Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[evilpaul]

Logged in a Cerb w/o a problem about an hour ago.

[Phoenyx]

Man, I really wanted that Aqua sachet. D:

[Yugl]

Back online.

[DNAval]

As long as you know how to kill it.

If you fight something like Ulhuadshi without knowing what the fuck, you'll probably get laid out by an Aeolian Void following Psyche Suction. Other visions mobs like Sobek, CC, the Corse and the Wamoura are just flat out jokes at this point... fought Bukhis once recently and it was a fucking horror show. Easily winnable, but you're gonna get face raped in the process, and there's really nothing you can do about it.

those are scars mobs not visions

[Elysian]

Will light and dark gorgets work w/ their corresponding level 3 element weapon skills? Like Coronach (dark) w/ dark gorget?

Also, is it worth keeping a Gekko set around if I already have Fudo? Times where Gekko would pull ahead ws wise (high def mobs), would the ODDD pull it ahead?

[cdgreg]

I remember reading that tyrant tusk can *never* death you UNLESS you have bio on from a previous tusk. True or false?

[Kaisha]

Anyone know if there's a fix for FFXI running progressively worse the longer you stay in a zone? Been in Abyssea-Altep for 6.5hrs now, and like a lot of my runs, the game just starts stuttering hard every second, and the only way I've found to fix it is either logging off or zoning. The zone method also involves the game locking up and spiking my CPU usage for 10+ seconds before it finishes the process.

I can't confirm if it's a problem with my system setup, or an issue with FFXI's engine that's been made more of a problem with Abyssea, since people do runs in the one area for a lenghty period of time.
(where-as every other endgame location always has you shifting zones every 30min-2hr)

[Aihree]

Yeah, abyssea has a client side memory leak in the ffxi process somewhere. uses more and more memory, swapping other processes out to on-disk pagefile. Logging out clears it, so does zoning. Zoning makes you lock up, because it's pulling all that swapped-out data back off disk and into memory.

Same thing always happened in dynamis to me, and does constantly in abyssea too.

[Michelob]

Will light and dark gorgets work w/ their corresponding level 3 element weapon skills? Like Coronach (dark) w/ dark gorget?

Also, is it worth keeping a Gekko set around if I already have Fudo? Times where Gekko would pull ahead ws wise (high def mobs), would the ODDD pull it ahead?

Coronach works with dark gorget.

[SwaggerlikeKillquick]

Does anyone have a good guide to WHM that they would recommend?

[jimbobsonofgod]

I remember reading that tyrant tusk can *never* death you UNLESS you have bio on from a previous tusk. True or false?

False I had the first Tyrant tusk kill my nin the other day.

Also had it first shot my blu in the same day (different pop)

[spider123]

When leveling synergy off the stalls, can you gain skill-ups when the element is at 99, or does it *need* to actually go up in value to have a chance at skilling? (Ie: 98->99)

[Chun Liroy]

Does anyone have a good guide to WHM that they would recommend?

Seconding this. I've never whm'd before (I used to have rdm at 75 cap, but that was only for a couple weeks before I got banned).

Also, how useful is rdm outside of abyssea for curing, and do you think rdm will gain some ground in the next level cap increase? (I.e. cure V)

[Lyramion]

False I had the first Tyrant tusk kill my nin the other day.

Also had it first shot my blu in the same day (different pop)

The theory was you die if EITHER bio is on OR if you are hit but NOT the primary target. Did you get hit with someone else in range?

[Kilorilo]

Bloodeye Vileberry, duoable by NIN/WAR + WHM/BLM ? any tips on the fight? I've never erased tonberry hate, but doing that would make rencor do 0 dmg?

[TacoTaru]

Does anyone have a good guide to WHM that they would recommend?

-na/erase yourself when debuffs are on, keep haste up and cure? I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for. Do you want to know how to play the job or are you asking for gear sets, XML, etc to use?

[Syntex]

WHM is RDM with stronger cures and regens/-na spells?

Not much to the job if you ask me just more buffing and less debuffing.

[Mohit]

The theory was you die if EITHER bio is on OR if you are hit but NOT the primary target. Did you get hit with someone else in range?

I got killed with tyrant tusk using both death atmas (since I can kill it with or without the good atmas). I did not have bio on and only person on the mob. My opinion, completely random and I don't think death atmas matter either.

[TacoTaru]

WHM is RDM with stronger cures and regens/-na spells?

Not much to the job if you ask me just more buffing and less debuffing.

If someone is playing WHM as a main job, I'd still recommend keeping enfeebling skill near cap and have a good MND set for slow/para.

[DNAval]

I got killed with tyrant tusk using both death atmas (since I can kill it with or without the good atmas). I did not have bio on and only person on the mob. My opinion, completely random and I don't think death atmas matter either.

i was told a little """ SECRET """ technically its not a secret but ........ anyway after so many sobek's i can tell you it works, having over 2500 HP and always being @ full HP will prevent getting killed by Tyrant tusk, not once have I or anyone i know that has followed that little ruled has died.

NOTE* this does not apply to monks, counterstance voids that rule just have over 3200 HP on mnk.

EDIT: no Death atmas necessary.