Random Question Thread XXIV: #Occupy the RQT

[Kipling]

I posted before asking what the best main/offhand dagger for THF is (DMG wise), but now that the cap is 99 and my THF is actually somewhat geared I figured I would see if it has changed at all. Thanks. (Looking to get Mandau in the near future, so mostly looking for the best offhand that isn't Coruscanti.)

[Midnightjade]

Hi Uryuu!

Quick question to all: does Dipper Yuly cap at 95 or 99? If 95, what are BST using at 99? Thanks!

[cdgreg]

Somehow lost a number of .dat modded maps with the recent update. Anyone have a link to dl new ones?

[Jimothy]

250 Evil Weapons fire staff killshot trial, any suggestions on camp? I was thinking Ro'meave or Fei'Yin but does everything still magic aggro there at 95?

[Aemora]

250 Evil Weapons fire staff killshot trial, any suggestions on camp? I was thinking Ro'meave or Fei'Yin but does everything still magic aggro there at 95?

BITCH of a trial, I did mine (very, VERY slowly) on SMN using Ifrit killshots (meritted BP) solo in Sky whilst farming the skil increase earring. After 8 hours, if never dropped but I did do all 250. And took SMN up a few levels. Not the best method of doing it, but it worked for me.

[Salodin]

So, Tachi: Shoha or Fudo?

What's a decent GKT that I can work towards, since I don't think I can easily work towards Masamune, especially once I hit the 1500 metal plates trial. I was on the fence between tp bonus, Hiraden, or the str+10 atk+24 gkt, leaning towards tp bonus/hiraden. Any suggestions, now that Shoha is out? Also, is /drg even worth it any more? Or is it all /war now?

[VZX01]

If you're getting Shoha, then your GKT of choice should be the TP bonus one.

/DRG was mainly good for haste and extra instant attack via jump/high jump. But today you can get 24% haste (38% during hasso) without much difficulties maintaining 5-hit build ... with the exception when you wielding Masamune. So if you're not Masamune user or 4-hit build Kikugosaku user, then /DRG probably can be left alone.

We haven't tested how much attack bonus from Shoha yet, but we should be able to figure that out soon.

[lolwut]

TP bonus, /war only.

[Haborym]

With the WAR Relic+2 can you just use it for JA activation or do you still need to full time it to get the effects?

[Zirk]

Haven't really been around since June, just startin to come back.

If I were gonna solo dyna (I hear dnc is great for this but since I still only have lv 75 gear for the job, I'd probably rather go mnk/dnc), which zones should I be considering for coin farming, what would my strat be, and what would I need to do/look out for?

Thanks.

You've got your work cut out for you on this one.

I think most people do Dyna - Bubu for currency farming. Efts, Ravens, and Dhalmels are what I and maybe most people do, look up on the wiki's where the time extensions pop (need to do those first to be able to stagger, can't do them along the way mid run) and at what time of day the mobs I listed can be procced with JA (where DNC or /DNC comes in with step/flourish spam).

You can /check the stones, the ones that check impossible to gauge are the time extensions. Doing the Bubu time extensions solo is going to be really gay, it will probably be worth your time to sit at the heiroglyphics for someone else to come along and team up with them. The stones are usually right in the middle of a lot of beastmen mobs, it doesn't take too much waiting to find an opening where the surrounding mobs won't link on pull, but since stones move retarded slow managing to pull a stone to safety before killing almost never works. I'm personally on SAM so I can usually quickly zerg a stone down on the spot before getting aggro, but for MNK/DNC its probably going to be a crapshoot. Out of the 5 time extensions you need to get, doing them solo on MNK/DNC I'd expect you to get links at least 2/5 times, and if its bad your going to die and lose time. Doing the time extensions solo will probably take at least 30 minutes of your 2 hour run as MNK/DNC. Finding the 20 minute time extension stone can be gay sometimes too, especially if you run across the map and its claimed by someone or just died. I personally always shout when I enter the zone and periodically during the 10 minute time extensions if anyone wants to team up for the +20 minute to try and prevent that from happening.

Hopefully you have a TH+1 Tarutaru Sash for some kind of extra TH help. I'm also recently new to dyna farming, in my 200+ weakness procs with no sub job, none of them have been white yet, so MNK/DNC will probably get more currency than DNC/nothing in the long run thanks to faster kill speeds.

There are two camps for each mob type in the zone, one of them is high level and one is low level, stick to the low level camps. I actually didn't know about this until like my third time currency farming and from eyeballing it the higher level mobs don't have any kind of increased drop rate for anything, switching to the low level camps greatly increased my currency/run. Low level efts are around top left corner of I-7, low level ravens are I/J-8, low level dhalmels are I-7.

I average around 150 currency a run with my 2boxed mule, but I think I can get this to 175 with more practice, refined technique, and getting a TH+1 sash to get to TH3. As MNK/DNC solo, you might be able to get to 50 currency in a run, I'm not sure how badly the lack of TH will hurt.

So basically you zone in, get your time extensions, then depending on time of day go to corresponding camp. Probably want to keep a trollbane on just for pulling. Pull one mob at a time and keep spamming steps/animated flourish until you proc. Your limiting factor will probably how fast you can kill mobs (staggers tend to happen pretty quick minus the odd douchebag mob). I have a weird setup so I fight at different times of the day than 99% of other people, but I've heard the camps can get quite full sometimes. If you had a camp to yourself you will never run out of mobs, so I would suggest just full out DDing and using JA whenever they are up, if the mob is going to die and you didn't stagger it yet then so be it. Personally I just hold the mobs until I stagger, but I have a healing mule and it might be too tough to sustain yourself for a long time with your back turned. If mobs are scarce then may need to adjust your DD output such that you almost always get the stagger before killing. If you can make the holding until stagger work, be sure to keep an eye on the game clock, there's been a couple of times I held a mob into a new stagger window and wasted like 5 minutes trying to stagger it with the wrong moves.

The old Dyna - Bubu ash-dragon style mobs are still around, I think they have rare chance of dropping a 100 piece (still need to stagger them though), you prob don't want to waste any time trying to take those on they are actually pretty tough since you won't be /nin. I normally see dragons at the eft and dhamel camps usually, they do like to wander a bit and can run into you so be careful there.

TL;DR
- Getting time extensions will probably be more challenging than you expected.
- Expect an upper bound of 50 currency (just my rough estimation, let me know how it turns out)

[grevenilvec75]

What would the possibility be of farming crour through voidwatch? You could do it pretty easily with only 1-2 people popping and rest of alliance leaching, since you dont need a stone to get crour.

Looking at the list, capped green light on Zilart T2 is almost 20K crour, so thats 80K crour for 4 stones.

The sanctuary of Zitah is a reasonably easy zone to get too even if you dont have the teleport, and afaik the fight is pretty straightforward, if you only need one popper you could easily do 10+ fights an our, which would work out to over 200K crour/hour, beating your average crour alliance without breaking a sweat, and if your group was good enough to quickly burn them down I could see pulling off even more kills an hour.

If you don't use a stone you don't get light bonuses. which means gimp cruor and exp.

[JigglyJam]

What's campaign exp like now? I noticed they mentioned boosting it this past update but I thought they already boosted it a while back?

[cdgreg]

250 Evil Weapons fire staff killshot trial, any suggestions on camp? I was thinking Ro'meave or Fei'Yin but does everything still magic aggro there at 95?

I just ran around ro-maeve and did this on either blm or rdm I can't remember. It takes awhile, but by no means as bad as I first anticipated.

[blue]

I want to swap my moonshade earring for tp bonus one. Do I have to do something inbetween dropping and refight?

[Prothescar]

check the whit elight near the conflux in grauberg

[urat]

For some reason I cannot purchase the Heroes of Abyssea Add-On for my alt account, it is greyed out when I log in to the character, however when I click the "purchase" button and go through the menus I end up at a page that asks if I want cancel and usnubscribe from playonline... what the fuck?

Edit: Nevermind I'm retarded, forgot this account hadnt finished the POL transfer yet >_>;

[Pandorablue]

Re-applying XI View post-update seems to have broken my macro palette (doesn't show up on screen and can't change set, even though I can still hit the macros on my current set)

Anyone know how to fix this?

[Maguile]

ideal subjob for verethragna pup?

Bump

Also, which 3 of the new weaponskills should I max out, considering the following:

Drk, Mnk/Pup (with Vere), Pld (with WoE sword), War (with WoE g.axe) Dnc, Thf, Rng (will have WoE bow)

Leaning towards Scythe/Great Sword/Dagger atm

[nikia]

If i wanted to use the new symbol system for macros where would/could I find a list of possible symbols?
tried Character Map but they dont seem to work.
Thanks for help with this odd request.

[GoggleHead]

What are some standard Corsair Grips? I've just been dicking around with Rose Strap while leveling.