Random Question Thread V: But does it 6-hit

[Raen Ryong]

[x/(100 - (y + x))] * 100

Where x = increase in haste
y = old haste

I made you a nice post and everything

Just to demonstrate, adding 10% Haste to 20% as above,

[10/(100 - (20 + 10))] * 100
= 10/70 = +14.3%

[Cream Soda]

You rounder!

[Argettio]

I made you a nice post and everything

Just to demonstrate, adding 10% Haste to 20% as above,

[10/(100 - (20 + 10))] * 100
= 10/70 = +14.3%

So I have had it wrong all this time...

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The less you fail

[Raen Ryong]

It was my fault in the first place

And yeah, I like my numbers to 3 significant figures normally. I dunno why.

[Cream Soda]

It was my fault in the first place

And yeah, I like my numbers to 3 significant figures normally. I dunno why.

Shaving Vegeta disagrees with Eggman

[Argettio]

It was my fault in the first place

I will forgive you (if you give me your ebody lol).

[zagex]

If you were to solo tier 2 ZNMs from Sarameya path as BLM, which one would be the easiest/less time consuming one? I was thinking of Anantaboga, pulling it to the South of the island, but then I figured the Lullaby spam wouldnt make it very viable unless I brought with me a lot of poison pots or found a berserker's torque. Are any of the others easier/faster to do, or a better way to do Anantaboga as BLM?

Anantaboga is a joke if you have any movement speed at all. If not, he's still doable. If you're outside of 25', he'll cast a buff song, giving you time to do whatever you need to do. If you're closer than 25', he usually cast lullaby/elegy/virelai/finale, though if you get lucky, he'll buff himself. Also, /Sch counters lullaby easily.

Not sure how well your mp will last on Blm. If you need to, you can run really far from the NM and rest. He doesn't lose aggro, and he'll walk really slow because he'll buff himself every 45 or so seconds. I never fought him with weather up, so weather -might- deaggro him.

The only time I ever lost to this NM was me being stupid and dying on the initial pull, he lullabied me and it went downhill from there.

-edit-
For some reason I always liked kiting clockwise. I think he doesn't path as well going clockwise. It's been a while though, so I don't remember.

[Xaru]

//cancel 353 = Hasso
//cancel 354 = Seigan

Assuming you have cancel loaded.

You can also add this to spellcast

<action type="command" when="precast">cancel 353</action>

Probably best to wrap an <if> around it to check if it's active, not sure what cancel will do if the buff isn't active so something like:

<if BuffActive="Hasso">
    <action type="command" when="precast">cancel 353</action>
</if>

And do the same for Seigan etc.

[sleekmotorwurkz]

Is there a 3rd party application (non-bot) that has the functionality of yarnball, but works with pianissimo?

or

How do you keep track of your pianissimo song timers (aside of paying attention to them manually)

edit: Fuck I hate being the last post on a page in this thread, nobody ever sees it.

[Seedz]

What are the odds of killing Maat as RNG66 with 200 archery skill? Cap at 66 is 227, and as far as I understand, RNG Maat isn't too evasive, but I'm worried about SW's awful accuracy. I know it's doable, I just want to know if I should cap Archery before actually attempting him, in case I may fail miserably at landing shit.

[Argettio]

Probably best to wrap an <if> around it to check if it's active, not sure what cancel will do if the buff isn't active so something like:

<if BuffActive="Hasso">
    <action type="command" when="precast">cancel 353</action>
</if>

And do the same for Seigan etc.

Obviously and you would also want to add a condition for cancelling it.

<if Spell="Stun">
    <if BuffActive="Hasso">
        <action type="command" when="precast">cancel 353</action>
    </if>
    <!-- equip gear that helps stun, and nothing else -->
    <action type="equip" set="Stun"/>
    <!-- these codes just print Stun in auto translate into chat. -->
    <action type="command">input /p \xFD\x07\x02\x12\xFC\xFD &gt;&gt; &lt;%SpellTarget&gt;</action>
</if> 

From my DRK.xml, it cancels hasso when I cast stun (don't have a similar rule for Seigan as I only have it up when the mob is on me).

[Siniroth]

Not sure how well your mp will last on Blm. If you need to, you can run really far from the NM and rest. He doesn't lose aggro, and he'll walk really slow because he'll buff himself every 45 or so seconds. I never fought him with weather up, so weather -might- deaggro him.

If you want to resort to just DoTs, any form of refresh (Hint: Black Cloak) is sufficient for keeping bio II up 100% of the time, as well as a drain or poison II every couple of bio IIs

[Eldelphia]

If you were to solo tier 2 ZNMs from Sarameya path as BLM, which one would be the easiest/less time consuming one? I was thinking of Anantaboga, pulling it to the South of the island, but then I figured the Lullaby spam wouldnt make it very viable unless I brought with me a lot of poison pots or found a berserker's torque. Are any of the others easier/faster to do, or a better way to do Anantaboga as BLM?

Anantaboga is a walk in the park compared to the others. He can charm you but doesn't always land and he does lullaby as you mentioned. One other person can make it much safer but I'm betting that you could do it solo.

If you have any form of movement speed, he should be easy but he's fine without (I don't yet). Grav does stick on him but he resists after a while. Pull him all the way south, through the tunnels. I would save grav/bind for the top of the slope past the flying Wamoura so you can get invis up for the tunnel.

He hits really hard, so I'd take damage down gear in case he catches/sleeps you. Nukes hit him fairly hard but you may just end up dot-ing him to death.

You could always take a couple of stacks of the new poison fruit instead of pots.

Only things to worry about in the South camp are 2 ghosts who pop during the night but they're on the edge of your kiting area. I've duoed and trioed this, it's fun.

[Darlantan]

I will go with Anantabogas then, thanks for all the answers, very appreciated!

[smafdi]

How hard is it to solo Fire Bomblet pops and nm as RDM? If it isn't really feasable how many / what should I bring for it?

[Wakabo]

Yay another RDM qestion.

Just hit 30 and I Taru, so would full timing Devotee's Mitts +1 be ok since I will do more debuffs with MND modifiers or should I swap them out when casting a debuff with INT?

Also plan on taking RDM all the way to 75 and the the sky farming deal, so would it be better to get Devotee's Mitts +1 or just spend 2k for NQ.

This was the gear set I planned on leveling into atleast at 40.
http://www.ffxiah.com/item_sets.php?id=127253

[TheMysteriousX]

What are the odds of killing Maat as RNG66 with 200 archery skill? Cap at 66 is 227, and as far as I understand, RNG Maat isn't too evasive, but I'm worried about SW's awful accuracy. I know it's doable, I just want to know if I should cap Archery before actually attempting him, in case I may fail miserably at landing shit.

Maat is level 70. That's effectively an 11 level gap between your current skill, and what it could be, so if you think you could beat him at level 59 then go for it.

I'm guessing that losing out on 5 archer's knives worth of accuracy is going to result in your hit rate being a tiny bit sub-par though, especially on Barrage.

Practise on an Orcish Farkiller for a definite answer.

[TacoTaru]

How hard is it to solo Fire Bomblet pops and nm as RDM? If it isn't really feasable how many / what should I bring for it?

The only problems you may have are getting there in general and the magic aggro from the bombs. As far as the bombs that drop the trigger, they aren't very hard at all or shouldn't be at least.

As for Big Bomb, I believe I remember it being done by a RDM solo, but I've always done it with 2 to 3 people, so I can't help you there, sorry.

[Bakthi]

What are the odds of killing Maat as RNG66 with 200 archery skill? Cap at 66 is 227, and as far as I understand, RNG Maat isn't too evasive, but I'm worried about SW's awful accuracy. I know it's doable, I just want to know if I should cap Archery before actually attempting him, in case I may fail miserably at landing shit.

I used a gun at 66 and demolished him, but I'm going to guess that since you only mentioned underskilled Archery, your Marksmanship is even worse.

[Seedz]

Correct. I just fought him, and had no accuracy issues. Next time I'll remember to EES him though, haha.