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[Rocl]

Whats Hydra pop time/windows like!!!!

[BRP]

I've said this before, but it didn't catch much attention:

What does the "Enhance Absorb" effects on do on Black/Onyx gear?

[Tradition]

Why the hell does my Ballad 2 overwrite my Ballad 1 instead of Minuet 3?

i.e., I Mad/Min melee, then Ballad1, then Ballad2. Ballad2 and Minuet3 are up, and I have to recast Ballad1 again. :\

[Vaxx]

i definitely opened these with my taru and an alvaan friend last week helping him with quest.

are you sure you were stood directly on the middle circle? also seemed to take longer than i remember for the door to open with just the two of us.

Yeah, but it was a pretty long time ago, at least a year, maybe they've changed it? We were trying to open it for a few minutes, before some dopey galka bst came waltzing by. It was the door you needed to open to get to the worms that drop the item for opo crown quest.

I believe the only combination of 2 that cannot open a gate is 2x taru.

1 Galka = 3 taru?

I've said this before, but it didn't catch much attention:

What does the "Enhance Absorb" effects on do on Black/Onyx gear?

Wiki says just enhances duration.

[Tordall]

Why the hell does my Ballad 2 overwrite my Ballad 1 instead of Minuet 3?

i.e., I Mad/Min melee, then Ballad1, then Ballad2. Ballad2 and Minuet3 are up, and I have to recast Ballad1 again. :\

I know this one.

Which song gets overwritten is determined by the duration remaining for each song.

Since you're using an instrument with +2 minuet, minuets last 12 seconds (or so) longer than ballads. All you need to do to fix this problem is wait a little bit between singing melee songs and ballads.

[Everlasting]

I've opened altep pads many times with taru + whatever, but 2x taru won't work, you'll need 2x taru + whatever. There seems to be a really long timer on each color resetting if it's already down so just do the ones that aren't activated yet and it should work.

Or be like a guy on my server and park a mule behind the door heh

[Amele]

I had one back there for a little while, but I can't for the life of me remember why we had to get back there so much anymore..

..then again I like to put mules in all sorts of out of the way places, so it might've just been the collection mentality.

[solsovly]

Why the hell does my Ballad 2 overwrite my Ballad 1 instead of Minuet 3?

i.e., I Mad/Min melee, then Ballad1, then Ballad2. Ballad2 and Minuet3 are up, and I have to recast Ballad1 again. :\

I know this one.

Which song gets overwritten is determined by the duration remaining for each song.

Since you're using an instrument with +2 minuet, minuets last 12 seconds (or so) longer than ballads. All you need to do to fix this problem is wait a little bit between singing melee songs and ballads.

Or you could just get a relic horn so all your songs are the same duration. Alternately if you don't have the extra 200m, you could just cure/debuff in between songs to kill the 12 seconds. In xp parties this isn't a problem anyways since it's usually song, pull, song, song, pull etc. I sometimes sing ballad 1 first, then ballad 2 if the time is tight. That way if it ballad gets erased, ballad II will overwrite ballad I and not vice versa.

[Bakthi]

Which song gets overwritten is determined by the duration remaining for each song.

Since you're using an instrument with +2 minuet, minuets last 12 seconds (or so) longer than ballads. All you need to do to fix this problem is wait a little bit between singing melee songs and ballads.

In Assault/Salvage, Storm Fife seems to close this gap enough so that there isn't really a problem, assuming you're not POS hacking back to your mages. I still always play Ballad I and then II just in case (assuming I'm playing Ballad I at all, which I tend to just skip in merits).

[Tajin]

At what level can i safely solo these as BLM, considering my gear by far, not the best and my char. is Elvaan with no merits on INT or Ele/Enfeeb magic?

BLM just dinged 73, and i have a hMP set, and working on Enfeeb set. is it better if i get some merits for INT and ele/enfeeb? /WHM and /RDM subs are avaliable.

[Gwynplaine]

Does anyone know which .dat file the sound effect for the cursor targeting chime is?

[solsovly]

At what level can i safely solo these as BLM, considering my gear by far, not the best and my char. is Elvaan with no merits on INT or Ele/Enfeeb magic?

BLM just dinged 73, and i have a hMP set, and working on Enfeeb set. is it better if i get some merits for INT and ele/enfeeb? /WHM and /RDM subs are avaliable.

What are you looking to solo?

[Shuemue]

At what level can i safely solo these as BLM, considering my gear by far, not the best and my char. is Elvaan with no merits on INT or Ele/Enfeeb magic?

BLM just dinged 73, and i have a hMP set, and working on Enfeeb set. is it better if i get some merits for INT and ele/enfeeb? /WHM and /RDM subs are avaliable.

What are you looking to solo?

Post subject: Solo King Buffalo

[solsovly]

At what level can i safely solo these as BLM, considering my gear by far, not the best and my char. is Elvaan with no merits on INT or Ele/Enfeeb magic?

BLM just dinged 73, and i have a hMP set, and working on Enfeeb set. is it better if i get some merits for INT and ele/enfeeb? /WHM and /RDM subs are avaliable.

What are you looking to solo?

Post subject: Solo King Buffalo

Whoops. Invest in that enfeebling set, most of it should be cheap. Iqgara, AF, Torque and you should be set. I'd skip the earring due to the price. /RDM is superior to /WHM in almost every solo situation on BLM. Fast cast and more importantly gravity will be your best friends. For merits, I'd probably invest in elemental before enfeebling. With the massive amount of enfeeb+ gear and hq staves BLM's get, you should see little to no resists on your solo targets. Might wanna get an ice obi though if you plan on soloing buffalos.

[Tajin]

Thanks for the tips, but uhh can i solo them "safely" at 73?

By safely i mean, considering a decent gear setup i wont get resisted out of my ass, resisted sleeps will be the real problem, not so much resisted nukes.

[elkna]

Simple question: I am reactivating my account, and want to know if SE charges for a full month regardless of how many days you've played in that month. I know they only charge for days that leak over the free trial period, but I'm not sure if it works that way all the time. Thanks.

[Intense]

I dont think they prorate it, but youll find out upon reactivating. It should make you agree to it.

[elkna]

Ahaha, didn't even think of that. I figured it would have charged at the end of the month. Yeah, they charge full price no matter what. Guess I'm waiting to get back on <_<. Thank you!

[Spekkio]

I dont think they prorate it, but youll find out upon reactivating. It should make you agree to it.

iirc, the manual explicitly states that the first month of a new account is free, extending between calender months. EG, if i activated my account on the 18th of the month, i'd be covered for free till the 18th of the next month. then the next month would be prorated from the 18th. i do NOT know if this applies to reactivated accounts though, so you may just want to wait till the end of the month anyway to be safe.

[Guyverarmor]

No It doesn't apply to reactivated accounts. Had the same question myself when I reactivated 6 months ago... but then, they may have changed It.