Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[Alkimi]

Orichalcumshells in Mount Zhayolm maybe? They're lvl 88-90 so should see you through to capped skills.

[urat]

Has anyone figured out the trick to pearlescent lights?

Ive been soloing mobs for awhile now and they seem very finicky, I cant seem to find any pattern at all.

I've been told Crits dont give pearl but I have seen first hand contrary, I've tried seeing if I need to balance my levels of damage, using 2 aeolian edges, 1 dancing edge, and killing it with melee, sometimes I get pearl sometimes I dont.

Doing all of one type gets me pearl, a mix can be pearl, but no matter wht I try do I ever get 100% shot at pearl, it's always a 30ish percent chance, eyeballing it. Even not usign a single ws the whole fight changes nothing.

Is there no trick to pearl at all...? All I have left with is to try experimenting with DoT and see if viper biting during the fight helps improve my chances or something =/

[Ocara]

Has anyone figured out the trick to pearlescent lights?

Ive been soloing mobs for awhile now and they seem very finicky, I cant seem to find any pattern at all.

I've been told Crits dont give pearl but I have seen first hand contrary, I've tried seeing if I need to balance my levels of damage, using 2 aeolian edges, 1 dancing edge, and killing it with melee, sometimes I get pearl sometimes I dont.

Doing all of one type gets me pearl, a mix can be pearl, but no matter wht I try do I ever get 100% shot at pearl, it's always a 30ish percent chance, eyeballing it. Even not usign a single ws the whole fight changes nothing.

Is there no trick to pearl at all...? All I have left with is to try experimenting with DoT and see if viper biting during the fight helps improve my chances or something =/

Here's a trick: build pearl on vnms and weak nms that give it 100%.

[urat]

Here's a trick: build pearl on vnms and weak nms that give it 100%.

Sadly I currently have a T3 VNM abyssite waiting for a run later, and I don't know of any easy NMs in konshtat offhand I can farm, any recommendations?

[Ocara]

Sadly I currently have a T3 VNM abyssite waiting for a run later, and I don't know of any easy NMs in konshtat offhand I can farm, any recommendations?

grab a t1 abyssite from the npc, murder t1 vnms (you can have both). They pop in the tunnels in the south of the zone and wander up either side. If they've been up a while they'll wander around fluxes 4 and 5, as well as the area from the bottom of saplings up to funguars. Mappy/radar makes it easier. Once you've killed the wandering ones you can camp their spawn down in the south tunnels before they get away and it's not as much wandering around.

[urat]

grab a t1 abyssite from the npc, murder t1 vnms (you can have both). They pop in the tunnels in the south of the zone and wander up either side. If they've been up a while they'll wander around fluxes 4 and 5, as well as the area from the bottom of saplings up to funguars. Mappy/radar makes it easier. Once you've killed the wandering ones you can camp their spawn down in the south tunnels before they get away and it's not as much wandering around.

Oh wow didn't know this, ok cool thanks, makes my day a lot easier :D

[Karbuncle]

Whats a good way to Skill up Archery on PUP? Would using Drum Magazine work if i was fighting low level mobs.

For instance, my Archery skill on PUP is ~160, Im level 90, IF i used Scope/Stabilizer (Maybe just 3 wind man's instead) would i be able to reliably hit the enemy.

A lot of people say its Significant, I'm wonder if its so significant a lose that a mob essentially ~25 some odd levels below us would still actively evade it?

[Ticktick]

i saw tests on alla some time ago, can't remember exactly but i think it showed drum magazine being somewhere between -50 and -100 acc/racc

[Karbuncle]

i saw tests on alla some time ago, can't remember exactly but i think it showed drum magazine being somewhere between -50 and -100 acc/racc

Does it get higher with Maneuver's or is it a 1-time thing?

[bigrougabagel]

Been gone from teh game for 2 years, havent reactivated my account at all in that time and considering coming back. Is there any chance my characters will still exist?

[Ticktick]

heres the thread http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.htm...35632113574817, doesn't seem there was any testing w/ varying maneuvers. the good stuff is about half way down the page.

[Byrthnoth]

Been gone from teh game for 2 years, havent reactivated my account at all in that time and considering coming back. Is there any chance my characters will still exist?

YOUR CHARACTERS AND EVERYONE YOU KNEW ARE DEAD!

jk, they stopped pretending to delete character data like 5 years ago. Just reactivate and you'll be fine.

[kamugi]

YOUR CHARACTERS AND EVERYONE YOU KNEW ARE DEAD!

jk, they stopped pretending to delete character data like 5 years ago. Just reactivate and you'll be fine.

To add to this: as long as you didn't delete them yourself, they should be there. If you did you're probably SOL.

[Ophannus]

Quicky: Skill-up location for 250-350?

I did 250-300 in one hour on Ectozoons in Ulegeruand. Just use VV/Apoc and Alpha&Omega and haste yourself and use Haste gear along with DA gear in slots that permit(Atheling/Anguinus/Brutal etc) and I promise you will get a crapton of skillups. Mainhand Hornetneedle and offhand Joyeuse, spam Evisceration. Use DA gear like Atheling and Anguinus as well as Brutal and fill the resI've gotten 0.5's on 3 out of 5 hits of Evisceration once giving me an instant 1.5 levels, usually at least 1 skillup from it though, sub NIN if you have Suppa or sub DNC for Haste samba. You don't need any buffs, they hit for 30-50 dmg with Phalanx up and you can just afk till they die and cure 4 yourself back up to full afterwards. Waste of time to keep up stoneskin/utsu.

[bigrougabagel]

There was no deleting, just deactivating. Oh god... I will have to recap parrying...

[TacoTaru]

Quicky: Skill-up location for 250-350?

I tried some DC Colibri in Misareaux on my RDM dual-wielding sword (300) and dagger (254), and skill-up has been meh, even with double/triple-attack spam from atmas, and this continued to be bleh even after I made the camp level up to VT, at which point I said screw it.

I'm going to have to find lower-lvl mobs I'm assuming to get a better skill increase rate, any suggestions? Steelshell aren't too hot at the 250-range, and I can't think of any mobs that are higher but also aren't a pain in the ass to melee, or would hit me like a truck.

I did Glen Crabs when I was skilling staff on WAR from 250~300. I just put on three regen atmas, pulled one or two then alt tabbed over and read BG. I don't know that I would call it "quick", it still took a few hours, but it was easy.

[Miroku_Asura]

Anyone have a good 5 man strat for Kirin? Jobs look like:

War Mnk Nin Thf Drk Dnc
Whm Rdm Brd (Dual Box)
Whm Rdm Blm Smn Cor Sch Blu
Whm Bst Smn Blu
Smn Drk Pup

[Tsuko_Asura]

MNK, BRD, COR, WHM, DRK. Buff, zerg. Make sure COR is participating in damage.

[Aozora]

best orthrus brewing WS? never got a good answer, just a debate over if darkness dmg being reduced (which also didnt get answered)

[TheDirtyHobo]

Honestly, why would you waste your cruor on Orthrus? He's probably the squishiest body+2 dropping NM other than Bennu, and has the least dangerous TP moves other than Empousa. If you have enough people to chain-brew it efficiently, you have enough people to kill it in under 2 minutes anyways.