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[Shenrien]

Has anyone taken an Ixtab or Balanxque to a Ceizak fracture to see if they could cap accuracy off message?

[dasva]

Has anyone taken an Ixtab or Balanxque to a Ceizak fracture to see if they could cap accuracy off message?

Fracture mobs con ITG

[Squah]

Can you get a relic proc with EES?

I only ask because the other RNGs did 3k-5k with EES on Muyingwa, while the 2 I did both did over 12000

[dasva]

Can you get a relic proc with EES?

I only ask because the other RNGs did 3k-5k with EES on Muyingwa, while the 2 I did both did over 12000

I've never heard of it myself... but 12000 could easily be explained by a crit. Could probably do a fair bit more with peircing weakness really.

[zard1977]

Could anyone please explain to me the process that JP use to recruit for delve and whatnot? I can understand basic Japanese, and I have heard some NA people have gotten into their Tojil runs etc. without problems. From what I understand, they do shouts that say read their search comment and send them a tell on the jobs they are searching for.. is that correct? Or do I just set my search comment for battlefield looking for a party, and wait for them to invite me without sending them a tell?

Also; How do they do lotting for items and whatnot typically?

First of all you need to be able to type JP instead of using auto-translate, JPs will not take you in if they think you cannot understand what they are saying in /p. Communicating 100% with auto-translate is like telling them you do not know any japanese at all. You do not need to be proficient in typing JP, in fact you can use google translate and copy/paste whatever you want to say inside /p.

Secondly, setting search comment and waiting for invites is totally useless unless you are a 4-song bard or a well-geared sch. If so, your seacom should be in JP (see above).

Thirdly, if you have a job they are looking for you can /tell [job in JP]{looking for party}. If you are going as DD it will help if you add more details such as boss weapon, accuracy value etc.

Lotting rules varies with the leader, but majority of leaders use the 1-item in seacom rule. Some leader use free-for-all rule though. As ppl are capping tojil drops FFA are becoming more common.

[dasva]

Is hp the best way of determining pet levels? And if so what's the best ways of figuring out pet hp. Hopefully something I can do repeatidly. I tried doing the whole heal it thing but then realized that given I can only tell what it is at by whole percentage I could be off by more than a lvls worth of hp was

[Kaisha]

And if so what's the best ways of figuring out pet hp.

Probably just throwing food at it from a low HP% for a rough estimate, taking food regen into account also. No clue on determining lvl though, since I'm still not sure how exactly the lvl100+ pet thing works, when the cat2 merit for increasing jug lvl still says Max lvl99.

[torasu]

Is hp the best way of determining pet levels? And if so what's the best ways of figuring out pet hp. Hopefully something I can do repeatidly. I tried doing the whole heal it thing but then realized that given I can only tell what it is at by whole percentage I could be off by more than a lvls worth of hp was

Use Healing Salve I in abyssea, heals for 50% of the pet's hp

[dasva]

Probably just throwing food at it from a low HP% for a rough estimate, taking food regen into account also. No clue on determining lvl though, since I'm still not sure how exactly the lvl100+ pet thing works, when the cat2 merit for increasing jug lvl still says Max lvl99.

Yeah I'd need a lot more than rough estimate since I'm using it to determine lvl to see what the new caps are with beast affinity

Use Healing Salve I in abyssea, heals for 50% of the pet's hp

This is perfect. Thank you.

[cdgreg]

Couple mythic building questions:

1.) What is the minimum setup now for Gurfurlur the menacing and Medusa?

2.) What is the most efficient way to build nyzul points with a group of 3

Thanks!

[Necromage]

First of all you need to be able to type JP instead of using auto-translate, JPs will not take you in if they think you cannot understand what they are saying in /p. Communicating 100% with auto-translate is like telling them you do not know any japanese at all. You do not need to be proficient in typing JP, in fact you can use google translate and copy/paste whatever you want to say inside /p.

Secondly, setting search comment and waiting for invites is totally useless unless you are a 4-song bard or a well-geared sch. If so, your seacom should be in JP (see above).

Thirdly, if you have a job they are looking for you can /tell [job in JP]{looking for party}. If you are going as DD it will help if you add more details such as boss weapon, accuracy value etc.

Lotting rules varies with the leader, but majority of leaders use the 1-item in seacom rule. Some leader use free-for-all rule though. As ppl are capping tojil drops FFA are becoming more common.

Ok thanks, for the most part I know elementary Japanese so I can understand the jist of most of what they're saying.. Though one thing; I have heard that if they see you using hiragana/kanji/katakana text rather than roomaji they can report you since it's obvious that you are using 3rd party programs to do that? Or was that just a myth?

[Falkirk]

Yeah I'd need a lot more than rough estimate since I'm using it to determine lvl to see what the new caps are with beast affinity

You can compare your notes with the testing I did here and here.

The level caps should be DroopyDortwin = 103, SunburstMalfik = 104, ScissorlegsXerin = 105.

Oh, and all the old pets are still level 99 capped (so 114 with 5/5 BA + Monster Gloves+2 and iLvl 114+ weapon).

[Sechs]

I read the notes but I'm a bit lost. Anybody care to help me understand?
So BEFORE the patch all pets used to be capped MAX at level 99, and beast affinity could add 10 levels (15 with augmented gloves+2) if your jug didn't cap at 99.

Now Beast Affinity works no matter what and just adds levels to your pet? So Falcorr with 5/5 BA and gloves+2 would be level 114 all of the time?
What about the new 4 jugs? What's special about them and the ilevel of the weapon you equip as you call them out?

[fantasticdan]

From what I understand, beast affinity merits/af2+2 gloves augment increase the level cap of those pets, but not the level itself, and mainhand ilvl does the opposite. So with merits + augment, but no SoA weapon, your pet would still be 99. With SoA weapon but no BA merits, old pets would still be 99. With both merits and ilvl 114+ axe, old pets can go up to level 114. And the axe needs to remain equipped, remove/swap it out and the pets hp/level seems to go back down.

[Darkmagi]

Does anyone know what the exact spawn conditions/respawn time on Gulool Ja Ja and friends are? Nowhere seems to have solid information on it.

[Gokulo]

Is there a 'new quests added' list anywhere for this patch?

[Squah]

Is there a way to copy/paste kparse results to BG (pm, forum post, etc) without it looking like complete garbo?

[Jeryhn]

Looking for an updated map.ini for programs like Mappy. If there isn't one, anyone know how I can create one or add to an existing map.ini?

Also, any (updated) links to edited maps for Yorcia? That zone's map is terrible.

[Falkirk]

I read the notes but I'm a bit lost. Anybody care to help me understand?
So BEFORE the patch all pets used to be capped MAX at level 99, and beast affinity could add 10 levels (15 with augmented gloves+2) if your jug didn't cap at 99.

Now Beast Affinity works no matter what and just adds levels to your pet? So Falcorr with 5/5 BA and gloves+2 would be level 114 all of the time?
What about the new 4 jugs? What's special about them and the ilevel of the weapon you equip as you call them out?

So with merits + augment, but no SoA weapon, your pet would still be 99. With SoA weapon but no BA merits, old pets would still be 99. With both merits and ilvl 114+ axe, old pets can go up to level 114. And the axe needs to remain equipped, remove/swap it out and the pets hp/level seems to go back down.

Yes, fantasticdan got it exactly right.

With regards to the 4 new jug pets, their natural caps are slightly above level 100, which means that they'll be capping at 118/119 if you have Kerehcatl + BA 5/5 + Gloves+2, whereas the old jug pets will still be stuck at 114.

[dasva]

You can compare your notes with the testing I did here and here.

The level caps should be DroopyDortwin = 103, SunburstMalfik = 104, ScissorlegsXerin = 105.

Oh, and all the old pets are still level 99 capped (so 114 with 5/5 BA + Monster Gloves+2 and iLvl 114+ weapon).

How odd. The update notes definitely implied that just merits or just weapon would raise pets up not needing both and that they should stack... having to have both and augmented af2 is kinda a slap in the face compared to other pet jobs especially since their are other good cat2 merits... that and old jugs can't keep lvling up while others can. I'll recheck quick when I get home but god that is lame