Random Question Thread XI: You're Wrong

[Wycor]

Question about Bio III.
As rdm80/sch40 with dark arts up the dark skill magic is raised to 266(base, no equip), there any test out there to see if bio get a tier4 tick (10hptick) or an easy way to try to test it?

Thks~

Edit: with 5/5 merits

[urat]

Kc is extremely far from an even distribution. Wiki has it listed as 5:15:25:25:15:10:3:2, which looks fairly accurate from my experience with it. And kc can most certainly single hit, it's just very rare.

I'm a little confused as to what this ratio represents, like a ratio to hits per round...?

[Innuendo]

Yes. 5% of the time it's 1 hit, 15% two hits, 25% three hits, and so on.

[Dooom]

Any suggestions on a place I can kill EP-DC bombs for my Magian trial? I need to kill 250 in fire weather/day. I figured Ifrit's Cauldron; I have vague memories farming Bomb Queen Ring pops there and finding a spot with plenty of pops, but can't remember exactly where. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Deluge]

How much HP do the versions of sky gods summoned by Kirin have? Could an 80 rdm burn one down with chainspell?

[CDF]

On the topic of OA# weapons, do these weapons have a %chance per hit that tests for next hit when the previous returned a true?

In other words, is there a static %^hits that will tell us the chance that an occasionally attacks # weapon will attack n amount of times, IE for K club it could be something 50% so the chance of it attacking three times is 0.5^(3-1) (since Im pretty sur ethe first of the hits is guaranteed to proc XP)

Or is it a changing chance per proc, something like 50%-30%-20%-10% or something, or is it a static 50-25-12.5-6.25

Thing is I am working now on a program for calculating tp/m in C++, but it currently has no support for OAT etc weapons, it assumes the weapons attack once each.

If there is a static % for a weapon it would be a helluva lot easier to input a simple

cout << "Is your weapon a multi hit weapon? 0=no 1=yes";
cin >> choice;
if (choice == 1) {
cout << "Input maximum amount of hits per round the weapon may perform:";
cin >> maxhits;
cout << "Input %chance mod on hit proc tests for this weapon:";
cin >> hitmods;

then I can just do a calc like

chance of 5 hits in a round is = hitmods^(5-1)

But if its a changing %chance then, well, fuck. I hate using lists but that'd be the only way to deal with that.

Eventually I want the ability to parse the weapons as well based on input accuracy and weapon stats allowing you to get a more realistic comparison of weapons using a slight random mod.

Parsimony much?

Never mind that there is no evidence of such. If it were actually so, there would be limiting probabilities anyway.

[Priran]

Aprox 75% iirc. Really massive DA rate.

Is this including kicks/DA?

[Aristio]

Do pet kills count for Trials of the Magians? Doing 400 lizards and need a quick path, so thinking of killing pet lizards in Mamook.

[Priran]

Do pet kills count for Trials of the Magians? Doing 400 lizards and need a quick path, so thinking of killing pet lizards in Mamook.

Yes, while killing Colibri for a Birds trial I was able to kill a Fomor BST's pet bat for credit.

[Motenten]

Is this including kicks/DA?

Yes.

[Aristio]

How much lower does the "Weakens Defense" on the magian weapons make defense?

[S N K]

I need a translation of this guy cursing me out! Every line that doesn't start with a : is him.

http://www.risen-guild.com/fail/angryjpman.png

Thanks!

So nobody here can read this? I'm curious as to what this JP is bitching about so hard.

[Kyte]

My computer seems to have decided that it has had enough of me playing FFXI. When I click on Windower, nothing happens (although pol.exe does appear on the process list). If I click on the regular FFXI icon, the POL logo that appears right before the login screen appears and remains.


Anyone have any idea of what may be going on? MSN isn't working either (freezes after I hit Sign In), although Firefox and Altana viewer are working.

[Carraway]

I need a translation of this guy cursing me out! Every line that doesn't start with a : is him.

http://www.risen-guild.com/fail/angryjpman.png

Thanks!

Rough translation:

Hey
What're you stealing for?
Got anything to say for yourself?
Die
Die
Die
Fucker
Dead you
Die, two-faced/deceitful/etc. (implied expletive noun here)
Annoying (implied expletive noun here), get lost

So what did you do to piss him off?

[Maguile]

Assuming fully upgraded level 80 scythes the order is something like this:

OAT -> Redemption -> STP -> STR -> Penitence or double attack Maleficence

I was thinking of doing the STR one, but how much of an upgrade is it over Perdu? 4 dmg/4 str doesnt seem like THAT much of a tradeoff for 5 acc and some delay...

[S N K]

Rough translation:

Hey
What're you stealing for?
Got anything to say for yourself?
Die
Die
Die
Fucker
Dead you
Die, two-faced/deceitful/etc. (implied expletive noun here)
Annoying (implied expletive noun here), get lost

So what did you do to piss him off?

Failure had popped the cradle horn NM, He let it sit up for about an hour until a few others showed up to help kill it. This guy randomly showed up and claimed it, Failure ganked it when it went yellow and killed it.

[Carraway]

That's kind of hilarious.

[Byrthnoth]

lol, that guy sat up for over a day on Lakshmi. I'm glad maint depoped him so I can go back to killing his TH for my dagger trial! 20 Hippogryphs/Hour on BRD/NIN, all right!

It'd be easier if they weren't so damned evasive.

[Dathus]

Aside from Vunkerl Inlet during Lightningsday, where's the best place to kill beast mobs for trial 817? Can't find a decent spot with beasts and Lighting weather that's constant, and the beasts easy to kill

[Akairyu]

For the STP+8 Stingray Lance, an additional 2 STP is required after the STP on the Polearm itself+Rajas+Brutal is required to maintain 6-hit with Sword Strap. In terms of efficiency, what's the best extra source of STP to make up this extra two? I'm guessing White Tathlum (or Goading Belt if we can get that now that it seems to've been found), but is there something out there I missed that might be more efficient?