Randomer Question Thread

[Telamond]

Does Finale work on Sarameya or is Dispel the only way to wipe spikes?

I have a vague memory that it resisted all my Finale.

Does Korin Obi increase Cure Potency during Lightsday/Light weather? And if so, how much does it increase it with?

[Spekkio]

I was just thinking alogn the lines of taking a look at what gear most of the people are wearing in dev movies...

Seems to me no one has ever looked at what they are wearing, maybe if we actually go through, examine, and list what we can see, one of the pieces may stick out and we'll be like "wtf why is a pld wearing that? O.o;"

*shrugs* just an idea, nothing big.

Second thing... AV was quoted to have been said be the dev leader to take 18 hours to successfully kill, right?

Did he mean one long fight? In that case maybe we should look at all the other things that were changed during that update. Maybe something else that was changed along with it may clue us into how we are able to beat AV in 1/9th the time. IE "We have changed the way monsters do ____"

That, or maybe 18 hours to kill AV isn't one fight. Maybe it's just a 1/9 chance he won't use benediction, and it's all chance as to whether or not you'll win, so theoriticly it would take 9 2 hour long fights to get 1 successful kill, which = 18 hours... I find it highly unlikely the dev team would ever expect us to spedn 18 hours fighting him, and the videos do show slight proof to being different fights (changed armor, 1 guy changing jobs...)

Like I said, just thinking out loud, I dunno. Feel free to call me retarded and point out any problems with my musings.

*note we're talking about AV right now, not PW...

1.) gear stuff has already been looked at dozens of times already. this is not a new theory.
2.) if it were purely a question of outlasting AV, i'd imagine players would have beaten him already. benediction spam is not the problem. meteor, aeroga4, and other rapega before you can do diddlysquat to AV is the problem. it's not that we can't kill him, it's that we can't even reliably stand toe to toe with him for more than a few minutes without a zone full of corpses and a chortling AV.

[Valyana]

Does Korin Obi increase Cure Potency during Lightsday/Light weather? And if so, how much does it increase it with?

Obis just guarantee the weather/day bonus you can get without them. So +10% for matching day, +10% for single weather, +25% for double weather.

[Rama]

Does Finale work on Sarameya or is Dispel the only way to wipe spikes?

I have a vague memory that it resisted all my Finale.

It lands, but (s)he's very resistive. Expect a 'mediocre' gear bard to land less than 50%. I put my gear as "very good" any my 'eyeballin it' land rate was probably 65%, maybe a bit more or less, it's been awhile. Add to this the 30s base recast, and rdm or /rdm dispel looks much more attractive for keeping it from regening.

[ferigor]

While actively running (i.e. pressing 8 on the numberpad and not auto-running) I can not get my alt-2 macro to fire. I tested alt-1 and alt-3 (no ctrl-2 because its generally what I use as my ws macro) and a few others and the only one I had an issue with was Alt-2. Just bought a new keyboard, running windows XP and using lolSE windower. Any ideas?

[Spyre]

Was it ever found out if Sandworm has windows

[ubermonkey]

I'm disappointed with my Guillotine numbers. I'm not sure if I'm overstacking acc or what. Here's the set: - FFXIAH.com

Curious what I could do to improve it without losing too much acc. Warwolf or maybe Flame ring to skip the enmity?

That's very similar (slightly better actually) than my setup. I use potent and black legs. I'd use af+1 hands if I had them over heca. I am mostly dissapointed by guillo numbers. It's fairly inconsistant even with the ton of acc. Anything from 700-1300 with 2 mins or cor roll.

My set is here

[Omniyoji]

I may be worrying about nothing here...

^

[Tormentormike]

From the old cannonball chart, it lists Enkidu's Subligar > Galliard Trousers > Morrigans Slops > Magus Shalwar in terms of awesomeness for legs. Where does Mirage shalwar fit in there?

[Baelorn]

That's very similar (slightly better actually) than my setup. I use potent and black legs. I'd use af+1 hands if I had them over heca. I am mostly dissapointed by guillo numbers. It's fairly inconsistant even with the ton of acc. Anything from 700-1300 with 2 mins or cor roll.

My set is here

The numbers are really inconsistent and it's pretty frustrating. I was hoping I was missing something.

[mallister]

remember even at accuracy cap you're only going to hit 4/4 guillotine 80%ish of the time. only thing you can really do is cap out acc for your camp, eat food and party with brd/cor.

and what damage are you doing that you're dissapointed with? never gave any numbers.

[kihre]

I just started mining again to get more Khroma for my second salvage body and ran across 3 different characters casting Poisona while mining. They're probably the same person on 3 different accounts, but I'm trying to figure wtf they're doing it. Was someone just lazy and maybe Poisona was one of the original macros that came default on a character and they added the extra mining line on a disposable RMT account, or is there a hack I'm not aware of?

(i ran a search with mining and poisona in the BG forums, but didn't want to back track through 177 pages to find a clue... sorry for being lazy )

Edit:
funny story is one of them was dumb enough to do it next to a bomb... several times... it's fun to mine on dead RMT

[Marihoki]

Here is kind of a random question...

Does anyone know how to do Temporary Logouts now, or do they still have those? The logs out that take you directly to POL and people who are playing FFXI can page you or something like that (I forgot what it was exactly)

I was trying to the other day and wasn't able to figure out how too....

[Silenka]

I thought it was /pol.

[Marcicus]

Does anyone know the latent on Foolkiller yet?

[Antec]

They removed the temp log feature a long time ago. The 'page's people would send you were called knocks.

[Max™]

Foolkiller latent is activated by buying it for more than 10k.

Even with the fStr boosts and WS mod boosts, you're getting like D 94~98 during WS at best, no 6 hit realistically, and the latent, btw, apparently works like Futsuno, during WS only.

If it was D99 Dly 509 Acc +9 Att +9 Latent: Str +9, you'd be crazy not to wear it, as it stands? It's fashion gear/hope you can pawn it off on some moron with more gil than brains.

[Hellfury]

There's a bunch of NPCs running around in north gustaberg dressed in that bison set, talking about a store in Jeuno. I'm being deaf, dumb and blind, where in Jeuno and what does it do? o.O?

[fantasticdan]

Any ZNM/SCNM soloable by nin/dnc straight tanking?

[Siralin]

In reply to the Besieged enhancing skill tip, thanks a bunch for that. I got 26 skill earlier even though a died a few times after people trained shit on me. Also a new thing that I'm in the process of doing right now...Grabbed my Signal pearl and went out to see if I could skill while Pro1ing her. Works like a charm. No access to the temp items like in besieged and you have to rest when you run out of mp, but the skill up rate seems to be the same.

Edit: Right after I typed this up I mysteriously stopped getting skill ups @183 Enhancing. So apparently skilling up Enhancing is based off of the level of w/e it is that you're casting on. In this case, my NPC is still level 60 and D skills cap @183 then.