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

[Windfoxster]

Did you sleep ouryu constantly when it land? 3 ES enough for cycle?Did you use earth resistance build or straight -mdt gear? I suppose its the former with barstone and carol.

[ronin sparthos]

is there a haste cap for pets?

One would imagine the haste cap for pets is the same as players except I dont believe there even is a way to reach the player haste cap with pets.

[Thorny]

Did you sleep ouryu constantly when it land? 3 ES enough for cycle?Did you use earth resistance build or straight -mdt gear? I suppose its the former with barstone and carol.

1 ES sleep2 per land, i fulltimed something like
terras/bugard+1/phantom
duelists/orochi/loq/ethereal
darksteel+1/darksteel+1/merman's/merman's
hexerei/warwolf/coral+1/coral+1

while i realize this is nowhere near optimal, ouryu is laughable to tank and tanking it on my mule instead of my main allowed me to go blm(mule doesn't have ra/ex tanking gear or proper macros)

sleep cycle goes;

0:00 1st blm es, aggro, drag to wall, sleep2
1:30 wakes
2:00 flies
3:30 lands, 2nd blm es, sleep2
5:00 wakes
5:30 flies
7:00 lands, 3rd blm es, sleep2
8:30 wakes
9:00 flies
10:30 lands - first blm's es is back
repeat

you probably won't be force landing with 7 people and 3 blms, if you suspect you'll force land it you may want to bring a 4th blm or have someone sub blm for ES sleep1(it's still 60 secs, takes the major sting out of landed time) or even hold off on damage a bit(if you have more people or a tank comfortable with it it's unnecessary, but getting roared on the ground is pretty nasty and will lead to messiness and possibly flail if you aren't ready to deal with it

[Dooom]

Having something seemingly wrong with my samurai, I keep ending up at 99tp even though I think I should be getting 100tp. 3/5 sTP merits, using Hagun (350 delay), TPing in Rajas, Hachi Hands, Ecphoria, Brutal (so 15 sTP from gear, plus 6 from merits = 21, add on trait for a total of 46, which should be enough). I'm WSing in Hachi Boots, Rajas, Brutal for 11sTP, is this the cause of my ending up at 99tp instead of 100?

Quickest solution is to obviously just cap sTP merits, but I have Odin tonight and don't have time to do so before then. Help!

[Thorny]

Having something seemingly wrong with my samurai, I keep ending up at 99tp even though I think I should be getting 100tp. 3/5 sTP merits, using Hagun (350 delay), TPing in Rajas, Hachi Hands, Ecphoria, Brutal (so 15 sTP from gear, plus 6 from merits = 21, add on trait for a total of 46, which should be enough). I'm WSing in Hachi Boots, Rajas, Brutal for 11sTP, is this the cause of my ending up at 99tp instead of 100?

Quickest solution is to obviously just cap sTP merits, but I have Odin tonight and don't have time to do so before then. Help!

11.5 base * 1.46 = 16.7 * 5 = 83.5, need 16.5 tp from ws
11.5 base * 1.42 = 16.3
= 99.8

merit your shit or suck it up and ws in the kote

[Dooom]

Thanks for the quick reply. I only dinged 75 sam a few days ago, hence the uncapped merits.

[smafdi]

You need 2 more store tp in your ws setup to hit the 6hit, currently during tp phase you're getting 16.7tp when you ws you only get 16.3tp. Added all up you end up at 99.8tp. So either get another store tp merit or ws in hachi hands and switch hachi boots to rutters.

<edit> bah too slow

[Dooom]

Well, I've already got a Rose Grip (+4sTP), so I can use that instead of Pole Grip and swap Ecphoria for Snipers+1 until I get my next merit. That way I don't have to drop 7 str on WS (Alky -> Hachi), as that seems like it'd give a massive drop in damage compared to what losing 2% DA and gaining 3 acc will do.

edit - or I could WS in Enkidu's Subligar, keeping Pole Grip and only losing 1 str. Gah, I'll be happy when I have these merits capped!

[Raen Ryong]

using Hagun (350 delay)

Damn quick Hagun.

[Eleven19]

Damn quick Hagun.

inb4 350 hagun vs Futsuno

[Deimos]

Are random spellcast questions allowed in this thread?
I would paste over in the windower spellcast support forum, but I'd actually like a reply this year.

Using | works as OR, example: <if BuffActive="Protect|Shell">...</if> means "If protect OR shell are active, do ..."
What's the command for AND? I've tried <if BuffActive="Protect&Shell">...</if>, hoping to mean "If protect AND shell are active, do ..." but it doesn't work.
Please tell me there's a really simple way of doing this?

I also tried doing <if BuffActive="Protect" BuffActive="Shell">...</if> But SC doesn't like two instances of BuffActive in the same tag apparantly.

Sorry if SC questions aren't allowed.

It's from a couple pages back now, but Aikar says that writing the rule like this will work:

<if advanced="BuffActive('Protect') AND BuffActive('Shell')">

And for the record, he laughed and said that there's no possible way that JigglyJam's weird OR rule actually works. It's not valid XML.

[Eleven19]

Without going into too many specifics, I'm curious if any of the dynamis shells here still roll with turtle PLD setups. The dynamis shell I run with now consistently full-clears city zones with easily ~40 people a run, with 3 PLDs calling a mob each on pulls etc.

I'm asking because its typically the only fun method of tanking for me personally. Is it honestly an outdated form of playing? Are there other methods of face tanking on PLD that have come up since I've basically stopped paying attention lol?

[Thorny]

Without going into too many specifics, I'm curious if any of the dynamis shells here still roll with turtle PLD setups. The dynamis shell I run with now consistently full-clears city zones with easily ~40 people a run, with 3 PLDs calling a mob each on pulls etc.

I'm asking because its typically the only fun method of tanking for me personally. Is it honestly an outdated form of playing? Are there other methods of face tanking on PLD that have come up since I've basically stopped paying attention lol?

Job Change -> Warrior

Use utsusemi

Provoke

It's inefficient to use PLD/WAR at all, but in all honesty if you bring 40 people to a city you should be doing 2 runs anyway.. it takes less than 15 to full clear sandy or bastok and that many can still take out most of jeuno or windy.

[Eleven19]

Actually, I'll PM you in a sec Thorny if you don't mind.

[Thorny]

go for it, might take a bit to respond since driving home in a sec

[Vodou]

Ok, so tonight I finally went to salvage as mnk, and sadly to say I had a hard time keeping hate. The thing is I can't figure out why I wasn't able to keep hate?

This is my TP gear:

Destroyers
Walahra Turban
Peacock Charm
Smart Grenade
Brutal Earring
Fenrir's Earring/Ethereal Earring
Shura Body
Melee Gloves
Rajas Ring
+5 Acc Ring
Amemet Mantle +1
Black Belt
Byakko's Haidate
Sarutobi Kyahan

STR 5/5, Critical Hit +4 merits, 5/5 Counter and Kick Attack Rate, 5/5 Penance, 4/5 Invigorate, 1/5 Formless Strikes, no enmity merits, and no h2h merits.

I ate pizza +1, we did AR, and I'm a Taru.

We taru mnks need to stick together! You have very decent gear, but its not 'quite' good enough to be the true hate magnet you can be if you have zero h2h merits. That would be a good first step since it will boost attack, accuracy and base damage.

I'm not 100% sure if you'll need pizza +1, once you've added the merits, so maybe you'll be able to go for a meat dish, if not on bosses, at least at lower floor mobs.

Either way, up the merits, engage those mobs fast and see how it works.

[Pivotal]

ok so i need a duo set up for BLM orc nm in La Vaule S that doesnt inc bst or smn... =3 any ideas?

[Varaha]

This is something I should know...

On food with percentage increases to acc, like sushi, is that percentage calculated from your character's base acc? Or is it calculated with total acc, including gear and dex contribution?

Thanks.

[Caerloc]

Anyone know the average price for JoJ triggers? The bazaar vs wanted on FFXIAH.com doesnt really match up.

[Thorny]

Anyone know the average price for JoJ triggers? The bazaar vs wanted on FFXIAH.com doesnt really match up.

fourth virtue is 300-500k
second is ~800k
moderation is ~300k

you tend to see them underpriced a lot though, rdms who think nobody'll buy their shitty deed when trying to get capes and such