Random Question Thread

[sluggo]

init.txt is found in the scripts folder; but if you already have gkeys.txt you must exec it first: //exec gkeys.txt from within ffxi. You might need to move gkeys.txt into the scripts folder for it to work.

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[Eldelphia]

Did this Yilbegan a couple of times as War, Sch and Thf. Had no problems. Have a feeling we were on the back legs

[Alistaire]

According to https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Intimidation

" Intimidation works on normal melee swings and can stop spells mid-cast, akin to Paralyze, but cannot stop TP moves or Weapon Skills."

...so where's that leave ranged attacks and JA's?

[Cream Soda]

Quickest way to build bayld?

[Byrthnoth]

According to https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Intimidation

" Intimidation works on normal melee swings and can stop spells mid-cast, akin to Paralyze, but cannot stop TP moves or Weapon Skills."

...so where's that leave ranged attacks and JA's?

It also can't affect Ranged Attacks or JAs.

[Taim Meich]

Quickest way to build bayld?

Colonization Reives.

[Cream Soda]

Colonization Reives.

hmm obviously I'm doing something wrong. Took me half an hour of running around just to fine one and I was the only person there, died before I could kill anything

[dasva]

hmm obviously I'm doing something wrong. Took me half an hour of running around just to fine one and I was the only person there, died before I could kill anything

Look for zones with a decent amount of people in them. Soloing reives is horrible though some jobs can do it. But conversely if there are like 40 people at one you wont get alot either but you will get it alot faster lol

[Rocl]

Aside from the obvious "Thief Knife" response what do I offhand with Macoquetza? STR Thokca or Aluh?

[Byrthnoth]

If you already have both, offhand Thokcha. If you don't already have a STR/Attack Thokcha, offhand Aluh.

[Carraway]

Does the Mekira-oto +1 have a higher fTP mod than the NQ? BGwiki shows "needs verification" on the NQ.

[Landsoul]

Anyone got a link to a DPS chart/list of R/E/M how much DPS they are? I remember seeing a post, but can't find it.

[Therin]

Look for zones with a decent amount of people in them. Soloing reives is horrible though some jobs can do it. But conversely if there are like 40 people at one you wont get alot either but you will get it alot faster lol

The more people that are at a Reive, the faster you get Bayld as long as you stay capped per evaluation. The key is to NOT fight the roots when there are tons of people there.

[dasva]

The more people that are at a Reive, the faster you get Bayld as long as you stay capped per evaluation. The key is to NOT fight the roots when there are tons of people there.

That's what I meant. You get too many people and you wont be able to cap. Especially with a bunch of other people killing everything else in about 5 seconds of popping. Probably an extreme was like 60-70 people in each zone most of which were doing reives

[Rocl]

At what point does using a MAB staff beat a Chatoyant staff? Obviously a Magian Staff will probably always win, but I got the Skirmish staff for BLM/SCH/GEO and I've been lazy and only have Chatoyant. I thought I recalled something like 60 MAB being the cutoff for it to be 'better'?

[Radec]

Depends on your mab without any staff equipped. If you have +0 mab, a 15mab staff ~= chatoyant. If you have +100, it's ~30mab. Usually ~+100 is where you'll be at best outside of abyssea, so the skirmish staff will definitely be better.

[Cream Soda]

2 person cleave on frogs faster than joining pick up pt on worms (cause this shit sucks and need a few more merits)

[dasva]

At what point does using a MAB staff beat a Chatoyant staff? Obviously a Magian Staff will probably always win, but I got the Skirmish staff for BLM/SCH/GEO and I've been lazy and only have Chatoyant. I thought I recalled something like 60 MAB being the cutoff for it to be 'better'?

Realistically outside of something crazy like abyssea it should win without augments. Now if you get the best of the augments on jp wiki it can actually compete with magians being situationally better. But in alot of regards the numbers I see on there on most weapons are significantly better than what has been posted here.... Also pretty pimp for meteor

[Sudox]

2 person cleave on frogs faster than joining pick up pt on worms (cause this shit sucks and need a few more merits)

Can just join Uptala/Qilin shouts and you will get merits very quickly.

[Hitou]

2 person cleave on frogs faster than joining pick up pt on worms (cause this shit sucks and need a few more merits)

Depends how bad the worm pick up group is. I've had pretty decent worm groups before, and also really bad ones. If you have a decently geared war or blu and a healer of some sort it will probably be faster to cleave, as long as you build proper lights first.