Random Question Thread

[TacoTaru]

Got a Heka's Kalasirirs last night and will get my Nefer Khat soon. Is there any reason to swap in Argute Gown/+2 and Scholar's Motorboard?

[Taim Meich]

No, not really. They offer the same MP regeneration rate, but in a (generally) lower quality form. Sublimation ticks are only superior to refresh ticks when you have capped MP but want to store a reserve fast because you're going to spend MP like crazy soon. that's niche enough in my book to not deserve 2 additional inventary slots.

[Sechs]

SE has also stated they plan on adding Augments to WoE weapons when they Aug REM.

Did they? As far as I remember their statement was pretty generic.
Could be their "addressing WoE weapons" meant what they did with WoE drops.
Consider that a WoE weapon to 99 it's still 6 mils gil or more.
For that amount in a while u'll be able to buy one of the crafted Katanas, I recall the HQ ones were interesting no?
Kasasagi is a Katana with... uh decent damage/Delay (not fantastic) and no other stat at all, just a cool WS.
If you don't have space to merit Blade Shun this is what might make it worth, but otherwise... I dunno, I think we need to let more time pass to see what comes out from the Naakuals and Skirmish events.

I had to remove Blade Shun because:
1) I hardly get chances to use NIN anymore
2) needed space for Ruinator on BST

So well... guess I'll wait to see what happens from SE but I'm leaning toward Kasasagi unless someone smarter than me convinces me I'm absolutely wrong.

[Sechs]

Got a Heka's Kalasirirs last night and will get my Nefer Khat soon. Is there any reason to swap in Argute Gown/+2 and Scholar's Motorboard?

If you have the inventory space to sacrifice for those then yes, why not? Very useful when you're in a capped mp or close to capped mp or before an event/something and want to store your subli as fast as possible.
In all the other situations (which might as well be the majority, honestly) then no, I Guess it's not worth it.

[Karah]

Chimera Hairpin is the main upgrade I see, its best AE head in game.

While pld cannot wear it... this: http://www.ffxiah.com/item/10418/seiokona-beret actually has one more int than the hairpin~ (and BONUS MACC!)

For pld, just find anything with MAB if theres no MAB find INT/DEX mixes where possible.

There are not that many viable options for MAB for back/legs/feet, unless you count unicorn augs from sky gear (8 mab)

You'd want something like Aife's Mantle/Wanion Belt/Jet serawells(Clegs)/Karieyh Sollerets(Ker's Sollerets)

I forget exactly the ratio for int/dex (it kinda varies) but I think that's the best you can get. Maybe ASA legs with AUG: 4 MAB

[detlef]

How do defense down additional effects from weapons interact with Dia, steps, Angon etc?

[Byrthnoth]

They're "Defense Down" so they don't stack with other sources of "Defense Down" like Angon, but they do stack with Dia, Steps, and Geomancy's Defense Down.

[dasva]

How do defense down additional effects from weapons interact with Dia, steps, Angon etc?

Dia and steps and geo spells are there own debuff that happens to give def down. Everything else gives the def down status. Only different tyoes stack

[detlef]

They're "Defense Down" so they don't stack with other sources of "Defense Down" like Angon, but they do stack with Dia, Steps, and Geomancy's Defense Down.

Could I expect to see any reasonable proc rate in Mul (say from a magian weapon) or is this not even worth investigating?

[Seid]

Anyone have a torrent for the Seekers Ultimate Edition?

[Obsidian]

While pld cannot wear it... this: http://www.ffxiah.com/item/10418/seiokona-beret actually has one more int than the hairpin~ (and BONUS MACC!)

For pld, just find anything with MAB if theres no MAB find INT/DEX mixes where possible.

There are not that many viable options for MAB for back/legs/feet, unless you count unicorn augs from sky gear (8 mab)

You'd want something like Aife's Mantle/Wanion Belt/Jet serawells(Clegs)/Karieyh Sollerets(Ker's Sollerets)

I forget exactly the ratio for int/dex (it kinda varies) but I think that's the best you can get. Maybe ASA legs with AUG: 4 MAB

Thanks for the help. After looking through my gear again, I'm wondering how well Ogier's breeches and a Soil belt might work instead of Wanion (which I also have) and MAB legs (which I do not).

[Nattack]

Is it worth aiming for a 20% TP return on Tachi: Shoha with a Masamune?

and more importantly, is it worth trading RCB's for Carbonara if that is the case? I see I would be trading some 60~ish attack in the process, but gaining a bit of STR.

or is it silly to even think about it and should I instead be aiming for as much STR/Attack as possible?

[Hitou]

Is it worth aiming for a 20% TP return on Tachi: Shoha with a Masamune?

and more importantly, is it worth trading RCB's for Carbonara if that is the case? I see I would be trading some 60~ish attack in the process, but gaining a bit of STR.

or is it silly to even think about it and should I instead be aiming for as much STR/Attack as possible?

No it's not worth it. It's easy enough to get close to 21 tp a swing for tp phase, and a lot of events you have regain anyway so it's moot. Shoha has an attack bonus so it's not that important to stack attack on it as STR. Even so, I wouldn't use carbonara for anything. The attack from RBC will help your overall DoT better than carbonara for making an easier 5 hit. But that's just my opinion.

[Fwahm]

Are there any estimations on roughly how much AGI current endgame mobs (legion, late VW, Odin 2) have?

[urat]

Thanks for the help. After looking through my gear again, I'm wondering how well Ogier's breeches and a Soil belt might work instead of Wanion (which I also have) and MAB legs (which I do not).

Hairpin has MatB+~60 for AE >_>;

It actually means AE dmg +60% or something like that, I forget the amount but wind attack+6 is not magic atk bonus +6, its the same concept of how the magian trial staves only say elemental attack+4~7 but that translates to like +60~70 matt

[Darkmagi]

Care to show some proof of that? Never heard of anything like that before.

[noodles355]

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[noodles355]

No, not really. They offer the same MP regeneration rate, but in a (generally) lower quality form.

Actually, I mathed out a while ago that point for point, sublimation is better than refresh when charging. So yes, AF2+2 Body/AF1 hat will be better for the 1min42~ seconds it takes to charge sublimation. The same is true for Siriti and Owleyes.

[dasva]

Hairpin has MatB+~60 for AE >_>;

It actually means AE dmg +60% or something like that, I forget the amount but wind attack+6 is not magic atk bonus +6, its the same concept of how the magian trial staves only say elemental attack+4~7 but that translates to like +60~70 matt

You are way off on both the hairpin and the trial staffs. First off hairpin actually says +6 mab not affinity or element attack. Staffs actually say affinity which is a seperate multiplier than MAB and 6 which is the max is 35% dmg which can't really be compared to mab without knowing how much of each someone has

[Heslon]

I use windower 4 with UI size x2 (because I cant read the hp/mp bar with normal size) is there any way to make the chattext "clearer"? the only thing i found in the ffxi config is "font compressed: low, mid or high"?