Random Question Thread: Fuck it.

[Damane]

I've recently emigrated from the UK to USA. My account is an EU account. The SquareEnix account system is refusing to let me pay with UltimatePay or ClickandBuy presumably because I am now on an American IP. It just insta-rejects my Paypal account despite it being the exact same Paypal account I have used to pay ever since they changed the payment system. Clickandbuy is a similar story, it just says not accepted for your country of origin.

Literally the only difference is that I am now on an American IP address instead of an English one. None of my payment details have changed nor anything related ot my SE account.

Has anybody else had this issue before or know a workaround because as it stands I can't pay for my account at all.

EDIT: Also rejecting American credit cards too.

This has more or less to do with your Square-Enix account being EU I think. I had a similar problem too, when the square-enix account system was released, it refused to aknoledge my US PLO account, because my square-enix account was EU (my FFXI was imported). I contacted the Square-Enix support center, they changed something around and then it was working with a EU SE account adn US PLO account.

[Kyte]

A friend who hasn't played in some time want to play again, but has forgotten his POL ID. What is the process for rectifying this issue (including the bare minimum amount of information he'll need to know)?

[noodles355]

It's been mentioned, but the reason it's currently rejecting everything is because it's fraud auto-detector kicked in when you used your card from a foreign IP. It's got like a 2 day cooldown or something so don't try anything till then. After that it'll accept american cards. You won't be able to pay with an english card whilst you're over there though.

Like I said, it's the exact same problem I faced 6 months ago when I moved to australia.

[Cyprias]

I use Vereth 85, my friend is Spharai 95, but I've never parsed us both on Cerbs. Either works fine but Cerb can hit hard so maybe the +counter on Spharai gives it an edge.

I typically use Formless Strikes on the NQ one around the 50% mark. Any later and it won't be up until the last 10% of the HQ unless you deliberately wait out the cool down.

Went in, tried this but I ran out of MP fairly quickly. I get 7 MP/tick + 3 from Refresh, still had a rough time on this as WHM/RDM MNK/WAR THF. Mainly had the MNK on it using Vere. Should the MNK be Hundred Fisting at that 50%, or is there something else we're not aware of? We brought it down to 18ish%, but he overwhelmed us unexpectedly. Have killed before as WHM RDM DRK THF, but didn't have a 4th on tonight.

I also have RDM and SCH, if that is a suggested mage job instead of WHM for this particular 3-man run (although I saw WHM+MNK clear, which is why I'm baffled on this).

EDIT: Furthermore, just so I don't have to post this twice, F4 East Gear NM didn't pop after killing them near the same time, and we killed them each with two different weapon types (i.e. One died by H2H, the other Dagger).

[NynJa]

Do you have melee gaiters for counterstance? The extra 5-10% will have major implications on damage taken.
Thats the same setup i use (thf/dnc), just have the thf do SA/TA, the spikes damage will catch up if not. I havent had any mp probs, just keep regen4 on the mnk of course. When it does gates/flame, send thf in to waltz it off the mnk so whm doesnt waste time casting erase.

As far as 4fE nm, today I killed them 11s apart with white damage from mnk, yesterday they were a timed WS kill, 1 from mnk and 1 from dagger. Im leaning towards it has to be an identical type of kill (ws/ws, white/white). Though this discussion would be best for the salv tread.

[Solrain]

Went in, tried this but I ran out of MP fairly quickly. I get 7 MP/tick + 3 from Refresh, still had a rough time on this as WHM/RDM MNK/WAR THF. Mainly had the MNK on it using Vere. Should the MNK be Hundred Fisting at that 50%, or is there something else we're not aware of? We brought it down to 18ish%, but he overwhelmed us unexpectedly. Have killed before as WHM RDM DRK THF, but didn't have a 4th on tonight.

I also have RDM and SCH, if that is a suggested mage job instead of WHM for this particular 3-man run (although I saw WHM+MNK clear, which is why I'm baffled on this).

EDIT: Furthermore, just so I don't have to post this twice, F4 East Gear NM didn't pop after killing them near the same time, and we killed them each with two different weapon types (i.e. One died by H2H, the other Dagger).

Sounds like he just took you out with some bullshit luck moves after the 18%. I'd probably go with SCH instead of WHM - Embrava is still nice if you save it for the HQ, despite the nerf, and Kaustra is pretty decent. Perpetuance+Regen V also obviously makes things a lot easier when it comes to healing. DRK actually does a pretty good amount of damage with Twilight Scythe (if your DRK was using it on your 4-man kill) so it's rough to base a win on that.

On the gears NM, yea, fuck that thing.

[Yugl]

What are "mob is susceptible to X" claims based on with regards to element? The lolguides, Wikia, and even BG-Wiki has these, but I have no clue whether they obtained that from an official source or simply used "X gets resisted less than Y-N element."

[Hitou]

Did Bhaf II last two nights, managed to get Gear NM on 4th floor to pop both times, killed them within a few seconds of each other with just melee swings, (used WS to lower HP but kill shot was melee.) First night had plenty of time left, tonight had like 10 min cause we got screwed on first floor lamp with 1 ja for 4 players. So I don't think it's time remaining. Both times we went east path on the 3rd floor if that's relevant.

As far as the Cerbs go, have fought it with thf mnk sam whm, and thf mnk drk sch without much trouble. though we did wipe to NQ once because we ignored the rampart instead of killing it off first. Twilight scythe and formless strikes definitely help kill it faster. But, we've done it without it just need to have a lot of time left or you'll time out.

[Obsidian]

Went in, tried this but I ran out of MP fairly quickly. I get 7 MP/tick + 3 from Refresh, still had a rough time on this as WHM/RDM MNK/WAR THF. Mainly had the MNK on it using Vere. Should the MNK be Hundred Fisting at that 50%, or is there something else we're not aware of? We brought it down to 18ish%, but he overwhelmed us unexpectedly. Have killed before as WHM RDM DRK THF, but didn't have a 4th on tonight.

I also have RDM and SCH, if that is a suggested mage job instead of WHM for this particular 3-man run (although I saw WHM+MNK clear, which is why I'm baffled on this).

EDIT: Furthermore, just so I don't have to post this twice, F4 East Gear NM didn't pop after killing them near the same time, and we killed them each with two different weapon types (i.e. One died by H2H, the other Dagger).

We typically don't have problems, I save Hundred Fists for the Seether and usually use it around 30%. I'm usually the only real damage on either of them since the THF just SA/TA/Bully's and he's dualboxing the WHM anyway. He subs SCH instead of RDM. Fulltime Light Arts, abuse Sublimation. Both of them can hit pretty hard (got cirt'd yesterday for 711 lol), just keep Counterstance up and save Perfect Counter for when your HP is in the red. My friend still has about 1/4 of his MP by the end of the NQ fight, even if it's being a dick with breaths.

[Taint]

If you have access to a Murasamemaru SAM you can absolutely rip the 2 Cerbs apart. SAM(EMR+Mura),RDM,THF can finish BRII in under an hour hitting all NMs and both bosses.

I'm sure other combos can do the same but thats been our pty of choice.

[Jem]

It's been mentioned, but the reason it's currently rejecting everything is because it's fraud auto-detector kicked in when you used your card from a foreign IP. It's got like a 2 day cooldown or something so don't try anything till then. After that it'll accept american cards. You won't be able to pay with an english card whilst you're over there though.

Like I said, it's the exact same problem I faced 6 months ago when I moved to australia.

Thing is, I never tried using a UK card because I only have a Maestro card and it seems like 99% of the world outside England don't accept it. I couldn't pay with a UK card even if I wanted purely by virtue of SE not even taking my card when I'm in England. I tried paying with my Paypal account. Not even from my bank either as there was already money just sitting in my Paypal account so it isn't like it tried accessing my UK bank.

Anyway, guess I'll just pay direct with my American Visa from now since it seems that is the only thing that works. It's fucking bizarre though because it doesn't flag the same bullshit up on Daca's account which is also EU, registered to a UK address and was paying with the exact same payment details. Just SE being SE I guess.

EDIT: For what it's worth SE's reply to me was to clear all my current payment methods. Clear my web cache and possibly change my web browser. They also then told me that Crysta is EU only so that may be why I'm having an issue. So that will be why I could buy crysta just fine on my wifes NA account and also on my EU mule and why it says Crysta costs 1 cent per crysta then...



Regarding Cerb, like people have said it dies pretty quickly with a Twilight DRK. I typically use Apoc or Ragna until 50% ish and then switch to Twilight. Not sure what the exact % is that Twilight starts outdoing normal weapons though. It outdoes them on melee damage comfortably very early on but WS damage doesn't seem to die off for quite some time.

[NynJa]

What are "mob is susceptible to X" claims based on with regards to element? The lolguides, Wikia, and even BG-Wiki has these, but I have no clue whether they obtained that from an official source or simply used "X gets resisted less than Y-N element."

Its the latter, but how this information was ascertained is another story. Probably based on the theory that X mob drops X crystal therefor its element is X and its less resistant to Y element, this seems to hold true for most i just checked. It could also be in that jp guide thing, but i dunno how they discovered it. Cast every element spell 1000x and see what got resisted most? Lol

[Economizer]

Couldn't find the answers anywhere else, but:

1. Is Spirit Lantern confirmed to work on Meteor?

2. Does Meteor bypass the absurd damage reduction on Fortifications?

[fantasticdan]

2. Does Meteor bypass the absurd damage reduction on Fortifications?

Why would it? It doesn't ignore MDT.

[Byrthnoth]

1) Spirit Lantern has not been confirmed to work on Meteor, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't. I also don't see very thorough testing of Spirit Lantern, though. I remember getting and hoarding one ages ago, but I think it's gone now.

2) I haven't tried it.

[Corkadile]

Anyone fought Alfard lately? My buddy and I just wiped twice to it to Nerve Gas that was used while tanking from behind it. Twice on one of the pops. Very confused as to what just happened.

[Limlight]

going to dual box some salvage 1 for alex looking for some advice/info:

best path? ssr go powderkeg > gears > turtle > boss? or another path?

also about what main dd job to bring. I have a thf with all the basic stuff str kila, nni gear, af3+2 etc etc but no exent (took it out for last stand). Would thf for maximizing th gear + whm mule be best for total alex per run (i don't care if it takes a little longer) or should I finish up my blu and go blu/thf, mnk, drk? etc

I refuse to gear dancer lol so please don't recommend that but anything else is pretty fair game. Can also go sch or rdm on my mule

also some advice since I haven't done salvage in years. Just murder everything as I go or are there things that I can skip on each floor?

[Damane]

going to dual box some salvage 1 for alex looking for some advice/info:

best path? ssr go powderkeg > gears > turtle > boss? or another path?

also about what main dd job to bring. I have a thf with all the basic stuff str kila, nni gear, af3+2 etc etc but no exent (took it out for last stand). Would thf for maximizing th gear + whm mule be best for total alex per run (i don't care if it takes a little longer) or should I finish up my blu and go blu/thf, mnk, drk? etc

I refuse to gear dancer lol so please don't recommend that but anything else is pretty fair game. Can also go sch or rdm on my mule

also some advice since I haven't done salvage in years. Just murder everything as I go or are there things that I can skip on each floor?

you shouldnt have any problem to clear salvage I with your thf + whm.

and yes SSR powder ----> imps ----> gears ----> turtle ----> boss seems to be the most yielding alexander route (i think).

[JetEnduro]

Hammer > powder > gg3 > turtle > boss.

Cotton isn't guaranteed from the imp last I recall.

[Cyprias]

Thanks for all the help. I don't mind admitting defeat whatsoever as long as we gain some progress out of it!
I'll look into subjob swaps and possibly go back to Apoc/Twilight DRK for it.


For SSR, Hammer > Powder > GG3 > Turtle > Boss is usually most efficient as mentioned above.