Random Question Thread IV: ROCKY WINS

[Velecic]

What's the recast on SCNM nms?

By Recast I'm going to assume you mean repop, and they are in the range of ~3-5 hours I believe, some shorter some longer, but in that area. Never camped many of them waiting for pop to accurately time them alot.

On Limbus note : pretty sure it's 65 like dynamis, been a while but I think we had someone unable to enter at like 61 cor when we tried it.

On the note of campaign as PLD. I don't see the reason to use /RDM over /DNC. Let me explain why.

The Foundations of campaign exp/AN are 3 things : taking damage, dealing damage, and curing damage (there's more but those are the primary ones that will allow you to easily cap out AN/EXP). /RDM using phalanx and/or stoneskin REDUCES the damage you take, thereby reducing the exp you are gaining from taking damage and leaving you less to cure. /DNC however lets you take more damage and you can also cure it using TP if needed. /RDM has vastly less curing potential than /DNC does if you get in a bind, and you also lose the ability to erase yourself (bio, slow, silence, Bo Dho Venomtails 100hp/tic poison come to mind as things that you wouldn't want to keep on). As /DNC I can easily hold 2-3 normal mobs without dieing, while taking a large amount of damage and curing it. Or, if I feel like it, I can just fight one mob, leave aspir samba on fulltime to keep MP up to use to cure (for more notes) and just spam the crap out of Atonements for damage. I rarely need to use TP for curing unless I choose to tank multiple mobs, tank an NM, or am low on MP (can just chivalry if I really need it).

Tl;dr : /DNC rocks /RDM for campaign, for many many reasons. Read above if you don't think so.

On the note of Kraken RNG in campaign. I have a blast on it, and yeah I spam silver bullets, because what's the point of playing Kclub RNG if you're gonna gimp it? That being said I only use it when my friend wants to campaign with me, and she goes DNC to cure bomb the crap out of me while I tank stuff spamming Slug Shot lol. If you don't want to spend the money, I'd recommend using RDM. Also, an alternative to /WAR for RDM, and quite a fun one, is to snag a bow and scorp arrows, use RDM/RNG (you get widescan for those pesky hidden mobs people are soloing too!) and just go to town with Kclub + enspells + Sidewinder spam (Campaign mobs have utter crap for evasion). Friend of mine does this all the time and has a blast. I don't personally do it because I don't want to dump the 3mil+ our server wants for a Failnaught and there aren't any other decent bows for RDM dmg wise :/

[JustaWAR]

Is there a way to parse while crafting? It'd be interesting to see my numbers without having to write them all down

[Ratatapa]

I feel ashame to ask this but here we go


Exemple i do Hagun ENM today at 5PM EST, will i be able to do it Monday at JP midnight (for the 5thday) or i will be locked till 5PM EST on monday?

thx

[Rasantath]

Is there a way to parse while crafting? It'd be interesting to see my numbers without having to write them all down

if not, you could use a parser or chatmon to just record all the chat output, then do some text magic on it with perl
IE write your own mini parser.

[Ratatapa]

Does rindomaru have a chance to beat Hagun?

If yes what would be the good augments to beat it?

[mdkuser]

Does rindomaru have a chance to beat Hagun?

If yes what would be the good augments to beat it?

yes; the minimum stats need to be 15 stp and 2-3% WS DMG. But you also need usukane body, feet, white thaltum and rose strap on TP phase, and usu body /hachi feet on ws.

[rithridan]

I feel ashame to ask this but here we go


Exemple i do Hagun ENM today at 5PM EST, will i be able to do it Monday at JP midnight (for the 5thday) or i will be locked till 5PM EST on monday?

thx

you have to wait exactly 5 days before you can enter again. So if you enter 5pm EST you will have to wait till 5pm EST.

[FailureMidgard]

By Recast I'm going to assume you mean repop, and they are in the range of ~3-5 hours I believe, some shorter some longer, but in that area. Never camped many of them waiting for pop to accurately time them alot.

On Limbus note : pretty sure it's 65 like dynamis, been a while but I think we had someone unable to enter at like 61 cor when we tried it.

On the note of campaign as PLD. I don't see the reason to use /RDM over /DNC. Let me explain why.

The Foundations of campaign exp/AN are 3 things : taking damage, dealing damage, and curing damage (there's more but those are the primary ones that will allow you to easily cap out AN/EXP). /RDM using phalanx and/or stoneskin REDUCES the damage you take, thereby reducing the exp you are gaining from taking damage and leaving you less to cure. /DNC however lets you take more damage and you can also cure it using TP if needed. /RDM has vastly less curing potential than /DNC does if you get in a bind, and you also lose the ability to erase yourself (bio, slow, silence, Bo Dho Venomtails 100hp/tic poison come to mind as things that you wouldn't want to keep on). As /DNC I can easily hold 2-3 normal mobs without dieing, while taking a large amount of damage and curing it. Or, if I feel like it, I can just fight one mob, leave aspir samba on fulltime to keep MP up to use to cure (for more notes) and just spam the crap out of Atonements for damage. I rarely need to use TP for curing unless I choose to tank multiple mobs, tank an NM, or am low on MP (can just chivalry if I really need it).

Tl;dr : /DNC rocks /RDM for campaign, for many many reasons. Read above if you don't think so.

You do realize /rdm may lower your dmg taken, but /dnc lowers your damage done? You also realize there's a cap on exp/minute, which most people should be able to hit almost with damage alone if there are mobs there when you get there, and the campaign ends without you standing around doing nothing.

I feel ashame to ask this but here we go


Exemple i do Hagun ENM today at 5PM EST, will i be able to do it Monday at JP midnight (for the 5thday) or i will be locked till 5PM EST on monday?

thx

You can pick up the new pouch exactly 120 hrs after entering the ENM (realize even if you go exactly as it comes up, it gets pushed back a short bit each time because the timer starts as you enter the enm, not when you get the item/key item.

[shaddix]

2009 method for killing shen?

[Ratatapa]

get Royal Redingote with DD stats


(sorry was too tempting )

[dantaro]

<,<;

Been looking for a solution and can't find one. my traveling/secondary laptop (my main one is desk-bound do to screen/keyboard damage) has issues with certain effects in game (notably BRD songs and DNC JAs) that causes massive slow down. Since I'm WHM main, hence why this is a serious issue, turning off effects while in combat (the only way to do it in game) doesn't really work. Is there another way I can shut off effects that I'm unaware off? If not, does anyone have other suggestions? Much thanks in advance!

[Ezhno]

Random Question: Is ffxigear down for anyone else or is it just me? Anyone have any idea what is up with it?

[liggy 0]

2009 method for killing shen?

angon dia3 boxstep/quickstep penance hundredfirst with sch enthunder?

[Raizins]

You KC rng with a cumulative 27 damage weapon for slug shotting?

Drain samba alone will absolutely not keep you healed on a campaign mob >.> everything you engage you should be tanking because slug shot spam SHOULD take hate if you aren't purposely gimping yourself because you don't have the inventory. I understand you don't try for good damage on campaign mobs but I'm sure the guy who has KC rng has a gun. Use silver bullets or obow/darksteel(that's more damage than gun+bullets if you want to buy your ammo at 60k per 12x stacks mythril bolts at 40k would be better than gun+bullets, too; I was wrong for saying gun+bullets).

XP/AN is capped by time (xp/minute). Even with the repeating xbow and bronze bolts, you will cap out easily. Why do you want to tank mobs anyway?

If I use a method that will cap my XP/AN without spending much gil on ammo and never pulling hate (therefore never having to waste TP with curing waltz), why wouldn't I use it?

Yes, going with Hellfire +1 and silver bullets will have you pull hate and either die or sit there spamming waltzes. In the end, you're XP/AN will be the same.

[Ned]

2009 method for killing shen?

Nuke the shit out of it?

[Valisk]

/RDM has vastly less curing potential than /DNC does if you get in a bind, and you also lose the ability to erase yourself

Nice choice of words. 1 reason I prefer /DNC is because I am from Sandy and participate in Sandy battles for 98% of my campaigning. Jagibod's Warmachine tends to spam Blastbomb and having an Erase is life saving.

Tl;dr : /DNC rocks /RDM for campaign, for many many reasons.

^This times over 9000

[Vito]

Does dmg taken- work on 1000 needles or is 1000 needles always going to do 1000dmg/#of people in range?

[Yugl]

Does dmg taken- work on 1000 needles or is 1000 needles always going to do 1000dmg/#of people in range?

Works, but the stated value is sometimes less than the actual value. I had a Pet DMG 1% Reduction item, and the wyvern took 496 DMG instead of 495DMG.

[ringthree]

What would be minimal boost on a Fay Gendawa to make it on par with Ebow? All I found in the corresponding thread was 'best possible beats Ebow' but that doesn't really answer my question, and didn't get an answer there

My incredibly limited testing still had E-bow ahead of a Fay with +5 STR and +4% WS damage (it also has +6 WS accuracy), so it looks like it would take at least those stats and some ranged attack.

[Siniroth]

My incredibly limited testing still had E-bow ahead of a Fay with +5 STR and +4% WS damage (it also has +6 WS accuracy), so it looks like it would take at least those stats and some ranged attack.

Awesome ty, I picked up one earlier today that I'll augment by end of the week likely, only have a Selene's Bow atm but might as well try for one that beats Ebow if I can