Randomer Question Thread

[Rama]

Kinda jealous of his hydra pants to be honest. ; ;

Gavial Cuisses offer the same -3% Phys. Damage taken as Hydra, shorting you 3 acc/eva. The cost to synth them is tiny.

@Vivix, I'm not sure what TP gear your getting your 6-hit with that you're switching out for o-shit, I will assume either Hachiman Kote or Usukane Sune-Ate. For general all-around use, you should be fine in keeping that 1 piece in, instead of your -2% Damage taken piece (either DST+1 Mittens or Askar feet). If you're going to be facing something that can really hurt you, then maybe add that piece back into the swap.

If you're using Askar Korazin for your 6-hit...well...you have more problems than an o-shit gear decision.

Also, as someone mentioned, getting hit will probably keep you in a 6-hit as well. Personally I wait to swap to o-shit when third eye is wiped...until then it's full-on TP gear. I'm not sure how you play it, though.

[ferigor]

I have gavial, but I'd prefer to have hydra. I tried to get hydra for awhile, but they never showed up on the AH when I was setting up my oh shit gear. Maybe they are a little more common now, I haven't looked in awhile.

[Ophannus]

What are the final level armor types of fellowship NPCs for each armor style?

[Toshiko]

Is there any reason to keep Dune Boots once you get Usukane Sune-ate? I only use monk for Salvage and for some solo work, but I have a lot of jobs so Inventory is a premium. I dont use Footwork nearly at all. Im thinking dropping them is fine but typically i dont like dropping rare/ex things lol...

I should mention i have 5/5 kick merits but Im pretty sure usu are better even though i used dunes before instead of fumas.

[Cream Soda]

Well, salvage uses for dunes would be to save 300 tp on the last floor before the mega boss and then open with footwork DK or to pair with melee hose if you hundred fists on the mega bosses (with feitn, you shouldn't need the acc from the feet or legs slot). If you don't find that useful at all then yea, you might as well drop em.

[VivixKujata]

Gavial Cuisses offer the same -3% Phys. Damage taken as Hydra, shorting you 3 acc/eva. The cost to synth them is tiny.

@Vivix, I'm not sure what TP gear your getting your 6-hit with that you're switching out for o-shit, I will assume either Hachiman Kote or Usukane Sune-Ate. For general all-around use, you should be fine in keeping that 1 piece in, instead of your -2% Damage taken piece (either DST+1 Mittens or Askar feet). If you're going to be facing something that can really hurt you, then maybe add that piece back into the swap.

If you're using Askar Korazin for your 6-hit...well...you have more problems than an o-shit gear decision.

Also, as someone mentioned, getting hit will probably keep you in a 6-hit as well. Personally I wait to swap to o-shit when third eye is wiped...until then it's full-on TP gear. I'm not sure how you play it, though.

Probably should have posted this too,
My 6-hit is as follows:

Hagun/Pole Grip/empty/Tiphia
Aces/Justice/Bushi/Brutal
Askar/Dusk+1/Rajas/Sniper+1(Ulthama, situational)
Foragers/Velocious/Byakkos/Fumas

I think the answer to my situation is the obvious, usukane feet

Bees dont exist, and when they do, they don't drop, but maybe some day.

[Eldelphia]

this may be too obvious to post here, and i'm sorry if it is, but if you were trying to build a gearset for whm/nin to let them survive as much punishment as possible when shadows were down what are the key pieces of gear you'd want? obviously dring isn't gonna be in your average whm's arsenal so i'm hoping to keep this in the "sane" realm but beyond obvious answers like umbra cape and medicine earring for oshit situations, what options jump out in your mind?

Goliard pants
Genbu's shield
Jelly Ring if appropriate
Goliard Saio for both haste and HP/MP?

For WHM I suppose I'd focus on haste gear tbh as we can hit the haste cap so easily. Are you talking about soloing or tanking?

[Eldelphia]

When you cure undead to deal damage to it, what modifies the damage?

MND?
VIT?
Magic Attack Bonus?
Cure Potency?

Also, what's the max damage you've ever dealt to an undead by like Cure Ving it?

Happy to test if you want - I love messing around with WHM.

[Rama]

Probably should have posted this too,
My 6-hit is as follows:

Hagun/Pole Grip/empty/Tiphia
Aces/Justice/Bushi/Brutal
Askar/Dusk+1/Rajas/Sniper+1(Ulthama, situational)
Foragers/Velocious/Byakkos/Fumas

I think the answer to my situation is the obvious, usukane feet

Bees dont exist, and when they do, they don't drop, but maybe some day.

I can't help but encourage you to achieve your 6-hit through a means which does not equip Askar body, unless you're fighting 'easy' stuff. Anything harder than city dynamis, low salvage floors, and random assaults, please consider haub (+1) and Hachiman Sune-ate for your 6-hit build.

Going back to your '6-hit in O-shit gear', simply use either Hachiman hands or feet in place of the -2% counterpart.

[Kaeko]

Happy to test if you want - I love messing around with WHM.

I messed around for a bit and found this...

MAB and Cure potency work. It's counted as the same stat. For instance, using Roundel Earring is the same as using Moldavite Earring.

Apollo's Staff gives both a +15% overall damage bonus + a "10 MAB" bonus due to cure potency.

MND has a 1.5x modifier. VIT is also surprisingly a 2.0x modifier, meaning stacking VIT is probably the best way to cap damage...

Cure IV has a base damage of 140. Cure V has a base damage of 210.

I assume healing skill affects resists as the "skill" in the acc calculation due to skill ups.

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What I'd love to know though, if you are double weakened can you still do damage via cures?

[sleekmotorwurkz]

random question....

How is the acc calculation done on the melee accuracy checker?
Melee Accuracy Calculator
It seems to be somewhat broke. acc still calculates right, but hit% is stuck at 95% So I was thinking of making a small little app for myself to do different calculations.

I know
dex/2 (or dex*8/10 for 2h) is added in the acc

weapon skill level is something like 1 point up to a certain lvl then .9 after? right?

Mob's eva vs your acc? How does lvl difference get taken into account.

[Spekkio]

Goliard pants
Genbu's shield
Jelly Ring if appropriate
Goliard Saio for both haste and HP/MP?

For WHM I suppose I'd focus on haste gear tbh as we can hit the haste cap so easily. Are you talking about soloing or tanking?

tanking. and is there a proven cap on spell interruption down?

[Seraph]

What are the final level armor types of fellowship NPCs for each armor style?

I already answered this for you, on the last page. >_>

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/2408868-post5090.html

[Vyerz]

Yeah as much as I loved my askar body I had to eventually get rid of it because it just wasn't worth the accuracy loss, even with all the HQ's viv has I'm not exactly sure if he hits the cap or not. Askar body is really just a better looking DOOOOOMARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Korremar]

Barring relics and DRing, what's the optimal magic damage setup for a PLD? I feel bad that I don't know it, but there's a couple of choices that really are up in the air for me.

[sleekmotorwurkz]

Barring relics and DRing, what's the optimal magic damage setup for a PLD? I feel bad that I don't know it, but there's a couple of choices that really are up in the air for me.

I use....

Iron Ram Lance: -10% dmg taken
Lamia bow(+1): +1(+2) MDB
Iron Ram Sallet: +3 MDB
Iron Ram Dastanas: +2 MDB
Merman's Ring: -4% magic dmg taken
Merman's Ring: -4% magic dmg taken
Resentment Cape: -5% magic dmg taken
Resolute Belt: +2 MDB
Iron Ram Hose: +4 MDB
Iron Ram Greaves: +3 MDB

gives -23% magic dmg taken + 16MDB
With capped shell V merits, you will be capped at -50% magic dmg taken. And Shell V by itself adds a few MDB also.
*edit - if your whm doesnt have capped shell V merits, you can substitude Askar feet (-2% dmg taken) for I.R. Greaves

[nekura]

If you're First Lieutenant you can also get Lieutenant's Sash, which is Magic Damage -2% as as well as HP/MP+15.

[Drunkenmonk]

Barring relics and DRing, what's the optimal magic damage setup for a PLD? I feel bad that I don't know it, but there's a couple of choices that really are up in the air for me.

- FFXIAH.com works pretty well for me, could throw in a resolute belt i guess. odin body/head also work if you cant get an avalon or if you aren't in a signet area for resentment.

[Callisto]

I've been trying to get away from counting on Resentment Cape as part of my 25% so that I can put a Lamia Mantle+1 in that set and have it work the same outside of Signet zones as it does inside of it. Same for I.R. Lance so that I don't have to dump TP unless I'm kiting, in which case I use it.

Still working on HQ Coral hands and Askar feet, and 12k IS from Lieutenant's Sash. Currently I use:

Iron Ram Sallet - 3 MDB
Merman's Earrings x2 - 4%
Coral Scale Mail +1 - 4%
Merman's Rings x2 - 8%
Resentment Cape - 5%
Coral Cuisses +1 - 3%

Sash/Askar Feet/Coral Fng. Gnts. +1 put me at 25% without cape, letting me put a bit more MDB in the back slot as well as lessening the max MP loss from switching into this set(not a huge deal as PLD, but I use most of this set on my RDM as well).

[Wolfknight]

random question....

How is the acc calculation done on the melee accuracy checker?
Melee Accuracy Calculator
It seems to be somewhat broke. acc still calculates right, but hit% is stuck at 95% So I was thinking of making a small little app for myself to do different calculations.

I know
dex/2 (or dex*8/10 for 2h) is added in the acc

weapon skill level is something like 1 point up to a certain lvl then .9 after? right?

Mob's eva vs your acc? How does lvl difference get taken into account.

I am not sure how it works but I checked my gear on it and ran parse at G. Colibiri, parsed a bit above what said my acc was on 82 birds, I assumed this to be due some 81 ones and thalo procs being temp acc cap, also you need to select a mob to get a correct acc%.