Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[Chun Liroy]

If accuracy is a constant, I've never had skillup rate increase as I get closer to cap regardless what I'm fighting.

It's not about the skill up rate increasing as you get closer to cap, it's skill up rate increasing as your skill gets closer to the correct mob level. I can't be the only one that's noticed this. I'm getting plenty of skills on robber crabs, decided to try out tahrongi instead, and it takes a half hour to get only a few skill levels.

[shepardG]

Welllll, after many many MANY moons, i finally just got my Assa. armlets (like 4 mins ago). Now ideally TH rules are like this:
You engage, tag it with all your TH gear, then you can swap into your normal TP set?

If that's so, anyone got a spellcast function that will delay my tp set from becoming active until i've hit it once?
also does TH bonus's have to have the TH + gear on to increase?

[Makwa]

I guess this is the place to ask.
I just reactivated in April, my main ID + one extra. Last week I deactivated the extra one for a new one(had a char on it, wanted to make a new to see if a server was open).
I just got charged $28.90 by SE lol.
Is there a special number to call for this? Or is the regular number the one I call?
EDIT: I suppose it's figured by the fact that I reactivated before the 3rd week of April... Maybe it's two months together?

[cdgreg]

Welllll, after many many MANY moons, i finally just got my Assa. armlets (like 4 mins ago). Now ideally TH rules are like this:
You engage, tag it with all your TH gear, then you can swap into your normal TP set?

If that's so, anyone got a spellcast function that will delay my tp set from becoming active until i've hit it once?
also does TH bonus's have to have the TH + gear on to increase?

Once you hit it with 90 thf and knife, hands, feet you'll have TH6 on there. In order to increase to 7 you need to keep the full gear on. Of course you can start with less and work your way up too. Congrats on the drop, I'm honestly not sure if you can tag it with TH6, take off all your TH gear then slowly work up from TH3 to 4 to 5 to 6 to 7. I generally just TH shit with SA or TA since the rate of TH increase is much higher this way.


edit: i may be totally wrong.

[Chun Liroy]

So.... I just got 1.0 skill points since my last skill level and I didn't progress to the next level (skilled to 174, got 1.0 after that, not at 175 yet). Wat.

[Mercilessturtle]

Once you hit it with 90 thf and knife, hands, feet you'll have TH6 on there. In order to increase to 7 you need to keep the full gear on.

No you don't. You can just take an action on it with TH gear on, then swap into DD gear for the rest of the fight.

[GeneyusTitan]

Pop spot and path for Gamayun?

[Ocara]

Pop spot and path for Gamayun?

Pops a little before the waterfall in the limules near 01, wanders up the waterfalls past 04 and up to the top. I've seen it wander down past 8 and through wivres too, as well as over by detectors. But if you just keep an eye out you can pop it at its spawn every time and it wont get a chance to wander.

[cdgreg]

No you don't. You can just take an action on it with TH gear on, then swap into DD gear for the rest of the fight.

Wow really, I've been doing it wrong for a long time then...gonna have to test this later

[Theraven]

When i hit him I'm pretty sure he was facing out the window.

Bubbly was running back and forth on the deck (Cause of Sneaking up on the imps).

I'll figure it out.

If I'm remembering correctly you can't get caught by Bubbly either, otherwise the third chest won't spawn. We always had to have someone THF or /THF to flee in and occasionally they wouldn't time it right and Bubbly would see them resulting in no third chest.

edit: also you can't miss your initial attack, otherwise you won't get the third chest either.

[Martinius]

Essential MNK weapons to have now?

And any good blogs/guides out there useful for really getting into MNK and how to play it effectively? I'm new to MNK and I have a lot of reading to catch up on.

time and manpower permitting, you should be working towards revenant fists +2 or verethranga. that said, in the interim, you will be just fine w/ str taipan fangs +2, taurine cesti (that's what i'm using atm), or furor cesti. fangs are best, and i have better results with taurine than furor.

in addition to that, you should have at least one club (i use a fourth division mace b/c i have it for rdm and whm, and senior musketeer's rod. the sandy equivalent of the rod is just as good. all three are dmg: 25. if you feel like wasting a little money, deae gratia is the best club outside of kraken available to mnk), and a couple staves. i carry a warmage's pole (easy synergy for anyone 65+ and woodworking) for DD, a terra staff for dmg down, and a pluto's staff for cataclysm (martial staff is better slightly, depending on atmas, but they're rare as hell on alexander).

[Aurara]

Sanguine blade vs cata on apademak for brewing on war?

[Byrthnoth]

Sanguine blade vs cata on apademak for brewing on war?

Sanguine by a lot. Its fINT is calculated differently from CATA, which results in a huge base damage boost.

[Aurara]

Ty, :D

[Byrthnoth]

NP dawg!
Banisher/Cosmos/Ultimate probably (or Maere's, though I'm unsure exactly what it does)

[Aurara]

nice, i have all of those too D:

[Koyangi]

inb4 lolsch

Fighting Guimauve for the Savant's Treatise, used at least 4 clean Dancing Edges and Shark Bites and no blue proc, Shadowstitch and Evisceration gave a proc message so that helped narrow it down. Some WS were done in blm form and others in whm form, anyone have any info as to why no proc?

[TransparentMind]

time and manpower permitting, you should be working towards revenant fists +2 or verethranga. that said, in the interim, you will be just fine w/ str taipan fangs +2, taurine cesti (that's what i'm using atm), or furor cesti. fangs are best, and i have better results with taurine than furor.

in addition to that, you should have at least one club (i use a fourth division mace b/c i have it for rdm and whm, and senior musketeer's rod. the sandy equivalent of the rod is just as good. all three are dmg: 25. if you feel like wasting a little money, deae gratia is the best club outside of kraken available to mnk), and a couple staves. i carry a warmage's pole (easy synergy for anyone 65+ and woodworking) for DD, a terra staff for dmg down, and a pluto's staff for cataclysm (martial staff is better slightly, depending on atmas, but they're rare as hell on alexander).

Thank you very much. I figured I would have to work on Revenants for Victory Smite but I needed something decent as 90MNK atm and I have no clue what is what on MNK (forshame).

I had my eye on the Taurines, how was your luck on that? What was your set up for Indrik?

[Atoreis]

Thank you very much. I figured I would have to work on Revenants for Victory Smite but I needed something decent as 90MNK atm and I have no clue what is what on MNK (forshame).

I had my eye on the Taurines, how was your luck on that? What was your set up for Indrik?

MNK THF WHM and take everything stalwart, good food and maybe even fanatic (idk how good is your gear). Proc blue, stick th, pop fanatic, focus, berserk, hundred fists and zerg it down as much as possible (remember it can absorb damage). Don't stay on same sides.

[Fereydoon]

Will Maere's Nightmare hit a whm outside of alliance?