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[Dotsudoku]

Thats just it, whenever people say this, where were the tests done? As far as I know, the only mobs in the game with shared loot pools are the 2 yags and KB, and I doubt anyones really got a 1k sample size on either with and without TH to detemine anything.

You wouldn't need tests on those mobs specifically. Nothing about our (loose) understanding of TH lends to the idea of it prioritizing a 'better' drop on anything.

[grevenilvec75]

config> effects

Do they need to be "on" or "off" so that none of the effects are displayed? I know chat filters have to be "on" before they filter, but unsure of these.

[gaira]

just confirming that i was able to cap skill with no issues wearing item level gear. stranger things have happened in the past, but at least this isn't an issue.

[StatikGP]

seems off balanced, that RUN / GEO get their own lvl 109 AF armor... when do the rest of the jobs get their sexy AF armor? have the dev's even commented about fixing this? kinda screwed up imo.

[Kyte]

Actually they have commented on it. It's all but certain that they will be adding a method to enhancing AF1 in the near future.

[Sechs]

Yeah it's still unclear wether they will release an AF+2 (ilevel 109 AF) or just new gear with the same graphics (AF4?)
From their post it seems they're gonna do BOTH things, but... I dunno.

Since they refuse to give us low level AF for RUN and GEO, I would be insanely happy if they were to standardize things and release ilevel 109 AF for all jobs. I'm not necessarily excited about the stats themselves on those items, but rather about the improved version of those Job Specific enhancements, similar to what happened with AF2+2.
Speaking of which, if they're gonna release ilevel 109 or 115 or whatever it will be AF2 for RUN and GEO, I hope the same will happen for all other jobs as well.

3mp/tic AF2 Hat for RDM! Yusplz! xD

[NynJa]

You wouldn't need tests on those mobs specifically. Nothing about our (loose) understanding of TH lends to the idea of it prioritizing a 'better' drop on anything.

Why not? Is there any reason it cant be "If rare drop does not load, after being influenced by TH, consolate with shitty drop", other than "I say so"?

[Kamil]

How much macc does a weapon need for it to be better than an HQ ele staff?

[Eldelphia]

What do you mean about what's happened with magic recently?

I'm just finding it a bit confusing because I'm coming back to nuking I think. I could use a good summary of the efficiency/effectiveness of different elements and a decent comparison of the new staves (matt and macc) and where magic attack fits in.

How much macc does a weapon need for it to be better than an HQ ele staff?

And this sort of question and doing the comparisons between staves is why I'm asking about the magic affinity stuff being accurate on BG wiki.

[Sechs]

If we're talking about the lv51 staves (or Chatoyant staff) I think Atinian and Soothsayer (and at least the HQ Skirmish staff) are all better than them, be it for macc or for damage.
Unsure about Chatoyant for SCH because of Iridescence, but I'm leaning to think they're still better.

For damage the tables posted over forums and the spreadsheet released by Motenten can give you an idea.
I think (someone more competent than me, please correct me!) that T5 is now worth only in very specific situations like MB etc, and usually it's much better to spam lower tier spells.
The difference in damage between a low tier and a T5 got incredibly reduced, but the mp cost and recast of those lower tier spells is much more efficient, and in the long run it produces a much more "controllable" and higher damage output.

You can't focus on MAB onry but need INT, which actually has a higher impact the lower the tier. But more than a problem as I first thought, it seems that this is just becoming a gearsets simplification, given how most recent pieces give a good amount of int AND mab (and "magic damage", and macc etc) you won't really have to create over9000 different gearsets. For the majority of slots you now have multipurpose pieces and the number of sets you'll really have to make is much smaller compared to what a pro-mage would make years ago.

This is what I grasped at least, hope I didn't send you too much offtrack with my post.

[dasva]

Generally iirc tiers offset the lower base dmg with higher M values so the int to mab ratio is somewhat stable though this update did weird things for lower elements within a tier. Can't comment exactly right now since can't find it on bg wiki and even the old ones got taken down. I'm assuming someone is in process of changing to the new values... hopefully they will keep old ones too since that's what mobs and supposedly pets still use so good to have both up.

Anyways Mote has update his spreedsheets so you can just plug stuff in and see which is better

[Sechs]

Anybody knows what the currently ongoing maint is fixing?

[dasva]

I think it's the xp issue

[Dominico]

I keep on hearing that Miki hands have basically buried Phorcys hands for most ws sets... any truth behind this? Will mostly be using for Shoha and Stardiver.

[isladar]

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