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[minnih]

Should i max out Berserk recast or Aggressor recast for war?

what do i do for category 2?
I was thinking max out warrior charge, 4 in Savagery, 1 in Tomahawk?

[grevenilvec75]

I did berserk recast and same as you for cat2

[Rehn]

Does anyone else own a blutkrallen and not see it proc at all? I'm halfway through a bhafII run and have yet to see it proc even once...

Either it is astronomically low, or something is broken.

... or I'm missing something.

[Cairthenn]

It used to be reported to proc excessively, so maybe they nerfed it.

[Cream Soda]

Now that the prices of relic+2 items have dropped considerably since the last time I played, is it more time/coin efficient to target EPs over DCs in dyna?

[Cream Soda]

Now that the prices of relic+2 items have dropped considerably since the last time I played, is it more time/coin efficient to target EPs over DCs?

Edit: I'm finishing dnc/thf with a basic set for solo farming, but sometimes I have access to my friend's whm. With that, should I just go mnk/thf (or sam/thf) + whm and go for magic procs via dia spam? Either of those jobs would kill considerably faster than my dnc which would just be a mix of af3+2, skadi, and AH daggers

[Taim Meich]

Can anyone explain the trick to opening the Soul Pyres in Adoulin areas? I've gotten a couple now and failed to open every one, and I really have no idea what I'm doing.

It's distance based. You check it, get a number. Say, 80%. The goal is to check it at 0%. You move (usually towards, if it's a big number) and check again. If it's lower, you moved in the right direction, move whatever you think will reduce it enough, and check again. Note that you may move too much towards and increase the number. In that case, of course, you move back a bit. The Mummers' glasses can be used on the Soul Pyre for a free % check without using one of your available ones, and are consumed upon use, apparently.

I have a pretty high record with them as soon as I realized what I ad to do.

[Sechs]

I have some questions about Perfect Defense.
Before the nerf "potency" was relative to the amount of MP spent by the JA. If you had at least 999 or something like that, Alexander would have reached full potency.
Lasting time was fixed, 90 seconds, but it scaled down quickly. I think the "real" invincibility was like in the first 30 seconds if not less. The last 30 seconds had a small reduction in damage and resistances.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Now we have the new Perfect Defense.
Lasting time scales with SMN skill. 30 base + 1 every 20 SMN skill.
Does Potency scale with something? MP like before?
Does Perfect Defense still get the "reduced effect" as time goes by, or does the new version have a full reduction for the whole duration of the ability?

[Taint]

PD is still MP dependant for the base time. Damage still scales and seems to start free the base time. The MP requirements haven't changed at all from what I've seen. Just the duration.

[Sechs]

So it's basically just the same (including the damage reduction scaling down over time, sigh), but with just a different duration.
Seems a "balanced" change imho.
Unlike the Embrava one. Wish they could have made it at least last 120s base time.

[mdkuser]

Since I don't have summoner, this intrigues me. To make sure I understand:

Char #1 (BLU) checks chest, spawns mimic, takes no further action.
Char #2 (THF) /ra the mimic after it turns from 15.0 +, both char run out of range?

its basically the same as smn. SMN checks chests, pet autoaggro it, SMN gets out of range (21+) and desummon, mimic deaggro after 5s.

or

CHar 1 aggro chest. Char2 range attack it from 21+ range, mimic has zero hate on char 1, char 1 can go out of range, mimic cannot draw-in char 2 because he is too far.

[Squah]

Came back after 6 months, and I feel like I did when I came back to abyssea and 99 cap after grinding 9 jobs to 75 back in the golden days. Few things:

1. Anyone got a BG Wiki link for Salvage 2.0? I can't find any general strategies and sifting through the 100+ pages on here is like finding a needle in a haystack.

2. How to unlock soul pyres? I understand you need to be at the correct compass direction and distance, but the one I found gave me something like 10% until I circled around a bit, got 40%, turned another maybe 15 degrees (out of a compass's 360), got 40% again, and then it continually dropped after that. Just trial and error and the percentages are really precise? Or is there a better way?

3. Why does Karieyh look like shit? srs

4. For Catastrophe, Kareiyh Boots and Legs look superior to my current Bale+2/Dilarams. Same for resolution (aside from low acc Reso situations, where Bale +2 wins). Truth?

5. Thurandau Chapeau best in slot for VSmite? As opposed to Nematona/Thaumas.

[dasva]

Soul pryes are trial and error kinda like boxes and it's a combination of direction and distance so you should've gone back to the 10% direction and varied distance

[Squah]

Soul pryes are trial and error kinda like boxes and it's a combination of direction and distance so you should've gone back to the 10% direction and varied distance

Is it 50% direction 50% distance? So find 10% compass, get correct distance, then loop around until I get the right direction? I would practice and figure it out myself, but they aren't exactly common... at all

[Heslon]

does anyone have a map of ceizak battlegrounds with all "lost article" spawns? I only found a map with like 2 spawns, but there are more.
and can you see them on widescan?

[tenkiki]

Does anyone else own a blutkrallen and not see it proc at all? I'm halfway through a bhafII run and have yet to see it proc even once...

Either it is astronomically low, or something is broken.

... or I'm missing something.

HQ seems to be fine, could be bugged like the nefer khat +1 if it doesn't work in abyssea/old content

[Siniroth]

Relic or Empyrean for Nin and Blu, which one would be easier to make accounting for usefulness of each?

Also is Blu easy enough to gear for a new character to be worthwhile?

[Fwahm]

Is there anything in the dats implying that we'll be able to put better augments on the bayld armor sets, or is HP/MP the best we're going to get on them?

[dasva]

Is it 50% direction 50% distance? So find 10% compass, get correct distance, then loop around until I get the right direction? I would practice and figure it out myself, but they aren't exactly common... at all

Hard to say really but getting down to 10% by itself implies you got 1 of the 2 right. Increasing when you rotated pretty much confirms direction was good or at least close

[Alistrianna]

could anyone tell me what the dat files are for Hatzoaar Sword and Nightfall? I really hate running around with a sword that looks like the Lv.1 RUN greatsword...