Synergy Findings/Discussion

[Shamaya]

For anyone wanting to farm Ebur Pigments to upgrade your shiny new 'ebon equips', I gotta say, low-man Zirnitra is win.

Maybe he can forgive me for posting without his permission, but Tsola's blog has pics/strat on how to do this, here.

If you have Rdm/Nin or have Rdm/Nin friends, or want to take a rag-tag mage/nin team out, you can kill kill it 2+ people. It will take skill, but mostly in the department of focus--knowing what TP moves do what, and how to act. Namely, calamitous wind. Past 50%, it'll stop in-place and do reaving wind x # of times. This is a harmless knockback move. But then it will do calamitous wind an equal x# amount of times. If you're not 20' away when it does this, the move can one shot you. The trick is knowing your kiting pattern, and planning where you're going to kite Zirny ahead of time. When it catches up to maybe 17' you'll see it ready. Keep running and you can maybe get to 22'+ when it uses the move, and it'll be harmless. Important to note that after every time it uses the wind, it'll follow you again till you're within 20' so that it can execute the move again. Also, I'd recommend bringing no less than 3 stacks of echoes--4 stacks if you want to be safe. Silencega gets annoying.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...g?t=1262142061

This is the 'arena' you want to kite him in. You can't really take it more than 10' to 15' farther away from this general area, except that there is a little more kiting room to the rest (the upper area to the right in the image). Its paths pretty poorly around these rocks, and you can definitely 'glitch' it quite a bit on the north rock. I'm not sure if you need movement+ to do it, but if you do it right you can kite it around that rock for maybe 20 seconds+ without it taking a single shadow.

Pros: Zirnitra seems to be up fairly often, unclaimed. Good drop rate on ebur. (well I guess this goes for all 3). Very low-mannable.
Cons: Might be camped more in the future. Only some jobs good with this strat.

[macross]

More like it will be gone cause people died and it depopped.

[urat]

So I randomly got a weird message from an Ice overload earlier, "The Synergy furnace has taken on a straighter silhouette"

Anyone else gotten this before and know what it means?

[macross]

That shows up when you thwack it and get a success, while the furnace isn't overloading no more.

[Guppy]

So I randomly got a weird message from an Ice overload earlier, "The Synergy furnace has taken on a straighter silhouette"

That shows up when you thwack it and get a success, while the furnace isn't overloading no more.

Macross, I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. Are you saying the "Straighter Silhouette" message occurs when thwacking a furnace that has already ceased overload, prior to your thwack attempt?

I've gotten the message on very rare occasions as well. As far as I can remember, it always happened when I succeeded at thwacking during an overload. In any case, I have no idea what consequences it has.

[macross]

Something like that. Just do some synth then spam thwack for no reason and you should see that msg pop up.

[urat]

I'm pretty sure my wack failed when I got that, it was just something along with the "you lost _ energy"

I'll SS the next one I get

[macross]

You can whack more than once when it's exploding. I can get in about 5 whacks usually. But just start some random craft and whack it for no reason, and you'll get that message when you succeed. Usually a whack fails but on a success it stops the explosion. But if there isn't an explosion it will show that message. Pretty much it's saying you whacked some sense into your furnace so it's standing up straight and not slacking now.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...df1/thwack.jpg

[Otaku]

The 'straighter silhouette' seems to improve success/HQ rate, but that's just me eyeballing it and I haven't parsed any significant amount of hqs.

[Rugazanami]

What are the maximum etch sizes for an ebon head piece?

[Eldelphia]

Considering the jobs in your Sig you're pretty lucky for that one =3

RDM/BRD/BLU set of the Ebon Frock !

I didn't win the lot lol.. I was after Haelen to be honest, didn't expect that but a friend came out to help with the NM and he won it. Will try for both eventually.

[BrayenMidgard]

ok went back over 7 pages but couldn't find this, or i might of missed it.
furia(red)set is slot1 = ? slot 2= ? slot 3 =?
looking for what elements it can hold basically

also im curious how you are able to thwack the furnace so many times? is it due to the higher lvl at it ? even spamming most i have managed was 3 attempts while it was readying to blow

[Julian]

ok went back over 7 pages but couldn't find this, or i might of missed it.
furia(red)set is slot1 = ? slot 2= ? slot 3 =?
looking for what elements it can hold basically

also im curious how you are able to thwack the furnace so many times? is it due to the higher lvl at it ? even spamming most i have managed was 3 attempts while it was readying to blow

Turn off the "Ask for confirmation" thing, and you can spam it 5 times per explosion.

[Bling]

I know it's all been posted here already but people keep asking:

Ebon Base Gear (Crafted, Not Ex)
First slot: Solid triangle; dark elements
Second slot: Hollow circle; light elements

-Aperture sizes-
Head: 6 > 4
Body: 8 > 6
Hands/legs/feet: 5 > 3

Ebon Gear (Upgraded, Default Ebon Color, Ex)
First slot: Solid triangle; dark elements
Second slot: Solid triangle; light elements
Third slot: Hollow triangle; dark elements

-Aperture sizes-
Head: 6 > 4 > 3
Body: 8 > 6 > 5
Hands/legs/feet: 5 > 3 > 2

Furia Gear (Upgraded, Dyed w/ Furia Pigment, Ex)
First slot: Solid triangle; light elements
Second slot: Solid triangle; dark elements
Third slot: Hollow triangle; light elements

-Aperture sizes-
Head: 6 > 4 > 3
Body: 8 > 6 > 5
Hands/legs/feet: 5 > 3 > 2

Ebur Gear (Upgraded, Dyed w/ Ebur Pigment, Ex)
First slot: Solid triangle; fire ice wind or earth
Second slot: Solid triangle; thunder water light or dark
Third slot: Hollow triangle; any element

-Aperture sizes-
Head: 6 > 6 > 6
Body: 8 > 8 > 8
Hands/legs/feet: 5 > 5 > 5

I think that's all right. I didn't check all of the base pieces but that seems how the trend looked from the ones I did check.

[Guppy]

Turn off the "Ask for confirmation" thing, and you can spam it 5 times per explosion.

Your system's speed and lag also seems to affect it. On my laptop, I can only get in three full thwacks, spamming at maximum speed with confirmations off. It's an old model that has discrete graphics, but it's rather outdated and it only runs FFXI well with weather off and resolution turned down. Official SE windowed mode only, as Windower causes too much slowdown.

I have similar problems with the Steel Resolve Campaign ops, there's a bit of a delay in opening each menu and accepting my input, that limits the speed at which I can respond. Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done, except switch to a better-equipped desktop PC when available.

[Serra]

Someone suggested this idea earlier, but I don't recall anyone confirming or denying it (I might 've just missed it while skipping over the people arguing about whether this system was a failure or not), but has anyone tested if you can use synergy to produce items that require multiple high level crafts like manteels?

[ronin sparthos]

Someone suggested this idea earlier, but I don't recall anyone confirming or denying it (I might 've just missed it while skipping over the people arguing about whether this system was a failure or not), but has anyone tested if you can use synergy to produce items that require multiple high level crafts like manteels?

You cant make anything that requires synthesis unless it happens to be shared with synergy.

[Serra]

Bleh, that's about what I was expecting -- thanks for clearing it up for me though.

[urat]

So

Anyone made the mog house kitchen yet? :D

[macross]

Looked kinda nasty to try