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

[Severance]

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[Hegarty]

No. Even at birds camp it's not obvious.

Yes, it really is.

With sushi and no minuets, your non-DA'd penta will be ~800 ish while a a non DA'd gekko will be ~1k ( from memory). compare it to a thief doing solo dancing edges/evisc for ~1300 pre minuets. This means polearm barely beats GK, especially if you use a partial 5 hit.

What the fuck, no, just no. You're clearly talking Greater Colibri because of "1300 average", which is also complete and utter bullshit, especially with no Minuets, and Sushi because elsewhere would be Marinara Pizza+1. Average Gekko would be less than that and average penta would be higher, someone could do quick math to show that I'm sure. Oh and wait, Pachipachio is better than Hagun so the GKT WS damage would be lower, right?

240 skill is bad, so is 256 ( compared to 304). When you equip a polearm you automatically have -50~60 attack -50~60 accuracy... Having to eat sushi is bad... It also requires specific gear; not having true 5 hit or not caping accuracy is also bad, by the way.

Hey guys, let's compare a 75 SAM with 8 GKT merits, Justice Torque AND Bushi to a 75 SAM with just capped Polearm skill. You are as fucking stupid as pchan, I OBVIOUSLY assumed 8/8 Polearm and Love Torque with good gear including a 5-hit. Sushi is only for Greater Colibri and I was talking about Einherjar and Limbus, you can throw Dynamis Cities, Mamools and other things in there too though.

One should only use polearm when levelling up to 75, at the birds meripo, and situationnally on random piercing weak mobs. Polearm sucks in general unless the things you fight are weak or you have a lot of buffs; I remember owning bats in einherjar with 6 bard buffs, thats it; you cannot have a decent output on non piercing weak mobs due to the -acc& att. If you did, the melees you were comparing yourself to weren't good. Always compare yourself to yourself.

lol@French using the Queen's English, one should GTFO and go to French forums where you can all be retarded together. I nowhere said: "Polearm always beats birds, even if you have no Polearm merits, eat sushi and have no buffs" so your entire post is a load of pointless shit.

One of the things you see spammed on BG is, "rotate BRDs in Einherjar" so noone here can act like you have little to no buffs there (which is what my original post said), but go ahead and contradict yourself like you always do. It is a high buff situation where you can use Polearm (Merits, 5-hit, Marinara Pizza+1 and decent gear, none of which are hard to get or do) will for the most part be better than Great Katana.

[Shinryuu]

You are as fucking stupid as pchan

They're in the same LS bro. The LS where apparently DNC outdamages COR and where 15% defense down is better than 15% haste.

[Hegarty]

They're in the same LS bro. The LS where apparently DNC outdamages COR and where 15% defense down is better than 15% haste.

Yeah I know, French people are the worst people I've ever played FFXI with, even fucking UAE bought accounts are better to play with.

[pchan]

They're in the same LS bro. The LS where apparently DNC outdamages COR and where 15% defense down is better than 15% haste.

You seem to mix haste and delay reduction, might want to go back to school and learn maths. It's all about doing multiplication and divisions.

[Hegarty]

I don't use spellcast and I've just started using windower macros, what exactly does my text file have to say to add hmp gear to CTR+H AND ALT+H? I know it would be something like "bind ^h" etc.

[Shinryuu]

Straw man fallacy, you mentioned SCH in that post which implicitly means losing 15% haste.

[pchan]

Straw man fallacy, you mentioned SCH in that post which implicitly means losing 15% haste.

Cos you said outside RDM was ok, remember ?

[Nerji]

not a techincal question, but when did pol remove their phone/online chat service, the only kind of contact I see now is via email

[Eldelphia]

Actually, I too need advice on MKD headpiece. I have BRD and BST at 75 and WHM is going to be there soon. Other headgear - turban, ohat, goli hat, demon helm+1.

Would prefer to do the hat for BRD or WHM since those will be used for events. BST is mainly just for screwing around on and I've spent far too much on it already.

Suggestions welcome, thanks in advance.

Make one for WHM

MND+4 "Cure" potency +3%

and then either

Magic critical hit rate +10% Enmity-4

or

MND+2 Enhances "Fast Cast" effect (+2%)

[Deimos]

Done

Just change the earring in you engaged set to bushi once you get it.

Didn't check over the whole thing, I'm just on my way out the door, but one quick note: This will use Ulthalam's Ring for WS as well, you may not want that. It's locked in the right slot for all sets when you're in assault/salvage.

[Argettio]

Didn't check over the whole thing, I'm just on my way out the door, but one quick note: This will use Ulthalam's Ring for WS as well, you may not want that. It's locked in the right slot for all sets when you're in assault/salvage.

True and he did say only for TP (my mistake I thought he wanted it full time). But in at most you lose 1STR (but gains some acc and attack).

If he wants to change it then he needs to remove "precast|midcast|" from line 82.

[mdkuser]

Yes, it really is.
What the fuck, no, just no. You're clearly talking Greater Colibri because of "1300 average", which is also complete and utter bullshit, especially with no Minuets, and Sushi because elsewhere would be Marinara Pizza+1. Average Gekko would be less than that and average penta would be higher, someone could do quick math to show that I'm sure.

You think polearm sam can manage with pizza in einherjar, so you probably think meat is good for GK then. it's not, you have to eat sushi with polearms, pizza with GK, unless your bards/cor are giving acc buffs which isn't a good idea for the non sam dds. Ive never done the maths of GK versus polearm at birds, I was just mentionning a merit pt where I parsed myself with hagun versus engetsuto. I Took the average polearm melee and ws damage, versus the average melee/gekko dmg, and did some computations to find that GK was slightly better, due to not having attack buffs in this pt ( 2xmarch).

If you do not get big attack/accuracy buffs, and the mob isnt weak to peircing, polearm sucks, it should be obvious. I did recently a parse on the bird mobs inside dynamis-buburimu with crab sushi and was still not capping accuracy, just to give an example.

[Shinryuu]

it's not, you have to eat sushi with polearms

On SAM? No.

[mdkuser]

yes.

[Callisto]

Asking again since I can't seem to get a response either here or @ windower forums, and I know someone here knows...need a fix for Spellcast trying to equip my grip before it does the staff. My current aftercast rules look like this:

<if status="idle">
   <if advanced="$Mdef = 1">
        <equip when="aftercast|idle" set="MDef" /> 
    </if> 
    <elseif advanced="$Pdef = 1">
        <equip when="aftercast|idle" set="PDef" />  
    </elseif> 
    <else>
        <equip when="aftercast|idle" set="Normal" />  
    </else> 
        <cmd when="aftercast">wait .2;input /equip sub "Bugard Strap +1"</cmd>
</if>

That <cmd> fix I tried isn't working, I'm pretty sure there was another fix that I saw but I've been unable to find it via search.

[Wulfgang]

Last night's Odin summoned the first set of Valks at 79%...and then never summoned another set. At 12% I sent in a pair of SAMs to drive it to Zantetsuken...at 7% it still had not used it and we proceeded to kill it without it doing Zantetsuken or summoning a second set of Valks.

Anyone else have this happen before?

[Zellgadiss]

I would make a gear set with the grip in it and make it say

set="Normal|Strap"

set="PDef|Strap"

set="MDef|Strap"

I've never had grip issues, though. My BLM spellcast has at least 4 grip swaps that I can think of. If you would put your whole spellcast into a spoiler tag or something, maybe it could be fixed another way.

[Callisto]

The grip is in the gearsets, when it attempts to equip the grip as part of the gearset it tries to equip the grip before it equips the staff sometimes, which results in the 'cannot equip grip without a 2-handed weapon blahblah' error. The <cmd> line was just an attempted fix that didn't work.

[Byrthnoth]

Sounds like your Odin glitched. There have been cases of monsters with stereotypic behavior glitching before (ZNM Hydra, etc). There was probably some condition it had to fulfill to continue its regular routine that wasn't fulfilled due to a combination of luck and sloppy coding.

We've got to 12% with only one set of Valks before by killing fast, but then he spam summoned the rest right around Zantetsuken.