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[Seigfried Of Pandy]

is pol-0011 the normal servers are too busy keep trying error when im trying to register wotg?

[imsomeone]

Is there a cap on spell interuption rate?

pretty sure there isn't one

[Senji]

Is there a cap on spell interuption rate?

pretty sure it's 50%

[imsomeone]

Is there a cap on spell interuption rate?

pretty sure it's 50%

hehe

[ryskar]

For THF

TAWS and SAWS: Dragon harness or Heca Harness? Meat = Heca and sushi = dragon maybe?

[Atlasion]

The play button activates once the servers are up or have to shutdown POL?


I'm always at work during maintenances.

The FFXI page refreshes itself, so as soon as server are up the Play button will be active, no need to quit.

PS POL is being updated also

So you can stay on the ffxi toppage and the play button will suddenly become selectable?

That is correct.

Also automatically becomes the check version / update thing when there's a maint.

Ah. About this. I know the "Play" button becomes selectable after the page refreshes itself. But, some of my friends seem to be able to log on before me. So although servers are back up, my "Play" button isn't selectable yet due to waiting on page refresh.

How do people get around this problem for extra speedy logging in?

[Budonez]

[quote=Atlasion]

The play button activates once the servers are up or have to shutdown POL?


I'm always at work during maintenances.

The FFXI page refreshes itself, so as soon as server are up the Play button will be active, no need to quit.

PS POL is being updated also

So you can stay on the ffxi toppage and the play button will suddenly become selectable?

That is correct.

Also automatically becomes the check version / update thing when there's a maint.

Ah. About this. I know the "Play" button becomes selectable after the page refreshes itself. But, some of my friends seem to be able to log on before me. So although servers are back up, my "Play" button isn't selectable yet due to waiting on page refresh.

How do people get around this problem for extra speedy logging in?[/quote:2i68nl6v]
The page refreshes it self every few min, so as soon as servers are up you have to exit out real fast then go back to that page.

[nednerb]

Nzyle Isle Floor 100 Question
Floor 100 - I know its not 100% chance drop if u warp. But the item that drops is it always going to be the Job of the Disc Holder even if he warps? OR if he warps does it become chance for 1 of the 3 head pieces to drop?

[aru]

so what exactly is the difference (is there a difference) between blind and an "accuracy down" effect?

[Zanz L. Barre The 3rd]

For THF

TAWS and SAWS: Dragon harness or Heca Harness? Meat = Heca and sushi = dragon maybe?

8/8 Dagger merits and eat meat 95% of the time, so not sure if this will exactly apply to you, but:

TA + DE and SA + DE, I use Hecatomb Harness.

TA + SB and SA + SB, I use Dragon Harness.

Some argue DE in Dragon Harness is ideal, but the slight dmg boost from the DEX/AGI/Att seems trivial in multi-hit WS when the Hecatomb Harness provides a nice Acc boost (on top of a large chunk of STR). So, you'll reach a higher dmg cap with Dragon Harness, but if you're using meat, Hecatomb Harness is the way to go.

And yes, you "should" have two different WS macros for both DE and SB.

[imsomeone]

so what exactly is the difference (is there a difference) between blind and an "accuracy down" effect?

one needs erase and one needs some kind of blindna to get rid of it ? other than that I don't know.
my own: is there a difference between evasion and evasion skill ?

[Delekii]

so what exactly is the difference (is there a difference) between blind and an "accuracy down" effect?

one needs erase and one needs some kind of blindna to get rid of it ? other than that I don't know.
my own: is there a difference between evasion and evasion skill ?

there's no difference between accuracy down and evasion down in terms of effect, if that is what was meant - they both reduce accuracy.

as for evasion vs evasion skill, the logical conclusion now that we know the formula for accuracy to hit rate is that evasion and evasion skill work similarly; that is, probably 1 evasion for every evasion skill before 200, and 0.9 evasion for every evasion skill over 200. Since evasion and accuracy have a linear effect on hit rate, it would seem to make sense that they work equally in their respective parts of that function. I've never seen any parsing of evasion vs evasion skill, however, and certainly not since the hit rate formula came to be known.

[imsomeone]

as for evasion vs evasion skill, the logical conclusion now that we know the formula for accuracy to hit rate is that evasion and evasion skill work similarly; that is, probably 1 evasion for every evasion skill before 200, and 0.9 evasion for every evasion skill over 200. Since evasion and accuracy have a linear effect on hit rate, it would seem to make sense that they work equally in their respective parts of that function. I've never seen any parsing of evasion vs evasion skill, however, and certainly not since the hit rate formula came to be known.

I can honestly say none of that made any sense to me, but alright, cool.

[Rama]

here's one:

If they perform maintenance on a particular zone (not the whole server) does it reset the NMs found there?


edit: answer -> yes....but don't tell the RMTs :D

[Daemeon]

Regarding Thf's WS. Is Dancing Edge better or is Evisceration better? Or is it situational? How about Shark Bite?

[Zoot]

DE for merits and normally for damage, SB and EV situational (lolSkillchain). This is because it's five hit with higher damage multipliers than EV, which makes it the best THF WS which can be popped out when you hit 100TP without waiting for SA or TA timers.

The other two can be decent stacked, SB in my experience pulls out higher damage when stacked than does EV - probably because of the higher damage multiplier and 50% dex mod.

[Akucaen]

Is yarnball broken for anyone else since the WoTG update? I'd post on their forums, but they're completely inactive. :\

[Amele]

Is yarnball broken for anyone else since the WoTG update? I'd post on their forums, but they're completely inactive. :\

yarnball is a log and recast timer tool? it's probably broken.

the log pointer got moved and recast tree got rebuilt when they added scholar and dancer.

[Akucaen]

Well fuck me then. After hating meriting on RDM for years, that program made me love it again. I miss merits. Q_Q

[Amele]

depending on what you were doing with it it's possible that some tools may have replaced it already.

I know the windower team was working on fixing the recast plugin (don't know if they have finished fixing it yet)

I'm not sure what log parsing yarnball did so I can't say if there's a direct analogue there. - did it have a config file where you could provide a pointer offset? I might be able to get it going again for you - pending what it was supposed to be pointed at haha.