Random Question Thread VII: I Find Your Lack of Research Disturbing

[Clerix]

Royal Redingote for RDM:


I'm looking at these possibilities:

FC+5 ENM-5
MACC+4 FC+5
MACC+4 MAB+4
ENM+5 FC+5(tanking onry)

Which should I get? Lax dtabard. Current nuking piece: Errant. Enfeebling: Errant/Af1 body No goliard saio yet :/

[jimbobsonofgod]

Royal Redingote

Level smn or cor or pld, and get something useful is my 2 cents !
or
Get a nuke peice...

[Tsuko_Asura]

GA-8
Scythe-8
Enfeebling-8
Wind-8
Double attack -5
Tomahawk-1
Convert Recast -5
SlowII-5
Triple attack-5
Feint -5
Chivalry -1+
Desperate blows-4+
Lullaby Recast-5
Nightingale-1+
Troubadour-1+

Start with those, after you get those done, can discuss the rest :O

What the fucking fuck

[Cairthenn]

What the fucking fuck

I'm tempted to fix the merit allocation..a lot of it is the right idea but...meh.

Wind skill is not good.

Dark Knight is not a melee.

Tomahawk is hardly useful.

[Nightfyre]

That reminds me... G1/G2 BRD merits. 5/5 Minuet ???, 5/5 Night & Troub? Guessing Lullaby or Finale Recast for the rest of the G1 merits. Not really sure about G1, Minuet seemed logical but whether I'd even use that depends on whether I'm with a second BRD. General non-HNM use with an eye towards Salvage.

[Shinryuu]

I am bored in class, and I am obviously going to make a post here. Let me clarify what I am trying to get out of this. Basically, for people with several 75 jobs, all of which are used almost equally as often, how do you put merits into your jobs so that you get the most out of your jobs? In other words, which jobs require merits to be most efficient, and which jobs don't require merits or require less to be efficient?

Not discussing job specific merits here for obvious reasons. For some they're very clear-cut and for others it depends on what you use that job on.

Combat merits:
8/8 your best melee (preferably 2H)
6/8 your two others (if you use MNK a lot, might want to 7/8; if you have DRG SAM WAR you might want to 8/8 polearm and 4/8 the last; sword merits same for PLD COR BLU)

Magic:
8/8 elemental
8/8 enfeebling
This is assuming you have either RDM BLM or SCH at 75. Without any of those, blue magic skill (if you have BLU) takes priority next to Singing/Wind for BRD. Dark magic for DRK is nice, just as ninjutsu for NIN, but definitely not gamebreaking.

Others:
Critical hit+
Enmity+
Fin.

Stats:
DEX or INT depending on your LS really (again assuming you have BLM, if you don't I'd always do DEX)

HP and MP:
I'd go for HP but idk bro

[Tsuko_Asura]

I'm tempted to fix the merit allocation..a lot of it is the right idea but...meh.

Wind skill is not good.

Dark Knight is not a melee.

Tomahawk is hardly useful.

The order screwed me up more than anything. That, and the fact that he was actually suggesting meriting DRK when he already has WAR.

[jimbobsonofgod]

The order screwed me up more than anything. That, and the fact that he was actually suggesting meriting DRK when he already has WAR.

order was only done as they appear in the merits list.

and scythe merits will probably do him more good then any other combat merits he has for his other jobs(sword for pld or dagger for thf).

[Shadowhusky]

Anyone know where I can get a (fairly updated) map pack with chest, coffer, NM, etc locations?

[Pikarya]

When did this get ninja'd in? (I've been away 4 days, didn't notice there was a patch.)

http://i50.tinypic.com/2chm8w3.jpg

Also searched the forums, found nothing ;o

[jimbobsonofgod]

the last POL update added it.

[Recaldy]

Synergy. I want the ex version of my Harness but I don't have the skills. Can I have a person with the skills trade and synergy while I end the operation and acquire the Harness?

Edit: Can I trade the Aptant or must the skill player trade it? ~

[Cairthenn]

You trade the items and they help with the synergy.

[Recaldy]

You trade the items and they help with the synergy.

Alright, thanks for the help. Figured I'd level leathercraft. Guess I'll start now.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Synergy. I want the ex version of my Harness but I don't have the skills. Can I have a person with the skills trade and synergy while I end the operation and acquire the Harness?

Edit: Can I trade the Aptant or must the skill player trade it? ~

You can trade all mats, person with skill just has to be in the party.

[Recaldy]

You can trade all mats, person with skill just has to be in the party.

Could they take it out once it's finished or is it reserved to the trader?

[ClarkSammich]

Gunner's Mantle for RNG, ever?

[jimbobsonofgod]

Gunner's Mantle for RNG, ever?

-10 + 5 Ratt vs +2 str cant see it happening.

[Windfoxster]

Could they take it out once it's finished or is it reserved to the trader?

Trader only and also only you can end the synergy process.

[Eole]

I love acc calculators. Can you maybe add a section that could autofill capped skill for a job (this shouldn't be hard to find), autofill stats for race+job (I don't know if any of the calculators for this is correct), then add an additional box like for gear/merits?

I'm sorry, I don't think I will be able to provide an autofill stats for race+job.

After looking at two calculators; one of them is right but doesn't provide the formulas and the second one is wrong past a certain level but provide formulas (which end up wrong).

I could add selects for MJ, SJ and Weapon Type and a Table with Skill Cap yes, but what would be interesting would be to have the formula for Skill values. Definately thinking about doing this.

I'm thinking about parsing FFXIAH Gear Sets with PHPCurl coupled with my own Database, not sure yet if it's a great idea or not.

I'll add more Foods for now, then I'll see