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[dasva]

Is there a way to fix spellcast preventing self-skillchains on blu from registering in the chat log?

blinkmenot

[Cream Soda]

or battlemod

[Marcicus]

How much better is Bloodbath Axe for WAR compared to Ukon?

[zoopooscooper]

Anyone have experience with Trade Scams, and how long did it take to get your items returned (If they were)? Sometimes I hate that I'm nice, KCCO.

[Kohan]

Anyone have experience with Trade Scams, and how long did it take to get your items returned (If they were)? Sometimes I hate that I'm nice, KCCO.

If you weren't extremely clear as to your terms when you discussed the trade with the person, you are never going to get your item back. If you were clear, and they agreed to the terms in-game, and it happened relatively recently, it probably won't take more than a day.

[zoopooscooper]

If you weren't extremely clear as to your terms when you discussed the trade with the person, you are never going to get your item back. If you were clear, and they agreed to the terms in-game, and it happened relatively recently, it probably won't take more than a day.

Yep, made it clear in both /t and /p chat. Been almost 4 days now, but I've been away for work/sleep most of the time. Guy was a total derp too. I had to show him how to get to the waterfall to get his relic in North Gust. DC'd shortly before we got there to never return.

[Kohan]

Yep, made it clear in both /t and /p chat. Been almost 4 days now, but I've been away for work/sleep most of the time. Guy was a total derp too. I had to show him how to get to the waterfall to get his relic in North Gust. DC'd shortly before we got there to never return.

Did they actually agree to the terms, and did you tell them when they had to return them? If so, I'm surprised that you don't have your item(s) already.

[Carraway]

How much better is Bloodbath Axe for WAR compared to Ukon?

The exact % increase in DPS is going to depend on your gear and target. I'd recommend using Motenten's spreadsheet, but Prothescar had this to say on FFXIAH:

The relative boost in power for the H2H weapons is, believe it or not, drastically higher than almost any other weapon across the board.

Gsword: 73%~ increase from 99 Rag to Senbaak +1 || 46%~ increase from 99 Rag to Bereaver
Great Axe: ~67% increase from 99 Ukon to Razorfury +1 || 48%~ increase from 99 Ukon to Bloodbath Axe
Great Katana: 84%~ increase from 99 Amano or Masa to Tsurumaru || ~46% increase from 99 Amano or Masa to Uguisumaru

91%~ Vere -> Oatixur, 111%~ Spharai -> oatixur, 47%~ Vere -> Rigor, 63%~ Spharai -> Rigor

For me, personally, with everything from Abyssea, a few NNI pieces, and Delve accessories, if I plug in Ukon 99 vs Bloodbath, it's a ~15% increase in DPS against Ig-Alima and a ~33% increase against a level 102 Chapuli. (I don't have Ukon 99.)

[Sechs]

Where can I find more info on the three paths of upgrade for Delve stuff? I want to understand better how you can choose them, which stats you get according to which path, how many rank points it takes to get from one rank to another etc.

Also why is the Delve Dagger different from the other typical THF/DNC/BRD options? Q_Q I want a new dagger for my DD BRD but appearently there's not many options aside the Skirmish one and lolskirmish.

[Carraway]

http://bg-wiki.net/bg/Delve_Rewards#Mezzotinting

[Viar]

After debating back and forth how I want to proceed in this expansion considering the ability to share gear between jobs, job usefulness outside of abyssea, cost/time investment for multiple jobs...I've come to the following conclusion:

Main DPS Job: MNK
Secondary DPS+Utility: BLU
Mage: ???
Healer: Mule WHM

Getting jobs to 99 is easy. Getting jobs to 99 and usable in any content outside of abyssea is not. I'm done trying to play everything that looks fun. It's smarter for me, with my playstyle, to just pick a few jobs and hone them as much as possible.

With this in consideration, I'm wondering what my mage job should be? Which mage job(s) are seeing the most promise for usefulness and demand for SoA content?

I've decided that while NNI/Salv2 gear is ideal for doing delve content, there is workable gear without said pieces allowing the possibility for plasm farm. T1-3 NMs in Delve are doable with my current gearsets on said jobs. As such I'd like to focus most of my time to Delve and possibly Skirmish/Naakual if need be.

Clearly I will need to farm abyssea/voidwatch a bit more if I level up a mage job, but depending on the job it may not be so harsh. So again I ask, which mage job(s) are seeing the most promise for usefulness and demand for SoA content? And ideally, which will require the least amount of NNI/Salv2 gear to be useful in SoA?

I'd say SCH, WHM or BRD(needs empy harp) is pretty useful if you want a useful mage job.

[Nishida]

I'd say SCH, WHM or BRD(needs empy harp) is pretty useful if you want a useful mage job.

So BLM is still not wanted outside of aby/vw procs?

[Khary]

I've started using Falcor on BST, but can't get him to us Jettataru or Fantod TP moves for some reason. Using /pet "Fantod" <me> and /pet "Jettataru" <me> for macros and get "command error" message, what am I don't wrong?

[dasva]

I've started using Falcor on BST, but can't get him to us Jettataru or Fantod TP moves for some reason. Using /pet "Fantod" <me> and /pet "Jettataru" <me> for macros and get "command error" message, what am I don't wrong?

It's spellcast trying to cast the blu spells instead. Theres a few work arounds but the one I use is putting /raw in front of it

[Sechs]

Anybody sorted out what really are Tinctures and how to use them?

[Viar]

So BLM is still not wanted outside of aby/vw procs?

I see some party used it for certain Delve NM, such as turtle. But I haven't done all Delve NM so I'm not 100% sure which Delve NM requires BLM. It's not as useful as healer/support because you almost always need healer/BRD for everything, but you don't always need BLM.

[dasva]

Anybody sorted out what really are Tinctures and how to use them?

If you click on them it has the item description though not the amounts. Iirc to be able to use them your server has to have fully researched that ergon. Though how that is accomplished is hard to prove. I believe the npc in the scouts guild tells you about their research on each one

[Khary]

It's spellcast trying to cast the blu spells instead. Theres a few work arounds but the one I use is putting /raw in front of it

I don't use spellcast, but I do have Windower 4. Is it possible that it's causing the problem? And if so, how do I fix it?, would /raw still work for this? :O

[dasva]

I don't use spellcast, but I do have Windower 4. Is it possible that it's causing the problem? And if so, how do I fix it?, would /raw still work for this? :O

Haven't used windower 4 yet but it might be possible that you are using spellcast but just no xml. Check to see if it's loaded

[Khary]

Hmmm ok, ty I'll check tonight