Randomer Question Thread

[Cream Soda]

if you do a very large test sample though, it'll average out is what i meant. Like on average you'd swing 2 more times. The guarantee wasn' for it to happen every 100 swings, but to average about that over a long period of time.

Anyways, I know footwork counts your foot as the weapon, can you use footwork and break ws latent with it? Mainly interested in using footwork and /sam for faster tp gain

[Xera]

Anyways, I know footwork counts your foot as the weapon, can you use footwork and break ws latent with it? Mainly interested in using footwork and /sam for faster tp gain

Not sure but if you don't get a solid answer it would be easily testable using the latent checker application to see if it counted it.

[BRP]

Where's the best place to farm bottled faeries?

[noodles355]

Just got 2/2 on DRG AF+1. Gonna rule out Hands and Legs because i have Heca Hands and Aurum Cuisses so i'm wondering, do AF+1 Feet enhance the "enhances jump" effect any more?

Also any recomendations as to which piece i should upgrade?

Upgrade the legs anyway for the extra 5% Wyvern HP for solo.

Also, if you don't have anything better for TP, I'd think the legs be a better piece than aurum. Gotta be pretty close though. 2Acc 1Att vs 1fStr, actually I'm not so sure...

[Gergall]

Where's the best place to farm bottled faeries?

Yagudo High Priest in Meriph [S] or Oztroja [S] is damn near 100% drop rate. Many jobs can solo, very easy duo. Oh and you can steal a platinum beastcoin while you're at it.

There's one right outside the zone, and there's one right inside the zone.

[Wolfknight]

So I've done .dat swaps for mobs and gear before, but how does one go about changing the mob's name, asking for salvage reasons obivously. Thanks in advance.

[BerenTebogo]

2 questions here regarding WAR/SAM + WAR/NIN PDT- set (I know not many people bother with this on WAR but I want to)

Firstly: feet slot - Koenig Schuhs or Askar Gambieras?

Secondly: How inefficient will it be for me to use Valhalla body + helm in PDT- set over Koenig body + head or even Shadow body + Koenig head? I understand that if I'm dead I can't really do damage but slow +10% really has me wary.

I'd kinda like some input on both merit mobs (I'm thinking full Koenig + jelly ring + shadow mantle and either parry earring + neck or parry earring + ritter?) and for HNM.

I've started buying slowly for my bravura - I'm about a month or two away from buying in full force so the PDT set is really (hopefully) going to complement the aftermath.

What I'm looking for if anyone can help is the average damage reduced between Mfeet vs Askar and then Koenig body + head vs Valhalla x2 vs Koenig head + Shadow body vs Valhalla x2.

Thanks

Edit:

Also since WAR is the only job this account has atm (PLD45) I'm looking for a good regen set so I can do some shit without dragging two PL accounts around with me. This is what I'm working on atm am I missing anything?

Snakeeye
Orochi Nodawa
Shadow Breastplate
Hercules' Ring

Anything I can add to that?

[Shinryuu]

How much regen is shadow breastplate? Isn't conte corazza more?

[BerenTebogo]

Shadow is 2/tick - I don't know what the regen is on Conte

[Shinryuu]

Thought it was 3, but I checked, and it's 2, I'm dumb.

[BerenTebogo]

Conte corazza would take me forever to get glad it isn't 3 lol.

[Greatguardian]

Personally, I'd take Askar Gambieras over Koenig Schuhs any day of the week for PDT. Stack VIT in every possible slot, or not at all. Even then, I'd think straight PDT-% would have a much greater impact for you. Especially fighting anything over merit level.

Valhalla Breastplate and Valhalla Helm are also worlds ahead of Koenig Schaller (Without a Shield, since you're WAR) and Koenig Cuirass. Stacking VIT instead of PDT-% is akin to stacking INT instead of MDT-%. Sure, increasing your INT lowers a mob's dINT with respect to you, and thus decreases the amount of damage their nukes will do. But on just about anything realistic (ie: Not Goblin Shamans), you're going to get much better returns stacking MDT-%.

The slow +10% on the two pieces together is a pain in the ass. And if you're /Nin, you're definitely not going to be casting in them. But they're just something to wear if you're getting beat on. I'd much rather be a living WAR hitting things 10% slower than a dead WAR not hitting at all.

Edit: As for your Regen set, Rain hat is a pretty nice situational piece if you really want to go all out.

[BerenTebogo]

Everything you said was pretty much exactly the direction I was leaning towards. What I'm really curious about though is how the numbers work on Askar vs. Koenig Schuhs. 2% seems just really really low.

[Gergall]

I'm looking for a good regen set so I can do some shit without dragging two PL accounts around with me. This is what I'm working on atm am I missing anything?

Snakeeye
Orochi Nodawa
Shadow Breastplate
Hercules' Ring

Anything I can add to that?

Sol Cap (pay a friend 3 bucks to create a mule with your gold pass and leave it active for 70 days. this is an awesome item if you still have any low level jobs)

Also there is a food called Angler's Cassoulet that gives regen (1/tic) for an hour. You have to do a one-time quest, and then an NPC in Sandy [S] will give you this food once per conquest tally.

[Therin]

2 questions here regarding WAR/SAM + WAR/NIN PDT- set (I know not many people bother with this on WAR but I want to)

Firstly: feet slot - Koenig Schuhs or Askar Gambieras?

Secondly: How inefficient will it be for me to use Valhalla body + helm in PDT- set over Koenig body + head or even Shadow body + Koenig head? I understand that if I'm dead I can't really do damage but slow +10% really has me wary.

I'd kinda like some input on both merit mobs (I'm thinking full Koenig + jelly ring + shadow mantle and either parry earring + neck or parry earring + ritter?) and for HNM.

I've started buying slowly for my bravura - I'm about a month or two away from buying in full force so the PDT set is really (hopefully) going to complement the aftermath.

What I'm looking for if anyone can help is the average damage reduced between Mfeet vs Askar and then Koenig body + head vs Valhalla x2 vs Koenig head + Shadow body vs Valhalla x2.

Thanks

Edit:

Also since WAR is the only job this account has atm (PLD45) I'm looking for a good regen set so I can do some shit without dragging two PL accounts around with me. This is what I'm working on atm am I missing anything?

Snakeeye
Orochi Nodawa
Shadow Breastplate
Hercules' Ring

Anything I can add to that?

If I could make an HNM WAR out of all the best gear in the game, I'd do this:

TP:

FFXIGEAR.com (Substitute Blitz Ring and Askar Korazin when accuracy is capped.)

WS:

FFXIGEAR.com (I'm not sure which Gorget is active with MT and I don't feel like looking it up.)

PDT/DEF:

FFXIGEAR.com (For when you're about get your face wrecked!)

ENM+:

FFXIGEAR.com (+Enmity caps at 50 right? This is +51.)

Spam Metatron Torment for massive awesomeness! I can't imagine that PDT set would take very much damage, probably ~60-80 hits from Fafnir as long as Berserk isn't on. You could certainly tank pretty much anything except maybe Tiamat, as long as you don't mind meleeing for TP, with that setup on /SAM, if you macro on your Enmity for Provoke, leave TP gear on when Third Eye is up, and macro on PDT when Third Eye is down. For your question of PDT vs. VIT/DEF, it's a case-by-case thing. Valhalla head/body > Koenig head/body (since you won't be shielding anyway), but Koenig > Askar feet (Higher defense and 10 VIT > -2% PDT).

[Greatguardian]

That PDT setup is only 132 VIT and 393 Def before Protect/food. I cannot possibly imagine VIT/Def stacking being at all useful in that amount, unless you're tanking Puks. A good PLD/BLU can easily hit 999 defense with a nice chunk of VIT, and it won't do them a damn bit of good on anything that matters. I'd tweak that setup to look something like this:

FFXIGEAR.com

You've lost all of 60 defense (boo hoo), added an extra 5% PDT down, and slightly increased your DD potential while in PDT gear. Ethereal is doing absolutely nothing for a job that doesn't use MP.

Edit: I just realized I changed the ammo to Seashell on accident. Just ignore that, it should be Bomblet. Too lazy to make a new set and re-link.

[Max™]

FFXIGEAR.com

Fixed for Sath/realism, there's no Sash/Mar's on Carby that I know of, naturally Aurum/Askar and Blitz for high acc/6 hit situations.

[Aoro]

Quick question

On SAM, which would end up w/ the best results

Cerberus Mantle (NQ)
or
Amemet Mantle +1

?

[Greatguardian]

Cuchulain's Mantle

Edit: I'm assuming this is in TP set. If it's WS, you're going to want to use Smilodon+1 on merit-level things. Gekko ignores 50% of mob defense, so you have a lot of leniency Attack-wise. If Cuch is completely out of your budget, then Cerb vs Amemet+1 is a matter of fStr. If your total STR in Tp gear with Cerb mantle is divisible by 4, then it wins. If not, Amemet+1 wins (Either because Both, or Neither add 1 point of fStr).

If you have a Tank job, it's probably better to just save yourself some inventory space and take the Cerb mantle. Likewise, if you're a COR or a RNG (I think? Rng have a better back than this somewhere?) You're going to want to stick with Amemet+1.

[Aoro]

Cuchulain's Mantle

I'll use that when I get it.