Randomer Question Thread

[Kitsumi]

Can you search BCNM/KS battlefield area's like Waughroon Shrine? or w/e

[shihei]

I can't speak from experience but BLM/RDM for the light elements in sky so you can dispel. Heard this from some BLM who solo'd them all the time back in 05
though you probably won't need it after they start respawning.

[fishstix]

Can you search BCNM/KS battlefield area's like Waughroon Shrine? or w/e

No, you can't do a /sea "Waughroon Shrine"

[Kitsumi]

Also another question, for as long as I have played this game. The word "conned" has spawns a billion times. I know what it means in theory. Like how hard an enemy is subject to being. But what is the full word of this abbreviation? Or is it just made up and has no full spelling lol?

[Charismatic]

Consider

From EQ's
/con

[Kitsumi]

Consider

From EQ's
/con

makes much more sense, thanks lol

[Epical]

Bleh, earring frustration:

RDM: If I don't feel like spending 1.2m on +3 enfeebling, what is another viable option for an earring? Astral? I'm taru, so it's not like I have MP issues or anything. By that same theory, should I just grab an Antivenom because lol10lessmp and I can use it for hMP?

MNK: Anything worthwhile to swap in for Asuran over Coral? I don't know if it's just me, but 5 attack feels like it adds an absolute maximum of 10 damage lol.

Earrings are the worst gear category. =(

[Plight]

Bleh, earring frustration:

RDM: If I don't feel like spending 1.2m on +3 enfeebling, what is another viable option for an earring? Astral? I'm taru, so it's not like I have MP issues or anything. By that same theory, should I just grab an Antivenom because lol10lessmp and I can use it for hMP?

Magnetic's nice if you didn't get something else from Apocalypse Nigh otherwise there aren't many options. If inventory isn't a problem, you could use Phantom/Geist for the respective enfeebles.

MNK: Anything worthwhile to swap in for Asuran over Coral? I don't know if it's just me, but 5 attack feels like it adds an absolute maximum of 10 damage lol.

Aside from Merman, not really.

[Genosync]

Bleh, earring frustration:

RDM: If I don't feel like spending 1.2m on +3 enfeebling, what is another viable option for an earring? Astral? I'm taru, so it's not like I have MP issues or anything. By that same theory, should I just grab an Antivenom because lol10lessmp and I can use it for hMP?

MNK: Anything worthwhile to swap in for Asuran over Coral? I don't know if it's just me, but 5 attack feels like it adds an absolute maximum of 10 damage lol.

Earrings are the worst gear category. =(

RDM: MND earring, w/e, doesn't really matter that much, I wore Moldavite and the um, the AN earring, the Conserve MP one, already forgot the name... lol, full time, because I just didn't feel like buying another earring to carry around. I figured I already had 330 enfeebling skill, and that going past that was kinda pointless anyway (and that was without merits).

MNK: STR earrings, although I was a firm believer that if you miss a swing in Asuran, the swing doesn't count towards the 8-hit limit, and that Double Attack could still kick in... so I kept on Brutal and switched in Triumph.

Earrings are a pretty cool gear category, I actually liked the benefits from them a lot.

[Epical]

@Plight: Yeah, I already have another AN earring picked out.

RDM: MND earring, w/e, doesn't really matter that much, I wore Moldavite and the um, the AN earring, the Conserve MP one, already forgot the name... lol, full time, because I just didn't feel like buying another earring to carry around. I figured I already had 330 enfeebling skill, and that going past that was kinda pointless anyway (and that was without merits).

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'll just stick to Loq/Antivenom or something then.

MNK: STR earrings, although I was a firm believer that if you miss a swing in Asuran, the swing doesn't count towards the 8-hit limit, and that Double Attack could still kick in... so I kept on Brutal and switched in Triumph.

Hmm, interesting. If anyone can confirm or deny this (not sure how you would), that would make the choice really simple.

[Charismatic]

Pretty sure misses still count toward the cap, but I can't think of a way to prove or disprove that...
Maybe someone else can?

[Epical]

Hmm, lets see:

16 full return with my gear (8 hits connected).
15 = 7 hits
14 = 6 hits
13 = 5 hits
12 = 4 hits
11 = 3 hits
10 = 2 hits
9 = 1 hit

Now, with my experience with NIN and SAM, a double attack on WS is 1 TP for every DA, and if you miss your first hit, it gets accumulated from 0 (ex. DA Gekko when first swing was a miss = 1% return instead of normal 16%). So, if you miss the first hit, but still have a full return due to DA from the miss, you'd end up with 8 TP? Would I be right in assuming that if you ever got 8% back, Geno's theory would be right? This is assuming you have the same store TP I do, 8% could be anything depending on the player.

I'm probably very, very wrong... I suck at this stuff.

[evilpaul]

I recall somebody saying it's a 8-swing limit per attack round period, so Double Attack and Zanshin can't activate on AF even if one hit misses...

I'm pretty sure the TP return was regular TP for the first two punches and then 1's after that. Hence the 4-5 TP returns on partial whiff Howling Fists.

[yngwie]

Quick question that I can't find the answer to.... If King Vinegarroon despawns is that the new tod or can it pop in the same 21-24 hr window again?

[Shuemue]

MNK: Anything worthwhile to swap in for Asuran over Coral? I don't know if it's just me, but 5 attack feels like it adds an absolute maximum of 10 damage lol.

Earrings are the worst gear category. =(

http://ffxi.somepage.com/itemdb/7985

Obviously you wouldn't use it in dynamis or anywhere else dark weather pops.

[Suiram]

I feel like I've asked this before, but I don't recall if I ever got a response. Has anyone here ever personally quested an obi, discarded it, and later requested the same one? I have this fire obi in storage from 2005 I don't want to get rid of if I can't ever get it back. ;/

[Vaxx]

Mmmm... so without a Rajas Ring... I'm doomed?

EDIT: Hmm, is it really just a +11 on Store TP? I can hit that with Hachi Kote +1, but it means I wouldn't be able to wear Justice Torque when I got it, unless I then.. what, went Bushido Cape instead of Amemet/Cerb in TP..., then could swap out into Chiv Chain and Mantle for WS I guess, but then I can't use Gorgets...

I dunno, it's just these things like that where this whole 6-hit Store TP setup thing doesn't feel terribly intuitive. :/

I just calculated this out for a friend who has Sativa.

If you TP in Brutal, HQ Hachiman Kote, and NQ Hachiman Sune-Ate, you only need to WS in Brutal, and NQ Hachiman Sune-Ate only. This seems like one of the optimal setups for those that don't have Rajas or Usukane feet. Oh, this is assuming 450+ delay GKat.

MNK: Anything worthwhile to swap in for Asuran over Coral?

For Asuran I use 2x Merman, or Merman & Fenrir if it's daytime.

Quick question that I can't find the answer to.... If King Vinegarroon despawns is that the new tod or can it pop in the same 21-24 hr window again?

I believe I've read it's the new ToD.

[Kitsumi]

Is there a default macro within the game that unequips a piece of gear from a slot to nothing? ex. dusk gloves...

[Vaxx]

Is there a default macro within the game that unequips a piece of gear from a slot to nothing? ex. dusk gloves...

Yea, don't list a piece of equipment. So in your example "/equip Hands".

[Wizerd]

I just tried soloing Steam Cleaner on RDM/NIN. It was going fine for maybe 2 minutes after I pulled, but then as I was getting distance from it, it lost aggro and started walking back. I claimed it back, but every time I was out of its detection range for too long it would lose aggro. I eventually died at 50% because I tried staying close to keep claim (there was another LS watching from about 90%), and Gravity started resisting due to too many uses. One Bind resist did me in, since it didn't stop to cast to give me room to cast Utsusemi.

One thing I did differently is lost aggro on the Detector it popped from (slept it to make it pop SC originally), rather than killing it. Would this be the reason, or is SC always like this? Belkin's guide mentions getting distance - unpossible.