Randomer Question Thread

[Cream Soda]

Nope, Crit + on a weapon only applies to the hand it is worn in, with Destroyer's being the exception due to hth functioning effectively as dual wielding them.

6% Crit on your main hand, assuming equal delay for both hands, and a statless offhand weapon will add roughly 3% to your crit rate total, Destroyers count the 6% as between both hands and add 6% total.

That doesn't make sense. 6% for each hand. Let's say u are 3% in each hand. That'd still be 3% of your total number of attacks.
100 attacks with 1 hand 100 attacks with the other. 3% crit rate on each would be 6crits out of 200 attacks, which isn't a 6% crit rate. 12 crits is 6% of 200 hits. It's 6% per hand.

[TheTaru]

That doesn't make sense. 6% for each hand. Let's say u are 3% in each hand. That'd still be 3% of your total number of attacks.
100 attacks with 1 hand 100 attacks with the other. 3% crit rate on each would be 6crits out of 200 attacks, which isn't a 6% crit rate. 12 crits is 6% of 200 hits. It's 6% per hand.

That's what Max said(regarding Destroyers). He was talking about using Senj/Fudo in regards to the 3% crit in offhand.

[Cream Soda]

hmm prolly the way he worded it. " 6% as between both hands" sounds like a split of 3% and 3%

[Max™]

The latter, if you use Senj/Blank katana for 100 hits, you'll get 3 Crits (besides base crit rate, for simplicity), if you use Destroyers for 100 hits, you'll get 6 Crits.

[Cream Soda]

Oh yea you're right. Carry on.

[Clave]

1 - Is a 2h DD's attack typically at(or close to) cap on first floor salvage mobs?
and, related:
2 - What is the best song for a BRD to use towards the beginning of Salvage assuming no instrument?

[Guyverarmor]

Probably an idiotic question, but I gotta ask it.

With mobs like Mee Degi and Quu Domi, TH does not affect their drop rate correct?

[Aurara]

Not quite sure on what job to level next. Its narrowed down to either cor or rng. i'd be willing put pimp both out pretty hard(fullQD/agi/MDB setup for cor) and the usual setup for rng. i have war thf rdm blm at 75 already 8/8 dagger and 8/8 GA, help ; ;

[Valyana]

I do keep Joytoy/Dagger/Clubs around for that Limbus zone, but I don't even own an Axe.

I've done Blau/Joy for Crab level before, but that was before I capped Polearm. Think Blau/Joy will beat Engetsuto for piercing damage situations?

[Colenzo]

probably not if you are eating meat

[Furionstormrage]

I've done Blau/Joy for Crab level before, but that was before I capped Polearm. Think Blau/Joy will beat Engetsuto for piercing damage situations?

Doubt it, pretty sure Engetsuto will crush Blau/Joy.
(I use some cheap Dagger/Joy because I haven't capped Polearm, and I'm not about to drop a couple million on a Blau to use 1-2 times a month)

[Kaelia]

2 - What is the best song for a BRD to use towards the beginning of Salvage assuming no instrument?

Whenever I go BRD to salvage, I tend to go with Victory March if I can't sing anything else.

[evilpaul]

Is there any difference between sound aggro and linking distance?

[Jakson]

So I tried apnea's weapon checker and it works on my senji, but it keeps saying my Sasuke Katana has 0 points. Do I need to do some quest to start gathering points on it?

[Spekkio]

wear katana and talk to guy in blu af in junk shop in LJ. starts quest and allows you to build points. once weapon unlocks and you can use ws (will show up in your ws list) return to him and trade weapon to get it available on any weapon.

[TacoTaru]

Assuming you have capped Shield with merits on PLD as well as capped Parrying, should you trade any of your shield gear out for parrying, or only put in Parrying in spots you can't otherwise get Shield? I feel like the answer is obvious, but I didn't know if there was a point when Shield skill doesn't matter and Parrying becomes the better stat to add.

[Kaeko]

Questions for Yarnball and Recast Plugin Users...

1) Is there a good, reliable tool to show Recast and/or Yarnball timers OUTSIDE the FFXI window? Like in a separate window you can see off to the side. I don't want to clog my FFXI screen but want these still.

2) Is there a way to remove certain spells and timers from being seen with these plugins (other than the 2hr on recast)? For instance, I don't want Yarnball to show Protect/Shell.

[_chuchu]

Is there any difference between sound aggro and linking distance?

could you elaborate, please?

Edit: As I understand it, whoever hate is currently on at the time mob B links to mob A, they will both chase A's target. If that same person aggros mob C somehow before A&B get a chance to "alert" C or even come close to it, then it's not linked per se

[Francisco]

I think what he was asking is: "If a mob aggros to sound from 5 yalms, does that mean it will link to sound at 5 yalms? Is it the same distance, etc?"

[Cream Soda]

Questions for Yarnball and Recast Plugin Users...

1) Is there a good, reliable tool to show Recast and/or Yarnball timers OUTSIDE the FFXI window? Like in a separate window you can see off to the side. I don't want to clog my FFXI screen but want these still.

2) Is there a way to remove certain spells and timers from being seen with these plugins (other than the 2hr on recast)? For instance, I don't want Yarnball to show Protect/Shell.

1) I know there's one but i forget its name. It was on my old hdd before it got wiped.