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

[Taint]

Did a 20k Meteor with 5 on Morta last night, pretty cool when ES is up. Most landed in the 17k range though.

[sluggo]

What are good windower resolution settings? I can't seem to get it optimal. 1920x1080 resolution.

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure I doubled those numbers, I can double check when I get home, but its something high like that.

[TSFFXI]

Anyone know if blobdingnag is soloable by a drg? I havent fought him yet so just by going by wiki, he doesnt sound horrible. Fight in pond so babies dont aggro, and his tp moves really dont look that bad. Although he is blm so agas could potentially ruin my day.

My other question is, if it is soloable, is it really worth it? Ie will it take forever or be too risky? We have a lot of new/returning players in our ls, so until we get them up to speed gearwise i probably cant call on much help for this.

In the two dozen times I fought it, I don't remember it ever casting a spell. Things that are important, though: that puddle trick never worked no matter how many different puddles I stepped in or whether or not it was raining. Maybe it does sometimes, but unless someone can show you the voodoo magic behind it, you probably shouldn't count on it. (maybe grab a friend and duo the first one, running from puddle to puddle trying to get one that works?) In the event that you aren't able to get the puddle to work, you should be aware that the little ones all have additional effects on their melee attacks: amnesia, silence, disease, etc. Dissolve deals 800 DMG or so without shell.

[Taint]

In the two dozen times I fought it, I don't remember it ever casting a spell. Things that are important, though: that puddle trick never worked no matter how many different puddles I stepped in or whether or not it was raining. Maybe it does sometimes, but unless someone can show you the voodoo magic behind it, you probably shouldn't count on it. (maybe grab a friend and duo the first one, running from puddle to puddle trying to get one that works?) In the event that you aren't able to get the puddle to work, you should be aware that the little ones all have additional effects on their melee attacks: amnesia, silence, disease, etc. Dissolve deals 800 DMG or so without shell.

Puddle trick definitely works. (worked) Used to to finish OAT Claws back when they were good.

[Nemesio]

Best Job/Atma combo to Brew Glavoid? Have MNK NIN SAM in terms of DD's.

[Omnipotent]

Anyone know the set bonus from Ferine +2 gear on attack given from the Pet's HP? Also does it only take 3 pieces to trigger it?

[Nishida]

I'm being told Tessera Saio is bad for BLU, and that's the job I picked it for from giveaway (when I picked it, I just came back to the game..and didn't know wtf). With that said, which job that can use it is it awesome for? Assuming COR? Any others aside from COR?

[stewie]

Speaking of Blob, can THF and WHM or RDM duo it easily?

[Kaisha]

What determines the aspect ratio of the player names/icons? Tired of everything looking stretched at a 16:10 resolution.

[Nishida]

What determines the aspect ratio of the player names/icons? Tired of everything looking stretched at a 16:10 resolution.

http://forums.windower.net/topic/211...rface-7262012/

You're welcome.

[Suteru]

Too bad that probably won't work on the test server the screenshot shows.

[Kaisha]

Nor do I modify my client at all.

So it's not something actually fixable without going for weird resolutions with narrowed horizontal pixels? Guess I can always file a bug report on official forum and not see anything get fixed.

[Squah]

Anyone know the set bonus from Ferine +2 gear on attack given from the Pet's HP? Also does it only take 3 pieces to trigger it?

Any more than 2 pieces will affect proc rate. Only need 2 to get the set bonus to proc. It works like DRG and DRK set. If pet is 100% HP, your attack does +100% dmg. Pet 50% hp, +50% dmg etc.

[Omnipotent]

Does that proc on WS's?

[scaevola]

Best Job/Atma combo to Brew Glavoid? Have MNK NIN SAM in terms of DD's.

First of all, sweating brew setups is kind of wack because at most you're talking about whether you're going to two or three-shot your target with WSes that you can use once every five or ten seconds anyway. It's just not worth investing time into when that is time that you could at the very least be investing into getting more cruor for more brews.

That said, if you're really going to go to the trouble of making an optimum brew set up out of those three, get a Martial Knife and use Aeolian Edge with NIN. Optimal would be a TP Bonus offhand Katana and Gales+the two highest MAB atma you can get, but if you don't want to invest in the TP Bonus Katana offhand (which is, again, kind of dumb), Martial Knife and Gales/Smiting Blow/MAB atma works fine.

(the real reason to invest in that kind of work for a brew setup for you specifically, even if it's not a very good one, would be to enable your NIN to effectively cleave. Aeolian Edge can get pretty high in Abyssea if you commit to it.)

[Francisco]

I'm missing the final KI to get the sixth Voidwatch stone, which sucks since people tend to do runs in groups of six.

I have noticed if you wipe to a run, you don't necessarily lose that stone, and it gets reused the next time you attempt the NM...

Since I only have five stones, and want to maximize my chances at a Toci's Harness, would this work?

- Run out to Pil alone, pop it, obviously die...
- Homepoint, fill back up on stones (so I have 5)
- Join a Pil shout, get six chances at loot despite only having 5 stones.

Any downside to this, aside from the loss of XP... would it work or would the stone be completely lost in this instance?

As for cells, would I want to trade them before the intentional fail, or before the actual run?

[dasva]

If you aren't AoEing sanguine blade should do more especially if you can do 1 behind it

[scaevola]

If you aren't AoEing sanguine blade should do more especially if you can do 1 behind it

I think if you're going to go to the trouble to make a brew set you ought to get something else out of it, too.

On reflection, Chatoyant Staff might let MNK pull ahead with Cataclysm if you get Voidstorm, but that's really overthinking this.

EDIT: Actually, if you care enough about brewing efficiently to concern yourself with questions like this, why WOULDN'T you want to AoE?

[Rehn]

I'm missing the final KI to get the sixth Voidwatch stone, which sucks since people tend to do runs in groups of six.

I have noticed if you wipe to a run, you don't necessarily lose that stone, and it gets reused the next time you attempt the NM...

Since I only have five stones, and want to maximize my chances at a Toci's Harness, would this work?

- Run out to Pil alone, pop it, obviously die...
- Homepoint, fill back up on stones (so I have 5)
- Join a Pil shout, get six chances at loot despite only having 5 stones.

Any downside to this, aside from the loss of XP... would it work or would the stone be completely lost in this instance?

As for cells, would I want to trade them before the intentional fail, or before the actual run?

As I tend to pop on PLD, I would always lose my stone if it's a wipe (whereas the rest of they ally keep theirs). At least that was my experience 2 months back before I took a break. So... you may end up losing that stone.

[Radec]

I'm missing the final KI to get the sixth Voidwatch stone, which sucks since people tend to do runs in groups of six.

I have noticed if you wipe to a run, you don't necessarily lose that stone, and it gets reused the next time you attempt the NM...

Since I only have five stones, and want to maximize my chances at a Toci's Harness, would this work?

- Run out to Pil alone, pop it, obviously die...
- Homepoint, fill back up on stones (so I have 5)
- Join a Pil shout, get six chances at loot despite only having 5 stones.

Any downside to this, aside from the loss of XP... would it work or would the stone be completely lost in this instance?

As for cells, would I want to trade them before the intentional fail, or before the actual run?

If you pop, the stone is always lost. If someone else pops and you lose, the stone is not lost, but removed from KI.

If you have a stone that is in that state and then you pop, both it and the stone you use to pop are lost.

ie: only way this would work is if you have someone else pop pil for you(they lose the stone completely, yours gets removed from KI) and you both die, and then you don't pop pil in the shout group.