'We are now beginning maintenance on Bhaflau Thickets'

[Ruse]

Ok what the fuck is this shit. I just got booted from FFXI but not POL. If it were a billing error I'd be kicked from POL too because they do that whole "cant log in until you pay" crap if that's the case. I hit the play button and it's saying I dont have any content ID's. Fine, weird, I hit the content ID button to check and review my content ID's and I cant because the fucking billing server is down <_< what kind of scenario would there be where my ID's are deactivated but my POL access isnt?

Curious, my LS ran into this problem today too. Someone in my LS has an old friend's account (dualbox raise and powerlevel ftw!), and the content ID's went missing tonight. She was just using the account yesterday.

hi, im new to these forums this is my first time here, my good friend krandor recommended them to me. I'm currently experiencing this exact same problem. This morning i logged to a friends account who quit the game. When i went to log back into my main account it said i had no content ID. im like wtf so i call a GM from pol coincedently i get a gm ive spoken with a few times before on asura server?? weird but anyways yeah hes a fucking assholes and he tells me "It is unlikely that this is an error on our side" ........... anyone else had japanese autotranslator lately? yea they never make errors. waiting for maintenance of registration server is not the worst part for me, but my brother who lives on the other side of the country pays for my account, so now i'll have to wait until i can get ahold of him so i can get all his info to reactivate my content ids. SE you've been getting my brothers money for the last three years what makes you think you wouldnt be getting it now!! bitches!!
haha jk >.>

and oh yeah and if they nerf thickets on asura i wont give a fuck because the fucking place is so godamn overcamped you cant get a descent chain there anyways. that is all. bai!

[Ruse]

Start of the month though isn't it? People's content IDs do tend to have a bit of a tendency to go walkabout at the start of the month (and it sucks).

Out of interest... how hard is it to pull in the expansion zones from a BRD perspective? I'm someone I admit who sucks so badly pulling decos in sky that I don't tend to exp BRD to practice because I'd prefer not to do something than to suck at it (one day I really need to suck it up and practise until I'm good at doing it). Better / worse than Shrine to pull in?

unmerrited bards get alot of lullaby resists in thickets.

[further]

I'm "leeching" to 75 NIN using a locked senj <_<, 16% of the damage is still damage!

That is genius! And to think I was actually going to take the time to join skillup partys/etc! psh

[sephir]

hi, im new to these forums

run while you still can.

[layoneil]

unmerrited bards get alot of lullaby resists in thickets.

huh?!

you can't merit Lullaby resists. you don't need CHR merits or Skill Merits to Lullaby XP mobs.

[Slott]

Back to the original topic, the maint on bhaflau is probably due to bismarck earlier.

We had undead forces invading, lvl 5, they got bugged outside al zahbi, taking 0 dmg from hits,fully resisting, wouldnt move, wouldnt attack, and never came into the city, they just retreated with no fight. It bugged out, so that's probably what they're intending to fix.

[Not Kuno]

Back to the original topic, the maint on bhaflau is probably due to bismarck earlier.

We had undead forces invading, lvl 5, they got bugged outside al zahbi, taking 0 dmg from hits,fully resisting, wouldnt move, wouldnt attack, and never came into the city, they just retreated with no fight. It bugged out, so that's probably what they're intending to fix.

We had the same problem on Bahamut yesterday.

[Xerlic]

unmerrited bards get alot of lullaby resists in thickets.

huh?!

you can't merit Lullaby resists. you don't need CHR merits or Skill Merits to Lullaby XP mobs.

Use a Mary's Horn instead of a Nursemaid's Harp. String is a piece of crap.

[inafume]

I've never seen a difference between Nursemaids and Mary's Horn in terms of resists... You do realize that string wind and singing all cap at 225, right?

[layoneil]

I've never seen a difference between Nursemaids and Mary's Horn in terms of resists... You do realize that string wind and singing all cap at 225, right?

the theory is because String has a larger radius than Wind, the potency is diluted even with the same exact Skill.

even if it isn't true, Wind Skill equipment makes more sense since you can get Wind Instruments for Elegy, Lullaby and Threnody but you can't get String for all 3 of them.

i use Harp more because the extra Radius helps and because the +2 Lullaby lets me sleep and logout. i do keep Mary's Horn on me when resist seem to be a problem.

[Kenai]

I've never seen a difference between Nursemaids and Mary's Horn in terms of resists... You do realize that string wind and singing all cap at 225, right?

the theory is because String has a larger radius than Wind, the potency is diluted even with the same exact Skill.

even if it isn't true, Wind Skill equipment makes more sense since you can get Wind Instruments for Elegy, Lullaby and Threnody but you can't get String for all 3 of them.

i use Harp more because the extra Radius helps and because the +2 Lullaby lets me sleep and logout. i do keep Mary's Horn on me when resist seem to be a problem.

You don't think it might have something to do with having more +wind skill via a torque or merits or something? With a string torque, decent CHR, and Apollo's you should have no problem, and you can just macro it out for wind based stuff. I just can't see a Lullaby+1 being more potent than a Lullaby+2. I guess I don't really ever have a problem with lullaby anyway, unless the mobs have super high resist, like some light based mobs and NMs.

[Xerlic]

Pretty much what Layoneil said, there's a general theory that wind is more potent than string, even with the same skill level. I remember reading it in a thread, but I didn't bookmark it otherwise I'd link it.

I didn't really put much stock into the theory until I partied on mamools. I did a standard burn party, but the chains were shitty cuz I was getting like a 1/3 resist rate on lullaby with nursemaid's. Had to stop to heal myself too much, Stoneskin/Blink too much, ran out of mp, etc etc.

Next day went back but this time I brought a Mary's Horn. In a 3 hour xp party, I got exactly 5 resists.

Exact same equipment setup both times. Just to clarify, I didn't have any +wind or +string on both times, so it's not like the better success rate with the Mary's was due to using +wind. Plus, no wind/string merits. All my magic merit slots went to Elemental for BLM.

Maybe I was just having an off day the first time, but this was pretty much all the proof I needed. This is just my own personal experience so take it with a grain of salt.

[Celeras]

Same problem with level 5 undead swarms on Ragnarok last night.

[Daahan]

I've never seen a difference between Nursemaids and Mary's Horn in terms of resists... You do realize that string wind and singing all cap at 225, right?

the theory is because String has a larger radius than Wind, the potency is diluted even with the same exact Skill.

even if it isn't true, Wind Skill equipment makes more sense since you can get Wind Instruments for Elegy, Lullaby and Threnody but you can't get String for all 3 of them.

i use Harp more because the extra Radius helps and because the +2 Lullaby lets me sleep and logout. i do keep Mary's Horn on me when resist seem to be a problem.

string skill is gay. period. The best thing to do is put all or most of your merits in to wind. Wind lets you land elegy, which in my opinion is the alpha song for bard in endgame.

I have max wind merits, and I have Mary's Horn macro'd in for Foe Lullaby and Nursemaid's Harp for Horde Lullaby. Everything works out fine and stays slept for the same amount of time.

[wartortle]

2 Bards, 4 Melee, let one of the NINs pull (and duck tape his mouth so he doesn't bitch about his parse)... works mostly ok

I'm not the biggest fan of bards pulling the zone without 3 mages

[Avvesione]

I'm not the biggest fan of bards pulling the zone without 3 mages

Yay! I don't like pulling on BRD

[Ragnard]

I'm not the biggest fan of bards pulling the zone without 3 mages

Yay! I don't like pulling on BRD

Pulling on BRD is the only thing that keeps me sane in 2 hour constant-chain parties. Otherwise I die of boredom. /NIN ftw, as well. Skin and blink can't compare.

[Chael]

String skill is indeed gimped on debuffs. This is coming from a bard who had capped string skill merits, realized his fault, then erased them all and capped wind instead.
I ran around 300 tests total a few months ago where strings had about half the success rate of wind. I can dig up the topic on KI if needed.

[Saphirea]

ill give this a try tonight in xp. I was using nursemaid's and I was getting resisted every 1 out of 5 sleeps, which meant curing myself and stoneskin got ate through.

Since I capped XP lastnight, I'm thinking of merrits now and wondering how much capping wind skill would help on these things as opposed to just using string.

Its odd though, I've never had these ammounts of resists, even on dynamis mobs, but xp in the expansion area is resist city for me.

[draxyl]

Interesting stuff, I tend to avoid bard forums because I'm a player that feels my bard is "good enough" for most endgame activities, and I tend to lurk more in forums for my other jobs...so I had missed this string vs. wind debate.

Now to get my mary's horn back from someone I loaned it to