Random Question Thread

[ringthree]

Is there something I'm missing to Gekko? Just unlocked it last night, and man it kinda sucks. =( Gekko averages (with Soboro) 260-360 and Yuki averages 350-470. I thought it was supposed to be the bestish I get for the most part.

Y/G/K are all the same. You are just using a low base damage weapon.

[Epical]

Is there something I'm missing to Gekko? Just unlocked it last night, and man it kinda sucks. =( Gekko averages (with Soboro) 260-360 and Yuki averages 350-470. I thought it was supposed to be the bestish I get for the most part.

Y/G/K are all the same. You are just using a low base damage weapon.

Both those numbers are with Soboro though. =( Oh well.

[Niiro]

It's all in you head, they do the same exact damage in all situations.

[VZX]

Regardless those last 3 WS have same base damage, Gekko pDIF average should be higher though, according to reports.
although, I also don't find gekko is as powerful as ppl say, my Kasha usually stronger than the other 3

[Amele]

Is there something I'm missing to Gekko? Just unlocked it last night, and man it kinda sucks. =( Gekko averages (with Soboro) 260-360 and Yuki averages 350-470. I thought it was supposed to be the bestish I get for the most part.

Y/G/K are all the same. You are just using a low base damage weapon.

Both those numbers are with Soboro though. =( Oh well.

every sam seems to find a particular one of the three the best. they are all more or less the same (unless SE nerfed them differently in the recent update).

your damage rolls make me sad what were they against? (last time I went out I was doing 600~ with gekko at 66)


(I'm still betting the random seeds include the first three letters of your character name)

[In Flames]

Anyone know what tier Smilodon Mantle is? And by extension its level? Guild npcs are crap =/.

[Dammerung]

Anyone know what tier Smilodon Mantle is? And by extension its level? Guild npcs are crap =/.

100lc friend said he thinks its T1. From the amount that have popped on AH it's probably right.

[LinktheDeme]

I got a bit of a tricky question. I was wondering what was the total exp before the patch ages ago that lessened it? Was it 1.5 mil I can't remember
edit : I meant 1.5 =(

[Woozie]

It certainly wasn't exclamation point dot 5 mil. I think it was more like 925350 exp.

[Tomiko]

Anyone know what tier Smilodon Mantle is? And by extension its level? Guild npcs are crap =/.

I think it's 82 or 83, but I can't remember for sure.

And the Guild NPCs aren't crap for finding synth levels. I hope you realize they list synths in level order. Meaning if you check the level of the synths directly above and below it, you'll find out what level the synth is within 1 level.

[Epical]

your damage rolls make me sad what were they against? (last time I went out I was doing 600~ with gekko at 66)


(I'm still betting the random seeds include the first three letters of your character name)

Those numbers came off Wootzshells in Mount Zhayolm, /WAR, with Soboro. I guess if I went /THF on Colibri/Date Erucas with Zanbato I could pop out 600s too. =(

Last time you were out did that happen to be pre-post-pre-pre-post-post-pre 2h nerf?

[In Flames]

Anyone know what tier Smilodon Mantle is? And by extension its level? Guild npcs are crap =/.

I think it's 82 or 83, but I can't remember for sure.

And the Guild NPCs aren't crap for finding synth levels. I hope you realize they list synths in level order. Meaning if you check the level of the synths directly above and below it, you'll find out what level the synth is within 1 level.

Orly? Didn't know that, thanks :D.

[Amele]

your damage rolls make me sad what were they against? (last time I went out I was doing 600~ with gekko at 66)


(I'm still betting the random seeds include the first three letters of your character name)

Those numbers came off Wootzshells in Mount Zhayolm, /WAR, with Soboro. I guess if I went /THF on Colibri/Date Erucas with Zanbato I could pop out 600s too. =(

Last time you were out did that happen to be pre-post-pre-pre-post-post-pre 2h nerf?

post-update-post-patch (so what it was say 2 weeks ago)

was erucas in mount Z, near the SE corner of the island, sam/war soboro, with a bard but the bard was singing acc and march, not attack.

most hits were 550-650 and peak was 909 on a double attack, I wasn't using 'zerk or hasso because of ninja "tank".

which is why your number make me sad - I haven't had a chance to go out post-nerf but I would assume I'll make numbers similar to yours.

[Siralin]

Just loaded FFXI on my new desktop and I'm having an odd problem....When I went to change the controls for targeting (I'm used to compact, this is full) I couldnt get the left/right target select to work. At first, I thought it was just a control problem but then I figured out that I can't target anything. Not only can I not target anything, no NPCs are showing up for me to target. I was at Tele-dem when I logged in so I thought i could test on the tele-point but I can't even select it. Also, I did get a slight glimpse at another PC as he teleported away. I can /c <player name> just fine and see their gear, but I didn't test /ta <player name>. Any ideas?

Also, my buttons are all screwed up for some reason. They're clearish when they shouldn't be. I believe I had this same problem on my laptop but can't remember what I did.

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This is after being logged in for a while (no chocobo) so it's not because of lag.

Specs, not sure what would be needed so some copypasta from dell.

Windows XP
Intel Core2 Duo processor E6850 (3.0GHz,1333FSB) w/Dual Core Technology and 4MB cache
4GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
500GB NCQ Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) w/ 16MB DataBurst Cache

[Starblaster]

What's calculated first, haste, or dual weild/delay reduction?

[Amele]

What's calculated first, haste, or dual weild/delay reduction?

presumably delay reduction, but It shouldn't matter which in terms of determining final delay.

[Epical]

your damage rolls make me sad what were they against? (last time I went out I was doing 600~ with gekko at 66)


(I'm still betting the random seeds include the first three letters of your character name)

Those numbers came off Wootzshells in Mount Zhayolm, /WAR, with Soboro. I guess if I went /THF on Colibri/Date Erucas with Zanbato I could pop out 600s too. =(

Last time you were out did that happen to be pre-post-pre-pre-post-post-pre 2h nerf?

post-update-post-patch (so what it was say 2 weeks ago)

was erucas in mount Z, near the SE corner of the island, sam/war soboro, with a bard but the bard was singing acc and march, not attack.

most hits were 550-650 and peak was 909 on a double attack, I wasn't using 'zerk or hasso because of ninja "tank".

which is why your number make me sad - I haven't had a chance to go out post-nerf but I would assume I'll make numbers similar to yours.

Wow, if that's what SAMs were like after the 2h buff (but before nerf), then damn that's pretty broken lol. But yeah, those are unfortunately the numbers now. =(

[Amele]

yeah it was pretty broken, haha. (to be fair, I was only about 6% of the total party damage ahead of the war/nin 2x axe - although that was something like 15% more personal damage)

[Fiofio]

Level 1 Paralyze II.... is this spell basically the same as a Paralyze in effect, unless it is upgraded to level 2 or 3? Just wondering if anybody else has noticed that it isn't really that hot.

[theo]

In terms of Para II, I seem to remember reading something along the lines of "A level 1 Paralyze II will be the same as a perfectly struck Paralyze I." I can't recall if that was in the update notes or a dev interview, I'm sorry for the ambiguity, but that statement sticks out very clearly in my mind. I'll see if I can't find where I read that.