Random Question Thread IV: ROCKY WINS

[urat]

All of them are useful for Threnody, but at least get HQ Fire for Ice Threnody

I'm not high enough yet to start using these, but what is it that is special about ice threnody? Tachiyakiwhatever? (I don;t even know if thats ice based, I assume so cause of the giant exploding chunks of ice @_@)

Are the threnodies that important to merit a full set of HQ staves? It's not out of the question and I might make myself a full set signed just to have in my bazaar to show off (read, marketing plan)

Or am I missing something?

[Thorny]

I'm not high enough yet to start using these, but what is it that is special about ice threnody? Tachiyakiwhatever? (I don;t even know if thats ice based, I assume so cause of the giant exploding chunks of ice @_@)

Are the threnodies that important to merit a full set of HQ staves? It's not out of the question and I might make myself a full set signed just to have in my bazaar to show off (read, marketing plan)

Or am I missing something?

Ice is the most accurate element in general due to a free INT+5 elemental skill+10 on Aquilo's Staff. On resistant targets, Ice Threnody is a significant help to landing ice nukes. I would not say Vulcan's Staff is worth it for this though.. the most resistant targets people frequently do are Jailer of Love, Ouryu, Tiamat, and less frequently Jormungand. Due to elemental affinity, using ice nukes on Tiamat and Jorm is a crapshoot, and wind based nukes on Ouryu tend to have similar or better accuracy due to elemental affinity as well. It's a rather pricey thing to buy for jailer of love, with how easy it is nowadays.. maybe if you have gimp blm friends you could threnody lesser jailers to help out :/

[Haroun]

If you're going to use BRD for anything endgame you should be keeping up Ltng Threnody or Ice Threnody (in most cases), if you're just planning to merit on it it's less important

EDIT: Ice Threnody on Ouryu tends to speed up damage more than Wind Threnody from what I've seen, probably as a result of habit on the BLMs part

[urat]

Oh shit lol no I'm not doing endgame with my bard, I don't even do endgame much anymore. I might start doing salvage again to get morrigans for my brd but other than that I'm leveling it for merits.

And I doubt theres gonna be a blm nuking freeze 2 on greater colibris =P

In retrospect, at my low levels (30s atm) how much would my threnodies be boosting the damamge of the elemental wses my parties are using, I generally try and stick fire threnody cause theres a lot of fire based WSs at these levels, flame arrow, lotus blade, etc etc, is it worthwhile to do this or should I stick to light threnody for sleeping/requim?

[Yugl]

I might start doing salvage again to get morrigans for my brd

Hurray!

[Darlantan]

[jimbobsonofgod]

At the endgame you have multiple good options to choose from in:

Perdu/Koggel
Erlking's/Koggel
Perdu/Frag
Perdu/Wing/+1
Perdu/Beast
Perdu/Slayer/+1
Koggel/Frag
Storm/Koggel
Erlking's/Frag

Erlkings with +5 damage/perdu.
Frag/perdu not the other way around.
Don't think I'd use Storm ever.
And
Frag/Koggel not the other way around.

Frag is really just crap anymore since you can get a 5 damage +more macc erlkings for a main for 1/100th the price.

Fuck even if you're really cheap you can double up the erlkings for some fagtastic combo and still be better geared then 90% of the blu's I see running around my server.

Ideally :

Some combination of the following : Perdu/Koggel/Erlkings
Or go for A Tizona.

Other then that the progression looks pretty good.

[Nightfyre]

From that same post, never tried for an Immortal's Shotel but I doubt it's a common appraisal. Grab two Flame Blade +1s to bridge the gap at 47 instead. Don't really have anything else to add after the above post except that Shiva's Shotel a) doesn't exist and b) sucks, so skip it.

[Thunder]

For A Moogle Kupo d'etat wiki says you just have to wait until next JP midnight after tossing helm and you're instantly cleared for the BC and that's all you have to do to request the helm. Is this true?

[Wolfknight]

40 - Combat Caster's Scimitar or AF1
43 - Combat Caster's Scimitar+1/2
50 - Immortal's Shotel (hard to get)
55 - Musketeer Commander's Falchion
60 - Leech Scimitar
65 - Ifrit's Blade + D.Steel Slayer variant (Marine, Insect)
72 - Koggelmander (worth every minute in MMM)
73 - Adaman Kilij or Slayer variants
73 - Perdu Hanger
74 - Fragarach
75 - Erlking's / Beast Slayer

fix'd for leveling list, the 60s swords besides leech are worse than MC Falchion generally in my expierence, never tried leech personally though, but it seems good. And Senior gold is terrible since you're giving up stats for weap dmg which does nothing for spells compared to other option I'd rather take Wing/Ifrits til Perdu/koggel/Beast slayer/Erlking/etc.

[chiyio]

I went back as early as 170 pages in the blu thread, but I couldnt find it (thats the problem with 200 page threads). Can someone tell me whats so special about Regurgitation, and whats necessary for a Regurgitation build? Thx

[Khajit]

I had the af npc erase my history so that i could redo my af hands on nin. I talk to the starting npc and it just talks about how I completed my hands. I've tried rezoning and i still got nothing. Yes I was on nin. Did i forget something important?

[Souj]

What font color do I need to change for buffs/debuffs wearing on players/mobs? can't seem to find it.

[Siniroth]

What font color do I need to change for buffs/debuffs wearing on players/mobs? can't seem to find it.

As far as I know you can't (I tried a while ago to no avail), you can only change everything else so it's the only thing that has white :<

[Bakthi]

I had the af npc erase my history so that i could redo my af hands on nin. I talk to the starting npc and it just talks about how I completed my hands. I've tried rezoning and i still got nothing. Yes I was on nin. Did i forget something important?

Did you redo your NIN AF1 and flag the second AF quest (legs)?

[Nightfyre]

I went back as early as 170 pages in the blu thread, but I couldnt find it (thats the problem with 200 page threads). Can someone tell me whats so special about Regurgitation, and whats necessary for a Regurgitation build? Thx

Low hate (1 CE 640 VE), high damage/MP, really good Bind add effect, low recast. Stack INT, MND, and MAB, INT is ~3x more powerful than MND and MAB is roughly as effective as INT.

[Yugl]

Is there a position for healers to stand at so that Omega's frontal/AoE mobs don't land? Not speaking strictly from a distance as much of an angle/location perspective.

[tobyjuggler]

Does spell interruption gear work the same way as fastcast? I believe it does, because it affects the beginning and end of the cast and so would need to be equipped before casting, but just want to check.

[Thorny]

Does spell interruption gear work the same way as fastcast? I believe it does, because it affects the beginning and end of the cast and so would need to be equipped before casting, but just want to check.

It needs to be equipped when you get hit.

[Khajit]

Did you redo your NIN AF1 and flag the second AF quest (legs)?

I thought that SE had made it so that you didn't have to do everything from the start for new af pieces a while ago. i guess they must have halfassed it.


new question . i just finished helping a friend get a quicksand coffer key for sam af. Why the hell are too weak anticans aggroing the shit out of me?