Random Question Thread XXII: You Know the Deal

[Scrynth]

Is the Moonshade Earring w/ TP Bonus good for both Ukko's and Vsmite?

[Michelob]

Is the Moonshade Earring w/ TP Bonus good for both Ukko's and Vsmite?

What he means is does the 25% bonus have a scaled effect on the critical rates for those weapon skills or are the critical rates only effected at 100%/200%/300%?

[TheDirtyHobo]

Why not have rdm/sch sleeper?

Slower strategems. SCH can essentially keep any size crowd slept indefinitely by manifestation sleep > sleep2 > break a second or two before they wake > sleep. Plus they have actual sleepga for backup and stragglers as needed.

[Cymmina]

Why not have rdm/sch sleeper?

Because it's terrible at the job and adds no benefits over SCH?

You don't have Sleepga, so you're relying entirely on Stratagems and /SCH doesn't have enough of them. SCH can Sleepga, Manifestation+Sleep (if there's stragglers or adds), Manifestation+Sleep II, Manifestation+Break (or Bind, or both), and Stun. Plus they can use their 2hour for the boss to spam big Cure IVs on everyone.

edit: beat

[solanis]

is anyone else getting horrible server lag? I got kicked off the server a few minutes ago and it keeps telling me I can't log it because of server congestion.

[Churchill]

Yeah, 2nd time it's happened today actually. My connection is showing 30mb/s but it's taking anywhere from 10-15s to get a box message to pop up in Abys

[msthief]

I was kicked off once every hour or so, I eventually just say f-it and am marathoning a show.

[Sylvrdragon]

Anyone have any modern low-man (3-4) Proto-Omega strats? Farmed up a popset, and wanna get me some Homams.

Available jobs per player (From best geared/played to least)

BLU/WHM/BLM/PLD/RDM
BLM/MNK/WAR/RDM/WHM
NIN/THF/BLU
DNC/THF/BRD

Mule: RDM

[Ace-o-fire]

Is Sea/Sky soloable now?

[Fievel]

Is Sea/Sky soloable now?

What part of sea/sky?

[dasva]

Proto omega shouldn't be to hard. 4 wasn't too difficult at 75 really. Since he doesn't really attack fast or da just counters alot keeping shadows up isn't too hard especially since easy to slow/para at 75. Just don't feed too much tp since hate reset is kinda lame and some of them do a bit a dmg and it really sucks to have them done right as it spawns a pod. Make sure to have someone grab pods right away as they attack hard and fast.

The way I used to do it a few years ago was 2 non engaged tanks 1 rdm 1 brd then some magic dmg. He paths kinda poorly in there and you doesn't run too fast so spacing tanks out made it super easy. But yeah with 15 more lvls stopping it from dealing any dmg wont be as necessary as back then.

Also I'm pretty sure I've heard of a rdm soloing it so yeah as long as you guys pay attention and don't tp feed too much shouldn't be a problem

[Churchill]

One VSmite took Omega from like 90->70% when it went 2 legs. The only thing I can see as problematic is he still takes reduced damage when in 4 legs and hate reset moves etc. He still gets super spammy under 25% but if you aren't trying to farm pods then it should be cake.

[Eldelphia]

Group 1 merits on WHM? I've had it set to cure cast 5/5 and barspell 5/5 on my main char for the longest time, but now that I'm leveling my dual-box curebot, just wondering if I should go a different route?

You're good sticking to the same.

[Draylo]

Anyone have any modern low-man (3-4) Proto-Omega strats? Farmed up a popset, and wanna get me some Homams.

Available jobs per player (From best geared/played to least)

BLU/WHM/BLM/PLD/RDM
BLM/MNK/WAR/RDM/WHM
NIN/THF/BLU
DNC/THF/BRD

Mule: RDM

I've duoed it BLU + RDM, NIN has soloed it. BLU can stun lock it, literally. You can't stun the pods, they always pop even if you stun as the ws is going.

[seiji]

(old quote from previous thread)

So, I used latent checker to check my spear of trials, I was @244 so I decided I would use it on drg to proc raiden and get points. A week later, I re checked it and I have the same amount of points. Is there something wrong with the latent checker or was I doing something wrong to get points? lol

idk if it same for "weapons of trial" but magian WS doesnt count on aby NM (had no msg when trying to trig with magian weapon)


what s the longer pause you can put in windower macro? (for afk testing hasso zanshin if it comes with today update)

[ccf]

What he means is does the 25% bonus have a scaled effect on the critical rates for those weapon skills or are the critical rates only effected at 100%/200%/300%?

Good question, as i recall from previous post about choices for GAX tp bonus +100 vs GAX ws damage +10% on raging rush, people seem to think WS damge +10 % is better, so I doubt the tp bonus is worth it. (Also why martial GAX was never good to use for rush i guess..people always use it for steel cyclone)

All this makes me wonder if extra 100tp on rush really does anything lol, chance of crit hit depends on tp it says, but it never seem to make enough difference..

Either the difference is small, or something is odd about it.

Anyhow returning to the question, i think tp bonus +25 is really marginal anyway.

[Axiseleven]

Any links to an up to date skillchain chart with emp ws included?

[ccf]

Just wondering , what's the best WS to brew isegbind? Does catalysm work well on him? Been told sanguine blade is good, so wondering if cata works well on multiples?

[transmit]

Two questions!

1. Having recently returned to the game nearly all the new spells i use come up as "Unknown Spell" on recast, and when I have 4-5 of these on the screen it's just no use to me at all. Is there an updated version of recast?

2. Whats the most common layout for BLU merit 2 nowadays?

[Shiyo]

We always do stuff with 2-6 people. I can't think of any time where I thought "damn, I wish our whm was /blm so they could maybe stun sometimes if they weren't already in the middle of casting something important like a cure". There are hardly any mobs you would want stun for, and most of them you are there to grellow anyways so you have a blm to stun. If you *need* stun, whm/blm is iffy and if you have 3 people you are better off having the third person be /blm.

So yeah, it really is only useful if you are duoing and need stun (not "duh I'll stun an aga once in a while", but actually needing stun). And /sch absolutely does make or break whm when doing stuff with a group of 6, or doing anything outside abyssea. Unless you like making the trigger people stand there and watch because you can't handle the tp spam and have to kill slow.

I find WHM/BLM better than WHM/RDM simply because the only use for /rdm is dispel, stun is always awesome and nice to have. WHM/SCH is still the best though, but pretty pointless inside abyssea. You could pretty much WHM/no sub and do fine inside abyssea..........