Random Question Thread XXII: You Know the Deal

[Buffy]

I downloaded a steam install today after re-formatting. How do I get windower to hook?

NVM, I was doing this wrong.

[Atoreis]

Is there an echo? We just had this discussion a few pages back. No one said he was too hard and you have to brew. He is just a colossal pain in the ass and takes a long time to kill, which makes him brew worthy. You can kill Rani without brew, too, but fuck if I want to spend the time/effort.

If I am not mistaken Rani requires wipe/deaggro which it pretty complicated for lowman while Pantokrator is just a little longer and requires more focus then usual abyssea NM ( which is actually good because you can finally have some entertainment ).

[Gustave]

Can someone help me with posting in pastebin (I guess thats what its called)? Like when someone posts an xml in the spellcast thread.

[Byrthnoth]

Go to here: http://pastebin.com/
Paste whatever you want into the text area. If it's an XML, choose "Syntax Highlighting" = "XML" at the bottom. Name it something, then hit Submit.

[Leva]

I soloed Adze many times while my team mate was camping minhacao.

I've soloed it on THF inc trying both dagger red WS for the lulz, didn't touch me once

[Palides]

If I am not mistaken Rani requires wipe/deaggro which it pretty complicated for lowman while Pantokrator is just a little longer and requires more focus then usual abyssea NM ( which is actually good because you can finally have some entertainment ).

No, but as already said, he's just a huge pain in the ass.

If some of us have millions of cruor, and just want to burn it to get us/LS the new walmart, then we will brew.

Honestly, at this point in abyssea, anything that saves time so we can move to something else is good for me. I get enjoyment out of seeing my friends/LS get things.

[Julian]

turtle bc strat has been posted before, but for the life of me i couldn't find it. off the top of my head, 4 blms could probably do it. adding refresh and a skillchain will just drop it.

KB is feasibly soloable, but it's all about surviving the turns. if you get hit with thunderbolt or en-stun > meteor, it'll hurt. probably won't kill you, but it can, especially with triple attack. easy low-man at 90. blms, rngs both do superfun damage, made only easier with gravity (i'd take a rdm or whm if you're doing it w/ rng... i kinda wanna do it just to see what kind of numbers jishnu's would put up on it).

edit: to your point about kiting, good DDx3, whm could probably take it down, add a bard for easy mode. have em /sch or sch for aoe stoneskin for thunderbolt/meteor. keep someone out range (35') after 5% to head in for the kill.

Ty kind sir, will try searching around for the turtle strat.

[Gustave]

Thanks Byrth but what I just used the code tags. Is embedding pastebin better than code tags?

How doable is Shinryu MNK / WAR / WHM / WHM ? I've used over 20 brews with blue !! and no body yet. It's getting quite annoying wasting stones (just bought abyssea around 6-8 weeks ago) and brews on him.

[Churchill]

Brew Panto for saving time (eg, LS event). It's by no means hard and only dangerous if 2boxing due to his hate resets if you can't avoid them (they fire much faster than Proto-Omega)

As far as brew being wasted, I qualified it with "if you are multi-brewing". A 1m chainspell isn't going to hurt you on a 1 mob brew, it's going to take 1m off a multi brew so it's better to wait for 2legs.

Drops wise, I've never got a Tiara without TH, I think we are 5/9, all had blue proc'd and 4 did not have TH. One blue proc was done twice and still got the drop. Horn/Torque dropped every time.

Edit: I don't know for sure, but it also seems like you can only proc between swings, like Shin/Iron Giants. I've always done him this way, but I've noticed when I wasn't on MNK other people had some trouble proc'ing and had success after finally trying to only do the WS's in between swings.

[Byrthnoth]

Thanks Byrth but what I just used the code tags. Is embeding pastebin better than code tags?

Personal preference, I'd say. It's definitely easier to read on pastebin due to the syntax highlighting, and I generally store XMLs people ask for there because I can just re-link them if necessary.

[Buffy]

What are the four best MP resting pieces for WHM?

Staff, Body, Legs, Belt?

I'm trying to find the biggest hMP + from just four pieces. I think there are new hMP pieces I can't find on the wiki, so I'm a little lost.

[ccf]

What are the four best MP resting pieces for WHM?

Staff, Body, Legs, Belt?

I'm trying to find the biggest hMP + from just four pieces. I think there are new hMP pieces I can't find on the wiki, so I'm a little lost.

My quite gimpy whm set has dark staff/errant body/ still looking for a cheap one / austerity belt, not sure if they are the best, but it does ok result plus i use ginger cookie for mostly in voidwatch.

[Cephius]

Are people still uber-secretive with discussing ways they make gil? If not...

I'm lucky enough to have friends who letting me key-bitch for xp. Should I hold onto my cruor? What's the best way to go from cruor > gil? I've heard chocobo blinders.... that still good?

Thanks for any advice.

[Ocara]

Are people still uber-secretive with discussing ways they make gil? If not...

I'm lucky enough to have friends who letting me key-bitch for xp. Should I hold onto my cruor? What's the best way to go from cruor > gil? I've heard chocobo blinders.... that still good?

Thanks for any advice.

Blinkers are a little over 2;1 gil:cruor ratio, if you're leeching and have inventory and people don't care, you can get more gil:cruor by taking augmented items and npcing them (depends on zone, but there are quite a few worth 5-9k each to npc and a box can have 1-2 per box. 18k for 500 cruor is a pretty good deal)

Edit: Best answer is probably sell brews/gear though

[Renzy]

Has anyone had trouble popping Chione, or any other abyssea VNM lately?
Tried to pop Chione for 10 minutes and kept getting a 1 Yalm (or more) message everytime...

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7...0715162955.png

[kenshyn]

Question what is a Litmus test mob to evaluate damage against??? Knowing many things that factor into damage such as weaknesses, Level correlation, and such. What mob or HNM would be a natural measuring stick?????? The mob should be high level have a considerable amount of hit points and hopefully easy to fight against lol meaning no crazy fight mechanics cant hit from behind yada yada yada basically people can tank and spank if such exists which would it be and why?

In wow they had that back in the day and that mob became the measuring stick of your dps what mob can be FFXI version of that if any???


I like to be able to run some real tests against a end game mob not level 0 bunnies. So yeah parse 10x rani fights and compute number of attacks vs damage per melee hit and special attack frequency ergo spell or weapon skill for analysis I would be interested to know a real answer and need a mob test subject.

Any thoughts on mobs other than say Rani or Raja would fit that bill?

[Ocara]

Question what is a Litmus test mob to evaluate damage against??? Knowing many things that factor into damage such as weaknesses, Level correlation, and such. What mob or HNM would be a natural measuring stick?????? The mob should be high level have a considerable amount of hit points and hopefully easy to fight against lol meaning no crazy fight mechanics cant hit from behind yada yada yada basically people can tank and spank if such exists which would it be and why?

In wow they had that back in the day and that mob became the measuring stick of your dps what mob can be FFXI version of that if any???


I like to be able to run some real tests against a end game mob not level 0 bunnies. So yeah parse 10x rani fights and compute number of attacks vs damage per melee hit and special attack frequency ergo spell or weapon skill for analysis I would be interested to know a real answer and need a mob test subject.

Any thoughts on mobs other than say Rani or Raja would fit that bill?

You're implying some kind of parsing would indicate anything about a jobs ability to do anything except fight that mob. Even then, it's not a very effective measurement, since parsing a mob is dependent on engage times, how quickly you ws, and fights not being generally long enough to get a good sample size resulting in a significant margin of error even in ideal cases.

(PS rani gains damage resistance over time as well as absorbs damage and raja can strip your subjob, so neither is particularly good even if what you're trying to do made any sense.)

[Byrthnoth]

As far as VNMs, check this out: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/104...=1#post4698419

Looks like you aren't alone. I'm betting it has something to do with SE's multiple-poppers patch.

[Gustave]

Edit: Beaten


Incoming emergency maint or working as intended?

[Nevermore]

Now that I have to spam Ob for the new pup stuff I was wondering whats the best mobs to take pics of for points. Is it still flowers in Sea or are there better mobs now?