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

[Airenn]

This is a random question but a bit different:

I let my account go inactive a bit ago (couple months or so) when my CC expired and even then I wasn't really playing much. Mostly I'd log on, lead a Prov. But the thing is, I'd ALWAYS leave FF running in the BG. Just habit. Years and years and years of habit. Maybe do something with a friend/chatter/a simple VW if the ally was close to being full, etc.



Anyways, now, I'm kinda going through the withdrawal phase and I want to reactivate. Honestly, I'm sure I'd just leave it idling in the background and not actually playing again but... I know there was a recent update and a new expansion listed, but I haven't read up on much. All I know is there's a new bad-ass staff.

Is there anything that would be worth reactivating? Trying to fight the addiction but also, I don't HATE FF. And since I can't say I wasted a LOT of time on it, that it would be a bad thing to reactivate. But yea.

Just kinda fighting with it both ways and wondering input on people playing if there's anything worthwhile to be doing.

[Konda]

Does Martial Master work on summoning magic skillups?
...and do summoning avatars provide better skillups vs spamming elementals?

[Eurell]

This is a random question but a bit different:

I let my account go inactive a bit ago (couple months or so) when my CC expired and even then I wasn't really playing much. Mostly I'd log on, lead a Prov. But the thing is, I'd ALWAYS leave FF running in the BG. Just habit. Years and years and years of habit. Maybe do something with a friend/chatter/a simple VW if the ally was close to being full, etc.



Anyways, now, I'm kinda going through the withdrawal phase and I want to reactivate. Honestly, I'm sure I'd just leave it idling in the background and not actually playing again but... I know there was a recent update and a new expansion listed, but I haven't read up on much. All I know is there's a new bad-ass staff.

Is there anything that would be worth reactivating? Trying to fight the addiction but also, I don't HATE FF. And since I can't say I wasted a LOT of time on it, that it would be a bad thing to reactivate. But yea.

Just kinda fighting with it both ways and wondering input on people playing if there's anything worthwhile to be doing.

Not much has come out lately. Probably just the new Odin chamber, and new Limbus (1 floor each of temenos and apollyon, and a new Omega and Ultima). Maybe Nyzul as well? Salavage updates are coming out, but we don't know what they are going to be yet, probably just extra floors or something. Dungeon crawling is also coming out soon, which seems promising I think. I think the only other thing they have planned for this year is playing as a monster, which seems cool as fuck imo, but I'm betting the rewards will be meh (not that I care, I just want to lvl up into an HNM and fight people lol).

But even if there was nothing new this year, I would still wanna come back for the expansion next year (ffs don't be December 2013). A whole new region, new jobs, new missions, new HNMs, personal farmville islands or some shit,

[LidenbokValour]

wrong thread <_> sorry

[Suteru]

Modern cards support whatever, so you can put whatever you want in there, but NVidia cards can now force FXAA even on FFXI which looks way better without dumping your framrerate in PC-filled areas, and the pixel averaging of non-matched render resolution just screws it up. Looks best to 1:1 your render res to your window res and force FXAA, plus you get 29.9fps everywhere.

So they finally fixed the issue where GPU AA would only anti-alias the overlay? I need to figure out how to do this, I've never forced anything under my GPU settings, and I just built a new PC with a GTX 570

[Isiolia]

So they finally fixed the issue where GPU AA would only anti-alias the overlay? I need to figure out how to do this, I've never forced anything under my GPU settings, and I just built a new PC with a GTX 570

Not exactly. The game still does render to texture and all that like it always has. Newer cards have introduced post-processing AA methods - AMD brought MLAA starting with the 6800 series, and nVidia came back with FXAA, which both nVidia and AMD cards can use with the right shaders (but I think only nVidia can force?). There's also another morphological AA method out there called SMAA.

Regardless, they take effect later in the pipeline, so they can apply to the 3D parts of FFXI, or other games that otherwise don't support traditional AA.

[Septimus]

So, I have been doing Odin Prime over the last week. All of the runs were very smooth (out in under 2 minutes) until last night when he pulled this on me at around 30%.



Is there any way to avoid this? Is that sort of damage normal for that move, or is there anyway to make it not one-shot you? I was able to raise up and start over, but it was very inconvenient. On the plus side, it seems that tomorrow will be the final clear.

[NynJa]

Its like 10k needles

[Septimus]

Its like 10k needles

Well, that blows. No way to distribute that much damage when duo, just have to hope to not see it again.

[JetEnduro]

Migawari?

[NynJa]

Its every 25%, you just kill it so fast you saw it at 30%
only real safety net is migawari

How are you duo anyways? Dont you need 6 bodies to enter withoutgetting booted, or are you trying to kill before it boots you?

[JetEnduro]

Odin prime. Avatar fight.

[NynJa]

Skipped that word lol

[TheDangerousDave]

How much does FFXI cost per month in pounds now? How much Crysta do I need to have for one month's payment? Have 302 atm so just gonna add whatever to make up a months worth.

[stewie]

Lowest amount to do Arch-Omega? We have 6 people, can have any assortment of jobs.

[Radec]

Lowest amount to do Arch-Omega? We have 6 people, can have any assortment of jobs.

3 healer/support (whm, sch, brd, etc) 3 melee, at least 1 with a decent magic/nonelemental WS (Requiescat, Formless Strikes, etc) will be fine. DT sets nice to have but not strictly required - none of the moves are 1shot-class, there are just a lot of them.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Lowest amount to do Arch-Omega? We have 6 people, can have any assortment of jobs.

Could do mnkx2 brd whm sch (could skip the sch if you had the whm go sch pop embrava in the zone then warp and change to whm)
(make sure your mnks remove rancor shit from their tp/ws sets it causes pile/colossal to one shot)

[Alistaire]

Someone had said BLU BLU SCH long as the 2 BLU had Requiescat. 6 people shouldn't be hard.

[Funkworkz]

Do prowesses that are on party members affect everyone in the party? Example: mule sitting and resting who has 5/5 treasure casket discovery, does it affect another char who is actually killing mobs, or does the person with the affect on need to have the killshot/be on hate list?

[dasva]

Only the person with the prowess is effected by it. Not really sure how treasure casket discovery is by killshot or like TH though