Random Question Thread XXII: You Know the Deal

[noodles355]

War group 2 merits after 5/5 WC? I'm guessing 1/5 Thomahawk 4/5 Savagery? Also assumed Group1 was 5/5 Zerk 5/5 DA, or is Aggressor worth it?

[grevenilvec75]

I do. Capped ebon, a single amber light (well, 8 ) and consistent level 1 amber chests. Didn't reach max level chests at all until the expected 15x amber kill later.

Interesting. Notice an increase in frequency of chests?

[Lyltia]

Ifrit I bring 2 WHM's and avoid firesday. He's not awesome.

We've been taking NIN BRD WHM to Brulo, Soul Voice Mambo/March with WHM curing spike damage makes it a joke; if i have spare meds laying around I'll use those up to make it faster.. Stalwart's/Champion's/Berserker's/Fools and you can kill it in 2-3 minutes easy (assuming Kannagi etc).

Same setup works just fine for Ogopogo, Barwater/Carol x2/Gear full resists Grand Fall/Tidal Wave every time. Genbu Kabuto, Lightning Belt, Scorpion Harness, Aqua Sachet, Merrow Locket is +115, all easily acquirable stuff.

[Forte]

I'm trying to do the Odin 'Release thy knight' questline, but I have completely lost track of what number I'm on. While I could just keep going till it's done, I'd like some idea as to where I am. Does anyone have the data mined text from the quest?

No one?

[Buffy]

Has anyone seen chatmon crash their windower client? Using Vista?

I can't get chatmon to work right, to the level of frustration that I went back and re-installed Vista from scratch, then re-installed ffxi, then re-installed windower.

The game runs fine, and chatmon loads fine, but as soon as chatmon has to do anything: like say "incoming tell" when I send that computer a /tell, it freezes up and I have to use task manager to kill it.

It's the most recent windower and chatmon .dll.

Anyone seen this before?

[Yugl]

Since multisend broke, what are people using instead?

[noodles355]

There's a new multi-send replacement. Saw it mentioned when someone was asking about 2boxing. Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: Here we are, http://forums.windower.net/topic/19474-multiboxer/

Edit2: Still want to double check if my war merits should look like 5 Serk, 5 DA, 5 WC, 1 Tomahawk 4 Savagery. Or if some other combo of tomahawk and aggressor is better?

[Yugl]

Oh nice, thanks! Friend was getting worried.

[Dooom]

Edit2: Still want to double check if my war merits should look like 5 Serk, 5 DA, 5 WC, 1 Tomahawk 4 Savagery.

Pretty much.

[Obsidian]

Figured so, dont I have to leave the WHM out of party for Diabolos or just stay out of range?

You need to be out of range regardless. I'd avoid Maere, he's annoying.

[Gokulo]

Blu standard merits?

[Buffy]

Best atmas for War to use on cataclysm (non-brew)? They won't be pulling, but will be contributing to large AE/cleave pulls. Thinking Ultimate/Smiting Blow/Sea Daughter. I'm not a melee, dunno what I'm doing

[Yugl]

Can sandbox use custom launch settings? A friend says the character isn't using default settings.

[dem0nfr0g]

For Ukon, I have seen a lot of people's gearsets using claymore grip. It has been a while since I re-evaluated my grip, so I am not sure what is best. At the moment, WS+TP phase with a sword grip lands me at 98.6 TP, and I use a Regain WoTG earring, so that should work out. Any suggestions on grip?

[dem0nfr0g]

Blu standard merits?

Really all depends on what you do on BLU. For T1 don't bother w/ monster correlation. Then decide how you play BLU more. If you are more physical spell centric, go w/ the physical spell buffs, if your more magic based, go magic. T2, do assimilation 5/5 for sure. I personally did 4 in enchainment and 1 in diffusion after that, but T2 can be justified a few different ways.

[Nocturne]

Decent solo spots for DNC53~? I have most subjobs, including BST.

[Maguile]

Is there a certain range of amber light that improve the droprate of augmented items?

[Shiyo]

Str or dex merits if my only 2 melee jobs are NIN(kannagi) and THF?

[Buffy]

Is there a certain range of amber light that improve the droprate of augmented items?

The general community feeling seems to be that augmented items drop at a higher rate out of tier 4 gold chests. See the abyssea lights thread for definition of different tiers of chests in case I'm unclear. Having said that, I've farmed Highlands extensively, with six rings of Physical/Magic -5% each and 2 refresh hairpins, and all of those items were received with max amber. My personal feeling is that max amber improves the quality of the augments on the items. I have no testing to back that up.

[cdgreg]

No one?

There was a lengthy discussion on this a long time ago back when the forums were split into event/standard if I remember correctly. Your best bet finding that is going to be searching the forums with some words unique to that quest.

I thought there was no epic prize at the end? What's the point of doing this?