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[dasva]

Is there a way to have the title of a thread I made changed? If so who do I have to talk to?

[Yugl]

Which one?

[dasva]

The wildfire one. It's kinda heading into a more general magic ws direction and would think it better to do that then make a new one. Though I suppose could necro the old general enmity one lol

[damet]

Question: Is there any way to check which Assault missions you have already completed?

[mdkuser]

mission> aht urghan >assault.

[HelloSon]

Hey, I've got a few things I need help with.

I got a new laptop and installed Windower, blah blah. I've gotten the characters and everything graphics related looking great. However, I'm having problems getting the menus resized so that they look crisp and clean. At the moment, they're looking all PS2-like. Stretched all the way across the screen with the letters being huge.

I've tried messing with Overlay, Background, FFXIConfig and nothing seems to work. I haven't touched a thing in regedit, so I don't think the problem could be there, right?

Here's a few more bits of info that may or may not help:
Launching through GUI
Overlay: 1366x768
x64 and Hide Border: Checked
Background: 2048x2048
Bump Mapping and Compress Maps: Checked
Environmental: 0
Texture: 2
MipMaps: 6

Anybody able to help out? Thanks in advance!

[Nattack]

I'm new to Samurai; please be gentle

do the effects of myochin kabuto and saotome kote stack for meditate?

[Ripebear]

I'm new to Samurai; please be gentle

do the effects of myochin kabuto and saotome kote stack for meditate?

Yeah

[Nattack]

wonderful, thanks.

[Ripebear]

Hello guys, back after a long break.

I'm gearing up a few jobs but SAM will be my main focus.

About weapons:

I have a Kikigosaku right now, here was my idea:

Work on TP bonus weapon, then use that while I work on masamune?

Any recommendations? Any other better weapons I can get ? Have I got right idea or should I just jump straight into working on Masamune since TP bonus weapon takes time itself?

What weapon would you go for if you came back from a break?

[Darkmagi]

I would personally just jump straight into masa, since TP bonus would take away from time put into masa. Masa90 is a very competitive weapon and beats amano for anything that accuracy isn't needed on.

[urat]

Can anyone explain the math behind why Kamome doesnt suck balls? Cause its dps is really low compared to all of the other good katana I can see, but everyone is using it. I know it increases crit dmg 10% and the main katana ws is a critting ws, but the huge loss in dps from meleeing doesnt seem worth it in the slightest to me. Whats up with this?

[Darkmagi]

Abyssea... extremely high crit rates, etc. Attack magian and meebles katana are superior outside.

[Sepukku]

My computers CD/DVD drive tray is jammed and doesn't open. Is Seekers of Adoulin coming out in download form or is it disc-only and I gotta finally fix this?

[Kaisha]

My computers CD/DVD drive tray is jammed and doesn't open. Is Seekers of Adoulin coming out in download form or is it disc-only and I gotta finally fix this?

Digital download. Only 360 release is getting a physical this time around.

Spoiler: show

I also know that feeling. My DVD-ROM drive can't read CDs anymore or burn discs.....but I can't be arsed to replace it, even though they're only $30 at most.

[urat]

Abyssea... extremely high crit rates, etc. Attack magian and meebles katana are superior outside.

That is exactly the answer I said I already knew. How does +10% crit dmg merit such a massive loss in DPS?

Edit: Specifically +crit dmg has diminishing returns and you probably already have +60% crit dmg from atmas, meaning the dps gained from kamome is even furhter reduced, so its probably close to like +2% dps or so from the +10% crit dmg on it, which I dont see being worth gimping half your entire melee swings.

[Yugl]

The wildfire one. It's kinda heading into a more general magic ws direction and would think it better to do that then make a new one. Though I suppose could necro the old general enmity one lol

Looked through and didn't see enough to warrant post movement tbh.

[dasva]

That is exactly the answer I said I already knew. How does +10% crit dmg merit such a massive loss in DPS?

Edit: Specifically +crit dmg has diminishing returns and you probably already have +60% crit dmg from atmas, meaning the dps gained from kamome is even furhter reduced, so its probably close to like +2% dps or so from the +10% crit dmg on it, which I dont see being worth gimping half your entire melee swings.

Well iirc you gh is better than SS. And while true more crit dmg does devalue it more crit rate makes it more valuable. Assuming GH, RR, and apoc and only crit rate gear is rancor you'd have 80% crit rate and 30% crit dmg before the kat. So that 10% crit dmg is more like 6.5% to melee dmg and a little more on ws.

Also to note abyssea let's say you compare it to str magian.... well your going to be capped fstr melee most the time so all that str is only going to add a little to att. And speaking of fstr did you use that to factor in the dps? Assuming capped fstr the melee dps from base dmg is only about 10% in favor of str magian. And almost non existant on ws.

You also tend to have much higher att in abyssea than most other situations where you aren't getting buffs out the wazoo (which you probably wouldn't come nin for anyways) so the little extra att on it is diminished some. Also the crit rate also ends up devaluing the att as well

Lastly pretty sure you get tp faster

[dasva]

Looked through and didn't see enough to warrant post movement tbh.

Right now no just a little sidetracked but about to push it fully that direction lol. Or should I just make a new thread?

[Yugl]

Right now no just a little sidetracked but about to push it fully that direction lol. Or should I just make a new thread?

If you want, sure. No real restrictions for thread create.