Randomer Question Thread

[Thorny]

I will be picking up Commodore Frac tomorrow at JP midnight, my question is will i also need to complete the Gantes and Bottes or can I immediately do the Tricorne quest?

You can get corsair's tricorne without having any of the 3 synthed pieces made. I wish I could quest af2 bodies, then maybe I'd have a freaking tabard >.>

[Leafar]

I will be picking up Commodore Frac tomorrow at JP midnight, my question is will i also need to complete the Gantes and Bottes or can I immediately do the Tricorne quest?

Once you have started any of the crafted AF you can open the Tricorne quest, only restriction is you can only do 1 Crafted item at a time.

[ringthree]

This.

I haven't seen any proof that hasso gives RANGED accuracy nor that STR will suddenly get calculated at a TWO-HANDED MELEE ratio for RANGED attack.

Enternius also says that full str/atk TP build beats haste build on DRK and SAM so...

Why would you want STR to be calculated at two-handed melee ratio? That would be worse than the current STR calculation for ranged attacks.

[Redshift]

I think he meant 0.75 x STR = RATK, rather than 0.50 x STR = RATK? Instead of fSTR2 vs fSTR

[#686578]

Are the light/dark/earth grips worth having for BRD?

Or is there any alternative that doesnt take three spaces for a marginal increase?

[Cairthenn]

Realistically, they're the most worthwhile piece to put in the grip slot. Alternatively, there's a bunch of grips with CHR+1.

Honestly, it doesn't make much a difference, you'll land everything anyways (and I'm not really sure why you included Dark).

[Raen Ryong]

I think he meant 0.75 x STR = RATK, rather than 0.50 x STR = RATK? Instead of fSTR2 vs fSTR

Yeah, this; I didn't mean fSTR vs fSTR2 (though even with fSTR instead of fSTR2 and 0.75 x ratk, you might do more damage in the long run due to the explosive nature of ranged pdif)!

[Ziegus]

Does anyone know how Eastern Shadow works after maintenance? He's a 16-32 hour spawn so I figured he'd spawn 16 hours after maintenance but some people in my shell are saying he'd spawn immediately following. Any help is appreciated.

[Bakthi]

Are the light/dark/earth grips worth having for BRD?

Or is there any alternative that doesnt take three spaces for a marginal increase?

I have light and earth for BRD. I also have fire, as it's useful for COR too, though I don't carry that+staff on BRD most of the time. Before those came out, I just used the staff strap; I felt like -2 enmity would help more than 1 CHR.

[Siralin]

Why do my rolls on COR sometimes last up to 20-45 seconds longer than the rest of the parties? I'm not doubling up without them or anything weird like that.

Edit: I think it's from messing with locked chests while the party is fighting....I think.

[Maguile]

Very rarely when I use Meditate as drk/sam, I get an extra 12 tp (say 72 instead of the regular 60)

Ive only noticed it a few times, and I think it usually happens when I talk to an npc (the taru on the way to bhaflau bird camp for example). This just a minor glitch or something?

[nekura]

Very rarely when I use Meditate as drk/sam, I get an extra 12 tp (say 72 instead of the regular 60)

Ive only noticed it a few times, and I think it usually happens when I talk to an npc (the taru on the way to bhaflau bird camp for example). This just a minor glitch or something?

Yes, happens for SAM main too.

[Thorny]

Does anyone know how Eastern Shadow works after maintenance? He's a 16-32 hour spawn so I figured he'd spawn 16 hours after maintenance but some people in my shell are saying he'd spawn immediately following. Any help is appreciated.

He's a lottery pop with roughly 5-8% pop rate after he's been dead for 16 hours. When maintenance is over, there is a chance he will pop and a chance his placeholder will pop, and each time you kill the placeholder and it respawns that chance occurs again(none of this 16-32 bullshit it's more like 16-22 most of the time and if you're being technical it's 16-infinite). One weird thing to note is that the only time I've seen eastern instapop after maintenance, the other 3 shadows all did too >_>

[Xno Kappa]

Anybody with gothic gauntlets/sabatons give me a rough estimation on how long it take for them to drop? Been at this nonsense for a month more or less nonstop and I've been getting nothing but garbage. These pieces of equipment might as well not exist.

[FailureMidgard]

Very rarely when I use Meditate as drk/sam, I get an extra 12 tp (say 72 instead of the regular 60)

Ive only noticed it a few times, and I think it usually happens when I talk to an npc (the taru on the way to bhaflau bird camp for example). This just a minor glitch or something?

No, it's not a glitch. Meditate ticks happen at predetermined times afaik, let's say every 2 seconds (all #s are just made up to prove a point...the idea is correct, I don't know the exact #s) and the duration of meditate is 10.5 seconds.
You meditate at :00, you get your first tick at :02, 2nd at :04, 3rd at :06, 4th at :08, 5th at :10, and it wears off at :11 (100 tp)
However, if you meditate at :01:45, you still get your first tick at :02, #2-5 are the same, but then it wears off at 01+10)45+30) or :12:15, meaning you get a 6th tick on the meditate. In my example above, you have a .5/2 = 25% chance of getting an extra tick (it's actually lower than this, but ya).

Now, another thing worth noting for sam mains, is each piece of +meditate gear adds more than 2 seconds in the example above, let's say 2.5. That puts a 1piece meditate at 13 seconds, giving a 1/2 or 50% chance at an extra tick. And a 2piece meditate at 15.5; 1.5/2 or 75% chance at an extra tick. I think any sam that has messed around with 2 meditate pieces vs 0 can tell you that 160tp from a 2piece is way more common than 120 from a 0piece.

Anyway, again, the actual #s are made up there, but the initial duration of meditate is definitely >5x[ticktime], and each +meditate piece definitely adds more than [ticktime] to the duration, and the ticks happen on intervals that are outside of the exact time you use meditate.

[Thorny]

the ticks match refresh and regen ticks, if you use nodowa and are ocd enough you can force the extra tp while standing around waiting for an event or w.e

[Max™]

He's a lottery pop with roughly 5-8% pop rate after he's been dead for 16 hours. When maintenance is over, there is a chance he will pop and a chance his placeholder will pop, and each time you kill the placeholder and it respawns that chance occurs again(none of this 16-32 bullshit it's more like 16-22 most of the time and if you're being technical it's 16-infinite). One weird thing to note is that the only time I've seen eastern instapop after maintenance, the other 3 shadows all did too >_>

I started theorizing that the pops are cross linked somehow, because I kept seeing east/[West's PH's link when Eastern popped, as noted below, I never actually saw Western], or north/south pop at once.

It is 16 til he damn well feels like it, after a week or so, I started talking to the Fomors. Friend had an intervention, I bought some CC's.

Seriously talking to them, I hurt my brain in there.


/s So... read any good books lately?
*Ph mob walks away*
/s Jeez, coulda just said you didn't feel like talking, don't gotta be such an ass about it, Larry.

I started to notice that they link sometimes, but not others.

At the 16 hour mark, they will start linking with each other, and randomly stop. I hoped it meant Western was gonna pop. To date, I've never seen him.

[FailureMidgard]

the ticks match refresh and regen ticks, if you use nodowa and are ocd enough you can force the extra tp while standing around waiting for an event or w.e

With relic hands + hat, get the extra tick well over 50% of the time, 2 meditates basically always puts me at 300%.

[Thorny]

I started theorizing that the pops are cross linked somehow, because I kept seeing east/[West's PH's link when Eastern popped, as noted below, I never actually saw Western], or north/south pop at once.

It is 16 til he damn well feels like it, after a week or so, I started talking to the Fomors. Friend had an intervention, I bought some CC's.

Seriously talking to them, I hurt my brain in there.


/s So... read any good books lately?
*Ph mob walks away*
/s Jeez, coulda just said you didn't feel like talking, don't gotta be such an ass about it, Larry.

I started to notice that they link sometimes, but not others.

At the 16 hour mark, they will start linking with each other, and randomly stop. I hoped it meant Western was gonna pop. To date, I've never seen him.

BLM ones link, others don't. The mob's jobs lotto, you're not going crazy just never noticed it.

[zagex]

Anyone have tips for sliding down the mountain for Brothers ENM? The last time I did this was over 6 months ago, and I completely don't remember specifics on sliding down.