges, are there enough players around these days to even be worth coming back?

What is enough players? Bahamut has generally been one of the more populated servers, it ranges from 2500-4500 people nowadays. Things are relatively packed. This is, of course, post merge. I think the server merge made "enough players" on every server. I think there was "enough" on Bahamut before, but hey, I guess there wasn't "enough" on Ramuh!

Is the monthly cost still the same?

What? Yes.

Are there new "relics"? or AF3? if so, where do they come from?

Yes and yes. Both come from Abyssea right now, or if you want to be pick "Trial of the Magians" which is very uh.. grindy quests to churn out some pretty potent gear. However, AF3 isn't bad, and none of the Trials pose ungodly difficult challenge (not that FFXI ever had any ungodly difficult challenges outside of the impossible), so there's that. You can squeeze some new-relics (Empyreans) out in probably a matter of days, if not a day, if you really felt like it. This is, of course, not counting the beginning trials (because is someone honestly gonna tell me they completed a Masamune under 24 hours beginning with the very first NM trial?)

Your AF3+1/+2 is probably going to include several pieces of gear you'll use religiously, and the Empyrean weapons are strong contenders to Relic/Mythic, if not the absolute best. (I think the latter is actually more common)

What about campaign, anything new there? or any new HNMs?

Campaign is weird. Not many people do it. On Bahamut, there's a group trying to take over Castle Oztroja to do the BCNM for various pieces of gear. That's the most life I've seen in Campaign in a long time. As for new HNMs, the new Voidwatch system is probably the closest thing to old-school HNMs. (Specifically some sort of crazy VNM/ZNM mix)

Anything new or interesting after augmenting? that's the latest update i remember while still playing. thanks.

Do you mean new or interesting augments? The new augment system for old sky gear (which as I said earlier, may/will eventually apply to Salvage gear) is well, interesting to say the least. I imagine some of the new augmented pieces being best in slot.


I hope that isn't a terrible answer.