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

[Jakson]

Never intended on buying Abyssea, didn't follow threads, etc.

Is this high xp per mob that I'm seeing requiring something special, or can I just go in and kill some of the lower level mobs as opposed to soloing outside/campaign/etc. outside of abyssea?

[seiji]

Best 6-man setup at level 90 for Dynamis?

DD/SAM
DD/SAM
DD/DNC - Haste Samba
BRD/THF - TH2
BLM/RDM
WHM/SCH


Anything else that might work better?

DNC main ! merited haste samba(10%)> subbed haste samba(5%? maybe less as some ja are nerf while subbed)

[buddha_masta]

What is the solo strategy for Megamaw Mikey as RDM/NIN? And how can one deal with the inevitable links in that area?

[Fereydoon]

Cancel numbers for new utsu?

[Flic]

Never intended on buying Abyssea, didn't follow threads, etc.

Is this high xp per mob that I'm seeing requiring something special, or can I just go in and kill some of the lower level mobs as opposed to soloing outside/campaign/etc. outside of abyssea?

Need to build up xp over time, its a chain but not a traditional chain from merit partys. Faster you kill higher chain goes, get same xp solo as you do with 18, so people take 18. Solo better of doing campaign.

[Eldelphia]

Anyone have an excel spreadsheet containing all the known info for abyssea? I got one for ZNMs awhile back from here, curious if anyone made one for the various zones (what drops what, stats, etc). The ZNM one was nice since it had it all the info in 1 place and wiki is blocked at work sometimes.

Spreadsheet no - I assume you've seen Spira's stuff?

[Eldelphia]

bit late but you can only do one that way :/ why even gather people to do a single pop, kirin sets are like 800k and the osode will pay that back lol

Don't see many/any Suzy/Seiryu seals about. We tend to do Einherjar > lesser god pops > Kirin.

[zard1977]

What is the solo strategy for Megamaw Mikey as RDM/NIN? And how can one deal with the inevitable links in that area?

Use rdm/sch. Much better.

If you stand at the correct range you can cast on Mikey but he cannot cast on you.

The links are not too difficult to handle (ga3 barely broke ss) and you can always back off a little if things get rough. You can also sleep the links if they are very close to Mikey (since they are close to Mikey it doesn't make a difference as to whether the adds are due to Mikey or the slept worm).

[Dooom]

How much sTP is needed for 482 and 488 great axes to achieve an X-hit build?

[Carraway]

How much sTP is needed for 482 and 488 great axes to achieve an X-hit build?

For true 6-hits:

488
13.2 x (1 + [.15 + .12]) = 16.7
(15 store TP from /SAM, 12 from gear)

482
13.0 x (1 + [.15 + .14]) = 16.7
(/SAM + 14)

A 488 delay g.axe can 7-hit /NIN with 8 store TP total.

[Chen]

482GA. base 8hit.

10STP for 7.
29STP for 6.
54STP for 5.

488GA base 8hit.

9STP for 7.
27STP for 6.
52STP for 5.

@above: i'm getting 488GA w/ 8STP giving 14.2/HIT =99.4TP.

[cdgreg]

Will chasmic hornet always terminal sting at 1% before it dies, or is the move based on TP?

[Thrustie]

He'll attempt to use it in the last ~20% of his health. I believe it's a TP move. With a few DDs, you can zerg that last chunk before he ever uses it. Lowman, it's considerably more difficult to prevent unless you can stun it.

I've heard rumors that if he uses it, his drops are worse. I can attest that of the 3 times i lowmanned him and he got it off, we didn't get anything but Chasmic Stingers. The one time i killed him in a group before he got Terminal Sting off, he dropped the Rng Att. mantle. That's hardly definitive but just throwing it out there.

[Byrthnoth]

If he is like other bees, the final sting move is available during the last 25%HP, which is also when they start to use a TP move every 100tp. If he doesn't have regain, you could probably limit him to <100TP during that last 25% by forcing a tp move just before and using a suble blow build and smart nuking / poison.

[lolwut]

Use rdm/sch. Much better.

If you stand at the correct range you can cast on Mikey but he cannot cast on you.

The links are not too difficult to handle (ga3 barely broke ss) and you can always back off a little if things get rough. You can also sleep the links if they are very close to Mikey (since they are close to Mikey it doesn't make a difference as to whether the adds are due to Mikey or the slept worm).

Also, /sch gives you access to aoe Sleep if you get too many links, and you can Aspir them for mp. I can't think of an easier mob type to solo.

[Xaru]

How can I get Apradar to read the abyssea map pack? I tried searching in the windower forums and found nothing.

Use Mappy instead.

[rog]

Use Mappy instead.

Does that show dead mobs, and is there any way to filter by name?

[arus2001]

Use Mappy instead.

Tinkering with this now. There a way to set it so it only shows a particular mob if it's alive and close?

[Marokko]

Use rdm/sch. Much better.

If you stand at the correct range you can cast on Mikey but he cannot cast on you.

The links are not too difficult to handle (ga3 barely broke ss) and you can always back off a little if things get rough. You can also sleep the links if they are very close to Mikey (since they are close to Mikey it doesn't make a difference as to whether the adds are due to Mikey or the slept worm).

If you're standing max range there will be times the links will try to cast on you even though they are out of range, so just keep in mind the max casting range and the distance you are from everything and you won't get hit, and if you do they aren't rough nukes like he said.

[Mercilessturtle]

Best 6-man setup at level 90 for Dynamis?

DD/SAM
DD/SAM
DD/DNC - Haste Samba
BRD/THF - TH2
BLM/RDM
WHM/SCH


Anything else that might work better?

A bit late, but why would you bring a whm? Why not just use the same kind of 6 man setup as you do at level 80 instead of having stuff like th and haste samba be gimped subjob versions? It is easy enough now with something like:

DDx2
brd/whm
dnc/sam - haste samba for real and better healing than the whm
thf/nin - th4
rdm/blm

All I would do at 90 is swap the rdm/blm to blm/rdm so you can have sleepga2 and still be able to refresh the brd.