Randomer Question Thread

[Callisto]

Durn, was hoping Anrin + Leaden Salute in Dynamis may be sweet.

[Tan]

Do Sea obis generally work with elemental weaponskills?

Anyone have any proof that they don't? It would make sense that the MAB bonus from the obis would apply to anything, even Elemental WS (since MAB is a mod I believe).

[Omniyoji]

...(since MAB is a mod I believe).

If MAB is a mod then the obis wouldn't work since they're not Mag. Atk. Bonus

[Callisto]

Yeah MAB works but I wasn't sure if elemental WS can get weather/day boosts.

[Amele]

Yeah MAB works but I wasn't sure if elemental WS can get weather/day boosts.

only if wielding a weapon that grants a bonus based on day. (edit: and those are already 100% so the obi won't help)

[Judai]

does maintenance reset ixion tod?

no

[Spyre]

Does maintenance reset Sandworm ToD?

[Judai]

Does maintenance reset Sandworm ToD?

it pops next rl day

[Spekkio]

has anyone yet tried meriting the modus veritas duration and determined what 10% means exactly? i can see it being read 2 ways, either as 10% of the whole duration (IE fully meriting it causes no reduction in helix duration), or 10% of the 50% reduced (IE fully meriting it causes helix duration to be reduced by 25% on use). has any concrete evidence of which of the above it is been established? i've tried searching, but all i can find are people direct quoting the update notes, not any experimental results.

[FailureMidgard]

has anyone yet tried meriting the modus veritas duration and determined what 10% means exactly? i can see it being read 2 ways, either as 10% of the whole duration (IE fully meriting it causes no reduction in helix duration), or 10% of the 50% reduced (IE fully meriting it causes helix duration to be reduced by 25% on use). has any concrete evidence of which of the above it is been established? i've tried searching, but all i can find are people direct quoting the update notes, not any experimental results.

Was wondering same...but, I think sublimation+50 is a pretty useless thing to merit most the time (it adds a small amount of efficiency to sublimation, but seems almost negligible). So there aren't many other options.

[Spekkio]

Was wondering same...but, I think sublimation+50 is a pretty useless thing to merit most the time (it adds a small amount of efficiency to sublimation, but seems almost negligible). So there aren't many other options.

oh i fully agree. sublimation +50 is roughly equal to +50 max MP if you pre-charge it, and i don't remember anyone going berserk over zomgmpmerits. the only effect it actually has on MP regen is to increase the amount you can store in a sublimation charged and thus SLIGHTLY reduce the % of time that's spent waiting to reactivate sublimation after expending the charge into your tank, IE negligable. grimore recast is quite pathetic (i've no idea why they even bothered to include it), so that leaves but 2 options. the reason i ask is b/c i'm trying to revive an old hairbrained idea of mine and the answer to this question differentiates between "possible, but would be difficult to put in practice" and "6 people with half a brain in their head could do it."

[Jakson]

Never done Nyzul Isle. I've read http://www.bg-wiki.com/Nyzul_Isle_In...ation/Strategy and was wondering if any combination of the following would work for farming for weapons:

Me: WHM/BLM, RNG/NIN /SAM /WAR, or NIN/WAR etc.
Friend 1: PLD/NIN /WAR /etc., or WAR/NIN /SAM /THF
Friend 2: SMN/WHM

My first goal really is just to get weapons for new WS. This possible or will I need to bring more in? Also, is that guide still correct after the newest update?

[FailureMidgard]

Never done Nyzul Isle. I've read http://www.bg-wiki.com/Nyzul_Isle_In...ation/Strategy and was wondering if any combination of the following would work for farming for weapons:

Me: WHM/BLM, RNG/NIN /SAM /WAR, or NIN/WAR etc.
Friend 1: PLD/NIN /WAR /etc., or WAR/NIN /SAM /THF
Friend 2: SMN/WHM

My first goal really is just to get weapons for new WS. This possible or will I need to bring more in? Also, is that guide still correct after the newest update?

It's definitely possible, it's just not efficient. You will be killing less NMs than a group with more people, and may have issues making it to floor5, meaning you'll also have to do a ton more WS pts to unlock it?

But getting the drops, sure, you could do it solo with some jobs if you had people to help you zone in.

[Robert]

this is a lolquestion but does killing the boss in CoP dynamis load accessory/-1 drops or increase the rate? just got out of dyna valk, killed all the pre-popped sabotendars and hippogryphs with nothing to show for it, all TH4

[Deftscythe]

If my WS macro looks like this:

//exec ws.txt
/equip neck "appropriate gorget"
/ws "WS" <t>

will the gorget swap in fine or do I need to include the gorget in the windower swap? I know weird stuff can happen with macros and lag.

Also, what's the best place in sea for getting aern organs?

[Callisto]

It should work fine like that, and if you have a buddy or two, do the Palace, can get HQ Aerns to help your LS while you're at it, and good XP.

[Deftscythe]

It should work fine like that, and if you have a buddy or two, do the Palace, can get HQ Aerns to help your LS while you're at it, and good XP.

So palace is better than garden? Any particular part of the palace? We did garden yesterday, got ix'drk but not a single organ.

[Callisto]

I typically go west when entering, clear out that hall, pop the Quasi and head north, clear the 2 halls out along the Quasi path, then go back towards entrance and start over. We get a pretty good amount of Ghrah M's to boot just from killing the ones in the way.

Edit: And yeah, to me the Garden lumps shitty jobs together often, so when you link you end up w/ like DRG + BST + BLM or some shit and it gets annoying to handle them. Someone had all the Aern job pops there mapped out but I forgot where I saw it.

[Havok]

this is a lolquestion but does killing the boss in CoP dynamis load accessory/-1 drops or increase the rate? just got out of dyna valk, killed all the pre-popped sabotendars and hippogryphs with nothing to show for it, all TH4

Nope..unless they changed something. In the past I've farmed valkurm many times for an hour, never killing the boss, and had lots of drops to show for it.

[Amele]

Nope..unless they changed something. In the past I've farmed valkurm many times for an hour, never killing the boss, and had lots of drops to show for it.

not that it's a big enough sample size, but according to our loot administrator, killing the boss has a strong correlation with increased per kill drop rates; although he said it works out to about the same rate/hr since you spend twice as long inside and only farm for half of it.