Random Question Thread: Fuck it.

[NynJa]

Also nynja, did you try thf/dnc with an oynos knfe or w/e to get the haste from it? or were you talking about something completely different?

I already get haste from my mage, I was talking about salvage.

What's the best way to skill up all of my red mage's magic skills? Ideally afk/scripted.

I normally go to Zvhal Fortalices for melee skills and cap at around 300 there, but when I went to skill up my 250ish singing with threnodies, I was hardly getting any skill ups, are fortalices nerfed for magic skill ups?.

for afk skillups, as long as its not damaging offensive, Om'Hpemdes are 73-77, which should get you to about lv85 worth of skill.

You probably arent getting much skill at 250 because bard skills cap at C. At lv80, A+ is 301, whereas C is 250 (the spot you've hit the roadblock). Skill caps arent based by number, when it comes to a skillup target, but rather by level.

[Zirk]

For elemental skill just spam like tier 1 stuff?

[Radec]

What's the best way to skill up all of my red mage's magic skills? Ideally afk/scripted.

I normally go to Zvhal Fortalices for melee skills and cap at around 300 there, but when I went to skill up my 250ish singing with threnodies, I was hardly getting any skill ups, are fortalices nerfed for magic skill ups?.

Other best thing I can think of is worms in Gustuv Tunnel, could maybe script those with tossing in random cure IV's built into script.

Any suggestions on which spells are best to use, do the spells have to land to get skill ups?

Thanks.

BRD is special, instrument/singing skills are C rated so they cap at pretty low numbers.
Singing needs to land to skill, instruments don't, you can get skill on both at once if it lands.

RDM skills - loop protect1's onto a lvl90-ish NPC and will skill up much faster than onto yourself/other players.

Highlevel worms also work, if you do abyssea worms, putting on resist-earth and regen atmas is probably enough, loop stun/absorbs/aspir/dia/barstone as required.
All these will need to land though to skill up, but dia is 100% accurate for enfeeble, bio100% accurate for dark.

Healing goes up fast cast offensively on undead, but there isn't as much "turn it on and forget it" ability there.

[Yugl]

For elemental skill just spam like tier 1 stuff?

Silence them first, ya.

[Omnipotent]

Can you unlink an FFXI account from a SE ID incase you are scared of getting banned with that FFXI account and don't want your 14 account to suffer if you do?

[Zirk]

I have heard stories of people that got banned, and even completely separate accounts got banned because they were using the same credit card / had used the same credit card in the past. I'm not sure if that's true but if it is, they'll still have evidence linking the two accounts together and could act if they wanted.

I doubt they'd ban your 14 account though, 14 needs all the help it can get.

[Taint]

They ban IP addresses too. We've had it happen a few times in our LS.

[Gun-it]

You can unlink them though but you have to call SE. So I have been told

[benjamus]

optimal acc sets for sam in legion/Mul? masa99 only, no relic!

[LiquidFriend]

Can you unlink an FFXI account from a SE ID incase you are scared of getting banned with that FFXI account and don't want your 14 account to suffer if you do?

I'm not completely sure, but I think I've heard of people that have said they've been banned from FFXI and still had XIV accounts untouched.

[Terravcota]

Incoming noob questions - sorry in advance. So I need a break from farming Colorless Souls and I'm thinking of getting started on Apademak's Horns. I have, somehow, managed to never fight him before. The solo videos on Youtube make me think it just can't be THAT bad, though. I know there was some talk back in September about him, but I wanted to check I actually understood it all. Here are my thoughts:

MNK/WAR - Tank from the side so the only TP moves are mist and dreadstorm (right?).
THF/BLM - Main stunner. Capped dark skill + merits, Merciless Matriarch. Dark Torque and Merciful Cape available for skill, if needed.
WHM/BLM - Normal WHM duties + back up stun, if necessary.

Questions:
1. Can /BLM stun w/o having a staff for MACC? I read about needing a good set back around the 90 cap, but wasn't sure it would be as hard at 99. I wasn't planning on changing out of daggers to stun.
2. I've seen conflicting reports of single characters having stun ready for all the spells. With capped (or pretty close to) gear haste + haste and the fast cast from MM am I pretty safe to assume I won't need to back up stun on the WHM much, if at all?
3. Is it really necessary to pull Apademak to the ramp? If so, how do you go about doing it? I've read to stun him as soon as he pops and have a second person ready to stun when he gets to the ramp.

Anything I'm missing or additional tips/tricks would be great. I'll only have those 3 characters so I wasn't planning on brewing any pops.

[trinironnie]

Best way to set up chat filters?

[Isiolia]

Questions:
1. Can /BLM stun w/o having a staff for MACC? I read about needing a good set back around the 90 cap, but wasn't sure it would be as hard at 99. I wasn't planning on changing out of daggers to stun.
2. I've seen conflicting reports of single characters having stun ready for all the spells. With capped (or pretty close to) gear haste + haste and the fast cast from MM am I pretty safe to assume I won't need to back up stun on the WHM much, if at all?
3. Is it really necessary to pull Apademak to the ramp? If so, how do you go about doing it? I've read to stun him as soon as he pops and have a second person ready to stun when he gets to the ramp.

Anything I'm missing or additional tips/tricks would be great. I'll only have those 3 characters so I wasn't planning on brewing any pops.

1.) Not sure, I did him with a small group that included a dual boxed BLM. One thing you might consider is that Dreadstorm does Terror, so having the THF in melee range might not be a great idea.
2.) BLM managed to stun every cast, though occasionally it was very close depending on spells used.
3.) No need. Stun on pop because he'll cast, tank from the side and stun casts. Provided you do that, he's a pushover. Dreadstorm's range is short enough that you can place the WHM/etc outside of it without needing to use terrain.

[Terravcota]

1.) Not sure, I did him with a small group that included a dual boxed BLM. One thing you might consider is that Dreadstorm does Terror, so having the THF in melee range might not be a great idea.
2.) BLM managed to stun every cast, though occasionally it was very close depending on spells used.
3.) No need. Stun on pop because he'll cast, tank from the side and stun casts. Provided you do that, he's a pushover. Dreadstorm's range is short enough that you can place the WHM/etc outside of it without needing to use terrain.

Thanks for the heads up. I totally forgot about Dreadstorm being terror. My biggest fear (always) with WHM/BLM main stunning is the time I decide to cure will be the time the mob does the move that needs to be stunned. Is he enough of a pushover that I could have the THF sub DNC and use Waltzes to keep the MNK alive-ish when I have stun up to cast? (Read: The MNK won't be getting face-raped.) I try to only cast other spells when my recast timer is ticking down.

[Taint]

optimal acc sets for sam in legion/Mul? masa99 only, no relic!

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/278096


Gotta be close.

[Jem]

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/278096


Gotta be close.

Nitpicky but Ambuscade over Mars since in legion. 2%DA vs 8 Attack.

Could also use Belatz + Phasmida instead of Ghillie + Phos +1 (not sure if the 2% haste lets you drop better elsewhere, not a sam so not touching anything with stp on)

[Isiolia]

Thanks for the heads up. I totally forgot about Dreadstorm being terror. My biggest fear (always) with WHM/BLM main stunning is the time I decide to cure will be the time the mob does the move that needs to be stunned. Is he enough of a pushover that I could have the THF sub DNC and use Waltzes to keep the MNK alive-ish when I have stun up to cast? (Read: The MNK won't be getting face-raped.) I try to only cast other spells when my recast timer is ticking down.

Outside of any other factors, Tenebrous Mist wipes TP, which may make it difficult to rely on having much for /DNC. Probably not enough to keep up with actually getting hit much (I think he also has added effect Terror? been a few months). When I did it, we had NIN + BLM dualbox, WAR + WHM dualbox (me) and a THF, so it's hard for me to say for sure with your particular setup outside of the general strategy. With that, it was a very simple matter of the BLM and WHM keeping things humming, and hoping for Dreadstorm so we'd have TP to WS.

[Terravcota]

Outside of any other factors, Tenebrous Mist wipes TP, which may make it difficult to rely on having much for /DNC. Probably not enough to keep up with actually getting hit much (I think he also has added effect Terror? been a few months). When I did it, we had NIN + BLM dualbox, WAR + WHM dualbox (me) and a THF, so it's hard for me to say for sure with your particular setup outside of the general strategy. With that, it was a very simple matter of the BLM and WHM keeping things humming, and hoping for Dreadstorm so we'd have TP to WS.

Thanks for all the help - I really appreciate it. I'll try out main stunning on WHM and if it goes badly, I'll work on our setup.

[Taint]

Nitpicky but Ambuscade over Mars since in legion. 2%DA vs 8 Attack.

Could also use Belatz + Phasmida instead of Ghillie + Phos +1 (not sure if the 2% haste lets you drop better elsewhere, not a sam so not touching anything with stp on)

Good calls, didn't even consider the Legion specific gear. And yes to both of those changes.

[Jem]

Ok I don't want the thing myself (if it exists) but I have to ask to confirm I am not going crazy.

Is there some sort of program out there that buys unstackable items in bulk / extremely fast? Recently I've been getting onto boats for lures directly after day change and getting nowhere near the amount I should get given the number available and number of people on board.

Example that happened to me in the last 24 hours. I got on a boat with minimum price minnows (indicating what, 40 or 42 or something I think?) and low/mid price Sinkings (1700 ish), it was directly at day change (shop wasn't open when the boat set off) so there was no way stock could have been bought prior to me getting on. I got 7 minnows (in 7 seconds off chatlog) + 3 Sinkings (in 3 secs) before stock ran out, there was only 1 other person on the boat.

This isn't an one off incident either, it's been happening quite frequently (usually with smaller numbers, the above just confirmed to me it couldn't be me being slow/lagging/etc.) so isn't down to just me being stupid with day changes and/or buying slowly. (Plus friends have said it's happened to them too)