Random Question Thread XXIII: Neun und Neunzig Luft RQs

[Alvein]

You can get 5 new cards every conquest tally per character. The NPC doesn't care if you've finished the quest or not. All you need to have is enough Jeuno fame to flag the quest I believe. I do it every tally now and bazaar the cards. They really add up if you have a few characters.

[Zerk]

I remember reading somewhere they were changing the prerequisite quest for the Sleepga II quest. Tarot Cards(when you have to collect the 5 different cards).
Something like giving you a new card every so often, instead of just the 1 set and only that.

Am I making this up? I'm starting to knock all the prereqs out of the way atm

I'm pretty sure they already implemented this, i think you're supposed to be able to get a new card after each conquest. If it wasn't implemented already then it should be next update.(?)

[noodles355]

What's Flash Nova like as a Brew WS? I know I tried seraph strike on Turul (no brew atmas tho, was more of a "fuck you dragon, go away") and it was terrible (like 1k). Think best atmas I could manage are beyond/baying moon/smiting blow. This is for my mule, deciding whether to keep it's cruor for im-lazy-so-ill-brew-it fights or just chocobo blinker it away.

Oh also, only fought pantokrator a few times and was just tagging along already-farmed run by ppl in ls to leech a torero torque. Was martello brewed. Do most people just brew him or is he manageable enough to kill normally pretty easilly? Probably set up would be Vere Mnk, Whm, whm (2box mule) and war (KI farm) > thf (pop).

[Rasantath]

What's Flash Nova like as a Brew WS? I know I tried seraph strike on Turul (no brew atmas tho, was more of a "fuck you dragon, go away") and it was terrible (like 1k). Think best atmas I could manage are beyond/baying moon/smiting blow. This is for my mule, deciding whether to keep it's cruor for im-lazy-so-ill-brew-it fights or just chocobo blinker it away.

i was doing 10k to Bukhis on my whm mule with minikin/ambition/rescuer (i needed to cure more than i needed to brew for omgwtfbbq dmg)
earth crusher was doing much less, i believe 3-5k
so yeah its not too shabby.

[Flic]

Mnk + thf + 2x whm is plenty, drag down alley so can use height advantage for whms (floodlight has huge range). A decent pdt set helps during hundred fists and we just use fools powder during chainspell. Ideally you dont heal it so it dosent 2 hour but easyier said than done.

[Alkimi]

Easy enough without brew but ideally wait til 2-legs if you're going to brew him. On 4-legs if you make him chainspell it's pretty much 45 seconds worth wasted.

[Diddy Kong]

What's the formula for magic defense bonus?

Like if I have 0 and I add 5, would it be 100/105? With 100 being mob's magic attack bonus at 0?

[noodles355]

Cheers, doesn't sound too bad at all, I know the mnk is a good player (and the whm too tbh).

[Buffy]

Looking for a good zone/mob outside abyssea to cap marksmenship 225>335 on cor. Bonus points if whm mule can melee and close SC for retribution WSNM points. If someone knows of a great camp in Abyssea, willing to do that, simply don't want to zone for time is all.

[StateofMind]

Sorry for repeating a a subject that I'm sure gets run into the ground, but can anyone simply provide me with a link to a good/your favorite Spellcast guide?

There are just so many places to look and I haven't been able to find a good starting point. Preferably one that assumes programming knowledge, but no XML.

Best case scenario for me would be being able to look at some code and having visual explanations of the syntax. I can look at an XML file and have a really good idea of what's going on, but if I open my own and try to start from scratch I don't even know where to start. I'm familiar with structural and object-oriented stuff- I don't know XML at all and I'm definitely still a beginner with HTML and PHP.

[Buffy]

Sorry for repeating a a subject that I'm sure gets run into the ground, but can anyone simply provide me with a link to a good/your favorite Spellcast guide?

There are just so many places to look and I haven't been able to find a good starting point. Preferably one that assumes programming knowledge, but no XML.

Best case scenario for me would be being able to look at some code and having visual explanations of the syntax. I can look at an XML file and have a really good idea of what's going on, but if I open my own and try to start from scratch I don't even know where to start. I'm familiar with structural and object-oriented stuff- I don't know XML at all and I'm definitely still a beginner with HTML and PHP.

Radec and Yugl are both very strong on these topcs on this forum. I assume you've checked the spellcast starter thread on windower.net?

[dasva]

You can get 5 new cards every conquest tally per character. The NPC doesn't care if you've finished the quest or not. All you need to have is enough Jeuno fame to flag the quest I believe. I do it every tally now and bazaar the cards. They really add up if you have a few characters.

People really buy them that much? I mean thought they quest didn't really have much point...

[dasva]

What's the formula for magic defense bonus?

Like if I have 0 and I add 5, would it be 100/105? With 100 being mob's magic attack bonus at 0?

Yes that is it exactly

[dasva]

What's Flash Nova like as a Brew WS? I know I tried seraph strike on Turul (no brew atmas tho, was more of a "fuck you dragon, go away") and it was terrible (like 1k). Think best atmas I could manage are beyond/baying moon/smiting blow. This is for my mule, deciding whether to keep it's cruor for im-lazy-so-ill-brew-it fights or just chocobo blinker it away.

Oh also, only fought pantokrator a few times and was just tagging along already-farmed run by ppl in ls to leech a torero torque. Was martello brewed. Do most people just brew him or is he manageable enough to kill normally pretty easilly? Probably set up would be Vere Mnk, Whm, whm (2box mule) and war (KI farm) > thf (pop).

If you actually atma it properly it's Ok. iirc around AE dmg. That being said whm gets better brew ws.

Pant is actually pretty easy as long as you make sure not to heal him and thereby not trigger his 2hrs. Chainspell in particular can be nasty. I've seen a whm and ver mnk do pretty much all the real work killing him before.

[Foldypaws]

What's the formula for magic defense bonus?

Like if I have 0 and I add 5, would it be 100/105? With 100 being mob's magic attack bonus at 0?

(100+MAB)/(100+MBD) is the damage multiplier, yes. So a mob with no MAB would do just about 95.2% of it's normal damage to you when you added 5 MDB.

Edit: already answered, oh well.

[Kurp]

People really buy them that much? I mean thought they quest didn't really have much point...

I get 100k per tally off the 5 cards pretty easily. For someone like me that started from scratch recently, it's definitely welcomed money.

The quest itself doesn't have a real reward, but you need it completed to quest Sleepga II which sells for over 1 mil on my server.

[Selamis]

Am I just not seeing it on the SE ID Account Management Page, or is there no option on there to change login info for POL? Or is this something that doesn't show up until you transfer your account over from POL? If this is the case, do you just still change it directly from the POL viewer?

[Buffy]

Am I just not seeing it on the SE ID Account Management Page, or is there no option on there to change login info for POL? Or is this something that doesn't show up until you transfer your account over from POL? If this is the case, do you just still change it directly from the POL viewer?

You can change it on your SE account after your transfer is finished.

[clobetasol]

i should of been more clearer in the question, sorry about that. what i meant was, should i be using vulcans staff /war or /sam for gandiva/annihilator or are there better options now?

[Chun Liroy]

Doesn't high fTP weaponskills benefit less from gorgets than low fTP WS? (1>1.1fTP is a 10% increase, 2>2.1 is a 5% increase). I've seen some people post how 9 vit < gorget on torcleaver. How would anguinus rank as well?

Apparently no one knows anything about drk. ~.~