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

[Rokitty]

It was asked earlier in the thread but I didn't see a response. Forgive me if this information exists in another thread, I have looked but to no avail.

Is there any information on Cure Casting time -%? Moreso, if there is a cap on how fast you can get your cures to fire.

Any information or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Gosyac]

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.

My food of choice, for anythign I can melee, is Dorado Sushi: +15%acc, +3dex. +3enm. There are very few HMNs you'll ever by near acc cap to make pizza worth it, so getting all the acc you can is a must, with the +enm being a nice bonus.
Doing anything as /war or /rdm, tacos work well enough for me.
If you lack a good -mdt/mdb set, then carbonara/pescatora would be a good choice to survive Ultima's Citadel Buster. Carbonara has also saved me a few times when Byakko decides to Triple Attack->Triple Attack->Claw Cyclone in quick succession.

[Yubar]

What is the singing and wind skill I need to reach max tier March, and how could I achieve said tier with no merits?

[Cairthenn]

There is no max for March, it stops with the current hard cap (limited by items, merits, whatnot). If you're aiming for 11% on Victory march, you'll want 499 skill.

So, you need +49:

Choral Cuffs +1: 10
Coral Cannions +1: 8
Minstrel's Coat: 3
Nereid x2: 6
Oracle's Pigaches: 5
Musical Earring: 5
Demon Helm: 5
Wind Torque: 7

Totals 49. I notably used readily available gear choices instead of listing Marduk's tiara, Astute cape, whatnot.

Edit: Fixed some numbers, I haven't touched Bard in forever. D:

[Cream Soda]

Avatar of the year award.

[TheTaru]

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

Depends on your max HP before food. I believe Stamina Soup is uncapped +10%(or capped really high, so that's potentially the highest) whereas something like Carbonara+1 is +14%, but caps at +180 HP.

[Varaha]

What're the top three polearms for war?

[Wolfknight]

What're the top three polearms for war?

1. Leviathan's Couse
2. Engetsuto/+1
3. Gondo-Shizunori

[Falaras]

I was wondering, with my gear right now I am sitting at a little under 400 accuracy without food and at 20% haste, would it be worth dropping Aurum's accuracy for Dusk+1s Haste increase at this point? Or would I have to own a Speed Belt, Dusk Hands+1, or Ebody to make Dusk Ledelsens+1 a viable option.
For completeness my gear is: Perdu/Pole/Bomblet/Turban/PCC/Hollow/Brutal/Haub+1/Dusk/Blitz/Rajas/Foragers/Swift/Byakkos/Aurum. Capped GA merits.

[Windfoxster]

What is the singing and wind skill I need to reach max tier March, and how could I achieve said tier with no merits?

513 is the highest you can reach without merits in either and no relic horn.

450 native skills (capped wind + singing)
+4 chanter's staff
+7 marduk's tiara
+7 wind torque
+8 musical/singing earrings (or wind)
+3 minstrel's coat
+10 af1+1 hand
+6 nerid rings x2
+5 astute cape
+8 af1+1 legs
+5 oracle's feet

[Mazmaz]

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.

Here's my problem with understanding this. If you use Rajas for the STP benefit on, say, MNK. As a MNK, you have 2 hits per attack round. Now, if Rajas saves you 1 hit to 100% TP, then that hit saved needs to be the 2nd hit of an attack round in order to save an attack round to 100%. That means that half the time, the STP doesn't affect the amount of time it takes to reach 100% TP.

Is this not correct? I mean I'm not mathologist, but I just looked at it in an intuitive sense. Is something over the top wrong with this assumption?

[Kyte]

I think what he means is that on average, it will save the hit (which makes sense to me).

Does it still win out if you aren't taking the STP into account though? It's not incredibly uncommon to save TP beyond 100% on MNK or PUP.

[Pikarya]

Does this look like a decent Guard+ skill-up set?

Cavalier's Mantle
Tiger Mask
Black Adargas
Temple Hose +1
Melee Gaiters
Black Belt
Ochimusha Kote
Jelly Ring
Tiphia Sting
Woodsman Ring
Arhat's Gi +1
Guarding Torque
Coral Earring
Guarding Earring

Anything that should be replaced?

[Meat]

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

should be turtle soup

[pchan]

Here's my problem with understanding this. If you use Rajas for the STP benefit on, say, MNK. As a MNK, you have 2 hits per attack round. Now, if Rajas saves you 1 hit to 100% TP, then that hit saved needs to be the 2nd hit of an attack round in order to save an attack round to 100%. That means that half the time, the STP doesn't affect the amount of time it takes to reach 100% TP.

Is this not correct? I mean I'm not mathologist, but I just looked at it in an intuitive sense. Is something over the top wrong with this assumption?

Like I said you need to check what happens for your job. MNK,PUP,THF,WAR,PLD,DNC don't necessarily have same amount of attack per round. For your question and monk, rajas will save about 1 hit, yes. Since attacks are multiple per round it only saves ~1/2 of a round half of the time, which is pretty much the same as saving a hit 100% of the time.

[Kaope]

Thanks for this; in the hex editor, I'm assuming the list appears as it does as if you used widescan in game? XVI32

EDIT: Appears so, killed NM, quickly logged and changed name of PH and on PH repop it had the name I changed it to. Thanks for the help!

How do you determine which one is the PH for the NM? Is it always the monster above the NM name, just like the on in the previous link? Or it could be several depending on the NM?

[Raen Ryong]

It was asked earlier in the thread but I didn't see a response. Forgive me if this information exists in another thread, I have looked but to no avail.

Is there any information on Cure Casting time -%? Moreso, if there is a cap on how fast you can get your cures to fire.

Any information or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Is this what you were after?

[Cairthenn]

How do you determine which one is the PH for the NM? Is it always the monster above the NM name, just like the on in the previous link? Or it could be several depending on the NM?

Generally the mob that isn't up when the NM is.

[CDF]

Like I said you need to check what happens for your job. MNK,PUP,THF,WAR,PLD,DNC don't necessarily have same amount of attack per round. For your question and monk, rajas will save about 1 hit, yes. Since attacks are multiple per round it only saves ~1/2 of a round half of the time, which is pretty much the same as saving a hit 100% of the time.

For the sake of consistency, saving one hit "all the time" (which is basically true both from the perspective of minimum number of hits to 100 TP and from the perspective of average number of hits saved) means saving roughly ~1/2 a round on average "all the time."

[pchan]

For the sake of consistency, saving one hit "all the time" (which is basically true both from the perspective of minimum number of hits to 100 TP and from the perspective of average number of hits saved) means saving roughly ~1/2 a round on average "all the time."

Yes "all the time" is not necessarely a clever way to explain things, "on average" is more relevant. What it means is, for example :

without rajas : 13 hits: x1% 14 hits : x2% 15 hits x3% 16 hits x4%
with rajas : 13 hits: y1% 14 hits : y2% 15 hits y3% 16 hits y4%

and x1*13+x2*14+x3*15+x4*16 +1 =~ y1*13+ y2*14+y3*15+y4*16

And if you want to account for rounds it's much more complicated and can't really expalain what happens without doing martingales and such.