Random Question Thread XXI: You're Not My Random Question Thread Dad

[Apelila]

random windower question:

in win7, whenever i launch the game, it's fucking with the global gamma settings for my laptop's display. everything gets way, way brighter, basic web pages look washed out and overly bright. how the hell do i prevent this from happening?

Are you using an ATI card? Something in the drivers from last year did this, it goes away whenever I open the ATI control panel. It happens on both monitors, so I know its not windower/XI doing it.

Safe to assume a near naked WHM mule with barely any magic skills lvl'd has a shitload of skilling/gearing to do to stand up against Maat? Pounding my poor taru for 250-300dmg a hit, scared to see what his Asuran hits for.

Holy breastplate + other level appropriate gear, spam cure III on yourself with solace up. Take in hipots and keep an itchy finger on Benecide for asurans. Unless your skill is so pathetic, your 3's dont break 100, should be easy

[Fereydoon]

Best atma combo for blu? With and without CDC.

[Atoreis]

Best atma combo for blu? With and without CDC.

I hate question like that.
It all depends what you fight, how you fight (you lowman tank?, you have 4 other DD?) and many other major and minor things.

[Sylvrdragon]

Best atma combo for blu? With and without CDC.

For straight up 1v1 mob pwnage, I use RR/MM/VV. Sometimes I'll drop RR or VV for Apoc if I need the reraise. If it's melee heavy, then I favor dropping VV. If spell heavy, then I'll drop RR.

For AOEing, I use Lion/Blinding Horn/Ultimate, though some favor RR for one of the Lightning Atmas (see their secondary stats to determine which to drop).

I don't know much about CDC except that DEX is a major mod, crits on it are very strong, and you want to be able to spam it. I would assume RR/GH/Apoc (or maybe Alpha and Omega). Since they raised the Crit Damage+ cap, I don't know if Sanguine Scythe has made it's way back into the debate or not.

[Fereydoon]

Thanks~ Isador and Mageblage til CDC/Magian?

Edit: And best place to skill up Blue Magic 200+? Crabs in the tree are okish, wondering if there's anything better?

Editedit: Derp, I forgot there were two types of crabs in the tree.

[Atoreis]

Any idea how i can test Demonry ring?

I tried running around on THF outside bastok killing everything that is not weak to piercing with hope of seeing some damage over expected 2.52 for non crit and 3.15*1.08 for crit and havent seen even one :/ Just to be sure for 32 damage dagger on THF max non crit is 108 and crit 145?

How ppl tested this on Triplus dagger?

[Mercilessturtle]

We're seriously at the point now where people think "I don't want to scroll that much" is a valid reason to intentionally gimp themselves? And using apoc on whm? The quick magic is a pain in the ass, it just gives you really shitty cures once in a while as they go off in your precast gear.

[Mercilessturtle]

Since BG wiki is officially more useful than the other one, and people might actually want to use it now, could we get a link to it up there at the top of the page? I think it would be at least as useful as a link to random ancient drama.

[Julian]

Stormbird is the easiest 2nd refresh atma to get for a mule.

That's about the only reason to ever use it.

I would personally throw in Dread if I had it since I always /thf on my whm. Nothing wrong with Apoc, either, because "perfect cure gear" really matters in Abyssea.

[Pendulum]

The quick magic is a pain in the ass, it just gives you really shitty cures once in a while as they go off in your precast gear.

And on the other side of the coin you can get an instant cast on erase/esuna/etc.

I find myself using Dread on whm if no thf is around. I use Rescuer fairly often because I don't have a Rounde and sometimes I use VV if we're staggering red a lot.

[orinthia]

What are the locations for all the confluxes in the dats? Recently started playing on laptop after being on ps2 forever and fps gets mauled when I'm near them (older laptop; nvidia 8400M GS w/128MB ram and 275.27 beta drivers). Avatars also seem to kill fps; any possible fixes for these?

[Julian]

Saved this from an old post, don't remember who posted it

Replace ROM/240/111 (Abyssea), ROM5/8/92 (XarcaS), ROM5/8/93 (WoE) with whatever model you'd like.

rom/3/56 = moogle

[TacoTaru]

Retard question incoming: would you just copy that Moogle dat and rename it to 111/92/93 respectively and paste in correct folders?

[Casey_]

Pretty much. Just make sure to make backups in case something explodes.

[OdinBlaize]

Are there known instances in which Migawari won't work as intended? For example, my LS was fighting Hahava last night and one of the tanks, an elvaan NIN with max HP in the 1450ish range had this happen:

[23:18:07]Elynsyon casts Migawari: Ichi.
[23:18:07]Elynsyon gains the effect of Migawari.

[23:18:08]Hahava hits Elynsyon for 607 points of damage.

[23:18:15]Whmrock casts Cure IV.
[23:18:15]Elynsyon recovers 553 HP.

[23:18:15]Hahava uses Yaksha: Damnation.
[23:18:15]Elynsyon takes 1699 points of damage.
[23:18:16]Elynsyon was defeated by Hahava.

Considering we only tried this fight once, Hahava might have en-dispel for all I know. He said he had Migawari up at the time though.

[Kirschy]

Are there known instances in which Migawari won't work as intended? For example, my LS was fighting Hahava last night and one of the tanks, an elvaan NIN with max HP in the 1450ish range had this happen:

[23:18:07]Elynsyon casts Migawari: Ichi.
[23:18:07]Elynsyon gains the effect of Migawari.

[23:18:08]Hahava hits Elynsyon for 607 points of damage.

[23:18:15]Whmrock casts Cure IV.
[23:18:15]Elynsyon recovers 553 HP.

[23:18:15]Hahava uses Yaksha: Damnation.
[23:18:15]Elynsyon takes 1699 points of damage.
[23:18:16]Elynsyon was defeated by Hahava.

Considering we only tried this fight once, Hahava might have en-dispel for all I know. He said he had Migawari up at the time though.

I haven't done Hahava, but I do know it won't work on special types of damage such as Reseph's slam. Although it's listed as damage in the log, it bypasses forms of damage reduction. (Even Manawall won't prevent the damage.) If Yaksha: Damnation has any special characteristics like that, it might explain it.

[Kamil]

Best atma combo for WAR?

[Aurara]

RR/SS/AoA i believe

[Kamil]

I was thinking RR/VV/AoA. VV so I can 5hit Widowmaker easier.

[Yugl]

I've seen reports of Azure Lore multipliers for magical damage on BLU. Is this only with certain spells and that is why no one has found multipliers for others spells? I noticed that azure lore didn't affect the damage of spells while testing for other stuff (fTP and such). It seems odd that it would affect some spells and not others.