Randomer Question Thread

[Niiro]

Where can one find the most updated lists for Altanaview?

http://ffxi.killvoid.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=148935

There, bookmark it he always updates the post after new stuff is added.

[Caiti]

Couldn't get an answer in the BLU thread and fighting Khim now so I wondered if anyone could answer here

Quick Cannonball /thf question:

Crimson Mask or NQ Wivre Mask:

34 DEF vs 20 DEF 2STR - +65 STR without wivre mask using taco / fish mithkabob, usually have either double minne or minne x1 and etude x1 for cerb / khim / tiamat, still unmerited STR and only 3 BLU magic merits since I just hit 75 on it about a month ago and it's my first 75 job

[Bartylby]

I'd say sleep/nuke is way faster, if you have capped elemental merits and a solid nuking setup. However Sleep/Nuke would be better with /BLM for the occasional ConserveMP proc and extra MP.

And ES + Aspir.

fixed for slightly improved performance!

ty all for replies. i'm wondering how hard they are compared to the fire elementals though, as i've only had previous experience killing them and it was on BLM not rdm.

[Kaope]

Other wiki says 4th floor Bhaflau remnants Archaic gears can be pulled with Ninjitsu / brd songs. Is this true? Does this too apply to Nyzul's "Avoid discovery by gears"?

[Arkanos]

Other wiki says 4th floor Bhaflau remnants Archaic gears can be pulled with Ninjitsu / brd songs. Is this true? Does this too apply to Nyzul's "Avoid discovery by gears"?

I've pulled the 4th floor gears on brd every time we've popped the rampart. They only aggro magic which consumes MP.

[Martinius]

i can't speak for salvage, but in nyzul isle, our brd always pulls gears on 'avoid detection' floors. it's been in the game too long to have not gone unnoticed by SE, but im hard pressed to believe it was a simple glitch. the above poster is right tho, ninjitsu works as well, so if you have one of those floors, have the whatever job(if you dont have a ninja in your group, hell, someone's gonna be subbing ninja) pull gears with kurayami or jubaku. odds are it won't land, but that's not its purpose

good hunting!

[Spekkio]

gears are no different than say weapons, except that they have true sound, JA aggro, link, and suck majorly (HAAATE graviga/knockbackga/triple gear rail cannon as brd... gets me plastered way too much...) i can easily pull 1 weapon out of a room of 20 with a brd song w/o aggroing the rest of the room. same with gears. works fine. ^^

[Socomtwo]

What weapon is this BLM using to solo the Ul'Yovra?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_48zNX53ByM

[Rocl]

What weapon is this BLM using to solo the Ul'Yovra?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_48zNX53ByM

It's an ugly dat mod. People like to make their elemental staves look like odin pitchforks for some reason.

I didn't watch the whole thing because it's boring, but I assume that's what you're talking about.

[fallenleaf]

How does KV work after a maintenance? is his window open when server's up or is it 21hrs from servers up?

[Drunkenmonk]

opens with server

[ryanjh]

Eastern Shadow window after Maint? I did a search, and have some people claiming some things and others claiming completely different things.

[Osede]

i can't speak for salvage, but in nyzul isle, our brd always pulls gears on 'avoid detection' floors. it's been in the game too long to have not gone unnoticed by SE, but im hard pressed to believe it was a simple glitch. the above poster is right tho, ninjitsu works as well, so if you have one of those floors, have the whatever job(if you dont have a ninja in your group, hell, someone's gonna be subbing ninja) pull gears with kurayami or jubaku. odds are it won't land, but that's not its purpose

good hunting!

just use range to pull those gears are fine too.

[OctavoGilgamesh]

i can't speak for salvage, but in nyzul isle, our brd always pulls gears on 'avoid detection' floors. it's been in the game too long to have not gone unnoticed by SE, but im hard pressed to believe it was a simple glitch.

Hell, ou could even pull with magic if you wanted to, just need to cast from beyond 20 distance to avoid aggro'n the gears before you spell lands.

[Tsuko_Asura]

Where can one find the most updated lists for Altanaview?

http://ffxi.killvoid.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=148935

There, bookmark it he always updates the post after new stuff is added.

Thanks. ^^

[Tsuko_Asura]

Anyone else experiencing massive amounts of lag while FFXI is running all of a sudden? I usually have a pretty fast PC, but every since the update(I think?), its running slow as dirt.



Alternatively(I'm pretty computer-retarded, Iono >_>) is there some way to find out what exactly is causing it to slow down so much, so I can fix the problem?

[LinktheDeme]

Anyone else experiencing massive amounts of lag while FFXI is running all of a sudden? I usually have a pretty fast PC, but every since the update(I think?), its running slow as dirt.



Alternatively(I'm pretty computer-retarded, Iono >_>) is there some way to find out what exactly is causing it to slow down so much, so I can fix the problem?

I have been noticing more lag and a few others in my ls as well.

On a side note how is INT and Mattack calculated again? I'm not a 75 BLM but isnt it INT pwns lower monsters and mattack mainly for higher level?

edit: Also nidhogg popped yesterday on sylph right after the big update so for all you naysayers against kings popping after maintenance

[Suiram]

On a side note how is INT and Mattack calculated again? I'm not a 75 BLM but isnt it INT pwns lower monsters and mattack mainly for higher level?

Actually that's not a very good rule to use in general because it's not really that simple, and if you were to over-simplify it anyway it'd be the other way around. INT is going to modify your base damage, which is a function of your INT, the mob's INT, and the spell you're casting, while MAB is going to modify your MAB term, which is just a function of how much MAB you already have. The lower your base damage is before, the "better" adding INT is, likewise for MAB.

The best way to look at it is to compare the ratio of your new base damage to your old base damage or your new MAB to your old MAB, depending on what your options are. For instance let's say you have 110 INT and MAB+70, and are casting on something with 90 INT, and you want to compare INT+5 versus MAB+3. A rough estimate of the damage increase from MAB+3 would be 1.73/1.7 = 1.77% increase in damage. Your base damages for common BLM spells under the above conditions would be bliz4: 546, thun4: 581, am2: 750, so the rough damage increases would be 556/546 = 1.83%, 591/581 = 1.72%, and 760/750 = 1.33%, respectively.

So in the above example, the INT piece wins for Bliz4, and loses slightly for Thun4 and by a wide margin for AM2. Now, as you fight lower level mobs, the base damage goes up since they'll have lower INT, so if anything the benefit from INT is lessened, but like I illustrated above it depends on so many factors anyway.

[Howard Roark]

edit: Also nidhogg popped yesterday on sylph right after the big update so for all you naysayers against kings popping after maintenance

i know of a few instances of the same LS getting 2 nidhoggs in 1 day

[Suiram]

HQ Kings cannot pop immediately after maintenance, nor can they pop within a few days after the last time they died.

edit: Also nidhogg popped yesterday on sylph right after the big update so for all you naysayers against kings popping after maintenance

is explained by the fact that yesterday was Tuesday, one day and two pops after the Monday update, while

i know of a few instances of the same LS getting 2 nidhoggs in 1 day

can be explained by either

• The LS killed Nidhogg, immediately followed by an emergency maintenance, which lasted a short time. Fafnir was up when servers came up, died quickly and 21 hours later Nid popped.[/*:m:vpej89hf]
• The LS killed Nidhogg the day that they mass-transferred to a new server, where, coincidentally, Nid also popped later that day.[/*:m:vpej89hf]
• The LS is playing on a space vessel that is approaching the speed of light, so their two Nids occur on the same day to them, even though four days have passed in Japan.[/*:m:vpej89hf]
• The LS has people who are full of shit and/or misinformed.[/*:m:vpej89hf]