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**Dotsudoku** · 2013-02-25 20:14

Originally Posted by fantasticdan

They seem to target someone at random on pop, but if you are way out of range it shouldn't be able to choose you. Keep in mind thou the gunpods still hit pretty hard (like 300-400ish before pdt), and omega can potentially spam throat stab multiple times in a row at low hp; so pet survivability could be an issue.

If you have to choose between /DNC, /NIN, or /SCH?

I'm capable of utilizing any of those subs properly. /SCH out of range seems attractive, but if it's feasible/safer to stay in range, melee, and WS when a gun pod spawns.. Honestly not sure what would be best

**TSFFXI** · 2013-02-25 20:27

I'd argue that you'd want to melee alongside your pet to finish the fight a little faster. TP spam and high melee damage cause your pet to take a lot of damage. The big drawback is that with it spamming hate reset moves, you're going to end up with hate eventually. An ill-timed throat stab followed immediately by a counter caused me all sorts of headaches.

**tenkiki** · 2013-02-25 21:04

Are addle's values static or based on dMND? If they are static, what are the values for -macc and +casting time?

**noodles355** · 2013-02-26 09:17

Whats the minimum safe amount to take for Arch-Omega? And jobs/strats?

**Taint** · 2013-02-26 09:25

Originally Posted by noodles355

Whats the minimum safe amount to take for Arch-Omega? And jobs/strats?

He's a push over.

DD+BRD+WHM on Omega and a 2nd DD for Pods would be very safe.

Non Elemental damage speeds up the fight and keeps hate planted during the first 25%.

**fantasticdan** · 2013-02-26 10:08

Originally Posted by Dotsudoku

If you have to choose between /DNC, /NIN, or /SCH?

I'm capable of utilizing any of those subs properly. /SCH out of range seems attractive, but if it's feasible/safer to stay in range, melee, and WS when a gun pod spawns.. Honestly not sure what would be best

I used /nin to pull/tank gunpods and in case omega meleed me for a few rounds after a throat stab. If/when you melee, you wouldn't want to stay on full time, just get to 100tp than stand back. There isn't much threat to you meleeing his four legged form, but there isn't much point either due to the pdt. Could bring an i- wing to cover tp for second pod as well, he should only have time to summon 2, possibly 3 on you.

You could try to stun throat stabs with /dnc, but if you miss a violent flourish or he does them back to back under the flourish cd you could have problems. I'm not sure what you would use /sch for, losing the second pdt axe is really going to hurt your pet, especially if you're letting it handle the gunpods as well.

I think /nin and killing the pods yourself is the safest option. As long as you bring enough mulsums, avoid standing in range of his AoE tp moves, and use snarl/shadows appropriately you should be fine.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Taint

He's a push over.

DD+BRD+WHM on Omega and a 2nd DD for Pods would be very safe.

Non Elemental damage speeds up the fight and keeps hate planted during the first 25%.

Last time I did arch omega as mnk/war + blu/war + brd + sch, and I managed to get essentially get one shotted as the blu/war. He throat stabbed the mnk, than me back to back, and my auto-attack went off just a hair after throat stab, so I ended up pulling hate as he knocked me the opposite way as the mnk, and went from full hp to 0 (while wearing -15% DT) almost instantaneously. Probably not very likely to happen, but something to be wary off.

**Fake** · 2013-02-26 10:44

Originally Posted by fantasticdan

Last time I did arch omega as mnk/war + blu/war + brd + sch, and I managed to get essentially get one shotted as the blu/war. He throat stabbed the mnk, than me back to back, and my auto-attack went off just a hair after throat stab, so I ended up pulling hate as he knocked me the opposite way as the mnk, and went from full hp to 0 (while wearing -15% DT) almost instantaneously. Probably not very likely to happen, but something to be wary off.

Get a better hybrid set, Arch Omega is a complete joke and should never come anywhere near killing you (with appropriate gear there is tons of time after throat stab/blow to cure)

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-02-26 11:04

What date can you reactivate without being billed for the previous month?

**Fereydoon** · 2013-02-26 11:07

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

What date can you reactivate without being billed for the previous month?

Whenever, they just bill you a flat 30 days from reactivation now.

**fantasticdan** · 2013-02-26 11:19

Originally Posted by Fake

Get a better hybrid set, Arch Omega is a complete joke and should never come anywhere near killing you (with appropriate gear there is tons of time after throat stab/blow to cure)

More DT than that isn't really even a hybrid set anymore (on blu anyways) but yeah. My point was that throat stab followed by his auto attack round (it's always a double attack I think?) is liable to one shot you if you aren't stacking enough pdt/hp.

**Taint** · 2013-02-26 11:24

Originally Posted by fantasticdan

More DT than that isn't really even a hybrid set anymore (on blu anyways) but yeah. My point was that throat stab followed by his auto attack round (it's always a double attack I think?) is liable to one shot you if you aren't stacking enough pdt/hp.

Just sub NIN and take the risk factor out.

**Athas** · 2013-02-26 12:04

Having some trouble with billing, got a notice last night that there was some issue with billing and my IDs got canceled. Tried reactivating but when I get up the the confirmation it asks me to add a new payment option on my clickanbuy account, the pre-paid card I use still has sufficient funds but it's just listed with a red X.

Any idea what's wrong?

**damet** · 2013-02-26 18:55

for mericful cape, is it better to trade 3 high quality organs or just 1 at a time? 3 would take longer to farm obviously, but would that be more worth it?

**NynJa** · 2013-02-26 19:04

3 makes it 100% drop, so yes...especially considering the 15 min repop timer.

**Yugl** · 2013-02-26 19:25

The 3x is just 100% for either item. You may as well use 1 to improve repop rate/reduce farm wait imo.

**NynJa** · 2013-02-26 20:25

Isnt it a 15 minute repop regardless if you use 1 or 3 organs

**dasva** · 2013-02-26 20:32

Originally Posted by NynJa

Isnt it a 15 minute repop regardless if you use 1 or 3 organs

I'm guessing he is counting the extra time to kill

**Byrthnoth** · 2013-02-26 20:39

And the extra time to wait for a repop if it doesn't drop what you want again. Here are some numbers from FFXIDB:

Ix'DRG: 90/532 = 16.9%
Ix'DRK: 62/380 = 16.3%

Combined (they both have a 100% chance to drop something when they die and the drop rates don't look significantly different):
152/912 = 16.6666% +/- 2.4%

Ix'MNK: 409/2180 = 18.76% of the drops are Vices
Ix'MNK: 409/2835 = 14.4% of the kills drop Vices

Neither value is significantly different from 16.66% at the 95% confidence level, but they are significantly different from each other. In conclusion, not enough people kill <3 organ Ix'MNKs for us to really know if popping with less than 3 organs decreases your odds of a cape.

**Kaisha** · 2013-02-26 20:55

Originally Posted by Yugl

The 3x is just 100% for either item. You may as well use 1 to improve repop rate/reduce farm wait imo.

Being someone who killed him 11 times recently, ending up with just 4 Deeds, I'd suggest the 3 organ route, and having a partner(s) handle the other camp so you don't have to keep bouncing between the two camps.

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**cdgreg** · 2013-02-26 21:16

What can a non-relic THF skillchain with a Vere MNK in salvage2?

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