Random Question Thread

[Corkadile]

I would hear a lot of sounds for like half a second with the game muted, often when the music would change or something. I got tired of it and super-muted the game via the Volume Mixer in Windows. Makes calls not work at all, but also means I'm not getting my ears blasted off when I have headphones on and an idiot in my party.

[noodles355]

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.

You should be capped against the mob you are engaged to with signet, but you might need an Evasion Thokcha to do that. Against links, you wont be. I'd just farm coins normally, sell them and buy the thoughts tbh. Though if you really want to farm them on DCs without worry of coins, get a good (low delay) crossbow and use bloody bolts (either with /nin or as well as waltzes while /dnc).

Long live the xbow Thf.

[Eldelphia]

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

Do you get the registration code when you buy it? If so it might work to add it to the SE account. Abyssea content is downloaded via POL I thought but obviously if they won't give you the code, there's not much you can do.

[Esvedium]

You don't get the code until you can DL it, I would imagine. I got the expansion pre-ordered through amazon and don't have codes yet. Also, you can cancel the pre-order any time before the release date and not get charged, so that's got to be the reason for no codes before release day.

[TSFFXI]

You should be capped against the mob you are engaged to with signet, but you might need an Evasion Thokcha to do that. Against links, you wont be. I'd just farm coins normally, sell them and buy the thoughts tbh. Though if you really want to farm them on DCs without worry of coins, get a good (low delay) crossbow and use bloody bolts (either with /nin or as well as waltzes while /dnc).

Long live the xbow Thf.

That's actually the only reason I didn't wipe. Linked three leeches in Tavnazia, which probably isn't avoidable given how close they are together, and ended up spamming sleep bolts with my Octant. DC hit pretty hard.
Bloody bolts work well against flying stuff.

[NynJa]

Is the drain effect subject to piercing bonus?

[TSFFXI]

It seems to be. Higher than 100 drains from bees vs. 70 HP returns from everything else. Bats are immune. I was told the cap is 90(?), but I can't get anywhere close to that on most monsters, presumably due to insufficient INT. I also remember getting 100 returns from surveyors in Abyssea grauberg, which I don't think are weak to piercing. Maybe that was a result of INT abyssites/buffs, but I haven't tried shooting anything else in there.

[Byrthnoth]

Surveyors are weak to piercing.

[takeDat]

Anyone have a working parser they care to share a link to?

[TSFFXI]

Case closed, then.

On the dps spreadsheets, is "Fodder" the best estimate for Dynamis EP? I assume the stats will vary from mob to mob, but the level range is in line with BG's information. Asking since the defense is pretty low.

[Fake]

Anyone have a working parser they care to share a link to?

Kparser from Motenten

[takeDat]

Kparser from Motenten

Tyvm

[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".

Bump. No one uses gear collector?

[The Stig]

I managed to cap Amber Light in Abyssea Konshat last night and done a bit of farming. I saw many materials, temp items and 1 Dark Ring, I was wondering if I need any other lights to see NM Key items? Specifically I'm hoping to get a Mucid Ahriman Eyeball so I can pop the zone boss (currently I have no means of killing the NM).

[Taim Meich]

Capped Amber should give you the highest frequency of KI chests. Pearl will help you by giving more chests, and azure by giving you TE, but nothing else.

[The Stig]

excellent. i can cap amber in approx 30 mins in there by hunting all the garudas down, i can't do azure but ok so i'll just need to redo what i am doing and just kill fast and not get distracted by Turul or other big NMs lol (a lot of my times were sidetracked fighting NMs I found idle)

[TSFFXI]

The garudas don't always give high amber anymore (something to do with level differences). I usually cap it on toberry.

[mdkuser]

there is always a garuda @ tonberrys and it almost always cap my amber after 2 kills.

[OctavoGilgamesh]

Kparser from Motenten

Does anyone know if there is a simple one line results summary you can paste to party chat for kparser? I haven't been able to figure out a way for the life of me.

[Spagnutty]

Flans in Kon give 16 amber.