Monstrosity: Abilities and General Mechanics

[jimbobsonofgod]

probably wrong code can you try what i pasted in the forum. That displays correctly in game for me.

> α

[dasva]

So scorpion gets groundbreaker at 90. 150 tp. dmg was only about 300 as the drk/blm model but stun lasted a good 10 sec

Also last night had someone try to snipe me while I was afk. Luckily I have an alarm set for when I get claimed lol. Anyways they sent Courier carrie after me and I couldn't attack it at all. Eventually just ran after the person and started pounding on them. They immediately used warp scroll and of course it gets to go off while I hit... but I got lucky and killed as they were warping

[dasva]

That is tremendously disappointing.

Prepare for more dissapointment. Finally upgraded the melioration torque but... base 10 mp 3 mnd/int/chr

path A: 40 mp, 3int/mnd
path B: 40 mp, 3macc/chr
path C: 40 mp, pet: 5macc/mab

So yay smn gets a slight upgrade for bps and everyone else could give a crap

[Trumpy]

Shenanigans to not being able to target and attack pets!

I tried that code, all the sites i looked for alt codes gave that one. the "A" looked like a normal "A" (lowercase) but that might be due to what fonts i have on my PC? I tried other greek (?) codes and some would give the real symbol and others would give the normal letter that most resembles the letter. When I look at the ability in the menu it has more to it on the right side (I dunno how to describe it other than more flare to it) than what comes out when i put alt 224 (α). I will try again but I dont think it will work for me.

And what i meant was monsters with MORE than 2 forms/stances. which might require a fighting stance beta, delta, ect and so on. Since there is only one move that toggles the forms I don't understand including alpha at the end of the ability name. I suppose Urganites will have 2 forms as well.

Oh and i think december update will bring just birds (in the dev post it only mentions birds), though i wish it would bring aquans and amorphs too.

[dasva]

Ghrahs?

[Fwahm]

Qutrubs, too.

Acroliths as well, though it'd be a bit silly to change stance to "partially destroyed".

[dasva]

Shenanigans to not being able to target and attack pets!

I reported it as a bug and go the response... "Greetings dasva,

We appreciate you taking the time to report this concern you are having to us. However, since this sounds like a discussion on the current state of gameplay rather than a bug report, I will be closing this particular thread. We welcome you to post about this concern in the "Gameplay" forums in order to discuss changes you would like to done to the game. "

[dasva]

So I just noticed that there are pages for mobs I didn't think we got like chapuli. Were they found in dats and we just haven't found them yet or were just all mobs of each family added or something? Also a noticed a few monsters have links to their abilities with full descriptions and such and was wondering how to do that for others?

[dasva]

So seems beserk overwrites rage but not the otherway around

[Kainstryder]

So I just noticed that there are pages for mobs I didn't think we got like chapuli. Were they found in dats and we just haven't found them yet or were just all mobs of each family added or something? Also a noticed a few monsters have links to their abilities with full descriptions and such and was wondering how to do that for others?

It's in the .dat files. If you wanna root around yourself, windower folder>plugins>resources>abils, open that and ctrl f a TP move, you'll find the monster if it's in there. For chapuli, nature's meditation is nat. meditation, but it's NOT the blu spell as it costs 150 tp.

[dasva]

unusual scolopendrid (drk/blm model scorpion) and only that subspecies gets Telsonic Tempest at 99. 200 tp. It's additional effect is kinda funny given the fact that there is no uncapped mvp yet. Though it would be crazy broken anyways with that whole 5 second delay for each equip. Oddly enough the encumberence still lands on mobs even though I can't see it actually doing anything. Dmg wasn't too impressive. Did 400ish in a cone one time I tried on seaboard vultures. Looks pretty cool though

[Mefuki]

It's in the .dat files. If you wanna root around yourself, windower folder>plugins>resources>abils, open that and ctrl f a TP move, you'll find the monster if it's in there. For chapuli, nature's meditation is nat. meditation, but it's NOT the blu spell as it costs 150 tp.

Cool, thanks for that tip. There's actually some interesting stuff in there. Most notably are Fomor TP moves and, along side Fighting Stance Alpha, Fighting Stance Beta, Gamma and Delta.

[Trumpy]

Im on beetle atm and dont want to lose the exp i gained so far but I just tried opening notepad and using alt 224 which made the appropriate alpha symbol (instead of the regular a it makes when i do the code in ffxi or on these forums) and i copy pasted it into ffxi macro and it looks like it should. so until i can switch to wamoracampa i wont know if it works or not unless someone here tries it.

its weird copy pasting it here doesnt work.

[dasva]

Well iirc it has something to do with html seeing the code differently

[Trumpy]

OK i tested it out using notepad to alt 224 and then copy pasting it worked!

[dasva]

So I figured out a fun way to get a bit of infamy. Flag belligerance and just run around 2-3 shotting everything in a small area over and over. For extra points try to take (or automate) more or less the same route going thru that area regardless of where mobs might appear on your screen. Then when some invariable comes to snipe you thinking you are afk (which may or may not be true) murder them lol. The extra 40 points increase your strength by rediculous amounts at that level to the point where you can still probably run them down and kill them before they can warp scroll away

[Mefuki]

What do you mean by "automate"? Is there an option in the config to make monipulators engage automatically or something?

[dasva]

Cheating. The goal here is basically make it look like you are botting and unlikely to respond to an attack by a non monster. Afking in place for awhile does the same thing but of course you aren't getting anything while doing that. Also it's a great way to get BS

Side note got fiend torque to rank 15 woot.

Path A: 15 hp
Path B: 15 mp
path C: 8h/7mp

It can be evolved into any of the lvl 75 torques making it incredibly useless since worst case scenario it will cost you 25k prestige to flat out buy a 75 torque. And the fiend costs 10k and then another 60k to rank 15. Even if you get it dropped already at a high rank (which makes it likely you will also get a 75 since so far of the torque drops I've gotten 6/7 were 75s) the highest rank I've gotten so far is 11 which still needs 3800 rp to rank up which means either another 40k prestige from +2s or a +2 an some assorted +1s you get while farming prestige monipulators. Either way don't bother with fiend torques like I did. Grumble grumble wish I had it back to use on my other torque lol

[dasva]

Not sure what it was before the update but 1000 needle cast time is rather big now. Like a good 8 seconds or so

[Draylo]

So lame lol, no idea why they felt that was necessary.