Random Question Thread XXVII: Okay this roman numerals bullshit is getting ridiculous

[Warusha]

Thanks for the help Byrth.

[Nightfyre]

Any BRD buffs that benefit from having 801+ combined skill?

[Byrthnoth]

No, 800 is the 500 for BRD spells. Scherzo is the only spell that benefits from going up to 800 though, as far as I know.

[Maguile]

Anyone know the level of subcrafts needed to make hexed jackets?

[Warusha]

I haven't actually played BLM since I learned meteor couple months ago. Every time I try typing /ma meteor I crash. Is this related to random crashes or are my resources screwed up or something? I have radsources so I don't understand what's wrong. My relavent spellcast file has the xml scripting of:
<if Skill="ElementalMagic">
yada
yada
yada
<if Spell="Meteor">
<action type="equip" when="midcast" set="Meteor" />
</if>
</if>

Maybe I forgot to add an if buff active "Elemental Seal"?

[Kaisha]

Did the bugards in [A]Misareaux always depop/respawn as a whole camp? Used to think someone was just pulling and burning them somewhere, but it apparently isn't the case.

Pain in the butt when you need to farm a PI for Minax and there's literally none up for a whole couple minutes.

[dejet]

Dont all aby mobs do that? after being killed and then left alone they reset. Or do you mean something else?

[Guitarman]

Yeah that's just the camp resetting. Means someone was killing them recently.

[Kaisha]

I was under the impression they just depop/respawned one at a time, not the entire camp together.

Anyhow, less people in Abyssea these days, so perhaps I'll be seeing it occur more often outside of the XP camps.

[ryskar]

Guessing Appetence Crown only works for Drain and Aspir and not any BLU spells? Nothing so much as hints that it works for Osmosis and the like so I'd be really surprised if it did.

[zard1977]

Did the accuracy of debuffs from weaponskills (Ageha, armor break etc) get any increase this update?

[pchan]

Been away since May, probably coming back a few months before the new expansion to get caught up.

Since I've been away, has there been any significant increases for mnk? How about marginal increases. Looking at what I'll have to start picking up upon my return. Left with the stanards (black belt, af3+2, rajas/epona, etc.), lv 90 Vereth, and full Thaumas(probably both also now pretty standard).

Will it be more worth it to go for a relic from scratch or to do Vereth to 95? In super long term goals, I'd like to have both 99, but where should my focus be for short term? I could try to do Vereth to 99 before even starting Spharai, or keep Vereth at 90 and do Spharai to 95, then having both of those at my disposal, choosing whether to do metal plates or merrows, etc. What is the best path in terms of bringing my mnk back up.

Edit:
Any weps at 99 with SSpiral that'd be better to use than 90 Vereth, or should I just stick with these until I either upgrade it or my relic?

There has been no significant increase for monk for 2 years. All the legion gear would be acceptable under uncapped acc situations and this didn't happen since the colibri era. 90% of the players can't break the metal plate wall but with a good farming in dynamis it's doable, and once you have done that, the 95>99 is easy comparatively.

Gear that are side grade and worth over a basic full AF3+2(aka you use them full time)
* nomkhappa mittens - gl farming one, you are more likely to find one in bazaars.
* thaumas body for TP
* thaumas legs for victory smite or thaumas feet for shijin
* the newly released meeble burrow offers a nice headgear for both tp and ws (nemetona cap)

big increases in damage are
* completing a relic or a verethragna - both offer equivalent DPS, verethragna being slightly superior on zergs.

Also everybody, and especially mnks, are waiting for neo salvage. If MNKs around here want an typical great set to achieve, look at this :

TP gear

 Vere 99 or spharai 99 / x / x / hagneia stone
Nemetone cap / rancor collar / brutal / monshade regain
thaumas coat / nomkhapa mittens / rajas / epona's
atheling / twilight / AF3+2 / AF3+2

VS gear

 Vere 99 / x / x / tantra tathlum
shura kabuto max / rancor collar / brutal / str+4
AF3+2 / heafoc / pyrosoul / epona's
atheling / light belt / thaumas / kacura+1

shijin

 Spharai 99 / x / x / demonry core
ocelomeh+1 / gorget / brutal / dex+4
toci's / mustela / thundersoul / epona's
atheling / artful+1 / byakko (preferably augmented) / thaumas

[LidenbokValour]

Is Red Curry Buns the only way to make a profit with cooking these days?

[shaggnix]

Is Red Curry Buns the only way to make a profit with cooking these days?

nope

[fatty]

This may not be exactly the place for this, but every time I try to download yesterday's patch, it gives me POL error 1155. Something about a dll. It throws the error as soon as it tries to actually download one of the update files. No idea what to do about it.

[Taint]

This may not be exactly the place for this, but every time I try to download yesterday's patch, it gives me POL error 1155. Something about a dll. It throws the error as soon as it tries to actually download one of the update files. No idea what to do about it.

Are you logged into a mule already? I kept getting an error until I logged out all my mules. It was trying to update an active file which was causing the error.

[ikariiiii]

What Taint said, FFXImain.dll can't be updated if you already have another instance opened.

[Falaras]

Can anyone tell me why this isn't working at all in my spellcast?
<if buffactive ="Ebullience">
<equip when="precast">
<head lock=true>Svnt. Bonnet +2</head>
</equip>
</if>

[Falaras]

Can anyone tell me why this isn't working at all in my spellcast?
<if buffactive ="Ebullience">
<equip when="precast">
<head lock=true>Svnt. Bonnet +2</head>
</equip>
</if>

[TheDirtyHobo]

Do you have another head-locking statment that comes before it in the rules? The only other thing I can think of is the space between 'buffactive =', not sure if that would matter at all, though.