The catch em all thread...

[Spoony Bob]

This thread blew up a lot quicker than I expected it too and near the start there's conflicting information, so.. On a plate with whatever trait or ability, if that is successfully made into a monster, will they have that plate's trait automatically?

[Delekii]

This thread blew up a lot quicker than I expected it too and near the start there's conflicting information, so.. On a plate with whatever trait or ability, if that is successfully made into a monster, will they have that plate's trait automatically?

No.

Seemingly, each race of monster has a set of traits it can randomly have for free when created, not anything to do with the plate it came from. Out of 60 apkallus I tried to make, about 75% came with atleast 1 trait, and only 2 or 3 of them were better than useless (1 max hp, and 2 attack bonus). I wanted Attack speed or Regain but gave up.

The rest were crap like refresh, water resist, etc etc

[liefe]

Need to make 2 changes to D cage.

1) After your first win, you must confirm with Blue/Red NPC before every match in order to be able to participate further to prevent AFK-championing.

2) If the EXP is capped (2000) then you will be automatically retired and awarded some bonus tokens or something.

At least 1, if D-Cage hogging is still an issue, perform 2.

As for regular cages, they need to make some kind of "confirmation check" when you are about to start a match. Make the game auto-warp you to your respectable color side NPC as convenience and create a loud unique sound when the prefight red message is sent. If you fail to check in, you forfeit your entry and the other side automatically wins the EXP and tokens they would have received if they won.

This would eliminate most occurences of macrobotting the registration NPCs because it would force 2 warps away from them for each match. If they made similar revisions to the current Pit system it would (hopefully?) reduce the traffic a little bit in addition to loss of initial interest.

[BRP]

How should ffxiwiki be changed for this? Think every monster should have "potential plates" listed on their pages(granted would be a lot of repeats based on job and species).

[Plow]

probably sort by types of plates and list what mobs can give them

[miokomioko]

Simply have each mob family have "possible innate skills" listed...?

[Excalin Garisk]

We should really start making a better list for starting stats on mobs....seeing how they can start with some expensive abilities

Ive made 4 Reflectors (none got the ability from original plate)

Tarus lv 5- 56 FP - Resist Virus
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Nothing
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Resist Gravity
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Auto Regain <----I want to see how bad ass this becomes....its lvl 8 right now and a free 78 FP move is always cool.

[Wolfknight]

I used wivre plate yesterday got:
Wivre lvl 9 43 FP - Damage Resistance Bonus(had this on plate)
sorry if asked already, anyone have idea if Damage resistance is -dmg#(like phalanx) or -dmg%(like -dmg on equip)?

[BRP]

Hmmm, maybe I should remake my Wamoura until he gets a trait

[Delekii]

We should really start making a better list for starting stats on mobs....seeing how they can start with some expensive abilities

Ive made 4 Reflectors (none got the ability from original plate)

Tarus lv 5- 56 FP - Resist Virus
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Nothing
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Resist Gravity
Apkallu lv 8 - 68 FP - Auto Regain <----I want to see how bad ass this becomes....its lvl 8 right now and a free 78 FP move is always cool.

die die die die die die die

which apkallu did you snap for that?

[Excalin Garisk]

If you mean where...it was in Havlung...nearest camp you can get to.

the plates I popped the three from I think:

Paralyze Attack I think gave me the nothing
Agi +25 I think I got the Regain from
Element resistance I got the resist gravity from

[Excalin Garisk]

I still have no clue about the Job stuff....If I set Job or Sub Job warrior....is that just stat related boost? then add Job trait Ill get the DA 10% and whatever bonuses? lvl dependant? think this is another gray area that I very needed in being uncovered in more detail

[Dense]

*desperated*

can anyone confirm a mob that drops SAM sub or have i just been unlucky with 0/12 on the sauromouge champaign yagudo?

Vanguard Skirmisher.

[Inariya]

First pet started out with nothing, went hunting and got a pet starting with Store TP and +15% Eva Bonus.

[Akumaronin]

Has anybody had a starter pet with an Instant spell ability, like Stoneskin or Dread Spikes? Interested in if it'd be worth it to take a huge number of pictures and spam reflectors until I got what I wanted.

[miokomioko]

To clear things up for the umpteenth time... :/

Main/Support Job: XXX = gives job-appropriate stat/hp/mp bonuses.
Job Trait: XXX = gives that job's appropriate traits if its your main or sub.

Job Trait plates do nothing unless it matches your monster's Main or Support job.


Also, use that Pit Monster base stats thread to fill with your initial Soul Reflector stats and outcomes.

[Uzor]

Has anybody had a starter pet with an Instant spell ability, like Stoneskin or Dread Spikes? Interested in if it'd be worth it to take a huge number of pictures and spam reflectors until I got what I wanted.

I have Instant Stoneskin at lvl 9 atm, and it doesn't seem to absorb much damage at all... only like 1 or 2 attack rounds. Although my pet is only lvl 9, so it have potential I guess. Still, I don't think it'll absorb much more then 1 or 2 attack rounds at higher lvls either. I think I'll change to instant dread spikes.

[miokomioko]

Has anybody had a starter pet with an Instant spell ability, like Stoneskin or Dread Spikes? Interested in if it'd be worth it to take a huge number of pictures and spam reflectors until I got what I wanted.

I have Instant Stoneskin at lvl 9 atm, and it doesn't seem to absorb much damage at all... only like 1 or 2 attack rounds. Although my pet is only lvl 9, so it have potential I guess. Still, I don't think it'll absorb much more then 1 or 2 attack rounds at higher lvls either. I think I'll change to instant dread spikes.

I believe he meant has anyone had a soul reflector forged with an innate Instant-Spell trait, i.e. dread spikes or stoneskin... I haven't heard of such a thing personally... yet. I'm about to do a couple dozen forges to see what I get from various plates of the same mob.

[Khelek]

nice... didn't know you could get 2 innate skills at the same mob. just caught a cactuar who had beast killer and resist gravity innate.

[Coldone]

Anyone know how much FP a Roc type mob starts with?