Random Question Thread XXII: You Know the Deal

[Taint]

Could someone with experience brewing Apademak with Wildfire tell me how many pops I can expect to get through with each brew?

Do you two-shot him or does it usually take three shots? Also, is it worth the time it takes to Fire Shot when brewing?

Never used Wildfire but I've read 12 on this forum before.

Sanguine blade works great as well, I've done 7 with one brew and wouldn't be surprised if people do 8 with better setups. Sanguine does 45% per WS, unfortunately is a 3 shot.

[Aihree]

Any tips or zone recommendations for Limbus solo if I'm just after NIN items? Don't care about win etc, just want to upgrade feet.

I'm told Temenos - Northern Tower is a good one to try, what about Apollyon?

I can go BLM/THF/SMN/BLU/NIN, cheers.

Apolly SE is the time honored tradition for solo nins to get their other half.

[gaira]

anyone able to find/pop t2 vnms in ule or altepa? can only locate t1s with my colorful even though it shows faint light, and checked whole zone including pop area and wandering paths.

[Kidnoftle]

How do you go about doing this? My RDM/NIN has both -50% PDT/MDT sets. I assume a number of these can be straight tanked, but I'm trying to decide which atma sets to go. Minikin seems like a good idea no matter what, infinite MP is tough to beat.

Can you exceed the PDT/MDT caps by throwing on Heavens atma or anything similar? Or should I just stick two heavy melee damage atmas in the other slots to speed things up a bit?

Not going to give individual strats because they should be pretty self evident, but I will say almost all of those can be kited easily with the exception of bukhis (which is the "hardest" of those mentioned, it's basically luck if you win since any combo of bad spells/ws will fuck you). If you do have alm I'd just 2x melee atma and MM and make sure you have meds for most of those mobs. If your quick about going through you're procs most of these mobs are super fucking squishy and will die incredibly fast. Atma counts towards gear caps normally so I doubt you could break the 50 caps with atmas.

[Radec]

anyone able to find/pop t2 vnms in ule or altepa? can only locate t1s with my colorful even though it shows faint light, and checked whole zone including pop area and wandering paths.

If you have a clear as well, you'll get faint light for T1's even though you have colorful. Destroy the clear on NPC and then look for T2's.

[Sudox]

Never used Wildfire but I've read 12 on this forum before.

Sanguine blade works great as well, I've done 7 with one brew and wouldn't be surprised if people do 8 with better setups. Sanguine does 45% per WS, unfortunately is a 3 shot.

We've managed 8 in one brew with nin/war using sanguine blade. Apad drops lucid wings every kill so if you have two people in the brewer's party set up a wing rotation you can squeeze out another Apad, possibly an extra two if wing/ws timing is executed perfectly.

[buddha_masta]

MNK/WAR or /NIN for Shinryu tanking?

[Okan]

/WAR.
He burns shadows really really quick and casts a lot of AOE spells.

Edit: And having provoke will be a great thing while waiting for Blue and Red to proc since his attacks are counted as TP.

[Churchill]

He attacks like an Ironclad

[Draylo]

Minimum to clear Dyna-Qufim win?

[Aylee]

So friend and I farm Dyna a good bit. Usualy we do 4 mobs in xarc between the rng and bst NM. Usualy walk away with about 30-40 of each coins but this camp is really crowed. Anyone know of a better camp that would be better for us and hopefully yeild higher profits? THF/dnc, NIN/dnc, WHM/rdm trio, probaly add a blu to the mix soon. Currency: 10k byne, 13k shell/bronze

[Atoreis]

So friend and I farm Dyna a good bit. Usualy we do 4 mobs in xarc between the rng and bst NM. Usualy walk away with about 30-40 of each coins but this camp is really crowed. Anyone know of a better camp that would be better for us and hopefully yeild higher profits? THF/dnc, NIN/dnc, WHM/rdm trio, probaly add a blu to the mix soon. Currency: 10k byne, 13k shell/bronze

Usually ppl that know good camps dont like to talk about just because what you just said. They will get crowded.

[urat]

Does anyone here have much experience with ffxi PvP? What kind of gear do we find works best for it? Obviously get the best piece of move speed you can, but what have we found to be more effective for killing players in ballista/brenner?

Evasion? Offense? Haste? Something else? Just curious to see if anyone actually has much knowledge on PvP tactics.

[dasva]

Did they mess with shinryu again? I know how to proc him but this time making sure all were well clean did all the possible ones 4 times and nothing...

[TacoTaru]

What are the standard tier1 and tier2 RNG merits nowadays?

[Churchill]

Did they mess with shinryu again? I know how to proc him but this time making sure all were well clean did all the possible ones 4 times and nothing...

try timing it differently, you're probably lagging

[dasva]

try timing it differently, you're probably lagging

I did try timing it differently each time thru lol.

[dasva]

What are the standard tier1 and tier2 RNG merits nowadays?

5/5 rapid and snap shot. After that it's kinda a wash really. I like recycle

[Churchill]

I did try timing it differently each time thru lol.

Meh. It's happened to my friend and I before, sucks. It's definitely due to lag though as we both run 3 chars.

[Pandorablue]

What are the weakest abyssea mobs that I could burn through for an Arcana trial? I don't think (bar Iratham) there's a single Arcana mob in the Visions zones, so I'm guessing something from Scars?