Which makes it exactly like Twilight Cape, no?
Which makes it exactly like Twilight Cape, no?
Exactly like Twilight Cape or exactly like Sorcerer's Tonban? Lolwiki claims Twilight Cape goes beyond the 25% day/weather cap in addition to granting the 5% bonus. According to their description, double weather + day bonus = 30% with Twilight Cape, but only 25% without the cape but with the Tonban. Or is lolwiki making shit up as it goes and they have the exact same behavior?
Well and except staff doesn't always procs. It only procs when weather procs while as far as I know twilight always does on the right day/weather. Also that term is normally capped at 35% not 25%. So to test it you'd have to have double weather and day
I noticed a lack of info on Summoning Buffs released since the 75 cap, so decided to do some testing. Fleet Wind had decent info, so didn't include that.
All durations were discovered using statustimer since the chat log will display when the buff is applied some time after it actually has.
I saw Tachi's post on the cap after doing the testing, but data's still there for skill increases. Base looks to be around 2:55 (175 seconds), each skill = 1 second duration, 85 skill to cap.Code:Earthen Armor Duration Naked +16 3:12~13 +31 3:28 +50 3:46 +75 4:11 +80 4:16 +85 4:20 Full Set +119 4:19
Seen no testing on this, so went ahead and did some myself. After the tests above I stopped testing since the data was identical to that of the Earthen Armor testing. Didn't test if the moon phase had anything to do with it because I didn't have the patience.Code:Heavenward Howl Duration Naked +16 3:12 +50 3:46 Full Set +119 4:20
Maximum duration for Crimson Howl / Earthen Armor / Inferno Howl / Heavenward Howl is indeed 4:20 with 500 smn skill. Base duration is 1 min (with 300 smn skill) + 200 seconds.
Crimson Howl gives attack+11% at level 99 (like warcry) btw.
So did some more testing of chatoyant staff. Helixs force procs on it too yay. It doesn't bypass the cap on day/weather effects like twilight does. And they either ninja updated the cap or the people who originally figured it out messed up because after doing several times it is most definitely 40% not 35%
So decided to have fun with the assault weapons increase element ws dmg based on day. Used heavy shot with capped crit rate using the dagger 9555 without 9681 with. So about .05 ftp, works with physical ws and melee weapon ones apply to ranged ws can assume the opposite is true probably and probably offhand too but didn't have a good day to test it with so meh
Also ranged mythic am3 doesn't work with ranged ws like melee am3 does to melee ws
Yeah but it had a verifcation needed. Also while it says wont work in sub hand and ranged ones only work on ranged ws it seems odd that those wouldn't work but a melee one would. But fine game day is about to change to someone a little more melee friendly so I'll try again
Well, read the discussion page to see why. I can't figure out when they work:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Category_...t_Point_Weapon
Ok on darksday:
primal rend didn't work with either axe or dagger offhanded can't find out if it works with item mainhanded as I don't have the ws same with cloudsplitter
wildfire last stand got boost from dagger but only mainhand last stand doesn't appear to work with the gun though. In some extreme bizareness trueflight got a super small boost from dagger but nothing from gun. Like 30120 vs 30280 which actually doing the math looks like about .05 ftp
Aeolian and cyclone got a boost from mainhand only
Fireday: Wildfire and last stand again seemed to work with dagger and again trueflight got a boost from dagger but not gun
Aeolian and cyclone got a boost from mainhand only
Slug shot worked with swd or dagger mainhanded...
None of these ws got a boost from flame gorget. None of them.
At this point the only thing I can think of is 1 handed weapons when mainhanded always add .05 ftp to all ws and everything else don't do jack gunna go try and use trueflight as a test
Ok tried again all the same ws I did under same situations that I did under fire day except tested element with soil gorget this time. The weapons behaved the same but wildfire, trueflight, and aeolian were boosted by soil gorget proving they are earth. So basically looks like gun never works for any ws and main hand dagger/swd and I'd assume all one handed weapons work on all ws everyday
Hmmm, I keep forgetting to post this.
Awhile back, an friend was telling me that reprisal has a dmg dealt cap and when it runs out, reprisal wears off. I was like, wut, no. But the more I thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.
On anything high lvl, you'd never hit the cap, cause they resist the spikes dmg so much. And they've only got 1 min to hit that cap, so they need to be hitting fast and hard.
This also parallels dread spikes behavior. Which was added at the same time as reprisal. This thought, gave me an idea of what factor might determine the dmg cap. So I went to test.
I went out to abyssea ule. Grabed MAB and Ligh DMG+ atmas to boost reprisal dmg. Figuring this would make it easier to hit the cap during reprisal's short duration.
Grabbed 5~ monitors, and popped reprisal wearing ochain. And reprisal wore off in about 4 seconds. <,<
So, there's a cap. But what's it based on? Going from the similarity to dread spikes I tired testing maxHP.
Test 1
MaxHP 1260
Test 2Code:Other Magical Damage (Additional Effects and Spikes) Player M.AE Dmg # M.AE M.AE Avg R.AE Dmg # R.AE R.AE Avg Spk.Dmg # Spike Spk.Avg Martel 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 647 10 64.70
Max HP 1504
Test 3 4221Code:Other Magical Damage (Additional Effects and Spikes) Player M.AE Dmg # M.AE M.AE Avg R.AE Dmg # R.AE R.AE Avg Spk.Dmg # Spike Spk.Avg Martel 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 785 15 52.33
In all tests Reprisal wore before it's natural duration was up.Code:Other Magical Damage (Additional Effects and Spikes) Player M.AE Dmg # M.AE M.AE Avg R.AE Dmg # R.AE R.AE Avg Spk.Dmg # Spike Spk.Avg Martel 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 2180 38 57.37
Long story short, Reprisal has a DMG cap. When this is exceeded it wears off. Cap is half of max HP.
Considering this, Perhaps Adamas' reprisal effect lowers the cap while boosting block rate?
Oddly, the most exciting thing about getting a Sagasinger, is getting to test it. I've had several questions about this sword, and no one's done any decent testing. Now I can fix that.
Additional effect:Steals enhancement effect
Proc Rate
Tested on Beholders in Abyssea Tahrongi. Since they keep blaze spikes up. Went PLD/RDM. Regen atmas + Aegis made surviving simple.
No mater what precautions I take, hits are going to land on mobs that don't have a buff up to steal. But testing on blaze spikes gives me a accurate way of counting the # of hits on mobs with the buff up. Just have to count the # of spikes dmg I take rather than hits landed. Note, when buffdrain procs, you take no spikes dmg. Seems the drain goes before spikes. Thus my total valid hits would be #Spikes+#Buffdrains.
So, 554 hits with spikes dmg taken.Code:Other Magical Damage Taken (Additional Effects and Spikes) Player M.AE Dmg # M.AE M.AE Avg R.AE Dmg # R.AE R.AE Avg Spk.Dmg # Spike Spk.Avg Martel 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 343 554 0.62
Unfortunately, the parser doesn't track the buffdrain add effect. So I had to search the raw data for how many times "Additional effect: 1 of the Beholder's attributes is drained" appeared. That would be 125 times.
So, my total sample is 554+125=679. Which really isn't very big. But testing this is a pain in the ass. Might collect a larger sample if I find an easier/faster way to gather data.
so, 125/679=0.184. Or a 18.4% proc rate. Again, small sample. The actual proc rate could be 15%, or maybe 20%. I tend to favor the 20%.
Still for a weapon based add effect that's a pretty damn good proc rate. This thing would drive ppl nuts in ballista. Well, if anyone ever did ballista. I could also see some use vs mobs with really annoying/frequent buffs. But mostly, it's just a fun toy. And freaking cool looking.
Valid buffs
Two hour abilities
One of the most appealing ideas about the buffdrain effect, was the possibility of draining a mobs 2hour. Not only depriving them of it, but benefiting from it yourself. So, testing.
I went to fight Chukwa, since he Mighty Strikes Multiple times. After pulling the data for during MS only outta the logs, I had 150 hits across 3 Mighty Strikes. And no buffdrain procs. ; ; with a 18% proc rate, I should have proc'd 8 times in 150 hits.
Sadly, It appears that 2hour abilities cannot be drained. Or at least MS can't be. But if you can't drain one 2hour, I don't really see it letting you drain any of them.
General buffs
I think it probably works the same as Absorb attribute. With the general rule being, "If you can dispel it, you can probably absorb it".
That being said, I've only used it on a few different buffs so far. And nothing non-dispellable(besides Mighty Strikes).
Confirmed Drainable Buff List
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Stuff you Can't drain(but wish you could)
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I'll be adding to these lists as I go.
Misc notes
While soulflayer Ice Spike ARE drainable, it seems to be extremely rare. I melee'd down 4 pnuemaflayers before seeing a proc. Makes me wonder is the buffdrain is subject to resists. Seeing as it's probly dark based, and soul flayers are dark resistant. Was unable to drain any of their other buffs but by the time they put up WS based buff they were near dead.
Resistance against Terror
Effect and proc rate
I find it odd that they didn't just call this "Resist Terror", like on every other status resist item. I had this vague hope that it'd confer total immunity, but SE just isn't that nice.
Anyway, testing. Back to Abyssea Tahrongi. And hurray for Nauls. There's a really limited pool of things that terror you.
I got regen atmas, put on Ochain and pulled ~10 Nauls. Got them all to ~25% hp, so they'd ws as soon as they had TP. Then kicked back while I racked up some Absolute Terrors.
Seems like the effect is basically just like any other resist gear, just waaaaay more potent. Giving a chance to outright resist, as well as sometimes lowering duration(I had terror durations as low as 2 seconds). But rather than stating Resist!, Absolute terror would just have "No effect" Like so:
[9:30:37 AM]The Naul uses Absolute Terror.
[9:30:37 AM]No effect on Martel.
This data would indicate a 55.34% resist rate.... except for one thing. When Absolute Terror is used, when you're already terroized it gives the same "No effect" message. So a number of the ws in my parse data are invalid. While supertanking definitely sped up ws usage, it also caused this issue.Code:Naul Debuff Target # Times # Successful # No Effect % Successful Absolute Terror Martel 103 46 57 44.66 %
So, I had to go through the raw data, s count how many times I got hit with Absolute terror while I was terrorized. That would be 16 times. Taking a good chunk outta my sample.
87 total. 41 resists. 41/87=0.471 Or 47.1% outright Terror resist. I figure it's actually a flat 50% rate. Which is pretty damn good. Terror's a huge pain in the ass. It can mean the end in a lot of solo fights.
Can you normally flat out resist Absolute Terror? I don't recall ever doing so, but... I don't really wanna go get a base resist sample.
Terror Duration-
There's definitely a notable duration reduction at work, in addition to the outright resist procs. Although, like the resists, it's only part of the time.
And here's where I get lazy. While I have some data on duration, it's in the raw parse data, with no efficient way to extract it. And I'd need to go get a base sample without Sagasinger to see if you can resist the duration normally. and if so, how much/how often.
This was kinda cool. I let a sandworm NM Extreme purgation me, so I could see if I could drain those buffs back with sagasinger.
I lost 8 buffs, and drained 6 back within 38 seconds. And I lost some time before canceled enlight, As for the other two buffs. I think his reprisal wore. And embrava's not drainable. I melee'd hem for sometime after, but never got embrava back. well, unless it wore too. But considering it was regen'ing. <,<Code:[15:24:29]Martel's Haste effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Protect effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Shell effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Barblizzard effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Barparalyze effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Reprisal effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Phalanx effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's Embrava effect wears off. [15:24:29]Martel's spikes deal 11 points of damage to the Minhocao. [15:24:30]Martel scores a critical hit! [15:24:30]The Minhocao takes 151 points of damage. [15:24:33]Martel scores a critical hit! [15:24:33]The Minhocao takes 87 points of damage. [15:24:34]Additional effect: The Minhocao takes 0 additional points of damage. [15:24:34]The Minhocao uses Extreme Purgation. [15:24:34]8 status effects are drained from Martel. [15:24:34]Martel casts Enlight. [15:24:34]Martel gains the effect of Enlight. [15:24:34]Martel hits the Minhocao for 42 points of damage. [15:24:35]Additional effect: The Minhocao takes 0 additional points of damage. [15:24:35]Martel hits the Minhocao for 36 points of damage. [15:24:36]Additional effect: The Minhocao takes 0 additional points of damage. [15:24:36]Martel's Enlight effect wears off. [15:24:36]Martel scores a critical hit! [15:24:36]The Minhocao takes 110 points of damage. [15:24:37]Additional effect: The Minhocao takes 0 additional points of damage. [15:24:39]Martel hits the Minhocao for 41 points of damage. [15:24:42]Martel hits the Minhocao for 43 points of damage. [15:24:43]Martel hits the Minhocao for 22 points of damage. [15:24:43]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained. [15:24:44]The Minhocao readies Gorge. [15:24:44]The Minhocao hits Martel for 110 points of damage. [15:24:44]Martel hits the Minhocao for 3 points of damage. [15:24:45]Martel scores a critical hit! [15:24:45]The Minhocao takes 77 points of damage. [15:24:46]The Minhocao hits Martel for 15 points of damage. [15:24:47]Martel hits the Minhocao for 32 points of damage. [15:24:48]Martel hits the Minhocao for 29 points of damage. [15:24:49]Martel hits the Minhocao for 43 points of damage. [15:24:49]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained. [15:24:50]Martel starts casting Cure IV on Martel. [15:24:50]Martel hits the Minhocao for 12 points of damage. [15:24:51]The Minhocao uses Gorge. [15:24:51]1376 HP drained from Martel. [15:24:51]Martel hits the Minhocao for 19 points of damage. [15:24:52]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained. [15:24:52]Martel hits the Minhocao for 53 points of damage. [15:24:53]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained. [15:24:56]Martel scores a critical hit! [15:24:56]The Minhocao takes 150 points of damage. [15:24:57]Martel casts Cure IV. [15:24:57]Martel recovers 689 HP. [15:24:58]Martel's Phalanx effect wears off. [15:24:59]Martel hits the Minhocao for 72 points of damage. [15:24:59]Martel parries the Minhocao's attack with his weapon. [15:24:59]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained. [15:25:01]Martel hits the Minhocao for 51 points of damage. [15:25:01]The Minhocao readies Disgorge. [15:25:02]The Minhocao hits Martel for 22 points of damage. [15:25:03]Time left: (0:01:13) [15:25:03]Unable to use job ability. [15:25:03]Martel hits the Minhocao for 72 points of damage. [15:25:05]Martel hits the Minhocao for 57 points of damage. [15:25:06]Martel hits the Minhocao for 64 points of damage. [15:25:07]Additional effect: 1 of the Minhocao's attributes is drained.
But anyway, that's a pretty good way to clear mobs buffs. Dispel spam on crack.
Glanzfaust's Augment's "Focus and Dodge"
So for the longest time I have thought that Focus gives 5% attack, and that Dodge gives 5% guard, and that nothing changes at all after the level 75 version. Out of nowhere a couple days ago I got a private message from a Japanese owner who saw my bug report on the Official Forum. He told me that Focus gives 5% attack, 3% crit rate and that it also gives additional accuracy. Apparently this has been known for quite some time by the JP community. Went out to test for myself after reading some JP links he gave me, as I always like to do my own testing for MNK related things to verify others data.
Test 1: Focus adds crit rate
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Test 2: Focus adds accuracy
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Test 3: Does Dodge add evasion?
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At the moment I am unsure if Dodge is enhanced in any other way. I tried an enemy crit rate- test, but the results were inconclusive as both Dodge and No Dodge resulted in 5% crits. This was with no merits. There is a chance that unlike merits and gear(augmented Dark Ring), Glanzfaust does reduce enemy crit, but won't lower it beyond the natural 5% lower bound. I have not retested Counter rate, but do recall at one point trying counter before discovering "Augments Dodge" added Guard instead.
I am sure it is due to available description space, but it would be much less confusing if Glanzfaust's effects were written differently.
Augments "Focus" and "Dodge" V is very confusing as the real effect is:
Augments "Focus" and "Dodge
Enhances "Focus" V and "Dodge" V
Final Conclusion: Glanzfaust increases attack5%, crit3%, and guard rate5% statically at all levels of the weapon. Additionally Glanz enhances both Focus and Dodge based on weapon level.
Did you do a test at 96% as well, or just the 97% test?
Wasn't sure if Abilities section or here was more appropriate since this is in regard to an equipment piece. Got the heads up that Augments Impetus adds crit damage AND accuracy. Cyclas+1 add just accuracy, while +2 adds both. I tested both Cyclas+1 and +2 to see if in fact accuracy increased during Impetus, and also if it was a different amount added to each.
LVL 105 Mourning Crawler: Accuracy needed to get "Low Evasion" message= 468
Tantra Cyclas+1: I attacked a Processionaire in the hallway next to the high level crawlers. 1 attack round resulted in 3 attacks and a counter, so 4 hits total. I then disengaged and /checked an IT crawler, removing accuracy gear until I no longer got a "Low" message. Crawler switched from Low @460 accuracy to normal @459 accuracy. Impetus added 8 accuracy from 4 hits. So Impetus adds 2accuracy/hit while wearing Cyclas+1.
Tantra Cyclas+2: Same test as above but only had 2 attacks before disengaging from Processionaire. Accuracy check point was 464>463 instead of normal 468>467. Impetus added 4 accuracy from 2 hits. So Impetus adds the same 2accuracy/hit and does not change between Cyclas+1 and +2.
Conclusion: Impetus while wearing Tantra Cyclas+2 adds not only 2 attack, crit+1%, and crit damage+1%, but also 2 accuracy per every consecutive hit without a miss.
Wow, that's pretty awesome to know. Would make tantra+2 a fulltime impetus piece on anything you're not capped on acc yes?