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

[FailureMidgard]

The point that I was actually arguing for is that very, very rarely does the situation end in a perfect round with 95-99 TP. Usually it will land on 75-85, and then the next round finishes, and its 110+. Because this usually happens, isn't the accuracy going to be more effective?

2.5% hit rate is 1 extra hit per 40 swings. It's 14 swings base to hit 100TP. 126TP is 18 swings. Any time you are hitting 110+ tp, that means you landed at least 1, if not more extra swings, that had no impact on your WS rate, only overflow TP. If you had 5 accuracy less, then maybe once out of every 2-3 times you hit 110+, you would have instead hit 103+. So instead of 117-112-126, you now have 112-112-126. Not really that big of a deal...the only time the accuracy matters, is when you get stuck at 98 TP (14*7), in which case Rajas would have saved the same hit, but would save that hit more often. It only matters how many attack rounds you save, and 5 accuracy will always save less, on average (I will admit there are times that 2.5hitrate can net 2 extra hits, but that is very rare).

Sorry if I'm not being clear enough....but really, accuracy is most of the time giving you overflow TP also. If anything, this is an argument for haste instead of storetp or accuracy.

Technically that's incorrect; >.> as number of blue mage nukes spells have both an int, and mnd mod, but if you're blu then you should have picked rajas anyways so meh.

My bad

[ZhiGaruda]

2.5% hit rate is 1 extra hit per 40 swings. It's 14 swings base to hit 100TP. 126TP is 18 swings. Any time you are hitting 110+ tp, that means you landed at least 1, if not more extra swings, that had no impact on your WS rate, only overflow TP. If you had 5 accuracy less, then maybe once out of every 2-3 times you hit 110+, you would have instead hit 103+. So instead of 117-112-126, you now have 112-112-126. Not really that big of a deal...the only time the accuracy matters, is when you get stuck at 98 TP (14*7), in which case Rajas would have saved the same hit, but would save that hit more often. It only matters how many attack rounds you save, and 5 accuracy will always save less, on average (I will admit there are times that 2.5hitrate can net 2 extra hits, but that is very rare).

Sorry if I'm not being clear enough....but really, accuracy is most of the time giving you overflow TP also. If anything, this is an argument for haste instead of storetp or accuracy.

Well hey, that's why this thread exists, right? Lol, thanks for the heads up, I'll adjust my macro when I get home D:

[matix]

Sorry, you're wrong, see above. More accuracy, will in fact, add to surplus TP in the EXACT SAME WAY as StoreTP. Also, StoreTP has a multiplicative effect due to how many swings are going off, if you want to use that argument. Sorry, for a KC rng, accuracy and storeTP both do the exact same thing - get you to 100tp faster, and that is all.

i guess i didnt see it that way, but i still feel iffy to give up acc, esp when i see 5 whiffs in a row i get all angry that i whiffga'd, but i often end up with far more than just one hit's worth of surplus tp, i always felt accuracy was better cause of how low my club skill was, and cause of the excess hits thing, i was thinking like "if i use rajas and miss atleast 2 hits that i coudlve landed with my accuracy ring then it was null" anyways tho ill take your advice and try the rajas i guess, good heads up~

[Pikarya]

Glory Crown

Hidden effect; * Enhances Sanction (Imperial Defense Bonus +1, if less than 8). The Glory Crown only needs to be equipped when receiving Sanction to gain the bonus.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Glory_Crown

Unsolved Mystery; No known hidden/latent effect(s).

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Glory_Crown

So... Which is true/does it still work/etc?

[Callisto]

The former, if Imperial Defense is not maxed(i.e. your server recently lost a Besieged) it will give +1 while you wear it.

[Pikarya]

kk thanks love :3

[Spekkio]

is infobar a dead plugin at this point? the zip file linked on the windower site seems to be damaged in some way and will not extract. forgive me if this is answered somewhere else but i can't find much information about it. if it is depreciated now, is there a substitute for it?

[Pikarya]

is infobar a dead plugin at this point? the zip file linked on the windower site seems to be damaged in some way and will not extract. forgive me if this is answered somewhere else but i can't find much information about it. if it is depreciated now, is there a substitute for it?

Still working, is the file .rar?

[Spekkio]

Still working, is the file .rar?

.zip extension on the file on the website. odd behavior. windows unzipping tool tells me it's an invalid zip file as does 7zip. winrar seems to be able to read the manifest w/o problem and identifies it as 3 files (infobar.dll in the root and database.db and infobar.ini within the infobar subdirectory) but when i try to extract it, it throws an error. thoughts?

[Pikarya]

.zip extension on the file on the website. odd behavior. windows unzipping tool tells me it's an invalid zip file as does 7zip. winrar seems to be able to read the manifest w/o problem and identifies it as 3 files (infobar.dll in the root and database.db and infobar.ini within the infobar subdirectory) but when i try to extract it, it throws an error. thoughts?

Yeah just tested it for you, seems its a problem with the file.

http://i46.tinypic.com/okyg02.png

I guess post/send a message to one of the mods or admins on windower.net.

[nitsuj]

.zip extension on the file on the website. odd behavior. windows unzipping tool tells me it's an invalid zip file as does 7zip. winrar seems to be able to read the manifest w/o problem and identifies it as 3 files (infobar.dll in the root and database.db and infobar.ini within the infobar subdirectory) but when i try to extract it, it throws an error. thoughts?

Try downloading it a few times. From what I remember, Aikar's server just kinda sucks and times out on the download, leaving you with an incomplete file if it happens while you're downloading :/

Could have changed though, but I think the inforbar zip has been the same for quite some time.

[Kohan]

I'm a miserable failure at navigating the Windower forums. Please, help me fail less. I promise, your contribution will be going toward a good cause.

As for what I require, what would I need to insert in my BLM's SpellCast XML to force a grip to equip whenever I'm casting a spell of its element? These rules appear to already be present in my XML, which is the standard BLM type, but when I set the grip's variable to 1, it's not equipping the grip. I want to use a Dark Grip and, possibly, Thunder and Ice when I'd like more +MACC.

Thanks in advance.

[Spekkio]

Try downloading it a few times. From what I remember, Aikar's server just kinda sucks and times out on the download, leaving you with an incomplete file if it happens while you're downloading :/

Could have changed though, but I think the inforbar zip has been the same for quite some time.

is there an md5 for the other dlls on his site to compare the downloaded files with to ensure the dlls for the other plugins weren't corrupted? it seems that the crc on all 3 files in the archive are all 0's in winrar which would indicate to me that the file is malformed rather than incomplete.

[Rampagesama]

I tried skimming through the Augment thread, but there is alot here x.x

Are there any confirmations of +STR on Forager's Mantle? Or +2 STR on Amemet +1?

[Khajit]

No. And acc+6 isnt good enough for you eh?

[zagex]

.zip extension on the file on the website. odd behavior. windows unzipping tool tells me it's an invalid zip file as does 7zip. winrar seems to be able to read the manifest w/o problem and identifies it as 3 files (infobar.dll in the root and database.db and infobar.ini within the infobar subdirectory) but when i try to extract it, it throws an error. thoughts?

The file is partly corrupted or something, but Winrar can fix it. Open the file with Winrar, then go to tools > Repair Archive (or alt-R). It then creates a new file or something, I forget exactly. After that, the archive unzips fine.

[Spekkio]

The file is partly corrupted or something, but Winrar can fix it. Open the file with Winrar, then go to tools > Repair Archive (or alt-R). It then creates a new file or something, I forget exactly. After that, the archive unzips fine.

well i'll be... i had no idea winrar could do that. sweetness. thanks.

[Faris]

is there a bigass map of vanadiel in general anywhere on the internet? you know shows all the zones/connections between them, etc. in 1 big map?

would be cool.

[Byrthnoth]

I tried skimming through the Augment thread, but there is alot here x.x

Are there any confirmations of +STR on Forager's Mantle? Or +2 STR on Amemet +1?

Max for a back is Stat +2

[Kyte]

What are the standard merits for SMN?

EDIT: Just to clarify, I mean SMN-specific merits. I probably won't merit skill (although I *might*).