Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[Ophannus]

Can I duo "Blood of Heroes" with RDM/SCH and a heavy DD like DRG? I was thinking I run in and Manifestation+Sleep 2 the hoard, the DRG begins to kill the Bugard and other Orcs one by one while I spam Cure IV on Excenmille while debuffing the boss. Or should I Manifestation+Gravity the hoard first and sleep them when they're out of Excenmille's AoE Range. Is this feasible?

[Koyangi]

Assuming 2 people each dualboxxing, job's with access are:

Me: check sig
wife: same jobs as sig minus pld but +sch
alt 1: whm 90, rdm 90
alt 2: whm 90

Can we successfully duo (dualbox) Hills are Alive KSNM?

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[Wenslydale]

Anyone have a listing of their favorite FoV camps? Planning on taking NIN from 37 (currently 46) to 60, any suggestions? Been alternating between EMs in the past and random Yhoator pages for the moment.

BST pets. Learn them, love them. @ 46 can do the Goblin Ladybug in East Ronfuare [S] to 51. Go /RDM, invest in some INT and MAB gear, and spam the wheel. Easy 12-14k an hour.

[Ocara]

Can I duo "Blood of Heroes" with RDM/SCH and a heavy DD like DRG? I was thinking I run in and Manifestation+Sleep 2 the hoard, the DRG begins to kill the Bugard and other Orcs one by one while I spam Cure IV on Excenmille while debuffing the boss. Or should I Manifestation+Gravity the hoard first and sleep them when they're out of Excenmille's AoE Range. Is this feasible?

I believe I did this in a similar way with blm + rdm + mnk, it went pretty smoothly just going bugard > boss while mage keeps mobs alseep, if you only have two I guess you could kill the minions too. Only issue will be, curing npc will get your mage hate, and then boss will be whacking them a bit. If you focus on killing things asap so sleeper doesnt have to deal with mobs hitting them too much, it should be a joke.

[Rokitty]

Lowest number of people needed to kill the celestial primes for key items to enter the Carbuncle Prime fight for Waking the Beast?

I know the Carbuncle Prime fight can be done with 2, wondering how small groups deal with the elementals in the pre-req fights.

[Ophannus]

Testimonials on wiki said PLD couldn't hold hate from the NPC with flashes/job abilities/cures, so i figured I wouldn't have a problem with having hate from the boss. Shouldn't be too bad I presume with ~40PDT phalanx and stoneskin and 12% movement speed i'd wager anyway.

[Raen Ryong]

Lowest number of people needed to kill the celestial primes for key items to enter the Carbuncle Prime fight for Waking the Beast?

I know the Carbuncle Prime fight can be done with 2, wondering how small groups deal with the elementals in the pre-req fights.

You don't post on BG what is this

Aside from that, wiki suggests they're weak to melee damage and summons a finite amount so maybe a NIN to tank the main with one or two DDs to pick off adds until he stops summoning?

[Kaisha]

Anyone know a decent set of solo locations for 67->75 DRG?

LFG times been getting a little stupid on my server lately, nor has there ever been a good selection of people lfg in an XP range worth bothering people to sync at, so I figured I'd just solo 5k or so an hour during those times until I'm good to Abyssea up. Been doing Bhaflau Colibri, but they're DC and only give 80-120xp a kill. I probably should invest in some EVA gear also as they still hit a bit hard, and I'm not that comfortable spamming Foot Kick with Cocoon up to get Healing Breath triggering every 5 seconds.

[Henihhi]

Did blood of heroes duo with thf and whm. Thf used aeolian edge a few times to hold hate- took out mages first. Very easy fight, only thing was if a mob ran out of aoe ws range i just reposed it or slept it <whm/rdm> until Thf could could get to it. Extremely easy, the only cures i think i used was 1-2 c5s on the npc and regen 4 on the thf lol

[Mercilessturtle]

Anyone know where the 10% crit rate on atma of the scorpion queen came from? Like, was it guessed or tested? I decided to try it while skilling up, and with just SQ and regen atmas I got 42.26% crit rate after 769 hits. Doing another parse with RR and SQ I am at 69.23% right now but only 250 hits so far. Looking more like 15-20% than 10%.

[Martel]

Anyone know a decent set of solo locations for 67->75 DRG?

LFG times been getting a little stupid on my server lately, nor has there ever been a good selection of people lfg in an XP range worth bothering people to sync at, so I figured I'd just solo 5k or so an hour during those times until I'm good to Abyssea up. Been doing Bhaflau Colibri, but they're DC and only give 80-120xp a kill. I probably should invest in some EVA gear also as they still hit a bit hard, and I'm not that comfortable spamming Foot Kick with Cocoon up to get Healing Breath triggering every 5 seconds.

Waaaaaay back in the day, when my drg was around that lvl, I think I was soloing Puks in wajaom. Then once those hit DC sea puks at MMJ.

And EVA gear.. on DRG? Even on a DC mob, I can't see that being terribly effective. And DRG has fairly limited evasion gear options. Better to gear for full DD.

DRG solo IS HB spam. But there are a few things that make this easier/less dangerous.

Macroing in Drachen Armet and HP+ gear for HB triggers to raise your threshold, makes soloing a great deal safer. You can trigger at higher hp, allowing more time to HB before death. There's a fair amount of decent HP+ gear even at 67.

And, macroing in Wyvern HP+ gear after the trigger spell has finished to boost HB potency. At lvl 67 you're pretty much looking at just Drachen brais and wyvern mail. Next pieces being chanoix gorget at 70, and drachen brais +1 at 74. In any slot you don't have a good amount of hp, just start your cast in the WHP gear. Since there's a delay before the wyvern actually receives the hp boost sometimes the HB goes off before it procs.

Access to a wyrm armet,lvl 75(or saurian helm, lvl73) Greatly increases HB potency, reducing how frequently you have to spam.

[eotfofyl]

Ive tried those. No luck. Anton from leviathan tells me it may be an issue with my .net framework. Ill try updating and hope post results later tonight.

console
"keyboard_allowmmf 1" fixed it.

Use the fface version and dont forget to allow keyboard by typing "keyboard_allowmmf 1" in the console.

/facepalm

[Clash Perez]

console
"keyboard_allowmmf 1" fixed it.

Use the fface version and dont forget to allow keyboard by typing "keyboard_allowmmf 1" in the console.

/facepalm

You can add that to the .ini so that you don't have to type it every time.

[Dooom]

Anyone know a decent set of solo locations for 67->75 DRG?

Way back when I was at that level, about two years ago I think, I did my soloing while lfp in Cape Terrigan using FoV. It'll be even better now than when I did it as the once a day restriction on pages has been removed. It might be a bit more comfortable than soloing puks; while you don't have piercing bonus anymore, you do get signet bonuses on EM and lower mobs, plus FoV buffs if you want to spend tabs on them.

[Raen Ryong]

Anyone know where the 10% crit rate on atma of the scorpion queen came from? Like, was it guessed or tested? I decided to try it while skilling up, and with just SQ and regen atmas I got 42.26% crit rate after 769 hits. Doing another parse with RR and SQ I am at 69.23% right now but only 250 hits so far. Looking more like 15-20% than 10%.

Interested in this. It's a pretty damn strong atma if it is 20%...

[GoggleHead]

Recast plugin shows Composure as "Unknown-Ability". How do I fix that?

[Koyangi]

If I go to fight a Salvage Final boss and all 3 people in the party have for example a Phobos' Cuirass already, does that mean I can force boss to drop no Phobos' Cuirass, or is it like coffer keys/testimony's?

[Raen Ryong]

You might end up with an empty loot pool

[Phoenyx]

Recast plugin shows Composure as "Unknown-Ability". How do I fix that?

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/102...=1#post4442333

[GoggleHead]

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/102...=1#post4442333

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