Random Question Thread XXII: You Know the Deal

[Chun Liroy]

^what he said. Otherwikifail.

Oh. well there goes getting a rose strap. SE better add something new in next update.

[Sylvrdragon]

Ranks are retarded easy to get now. It takes like 3 capped Tags to earn a rank. (~8k XP, ~4k AN is a capped tag)

[cdgreg]

Ranks are retarded easy to get now. It takes like 3 capped Tags to earn a rank. (~8k XP, ~4k AN is a capped tag)

Don't even need 3. The key to ranking up seems to be doing it immediately. When I was ranking up I'd rank up>10k exp, wait 5 days, rank up>10k exp, wait 5 days, repeat, repeat, repeat.

[Chun Liroy]

Ranks are retarded easy to get now. It takes like 3 capped Tags to earn a rank. (~8k XP, ~4k AN is a capped tag)

I'm not worried about ranking up, I'm just stupidly lazy. Takes something like 80 days to get to the rank for rose strap. So I'd get it by halloween if I started now~ Not cool.

[Radec]

So random WS question.
I did try to search on this site and via google first.

What WS stack with Tachi: Ageh to make SC's?

No charts on either BGwiki or gamerescape show the actual SC's that can be made.

Thanks!

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Skillchain

300 Tachi: Ageha Compression Scission

So it's compression if that choice is available, then scission if not. See: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Sk...ng_Skillchains for which WS open/close onto compression/scission

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Anyone who's made a str sword, care sharing their zones of choice for completing the trial?

[Sylvrdragon]

Never ever depend on Fire Weather for those trials. You will be waiting around constantly. Every mob you need to kill can be found somewhere in an Abyssea zone, so just wait for Firesday and go slaughter stuff. If you can find someone to cleave them for you (or do it yourself on BLU with the sword equipped instead of a Staff), do it.

If you HAVE to do them outside (No stones, or just trying to make progress during non-firesday), then Aquans, Beasts, and Manticores are all Cape Terrigan. Vermin and Birds are Bees and Colibri in Wajaom Woodlands for Firesday or Dragonflys and Cockatrice/Birds in Meriph [S] for Fire Weather, and Flans are obviously Mount Z.

Team up whenever you can (most groups will let you leech kills if you make it clear that you don't want anything except the kills), and use this to find weather (and weather patterns) if you can't Abyssea the shit.

[Obsidian]

I'm not worried about ranking up, I'm just stupidly lazy. Takes something like 80 days to get to the rank for rose strap. So I'd get it by halloween if I started now~ Not cool.

And if you keep putting it off it'll take even longer.

[Snprphnx]

is there a way to update either the resources or recast so that it shows all /JAs. some stuff, like innin/yonin, migawari, etc showing as unknown spell/ability

[Okan]

is there a way to update either the resources or recast so that it shows all /JAs. some stuff, like innin/yonin, migawari, etc showing as unknown spell/ability

Did you update Recast? I heard that a lot of the new abilities have been added to it already.
http://forums.windower.net/topic/193...lugins-recast/

If that didn't fix it, then I'd be interested in this too. I haven't done it yet, but I've been meaning to.

[Malacite]

I'd probably go with MNK/RDM (Phalanx, Regen, Refresh, Stoneskin), wear as much -PDT gear as possible and use Vicissitude, Stronghold and Mounted Champion. Those atma alone will give you 50hp/tick regen, 80 DEF and 50 VIT.

I think you could stay up forever against most mobs with that...

Yeah I'm struggling with it still. I tried /WAR (for defender and HP) with Ducal, Vicissitude and MC but I still end up slowly dieing. Same set up but with all Regen atma and my HP lasted significantly longer, but still ultimately ticking downward. There's just no way to keep phalanx up during a prolonged session either since they changed how Aquaveil works.

For PDT gear I got Twilight Neck (though I hate having to take off Guard Torque for that simply because Guard is so fucking fickle with it's proc rate) and a Jelly Ring. Going to see what else I can pick up that won't break the bank.

I've got Lion & Heaven's as well, so I'm wondering if those two + Mounted Champion would work best in conjunction with /RDM ?

[Okan]

Yeah I'm struggling with it still. I tried /WAR (for defender and HP) with Ducal, Vicissitude and MC but I still end up slowly dieing. Same set up but with all Regen atma and my HP lasted significantly longer, but still ultimately ticking downward. There's just no way to keep phalanx up during a prolonged session either since they changed how Aquaveil works.

For PDT gear I got Twilight Neck (though I hate having to take off Guard Torque for that simply because Guard is so fucking fickle with it's proc rate) and a Jelly Ring. Going to see what else I can pick up that won't break the bank.

I've got Lion & Heaven's as well, so I'm wondering if those two + Mounted Champion would work best in conjunction with /RDM ?

Arhat's can give you an easy 10. If you have time, you can get another PDT ring in Konschtat. However keep in mind that below 50% HP with Ducal Guard, you're not gaining any additional bonus because players cap at 50%.

[Suteru]

is there a way to update either the resources or recast so that it shows all /JAs. some stuff, like innin/yonin, migawari, etc showing as unknown spell/ability

You have to manually download the updated resources.xml from the widower site. //updateresources doesn't work.

[Okan]

You have to manually download the updated resources.xml from the widower site. //updateresources doesn't work.

Only because it took me about 30 minutes to find it:
http://wiki.windower.net/resources.xml

[Renzy]

Anyone who's made a str sword, care sharing their zones of choice for completing the trial?

Solo'd my entire STR Sword on BLU (apart from the Flans trial, which I found people to team up with), I found that the fastest way to do it is to replace Jupiter's with the sword and Charged Whisker burn through the trials. Alone you can come pretty close to 200 mobs (give or take) in one game day (with the exception of the 200 Flans trial just because they are annoying to pull due to their magic casting), but team up whenever possible to speed things up.
For my sword (entirely in Abyssea) I did Misareaux Crabs (75x Aquan), Tahrongi Coeurl (100x Beasts), Konschtat Flans (200x Flans), Attohwa Chigoes (200x Vermin), Tahrongi Manticores (250x Manticores), La Theine Birds (Birds x300).

[Nekradarken]

Yeah I'm struggling with it still. I tried /WAR (for defender and HP) with Ducal, Vicissitude and MC but I still end up slowly dieing. Same set up but with all Regen atma and my HP lasted significantly longer, but still ultimately ticking downward. There's just no way to keep phalanx up during a prolonged session either since they changed how Aquaveil works.

For PDT gear I got Twilight Neck (though I hate having to take off Guard Torque for that simply because Guard is so fucking fickle with it's proc rate) and a Jelly Ring. Going to see what else I can pick up that won't break the bank.

I've got Lion & Heaven's as well, so I'm wondering if those two + Mounted Champion would work best in conjunction with /RDM ?

My guarding skill is only 200 since my MNK dinged lvl90 last month. I afk skillup guarding skill as MNK/DNC in abyssea tahrongi with atma of MC, Vicissitude and Sea Daugther. I use relic knuckles and pdt -30 in gears. Then I set two rules in autoexec for self curing: when TP reach 300% and when my HP drop to 80-85%. Pull 6-8 mandy and try to position them in a way that only one mob is behind me. Engage that mob and go afk. You can try to pull 3-4 mobs for a start and pull more mobs once you are confident that you will not die when afking. Skillup rate is not as fast as MNK/RDM as you cannot pull too many mobs but you can go afk as MNK/DNC Using a similar method, I cap my parrying skill as SAM/DNC while afking.

[Ocara]

What's the easiest way to get a dbox mage to cast a spell on a target you want from your main window? I'm trying to set it up using autoexec, but unless I hardcode everyone's name into registers I can't think of an easy way to cast on the name of the person I send with the spell command. Does autoexec have variables or some easy way to do this?

I guess I could finagle spellcast commands into this but I was hoping there was a simple answer.

[Suteru]

What's the easiest way to get a dbox mage to cast a spell on a target you want from your main window? I'm trying to set it up using autoexec, but unless I hardcode everyone's name into registers I can't think of an easy way to cast on the name of the person I send with the spell command. Does autoexec have variables or some easy way to do this?

I guess I could finagle spellcast commands into this but I was hoping there was a simple answer.

If you do it by tells you can use <r> as the spell target. That brings up the name of the last person to send a tell. There might be a better way, though, as I have no experience with that sort of thing.

[Byrthnoth]

I use /assist or <bt>.

[Ocara]

I meant another character, sorry for the confusion. My dbox whm might need to act as healer for 2-3 people sometimes but if I'm engaged to something on mnk and I need to heal other person B how would I manage that kind of thing?