Randomer Question Thread

[Lahan]

Skill affects the strength of buffs. CHR does not.

which buffs?


naked 75 brd/sch att 41
cornette +1 and minuet 1 att 67
nereid x2, musical earring, wind earring, cornette +1 and minuet 1 att 67
thats +14 wind skill and nothing added

[Valyana]

Victory March is the only one with no known cap, but Blade Madrigal needs 508 combined skill to cap (+58 over naked unmerited BRD75).

[Lahan]

Victory March is the only one with no known cap, but Blade Madrigal needs 508 combined skill to cap (+58 over naked unmerited BRD75).

oooo so i can up my haste/acc's that is freakign awsome thanks for the info! I always just thought the +2 march instrument was all you could get. like the paeon's
thanks again

[Tythera]

How often does shadow ring proc? and does it work with enemy WS breath attacks?

This is a guess on my part but being that it's 10 MDB I'm willing to bet that the proc rate is 10%. It could count level or other factors but all the parses I've seen (including my own) put it at somewhere between 8-12%.

[Nitrous24]

Which set would reduce more magic damage on PLD, assuming Shell V.

FFXIGEAR.com
vs
FFXIGEAR.com

Can't click?
MDT-16% and MDB+20 vs MDT-25% and MDB+8.

Try to do something closer to this: FFXIGear.com

That's just my personal opinion, And i guess it really does matter what you're tanking. But i swap my mdef kit in regardless of tp swap on things that it would matter on anyway.

[Valyana]

Try to do something closer to this: FFXIGear.com

(1-0.25)/1.30 = 0.577.

[matt4684]

So two or three years after ToAU came out I finally got off my lazy ass to get a walahra turban (hey I have no melee jobs that can equip it so it's never been a HUGE deal). Anyway, after 2 days of waiting I eventually went and released Chochoroon so I could trade bronze pieces to the dude. My experiences gave me a few questions I can't find info on.

1) What level do you have to be to reliably pick locks in the strongholds? I was in Arrapago Reefs and went 1/3 on the locked Ironbound gate and 1/5 on the cage with Chochoroon in it, each fail on the cage resulting in 10 minute weakness. I went as THF63 using living keys
2) Chochoroon gave me a ??? box which he then appraised (not for free the ungrateful bastard) into an ether +1. Do any "rescued prisoner" ??? items appraise into anything good like either a gil item or storm gear?

Thanks!

[Khajit]

I did polearm sam just now for shits and giggles and i suppose i should work on my ws set. ill include the tp set so that you know how much stp I need on ws in advance and don't have to ask later.
Merits:
4 stp
1 polearm
2 overwhelm
TP: Replace the pcc with an augmented acc+8 neck
FFXIGEAR.com

WS: it averaged about 1k penta in a 1 brd pt
FFXIGEAR.com

Any suggestions?

[Cream Soda]

Any suggestions?

Crab sushi, drop askar for turban in TP, cuch for forager's (Will have to check that but with sushi u should still be good)

WS:Af2 belt, shadow gorget, bkote, forager's.

In sushi you should still be fine and w/o capped PA merits I wouldn't recommend kabobs w/o madrigal (and in which case drop that for minuet and go back to sushi)

[Lagunasa]

Can anyone link the info on Wardecors vs Togi+1 for me? Thx

[Pendulum]

Replace engetsuto with tomoe.

[Thunder]

That polearm build doesn't have a 5hit going on; should do that before anything else. Penta's gotta land at least four hits every time otherwise.

[Darksun]

does your satchel grow with your safe if you remove your security token?

[Wolfknight]

Crab sushi, drop askar for turban in TP, cuch for forager's (Will have to check that but with sushi u should still be good)

NO, with polearm especially unless you're at high acc and haste, to say it's better you need atleast 85% acc and 50% haste or 90% acc and 45% haste, and that's it barely winning with fstr ignored, askar is probably better in most cases.

[Cream Soda]

Can anyone link the info on Wardecors vs Togi+1 for me? Thx

I know 10 acc 10 attack on ACP body beats out nq togi, but is it worth getting when I have hq togi or is it situational or is togi+1 better? looking most at the mid 500s to 600 range for attack

Assuming 6 level correction, 550 attack before body, 400 def mob:

550 attack / 400 = 1.375
1.375 - .3 = 1.075
12.5 / 400 = .03125
1.10625 / 1.075 = 1.029 or a 2.9% increase in damage from attack on mirke

22 / 400 = .055
1.13 / 1.075 = 1.051 or a 5.1% increase in damage from attack on togi+1

51.25/50 = 1.025 or 2.5% increase in dmg from fSTR on average(mileage may vary since it'll always be either 1 or 2.. 1 75% of the time).. either 2 or 4% respectively

2.9 * 1.02 = 2.958 + 2 = 4.978% increase in damage per hit when fSTR only increases DMG by 1

2.9 * 1.04 = 3.016 + 4 = 7.016% increase in damage per hit when fSTR increases DMG by 2

1.5 acc = .75% hitrate, in the 90s this is about a 0.8% increase in hits landed and WS damage if acc is uncapped

5 DEX = not calculable

If fSTR increases DMG by 1 and accuracy is uncapped, Mirke will win by 0.678% melee damage and 0.8% WS damage from extra tp.

If fSTR increases DMG by 2 and accuracy is uncapped, Mirke will win by 1.92% melee damage and 0.8% WS damage from extra tp.

If fSTR increases DMG by 1 and accuracy is capped, Togi+1 wins by 0.122% melee damage barring critical hits. A crit in this case gives 88.4% increase in damage for that hit only. Simple multiplication reveals that the 5 DEX needs to give you 0.13% critical hit rate for Mirke to win.

If fSTR increases DMG by 2 and accuracy is capped, Mirke will win by 1.984% melee damage.

I would say that there is no reasonable place where Togi+1 will outdo Mirke, as to have attack low enough to increase togi's value would lower your accuracy below cap in all likelihood.

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[shaddix]

NO, with polearm especially unless you're at high acc and haste, to say it's better you need atleast 85% acc and 50% haste or 90% acc and 45% haste, and that's it barely winning with fstr ignored, askar is probably better in most cases.

18-19% haste? in gear +15 haste + 11/20 march is 44/45 and 53/54 % haste, 2 brd or brd cor you'll always have at least 50+

[Wolfknight]

18-19% haste? in gear +15 haste + 11/20 march is 44/45 and 53/54 % haste, 2 brd or brd cor you'll always have at least 50+

yes but if your Acc% isn't high it still doesn't mean better, and assuming no merits for polearm he's only at 84% acc w/askar, so 83% acc w/o, thats with madrigal, so I'd say keep askar.

[Darlantan]

That's what he said: "Grab sushi..."

[Cream Soda]

yes but if your Acc% isn't high it still doesn't mean better, and assuming no merits for polearm he's only at 84% acc w/askar, so 83% acc w/o, thats with madrigal, so I'd say keep askar.

He shouldn't be anywhere near 84% acc in that gear w/ only 1 PA merit.

His gear w/ 1 PA merit puts him at 76.5% acc, provided he's fulltiming hasso. 71.5% any time he takes it down.

370 acc + crab sushi going to give him 418 acc, which will cap him for birds when hasso up and 406 w/ hasso down.

With hasso up, he swaps from askar to turban and cuch to forager, which will leave him at 407, which will be 95% hit rate if you go by wiki and 94 if you go by BG wiki for bird's evasion (and from what I hear, wiki is correct and bg wiki has just never been changed to accommodate). Drop hasso, and he can put cuch back on.

That is going to be a better build for him than having 76.5% acc. His build just can't support meat there w/o madrigal. Go w/ crab sushi.

[Wolfknight]

With hasso up, he swaps from askar to turban and cuch to forager, which will leave him at 407, which will be 95% hit rate if you go by wiki and 94 if you go by BG wiki for bird's evasion (and from what I hear, wiki is correct and bg wiki has just never been changed to accommodate). Drop hasso, and he can put cuch back on.

if he did those changes would drop both with hasso even would be at 93% not 95% according calc I use that been pretty accurate, with w/o cuch or askar he's at 404.7 post hasso, you're forgeting that reducing acc reduces by more than that due to the food gaining more from them.