Random Question Thread IV: ROCKY WINS

[Kaylia]

Anyone has an ideal setup to break the imp's horn? Was thinking of thf + rogue's roll. If so, will it be better to use mkris and Tp it till it break or hand to hand and spam backhand blow?
Needed the imp horn to skill my bonecraft and i bought out all the horns on AH. And which imp do you suggest, orderly imp or heraldic imp? Latter seems a little too dangerous and former lacks hp to sustain i suppose.

Multi hit crit WS. Beside this, imp around nashmau might be the easiest (in the graveyard, there is 4 with on a 5min repop). N I can't think of another outside camp with easy imp

Is there any way to weaken the armored chariot boss for Arrapago remnants in salvage? Was thinking mainly that the 4th floor chariot appeared to lower defence but wasn't 100% sure. I know some areas have this but wasn't sure about this zone.

Chariot is #5, and since you need to kill it for lv35, I doubt it nerf it.

It's possible there is a way to nerf other chariots, but if there is, they are far too easy to bother. I'm not sure what kind of setup you're using, but you should be able to full clear arra with almost anything.

[Rocl]

If you break a Fiendish Leechkeeper's horn without Campaign tags there is a chance it may appear in the treasure pool. Never really tried to farm them per se, but they seem to have a decent chunk of health compared to the Orderly Imps, but less than the Heraldic Imps. You just need a good way of targeting them without linking the other defending forces. I remember getting a few while trying to lower the forces of a campaign zone way back when. Entirely possible it's different now, but it does remind me of another "in-between" imp, the ones in Beaucedine are lower than Heraldic, I think. I know the ones in the Beastmen Stronghold (Senseschal) only con T, I think the ones in Beaucedine con T too? Can't recall for certain though.

[Uris]

Possible to duo any of the ENM 30 battles with use of anima? What job combination if so?

[mdkuser]

Possible to duo any of the ENM 30 battles with use of anima? What job combination if so?

BRD/WHM MNK/WARx2 works, with the animas that intimidates/prevent WS. Need 2Hrs with this set up. Just soulvoice madrigals and minuet, monks use berserk, focus, attack food, and hundredfist.

[Windfoxster]

Thought i should update, went to try those orderly imps outside of Nashmau, surprisingly they ain't that bad and have the right amount of hp to finish them off without them growing back the horn. But the drop rate is gaytastic with TH4.

[Argettio]

Anyone have any testimonies on Western Shadow's drop rate? Currently 0/11.

My nyzul group went 1/1 from him while climbing (floor 32 iirc).

But I don't know any one who has camped him in Feiyin.

[Cream Soda]

Anyone have any testimonies on Western Shadow's drop rate? Currently 0/11.

I went 1/4 camping as mnk/thf to replace the pair of cross counters I loaned out and never got back, actually the first pair on my server as well.

[Despain]

They definitively had a log that kept track of time and position years before the auto-ban program (GM knew you were telehacking many hours after the fact if someone made a call).

They later added an "auto-flag" program that would flag your account whenever you tele hack, and it was replaced recently with the auto-ban.

I don't know. I had app on a mule on a different account (under a different CC) and teleported on her almost all the time. She never got jailed, and she's still active at the moment. That account is whored out by a lot of my friends, because I don't care much for it.

Anyway, a friend of mine got auto-jailed trying to teleport from the zone to Upper Jeuno to Beaucedine Glacier in Batallia Downs on a mule of his. It got auto-jailed while "in flight" (it d/c'd him, and he reconnected, logged on and was in Mordion).

At the end of the month after being temp banned for 3 days, they banned that account. So my question now is how exactly does the "flagging" work exactly? I never fucked around with this shit on my main for fear of getting banned, but my alt. never got caught.

[Argettio]

It makes no sense.

I have heard of people getting jailed just for very high lag (wireless internet), and then I hear stories like yours about warping around the world and never getting caught.

I think the auto jailer works on the same system as the augmented stats generator.

[Despain]

Haha I'd bet. I don't know. I just got extremely paranoid after doing that glitch that they might just ban me at the end of the month. I only did it once though, and I'm not planning on ever doing it on my main again.

[Byrthnoth]

As long as people are afraid to exploit glitches, SE doesn't have to fix them.

.: Random banni-nation benefits them by making people generally afraid for their accounts.

[Hookah]

OK, so I hit 75 on my sam a few nights ago, and I'm going to be augmenting an attila's earring to finish off my 6 hit build until I can get my hands on some usukane.

My question is, since they are a lvl 70 item, is there any benefit to doing it in the higher tiered area or does it not really matter?

[Despain]

OK, so I hit 75 on my sam a few nights ago, and I'm going to be augmenting an attila's earring to finish off my 6 hit build until I can get my hands on some usukane.

My question is, since they are a lvl 70 item, is there any benefit to doing it in the higher tiered area or does it not really matter?

I'm pretty sure it matters, since I don't think you can augment a level 70 item and let's say Zi'tah? I could be completely wrong though.

[Korremar]

You would also get a message saying 'You could not enter this area.' if you tried to zone before a set time period.. I'm guessing roughly the amount of time it'd take to run across the zone in the ideal path using flee fulltime. It was only noticable if you speedhacked well above flee speed or warped across zones straight off. This existed as early as 2005.

Are you certain? About...9 months?ish ago, I used to watch a group of 15 or 20 RMTs take the Power Sandals quest, exit to the Dunes, log out, log back in at the zoneline to La Theine, zone, and continue doing that all the way through to Davoi, where they'd pos around the zone to the ???s, die, and bloodport back to Selbina. A full rotation took 3 minutes, tops, and they were zoning several times in that period. Unless the logging off would get around that message.

[Pharaun]

I just got RNG to 75 last night, so I need to figure out what's up with some merits. I know I want to cap Rapid Shot and Snap Shot, but beyond that I'm unsure. For category 1 I'm leaning towards capping Unlimited Shot. I figure the more Sidewinder's with PPA the better, and I typically only use Sharpshot when Barrage is up, so it seems like a bad idea to have those timers not line up.

For Category 2, I really don't know what to do after Snap Shot. I'm just in a little 5-man LS, so I'm not going to be using RNG on HNMs or anything. It will probably only get used in Limbus sometimes, maybe some ZNM, and in merits/MMM. Are the two shots worth having for me, or should I just save a little money with Recycle?

For my Rng merits I went 5/5 Rapid Shot and 5/5 Unlimited in category 1 pretty much for the same reasons that you listed. For category 2 I went 5/5 Snap shot 1 Flashy Shot and 4 Stealth shot. Stealth shot is severely underrated imo, with out it I'll pull hate with sidewinder almost every time, with it I never pull hate. That being said it looks like most of the places you will be using your rng hate control won't be a big issue, so you could probably get away with the recycle merits. If you ever start using your rng on harder stuff you'd probably want to drop the recycle and switch to flashy/stealth.

[Hookah]

I'm pretty sure it matters, since I don't think you can augment a level 70 item and let's say Zi'tah? I could be completely wrong though.

Yes I know that, but that's not at all what I was asking.

I meant do the higher tiered areas give better augments?

IE could i get a better augement doing a lower lvl item in the lvl 75 area rather than doing one of the lower lvl ones?

[Wolfknight]

Anyone have any testimonies on Western Shadow's drop rate? Currently 0/11.

I went 1/10 personally w/TH1 and missed 5 claims; one of which dropped they had TH3 though; so was 2/15 for me.

[Thorny]

Are you certain? About...9 months?ish ago, I used to watch a group of 15 or 20 RMTs take the Power Sandals quest, exit to the Dunes, log out, log back in at the zoneline to La Theine, zone, and continue doing that all the way through to Davoi, where they'd pos around the zone to the ???s, die, and bloodport back to Selbina. A full rotation took 3 minutes, tops, and they were zoning several times in that period. Unless the logging off would get around that message.

The logging off does circumvent it, I used to spam the teleport quests on mules with it :s

[Chastiti]

Random question:

Someone in my LS told me that they patched the Hagun ENM. Is this true, or is he full of shit?

Thanks!

[Siniroth]

Does Dia Wand - FFXIclopedia, the Final Fantasy XI wiki - Characters, items, jobs, and more increase the defense down effect or just the DoT component of Dia/II/III?