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[minnih]

What's a cheap, easy-obtainable TP and WS belt for war?
i'm thinking Swift Belt for TP

[Zirael]

What's a cheap, easy-obtainable TP and WS belt for war?
i'm thinking Swift Belt for TP

Not sure what your definition of 'easy' would be, but you get Phasmida Belt (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/10815/phasmida-belt) by simply joining VW Kaggen runs, Bullwhip Belt (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/11728/bullwhip-belt) by killing Ovni with blue proc or Goading Belt (http://www.ffxiah.com/item/11729/goading-belt) by having a LAcovie pop and killing it with blue proc.
As for WS belt, depends what WS but I guess either elemental belt or Beir+1/Papilaka/Warwolf/Wanion.

[Kaisha]

Modern MNK Cat2 merits? Have 5/5 Penance, 4/5 Invig, 1/5 Formless. Trying to remember why I even went 4/5 Invig, as it seems useless in modern XI vs. Formless for physical resistant shit.

[Zirael]

Got Rank 4 on my alt account's main. It's my main mule, Whm99 Nin99, but not sure what to get between Skillup Ring/Earrings, Sea Capes/Torques or Adamantoise Egg.

He got Mnk75 which I was planning on lvling back during abyssea for a blue bitch, but never got around to which is why I was thinking Ada Egg (Got beard, tongue is dirt cheap). But idk if there's point. Was thinking of lvling Drk on him eventually so he has a proper DD if ever needed but still unsure about that.

Got Ark Scythe for extra abyssea red proc (if you still do abyssea)? Ptherwise I'd get the egg - skillup ring/earring can take awhiiile to get even with kupower, but you can solo it doing pages and xp your other character at same time. Sea items you can solo as well when bored. But egg you need other people for KSNM, you need to burn your KSNM and even IF someone's willing to sell it to you, it will cost considerably more than other BB items - NQ/HQ turtles are worthless aside from dropping BB item.
At least that's my way of reasoning.

[nikia]

I am curious of something, hypothetically if someone wanted to offload an account, is there any safe ways/sites to do so? Or are they all scams these days? Again just to satisfy my inquisitive nature.
thanks.

[Sechs]

I'm looking for suggestions to farm a couple of Sadist's Fortune in Dynamis - Beaucedine.
Farmed a lot for friends in the past but I don't remember where.
Good spots?
I seem to recall one close to the 20m Stone?

Also, I guess it's good to get all 5 TEs for proccing, even if I don't intend to stay the full 2 hours, should make killing safer?
Last but not least, which jobs combination do you suggest among my options?

I have a mule that I can bring as seminaked THF, WHM, SMN or RDM (I guess WHM?) and my Main. On my main I could go on a strong DD (MNK, SAM) subbing THF for TH2, or... I could go BST, in which case bringing a mule would lose a lot of its utility other than occasional buffs and a raise backup in case I make a bad pull and wipe.
Drop rate is ~10% from FFXIDB, wonder if this number includes TH5+ or if it's TH0? I suppose it's an average. So with TH2 I should probably expect something around ~7% drop rate?

[LiquidFriend]

Modern MNK Cat2 merits? Have 5/5 Penance, 4/5 Invig, 1/5 Formless. Trying to remember why I even went 4/5 Invig, as it seems useless in modern XI vs. Formless for physical resistant shit.

You basically just answered your own question. Should dump the 4 Invigorate merits and go 5/5 formless.

[shaggnix]

I'm looking for suggestions to farm a couple of Sadist's Fortune in Dynamis - Beaucedine.
Farmed a lot for friends in the past but I don't remember where.
Good spots?
I seem to recall one close to the 20m Stone?

Also, I guess it's good to get all 5 TEs for proccing, even if I don't intend to stay the full 2 hours, should make killing safer?
Last but not least, which jobs combination do you suggest among my options?

I have a mule that I can bring as seminaked THF, WHM, SMN or RDM (I guess WHM?) and my Main. On my main I could go on a strong DD (MNK, SAM) subbing THF for TH2, or... I could go BST, in which case bringing a mule would lose a lot of its utility other than occasional buffs and a raise backup in case I make a bad pull and wipe.
Drop rate is ~10% from FFXIDB, wonder if this number includes TH5+ or if it's TH0? I suppose it's an average. So with TH2 I should probably expect something around ~7% drop rate?

FFXIDB numbers are overall drop rates that people experience and record via plug in, it in no way tracks TH. basically its mixed levels of TH. i will say, from experience, that bringing a thf makes a big difference, but sometimes shit just doesn't drop regardless. for camps i would stay away from the TE5 area, mostly because theres no difference in drop rate from EP or DC hydras, and the EP are much quicker kills. the area south of Quads has a nice mix of EP hydra and safe spots to camp, and i always seem to get better drop rates there for some reason. if its just you and your mule thf + bst has worked well for me in the past. as far as TEs go, sadists only drops from blms, whms, and brds, so you're looking at magic procs which ... i would ignore. only really annoying 2 hr will be bene anyway so just suck it up i'd say if you don't need the full 2 hrs anyway

[Obsidian]

Invigorate blocks (or is overridden by?) other types of Regen. I typically only use Chakra for emergency "I'm gonna kill myself on spikes in a second" type situations anyway, where a cure is sure to follow and make it useless, or just to clear status effects. Its use is far more limited than Formless Strikes, in my experience. I'm just 5/5 Penance 5/5 Formless Strikes.

[Sechs]

@Obsidian
As far as I recall from my old lv75 tests what you're asking about is exactely the part that makes Invigorate suck. It does overwrite regen, any regen, and it gets overwritten by regen.
Basically if you have Invigorate up and someone casts Regen 1, it will overwrite your Invigorate. If you have Regen 3 and use Invigorate, it will overwrite Regen 3. Dunno if the situation changed since when they added Regen 4 and 5.
If only Invigorate was its own buff, stacking with regen, it would be awesome. /cry


@Shagginx
Well that's good news, I won't bother with TEs then since Beauc ones are particularly annoying anyway. Thanks for the suggestions

[AlexRuzhyo]

Strats on ENM 30 Playing Host? Buddy and myself are considering MNK and SCH in an attempt to get our augmenting earrings. Is it even possible with two med heavy players?

[Fiendishone]

Ok not sure if I still have the original install disk or not, but I'm going from old PC to new PC (copied all playonline/ffxi files to an external HD) what would be the easiest route to re-install onto new PC?

[Cairthenn]

Running an installer for all expansions, copy/paste your rom folders, run update.

[Khajit]

Do ogier's gauntlets have a use in any popular sets? I'm wondering whether or not i will bother joining the recent trend of shouts for the NM lately.

[Fiendishone]

Running an installer for all expansions, copy/paste your rom folders, run update.

K work in progress but after I also downloaded windower I couldn't get it to run/open. On windows 7 for new PC for what it matters. Big upgrade over XP on old one lol

[Kidnoftle]

Do ogier's gauntlets have a use in any popular sets? I'm wondering whether or not i will bother joining the recent trend of shouts for the NM lately.

Best in slot for drk lr up iirc.

[Gwynplaine]

Did that prism staff thing ever turn out to be worthwhile?

[Khajit]

It was made 6 months ago. It's pretty good but entirely dependent on weather buffs to beat magian 99 I hear?

[dasva]

Good for all jobs not on magian. And yeah with weather and some other form of +element att it can beat magian. Plus just a space saver especially if you never bothered to make some magians (like most hte macc ones)

[urat]

If I miss an attack with impetus up, but Zanshin procs and I land the Zanshin hit, does Impetus still reset to 1?