Random Question Thread XXIII: Neun und Neunzig Luft RQs

[Darkmagi]

Blade: To or sanguine blade for nin brew on apademak? Not sure if not having tp bonus weapons will make blade:to a bad choice or not.

[Fwahm]

Whats the minimum to kill AV? I know he is a joke now, but I don't want to be over confident and lose the pop.

12 players with well geared DDs can usually take him out.

However, AV can still occasionally screw a full alliance with particular bad luck if he benedictions right before dying, leaving him in bracelets mode, with Perfect Defense wearing.

He's easy to hold though, and two hours can be replenished with Wild Card, so just have someone hold him, and try again.

[Kamil]

Blade: To or sanguine blade for nin brew on apademak? Not sure if not having tp bonus weapons will make blade:to a bad choice or not.

I could 2shot them with Sanguine on NIN.

Innin, mab gear, MKD head with wsd+2%, ascetic's gambir.

Ultimate, Cosmos, Banisher

I've seen Blade: To have some spike damage, but it's too inconsistent in my opinion.

[Eldelphia]

Does getting red proc on abyssean VNMs increase chance of abyssite upgrading?

People say No to this but I've gotten very lucky when getting red procs. It's probably random but my experience is on the positive end.

[Kurp]

What light numbers should I aim for if I'm farming for AF feet?

[Gokulo]

What light numbers should I aim for if I'm farming for AF feet?

There's really no good number for that, RNG is RNG > you either go for lower amber, meaning less chests but no KIs and stuff in them, or the other way.

[Gustave]

People say No to this but I've gotten very lucky when getting red procs. It's probably random but my experience is on the positive end.

Is there any discussion or data on this? I just finished up 75 souls and this is what I've seen. Tier1->2 Vision areas are 10%. Hereo's Tier2->3 is 20% maybe 25%. I have logs saved for the past 2-3 weeks of upgrading if there was a quick way to pull the data.


What really erks me is the 3 times I went 100-120 minutes without an upgrade my first kill after zoning upgraded.

[Churchill]

If I went on a bad streak of no upgrades, I would always zone. Especially on T2->T3, worked every time within 1-2 kills. inb4eyeballin' it. There were streaks where I'd not gotten a T3 upgrade in 10+ kill multiple times, zoning always worked.

[Gokulo]

Totally random, but go to the Playonline site and check the screenshot of the week, lol.

[Byrthnoth]

Is there any discussion or data on this? I just finished up 75 souls and this is what I've seen. Tier1->2 Vision areas are 10%. Hereo's Tier2->3 is 20% maybe 25%. I have logs saved for the past 2-3 weeks of upgrading if there was a quick way to pull the data.


What really erks me is the 3 times I went 100-120 minutes without an upgrade my first kill after zoning upgraded.

If you use a GREP search tool on your logs, you can pull out the number of "____ defeats Chione." versus "_____ defeats Ogopogo" or the upgrade message.

[Ratatapa]

Are dancer pretty good dd and useful?

Is there any guide on what type of gear and stats to use outside of wiki

Thx

[NynJa]

Soooo I'm having the same issues that Rata is talking about, and on top of being almost impossible to connect, Lower Jeuno is a dead zone for me and thats where I am.

How do I resolve dead zone issues? Have someone move my char and dont go there?

[Gustave]

If you use a GREP search tool on your logs, you can pull out the number of "____ defeats Chione." versus "_____ defeats Ogopogo" or the upgrade message.

I pull the numbers then.

[wop]

How many Isgebind can you brew with Wildfire?

[Byrthnoth]

Are dancer pretty good dd and useful?

Is there any guide on what type of gear and stats to use outside of wiki

Thx

Dancer is a great sub job, but you're going to get more versatility out of NIN than it. This is the default Dancer guide.

[Gustave]

Tier 1 -> 2 Upgrades

Hungerer 21/170

Meanderer 26/271

Meditator 0/33

47/474 overall.

10% is a good guess.

[GImpers]

How do i set windower background resolution to 2x normal resolution? What other settings should i use to make it look better?

I tried these settings (cut and paste into my launcher.ini file), but, windower gave me an error when I tried to launch it.

bump

[arshesney]

This is my launcher.ini

#Windower Console Key
console-key = insert
 
#PlayOnlineViewer Language (JP, US, or EU)
language = EU
 
#Final Fantasy XI window resolution
x-resolution = 1360
y-resolution = 768
#------------Registry Settings For GUI Launcher-------
#all commands for gui must start with #
#commands prefixed with / will be ignored
#background-x = 1360 <- CHANGE THIS
#background-y = 768 <- CHANGE THIS
#enviro-animation = 2
#texture-compression = 2
#mipmaps = 4
#maxsounds = 32
#bumpmapping
#soundenabled
#hardwaremouse
#advancedsettings

Just tweak the settings I marked down and the region if you need

[Gustave]

Would this change to log directory for each Windower instance or both that are open?

<register event="login_gustavve">logger logdir /windower/logs/gustavve </register>

[lolwut]

Thank you, but that's someone asking for some improvements, even I can see that's not a fully complete set for either situations.

I was hoping for some perfect TP/WS builds for 5-hit etc, just something to heard towards Ya Know?

If you have perfect support, 5-hit isn't ideal, 6-hit is. I have a pocket Brd/Whm, so I tend to default to 6 hit. The corrections for it were pretty much entirely addressed in the responses, but I'll post my sets to make it easier.

6 hit: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/229759 add augmented (da + stp) Armadaberk.

5 hit: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/37972 add augmented (da + stp) Armadaberk.

WS: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/190886 Hands are augmented with crit damage +4, perfect legs are crit +3 ws dmg +2 (which I've sadly yet to get in over 860 trades), moonshade is tp bonus + atk. Adjust stp as needed to keep the 5 hit.

As you can see, you give up a lot of extra ooomph for the 5 hit, and have a higher risk of over tping and wasting the swing at higher haste values in addition to the extra ja delay slowing down your output. I think that 5 hit set may require Carbonara, but it's been so long since I've used it that I don't really remember. You also have the option of using a regain Moonshade for the 5 hit, but then you lose a powerful earring for ws on War and other jobs, which I don't personally recommend.