Random Question Thread XII: Don't Believe Advanced's Lies

[Pulsar74]

I did some in Boyadha but most in Pashow synced at 30. Best to have some sort of widescan cos the little buggers keep hiding but the weather forecaster gave me good spells of thunder every 2/3 game days.
Can't help on the season, I'm afraid but it was at a time when Zitah seemed to be in permanent 'sunny weather' so my options were limited.

I actually camped by the Maw in Pashow - I left my sync in present day and I sat in the past and then just jumped to whichever the weather was in.

Definitely the biggest pain of that weapon's trials so far (just half my beasts and all my bombs to go).

[Draylo]

Zi'tah is the best tbh, that is where I did mine. Just grab a level 55ish sync and go to town on the goobues during lightning weather (which is pretty frequent).

[Mad Friar Avelyn]

Does anyone have a table showing DPS of the top 5 GKT? Mainly looking to see how well the Magian OAT GKT does against the other choices.

While the DPS wasn't listed, Neosutra answered this in another thread, and it was reposted earlier in this one too.

I believe it was worked out to be:

Upgraded Relic > OA2 > Masamune (for now) > 91 base damage (stp one with 464 delay + 5 hit) > 91 base damage (450 delay one) > 89 Radenotachi = Hagun = Soboro (each are stronger in different situations).

[Neosutra]

As an update to that, one should include the fire magians GK ahead of the normal 91/450 Magians.

[rog]

Anyone know if it feezable to kill Adze with two thf/nins range attacking it while keeping it pinned?

Unless you know something i don't, there aren't any particularly good pin spots (the best one i've found is right near corse, in blood aggro range), so it'd probably take too long to be worth it, since you won't be able to spam /ra, and getting hit even once could get you killed.

I've been duoing it recently with rdm/nin+blm/nin, which takes about 20 mins, though the blm i've been doing it with sucks (he doesn't understand the concept of spamming nukes, and until yesterday he couldn't even manage kiting it without dying every 30 seconds), and probably could be a lot faster. Rdm can also solo it in probably 30-40 mins or so, though you need to be insanely careful or you can die pretty easily, though that's not a big deal, just have rr up obviously.

[Ddboner]

Okay, so I need to kill 500 Vermin and I've seen people suggesting Chigoes. Do they count if you crit them and one-shot that way?

Other options I see are the back of CN and Wajoam Woodlands (I swear there are always a few JP out here killing bees). I'm a fan of Signet and Sigil, but not of Sanction. Where should I be?

Attowah Chasm works very well as well and you can have Signet. Right when you zone out of the cave area otw to Tiamat there are scorps,flies and antlions enough to definitely never have to wait on re pops (not sure about if you have more than 2 or 3 people in the pt) and they all die extremely fast. Any more members and I think the bees/spiders are probably going to be better.

Edit. Also, the crit kills do not count, no exp.

[Nermie]

Are SCNMs capped at level 75?

No they're not. Easily did Beadeaux (S) with pickup group of 12.

[Dooom]

Zi'tah is the best tbh, that is where I did mine. Just grab a level 55ish sync and go to town on the goobues during lightning weather (which is pretty frequent).

I thought Zi'tah weather was the same as that in the Tree?

[Pulsar74]

I thought Zi'tah weather was the same as that in the Tree?

It is, yes. Seems very seasonal though, sometimes pretty much permanently thundery, sometimes none for days at a time (typically when I wanted to do this trial...)

[Furionstormrage]

Soloing brooder on rdm, I assume its just pop, run to wall to pin, dot?
Is there time to nuke, and how long should I expect it to take?
Decent but far from perfect nuking gear, mainly interested in what I should be concerned about.

[rog]

Soloing brooder on rdm, I assume its just pop, run to wall to pin, dot?
Is there time to nuke, and how long should I expect it to take?
Decent but far from perfect nuking gear, mainly interested in what I should be concerned about.

Pretty much. It took me around 15-20 mins to solo on rdm/sch.

[Byrthnoth]

hurr de duurrr. I just remembered I have Restraint. Don't have to worry about Crits. Would Chigoes be the best then?

[darkepyon]

For DNC merits (both groups) what are the best/most popular ones? I know a lot of people take haste samba all the way but other than that I'm not really sure.

[Ddboner]

hurr de duurrr. I just remembered I have Restraint. Don't have to worry about Crits. Would Chigoes be the best then?

I think so, there's a spot in Grauberg S where the treants spawn with 8 all in a small area (there are like 16 total but I didn't really need more than 8 before they would re pop as a BLU)

I believe the area is around I-11 (hug the mountain on the right after going south after warp in. The first 2 should be close to a wall right next to the mountainside, there are 2 other pairs if u keep following the mountainside, and one pair a bit farther off from it beside a little divot(pond?) in the ground)

I'm assuming you have some kind of healer or something because they pretty much always agro 2 at a time since they spawn in pairs. My BLU would 1 shot them with a multi-hit spell for 1200ish dmg, so they prolly have around 1000 hp i think.

[Dooom]

For DNC merits (both groups) what are the best/most popular ones? I know a lot of people take haste samba all the way but other than that I'm not really sure.

5/5 haste samba
5/5 reverse flourish
5/5 closed position
3/5 no foot rise
1 each in Saber and Fan dance.

[Koyangi]

Heh, I just asked it a few days ago in this thread, the synopsis was to cap reverse flourish, 1 in saber, 1 in fan, cap closed position, 3 into no foot rise.

[ronin sparthos]

For DNC merits (both groups) what are the best/most popular ones? I know a lot of people take haste samba all the way but other than that I'm not really sure.

5 Haste Samba
5 Reverse Flourish

1 Saber
1 Fan
3 No Foot Rise
5 Closed Position

[rog]

For DNC merits (both groups) what are the best/most popular ones? I know a lot of people take haste samba all the way but other than that I'm not really sure.

I'd imagine something like 1-2 saber dance, 3-4 no foot rise, and 1-2 in fan dance and the rest in closes position? For group1, maybe 5 reverse flourish? Not too sure about group 1, as i'm no dancerologist, but group 2 should be good with that.

[Furionstormrage]

Pretty much. It took me around 15-20 mins to solo on rdm/sch.

Cool, thank you

[Nightfyre]

I'd imagine something like 1-2 saber dance, 3-4 no foot rise, and 1-2 in fan dance and the rest in closes position? For group1, maybe 5 reverse flourish? Not too sure about group 1, as i'm no dancerologist, but group 2 should be good with that.

Anything more than 3 in NFR is generally wasted since it's mostly used when a step misses. What the others said is the standard setup, you can play with G2 a bit (I've also seen 5/5 NFR 3/5 Closed Position) but there's really no acceptable option besides 5/5 Haste Samba 5/5 Reverse Flourish in G1.