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[fantasticdan]

Edit: for dyna farming what's going to be best?

I have fully geared mnk
I have a somewhat geared dnc, but not terrible, would prob need to do magian wep though
Lv bst, which I have nothing for at all
Lv thf, which I have dnc and mnk gear that carries over(thaumas basically; + dagger is already skilled), but nothing else

and if lv'ing a new job is the way to go, what's a decent gear set that'd I could use for farming dyna that doesn't take long to get/anything I have to go really out of the way for

dnc/thf, blu/dnc, thf/dnc, and bst/dnc are all fairly close for solo farming, just use whatever you have geared/prefer to play.

pup/thf, blu/pup, and thf/pup are also decent if you want to avoid the crowd and do ws proc mobs instead. If your mnk is fully geared it shouldn't be hard to get pup setup.

[grevenilvec75]

Generally speaking you make 2 or more gear sets. One for easy stuff which your attack is probably capped against (old school stuff) and one for hard stuff which your attack propably isnt capped against (legion, voidwatch).

If you have to ask, just assume your attack isnt capped.

[dasva]

Possibly. Odd behaviors still though, almost as if a blp is a hate reset. Even if I just used a damaging blp that should generate some nontrivial enmity, using another blp right after still draws the mob to start chasing me. Will make pet tanking all the harder if that's just life now. That's a bit of a shame.

You could try not doing any enmity related actions unless you are out of range and desmn the pet right before it dies instead of letting it die. Unless you got room then let it die way out of range and let it auto aggro

[Fwahm]

What's the approximate break rate (and rate of loss of mats) if you're above the synth's level?

[Byrthnoth]

5% per subcraft.

[Buffy]

5% break rate with a random loss % based on unknown factor or simply random. It can be helped by Artiasan's advantage, 150k GP item, and possibly Kitron Macaroon.

[Taint]

What's the approximate break rate (and rate of loss of mats) if you're above the synth's level?

I always have said 10% per craft required. (might be 7% 1/16 or 12.5% 1/8)

Not sure if any official testing has been done but 3 craft synths definitely break way more then single craft synths.


Edit: Probably 1/16 (per craft) then if others say 5%.

[dasva]

5% break rate with a random loss % based on unknown factor or simply random. It can be helped by Artiasan's advantage, 150k GP item, and possibly Kitron Macaroon.

Kitrons definitely help. Was actually testing kitrons a bit right before the update can look back and get rates as well as the non kitrons. Definitely decently less than 10 w/o and almost non existent with. Though will probably be a rather long time till I get larger samples lol

[Mercilessturtle]

Edit: for dyna farming what's going to be best?

Going mnk/dnc is good as long as you have a th sash from abyssea chests. Otherwise go pup/thf, automaton's flash/voke attachments count as WS for triggering.

[orinthia]

Are mannequins storable on a slip? Also, is the prishe statue storable or does that chest in port jeuno always have one if you toss yours?

[Rehn]

Is enmity supposed to be so messed up that a brd can pull hate on arch-ultima with... elegy? Did like 2 shoha, brd elegies, and pulled hate instantly.

I know they reduced it, but it was never ever this bad pre-patch, and I figured with 30% reduction it wouldn't have been that damn noticeable.

[dasva]

Is enmity supposed to be so messed up that a brd can pull hate on arch-ultima with... elegy? Did like 2 shoha, brd elegies, and pulled hate instantly.

I know they reduced it, but it was never ever this bad pre-patch, and I figured with 30% reduction it wouldn't have been that damn noticeable.

You know how how much the shohas did? How much dmg you took? Did brd keep hate or just get it temporarily?

[Obsidian]

Is enmity supposed to be so messed up that a brd can pull hate on arch-ultima with... elegy? Did like 2 shoha, brd elegies, and pulled hate instantly.

I know they reduced it, but it was never ever this bad pre-patch, and I figured with 30% reduction it wouldn't have been that damn noticeable.

It was reduced *to* 30%, not *by* 30%. That said, I have no idea about pulling hate with one elegy. That sounds bizarre.

[Rehn]

I took 0 damage, shoha did 1k, then 500. Rushed in with seigan/3rd eye.

The fight just got crazy as the battle dragged on. A BLM that applied ONLY dots at start pulls hate instantly with thundaja after a few minutes. Granted damage wasn't exactly streaming onto ultima, but pre-patch the fight was pretty under control until the very last few %. Now it seems like mage chars are just pulling so much more hate than before.

[Rehn]

Well, ok, I guess I misread somewhere about it being reduced by 30%. If all melee hate produced is 30% of what it used to be, then that explains it -.-

Still sucks.

[dasva]

Hmmm sounds like they either reduced it by more than 30% or that mob is decently over lvl 120 lol. Guess I have a new project to get on

[shepardG]

O.k. Some doozey's concerning Gearcollector, spellcast:

1. I know spellcast can make a .xml based on your current set using the "//sc exportgear filename. However, can I have spellcast do this with my entire 80 inventory? In essence, I get my "inventory" setup for whatever job (say rdm) and then I can type something like "//sc exportinventory RDM_GC" and create a file specific to my RDM with everything that Gear collector would need to grab when i run it

2. I'm also aware gear collector can be instructed to store certain pieces of gear in certain inventory spots (I.e. <body store= "safe">Kirin's Osode</body>, in the global.xml). In this scenario I have my inventory sorted as such:
1. Mog Safe = Main hand, Sub, ranged, ammo (3-5 pieces of placed furniture that never moves)
2. Storage = Non-factor as it rarely get's accessed except to store +2 items, random junk
3. Mog Locker = Head, Body, Hands, Legs, Feet
4. Mog Satchel = Accessories (i.e. neck, ears, rings, back, waist)
5. Mog Sack = Consumables, storage slips, nin tools, beastmen seals/crests, misc items

Is there a way to take a snapshot of my entire item database, or would i need to run through and list everything manually in my global? Additionally If I listed every item i have, and it's "home" location (sack/safe/locker/etc.) would Gear collector even be able to over correct itself ...? (I admit that doesn't quite explain my concern, let's use my kirin osode for an example: My global lists my KO as being stored in my Mog Locker (<body store= "locker">Kirin's Osode</body>) I run my WAR_GC, to load my Warriors 80 inventory into "active" inventory, would GC fail at relocating my KOsode because of it's location in Global.xml?

I posted this on windower's site also, If it doesn't have these capabilites but it could have these capabilites would this be something that people are interested in?

Anyway, sorry for the long question(s), guy who wrote GC if your reading your fucking awesome.

[Destinye]

Random question, sorry if it's been asked: Was there any updated Altanaviewer lists? Mine doesn't even have the Voidwatch stuff in it lol, I completely forgot how to make the lists properly ><

[grevenilvec75]

O.k. Some doozey's concerning Gearcollector, spellcast:

1. I know spellcast can make a .xml based on your current set using the "//sc exportgear filename. However, can I have spellcast do this with my entire 80 inventory? In essence, I get my "inventory" setup for whatever job (say rdm) and then I can type something like "//sc exportinventory RDM_GC" and create a file specific to my RDM with everything that Gear collector would need to grab when i run it

Pretty sure it doesnt, but would be awesome. One problem you'd run into is that spellcast has no way of knowing that a Kirin's Osode (for example) is a body peice without all of that being programmed in. It doesn't really matter that much for gear collector since gc doesnt do any actual equipping (could just make every peice of gear head armor for example and GC would still work fine), but i'm willing to bet this is one reason why spellcast doesnt have/won't have this functionality.

The way I acheived the same thing was the shitty way:

equip as much gear as you can and export, swap as much gear as you can and export (leaving a slot blank if you ran out of gear to equip in that slot), copy paste all of that into a different file some where, repeat til you've done your entire inventory.

It sucks, but once its done it shouldn't be too hard to keep it up-to-date.

P.S. This feature would probably be better suited to the find plugin. //find export="inventory" or similar syntax to just make a list of all items in your inventory for example.

[Kohan]

Random question, sorry if it's been asked: Was there any updated Altanaviewer lists? Mine doesn't even have the Voidwatch stuff in it lol, I completely forgot how to make the lists properly ><

http://forum.neko-sentai.com/showpos...&postcount=159