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

[Kaisha]

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

Is there any reason for Holy breastplate other than it having 5 more def over Noble's? I'd have figured the +10% Cure potency & 1mp/tic refresh on the tunic would help alleviate MP issues.

At any rate, going to farm him some kindred seals for the next cap quest on Colibri, so I'll make a macro spamming divine spells while I skillup my main's axe.

[Julian]

Anyone know what the Ankabut PH is in either the widescan or the dat list?

Otherwiki says "first huge spider" but then says "top of L-7" but I have no idea if that means the first in the list, period, or the first in the list that's in L-7, and I'm lazy and trying to camp this thing half afk, so I'm really not interested in killing all these spiders.

Thanks

[Damane]

Anyone know whats wrong with blinkmenot? downloaded the new dll that fixed the isnl combat bug, and even reinstalled windower. Blinkmenot is still not working for me anymore :/. This really sux since I am a whm main >.<

[Koyangi]

If Grellow is procced, are the newly added +2 items guaranteed to drop or is it like a 95% chance?

[shaddix]

Anyone know whats wrong with blinkmenot? downloaded the new dll that fixed the isnl combat bug, and even reinstalled windower. Blinkmenot is still not working for me anymore :/. This really sux since I am a whm main >.<

its broke

[Mercilessturtle]

Anyone know whats wrong with blinkmenot? downloaded the new dll that fixed the isnl combat bug, and even reinstalled windower. Blinkmenot is still not working for me anymore :/. This really sux since I am a whm main >.<

Everything defaults to off now, turn on the things you want on.

[Pendulum]

If Grellow is procced, are the newly added +2 items guaranteed to drop or is it like a 95% chance?

Grellow greatly increases chances but doesn't guarantee anything.

[Jeryhn]

Best healing/low man/duo atma combo for WHM. Thank you folks.

Minikin is a given. I run around on Perfect Attendance for extra Refresh and discernment on red/blue.
If your Cure Potency set isn't maxed, Rescuer. Otherwise, Ambition is pretty good as well.

I tend to find myself on Future Fabulous a lot as well, just so my WHM becomes almost impossible to kill by magic AoE, but that requires finishing WotG.

[Miroku_Asura]

What are the standard merits for a Rng? I'm planning on doing something like this:

5/5 Rapid Shot (duh)
5/5 Unlimited or Camo (leaning more towards Camo at this point because of the enmity mitigation when shooting from behind)

For my group 2's, I'm at a bit of a loss. I was thinking of going 5/5 Snapshot, then 4/4 Recycle and 1/1 in Flashy. Is Recycle even worth looking at (I'd be getting the merits on a mage job more than likely so I wouldn't be spending any ammo)? Is Snapshot worth meriting with TP being so easy to come by these days and is there a point to meriting Flashy Shot more than once?

Also, I'm assuming /Sam reigns supreme at 90 with Sekkanoki and Meditate or are /Nin and /War still the standard?

[wop]

what atma to brew with earthcrusher for shinryu? sorry just got back to game

no ultimate

[Soho]

What are the standard merits for a Rng? I'm planning on doing something like this:

5/5 Rapid Shot (duh)
5/5 Unlimited or Camo (leaning more towards Camo at this point because of the enmity mitigation when shooting from behind)

For my group 2's, I'm at a bit of a loss. I was thinking of going 5/5 Snapshot, then 4/4 Recycle and 1/1 in Flashy. Is Recycle even worth looking at (I'd be getting the merits on a mage job more than likely so I wouldn't be spending any ammo)? Is Snapshot worth meriting with TP being so easy to come by these days and is there a point to meriting Flashy Shot more than once?

Also, I'm assuming /Sam reigns supreme at 90 with Sekkanoki and Meditate or are /Nin and /War still the standard?

For Group 1 I went:
5/5 Rapid Shot
5/5 Camo - I'm pretty sure the math wizards have said Double Shot > Unlimited Shot now that the non-R/Ex ammo you can get is pretty close to the same damage (since they are on the same cooldown you can only use one or the other.)

For Group 2 I went:
5/5 Snapshot
4/5 Stealth Shot - As you said, our biggest issue as RNG right now is Enmity.
1/5 Flashy Shot - For those rare circumstances when it's nice to have.

I have Gandiva and prefer /NIN in Abyssea so that I can Dual Wield Yataghan's augmented with +Crit Damage. Also, I use Sea Daughter/RR/GH so /SAM would probably just mean a lot of TP overflow. I haven't done much outside Abyssea on RNG yet so I haven't played with the math for X-hit builds, but I can see it being likely to get more out of /SAM when you don't have a Regain Atma helping you.

[Rosalie]

So I had started a Campaign Ops (Smokescreen V) mission a couple of years ago when Fiat Lux was actually relevant... and I'm trying to finish it up now but campaign battles in the Northlands almost NEVER happen. What exactly triggers a Campaign battle to start? (yes campaign sucks w/e.)

[Mojo]

In regards to RNG merits ~ A good tank is going to maintain capped enmity and every action a good melee does is going to recap their enmity anyways, so I'm not sure how helpful those stealth shot merits would be.

[Obsidian]

Anyone know whats wrong with blinkmenot? downloaded the new dll that fixed the isnl combat bug, and even reinstalled windower. Blinkmenot is still not working for me anymore :/. This really sux since I am a whm main >.<

All the options are defaulted to off.

Just put "bmn alwaysothers on" in your init.txt anywhere after you load blinkmenot. You can type //bmn in-game to see the other options.

[Soho]

In regards to RNG merits ~ A good tank is going to maintain capped enmity and every action a good melee does is going to recap their enmity anyways, so I'm not sure how helpful those stealth shot merits would be.

Slight Derail:
I understand how CE and VE cap at 10k and the concept of a NIN or MNK tank swinging at max delay reduction should theoretically keep them at the top of the hate list. However, I also see from first hand experience that if I play aggressively on RNG, I get (and often times keep) hate.

Is this solely because of the decay from damage that the tank(s) have been taking all along? It's not uncommon for our tanks to have a hard time pulling an NM off me once it's decided it wants me dead. Even with the tanks swinging away at it and me just standing there in -PDT gear waiting for them to get it back.

[Aurara]

what atma to brew with earthcrusher for shinryu? sorry just got back to game

no ultimate

Atma of the claw/Smiting blow/some MAB atma

[Radec]

Running an alt through ToAU rankups, but I got them PFC Aggggessss ago, and I don't remember which assaults I've done. Anyway to check this?

[Draylo]

Running an alt through ToAU rankups, but I got them PFC Aggggessss ago, and I don't remember which assaults I've done. Anyway to check this?

Missions on menu > Aht Urghan > Go left once and it says Assaults.

[Amok]

Atma of the claw/Smiting blow/some MAB atma

Griffon's claw will do more for damage than MAB

[Rosalie]

bleah didn't see answer already posted to question i was trying to answer.