Randomer Question Thread

[Kaelen]

Yeah, I guess I misunderstood the question. Thanks for the help.

[Nynaeve]

Somepage has a list of old patch notes with direct links to filtering through Excite's translation system in their General - FFXI Updates section:

http://ffxi.somepage.com/links/

There's a lot of interesting tidbits if you take the time to read them and see how the game has developed over the last five years.

That's it! Thanks!

[Max™]

Difference between Jailer Weapons/Amoods and Ridill/Joyeuse/Kclub: Jailer weapons/Amoods/Mercurial Sword(pole I assume) stack with doubles, so you wind up with the 50%ish virtue proc, 10-20% Trait Proc, and when they overlap you wind up with like a 5% maybe Triple Attack rate (quadruple attack in the case of Mercurial Sword) which is indeed made of happy.

If Amoods didn't suck so bad with the latent (or if the non-latent damage was only active during WS/over 100% TP) they would be goddamn awesome things.

[Cyn]

I think Mercurial Sword is simply mislabeled and should actually read as 2-4 times. I've heard of people getting 4 swings with PLD/DNC and no brutal.

[Tricen]

I think Mercurial Sword is simply mislabeled and should actually read as 2-4 times. I've heard of people getting 4 swings with PLD/DNC and no brutal.

Possibly overlap/tentacle sushi?

[Osede]

I think Mercurial Sword is simply mislabeled and should actually read as 2-4 times. I've heard of people getting 4 swings with PLD/DNC and no brutal.

Possibly overlap/tentacle sushi?

Mercurial Sword can swing at least once more than the description should be. It should be the description error or some bug that no ppl bother to report on it, which is a good thing :D

[Max™]

Well that's interesting.

I know I used it to go from 100-200ish Great Sword a whiiiiiiiiiiile back, and thought it just stacked with DA because it didn't have a super high 4x attack rate, but it was pretty common, looked about in line with my normal DA rate, so thats what I assumed happened.

Also: I imagine it would be REALLY freaking annoying to try and kill a Pld/Dnc. With either Merc Sword or Justice+Brutal/Askar body (though Merc has that whole, 23% Tp > 67% Tp in one round thing going for it, but you'd lose shield blocks.)

[mym]

Can you still do the trick with BCNM/KSNMs, where player A with the orb trades to the BC and enters, player B then enters, Player A runs away from the battlefield, and then players C and D enter? (example for a 3 person BCNM)

[Deband]

Koenig or Valor hands? I'm a midget if that makes a difference

[Lexa]

Valor. Koenig is SO 2005.

[Martinius]

well koenig if you're subbing dancer XD

but if those are your only two choices, go with valor, but homam or askar are both superior, situationally(at least in my lvl 6 pld's opinion).

[yrpaine]

Askar or Homam Hands? I'm a midget if that makes a difference

fixed.

use one of those if you can Askar is fairly easy to obtain with a decent static.

[Callisto]

I know you can get behind Banishing Gate #3 easily using the maw now, but can you get back past #3 to behind #1 using it? I need to farm GK1 ash for g/f later tonight and don't want to deal with dragging people out to the gate if the Citadel is empty.

[Charismatic]

There's a little drop-off behind Banishing Gate #3 in the present-day Vana'diel, so yes you could easily get behind Banishing Gate #1 with no assistance.

[Tajin]

The bombs in the basement also drop the ash no? don't even need to open gates or go to the past.

[Callisto]

The bombs in the basement also drop the ash no? don't even need to open gates or go to the past.

IIRC only the Explosions behind Gate #1 do, the ones in the normal XP basement drop coffer keys I think.

[Siralin]

So I have Dynamis Xarcabard again tonight and I've only been there 3 times. Second time was Monday and I hated it due to trying to find a decent gear combination to do decent damage....Typically my gear consists of:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/...ca25b5e2_o.png

but I KNOW I was having acc issues all night on Monday eating mithkabobs. Should I forget about a 6hit/haste build and stick with acc/meat or stick with the 6hit/haste and eat sushi? I have access to typical ACC build items Ohat, Life belt, etc but without decent knowledge of the defensive traits of mobs there I don't really know which setup to choose. Personally, I'm leaning towards acc build/meat but I'm hoping someone can shed some more light on the situation for me that has more Xarc experience. (Preferably by 6:30 cst )

[Bagel]

Mercurial Sword is definitely 2-4, not 2-3 as shown.

[Martinius]

So I have Dynamis Xarcabard again tonight and I've only been there 3 times. Second time was Monday and I hated it due to trying to find a decent gear combination to do decent damage....Typically my gear consists of:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/...ca25b5e2_o.png

but I KNOW I was having acc issues all night on Monday eating mithkabobs. Should I forget about a 6hit/haste build and stick with acc/meat or stick with the 6hit/haste and eat sushi? I have access to typical ACC build items Ohat, Life belt, etc but without decent knowledge of the defensive traits of mobs there I don't really know which setup to choose. Personally, I'm leaning towards acc build/meat but I'm hoping someone can shed some more light on the situation for me that has more Xarc experience. (Preferably by 6:30 cst )

it largely depends on your sub. if you're in xarc subbing war(bad idea), sushi all the way, but if you're /thf, stick with 6 hit, haste, etc, and hope that you have full meditate merits. for some reason, xarcabard mobs, particularly nin and thf mobs have ridiculous evasion, even with sushi. your gear looks fine(almost identical to mine, tho i must confess, i've got a few more white borders and a bushi), even if you're wearing your brutal on the wrong ear

samurais in xarc are there(particularly on NMs) to facilitate skillchains and do burst dmg. you're not gonna be swinging for meritpo like numbers, and meat will help on high def mobs like mnks and plds(the same way that nins and thfs have retarded evasion, pld war and mnk mobs have retarded vit and def.

oh, and never forget, if your linkshell sentinel's mnk 2hrs, never trick onto the ninja ^^

last two things... one, if you're subbing thf, you can get more str for your ws(ideally osode) but there's always DOMARUUUUUUUU, tho if it's between hauby and domaru, stick with the hauby. two, unless that's a speed belt, that should be what you swap if your acc is really driving you crazy... losing 4 haste for 7 acc and 5 att is superior to losing 5 haste and 30hp for 10 acc.

oh, and never melee in front of the mobs... mnks will counter half your attacks, and there's some vicious frontal AOE demons have(the name escapes me) that can one shot you. try to stick to the sides of the mobs, swap to your ws gear, and unless it's a 2hring mnk, then move behind the mob and SATA your ws onto the off-tank.

gluck and good hunting ^^

[LinktheDeme]

NHands vs Pallas which is better?
Also Nhands Vs Alky but if pallas wins top then alky will win bottom
For WAR WS