Random Question Thread

[dasva]

Well not luck that they spawn, luck that you end up in the right zone. You can tell if you're on the pirate trip if you can target the doors as soon as you can control your character after you zone in. Or via apradar/whatever.

Or just by how long it takes you to zone. Though in a way it's the same as the target thing. Since you can target the doors at the same time every run it's just pirate runs take longer to load. Odd things you noticed when camping both boats at once trying to get lures

[Fake]

Our group does it because you can get a rare random anomaly where when ADL splits, 1 of the 2 clones will pick any random person in the alliance and go after them. If a mage, or a mule is in ally and outside of the alcove an ADL can potentially chase them down, and if the clone that stayed in the alcove is wrong, the time spent running after the ADL will waste your PD.

In over 400 adl this has never happened to me. Its doing that because smns are squalling after split on the one not being killed. There is 0 reason for mages to stand with the melees since you can stand on the posts by the top of the ramp

[noodles355]

Some GearCollector questions:
Firstly: Am I correct in thinking I just create a Global.xml document in my spellcast folder and put the settings byth has in his GC_Settings.xml doc on his pastebin (with whatever changes I may need)?

Secondly: For gear that is only defined in the <rules> or <variables> sections of my spellcasts, how do I make it read it as wanted gear? Do I just have to make a pretend <set> with everything that's not defined in a set already?

Thirdly: How do I make it so it ignores "Gil" and "Linkpearl" on my unwanted items list?

Fourthly: Say I normally want to exclude certain situational gear, but it's still in my spellcast (example: Aeolian Edge gear for Thf, or Melee gear for Whm, etc), is there a way to get gear collector to ignore those pieces without removing them from my spellcast <sets>?

The documentation for this doesn't seem to work anymore and the BGwiki page on it doesn't mention what the global.xml is or where it goes, or the answers to the above. The fact I know I need one at all is simply because the program says "can't find global.xml".

[Mrp]

Spellcast random Question for Idle and Engaged
I don't understand how <If spell "autoset"> work

How the autoset spell is triggered? I don't see autoset in ressources too

[Yojimmbo.Asura]

Random Question: Bard> Does Ghorn afterglow actually do anything? Did SE really screw things up by allowing people to waste marrow by upgrading the Ghorn? Please a serious reply ( ' ')

[mdkuser]

it glows, that's it.

[Dew]

*Gjallarhorn and Daurdabla may not be imbued with Afterglow effects.

Quoted from the 99 upgrade thread on official forums. They will just make your character glow.

[Martel]

Spellcast random Question for Idle and Engaged
I don't understand how <If spell "autoset"> work

How the autoset spell is triggered? I don't see autoset in ressources too

Autoset is the name of the auto trigger that fires whenever you changes statuses(Idle, resting, engaged, etc.) So, if spell="Autoset" would parse true upon switching to idle/engaged/resting status.

[dasva]

Random Question: Bard> Does Ghorn afterglow actually do anything? Did SE really screw things up by allowing people to waste marrow by upgrading the Ghorn? Please a serious reply ( ' ')

The text on the glow version isn't as jammed together too!!! Instead of jamming it into 2 lines like the normal 99 version it's on 3!

[Kaisha]

A few limbus Qs, as I'm wanting to catch up on some old gear, and upgrade them via the Arch bosses.

- What's the most efficient means of farming ABCs for purchasing metal/niveous chips? Is Apollyon NW still the zone of choice, or did 99-cap make using a metal chip to get 150~ from the basements more viable?

- CS Apollyon 2 - Bare minimum needed for it? Seems easy enough from what I'm reading due to zero links, making for easy pulls, just worried about the time limit. Only additional note I know about it is to bring as many friends/2box as possible so they all get the KI to allow for daily Arch-Omega spam, assuming 150 ABCs a day are being brought in by whatever means to cover the cost of the chip

- Arch-Omega : SMN on adds, WHM healer, MNK tank, 2-3 extras on whatever, should be easy?

- Temenos side of things: Still needs the 6 clears for an Ultima set, or did they fix that shit?


2boxing the Apollyon zones has been fairly therapeutic. Zero issue with time on them at the current cap, and I get to slaughter a lot of mobs and get something out of it. Good time killer in the morning when nothing is happening in LS. Not sure if I have the gall yet to try 2boxing normal Omega as either my BST, BLU, or sorta-geard MNK w/ WHM.

[Sudox]

For CS Apollyon 2: DD DD WHM BRD should be enough to easily clear it with a few minutes to spare. We did it DRK DRK BRD (second DRK and BRD 2boxed) with slow pulls and still had over 5 minutes left to spare. Bring more people to hold KIs and have them split up to kill separate enemy groups simultaneously if you're worried you won't clear in time.

Arch-Omega: DD DD BRD + WHM or SCH is plenty. Use twilight scythe, formless strikes or Uptala GKT from 100% -> 75%. If bringing DRK and twilight scythe, blood weapon + souleater makes the first phase go much faster. Use embrava and you should only have to worry about 1 gunpod at most.

[JamesRay]

I was curious if 4/5 Ares' +1 was the new MS upheaval build? (excluding feet), also wonder how the skadi body +1 stacks up against tessara saio for Coronach and does the True shot activate anywhere or just in sweet spot? pls respond

[minnih]

when using dual-box on the same pc, is it possible to turn the music/sound on for one account and off for the other?

[Byrthnoth]

Yes. Click the volume icon in the lower right hand of your screen and then Mixer. Mute specific FFXI processes as you wish.

[Cairthenn]

Or adjust the music/sound options in the Config > Gameplay menu.

[Darkmagi]

I don't know if it's just me, but does anyone else hear airship sounds randomly with in game sound muted?

[dasva]

I don't know if it's just me, but does anyone else hear airship sounds randomly with in game sound muted?

Occasionally here all kinds of sounds. Especially when zoning

[Jakson]

I have an account that doesn't have any Abyssea; If I buy the Ultimate Seekers that has everything edition (say, from Amazon or some other online service), will I have to wait until SoA comes out to use Abyssea?

[TSFFXI]

Does anyone have any advice for fighting DC dynamis mobs solo? I usually go as thief. Nothing notable gear-wise: Aluh/STR, Thaumas, etc. Tried out a couple tonight and had a pretty rough go. I don't think my EVA was capped, and links were not very easy to deal with. I wanted to try getting some forgotten thoughts, though it might be a loss of efficiency if the coin loss going from EP->DC is too much.

[Guitarman]

I don't know if it's just me, but does anyone else hear airship sounds randomly with in game sound muted?

All the time. It's pretty odd.

I have an account that doesn't have any Abyssea; If I buy the Ultimate Seekers that has everything edition (say, from Amazon or some other online service), will I have to wait until SoA comes out to use Abyssea?

Yeah. I bought that edition and we can't even download it until midnight release.