Random Question Thread

[Taint]

Entrance by Wildkeeper KI is the fastest in my experience. And yes Wiki is worded poorly.

[Malithar]

In the process of building the -recast Thunder staff, and was curious if Geo debuffs count for this. I'm on the Vermin trial prior to status effect kills, so not much longer til I can see. Was just going to have a War friend FC in Aby and toss a cure on him after the first FC to get on everything's hate list.

Can confirm that Geo debuffs DO NOT work for status effect trials.

[dasva]

Yeah the other entrance would be faster if there was a way to get to it lol. It's so weird to exit a zone but not be able to turn around and go back in

[Guym]

Recently returning to the game:

Building stun set for sch, so far I only the thunder acc staff. What's the priority, FC>Haste or cap haste then FC? Does FC cap?

[Hoshiku]

What's the least laggy way to parse a fight? I want a text file of everything but I need to keep my filters set so that I only see when enfeebles wear.

[Cairthenn]

Given that there's currently no sophisticated parser that works off the action packet, that's not possible.

[grevenilvec75]

Recently returning to the game:

Building stun set for sch, so far I only the thunder acc staff. What's the priority, FC>Haste or cap haste then FC? Does FC cap?

honestly thunder staff and relic +2 boots gets you most of the way there. If inventory isnt an issues i'd focus on m.acc or haste before fast cast

[xIndustrialxAngelx]

Anyone farm Mantis mobs for Mantid Forelegs? Mantid Arrows are a bit scarce on the AH, and the one spot i know in Ceizak, only has 1 pop...

[Hitou]

Pretty sure this has been asked before at one point but, can BST solo most/any of the dynamis zone bosses? Trying for tav access on my mule or failing that beaucidine/xarc but I think that would be harder considering the stupid ahriman.

[Dotsudoku]

Relates to your question/not strictly helpful, but as a frame of reference, clearing Diabolos solo on BST is extremely easy

[dasva]

The only ones I've had much trouble with are windy because the adds are kinda ucky but could just have your mule pop and sac/run while you get main. Same with beau but lot's more room to run. And valkrum just cause morbol moves suck lol

[Francisco]

In terms of farming Plasm, what's the absolute minimum? Can small groups (~3) survive and obtain at least a semi-reasonable amount?

Shiva's a pretty lousy server, and I've basically given up on shout groups which either don't materialize (lack of support jobs) or exclude any non-Delve DD.

My delve experience is pretty limited, I've managed to get into one shout group for Supernal Chapuli, and someone was kind enough to let me leech the Mastop and Faded Cracklaw Key Items. Everything else has been a whole bunch of "yes, we need a MNK, but no, Verethragna isn't going to cut it".

[Mathemagician]

How is Seekers of Adoulin?

I haven't played FFXI since the second Abyssea(quit like few days after Abyssea3 came out) and honestly found the gameplay pretty meh; just form up with an alliance and farm easy mobs into oblivion and get all the buffs from all the NPCs. Then Abyssea 3 came along, and you just keep farming for points and buy AF3. Meh.

Has this sort of experience improved at all?

Also, how are the new classes? Geomancer / Rune Fencer seem neat but are they just trite new jobs thrown in because people expect new jobs of an FFXI expansion?

After reading about the Delve system it just seems like another Abyssea structure system

[Hitou]

Delve is nothing like abyssea since it's not accessible to retards since there's no superbuffs, or any buffs for that matter. Voidwatch was closer to abyssea in that regard but you skipped that and it's pretty dead now on most servers. Basically if you have a large LS and that can fight the bosses in Delve you'll probably like it. If not, you'll be sitting in town waiting for shouts all day, or trying to shout yourself for hours barely making progress. Depending on your server you probably missed the boat on getting delve KIs, and will have to try to make groups yourself for them. And then it's just farming plasm ad nauseum assuming you can form/join groups for that.

Geo has a small niche since it's buffs/debuffs stack with other support jobs. RUN basically has no place in end game for now. It can be used to make old fights like bahamut a joke (or more of a joke) or to make Meebles bosses easier than they are, but no one does those things now.

If you hated abyssea you may or may not like Delve. It's certainly not low man friendly. Most people are either in a large group and enjoying killing the bosses over and over, or are waiting for something else to come out, missions etc.

[grevenilvec75]

anyone else have a problem where your controller stops working until you tab out and back in to game? running w4.

EDIT: it only happens after typing enter on my keyboard ..... hmmmm

EDIT2: not every time i hit enter, but if i type /echo as;dlkfjas;lkfj it def does it .... strange.

[In Flames]

I'm stuck on which job to level next. I have BST and WHM at 99. WHM is allowing me to get into some plasm farm groups and some outside-NM groups, but I'd like to be able to get involved in boss runs/have something else levelled for the next patch.

It's a fairly new character and I have noone to nyzul/salvage with... or do anything with really, EU times are dead on Asura. Would I just be starting something I'll never be able to gear properly?

[KCem]

I'm stuck on which job to level next. I have BST and WHM at 99. WHM is allowing me to get into some plasm farm groups and some outside-NM groups, but I'd like to be able to get involved in boss runs/have something else levelled for the next patch.

It's a fairly new character and I have noone to nyzul/salvage with... or do anything with really, EU times are dead on Asura. Would I just be starting something I'll never be able to gear properly?

The nice thing about the game now is that between abyssea and bayld gear you can build a decent melee set for pretty much any job, it's even better if you have access to some of the easier to obtain delve gear (which you do). NNI/Salvage II stuff would be nice, but shouldn't be considered a deal breaker if you can't get hold of any just yet.

[aethyr]

Noticed this Galka has a staff I've not seen yet. Which staff is this?

[Jem]

Like on your client or on somebody elses screenshot? I don't recognise it myself so I'd be leaning towards DAT mod.

[Squah]

Proto-Omega soloable? BST? NIN?

I'm pretty sure BST could do it but don't know how well pet will take Pile Pitch/Colossal Blow to the face.