Random Question Thread XXIII: Neun und Neunzig Luft RQs

[Alkimi]

looking to farm some Deluder's Fortune Parchment to pop velo for a friend's trial. Ran around for a bit and ran into the T-VT hydra's....which didn't end very well. Can I get an approx pos of the easier hydra to farm for the parchment?

please and thanks~

The easier hydras are all on the lower levels (towards Fei'Yin). Think they're around the towers where the attestation mobs are popped.

[Neviskio]

Considering I had a bit of a pause on ffxi and didn't really really cap on every merit ever, I'm having to do a choice on combat skills:

I'm at
8/8 h2h
8/8 sword
4/4 evasion
and 12 points free.

I'm thinking I don't really have another job I really use (I got mnk 90 main, 90 blu secondary, 90 sam 90 nin and 83 pup for now at reasonable lvls) so I really don't know what those could go with.I was thinking either 8/8 and 4/8 on something random, or 8/8 a weapon and 4/4 parrying.

what you suggest? I don't really plan to use other jobs that much, I do plan to lvl as many as I can though so, any must haves in case? I also thought about shield but I didn't even unlock pld for now so it might just not be worth it...even though I plan to get that at 90 somewhere in the future...

[Orcai]

Considering I had a bit of a pause on ffxi and didn't really really cap on every merit ever, I'm having to do a choice on combat skills:

I'm at
8/8 h2h
8/8 sword
4/4 evasion
and 12 points free.

I'm thinking I don't really have another job I really use (I got mnk 90 main, 90 blu secondary, 90 sam 90 nin and 83 pup for now at reasonable lvls) so I really don't know what those could go with.I was thinking either 8/8 and 4/8 on something random, or 8/8 a weapon and 4/4 parrying.

what you suggest? I don't really plan to use other jobs that much, I do plan to lvl as many as I can though so, any must haves in case? I also thought about shield but I didn't even unlock pld for now so it might just not be worth it...even though I plan to get that at 90 somewhere in the future...

8 staff, 4 parry. your nin will thank me later

[Limlight]

looking to farm some Deluder's Fortune Parchment to pop velo for a friend's trial. Ran around for a bit and ran into the T-VT hydra's....which didn't end very well. Can I get an approx pos of the easier hydra to farm for the parchment?

please and thanks~

was hoping for some more specific info. I was around where you spawn velo and there were only orcs there. The EP fomor's i found were everything but the 3 that drop his pop item too as I ran around.

[Radec]

was hoping for some more specific info. I was around where you spawn velo and there were only orcs there. The EP fomor's i found were everything but the 3 that drop his pop item too as I ran around.

Not sure on job distribution, but the EP fomor are where Yag Statue used to be, S of the ramp between old orc/quad levels, and in the entire area towards battalia. Likely be some as well near shield/sword NM tower.

[Fereydoon]

I have a thief mule I don't always bring to events. I also have a woodworking mule and spam shihei like it's the best thing ever. Is there somewhere I can park thief mule during events or while I'm fishing on main to kill low-level wind elementals for clusters? Somewhere I don't have to pay attention that closely? I've tried Maze(tab) the last couple days, and the rate on wind weather is pretty bad. Yes, I'm aware I could probably just leech cruor by bringing mule to events > chocobo blinkers > buy crystals and come out ahead on a gil/hour ratio.

Basically is there a wind crystal haven I'm unaware of. And for the first time in over a year, I miss colibri.

/bst or /rng and Buburimu? Sky is the obvious place, but the elementals would take more time to kill and you'd have to pay some attention.

http://ff11info.com/bazaar/en/weather.php See the forecast ahead of time, plan accordingly.

[arshesney]

Stupid question, but I just came back after a long break. Does blue magic skill effect learn rates on spells?

Skill level determines what spells you can or can't learn; I don't think anybody ever tested whether or not it also affects the chance to actually learn the spell.
I just lock af hands in and pray the RNG God

[Buffy]

Skill level determines what spells you can or can't learn; I don't think anybody ever tested whether or not it also affects the chance to actually learn the spell.
I just lock af hands in and pray the RNG God

Spent like 7 minutes trying to figure out what Ranger had to do with Blu.

Nothing to see here, carry on....

[DNAval]

People have been asking how to manipulate 2 characters init.txt on windower, like having 2 LL scripts 1 for mule 1 for main. So today while day dreaming i thought of something, maybe you guys can tell me if it would work or not.

If you have 2 hard drives or just 2 partitions couldn't you just install 1 windower on each, set 2 short cuts on Desktop, each folder of windower would contain their own separate scripts and such. Obviously they are both gonna link to the same FFXI installation but will have independent Init.txt files.

Could this work or should i just stick to day dreaming?

[Loire]

People have been asking how to manipulate 2 characters init.txt on windower, like having 2 LL scripts 1 for mule 1 for main. So today while day dreaming i thought of something, maybe you guys can tell me if it would work or not.

If you have 2 hard drives or just 2 partitions couldn't you just install 1 windower on each, set 2 short cuts on Desktop, each folder of windower would contain their own separate scripts and such. Obviously they are both gonna link to the same FFXI installation but will have independent Init.txt files.

Could this work or should i just stick to day dreaming?

it works, doesn't need to be separate harddrives either. Only thing you run into is that the game will still pull from the same log file which will be shared. Only other option is to sandbox it with XI-utils

Quick edit here and thought I'd re-ask since I didn't receive a response before. Does anyone know if the older version of lightluggage, the one that lets you lot items while dead, still viably works and if anyone has it available for use. Getting really irked with seeing an item get pushed out without a lot when I am multibrewing/martellolocked.

[Seeko]

I have a thief mule I don't always bring to events. I also have a woodworking mule and spam shihei like it's the best thing ever. Is there somewhere I can park thief mule during events or while I'm fishing on main to kill low-level wind elementals for clusters? Somewhere I don't have to pay attention that closely? I've tried Maze(tab) the last couple days, and the rate on wind weather is pretty bad. Yes, I'm aware I could probably just leech cruor by bringing mule to events > chocobo blinkers > buy crystals and come out ahead on a gil/hour ratio.

Basically is there a wind crystal haven I'm unaware of. And for the first time in over a year, I miss colibri.

I remember La Thiene as being decent a long time ago when I farmed clusters for crafting. It switches between water and wind weather, wind elementals pop around the crevices just North of the crag.

Someone else mentioned bubu. Seems I recall seeing that they have wind more often than not. After checking the history, I see that La Thiene is a mix of water and wind, where bubu is almost always wind. I'd recommend bubu in that case. Either way, http://ff11info.com/bazaar/en/weather.php is a fabulous resource for anything having to do with weather.

[Churchill]

EP Hydra's are near the BLM/BRD/WHM Attestation ???

[ferigor]

So I quit playing 2 years ago and sold my character. Today I get 2 e-mails from SE to my work e-mail and I'm not sure what they are for. Could anybody shed a little light for me? Here's the e-mails, sorry I don't have any language packs installed. Thanks for the help.

[Byrthnoth]

They never changed the contact e-mail address on the account, so now you're getting e-mails when they get charged every month.

[ferigor]

They never changed the contact e-mail address on the account, so now you're getting e-mails when they get charged every month.

That was kind of my assumption, I just got weirded out since this is the first time it's happened since I sold the character. Thanks for the response Byrthnoth.

[Radec]

EP Hydra's are near the BLM/BRD/WHM Attestation ???

These are VT, everything on the outpost level and above is VT.

[Khory]

Is any of the armors that are traded for Battle Trophies worth anything?

[cdgreg]

Is any of the armors that are traded for Battle Trophies worth anything?

There is a body that can augment cure potency beyond the 12% found on aristocrat's.

edit: facio bliaut whm/smn

[Radec]

Is any of the armors that are traded for Battle Trophies worth anything?

Strong EVA/NTE pants for NIN
STR Feet for BLU
Haste legs for DRG
CurePotency for WHM|SMN but given:

Heka's Kalasiris Rare Exclusive
Body
DEF:51 MND+17 "Cure" potency +15%
"Cure" spellcasting time -15%
Adds "Refresh" effect
Sphere: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
Set: Adds improved "Refresh" effect
Lv95 WHM BLM RDM BRD SMN PUP SCH
or
Nefer Kalasiris +1
Body
DEF:50 MND+16 "Cure" potency +12%
"Cure" spellcasting time -12%
Set: Adds "Refresh" effect
Lv95 WHM BLM RDM BRD SMN PUP SCH

from upcoming update I wouldn't put a ton of effort into a Facio, esp if you have/use rdm and sch often.

[dasva]

rng body can get 5 snapshot