Random Question Thread XXIV: #Occupy the RQT

[urat]

Has anyone else noticed that Adze's en-effect on his attacks seems to be based on some kind of outside factor. I've been soloing him for my dagger trial and have noticed he tends to only perform a specific en-effect, mutliple fights through, for a period of time. Then he'll switch to something else.

IE the last 3 fights have consistantly been strictly doom and curse, always, like 4-5 times the entire fight. Using up my holy waters like mad. And then suddenly I wont see either at all and it'll just be over and over again En-Silence for a fight or two, then petrify, and so on.

I've rarely seen him do more than one different en effect in a fight, once he did swap to a new en effect mid fight though.

I can't tell if its time of day or what, I don't think it's day of the week cause he'll swap in the middle of a day. Anyone else notice this?

[cdgreg]

I have been considering putting COR back together for VW purposes. I have 5/5 eaf+2 and a bedlam+2 for wildfire, my main question is should I go through the hassle of making an Armageddon or is bedlam+2 good enough?

[Byrthnoth]

Has anyone else noticed that Adze's en-effect on his attacks seems to be based on some kind of outside factor. I've been soloing him for my dagger trial and have noticed he tends to only perform a specific en-effect, mutliple fights through, for a period of time. Then he'll switch to something else.

IE the last 3 fights have consistantly been strictly doom and curse, always, like 4-5 times the entire fight. Using up my holy waters like mad. And then suddenly I wont see either at all and it'll just be over and over again En-Silence for a fight or two, then petrify, and so on.

I've rarely seen him do more than one different en effect in a fight, once he did swap to a new en effect mid fight though.

I can't tell if its time of day or what, I don't think it's day of the week cause he'll swap in the middle of a day. Anyone else notice this?

His en-effect is based on the last TP move he uses. Also, Marcato is a half-strength mini-BRD 2-hour. So you get +50% potency or +50% duration depending on the song.

[Greatguardian]

@Greatguardian, Eldephia and Byrth. - Thanks for all the info, really helped me a lot ! So far I dont have any too specific questions because I have not started it yet, but when I do, I'll make sure to ask away. Thank you again!

Edit: One more thing ! Do you happen to have an XML I could take a look at, Greatguardian ?

I have an XML, but I'm a stodgy programmer who's stuck in his ways so it actually requires an extremely old version of Spellcast to use (2.22), and it's built around my personal preferences since I wrote it from scratch rather than being made to fit all. I can post it if you really want it, but it probably won't do you much good, lol. I'm sure there are more modern ones floating around that take advantage of 2.44+ and all the new shinies that came with it.

Edit: Like this one from noodles, http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/107...=1#post4919109

[urat]

His en-effect is based on the last TP move he uses. Also, Marcato is a half-strength mini-BRD 2-hour. So you get +50% potency or +50% duration depending on the song.

Does this apply before or after +effect buffs from gear? Always been curious about that.

[Byrthnoth]

Does this apply before or after +effect buffs from gear? Always been curious about that.

Increase is after all gear, I'm pretty sure.

[Damane]

I have been considering putting COR back together for VW purposes. I have 5/5 eaf+2 and a bedlam+2 for wildfire, my main question is should I go through the hassle of making an Armageddon or is bedlam+2 good enough?

bedlam is good enough, with the save tp atmacite and regain atmacite on you + miser roll + tactician roll, you usually need only 2 QD or 2 shots to get 100 TP again. you are more WSing then shooting tbh in VW

@byrthnoth: thx for the quick answer, I guess that means it pushes the cap of march up^^

[Mikus]

I'm having a bit of a graphics issue. I installed W7 after uninstalling Vista, downloaded up to date driver for my HD Radeon 4830, downloaded the thing for w7 from POL's website, installed all ffxi, installed windower, and made sure all of my resolutions are the same in windower gui, regedit, and windower launcher. Background resolution is set high too.

My problem is, if I try to do anything but 1440x900, which makes the game full screen, then all text is mooshed together and blurry. Menus are small and for any equipment that's white box, you can barely even tell that it's white box.

The main thing with the text, it's most clear on the letter O. It appears like an outline of another O is on top of the letter. I prefer playing using 1200x800 or 1200x768, I always forget which it was, and maximizing the screen. The text is so bad the game just isn't playable to me. Has anyone ran into this problem and/or know how to fix it?

[fantasticdan]

Does cure casting time -% gear work on blu healing spells?

[Diomer]

So how does 95 Kikoku stack up at the moment vs 90 Kannagi?

[Neisan]

Does cure casting time -% gear work on blu healing spells?

Highly doubtful as they specifically mention cures.

[noodles355]

bedlam is good enough, with the save tp atmacite and regain atmacite on you + miser roll + tactician roll, you usually need only 2 QD or 2 shots to get 100 TP again. you are more WSing then shooting tbh in VW

This. Wildfire makes Cor awesome in voidwatch, not the ODD. Save TP+Regain Atmacites and it's rare I fire more than one shot between WS >.>

As far as rolling strategies are concerned, this means your goal should most typically be to use your JAs to get an XI at the start, and then ride that chain by repeatedly rolling/busting your other rolls until they are all XIs. Keep in mind, if you do your rolls too closely together, they will wear off at the same time, so if you are only putting 2 rolls up you will want to stagger them about 0.5 * Total Roll Duration apart. That is to say, if you have AF3+2 hands and 5/5 Winning Streak merits, you'll want to roll about 3-3:30 apart, so that you aren't in danger of losing both of your XIs at the same time and thus losing your chain.

To build on this, once you hit that first XI roll and start your chain, don't just kep Double-Uping until you hit 11/bust otherwise often you will be left waiting 10-20 (QD recats merits depending) seconds for next roll. A good way to do it is to Double-Up until you hit a decent roll (Lucky, or 6+) then wait until PR's recast is almost up before continuing to Double-Up for 11. This way if you bust you can Double-Up immidiately instead of waiting on recast, meaning everyone keeps their rolls up more consistantly.

Eg, you hit 11 Miser's Roll. You start trying to hit 11 tacticians. You roll a 5. You Double-Up twice and Bust. You have 15 seconds waiting on PR recast.
If you had kept that 5 Tactician's up for that 15 seconds, waiting for PR recast before busting, then your party would have gained an extra 40TP.

[stewie]

I keep getting POL-1160 whenever I try to logon, have all the ports forwarded and have tried to factory reset my router. Anything else I can do that could fix it?

[Rehn]

What does quick draw killshot register as in abyssea?

[stewie]

What does quick draw killshot register as in abyssea?

Pearl

[Nightfyre]

Highly doubtful as they specifically mention cures.

Cure potency works on BLU heals though. Main problem testing this would be the lack of available gear, but if somebody happens to have both an augmented Genbu's Shield and a Capricornian Rope I'd imagine the answer would be readily evident in Campaign.

[Neisan]

I started to head out to confirm myself then remembered I don't have those (shield hasn't been augmented yet) >< I remember hearing somewhere before -cure spellcasting didn't affect agas, or it was a rumor I read somewhere.

[Septimus]

Cure potency works on BLU heals though. Main problem testing this would be the lack of available gear, but if somebody happens to have both an augmented Genbu's Shield and a Capricornian Rope I'd imagine the answer would be readily evident in Campaign.

I would say to try WHM/BLU since that would lead to a lot more Cure casting time gear, but the spells that you can get from /BLU all cast so fast that you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

[wop]

Atma's to show biggest number @ Torcleaver (don't care about dot swings)?

[Jimothy]

Switched to WHM/BLU real fast, nothing noticable on Pollen, Healing Breeze, or Wild Carrot with Cure clogs or AF3+1. I'm not frapsing it or anything but by eyeballing it doesn't appear to do anything. No other cure cast items at my disposal though.