Random Question Thread

[grevenilvec75]

Bumping myself..

You could just buy the ultimate seekers edition and get everthing.

[dasva]

Dat MP! (its actually pretty nice when you play bored PLD in the corner with 30 mobs)

Has the new shield been tested with Reprisal or Palisade? Maybe I'll make one for shits and giggles.

No but the block rate they give are rather significant and there is no cap it seems on this new shield and he was getting pretty high without buffs... kinda odd considering the reason they said no buff to shields was because they weren't msking anything near as good

[Ayn]

If it were me, I would do 5/5 Resolution, 5/5 Shijin, and 5/5 Shoha. Exen is meh and it's not like you really go THF or DNC if you want to maximize DD. For now, if you really need to use a scythe WS, you can just use Guillotine.

Thanks for the insight, Kyte and Taint.

So just clarifying, even with the mod boosts on upcoming equips (seems like a lot of Mik stuff's getting + INT on it..) Entropy's still going to be pretty much garbage?

And Exen was more for the solo stuff / duo stuff I do on THF and DNC.

[Sechs]

@sechs SE mentioned that Shields and instruments are excluded from RME changes. I think Martel mentions that in his post with his results, up near the top iirc.

Instruments yeah I remember, but shields too?
Maybe yes I remember them saying so, but that was because nothing was close/better to Aegis/Ochain, if the situation is really gonna change I'm sure they'll do something about Aegis/Ochain, unlike what they said in the past.

[Guym]

Having issues stunning fracture NM's, if I can stun by red TP animation it's not an issue but if I need to wait for the move to show up in the log I am too slow everytime (i.e. need to stun a specific move, looking at you calcifying mist). I tried battlemod, not cutting it.

Is there anything else you can do to help the things show up in the log faster?

[Fake]

Thanks for the insight, Kyte and Taint.

So just clarifying, even with the mod boosts on upcoming equips (seems like a lot of Mik stuff's getting + INT on it..) Entropy's still going to be pretty much garbage?

And Exen was more for the solo stuff / duo stuff I do on THF and DNC.

Entropy is lacking more than the ~50INT adjusted mikinaak will afford you. Scythe will remain junk after the update

[fantasticdan]

Sadly ENMs are still capped at 75, or I'd have my damned Paeon V scroll already >.>

Can solo that ENM on blu/nin pretty easily.

EDIT: The eft one that is.

[grevenilvec75]

Having issues stunning fracture NM's, if I can stun by red TP animation it's not an issue but if I need to wait for the move to show up in the log I am too slow everytime (i.e. need to stun a specific move, looking at you calcifying mist). I tried battlemod, not cutting it.

Is there anything else you can do to help the things show up in the log faster?

Calcifying mists is pretty difficult to stun by eye. If practice doesnt help you'll pretty much just have to use a bot.

[Motenten]

I'm at an impasse with my WS merits right now. As it stands, it's:

Exen: 3/5
Entropy: 5/5
Resolution: 5/5
Shijin: 1/5
Shoha: 1/5

I'm not sure if it's worth having Shoha with only one merit in it, and I'd rather not drop Exent any further. Entropy's garbage (really only had it due to Apoc), but now I'm wondering with the gear changes/stats being added, if it'll be halfway respectable now.

Thoughts?

Shoha is worth keeping even at just 1 merit, as it's far better than any other GK weaponskill. Of course, out of all the merit weaponskills, it's the one that benefits the most from 5/5 for overall DPS for the job that uses it.

I'd agree that Entropy isn't worth keeping at 5/5.

Exenterator 3/5 keeps it on par with Evisceration when used with Aphotic. It also has a bit of utility, so I'd personally want to keep it, though I might drop it to 1/5 to move points to the others.

Overall, personally I'd go with 5/5 Resolution and Shoha, 3/5 Shijin, 1/5 Exen and Entropy. Can still move a few of the points around, of course, but that's the relative priority order I'd give them.

[Fake]

Having issues stunning fracture NM's, if I can stun by red TP animation it's not an issue but if I need to wait for the move to show up in the log I am too slow everytime (i.e. need to stun a specific move, looking at you calcifying mist). I tried battlemod, not cutting it.

Is there anything else you can do to help the things show up in the log faster?

Why are you only stunning certain moves, if you're doing 5NM Tojil runs with 2 supported scholars then you should stun by animation on pieste anyway. Like you said its not hard to do by animation so just do it by animation.

[Sechs]

Can solo that ENM on blu/nin pretty easily.

EDIT: The eft one that is.

Transfer to my server and I'll be glad to be your slave if you solo that for me on your BLU


Thinking about Bivouacs in Marjami and Yorcia, any server activated them all? Do any additional NPC appear? Any further quest not yet listed on BGwiki in the quests section?

[Taim Meich]

Ragnarok has Bivouac 1 on Marjami, no new npcs that I know.

[Sechs]

Same on Asura. I think it's pretty likely new quests are gonna unlock once all bivouacs are active. If I'm not wrong in the other zones several quests activated once the additional NPCs appeared, and they did so with the activation of the relative bivouac, no?

[Malithar]

Same on Asura. I think it's pretty likely new quests are gonna unlock once all bivouacs are active. If I'm not wrong in the other zones several quests activated once the additional NPCs appeared, and they did so with the activation of the relative bivouac, no?

Don't remember anything like this, remember the opposite if anything. I found it odd that prior to the biv being made, the quest NPCs were just chilling there, giving out their quests. Far as I know, all quests that were found in the .dats have been accounted for as well, unless you're talking in regards to after the update.

[fantasticdan]

Regular dynamis lord or dynamis tavnazia boss soloable by pup?

[TSFFXI]

Maybe this is the wrong section for this, but can anyone suggest a decent controller for the PC for ffxi? The bumper keys have to be quick to react.

[Dngnhack]

I just use ps3 controller with usb charger and ds3 tool.

[Rocl]

Is there any reason why I don't get battle music in Dho Gates?

[Sechs]

Anybody knows how "Tactical Processor" works after SE explained its real purpose on the official forums and tweaked it a bit?
Does it affect spellcasting speed on Soulsoother/Spiritreaver?
Does it affect the frequency/cooldown of any of the automaton's special abilities? (Flashbulb, Disruptor, etc)
I remember it affecting the threshold at which the Automaton uses WS, probably smarter use of Shield Bash as well, but other than that?

[Taim Meich]

They actually didn't tweak it, just explained what it was supposed to do. However, after explaining it, it remained utter crap, and no one* used it, so they promised to change it. It's in the same folder as Cait Sith, revamped Relics, etc. right now.



*Except the classic "you guys have no idea, it's working for me" idiot.