Randomer Question Thread

[Ferien]

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!

Tick on, tick off. Someone either ran the numbers or analyzed a vid of it, came out to average 4~5%.

[OctavoGilgamesh]

Yeah you can verify this using rune axes. With 1mp/tic refresh, it works like this.

tic 1 : +10hp 0mp tic 2 : +0hp +1mp tic 3 : +10hp 0mp ....... etc etc

So the latent is active every other tic. Basically if you have mp, it uses 1-3mp and the latent is in effect until the next tic. If you have no mp at the next tic, the latent effect turns off, which lasts until the next tic. So I'm guessing that would average out ot 4.5% haste with a single tic of refresh.

A drk really could get 3/tic in refresh, but it would kinda suck for zerging. Parade + Ares or JSE body + sanction refresh. So you would have to give up your lvl 50 JSE body. Ideally that way as long as you started out with even a couple mp, you could have the haste effect up at all times.

[Stolin]

Despot question:
If Despot's window is up, and if all the placeholders are dead, will Despot spawn automatically?

[OctavoGilgamesh]

Despot question:
If Despot's window is up, and if all the placeholders are dead, will Despot spawn automatically?

Heck no.

[sleekmotorwurkz]

BG History Question:
When did bg forums become THE endgame forum that all servers surf for all their needs? I personally learned about bg when the threads about "Zomg we just killed jailer of love and AV popped!" happened.

[Doofus]

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?

I've gotten lots of DCs over the past week as well, and I normally never get them, so I was curious too.

[Martinius]

BG History Question:
When did bg forums become THE endgame forum that all servers surf for all their needs? I personally learned about bg when the threads about "Zomg we just killed jailer of love and AV popped!" happened.

most of us old schoolers came here(and im relatively young in terms of 'old school') because of the big kills, and the forums were just an offshoot of that.

[Doofus]

BG History Question:
When did bg forums become THE endgame forum that all servers surf for all their needs? I personally learned about bg when the threads about "Zomg we just killed jailer of love and AV popped!" happened.

most of us old schoolers came here(and im relatively young in terms of 'old school') because of the big kills, and the forums were just an offshoot of that.

Do not talk about big kills etc.

I came here a lot back in the old days, browsing at school and what not but I didn't make an account and start posting until I got a laptop of my own.

[Spekkio]

Yeah you can verify this using rune axes. With 1mp/tic refresh, it works like this.

tic 1 : +10hp 0mp tic 2 : +0hp +1mp tic 3 : +10hp 0mp ....... etc etc

So the latent is active every other tic. Basically if you have mp, it uses 1-3mp and the latent is in effect until the next tic. If you have no mp at the next tic, the latent effect turns off, which lasts until the next tic. So I'm guessing that would average out ot 4.5% haste with a single tic of refresh.

A drk really could get 3/tic in refresh, but it would kinda suck for zerging. Parade + Ares or JSE body + sanction refresh. So you would have to give up your lvl 50 JSE body. Ideally that way as long as you started out with even a couple mp, you could have the haste effect up at all times.

sanction+yagudo drink? ^^

also worth noting that 2 rune axes can feed off just a single MP. order of actions is as follows:
foreach(RuneItem){
if(MP){latent this tick}}
foreach(RuneItem){
MP=max(0,MP-3)}
refresh effect

so with only a single point of refresh, one could activate on alternating ticks; 2 rune axes, a rune bow, a rune arrow, and a pair of rune bangles. granted, i have no clue WHY someone would want to do that, but that doesn't bar it from being entertaining to contemplate.

[Amele]

BG History Question:
When did bg forums become THE endgame forum that all servers surf for all their needs? I personally learned about bg when the threads about "Zomg we just killed jailer of love and AV popped!" happened.

most of us old schoolers came here(and im relatively young in terms of 'old school') because of the big kills, and the forums were just an offshoot of that.

Do not talk about big kills etc.

I came here a lot back in the old days, browsing at school and what not but I didn't make an account and start posting until I got a laptop of my own.

it really took off between JoL/AV and the Toau stuff (I remember when this was literally the only place doing toau content updates in a timely manner that first week or so) - fight club helped.

wotg would've been a big surge too if there had been, well, actual content to talk about.

[Lexa]

I found BG when that dude on some server got arrested for kiddie porn, and someone linked me to the thread where teh winnar of life created a taru on his server, then sent him a /tell saying, "An orc just killed me. Would you like to come look at my tiny, lifeless body?" or something to that effect.

...God, I need to find that thread again. >.>

[Max™]

The thing with Rune Chopper, is at lower haste values, it drains 3-9 MP/swing.

I do know a way to keep it going 100% of the time though, Drain Samba II.

DRK/DNC GO!

(note: I know this because as War/Dnc I used my choppah a lot til I got Fort axe, which is just better at the lower haste values you normally encounter while soloing)

[Toralin]

I feel really stupid for asking this, but did a quick search was having trouble coming up with good search terms..

When you use a food that gives a % of something. IE: Sole Sushi 15% accuracy. What is the 15% calculated off of? base accuracy? accuracy at the time the food is eaten? (static). Or does it change dynamically with the gear you equip?

[Max™]

I would assume it's calculated after skill/gear/status effects/songs.

[Amele]

I would assume it's calculated after skill/gear/status effects/songs.

this is basically correct. % increases from status effects (including food) are the last step, it doesn't matter which order the % increases are applied in, excepting that there may be a small margin or error (not more than 1pt in a given stat) due to serial truncation not being associative.

[Toralin]

k what i thought it, it dynamically changes with your gear/buffs.

[SamanosukeShiva]

What effect does Military Harp (+2 Finale) have on finale? dispel more buff?

[Callisto]

What effect does Military Harp (+2 Finale) have on finale? dispel more buff?

It makes it more accurate only I believe, not really a big deal against 99% of mobs, I think the only things I've ever seen resist my Finale every now and then are Genbu and Byakko. You'd probably be better off sticking with a Wind Instrument and your normal Wind build.

[Callisto]

if a ninja is wearing 2 earrings that are the /rng, /brd, and that damned hp yellow latent, the warrior is breaking pick of trials, and there is one healer, it's totally ok not to haste them, right?

Step 1) Diaga.
Step 2) Warp.
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Flag back up.

[Callisto]

In fairness, I used those earrings back at level 30 like 3 years ago, the DRK one and the BRD one, although I was a fulltime RDM/DRK at the time so I was at least batting .500, lol.

Edit: Shit, you made me forget my question, lol!

I know there's a cap to Magic Damage %- effect(50% I think?), but does MDB count towards the total reduction, or can you surpass it with MDB?