Random Question Thread: Fuck it.

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

The NNI KI is a gauranteed 100 piece of your choice, and yes, you still have your shot of 100 gear from the pool from defeating the floor 100 boss. As for a all BST pt running through Neo Nyzul, I don't think that's going to happen, considering the way it works.

[Zerk]

The NNI KI is a gauranteed 100 piece of your choice, and yes, you still have your shot of 100 gear from the pool from defeating the floor 100 boss. As for a all BST pt running through Neo Nyzul, I don't think that's going to happen, considering the way it works.

Could you elaborate w/ "the way it works"? Been a very long time since I've done any nyzul, and i remember most of it, but having some pets doing most of the damage/tanking while masters take care of objectives or add more DD seems like a decent idea, but I must be missing something.

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

You always begin at floor 1, and when you clear an objective, you have the option to port to the next floor, or "???" which can be a floor jump from 2-9 floors. It is all about speed, with clearing objectives quickly, and killing anything that you need to do, quickly as well.

[Eldelphia]

The key thing about NNI is speed. That's why so many (not all) groups use or have used third party plugins/programs to make life easier. With a static you can learn to beat it legit but there's still a lot of luck involved. Speed of kills and generally running around is enormously important. A 'normal' setup right now is 2 x SCH (Embrava) with EAF +2 hands and high enhancing skill with 4 x DD. Usually Empy/Relic WARs and DRKs. It's possible to beat it in other ways but that's probably the cookie cutter. Because you have to make it from floor 1 to floor 100 in 30 mins it's all about speed and luck. You can clear those floors well but get shafted by the random number generator and go up 2 floors at a time. I'm not saying it couldn't be done but if you can't get the speed kills on BST you're going to time out lower. In the next update they're going to reduce the amount of wasted time on lamps (waiting for resets etc) and improve how many floors you may jump in one go. As well as cutting down the amount of floor 80 KI you need to buy a floor 100 piece with. A lot of people are waiting to see what happens, others are trying to cap out now because they're about to nerf embrava.

[Kincard]

Does anybody know what kind of damage reduction Dynamis statues have, or do they just have a lot of defense? It's just weird to me that sometimes I do 30 damage, sometimes I hit for 0 continuously on the things. Formless Strikes makes hits do almost no damage, too- kinda confuses me.

[Byrthnoth]

They take really severely reduced magic and physical damage, but they take (relatively) a lot of damage from crits. I think it's a combination of insanely high defense and about 50% damage reduction, because they're actually fairly low level (like 65).

[Yugl]

Weapon Bash did 33/37, so I doubt there's 50% PDT. Maybe 10% PDT, but still a weird number.

Edit: 18 dmg to an avatar, so roughly 50% PDT I guess.

[Byrthnoth]

Isn't that fairly conclusive, though? They have more than 9% PDT and less than 11%?

So I guess the rest must be Defense or they just get a weird Ratio cap?

[Kincard]

In my experience I seem to do a lot more damage to them on MNK than on THF, so it's possible they just have weapon type resistances, leading to bash doing almost full damage. Wouldn't be surprising since SE likes to make "stone structure" kind-of enemies be weak to blunt.

[Yugl]

Isn't that fairly conclusive, though? They have more than 9% PDT and less than 11%?

So I guess the rest must be Defense or they just get a weird Ratio cap?

Could be 1.875x blunt (Staff/Club/etc) and 50% PDT, but I doubt that even more lol. Likely 10% PDT. Btw, the avatar comment was pet avatar, not avatar icon. I used 1.875 since Damage Type tends to be 100/50/25/12.5 increments. Best way to check would be using that oh-so-needed-cactaur!

[Falkirk]

Tombstone Prototype took 750 damage from 1000 Needles.

[Yugl]

Thanks! I doubt we'll see a bonus from piercing against statues, so 50% PDT seems out of the way. That should include disproving the 90% PDT too. So we have either 25% Damage Type Reduction + 0% PDT or no Damage Type Reduction and 25% PDT. The former makes no sense given the weapon bash damage (Would imply a 90% damage type reduction to blunt damage). The latter works if the bonus is 25% for blunt (Staff/Club/etc) damage. In short, guessing 25% PDT and 25% extra damage from blunt (Staff/Club/etc) damage. We really need a name to distinguish H2H from the other types of damage.

[Snprphnx]

trying to complete A Shantotto Ascension missions, and got to the final CS in Ro'Maeve. As expected, it locked up on me while in windower. Closed windower and started up in POL, but the game won't get past the screen with the Play/Test Server option. When it tries to start up, my screen flashes a lot, then it fails and says Direct3D failed to initialize.

Any advice?

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Scratch that, I got it

[Fwahm]

When did they remove the 50% magic recast cap?

[Omnipotent]

How much would you price most of the rewards from meebles? Like the Healing magic +4.... some grips etc?

Loaded question.... but I want to get best bank for my buck

[NynJa]

When did they remove the 50% magic recast cap?

the killer effects / crit rate/damage patch, May 2011 I think, I just looked this up.

How much would you price most of the rewards from meebles? Like the Healing magic +4.... some grips etc?

Loaded question.... but I want to get best bank for my buck

Check ffxiah, compare prices. the bst ear and MAB belt seemed to be moderately decent sellers gil / rate wise.

[fantasticdan]

Do pets generate exp/AN properly from damage dealt/received in campaign? As in, would I be wasting my time doing campaign as smn?

[Yimoa]

I know a couple BSTs that would use lulush for whirl claw spam> turn in tags> repeat for a decent AN/hour.

[dasva]

For some reason I noticed bst pets do really good melee dmg against the statues too if that helps any. Like I might hit for 30 while they hit for 300 while on the other mobs in area we deal closer to the same amount per hit

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Have a Ragna/Apoc 95, my next current project, finish Vereth, and start to upgrade something new.. Do I try to 99 Vereth, or Ukon, or should I just 99 my Apoc instead? I'm not sure what would make the biggest impact from it's 90/95 counterparts.

Bump!