Randomer Question Thread

[Kaeko]

This one is for the WHMs...

How high can you get Banish III damage?

Also, a more difficult question, does anyone know the base damage of Banish III?

[Suiram]

Base damage wouldn't be that hard to test with BLU and WHM, Mind Blast to find the mob's MND, Banish III at a couple different lvls of MND to determine the slope and intercept (assuming it's of the form M*dMND + V, which it almost certainly will be). Would want to use a mid-to-high level mob just in case you'd pass the dMND inflection point on low-lvl mobs (although I doubt you would since it's 3rd tier Banish, but just to be safe). That said, I've never done it myself, nor read of anyone else who has.

[Fryte]

Ok, so my COR is almost 75 and I'm beginning to wonder which would be more effective; meleeing for TP with Haste/Accuracy gears on or just sitting back and spamming bullets?

Also, martial gun or coffinmaker? The accuracy bonus from martial gun seems to negate Slug Shots inaccuracy allowing you to use more +STR or +Ranged Atk or do you go with the Coffinmaker for bigger base DMG?

[Apelila]

Random question that doesn't get its own thread: can you charm Tavnazian rams? the HL ones?

[Price]

Rams are not charmable, neither are the Greater Birds.

[Apelila]

Thanks for reply and making me a sad panda.

[Callisto]

Ok, so my COR is almost 75 and I'm beginning to wonder which would be more effective; meleeing for TP with Haste/Accuracy gears on or just sitting back and spamming bullets?

Also, martial gun or coffinmaker? The accuracy bonus from martial gun seems to negate Slug Shots inaccuracy allowing you to use more +STR or +Ranged Atk or do you go with the Coffinmaker for bigger base DMG?

If you can get Joyeuse or M.Kris, melee for TP all the way. Anything else and the DoT difference between meleeing for TP and shooting for TP is kind of fuzzy to tell the difference.

As far as Martial/Coffinmaker, this is kind of a matter of preference. I use Martial for most things, and Coffinmaker for something like Kirin or JoTemp when most of my damage will be coming from Quick Draw, for the higher base damage. The accuracy difference between the TP boost from Martial and the +9 on Coffinmaker is hard as hell to tell for Slug, but I prefer the large boost that the Martial TP mod gives to Detonator at 100% over adding 1 base damage. Best advice would be to get them both and play around til you decide which one you like more.

[Hellfury]

Has anyone else observed problems with incredibly frequent DCs the last few days?
We've got a few people in LS, as well as the LS mule, who keeps DCing constantly, their S/R is fine, they just DC, it tells them the standard connection lost

the mule is on the same net as my main, and my main is just fine.

Anyway, wondering if others have experiences similar problems the last few days, or are we just having a random coincidental streak of horrible luck?

[gandorf]

I just hit 40pld should I keep using Kite shield or use light buckler ? I know large shields let you take less damage but +5shield skills seem tempting. An what lv is af sword good till?

[Lexa]

AF sword good till T.M. Espadon (+2). Keep using the kite shield, unless your shield skill is shamefully gimp (underleveled isn't uncommon). Though even then, skill up outside of exp party.


EDIT: Adding my own question.

On the POL Linkshell community website, what does it mean when a name is grayed out, with no nation/stats next to it, on the list? The other grayed out names for this specific ls are known to be server transfers or people who quit the game. Does it mean that character just simply no longer has a pearl on their person? Trying to track down a (potentially) friend who might have server jumped with something valuable...

[Tajin]

Could mean he quit or was banned too.

[evilpaul]

Is Emblem of the Holy Knight §§§§ the highest Campaign rank currently available?

[SephYuyX]

In the Trial by Element Name avatar fights, there is a taru in a black cloak always in the background, who is it? Is it Karaha-Baruha? But why the black cloak?

[evilpaul]

Karaha-Baruha is the guy who summoned Fenrir and died afterwards isn't he?

The guy in the CSes in the black cloak is the tarutaru from the Rhinostery who erased everyone's memory of himself using a magic doll and left Windy from the SMN AF quest storyline. I'm obviously very good with names.

[Khajit]

How much HP does dynamis lord have?
In a parse I just did DL had around 47262 damage and i wanna see if the parse was accurate or i had some filters up i shouldn't have.

[amylea]

Around 80k supposedly.

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[Ryushii]

Three questions, plus my earlier one that didn't get answered:

Could /sch open up a new tier of Bio III for RDM?

Does anyone know approximately how much XP/AN is required to maintain Holyknight rank on day 5?

In general, for the purpose of tping on RNG (not WSes) is X amount of ranged attack going to be better than 2X-1 amount of STR? Does it reach a point where that is not necessarily true?

For campaign, do you get fewer points, or slower point accumulation, or any sort of debunk for campaigning in another nation's territory?

Bumping these questions that didn't receive an answer, plus one more:

RNG mains: what did you merit?

[VZX]

In general, for the purpose of tping on RNG (not WSes) is X amount of ranged attack going to be better than 2X-1 amount of STR? Does it reach a point where that is not necessarily true?

What? this is easily validated as 'false'
X STR > X ratk except when your fSTR2 is capped.
So your "X ratk > 2X-1 STR" is false

RNG mains: what did you merit?

Rapid Shotx5 Snapshotx3 are the important ones
and then 1 Flashy Shot, and put the last 2 somewhere (I did 1 Recycle)
Combat skill category, I did 5 marks then 7 Archery.
I'm thinking to wipe Archery altogether and get full marksmanship + giving more room for my SAM.

I've already given it thought many times. I just don't see any strong merit of archery other than demon arrow's atk down

[Linsivi]

With sanction refresh will Rune Chopper's 9% haste always be active assuming you have mp? Or will it be on a tick then off a tick? Having trouble timing this.. so if anyone has the answer already would be great!

[Max™]

Is Emblem of the Holy Knight §§§§ the highest Campaign rank currently available?

I should have been able to rank up to Medals, all through Wings by now.