Random Question Thread

[Corgan]

If I wanted to fish for money am I typically better off targeting something to sell on the AH or is it more effective to NPC? What are the common "money" fish to target?

[Peace Walker]

Any good way to skill up Geomancy?

[Vendog]

If I wanted to fish for money am I typically better off targeting something to sell on the AH or is it more effective to NPC? What are the common "money" fish to target?

Moat carp.

[Corgan]

Moat carp.

Really? Even assuming Ebisu and max skill?

[shepardG]

How much damage are you doing thou? Between rotating, rolling 3 parties, and probably missing some songs, I can't imagine it's much.

We only put up one set of songs, and by the time rolls wear off its near dead so we just push through. Myself and the other COR usually engaged 75% of the fight. 92~% acc, as we time our swap to get acc from the bards. Usually have tojil 5/5 box, 5/5 quick, 5/5 stutter by the end of the 100-75 phase.

[Shep]

Really? Even assuming Ebisu and max skill?

Doubt he's serious. You'll probably find better answers to your questions in the fishing thread and browsing FFXIAH to see what sells on your server.

BG Fishing Thread

[CoreyX]

I soloed Waking the Beast/Carbuncle Prime again for the third time now, and once again got no drops... am I just extremely unlucky, or is there some kind of clause where SE never thought it would be soloable so they made it drop nothing unless you're in a party?

[Blackroses]

What's the Spellcast tag to use for items (echo drops, remedy, etc) with gear collector? <item> </item>?

[dasva]

I soloed Waking the Beast/Carbuncle Prime again for the third time now, and once again got no drops... am I just extremely unlucky, or is there some kind of clause where SE never thought it would be soloable so they made it drop nothing unless you're in a party?

Do you already have any of the drops?

[Kaisha]

I soloed Waking the Beast/Carbuncle Prime again for the third time now, and once again got no drops... am I just extremely unlucky, or is there some kind of clause where SE never thought it would be soloable so they made it drop nothing unless you're in a party?

I recall reading a few years back that drop-rate may have been influenced by the number of participants in the run. Can't find anything on otherwiki though.

I'm curious though, what did you solo it on? I wouldn't mind cleaning my key items up of all the eyes I've had for ages now.

[Johnblaze]

I recall reading a few years back that drop-rate may have been influenced by the number of participants in the run. Can't find anything on otherwiki though.

I'm curious though, what did you solo it on? I wouldn't mind cleaning my key items up of all the eyes I've had for ages now.

Kaisha is correct. Drop rate is based off the the number of people actually doing the fight. I used to duo/trio it with friends and got nothing. After a few runs we got more people to show up and then we started seeing more drops. I think the most we saw was 2-3 drops with a party of 6

[CoreyX]

No, I don't have any of the drops.

And hmmm... does that mean that solo, nothing will ever drop? Or is it just a lower chance at 0-1 item? Really sucks if I have to drag 5 other people with me just to get Carbuncle's Cuffs (which is what I'm mostly after, though I wouldn't mind the other crap just to have it)

As for soloing it, I soloed the 6 Waking the Beast individual avatar battles as PUP with alternator sharpshot, using Steam Jacket and Mana Jammer II, keeping a water maneuver up and using repairs. Takes like 6 minutes per fight. For Carbuncle Prime, I originally tried doing it with sharpshot but unfortunately once the 5 copies of Carby spawn after you kill all 6 mini-avatars, they instantly target you with Searing Light x5 and you can't do anything to make your puppet get hate on them back, so I switched to PUP/RUN, two light resist runes and Vallation right before Carby x5 spawn is enough to live through it. Takes ~10 minutes. I just wish something would drop -.-

[Linliel]

Tonight I killed a bunch of zone bosses in Abyssea with some ls mates, I've done a few before but there were three new ones for me - Uleguerand, Tahrongi, and Attohwa. For Tahrongi and Uleguerand I hadn't been in the zones before - I got the CS on entering Tahrongi but not on entering Uleguerand. We killed the bosses, and I got the CS on exit from Tahrongi and Attohwa but not on Uleguerand. Uleguerand doesn't show up on Horst's list of easy-teleporting either. Did I do something wrong? Or has my game bugged out? Any suggestions?

[Rehn]

You probably didn't bring a traverser stone with you when you zoned into Ule. Get one and try zoning in again.

[Linliel]

Thanks! That worked! Phew :D (I had a lot of minutes left, it seems, so didn't get more stones at the time.)

[Karizo]

Weapon Choice for SAM: I want to access Delve as soon as I can, the SAM will be fresh at 99, and I was wondering what should be my options. Should I make the TP Bonus 100 Magian, Empyrean, or some other choice?

Edit: I have access to decent armor, including NNI and friends who will help me +2 Empyreans fairly fast.

[Omnipotent]

If I wanted to fish for money am I typically better off targeting something to sell on the AH or is it more effective to NPC? What are the common "money" fish to target?

Fish for Haks 24/7, only fish for gugs and liks and matsya if you have buyers lined up ready for you to unload. Sitting on a bazaar full of fish for a couple days, even being double the price of haks is far less profitable than haks.

[Teryu]

What's the strat for pendurable raptor? The bgwiki has no information about it, and I've been told that mnks spamming shijin can kill it easily, and other people tell me that the virus makes it go berserk, so which is it?

[nnbina]

What is the best off hand weapon for Kerehcatl main that War can use. If someone can list at least 3-5, that would be great!

[grevenilvec75]

What's the strat for pendurable raptor? The bgwiki has no information about it, and I've been told that mnks spamming shijin can kill it easily, and other people tell me that the virus makes it go berserk, so which is it?

Dont use any magic damage against it at all. No Dia no nukes no skillchains no cor shots no wildfire nothing. Magic causes it to go apeshit and spam triple attacks supposedly.

Not using skillchains will be the hardest part (unless you go with a PUG then you'll have retarded DDs spamming bio or some shit). All of this info is in the Delve thread.

What is the best off hand weapon for Kerehcatl main that War can use. If someone can list at least 3-5, that would be great!

I havent looked at it, but if theres a plasm axe that war can equip, that'll be the best offhand. next best would be skirmish augmented axe and after those you have Magians (STR path most likely)