Random Question Thread XXVI: The Rise and Fall of the RQT

[ssjjfar]

What is this message about? On a friends account that I box on occasion, but didn't want to mess with his stuff, not sure if he deactivated his account or what, cause it seems like it has something to do with SE account and not just billing. For some reason it seems somewhat familiar, but it just came up randomly this week.

[Guitarman]

the otherwiki still isnt updated, are there any aht urghan VW periapts worth getting? any temp items or anything?

[dasva]

Yes. Check bg wiki. Other wiki really fails in updating stuff now

[dasva]

Is it worthwhile to do Pet: Attack/MAB Magian staves for SMN?

Depends on what you mean by worth it... iirc pet att isn't going to do much based on how pet pdif works and such. And well Soulscourge is pretty easy to get so less of an upgrade to do those and alot more work

[Radec]

Is it worthwhile to do Pet: Attack/MAB Magian staves for SMN?

Pet: MAB is honestly quite easy, and clearly better for magical pacts - ice weather basically permanent in northlands, can do all the ice trials in uleg/xarc/_s/beauc/_s

[cdgreg]

the otherwiki still isnt updated, are there any aht urghan VW periapts worth getting? any temp items or anything?

As Dasva said, BG wiki really is the place to find new information. I still use other wiki for classic quest stuff and magian trials, but for any VW or Legion I use BG wiki.

[shen]

What's the optimal Kraken RNG build looking like nowadays? I really don't know where to start. I know accuracy values would depend on what I'm fighting, and I should try to cap that along with Haste. After that, what else? Is it worth building Subtle Blow or attack? Finally, does the DA rate from subbing WAR really hurt so much I should sub something else (when having shadows/etc isn't an issue)? Thanks much.

[dasva]

I use merc kris sometimes but I know my set is far from ideal. I wouldn't really worry about subtle blow as anything you'd do this on probably has a few other melees on it so it has plenty of tp anyways. Store tp is nice. Yeah how much or if it even helps shave a hit off is hard to say but extra tp is actually useful too now. Att might be good depending on what your fighting and your buffs to keep you hitting for dmg.

I would say no it doesn't hurt that much and generally you are really attack starved (plus fencer helps for last stand) and helps with the acc issue but /sam might help you self skillchain more. Sorry couldn't help you more. Will say this though given the balancing act you do to get it down think a bit of it will be kinda play by ear as far as sets and such

[Kincard]

How hard is Cirrate Christelle? Solo possible at all?

Does she still summon the assist Morbols, and how easy is EB Breath to stun?

[Martinius]

Pet: MAB is honestly quite easy, and clearly better for magical pacts - ice weather basically permanent in northlands, can do all the ice trials in uleg/xarc/_s/beauc/_s

Thanks dasva and Radec. I figure I'll do MAB just b/c I'll probably be able to knock it out in like 2 days, but wasn't sure about the regular attack one since SMN calculations are a whole new thing to me. Pleased to hear I won't need to drop another 2.5m on geodes + time (w/ no WAR or MNK empys, one less fire path is ok by me) for that one and can just keep the Soulscourge for physical BPs.

[Kazuhite]

Does anyone know where I can find more up-to-date data regarding places to farm/where to party? I know that there are a couple of sites out there which I used to use, but they've stopped being updated.

[GeneyusTitan]

Is there a way to use autoexec to alert you when weather pops?

Will just be on a mule I'm not watching full time, and preferably want it to do a call. Don't need to worry about alerting others, they will probably be solo.

Thanks

[Dathus]

Any use for Heca legs+1 aside from WAR?

[noodles355]

Any use for Heca legs+1 aside from WAR?

THF

[Dathus]

Evis onry or Exten too?

[Diddy Kong]

Just for evisceration if you have Thaumas or possibly even Ambusher's.

[Riiaider]

Is there a way to use autoexec to alert you when weather pops?

Will just be on a mule I'm not watching full time, and preferably want it to do a call. Don't need to worry about alerting others, they will probably be solo.

Thanks

Not sure if it still works or not

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<autoexec>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Thunder">wait 5; input /echo == Thunder ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Ice">wait 5; input /echo == Ice ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Fire">wait 5; input /p == Fire == &lt;call5&gt; </register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Earth">wait 5; input /echo == Earth ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Wind">wait 5; input /echo == Wind ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Water">wait 5; input /echo == Water == </register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Light">wait 5; input /echo == Light ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Dark">wait 5; input /echo == Dark ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Clear">wait 5; input /echo == Clear ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Fog">wait 5; input /echo == Fog ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Clouds">wait 5; input /echo == Cloudy ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Sunshine">wait 5; input /echo == Sunny ==</register>

<register silent="true" event="weather_Thunder_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Thunder ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Ice_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Ice ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Fire_x2">wait 5; input /p == Fire == &lt;call5&gt; </register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Earth_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Earth ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Wind_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Wind ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Water_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Water == </register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Light_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Light ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Dark_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Dark ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Clear_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Clear ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Fog_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Fog ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Clouds_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Cloudy ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="weather_Sunshine_x2">wait 5; input /echo == Sunny ==</register>

<register silent="true" event="day_Firesday">wait5; input /echo == Fireday == </register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Earthsday">wait5; input /echo == Earthsday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Watersday">wait5; input /echo == Watersday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Windsday">wait5; input /echo == Windsday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Iceday">wait5; input /echo == Iceday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Lightningday">wait5; input /echo == Lightningday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Lightsday">wait5; input /echo == Lightsday ==</register>
<register silent="true" event="day_Darksday">wait5; input /echo == Darksday ==</register>

</autoexec>

This is the xml I had from when I did trials long long time ago, you would just change
what you are looking for to call in party or w.e (Mines still set to fire weather) Not sure why the <> is missing around the call though. Should be able to do autoexec load -whateveryounamethefile- and it should work. If not can try checking the windower forum to see if anyone has a more current one.

[Arcana]

Ok, this is going to seem bad, but i'll ask anyway.

I've dinged into the 70s and beat maat and its now come time to be doing abyssea exp parties, problem is WTF do i do? i've never been in before and i'm playing a monk so how does that fit into the scheme of things, does it work like old tp burn parties? i have read the wiki explinations of abyssea but tbh at the time it just went over my head, so please bg help me out!.

[grevenilvec75]

if you want something simpler you could do:

<register silent="true" event="weather_*">input /p <call></register>

Would trigger on any weather change (even clear weather).

the <call> might screw something up so you might have to change it to &lt;call&gt; or whatever

Ok, this is going to seem bad, but i'll ask anyway.

I've dinged into the 70s and beat maat and its now come time to be doing abyssea exp parties, problem is WTF do i do? i've never been in before and i'm playing a monk so how does that fit into the scheme of things, does it work like old tp burn parties? i have read the wiki explinations of abyssea but tbh at the time it just went over my head, so please bg help me out!.

Talk to Joachim in port jeuno to start collecting traverser stones. Then youhave to head out to the maw (once you visit a maw the first time you can have Horst teleport you there subsequently)

Once you enter the maw find the nearby "Conflux Surveyor" and tell him you want to use a traverser stone to set your time to whatever. After that you'll probably need to run to wherever the party is because you won't have any confluxes activated nor any cruor to go find them and activate them.

After you get to the party its more or less a standard xp party after that.

[Plow]

How hard is Cirrate Christelle? Solo possible at all?

Does she still summon the assist Morbols, and how easy is EB Breath to stun?

If you're just talking normal CC, I don't think she summons adds. She does charm, however, so the only way she's soloable is with pet jobs, and EBB probably prohibits bst.

I don't see any reason smn can't solo her, though.