Random Question Thread XXIII: Neun und Neunzig Luft RQs

[Scrooge]

Yes, you'll have it counted.

[Souj]

With all the server combinations and deletions, what happened to the Shiva server?

[Atoreis]

If you plan on really getting back into the game during Abyssea, then please please please heed this advice: Concentrate on Abyssites, Atmas, and Zone Boss wins before you even start thinking about gear!!! Until you have those Atma/Abyssites, you are effectively useless inside Abyssea! Seriously, Atmas are worth more than any possible set of gear you can get (Well, for your jobs. An argument could be made for Haste gear for a Melee, barely).

Specifically, with your jobs, you want to get Atma of the Minikin Monstrosity (MM) as soon as possible, followed by Atma of the Beyond. Make sure to go to the Atma Fabricant in all zones and get any and all Synthetic Atmas that they offer you. If you've ever killed Proto-Ultima, then you'll have Atma of the Ultimate, which, combined with the above 2 Atmas, is the best set for BLM. If you insist on playing RDM, then you might want Atma of Allure. If you finish the Add-on A Shantotto Acession, then you'll have access to Atma of Ambition, which is a good 3rd Atma for healing.

As far as Abyssites, they're all useful, but the ones you want to prioritize are Abyssites of Celerity to accelerate your stone accumulation (Unless you started Stone generation a long ass time ago and have like 200+ Stones, then you can hold off on this one for a bit). Next most important are Abyssites of Merit which give 10%HP/5%MP per Abyssite (of which there are 6, 2 of them bought, I believe). Third in line are Abyssites of Furtherance which will increase your cruor stat buffs by +10 (3 of these, 1 of which is bought).

Now on my current server, there aren't very many shouts for this stuff these days as most people already have it done, but keep your eye out for them, and try to get an LS or group of friends that will help you bust this stuff out. Pretty much everything I've listed can be easily duo'd by people who already have the above Atmas/Abyssites, and who aren't retards.. If you just go in saying "Herp Derp, I read on BG that all of this can be duo'd" and you try to be that 2nd person, you will likely die. When BGers say anything in Abyssea can be duo'd, they assume the people already have Atma/Abyssite (and usually good gear and/or Empy).

Note also that XP is retardedly easy to get in Abyssea, which means that, not only will you level your current jobs insanely fast, but that nothing is stopping you from taking other jobs straight to 90 within a day or 2. You might wanna think about leveling one of the following solely for getting shit done in Abyssea: WHM, MNK, WAR, NIN, THF, and maybe even BLU if you want to have an easier time solo AOE farming stuff.

I wonder who first brought this up. I heard it many times and it's more stupid then saying 85 empy can be done in 2 days. Yes it can but its very very far away from avarage. to mae 30->90 in abyssea in day or two you need one of this
a) a friend/friends who will burn you with AoE for like 8h/day ( or maybe more )
b) you have several hundred k of cruor to burn on stones and luck to get into good abyssea party that will not brake after couple of hours when you will finally start getting capped exp. If he is new he probably have no cruor and wont have enough for a while.
If you have already said him that ppl on BG that says "most of things can be duo" mean 2 very good equipped ppl on right jobs with right atmas you can also tell him specific of getting 90 lvl in 1-2days avg lol.

[Scrooge]

I'm under the impression the Shiva server is still alive.

According to wiki, the Alexander server was merged into it if you were curious.

[Souj]

Ah. Thanks.
Do people still do ZNM? I think I remember being only 1 Gotoh Zha away from a Tinnin pop item. I think I remember wanting Oracle set items lol

[Sylvrdragon]

I wonder who first brought this up. I heard it many times and it's more stupid then saying 85 empy can be done in 2 days. Yes it can but its very very far away from avarage. to mae 30->90 in abyssea in day or two you need one of this
a) a friend/friends who will burn you with AoE for like 8h/day ( or maybe more )
b) you have several hundred k of cruor to burn on stones and luck to get into good abyssea party that will not brake after couple of hours when you will finally start getting capped exp. If he is new he probably have no cruor and wont have enough for a while.
If you have already said him that ppl on BG that says "most of things can be duo" mean 2 very good equipped ppl on right jobs with right atmas you can also tell him specific of getting 90 lvl in 1-2days avg lol.

I don't know about your server, but on mine, there is almost always shouts for FC PTs for ~100k gil/hr (First hour usually free) typically for 5-7 hours straight. I've taken a few jobs from ~30-49 straight to 90 in 1-2 of these FCs. The best part is that you make enough Cruor that you can convert it Chocobo Blinkers and either break even, or sometimes profit slightly. Granted, this is assuming the people running the FC don't suck horribly and are actually using WARs instead of BLUs (Since the 8 mob's worth of XP per action mechanic).

[Aihree]

For the purpose of Wildfire under Brew as COR, what should be focused on gearwise?

Searching seems to show wildly contradictory viewpoints. ("Don't worry about MAB, MAB is capped by brew." "Forget stats under brew, you won't get anything from adding on to 999")

The only constants seem to be AMK hat (wsdmg +2%) and af3+2 feet for the static +20% dmg boost from fire shot - both of which make very good sense. But beyond those two, what is the current frame of mind as to what a person should gear towards for use of Wildfire under brew?

[Souj]

So here's another question;
Why does SE make it so hard for me to give them my money?
I'm trying to find a place to buy/download the 3 Abyssea expansions, but the only thing I can find is the Ultimate collection, which would be great if I didn't only just need the 3 Abyssea.

[Sylvrdragon]

So here's another question;
Why does SE make it so hard for me to give them my money?
I'm trying to find a place to buy/download the 3 Abyssea expansions, but the only thing I can find is the Ultimate collection, which would be great if I didn't only just need the 3 Abyssea.

Doesn't the Ultimate Collection only cost like $10 these days? As they came out, the Abyssea expansions were $10 each anyway, so even though you're getting a ton of stuff you don't need, it's still cheaper. Just consider all that extra stuff to be free, cause it basically is.

[Gokulo]

I think it's 20$/Euro but that's still cheaper than buying all 3 abyssea expansions.

[Cleverness]

For the purpose of Wildfire under Brew as COR, what should be focused on gearwise?

Searching seems to show wildly contradictory viewpoints. ("Don't worry about MAB, MAB is capped by brew." "Forget stats under brew, you won't get anything from adding on to 999")

The only constants seem to be AMK hat (wsdmg +2%) and af3+2 feet for the static +20% dmg boost from fire shot - both of which make very good sense. But beyond those two, what is the current frame of mind as to what a person should gear towards for use of Wildfire under brew?

From my understanding stats dont help while brewing since they cap, better off focusing on MAB everywhere possible for wildfire brewing since while you do get a MAB boost from a brew, more MAB does work. Get some MAB rings from Tahrongi, MAB earrings, denali pants off the top of my head.

[dasva]

While MAB does help brewed it's not likely to make any real difference unless in large amounts from like drinks and shit. So wouldn't focus on it too much. Not sure I'd even bother with the boots since in the time it takes you to do that shot first and ws you could've just done 2 ws. Nothing should take more than 2 wildfires brewed with the right atmas.

Gear that will make a noticeable difference: Mke hat like said. Vulcan staff duh. obi if fire day/weather. Um that's really it. ws gorget/belt kinda. Not as big though. Like 1% per one.

And the reason I say the MAB gear wont make much of a difference is because lets say you have 0 MAB gear/traits vs say +100. Pretty big difference and normally that would double your dmg. In this case however that only gives you 10% increase in dmg. And you definitely wont get 100 mab in gear lol. Plus your brewing your dmg is so large that unless you were borderline on not killing them with 1 shot adding that little bit extra wont do it. And even then being nms in abyssea they take different amounts of dmg each time you fight them so even then you wouldn't be consistently losing a ws. It's actually why I prefer rng vs cor wildfire since the dmgs are so close and well Th goooooo

[Atoreis]

I don't know about your server, but on mine, there is almost always shouts for FC PTs for ~100k gil/hr (First hour usually free) typically for 5-7 hours straight. I've taken a few jobs from ~30-49 straight to 90 in 1-2 of these FCs. The best part is that you make enough Cruor that you can convert it Chocobo Blinkers and either break even, or sometimes profit slightly. Granted, this is assuming the people running the FC don't suck horribly and are actually using WARs instead of BLUs (Since the 8 mob's worth of XP per action mechanic).

Personally I have never seen shout like this yet on bahamut. Unless it was made from JP's bushes and I couldn't understand.

[dasva]

Personally I have never seen shout like this yet on bahamut. Unless it was made from JP's bushes and I couldn't understand.

Yeah me neither. I'd take it in an instant if I saw one but nothing. Hey Ato you should do this while you KI farm lol

[Atoreis]

While MAB does help brewed it's not likely to make any real difference unless in large amounts from like drinks and shit. So wouldn't focus on it too much. Not sure I'd even bother with the boots since in the time it takes you to do that shot first and ws you could've just done 2 ws. Nothing should take more than 2 wildfires brewed with the right atmas.

Gear that will make a noticeable difference: Mke hat like said. Vulcan staff duh. obi if fire day/weather. Um that's really it. ws gorget/belt kinda. Not as big though. Like 1% per one.

And the reason I say the MAB gear wont make much of a difference is because lets say you have 0 MAB gear/traits vs say +100. Pretty big difference and normally that would double your dmg. In this case however that only gives you 10% increase in dmg. And you definitely wont get 100 mab in gear lol. Plus your brewing your dmg is so large that unless you were borderline on not killing them with 1 shot adding that little bit extra wont do it. And even then being nms in abyssea they take different amounts of dmg each time you fight them so even then you wouldn't be consistently losing a ws. It's actually why I prefer rng vs cor wildfire since the dmgs are so close and well Th goooooo

You can WS -> Fire shot -> WS tho. I don't think you will get TP for 2nd WS faster than you will be done with fire shot and ready to WS. Ofc that's only if you need the extra damage because like you said you can probably 2 shot everything.

[dasva]

You can WS -> Fire shot -> WS tho. I don't think you will get TP for 2nd WS faster than you will be done with fire shot and ready to WS. Ofc that's only if you need the extra damage because like you said you can probably 2 shot everything.

You could do that. But have you ever seen anything take more than 2 wildfires from a cor/rng with the right atmas? I haven't. I mean the dmg is huge then the skillchain lol. Hell I once killed shinryu with 2 when the first one full healed him lol. That being said the screenshot of the ws fire shot ws would be some serious epeen.

Oh and side note. After this update /sch does get firestorm

[Taera]

What are the best atmas for Cataclysm on BLM?

[Neisan]

Cosmos/Banisher/Smiting Blow iirc.

[Churchill]

People don't cleave on Bahamut? brb need to change servers and make bank

[Yubar]

How do I change my method of payment from Clickandbuy to Paypal?