Random Question Thread V: But does it 6-hit

[cdgreg]

btw novia's go for more like 1.5-2m on odin

[kodos1]

Wolfknight, could you ask your blm friend if he nukes the main puk outside of Magic Burst?
MB gets a % bonus applied to dmg and some kind of bonus MACC. Or ask him if his Ga does the same dmg to the main puk as the spawns. I think the wiki does say like triple dmg on the spawns.

[Jak]

What exactly do you get with "Improves mining" on the field gear? Better chance at rare material? Or less chance of pickaxe breaking?

[stewie]

btw novia's go for more like 1.5-2m on odin

^ Siren.

[ronin sparthos]

What exactly do you get with "Improves mining" on the field gear? Better chance at rare material? Or less chance of pickaxe breaking?

Less chance of pickaxes breaking.

[Spagnutty]

Based on a 1360x768 widescreen LCD display, what do you feel would be the most effective resolution to run FFXI at? Both overlay and background.

Overlay: 1360x768
Background: 2720x1536

[Rida]

The formula for Stoneskin does not change between jobs (aside from having Enhancing Magic tiers), and is listed on FFXIclopedia. With 105 Enhancing Magic, a BRD/WHM needs a total of 145 MND to get 350 HP (correct me if I'm wrong). I can hit it as a Mithra (64 + 81):

Pride Staff
Maat's Cap
Gnole Torque/Morgana's Choker
Mamool-ja Earring
Marduk's Jubbah
Marduk's Dastanas
Omega Ring
Aqua Ring
Aslan Cape
Penitent's Rope
Bard's Cannions
Suzaku's Sune-ate

So it's not exactly easy, but I could still get 4 more (2 grip, 2 earring), and 2 more out of Ring1, if I had lesser MND pieces in other slots. Or if I ever put myself through the torment of getting a Stoneskin Torque.

Thx Bakthi, thought I was gonna have to break out the poison potions -.-

and you reminded me +MND from Cannions should suffice as I was using Mahatma. Should cut dwn on my MP Loss.

[Uris]

Where are the Union coffers located when BST controlled?

Tried looking in FKN but it's not near the C.A. or at the fortifications ><

[Overburn]

Does anyone have that graph/picture of all the sea gorgets and which are needed to cover every important WS except Penta Thrust? I tried searching but can't seem to find it.

[Jimothy]

I think this is the gorget chart you're looking for

Sea Gorgets

[Ohemgee]

Is FFXI capped at 56k?

[Ragnus]

I believe so, yes.

[BahamutRicker]

When dual boxing on one PC, Is there any way to tell DirectParse which window to get its data from?

[Shinryuu]

The one with all the filters turned off. IIRC parsers kinda screw up if you don't have filters on at both windows.

[BahamutRicker]

The one with all the filters turned off. IIRC parsers kinda screw up if you don't have filters on at both windows.

What I mean is, If I party with one account and leave one account in whitegate, the parse seems to always get the data from the account in whitegate. I can fix this by shutting down the account in whitegate, starting the parse, then logging back in. I was just wondering if there is any way to tell DirectParse which process to get the info from.

[Bakthi]

When dual boxing on one PC, Is there any way to tell DirectParse which window to get its data from?

I know KParser can do it, and that's one of the reasons I switched. But that was a while ago; it's possible DirectParse can do that now too.

[Nightfyre]

Anybody have screenshots of a 7-hit Guillotine or Drakesbane? 8-hit Penta Thrust works as well. Somebody brought up the DA can only proc twice on WS crap again. Found an old link to a BG thread but it didn't work.

[Kirschy]

Anybody have screenshots of a 7-hit Guillotine or Drakesbane? 8-hit Penta Thrust works as well. Somebody brought up the DA can only proc twice on WS crap again. Found an old link to a BG thread but it didn't work.

SS are not going to help much since sTP/Getting Hit are hard to prove through SS. If I recall the argument well, we know how DA% works, so there is an expected amount of 0DA, 1DA, 2DA, etc... for each WS depending on how much DA% is present. The 0DA/1DA/2DA fit in line with our math, but anything more doesn't. You'll always have someone who claims they got a 7-hit Guillotine or 6-hit RR(I've been there myself, I could swear I've seen it), but whenever it's tested precisely, it never occurs.

So the two possibilities are that 2DA is the cap, and the few times we see a higher TP return, it was from sTP roll/getting hit/etc... or that there is no cap on DA+ and any DA that occur after the second have a different method of calculating when it will occur so it happens less than 1% of the time.

It's generalli agreed the first case is more plausable~


Random Question:
With all amazing stuff we've gained as a playerbase in the last 5 years. Has anyone managed to stand-tank KB and tp-burn him down? I remember trying it a loooooong time ago for the last ~10% and it didn't seem that bad. (Thunderbolt + add: stun + Triple Attack can bring a tank down fast, but seems much more managable now. Having 20+ in meteor range wasn't overly difficult either.)

[Mikus]

A few questions.

Swear something similar was posted but I can't find it so apologies.

I'm doing Blue sub for Drg currently and after a day wasted on not learning spells, which should I really be concentrating on? I only plan on using Blue for Drg/Blu. I guess though, if I did decide to take Blue to 75, is it imperative to learn all?

AF2 hands vs. AF/AF+1/Zmitts for MBing on HNM.

[FailureMidgard]

SS are not going to help much since sTP/Getting Hit are hard to prove through SS. If I recall the argument well, we know how DA% works, so there is an expected amount of 0DA, 1DA, 2DA, etc... for each WS depending on how much DA% is present. The 0DA/1DA/2DA fit in line with our math, but anything more doesn't. You'll always have someone who claims they got a 7-hit Guillotine or 6-hit RR(I've been there myself, I could swear I've seen it), but whenever it's tested precisely, it never occurs.

So the two possibilities are that 2DA is the cap, and the few times we see a higher TP return, it was from sTP roll/getting hit/etc... or that there is no cap on DA+ and any DA that occur after the second have a different method of calculating when it will occur so it happens less than 1% of the time.

It's generalli agreed the first case is more plausable~


Random Question:
With all amazing stuff we've gained as a playerbase in the last 5 years. Has anyone managed to stand-tank KB and tp-burn him down? I remember trying it a loooooong time ago for the last ~10% and it didn't seem that bad. (Thunderbolt + add: stun + Triple Attack can bring a tank down fast, but seems much more managable now. Having 20+ in meteor range wasn't overly difficult either.)

^ This as far as screenshots for this goes. Just for fun though, assuming a 7% DA chance, the chance of seeing 3 DAs on a single Guillotine is .13% (just under that, actually), meaning you'd see 1 out of every ~770 WSes. The chance of 3 on a Penta is .3%, or 1 out of every ~333 WSes. RR is .03%, or 1 out of every 3333 WSes.