Random Question Thread

[dasva]

Yeah I've been burning tonberries in highlands a lot lately and the garuda there has always given at least 64 amber

[Khajit]

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).

Ebon is supposed to affect potency for all lights so that might help. I know it's been said by others on here that it's useful/needed for the really rare augments at least.

[bluecresent88]

How come the spring in Ro'maeve didn't change when it was a full moon and in game time was between 0:00 and 3:00? I want to do Divine Might again but it seems like the game isn't cooperating.

[dasva]

How come the spring in Ro'maeve didn't change when it was a full moon and in game time was between 0:00 and 3:00? I want to do Divine Might again but it seems like the game isn't cooperating.

Has to be clear skies too

[bluecresent88]

Oh that sucks. It didn't look like there were clear skies, it was cloudy. There wasn't any weather.

Well there's going to be a full moon for a while according to Lokyst dot net so I hope that there will be some clear skies. I want my suppanomimi earring.

I swear though, actually being able to fight DM again is harder than the fight itself. -_-

EDIT: Yay! I got the ark pentasphere and moonlight ore! Hurray! lol

[Hitou]

I forget how many Full moons I had to camp that stupid fountain before it was finally clear skies there. Was at least 3 moon cycles. Of course back when I originally did DM for bushinomimi, it was clear skies first try...

[damet]

Can you do Umagrhk with only 3 people?

[Isindil]

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".

Since no one has replied, I'll try to help out as much as I can.

In regards to global.xml location: I have 2 global.xml in my spellcast folder and my settings folder. So I'm not sure where it goes, but apparently you can't go wrong with both.

As far as picking up items not in sets, you're going to want to make an extra set, call it whatever you want (I call mine "GC" usually). And put those items in there. This can include stuff like shihei, echo drops, w/e, just put inside a tag like <item></item>.

You want GC to move around your linkpearls and gil? This is the default global.xml, if you want to GC to NOT Ignore those items just delete the appropriate ones in global.xml. For instance <item id = "65535"/> if you want GC to mess with your gil, which I do not recommend. If you put global.xml in both folders, make sure delete in both; I really have no idea where it belongs.

<global>
    <include>
        
    </include>
    <ignore>
        <!--Items with no ID DO NOT REMOVE-->
        <item id = "0"/>
        <!--Gil DO NOT REMOVE -->
        <item id = "65535"/>
        <!--Linkshell/Pearls/Sacks DO NOT REMOVE -->
        <item id = "512"/>
        <item id = "513"/>
        <item id = "514"/>
        <item id = "515"/>
        <item id = "516"/>
        <item id = "517"/>
        <item id = "518"/>
        <item id = "519"/>
        <item id = "520"/>
        <item id = "521"/>
        <item id = "522"/>
        <item id = "523"/>
        <item id = "524"/>
        <item id = "525"/>
        <item id = "526"/>
        <item id = "527"/>
        <item id = "528"/>
        <!--Maze Tabula R01 -->
        <item id = "28672"/>
        <!--Maze Tabula R02 -->
        <item id = "28705"/>
        <!--Maze Tabula R03 -->
        <item id = "28706"/>
        <!--Add your own ID's here-->
        
    </ignore>
</global>

As to your last question, there is documentation about GC command here: http://forums.windower.net/files/file/44-gearcollector/ (this also says to put global.xml in your spellcast folder.)

You could place your situational sets in a separate group and then only GC the groups you wanted gear from. For example: //gc job groupiwant. You may be able to fool it by putting something like <group name="groupiwant" inherit="groupidontwant" />. I'm not sure if GC will pick those up because of the inherit or not.

Hope that helps.

[Ranth]

A friend of mine was attempting to play again, but was new to the square enix account management system. She said that she accidentally "unsubscribed" to the account management system. Apparently everything was displaying in Japanese on the entire page or something, and she just thought she was updating her account information. Now when she attempts to log back into the system, it says that her account has been canceled and to contact the Square Enix Customer Support. She's sort of freaking out a bit that her character/stuff was deleted. Anyone intimately familiar with the account management system? Is this the case, or is her character still alright? I'm assuming she'll have to contact support in order to use the account again; but I did see some disclaimer about losing data.

[damet]

Assuming all other variables the same, Ukon99 or Rag99 for WAR?

[Radec]

"It depends"

Ukon on non-critresist stuff, Rag on critresist stuff.

[Obsidian]

A friend of mine was attempting to play again, but was new to the square enix account management system. She said that she accidentally "unsubscribed" to the account management system. Apparently everything was displaying in Japanese on the entire page or something, and she just thought she was updating her account information. Now when she attempts to log back into the system, it says that her account has been canceled and to contact the Square Enix Customer Support. She's sort of freaking out a bit that her character/stuff was deleted. Anyone intimately familiar with the account management system? Is this the case, or is her character still alright? I'm assuming she'll have to contact support in order to use the account again; but I did see some disclaimer about losing data.

Can't speak to the Account Management system (although I don't think you can unsub from it. She may have deleted the POL account from the SE account though, dunno if it can be added back), but unless she actually deleted the character from inside the game, it should still be around.

[shen]

I've gotten a lot of messages lately saying that another user has logged onto my account from another terminal. No one knows my info. So far it doesn't appear as if they have been successful. Has anyone had this issue before, or is there a chance I caught a keylogger? =/

[Fereydoon]

I've gotten a lot of messages lately saying that another user has logged onto my account from another terminal. No one knows my info. So far it doesn't appear as if they have been successful. Has anyone had this issue before, or is there a chance I caught a keylogger? =/

That message also happens if someone tries to log in without the password, meaning they know at least your POL ID.

[shen]

Yeah I realize that. What I was trying to say by "it doesn't appear as if they have been successful" was that they are trying to log on using the POL ID but nothing seems out of place so the password has to be wrong. I just don't know how they got the POL ID without catching a keylogger, unless they have some other method of finding them?

[Fereydoon]

Yeah I realize that. What I was trying to say by "it doesn't appear as if they have been successful" was that they are trying to log on using the POL ID but nothing seems out of place so the password has to be wrong. I just don't know how they got the POL ID without catching a keylogger, unless they have some other method of finding them?

POL ID's are a semi-random sequence of four letters and four numbers. They could just be trying to brute force or something. I don't see how a keylogger would get to you unless you type your POL ID frequently. They might have everything else and just brute forced your ID, or figured it out via the SE website. But if they can get to the SE website they'd have access. You can change POL passwords on the SE page without having the old one.

[Warusha]

Is there a cap on duration boosting effects for songs?

[Darkmagi]

Not reachable by our current gear, no.

[Draylo]

Can you do Umagrhk with only 3 people?

Yes you can, we've done it a bunch of times as RNG DRK SCH. Some reason ranged ws won't break shield so the RNG has to run in and do aeolian edge to knock the shield off. Any DD should be fine to fill RNGs slot though, just need two to knock the shield off. SAM would probably be better due to the regain nerf on Embrava in there.

[mdkuser]

prob not SAM since umargh eats half your TP on every melee attack.