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

[Neojin]

What about charmga? Anyway to stun it or should we just kite the mob until melee uncharm?

[Massimo]

Can anyone suggest a party setup and strategy for Raskovnik that doesn't involve rdm/nin or bsts? Trying to limit the amount of job changes for our ls event. Thanks.

A decent DD/NIN and RDM/DRK should be fine for it. Add BRD, more DD/mages etc. to speed it up. Stun Soothing Aroma.

Edit: Eh, left the page up a while. Yeah, you can stun it easily.

[Scritch]

at least
1 Role Reversal
1 Ventriloquy
rest Fine-Tuning

as for group 1, ur choice really, but melee is prolly best option as all frames melee

Seconding this. 5/5 Magic, 5/5 Melee, 5/5 Optimization, 1/5 Ventriloquy, 1/5 Role Reversal, 3/5 Fine-Tuning. It'll never let you down.

Sharpshot's melee/archery ratio is too heavily skewed in the melee side to make Archery something to consider, Repair is lol, and lowering Activate's recast isn't really worth it. Maybe if you could get it down to 5 or 10 minutes, but you can't.

Role Reversal and Ventriloquy are too useful to ever give up. They're not something you need all the time, but I'd take them over 10 accuracy. Role Reversal is useful in saving your ass while soloing, restoring puppet HP to 100% after an AoE so you can ADD, procing a cure, etc etc. If nothing else it can function as a Cure V (assuming puppet recast is up, or you can Repair it to full afterwards).

[Shadida]

How much MAB would you need on each dagger for a pair of Magian MAB daggers to outclass HQ staff for THF/COR QD? Does +16 MAB (the current max) do the trick, accuracy not withstanding?

[Chojja]

OAT Claws or Ridill claws? OAT have +19 damage, +54 delay, seems like a lot of damage to give up for that third attack. I don't know how to do the math for the difference between the 2 for parsing purposes.

[Scritch]

OAT Claws or Ridill claws? OAT have +19 damage, +54 delay, seems like a lot of damage to give up for that third attack. I don't know how to do the math for the difference between the 2 for parsing purposes.

For who? PUP? MNK? Both?

For MNK, the choice is OA2-3. Use them with Footwork and the DMG doesn't matter. For PUP, 2-3 are worthless and you're much better off with the fully upgraded OAT (or any fully upgraded Magian. Pretty sure any claw with DMG+22 beats the OA2-3). If you have both, then I'd go for OAT first. OAT is also better for MNK if you don't have footwork up, but that's only an issue if it gets Dispelled.

[rog]

How much MAB would you need on each dagger for a pair of Magian MAB daggers to outclass HQ staff for THF/COR QD? Does +16 MAB (the current max) do the trick, accuracy not withstanding?

Not sure how you expect an answer without saying how much mab you have.

Total damage increase from mab is 1.x/1.y. Ie if you have 30 mab adding 16 is 1.46/1.3=1.123

[Shadida]

Ah - okay. So as long as that ratio beats 1.15, then it would win over HQ staff, correct? Thanks, I think I can take it from here.

[Zubuis]

Just wondering how other groups handle/deal with Fistule's adds?

[rog]

Ah - okay. So as long as that ratio beats 1.15, then it would win over HQ staff, correct? Thanks, I think I can take it from here.

Assuming macc isn't an issue, yes.

[Maxwell]

Just wondering how other groups handle/deal with Fistule's adds?

Diaga -> Run away.

They will lose aggro and despawn pretty fast.

[Draylo]

What about charmga? Anyway to stun it or should we just kite the mob until melee uncharm?

It runs pretty fast but sometimes it goes around the long way through bad pathing.

[miokomioko]

at least
1 Role Reversal
1 Ventriloquy
rest Fine-Tuning

as for group 1, ur choice really, but melee is prolly best option as all frames melee

What he said,

5 Magic Skill
5 Melee Skill

1 Role Reversal
1 Ventriloquy
3 Fine-Tuning
5 Optimization

This is your best potential as a PUP. (Which is based mostly on Spiritreaver nuking)

[Dooom]

Any obvious improvements to my Mordent Rime set? Threw it together quickly from pieces I had kicking around. Dagger is an unfinished Dex Daikini, I need to be less lazy and kill Golems. Related question I suppose: should I just stick with Joytoy offhand, or is there a quick dagger I could do which would be an improvement for bard? And should I use OA2-3 dagger when I have completed it or Joytoy? Keep in mind this is just for basic stuff like city dynamis and maybe the odd party where I'm not pulling, so nothing too tough.

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2672/mordent.jpg

[Nightfyre]

STR ring would probably be better unless the DEX ring is augmented or you need acc. Tumbler Trunks also come to mind.

[Yugl]

Pokemon Dats?

[Dooom]

Forgot all about Tumbler Trunks; they're also much cheaper than I expected. Thank you!

Also, re-post of earlier question from a few days ago, spots for Peistes for Dagger trial? J-5 at Grauberg has way too many beastmen around to be fun.

[rog]

Pokemon Dats?

I've got most of them at http://www.filefront.com/17207006/pokemon.zip/ . Not sure if that's all of them, but most are there.

[Pendulum]

Is there a general consensus for RNG merits?

[Clerix]

How do latent rings work with HP boosts in Abyssea? Do you have to alter your -hp setup for it to work with HP boost active?

bump.