Randomer Question Thread

[shaddix]

useful in nyz

[antihero]

wouldn't a samurai or a ranger put up more damage on ixion, or a samurai on khim/cerb? or even a war/sam on cerb since its oh so melee burnable (mmm 10 min fights) and sky...yeah. what role would it fill in nyzul? when I had a static I ran with RDM BRD WHM WARx3 and it was a walk in the park. pandemonium warden--yeah, I forgot about that, suicidal BLU army go. I don't think blu would outdamage an HQ WAR or SAM in xarc, I could be wrong, it would cost less MP though.

TL;dr BLU is only useful for PW?

[Valyana]

BLU doesn't need 2hr to stunlock mobs for a little while. Very useful for Poroggo Madames.

[Darlantan]

Blue Magic never gets restricted.

[Marcicus]

BLU excels in Einherjar as a supertank and can toss out some nice debuffs/stun/sleep etc

[transmit]

When building an "Oh Shit" build for a DD job (DRG in this case), after you have stacked as much Physical Damage gear, is it worth it to go full blown turtle and stack some VIT and DEF etc, or just carry on using your regular DD gear in the slots you cant get physical damage gear?

[Yarko]

I think when it procs on barrage, it procs on all the arrows, which is pretty sexy but very rare. I have a pic somewhere of somebody doing a like 7700 barrage to DL with Yoichi, and upper 2k normal barrages seem pretty common when you're buffed to the gills like you would in that setting.

Well if Barrage does triple damage only when triple dmg procs on first arrow, it would happen ~3% of the times. If it does triple damage whenever triple dmg procs on one of the arrows, it would happen about ~16% of the times if 6 arrows land on average, which is far from very rare. So that's what i'm wondering, can any Yoichi/Annihilator owner give me a rough estimation of how often those barrages happen? 1/33 or 1/6? (I would assume the latter)

[Ultimagi]

I haven't claimed any keys from A Crystalline Prophecy yet. Can you get all from him, or do you build them up, choose 1, then the rest are lost?

[Spekkio]

I haven't claimed any keys from A Crystalline Prophecy yet. Can you get all from him, or do you build them up, choose 1, then the rest are lost?

each one gives you a different item.

[SaviorSelf]

Pretty sure Domaru was proved to be better than Haubergeon for YGK, just wanted to double check. SAM70 and for this level, is Domaru better?

[stewie]

Pretty sure Domaru was proved to be better than Haubergeon for YGK, just wanted to double check. SAM70 and for this level, is Domaru better?

Yes, Domaru is better.

[Wolfknight]

Is blue mage good for anything? I don't mean mediocre, I mean, does it excel somewhere another job doesn't?

best job for omega dmg wise non-zerg since cannonball + breaths lets it DD well on both forms w/correct gear.

[Eldelphia]

Only recently gotten RDM to 75, and now have /DRK as of late last night. I need to CS stun tomorrow and I'm trying to build a set for it.
Do I need to worry at all about overcoming INT or go for pure MAcc?

Jupiter's Staff
Bugard +1
Nashira Head
Nashira Manteel
Dark Torque
P Rope
Merciful Cape
Goliard Clogs
Tamas Ring
Phantom tathlum
Earrings ~ various available including phantom, novia, loq, mag, moldy, roundel etc

Assuming the above:

Nashira legs for Macc or Mahatma?
Snow or Balrahn's? (Omega soon... but not in time)

Am I thinking right?

[matix]

Well if Barrage does triple damage only when triple dmg procs on first arrow, it would happen ~3% of the times. If it does triple damage whenever triple dmg procs on one of the arrows, it would happen about ~16% of the times if 6 arrows land on average, which is far from very rare. So that's what i'm wondering, can any Yoichi/Annihilator owner give me a rough estimation of how often those barrages happen? 1/33 or 1/6? (I would assume the latter)

yeah def the latter, while barrage fires several arrows i believe tis counted as just one r.atk (remeber the patch where barrages showed up as ranged attacks for like 2k dmg?) i feel pretty safe to say it only gets one chance to proc(raise base dmg), and then it gets multipled by # of connected hits(it keeps hitting conescutively until it misses i.e. the first 2 (of 7 lets say) shots hit, but the third misses, so hits 4-7 never get a chance to happen), or something like that; thats not like the end all be all of "how it works" its just a quick generalization to make the point ;o

[Thorny]

Only recently gotten RDM to 75, and now have /DRK as of late last night. I need to CS stun tomorrow and I'm trying to build a set for it.
Do I need to worry at all about overcoming INT or go for pure MAcc?

Jupiter's Staff
Bugard +1
Nashira Head
Nashira Manteel
Dark Torque
P Rope
Merciful Cape
Goliard Clogs
Tamas Ring
Phantom tathlum
Earrings ~ various available including phantom, novia, loq, mag, moldy, roundel etc

Assuming the above:

Nashira legs for Macc or Mahatma?
Snow or Balrahn's? (Omega soon... but not in time)

Am I thinking right?

Shit depends what you're CSSing. For KV/omega/DL you can go ass naked.. on baha2 or diabolos prime that's a good set though. Dark skill > m.acc > INT.. but really overthinking it, I haven't had problems CSSing anything with like 140 dark skill and jupiter's. Balrahn's over Snow, Mahatma over Nashira if you're being picky about it though. If you really wanna be a perfectionist, grab some crim/blood finger gauntlets too

[Overburn]

Only recently gotten RDM to 75, and now have /DRK as of late last night. I need to CS stun tomorrow and I'm trying to build a set for it.
Do I need to worry at all about overcoming INT or go for pure MAcc?

Jupiter's Staff
Bugard +1
Nashira Head
Nashira Manteel
Dark Torque
P Rope
Merciful Cape
Goliard Clogs
Tamas Ring
Phantom tathlum
Earrings ~ various available including phantom, novia, loq, mag, moldy, roundel etc

Assuming the above:

Nashira legs for Macc or Mahatma?
Snow or Balrahn's? (Omega soon... but not in time)

Am I thinking right?

I used Balrahn+Mahatma, but I'd think Nashira would do better. However, unless your stunning something like Khimaira where it will actually resist eventually, I never really had to use that much gear for CS stuns.

[Eldelphia]

If you really wanna be a perfectionist, grab some crim/blood finger gauntlets too

Working on it

Thanks guys!

[Tyramut]

how would I write the command in my init.txt to bind satchel to insert key? halp

edit: nvm, not so computer illiterate after all!

[TacoTaru]

Someone told me that on BCs that cap at 3 if someone doesn't fulfill the job requirement they can enter with two others, exit and then a third who CAN fulfill the role they can't can enter in their place. Is this true?

[Ace-o-fire]

K where do i upgrade where the item isnt Rare/ex.

Weapon. Thalassocrat
Grip: Pole strap
Head: W.turban, Wyvern Helm
Neck. Chiv chain
Earrings: Minuet Earring, Fowling earring
Body: Scorp harness
Hands: Dusk, Tarasque, and pallas
Rings: Ruby and Woodsman
Back: Amemet Mantel +1
Waist: Warwolf, and Lifebelt
Pants: Barone
Feet:Gavial Greaves.