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

[Raen Ryong]

It's not perfect, but here. The most relevant section is the first 30 seconds for most people (I split a zerg into the first 30 seconds and a theoretical 60 seconds where you get curebombed and don't lose HP). Pdif and fSTR are ignored but damage contribution from D is not (though it's largely insignificant). Also there is no facility there for comparing Fort Axe /war because I am lazy.

[Chen]

whats the best way for dealing with the demon boss in T3 einherjar? he's the one who gives us the most difficulty

also.

war/nin w/ sword merits from pld, capped acc IF using sushi

organics/ridill or man/ridill? (in einherjar, at least haste/marchx2/minx2, maybe some cor rolls in there) I'm sure GA is better, but would like an answer to this.

any ideas?

[Cooleko]

Can Jailer of Faith be duoed?

Yes, 2 blm or 2 rdm do just fine. Wouldnt try it unless both people had movement speed. Its relatively simple. When Faith nukes, the kiter gets out of range and the new kiter gets into range and take hate. alternate back and forth till death.

[pchan]

any ideas?

SV before start
Have a THF PD+flee aggro them, have you rdms chainspell gravity/bind
Have your assist target the BLMs Demon first
Melee 2h them, except monk for instance that can keep HF for after SV, there is always a point where rdm are busy kiting and you have to cope with slow from demonic howl

[Bakthi]

If he -ga'd them, I would have seen those crabs at less than 100%.

He probably single-claimed with para/slow, although I read somewhere that this prevents the SMN party from getting exp on them, and there's no real way to meaningfully include crabs. I don't know, because for whatever reason it was like pulling teeth to get LS member to do AB (most of my SMN levels came from Djinn solo or sticking my SMN in an E.ron party for dia/Fenrir while my RDM mule main healed).

[Xaru]

Best augments on ACP body for full-time BLM and frequent SCH & RDM?

[Nevex]

any ideas?

Like pchan said but I recommend using sch's graviga/bindga at start instead. I've done it many times without getting a single resist so it should be safe.

If you kite them away enough from chair guy you can ES sleepga2 them too without worrying about TP moves waking them up (I think).

[Dooom]

any ideas?

Re: Man/Organics. Even with full merits he'll have less skill in sword than axe (266 vs. 269). Maneater has it's latent bonuses, so gets even more attack and accuracy than Organics, and has 1 base damage higher, though the 3 str on Organics could provide an extra fSTR and make up for that. Ramapge vs. Vorpal is pretty much a wash, same mods, both can crit, though rampage is one extra hit. Really, I can see both being pretty close, but I'd go with Maneater/Ridill for the higher accuracy, and also means you can sell Organics for a few hundred K!

[Tsuko_Asura]

Ridill/Joyeuse

[Dooom]

Well obviously, but I assumed that wasn't an option given the question, and anyone with any sense would know to use that combo anyway I'd hope D:

[Darlantan]

Obviously someone with a Ridill probably hasnt got the means to get a Joyeuse.

[Chen]

i was asking for a friend who has no joyeuse, so capped acc (organics was a gift) maneater still wins, oki.

[Marcicus]

I'm full of questions as of late.

Has anything been changed with Tinnin lately? Our DDs were reporting that even with 3 shadows up and Baraera/Shell, they were getting absolutely raped by Trembling. Talking about 1k+ DMG easily.

[Kyte]

What is the exact math behind Rajas/5 accuracy ring being better than Lava's/Kusha's for a 1 hander?

For a two hander it's obvious (5 STP for x hit), but I would like to hear an explanation for 1 handers.

[Mr.T]

Ok, so I haven't touched my pld in a long time and I have decided it was time for me to upgrade my gear, get some atonement sets etc. but I'm still stuck on the choice of food.
Is marinara pizza the best there is for every situation or should I also consider stuff with store tp, like pescatora, arrabbiata or carbonara? Are tacos still good?
I'm asking for pretty much every tanking situation, but mostly for stuff like Ultima, where I wouldn't mind some hp.

[Sudox]

Obviously someone with a Ridill probably hasnt got the means to get a Joyeuse.

Drop rate on Joyeuse makes it a bitch to camp.

[pchan]

What is the exact math behind Rajas/5 accuracy ring being better than Lava's/Kusha's for a 1 hander?

For a two hander it's obvious (5 STP for x hit), but I would like to hear an explanation for 1 handers.

It's the same reason basically, although the most obvious is that you shouldn't be under capped accuracy. Now even if you don't cap it will save a hit on average. On average only because you don't always need the same #hits to get 100 TPs. After that, you need to check individually with each jobs the exact benefit (sometimes you don't necessarily get the fstr). It's typically better if the part of your WS damage is not too bad. Like if you are 50% melee / 50% WS it will win but if you are 80%/20% it will not.

A very simplified argument is to consider rajas as ~ 5% WS speed up (since ~ 5% TP up). So if you do x% ws damage with no ring, the damage with rajas is (1-x)+x*1.05. If you account for 2.5+5 accuracy it's ((1-x)+1.05*x)*1.0375. The benefit from 12 accuracy is simply mutliplying by 1.06 so rajas is better if :
((1-x)+1.05*x)*1.0375>((1-x)+x)*1.06, which give x>43%.

After that add the fstr/attack etc. I know for instance that it doesn't beat toreadors on monk when you don't get a fstr which is common, while it does beat it on pup and thf since it's harder to cap.

[Kamil]

What's the highest HP bonus you can get from food?

[Chen]

for KC rng i'm going to have bad acc problems on birds, this is what i'm planning to be using:
(taru RNG/anything, no club merits)

Kc/---/gun/ammo
Turban/Pcc/???/???
Osode/dusk/snipers+1/rajas
cuch/swift/byakkos/dusk+1

even with squid sushi i'm pretty sure i'm considerably off the cap, any suggestions?
i'm aware osode is pretty crap for tp, but idk what else
don't really want to merit club, but feeling i have no options

assuming i can only get acc to around 85% is that going to beat a well geared DRG/SAM at birds?

edit: mission earrings are tied up for other jobs

[stewie]

for KC rng i'm going to have bad acc problems on birds, this is what i'm planning to be using:
(taru RNG/anything, no club merits)

Kc/---/gun/ammo
Turban/Pcc/???/???
Osode/dusk/snipers+1/rajas
cuch/swift/byakkos/dusk+1

even with squid sushi i'm pretty sure i'm considerably off the cap, any suggestions?
i'm aware osode is pretty crap for tp, but idk what else
don't really want to merit club, but feeling i have no options
edit: mission earrings are tied up for other jobs

For Body:
Pahluwan
Avalon
Cobra Harness
Skadi
Enkidu