Random Question Thread

[Michelob]

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?

For Reso you are correct. For Cata you should be using Ogier's Breeches (worth the effort) and still Dilaram's. INT and AGI 40% modifiers on Cata.

[Squah]

For Reso you are correct. For Cata you should be using Ogier's Breeches (worth the effort) and still Dilaram's. INT and AGI 40% modifiers on Cata.

I have no VW luck. 80+ Hahava with no Mala (nor body but who gives a shit about that). 400~ or so collective Pil/Akvan/Kaggen with no body.

Tried to get Ogier's Breeches but never got the drop, and Gaunab shouts were rare on Bismarck. And when they did show up, I was probably doing something like Morta or Bismarck. So, I never got them (yet). So, that being said, Karieyh would be better than Bale +2(until Ogier's)?

[calinz]

I know this has been asked many times but anyone have a mirror of that website with the history of vana'diel? shadowffxi or something... I really should have bookmarked it but I imagine it's not online anymore as bing doesnt lead me to any good results.

[NynJa]

Is there some trick to cracking Soul Pyres? Sometimes I can get it on 3rd shot, sometimes I'll use my 5th attempt and I wont get closer than 40%

[Khajit]

What are some good defense foods? I have a bunch of tacos so old they can be sold in Taco bell lying around but I want to know if there are other options nowadays. I mostly plan on wasting em in reive when on pld skilling up or whatever.

[Guitarman]

Is there some trick to cracking Soul Pyres? Sometimes I can get it on 3rd shot, sometimes I'll use my 5th attempt and I wont get closer than 40%

You can buy an item in adoulin to "see" where you are before you waste an attempt. I think they're called soul spectacles or something like that? Other than that I haven't heard any fancy tricks. Just circle around and pray you do it right. It's pretty lame :/

What are some good defense foods? I have a bunch of tacos so old they can be sold in Taco bell lying around but I want to know if there are other options nowadays. I mostly plan on wasting em in reive when on pld skilling up or whatever.

Stick with tacos. If you're a cook, rabbit pies are my favorite, 100 attack / 100 def among other stats, but on shiva they're like 180k/stack on auction, so not worth buying for reives unless you can craft them yourself.

[Death]

Anybody know whether Linkshell Community will ever be back up again? I've been trying to login to the site for weeks and have only been greeted with the down for maintenance screen.

[dasva]

What are some good defense foods? I have a bunch of tacos so old they can be sold in Taco bell lying around but I want to know if there are other options nowadays. I mostly plan on wasting em in reive when on pld skilling up or whatever.

Pretty much only thing that is going to beat that in terms of pure def is going to be HQ taco and HQ salad I think. And maybe that food from the saffron quest lol

[Rehn]

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

Not sure what is going on but it is procing decently tonight in salvage e_e I swear I didn't see a single defense down animation last night...

RNG I suppose...

[Sechs]

Anybody know whether Linkshell Community will ever be back up again? I've been trying to login to the site for weeks and have only been greeted with the down for maintenance screen.

It was up yesterday for me, for a while. It just didn't have any updated info tho =/

[Cream Soda]

Best use of 1000 KS?

Was thinking I'd be able to dual box the behe KSNM and bring along a buyer for BB item as well as sell Behe pop items

or get a couple of ppl together for Early Bird, bringing along a buyer for BB item, potential speed belt, and sell Faf pop items.

If I go the second route, what would be a set up for this? I know the thing flies, so mnk + whm would be a no go and I'd have to bring others along


Edit:
Also, have 1245 BS
Should I just spam Kraken Club BC and hope to get lucky? Just one Club would easily exceed anything else I can make from those seals combined, but even with that many tries, I'd still have a rather short chance of getting one

[Bikpik]

How much +MAB will it take to beat ToM affinity staves for pure dmg? (with normal nuking setup on blm or sch)

[Byrthnoth]

Best use of 1000 KS?

Was thinking I'd be able to dual box the behe KSNM and bring along a buyer for BB item as well as sell Behe pop items

or get a couple of ppl together for Early Bird, bringing along a buyer for BB item, potential speed belt, and sell Faf pop items.

If I go the second route, what would be a set up for this? I know the thing flies, so mnk + whm would be a no go and I'd have to bring others along

As you outlined, if you're willing to find a buyer for the BB item then you should just do whichever KS99 the buyer needs. If you're not able to or don't want to bother, do Wyrm in a group. It goes much faster than it used to now that we can warp to BCs using Dominic in the Tenshodo HQ (LJ).

Also, have 1245 BS
Should I just spam Kraken Club BC and hope to get lucky? Just one Club would easily exceed anything else I can make from those seals combined, but even with that many tries, I'd still have a rather short chance of getting one

I'd personally just spam the K-Club BC. You have about 21 seals worth of K-club BCNMs, which is going to take you about 10.5 hours to do assuming you have a duo partner with the same number of seals and take 30 minutes per pair of orbs (due to afks and stuff). You'll either come out of it with a 100M+ club or 1.25mil worth of Oxblood, but it uses seals quickly (only 2 orbs per run and 60 seals per orb) and you aren't really limited in how fast you can spam it because you don't have to worry about moving slow-selling drops. Assuming it's a 1% drop, you'd have about a 20% chance of getting at least one K-club, which would raise your total average yield to about 21.25mil. This works out to about 17k/seal or 2mil/hr.

Alternatively, you could do a lower level BC for Mannequin parts/spells/etc. These take a while to move and you risk totally flooding the market if you go with a group so you really can't spam them effectively. On the other hand, some of the BCs 30s give you approximately 25k/seal reward. However, if you go with a 3-man group then it's going to take longer, with probably 40 minutes per rotation (same 10 minutes afk time between orbs). Now you're up to 28 hours to burn your BCs, or 1.125 mil/hr. Also, you cannot spam them so that might increase the gather time and push your gil/hr down even further.

It's basically a trade-off between gil/hr and gil/seal. I'd just do the K-club BCNM.

[Seeum]

If I go the second route, what would be a set up for this? I know the thing flies, so mnk + whm would be a no go and I'd have to bring others along

BLU phys spells can still hit it in the air (and doesnt resist stun from lunge), makes it pretty easy. Can be solo'd, but might want a healer in case it gets spammy with terror.

[dasva]

How much +MAB will it take to beat ToM affinity staves for pure dmg? (with normal nuking setup on blm or sch)

More than blm mythic unless you have 299% aftermath. Nothing else comes close

[mdkuser]

Tried to pull together an AM3 set for Kogarasumaru. Suggestions (except duplus grip)?

AM3-TP:

pole grip/hagneia stone
usukane somen +1/ganesha's mala/brutal earring/unkai mimikazari
usukane haramaki+1/tenryu tekko+1/raja's ring/tyrant ring
unkai sugemino/goading belt/unkai haidate+2/usukane sune-ate +1

AM3-Shoha:

cheruski needle
mekria-oto +1/elem. gorget/brutal earring/moonshade
phorcys/heafoc mitts/pyrosoulx2
fortis mantle/elem. belt/Karieyh Brayette/Karieyh Sollerets

[Fake]

TP, Karieyh morion can win with capped magic haste + 12.5% hasso depending on target. Tenryu somen will win when attack and acc are uncapped. Phorcys Salade will win with capped acc/fstr.
Vulcan's/Ghillie+1 earrings over unkai depending on accuracy.

I get phorcys hands beating heafoc majority of the time.

Regardless of job I never swap into 2 of the same earrings/rings due to how often it fails and you end up leaving 1 ring unswapped (personal preference based on my own experience using spellcast)

[Radec]

How much +MAB will it take to beat ToM affinity staves for pure dmg? (with normal nuking setup on blm or sch)

It's around 70-75 to tie, anything over that would win.

[Heslon]

is there any way to reset the mining fatigued? (mining in basalt fields)

[Byrthnoth]

zone, and that's it.