Random Question Thread

[Septimus]

M.acc should certainly increase accuracy of offensive BRD songs. But, I doubt there would be many situations that would warrant the use of the m.acc roll. Perhaps to help land debuffs without ES on ToAU HNMs? I doubt you would notice a tangible difference in success rate, considering how little a difference gear and merits make when attempting to debuff certain HNMs. Regardless, having another BLM or SMN in the COR's spot would probably make the fight quicker.

Against Khim I did not notice any difference with Warlock's Roll, but I would imagine that I also wouldn't notice a difference with 50+ more enfeebling skill as well. Some mobs are designed to suck for Red Mages.

[Bagel]

This one time at Khimaira, I totally absorbed his CHR and followed it up with absorbing his MND. Then of course, Para and Slow II were resisted.

[Guyverarmor]

Totally nub question, I know but...

Been camping LL for about a week now for boots for THF

0/16 on the dorp so far, but thats not It

first 13 times, no boots but would get like 2 skins or skin and a tail

last 3 times no boots, no skin, no tail, no nothing... just 20 xp (18 thf)

Anyone happen to this before? >_>

[Spekkio]

Totally nub question, I know but...

Been camping LL for about a week now for boots for THF

0/16 on the dorp so far, but thats not It

first 13 times, no boots but would get like 2 skins or skin and a tail

last 3 times no boots, no skin, no tail, no nothing... just 20 xp (18 thf)

Anyone happen to this before? >_>

i usually get zero drops of any kind from him. damn lizard is a bastard.

[Tradition]

Would you rather have a BRD or BLM present for PM4-2? I'm really loathe to level BLM up to 50 (42 atm) because there's like, 0 parties at that level on Remora.

[Amele]

Would you rather have a BRD or BLM present for PM4-2? I'm really loathe to level BLM up to 50 (42 atm) because there's like, 0 parties at that level on Remora.

the only reason my group won our first attempt was a zombie blm with a pro-ether, an active elemental seal timer and a 'him or me' mentality.

but hell. I love bards for everything so you'd get my vote! (I'd just drag a blackmage along anyway .. )

[akarikamigishi]

4-2 can be manaburned, either is acceptable really. I've never fought it with normal strat though, I went in as blm blm rdm rdm whm smn ages ago >.> So come to think of it, since brd has no ballad2, blm is probably more preferable.

[Appie]

I was always under impression that parry couldn't block tp moves, but this was a skill up shot I got earlier today. I doubt my log decided to eat a line (or lines, where's my Oats dmg?) since I never had that happen before. Or maybe it's one of the evaded hits... Anyway, somebody probably knows more of this:
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...rryTPMove4.png
I got more images of that moment to rule out lag, can post them too.

Another thing I wondered when I was skilling my guard, since it's a pdif reduction of 1.0 how does it handle crits? Can they be guarded and if they can, is it still displayed as a crit in the log or gets the message of a normal hit? I wish I could have checked for animation of guarding during these SS's but I was busy dual boxing a WHM. So a question for the math kids: Can crits go this low normally, 15, 17 and 19 dmg from the pics below, not guarded with 513 def, -25% dmg in gear? "Normal" crits were in the 40-80 range on these Korrigans in that setup.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...edCritHmm4.png

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...edCritHmm7.png

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...edCritHmm8.png
Got more of these SS's.

[fantasticdan]

I was always under impression that parry couldn't block tp moves, but this was a skill up shot I got earlier today.

You could always parry physical TP moves, it's just impossible to tell you parried it rather than evaded unless you get a parry skill-up in the process, since it will always show up as "Mob uses TP move on player but misses.", "Player evades", or not in the log at all.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Can you parry physical AoE TP skills even if they weren't aimed at you?

[Bagel]

Pretty sure it wasn't uncommon to see parry skillups off of Whirl of Rage back when people exped on weapons.

[klvino]

Somewhere, some place I once saw a formula to calculate drain/aspir. And in that formula it showed how increased Dark skill would increase the potency of those spells instead of a magic skill only improving accuracy.

Anyone else remember the formula?

[SamanosukeShiva]

Which WS specificly benefit more from sea torques than gorget?

I always hear "multi-hit WS'es", but they never actually say which... so which ones is it??

[goshtin]

WSs that hit more than once and rely heavily on acc

guillotine is a good one
dancing egde not so much, because u usually SA+TA it
eviscaration

etc...

[Godwulf]

Anyone knows the exact MDB/Magic reduc% value from Shellra V(lv.3) and Shell IV.

Wiki says about Shellra V: "Reduces magic damage by 62/256 (~24.2%).
Each additional Merit upgrade increases this effect by 2/256 (~0.8%)."

is that exact?!

and also very curious about Shell IV value, since Bahamut V2 Roars/Dispelga so much >.< that its too dangerous for a WHM to run in everytime for Shellra V. knowing Shell IV value will affect my gear set-up for eating Flares.

Please halp!!!

[Tomino]

Tarutaru BLU/NIN in the 40-50 lv range, wearing PCC and Acc swords, should use :

- Sniper x2 and Attack food
- Puissance x2 and Acc food
- MP Rings and Acc food

?

[fantasticdan]

Tarutaru BLU/NIN in the 40-50 lv range, wearing PCC and Acc swords, should use :

- Sniper x2 and Attack food
- Puissance x2 and Acc food
- MP Rings and Acc food

?

Acc rings and attack food, macro in STR rings for SATA, and sub /thf. Subbing /nin pretty stupid at that level range in exp. I would switch to sushi at like 55-ish.

[Suiram]

Anyone knows the exact MDB/Magic reduc% value from Shellra V(lv.3) and Shell IV.

Wiki says about Shellra V: "Reduces magic damage by 62/256 (~24.2%).
Each additional Merit upgrade increases this effect by 2/256 (~0.8%)."

is that exact?!

and also very curious about Shell IV value, since Bahamut V2 Roars/Dispelga so much >.< that its too dangerous for a WHM to run in everytime for Shellra V. knowing Shell IV value will affect my gear set-up for eating Flares.

Please halp!!!

The wiki info is correct. There's a more detailed discussion and tests in a thread on these forums, and the tests we did start here: viewtopic.php?p=538365#p538365

An easily-understood way to interpret the difference between Shell IV and Shell V 3/3 is to say it's a 5%~7.2% reduction in magic damage, depending on gear the tank is wearing, assuming you don't exceed the cap.

(Edit: Sorry you asked about shell IV, it's 56/256.)

[aurik]

Appie: you can guard a critical hit. It still shows up as a critical hit, but the damage it deals will be consistent with a normal, unguarded hit. Which makes sense, since critical = +1 pdif, guard = -1 pdif, so guarded critical = no modification to pdif.

[Tomino]

Subbing /nin pretty stupid at that level range in exp.

i thought it was /THF from 60 to 70 and then back to /NIN, guess i'm wrong?