Random Question Thread VI: I'm No Mathologist, But...

[clobetasol]

Odin isn't very evasive, you can use ratk food.

[Seedz]

Does anyone know, or heard rumours of, when are the Odin/Bahamut worlds going to be re-opened? For whatever's worth, both GMs and Support Centre say that they don't know anything about it, but maybe someone has heard unofficial info?

[Callisto]

Hm, PLD HP set, focus on cure3, or cure4?

I don't personally use a cheat for C4 just because that's more MP than I want to burn right off the bat, and I tend to only use it if I'm low enough to warrant it. I'm sure there's some situations where you'd have excess MP though(if you have a RDM + GHorn + COR or something, I've never worked with a relic BRD) so I'd at least have a macro for one available.

[Terravcota]

Back when I started doing Salvage, people in the group told me to cast certain barspells when fighting bosses because it reduced damage...somehow. I was new, did what they asked and didn't ask any questions, but I've never heard of anything like that since. Is there any merit to it?

[Despain]

Does anyone know, or heard rumours of, when are the Odin/Bahamut worlds going to be re-opened? For whatever's worth, both GMs and Support Centre say that they don't know anything about it, but maybe someone has heard unofficial info?

The only thing I've heard concerning server population is that if they get too low, they'll just merge servers. However, I thought that Odin was already reopened? Could be wrong, since I don't really keep up with this shit.

Also, don't expect GMs to know anything. Back when I wanted a server transfer, I placed a call and was curious as to when and if server transfers will ever be available. He told me he didn't know... week later, they announced server transfers D:

[Saithorx]

How does off handing Ridill on Thief compare to other offhand weapons?
Is there any time this is useful outside of farming weak stuff?

[Callisto]

I'm not a THF but I'm very certain that offhanding a Sword pretty much ever is a no-no.

[liggy 0]

how much HP does Swiftwinged Gekko have ? (Scouting the ashu talif)

[Doink]

Love Halberd and Sam on bird merit?

Is this worth using? With the lower delay (396) do you aim for a 6 hit? sam/drg with 25% haste and 7 hit or stick with /war? Mostly only AH gear available atm with exception of rajas, b.haidate, brutal and swift belt.

[Nameless]

Love Halberd is mathematically better for Drg than Thala when fighting bird, so I am pretty sure it will have its use for SAM since Thala is already better than any Polearm that SAM can use.

[Tylerm]

Did this start out of the blue and is not getting worse? Or was it fine, then began every now and then, then started becoming more and more common?

If the latter, its a degrading connection, likely a filter thats going bad on your end. If out of the blue, only at peak traffic times / days and not getting worse, its likely a disturber (comcast side). If constant and not degrading, likely hardware (router), or possibly a background prog on your comp.

It did start out of the blue, I wouldn't say it's getting worse. Last night I played without any web browser opened and played uninterrupted for about 5 hours. Then, I decided try Google Chrome (Usually use firefox, but wanted to check if somehow firefox was the problem), and I timed out within 5 minutes.

[requim]

Have you noticed any other issues with your computer?

I know that when I start doing too much on my laptop, or use specifically high hand width / processing intensive websites like pandora for extended periods of time it starts to DC me as soon as I lose focus on FFXI.

Would anyone know if you were to use task manager to give FFXI higher priority if it would solve his issue or is that unrelated? Never fiddled around with it but it seems like FFXI is being an attention whore of an app when not open.

To clarify, you never have this problem when you're solely focused on FFXI, it's only when you alt tab?

As far as a sam's ability to use Love Halberd you need to remember just some things about convenience
1. normal polearms are 5 hits and steady TP gain (93% of the time)
2. 5 hits match up with meditate
3. don't require stones to be farmed in large quantities

Obviously none of the above damage Love Halberd's potential, but it makes it significantly more troublesome to play it to its fullest. You can more easily overshoot TP so if you're not on the ball I'm pretty sure it loses (which would also go for thal drg as well).

[Baha]

How does off handing Ridill on Thief compare to other offhand weapons?
Is there any time this is useful outside of farming weak stuff?

Trash mobs in Nyzul.

[Tylerm]

Have you noticed any other issues with your computer?
To clarify, you never have this problem when you're solely focused on FFXI, it's only when you alt tab?

This is hard to answer because it'll happen so randomly. Sometimes I'll tab back into FFXI and I'll already have the red dot, sometimes I'm fine for a few minutes. I've never really tried to have a web browser in the background and not tab to it to see if anything happens. All I know for sure is if there there is no web browser running, everything works fine.

Edit: No other issues.

[FailureMidgard]

Which gorgets affect relic WSes. It's obvious that 2 work, as each relic WS has a t2 property, and a t3 property. The question is, do gorgets for the t3 property work?

Kaiten is Frag+lvl3light, do Light/Fire Gorgets work?
Mercy Stroke is Grav+lvl3dark, do Ice/Water Gorgets work?

Edit: I realize wiki says it doesn't work, but meh, rather get a confirmation if anyone has tested for sure.

[Kirschy]

Which gorgets affect relic WSes. It's obvious that 2 work, as each relic WS has a t2 property, and a t3 property. The question is, do gorgets for the t3 property work?

Kaiten is Frag+lvl3light, do Light/Fire Gorgets work?
Mercy Stroke is Grav+lvl3dark, do Ice/Water Gorgets work?

Snow gorget doesn't work on Cata, so the T3 property doesn't seem to apply to the gorget's latent. I'm not sure about Light Gorget working on Kaiten. I'm fairly certain Ruke tested it, but I don't remember the results. (I use Shadow gorget on Cata, but the T2 is Earth/Dark.)

[Yugl]

Anyone find Kischy's posts more serious now that he/she changed his/her avatar?

[zeal5050]

Does dual wielding increase the chance of parry proc? I'm trying to skill-up parry but I can decide if I should use Ninja or Samurai.

[Callisto]

I'm pretty sure there's only one parry check total, not per hand.

[Amastacia]

Dual wielding definitely doesn't innately increase parry rate.

Lots of anecdotal preference for 2h weapons, but proc rate is low either way.

Earth Staff, -dmg gear, and MNK mobs (plural if possible) is probably the quickest way.