Random Question Thread XXIII: Neun und Neunzig Luft RQs

[Foxer]

Again, with another dumb question: What lights am I looking for when I'm farming for AF3 feet? When I party, I usually bring about 500+ keys and just open everything. I heard non-capped lights was the way to go for feet farming, but can anyone explain a little better please? Was 3 manning cockatrices for 3+ hrs last night and all we got was a MNK pair of feet about an hr in. After that, nothing at all.

Thanks in advanced.

[Phoenyx]

Again, with another dumb question: What lights am I looking for when I'm farming for AF3 feet? When I party, I usually bring about 500+ keys and just open everything. I heard non-capped lights was the way to go for feet farming, but can anyone explain a little better please? Was 3 manning cockatrices for 3+ hrs last night and all we got was a MNK pair of feet about an hr in. After that, nothing at all.

Thanks in advanced.

Cap Pearl for sure. Amber lights increase gold box drop and level. Specific Amber light levels aren't known for optimal feet dropping, but I'd start with 50~ish and cleave chigoes for boxes and then slowly increase Amber levels if you're not seeing feet drop in five or so pulls. Or just cap Amber from the get-go and get KIs and hope for feet. It seems to be super random and horrible at times.

[Not Kuno]

Can you skill up to 95 in the first set of abyssea zones (la thiene, etc)? I know they changed how skill up works but haven't checked up on it.

[Byrthnoth]

Can you skill up to 95 in the first set of abyssea zones (la thiene, etc)? I know they changed how skill up works but haven't checked up on it.

You can, but it'd be slower than doing it in one of the second set of Abyssea zones.

You can get skillups from things up to (7?) levels lower than you, but it's slower than if you were fighting EM mobs. The first set of Abyssea zones caps out at level 90 monsters. So it's theoretically possible to cap a 95 there, but it'd be slower than going to Abyssea - Misareaux.

[TacoTaru]

Been interested in leveling pet jobs on my two characters I have for the hell of it (SMN and BST) but I really don't know how to play them and I really don't want to be the standard orz pet job player you normally see. Does anyone have a decide guide that's still relevant, could PM with at least the sort of gear I would need?

SMN I think I understand for the most part: Unless pet burning only use avatars for BP moves to do 0 TP attacks; use buffs as necessary (i.e. Earthan Ward for high damaging moves and Carby's erase move for multi status removal). What I don't understand is the finer aspects of it like when to equip BP- gear, how you prioritize other gear.

BST I don't know anything about and just assumed you played it like a DD who has a pet and you make it use it's moves as well, but that seems too.....simple?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Innuendo]

Quite correct about bst (and don't bother with farsha, lol. Such a waste of time.) Only other considerations are having pet gear for when you want to stand back and throw your jugs at a mob, and a reward set. For the former, pet PDT/haste/DA etc. For the latter try an ffxiah power search for "Reward" and go for MND in other slots.

[Ophannus]

What do I type into my init.txt if I want PlasticSurgeon to change race before I log on?

I tried sticking this right below where the load plugins are:

/race elvaan m
/face 2a

but it didnt work. What do I need to type and where do I put it?

[TacoTaru]

Not at home to verify but I think it's:

.race elvaan m
.face 2a

Quite correct about bst (and don't bother with farsha, lol. Such a waste of time.) Only other considerations are having pet gear for when you want to stand back and throw your jugs at a mob, and a reward set. For the former, pet PDT/haste/DA etc. For the latter try an ffxiah power search for "Reward" and go for MND in other slots.

When meleeing with the pet, how do you balance pet enhancements vs. player enhancements (something like trying to balancing haste for you and pet, or all haste for you) or is there rarely a situation where you have to choose between one or the other?

[Colenzo]

anybody know what enhancing caps at on 95 pld?

[Innuendo]

Generally the best master bonus in any slot is significantly better than the best available pet bonus. The only piece I've found to be debatable myself is Agasaya's vs. Ferine necklace.
I focus purely on master gear myself, because players can get buffs and master gear will probably improve damage more overall.

[Nemesio]

Have heard rumors of cure pot +23% not working with spellcast? If this is true how can I fix it? I don't want to do it and have it break xD

[Nightfyre]

I have a few offhand katana questions:
When is kamome NOT worth using? It met its peak in usefulness back at the 85 cap (other katanas with similar delay, higher damage, etc. have been released), i.e. would an evasion sekka +3 be worth using over kamome when your evasion is uncapped so you'll be casting less often? Is oirandori worth using when you have multiple people in your party that are crit-reliant (I believe the proc was shown to be essentially +7-15% critical rate for its duration)? Is ban even worth considering? Its damage and delay seem exceptional, along with the 100% enfire proc rate, if not resisted, might be decent.
I haven't put too much thought into it yet, but I figured someone else may have.

STR Sekka +3 beats Kamome outside Abyssea now, unless of course the acc from Kamome is relevant. Ban is decent; it shouldn't be any worse than Kamome outside Abyssea and is admittedly fun as hell to play with given the low delay. I'm pretty sure it's weaker than a Sekka, but not by a wide margin. AGI Sekka is a pretty efficient swap these days if you need more eva.

[Sekundes]

Have heard rumors of cure pot +23% not working with spellcast? If this is true how can I fix it? I don't want to do it and have it break xD

If your resources are updated properly, the +3 magian weapons will work. If they aren't they will not. Not sure if the resources are auto-updated correctly yet but I know that you can manually mod them.

[Nemesio]

Edit: Talked to Sek in game, nvm!

[Tambor]

SMN questions: I have Matk and Atk merits but I remember reading that Atk merits did nothing, better to switch to Acc merits?
Which staff would be better the Pet:Acc or Pet:Atk, plan to do the Matk one to +3 and leave a melee one at +2 so I Can macro em

[Celeste]

I'm having some trouble skilling up. I expect it to be slow, but what can I expect in terms of how long it's going to take? I'm SAM/WAR at the moment. Should I take off what little +acc gear I have? Any suggestions? I'm new to the melee game.

[Rehwyn]

Any way to stop chatmon giving an error message everytime anyone says anything in /say, short of unloading the plugin? Really fucking annoying and every post about it on windower forums has no mod/dev reply.

This is a problem with some of the Spam Filter settings for ChatMon, particularly ones including wildcards. What you need to do to fix it is load up spamfilter.txt in your Plugins folder and remove the offending lines. I forget which lines need to be removed specifically, but here is the list of filters I have remaining:

Spoiler: show

// ChatMonSpamFilter
*brogame*
*warcupcom*
*HELPYOU*com*
*thsalecom*
*ffbasecom*
*belrioncom*
*pcgamerusacom*
*brosale*
*ogamebaycom*
*goldyeahcom*
*mmovgcom*
*ogamebay*
*playonline*e??x*
*buy*gil*com*
*itemratecom*
*wwwplayonline*com*
*wwwplayonl*info*
*wwwplay*account*com*
*buyingamecash*
*gamersell*
*com*cheap*ffxi*gil*
*vgoldexpress*
*playonlinevg*
*theft*players*account*
*cheap*ffxi*gil*
*igscom*
*fast*Delivery*
*bacmrole*
*bsarole*
*b*r*o*s*a*l*e*M*safe*
*b*r*o*s*a*l*e*M*safe*
*cheapgil*
*gilfast*
*safedelivery*
*powerlevel*safe*
*xmas*bonus*
*gilservice*
*braleosa*
*gil*xmas*bo*
*xmas*bo*us
*site*osal*
*provide*ffxi*service*

You can likely figure out the offending filters from there.

[Neisan]

SMN questions: I have Matk and Atk merits but I remember reading that Atk merits did nothing, better to switch to Acc merits?
Which staff would be better the Pet:Acc or Pet:Atk, plan to do the Matk one to +3 and leave a melee one at +2 so I Can macro em

Attack merits do little if you already have enhances attack gear (think 2 pieces and more was no noticeable difference), switch to accuracy if you do.

For the above reason, Pet: Acc staff would be better if you're having trouble landing physical Bloodpacts.

[msthief]

How do you work snapshot gear into spellcast? Could someone please give me an example... preferably one that refers to a pre-shot (snapshot), during shot (ratk, str), and post-shot sets. I'm not asking for someone to actually give me their sets, just whatever you use in your rules section.

[Yugl]

<if commandprefix="/range">
<equip when="precast" set="Snapshot" />
<equip when="midcast" set="rATT" />
<equip when="aftercast" set="somesethere" />
</if>