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

[Terravcota]

Noob Salvage question: My original group never really ran Arra to kill Flayer and I'm kind of nervous on how to run it with my group now.

1. What's the best way to avoid the 3F flayers?
2. How hard is the Flayer to tank? What kind of support is necessary and what is helpful - both in terms of the "tank" (eg, Third Eye vs. Shadows?) and back line jobs?
3. Should we farm extra SJ from the gears on 4F?

A general idea of how best to handle the fight would be appreciated.

Bumping in hopes to get some help. Thanks!

[Karbuncle]

do items with "Outside" or "Inside" nations control not work in beastmen Strongholds?

I'm Bastokan, walking through Giddeus and my Intruder earring will not work, the region is under Windurstian Control.

[TheMysteriousX]

do items with "Outside" or "Inside" nations control not work in beastmen Strongholds?

I'm Bastokan, walking through Giddeus and my Intruder earring will not work, the region is under Windurstian Control.

Should work. You got signet on?

[sleekmotorwurkz]

Question about DRK zerg.

Usually if whatever we're zerging isn't dead within BW's duration, I use Jump after BW wears off, since generally, as far as I'm aware, Jump (or any other JA) will cut into the delay between swings.

I've heard a lot of people saying they use Jump as soon as they engage, or somewhere mid zerg when BW is still up.
Doesn't BW not stack with Jump? That would hurt the rest of the zerg having all that HP removed if it doesn't.

TL;DR
So my question basically is:
When should Jump be used, if at all, when zerging with KC or MK DRK/DRG?

I do
1. Dark seal before start
2. Drain 2 as we are starting
3. Last Resort -> Souleater
4. Blood Weapon
5. When Blood Weapon wears off Jump, High Jump (souleater still up)
6. Weapon Skill (Souleater still up)
7. change to scythe if still alive (should be dead by now anyway)

[Yvonne]

On things where you need more acc (so are going to wear ares feet/head) then you get some attack 'free' with your acc items (same goes for Virtuoso belt).

Ok here we go. Would you say a Virtuoso belt (12 Acc 4 Atk) would outperform a Potent Belt (8 Acc 3 Str) or is this another situational piece I need to consider? From people's opinions here, it seems Virtuoso would be better for Guillotines.

This is what I'm wearing now, keep in mind I'm still new to DRK (1st beat stick job) so I don't have a wide selection of gear yet:

TP Build - Bomblet/Cuch switched out to Bombcore/Foragers when Diabolic Eye is up.

Guillotines - With this set, I keep getting mixed messages. Like before, people kept saying get Ares legs or ditch the Chaos feet for Heca. Lotta confusing takes, but most of them aren't career DRKs.

How would this set hold up against Kindred/Mamools? Is there anything I should be striving for this year to make it better? Sides the obvious E.Body, should I think about getting Shadow Breastplate since I won't be getting Ares?

[Callisto]

That one definitely depends on the rest of your gear available, but that 4 Acc can possibly let you make up the STR in another slot and give you the extra few Attack to boot, i.e. if it makes the difference between you needing to use Heca feet vs. AF+1(this is just one example because I know for me personally, my gear will be hovering right at the mark where that 3 DEX is the difference between capping and not capping).

[Argettio]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

[Windfoxster]

I finally got around to doing A Moogle Kupo D'Etat with a few buddies, and am on the QSC mission. I need to find 9 tablets/shards/whatever, and the goblin NPC says they are marked on my map, but they're not showing up.

I already found 5 of the whatevers, but the rest are gonna be annoying to track down without some idea of which door they're behind.

Has anyone else had this happen, and if so how did you fix it? Thanks.

I don't think those tablets are behind any doors, you just miss those "hidden" maps that you have to go through some holes. Check wiki for the full map of Quicksand.

[Yvonne]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

We had a group that constantly spammed Batallia Downs [S]. I wouldn't call it 30%, but we've had back to back drops or a dryspell of 1/11 before.

[Windfoxster]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

You mean imperial wootz ingot? Used to spam 3 nations for ANNM until SE added the new ranks for bodies..etc

Only seen like ~2 maybe? Seen more star sapphires than ingot.

[Callisto]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

We used to spam Rolan/Meriph/Batallia before AN bodies were released and I actually had AN, they were very easy fights with 5-6 and we did make some pretty decent cash, idk if I'd say it was 30% on Imp. Wootz but we definitely saw a few, and some of the augmented items that can come out of it were nice too.

[Dooom]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

I had some friends on Valefor do these on a regular basis months ago. I forget which one they did, but they made some nice money off of it. Sadly I could never join them though as the stars never aligned for us all to be free at the same time.

[Midnightjade]

I don't think those tablets are behind any doors, you just miss those "hidden" maps that you have to go through some holes. Check wiki for the full map of Quicksand.

Thanks, that will make things much easier. I'll print out the map and mark all the possible locations on it - should do the trick.

[ronin sparthos]

Does anyone do ANNM for money?

otherwiki has imperial wootz ore listed as a 30% drop (1/3 chance of 1.1mil every day seems too good to be true).

Hm id say its more like a 20% drop if I wanted to scoop random numbers out of my ass like the wiki tends to do.

Most ANNMs (Sandy-side) will result in one valuable drop like Khroma Ore, DIngot or Wootz Ore along with the other random sellables. You can get dry spells but I ask myself whenever I go "hm, is this AN useful for anything else?".

Id love to get my hands on those haste+3% plat bangles though. >.>

[BerenTebogo]

RDM without elemental merits (doing 8 enhance 8 enfeeb GET OFF ME YOU DONT KNOW ME) are AF2 legs worth going out of my way to get or will mahatma be enough?

[Callisto]

RDM without elemental merits (doing 8 enhance 8 enfeeb GET OFF ME YOU DONT KNOW ME) are AF2 legs worth going out of my way to get or will mahatma be enough?

Get the AF2, outside of /SCH RDM's native Ele skill is awful and there's a fair amount of stuff you'll want a high skill build for.

[BerenTebogo]

Examples for when I write spellcast? Ix's?

Edit: Oh lol Cally I popped coffer for af legs last night on PLD at about 3am. RAGE.

[Callisto]

Examples for when I write spellcast? Ix's?

Edit: Oh lol Cally I popped coffer for af legs last night on PLD at about 3am. RAGE.

One for sure is Sheep, I have a rather strong nuke set and 6 ele merits, and I can't get away with my potency build there without seeing a few resists, at least for me on Elv MP 2 resists can make or break a run.

I also use it a lot for Salvage/Limbus bosses. Ix's aren't too bad really. All that said, if your focusing on nuking for what ever particular thing you're doing and don't strictly need Utstu to stay alive you should be using SCH sub and a potency build.

[BerenTebogo]

One for sure is Sheep, I have a rather strong nuke set and 6 ele merits, and I can't get away with my potency build there without seeing a few resists, at least for me on Elv MP 2 resists can make or break a run.

I also use it a lot for Salvage/Limbus bosses. Ix's aren't too bad really. All that said, if your focusing on nuking for what ever particular thing you're doing and don't strictly need Utstu to stay alive you should be using SCH sub and a potency build.

Gotcha. And the good App/Tem zones for RDM to solo AF+1 are NW and East? I don't remember -.-

[Callisto]

I see a ton of RDM from the first floor of SE, and yeah as far as solo you can probably melee Temenos East eles down, though I'm not sure which floors drop it there.