Random Question Thread XXV: Septimus Maximus, Isladar Über Alles

[Motenten]

I'm looking at the page for spell recast times on bgwiki, and I'm confused.

That entire page is a bit confused. Also, there's been a lot more testing done within the last few months that narrows down the results of a number of things, and the page hasn't been substantially updated since last summer.

The recast value stored in the dats uses a unique bit representation that doesn't directly correspond to any of the math it's involved in. It maintains recast values to the nearest quarter second.

Recast as a calculated value has an unknown total number of bits (assumed to be 32), but that represents a value that includes 7 fractional bits (1/128 of a second).

Haste is a 10 bit value, representing a fraction of 1024. After you multiply recast by haste, the end result maintains 7 fractional bits (as noted above).

Fast Cast is a decimal value, representing an exact percentage (eg: 1% is 1/100, or 10/1000).

There's lots of testing in the Math forum about the order of operations and such. If you want more detail, go there.

[Rehn]

Is 95 kikoku/jin better than 90 kannagi/hi?

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Any drk with an apoc SC they'd like to share?

[Kamil]

Is 95 kikoku/jin better than 90 kannagi/hi?

No.

[Churchill]

Any plans to release a RNG spreadsheet Mot?

[Neisan]

EDIT: Just checked and answered own question, Shun should perform better with Kikoku.

[Renzy]

What's a good currency camp in Glacier? I understand other zones may be better for currency, but I'm trying to farm a Leering Bijou for a win (for alts) my next time I do the zone and want to maximize my time in there.

A good camp is the Orc area south of Fei'Yin, east of the Apoc/Amano/Bow Test NM Tower. There's a bunch of JA proc mobs and I think 5-6 lottery spawn Orc NM's that pop in that area if you're aiming for currency and a boss pop. Although you will probably see a bunch of NM's wandering around, everytime I do Glacier I always walk past a bunch of Goblin and Quadav NM

[Taint]

A good camp is the Orc area south of Fei'Yin, east of the Apoc/Amano/Bow Test NM Tower. There's a bunch of JA proc mobs and I think 5-6 lottery spawn Orc NM's that pop in that area if you're aiming for currency and a boss pop. Although you will probably see a bunch of NM's wandering around, everytime I do Glacier I always walk past a bunch of Goblin and Quadav NM

Can 2nd this, after finishing Amano 90 trial we pwned that camp for an hour and got 120 currency.

[matix]

Any plans to release a RNG spreadsheet Mot?

i would be very interested in this if it could account for kraken RNG!

[Kalmado]

Just Dc'd, but I didn't completely log out of PoL. When I logged back into FFXI, all of my auto-translate that should've been in English was in Japanese. Any idea how/why that happened?

[Churchill]

Happens if you're using certain 3rd party tools pretty often

[Darkmagi]

Happens every time if you are using windower as far as I know.

[Kalmado]

Interesting. I never knew that. Thanks for the answers!

[Taim Meich]

Is there a reasonable camp to get exp in Dyna-Beau or Dyna-Tav as a solo SCH? (like a DC camp with easy pets, or something like that) or should I just annoy my friends enough to help me?

[Kidnoftle]

annoy your friend who is hopefully a thf?

[grevenilvec75]

annoy your friend who is hopefully a WAR?

ftfy

[dawdr]

Just got to 5/5 on Requiescat and now I'm trying to figure out how to gear this stupid thing best for my Blue Mage. Mostly trying to figure out head, body, and hands, the rest seems pretty obvious.

Right now I'm leaning toward Morrigan's Coronal since there just aren't a hell of a lot of options. Maybe Alcide's Cap +1? I don't know.

Body piece seems obvious provided you have Toci's but I'm beyond 100 kills at Pil so far so I'm not exactly planning to have that soon. Would it be better to go with a Praeco Doublet with it's 15 mind or the Mirage Jubbah +2 with the 5 dexterity and strength along with 15 each of attack and accuracy?

For the hands, am I best off sitting on the Mavi +2 while praying for Athos? Or would I better served with an attack option?

[noodles355]

What about Morri Body until Toci's?

[Nightfyre]

Morrigan's should be better than Toci's if accuracy isn't an issue. Praeco may have been slightly better than Morrigan's even, I'd have to go back and check.

Mavi +2 are fine til Athos. Alcide's Cap +1 is sidegradeish to Morrigan's Coronal. Gnadbhod's is a good option if you have it, Maat's Cap obviously being ideal.

[dawdr]

I'd have Morrigan's body if the stupid 35 would drop. Did an Arrapago just this week and had literally every drop but that one. As for the hat though, if Gnadbhod's is an option would Aias be my go-to?

Thanks for the help, by the by.