Random Question Thread VIII: Wait, There's a Sticky?

[Cairthenn]

Aura Statues just resist everything.

[Zumi]

If I am doing salvage with this set up, 2 mnk, thf, whm, rdm, brd

Which songs will give more overall damage, march and minuet, or 2 march?

[drwaffles]

If I am doing salvage with this set up, 2 mnk, thf, whm, rdm, brd

Which songs will give more overall damage, march and minuet, or 2 march?

Don't bring a BRD, you'll be more efficient.

(March + March generally)

[cdgreg]

Wasn't in confirmed that stun cannot resist unless the mob has natural stun resistance or it is earth day/weather? Just had an Aura statue resist stun on ice day so I'm curious if that theory was debunked or Aura statues have some low stun resistance.

Idk about that. I swear stun has resisted on ebony puddings a very few times in my millions of solo exp out there. I normally don't notice until I cast my following nuke then end up eating an AM or -ga III lol.

[Plow]

Has anyone else had issues with windower crashing on play *only* when you try to load in widescreen resolutions?

Makes absolutely no sense at all to me, and I've tried all sorts of crap to fix it and nothing.

What's weirdest about it is that it's worked a couple times, but trying to reload with the exact same settings as what just worked perfectly for a number of hours can give me the exact same crash as before I lucked into it working once.

(I have no windower forum account and don't really want to make one to start a thread there unless I have to, I have thoroughly searched all the windower resources and forums tho)

[Eleven19]

I didn't want to start a new thread in tech for this.

My PS2 is blackscreening on WotG CS's that are graphic intensive. Namely the CS where you zone into bastok after Fire in the Hole, and you see the galka hume fighting quadav whatever bull shit.

So barring the obvious lolPS2 jokes, its not overheating, the fan is spitting out cold air, and I've tried it 3 times. 4th time I let it sit for 20 minutes. Is this a common issue?

[fantasticdan]

How do storm spells interact with weather of a different element? The wiki says single weather + storm spell of the same element will give you the effect of double weather, but nothing beyond that. What happens if you have say single or double dark weather + hailstorm for example? Would you be able to end up with ice + (x2) dark, or just ice?

[noodles355]

Another random question:
Is the lack of replies regarding my last post because of:

1) It's such a stupid idea it doesn't deserve a reply

2) It probably is better but no one wants to admit it because Gay Bulge is such a gimpy lance

3) No one actually knows because anyone who's taken time to get aurum/rose/other good gear never wasted time with Gae Bolg?

[Thorny]

Another random question:
Is the lack of replies regarding my last post because of:

1) It's such a stupid idea it doesn't deserve a reply

2) It probably is better but no one wants to admit it because Gay Bulge is such a gimpy lance

3) No one actually knows because anyone who's taken time to get aurum/rose/other good gear never wasted time with Gae Bolg?

4) It very well might be better, but with all the nonsense you've been drooling over the media boards nobody really wants to do the math for you because it's kind of long.

I'll do it later when i'm iddling somewhere if nobody beats me to it.

[Chen]

what do i need to kill jormy? i have a group of above average geared players and can probably make just about any 12-15man setupwith the jobs available but i don't know which is the best type of dmg, who handles adds, do you sleep it on the ground etc.

i killed it before years ago but the fight lasted hours and was pretty messy so not keen to repeat it the same way

[Windfoxster]

what do i need to kill jormy? i have a group of above average geared players and can probably make just about any 12-15man setupwith the jobs available but i don't know which is the best type of dmg, who handles adds, do you sleep it on the ground etc.

i killed it before years ago but the fight lasted hours and was pretty messy so not keen to repeat it the same way

Did it one month ago out of boredom, pulled to the exact same location as wopa did on video but apparently we get adds almost every single flight which resulted in a 3hrs~ fight with 9men. Pretty easy fight, don't have to sleep it at all.

Tank: rdm/nin x2 whm brd
DD: Blmx3 cor

Apparently 1 tank is enough but we went for a little safety. Can't remember the last job for the fight, might be 8men though. Probably a refresher for DD's pt.

Edit: Happened to find the pic if you are interested

Spoiler: show

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...223_080232.png

Looks like the last one is a brd. If i have to do it again, i will do with 1 tank and 1 rdm to hold the adds. It will speed up a lot.

[Raen Ryong]

Another random question:
Is the lack of replies regarding my last post because of:

1) It's such a stupid idea it doesn't deserve a reply

2) It probably is better but no one wants to admit it because Gay Bulge is such a gimpy lance

3) No one actually knows because anyone who's taken time to get aurum/rose/other good gear never wasted time with Gae Bolg?

Without doing all of the math involved, comparing 492 delay / 6 hit and 551 delay / 5 hit,

Melee delay units between WS:

492 * 5 = 2460 [492 delay lance]
551 * 4 = 2204 [551 delay lance]

So Gae Bolg takes 89.6% of the time required on a 492 lance to generate 100% TP. However, its DoT is 11.6% weaker by means of delay. Without considering anything else it's pretty much a wash unless you want to factor in Jumps etc which I am too lazy to do right now!

If you have to make any gear sacrifices then the 492 is going to win. If you don't... the 551 might marginally win, I guess.

[Chen]

would likely be using plds for the fight, is a simple MDT set fine or should i get some ice- gear?

[Windfoxster]

would likely be using plds for the fight, is a simple MDT set fine or should i get some ice- gear?

-50% MDT should be good enough, but i chose to use some half-ass ice gear though since it was an impromptu fight. Around ~260-70 ice resist iirc with carol/bar. Maybe you can ask those that use -mdt gear to fight wyrms, personally i went for resistance.

[Kirschy]

would likely be using plds for the fight, is a simple MDT set fine or should i get some ice- gear?

I low manned it a bit ago as solo tank PLD/NIN just using MDT/MDB, it works great. (Resentment Cape/Iron Ram Lance are nice for this fight.) Should be able to self keep yourself cured during flights /w little problem. /w max Shell V, I think you need ~23%ish MDT to cap out.

[Chen]

thanks, whats the best way to handle adds? i'm thinking a rdm with w.legs could run them around?

[Byrthnoth]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think an LS on Garuda (EDI) killed Jorm with 6 people a few years ago. 1 PLD/NIN tank, G-horn bard, 2 or 3 BLMs, RDM. I don't remember if they also had a BLM holding the bombs.

[Windfoxster]

A rdm/blm should be able to keep the adds sleep. Unless you plan to tank it in the middle then there will be tons of adds. If you bring it to a corner, your adds should be kept at 4 and below. 2bombs 2 eles probably.

[Cairthenn]

Adds are infrequent enough that BLMs should be able to kill them as they come.

[Yugl]

Servers merged? I'm getting a few <unknown> servers on my friends list.