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

[Brown Belt]

I see a lot of people talking about their Cure1-5 builds and recently I've become interested in how I should be gearing for each? Currently I have a blanket 1-5 set which is generally focused on Cure Potency/MND, with of course enmity- and a bit of haste mixed. I'm assuming for cure4 I should be focused on -enmity, but what kind of difference should I have between my Cure 1/2/3/5 sets?

[Amelya]

For some reason my windower started crashing today when I use a macro for a JA or WS. I'm not sure if it's the wait in the macro, or the actual ability being used that's doing it. Anyone know a reason/fix?

Edit: seems it's the wait that is doing it, but I've been using these macros forever...

[rog]

I see a lot of people talking about their Cure1-5 builds and recently I've become interested in how I should be gearing for each? Currently I have a blanket 1-5 set which is generally focused on Cure Potency/MND, with of course enmity- and a bit of haste mixed. I'm assuming for cure4 I should be focused on -enmity, but what kind of difference should I have between my Cure 1/2/3/5 sets?

Cure1-3 shouldn't really have any mnd in it, because it's unlikely to even increase it by even 1 hp. Cure4 generally won't change much either, but you can increase it a slightly decent amount (ie 10-20 hp with like 50 mnd). Cure5 actually gets a good bonus from mnd, so you should stack mnd as much as you can for cure5.

Basically: cure5 full mnd, everything else cure potency onry.

You can always plug some numbers into a calculator to see how much you need to increase them all by 1, and use that much mnd.

[Onorgul]

@Pendulum:
Group 1 should be Rapid Shot and Camouflage. Used to be you'd get Unlimited Shot in there, but since Unlimited Shot shares a cooldown with Double Shot and the latter is far better, Camouflage is the way to go.

Group 2 is a little more flexible. Snapshot is always a good idea. Some people like at least one merit into Flashy Shot for damage screenshots and such. Considering a Ranger should have at least a little -Enmity kicking around in his kit, 5 points into Stealth Shot probably isn't necessary (-50 Enmity is the cap).

[Clerix]

I see a lot of people talking about their Cure1-5 builds and recently I've become interested in how I should be gearing for each? Currently I have a blanket 1-5 set which is generally focused on Cure Potency/MND, with of course enmity- and a bit of haste mixed. I'm assuming for cure4 I should be focused on -enmity, but what kind of difference should I have between my Cure 1/2/3/5 sets?

Well, the main difference between my sets are enmity and MND distribution.

Cure 1-4 specific I use: Mirror Tiara, Tamas/Troopers, Errant Cape, and Spectral Belt. Cure 5 I change to: Teal Chapeau, Tamas/Star, Aslan, and Penitent's Rope.

I mostly focus on more -enmity for 1-4, and more +mnd on 5.

[Brown Belt]

Well, the main difference between my sets are enmity and MND distribution.

Cure 1-4 specific I use: Mirror Tiara, Tamas/Troopers, Errant Cape, and Spectral Belt. Cure 5 I change to: Teal Chapeau, Tamas/Star, Aslan, and Penitent's Rope.

I mostly focus on more -enmity for 1-4, and more +mnd on 5.

I appreciate the help! Thanks for the quick answers Rog/Clerix.

[Clerix]

I appreciate the help! Thanks for the quick answers Rog/Clerix.

No problem.

Also: Medicine Ring would be better than Tamas for 1-4, and better than Star for 5. Pythia Sash/+1 would most likely be the best belt for cures since it has both MND+5 and Enmity-4. I'm not sure if I'd want to give up 4 enmity for 2 MND except for Cure5 (new abyssea belt)

[Guitarman]

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.

Pashow S, halfway through the zone theres quite a few. IT+ far south so avoid that.

[Khajit]

General price for a wyrm beard or a speed belt?
I'm going to try and sell a beard tomorrow if i can.
Speed belt is just wishful thinking.

[Brown Belt]

No problem.

Also: Medicine Ring would be better than Tamas for 1-4, and better than Star for 5. Pythia Sash/+1 would most likely be the best belt for cures since it has both MND+5 and Enmity-4. I'm not sure if I'd want to give up 4 enmity for 2 MND except for Cure5 (new abyssea belt)

Yeah, generally I use karka/medicine for cure5. Depending if I'm in situation where I don't mind having the lower HP for med ring. Eventually I'll get off my ass and post gear sets too for some real input.

[Yugl]

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.

Nice nice! I have a friend giving me more, so hopefully I catch em all!

[Eleven19]

Any known connection issues tonight or is my router just cock blocking my PS2?

[nnbina]

Hi, I'm playing on laptop and stuck in the "walking" mode, can't run. Is there a way to fix it? I remember that you need to hit the key next to the numlock, but I don't have it on laptop... Any help is appreciated.

[evilpaul]

Any known connection issues tonight or is my router just cock blocking my PS2?

Not particularly intensive use of BitTorrent on my PC tends to make my PS2 d/c constantly. (Also, Comcast just sucks balls some days.)

[Eleven19]

Not particularly intensive use of BitTorrent on my PC tends to make my PS2 d/c constantly. (Also, Comcast just sucks balls some days.)

Seems to be working now after disconnect/connect in router settings until I found an IP address the PS2 found worthy enough..

So onto actual nonsense. Need a spot to get 12 gay ass lizards under any weather to actually finish the first tier of this katana TotM. Kuftal's weather for the past 3 days has been up for 30 seconds to 5 minutes and then disappearing.

Also, because I know its going to be a problem, fire/thunder/wind/light weather for fungars excluding the tree?

[Clerix]

Yeah, generally I use karka/medicine for cure5. Depending if I'm in situation where I don't mind having the lower HP for med ring. Eventually I'll get off my ass and post gear sets too for some real input.

I have two different WHM books. One forcing latents, and one without forcing latents. It wasn't hard to make a 2nd set of cure macro .txt scripts. Typically I force latent, but stuff like Arrapago Remnants and other areas where forcing HP might be dangerous I just use Tamas/Trooper or Tamas/Star Ring.

[Onorgul]

Hi, I'm playing on laptop and stuck in the "walking" mode, can't run. Is there a way to fix it? I remember that you need to hit the key next to the numlock, but I don't have it on laptop... Any help is appreciated.

I'm going to guess that you have the compact keyboard layout by default. At that point, the R key should toggle autorun.

[Shadida]

And by R you mean Z, which toggles walk/run.

RE: RNG merits

As noted previously, it used to be Rapid Shot 5 and Unlimited Shot 5, but now that r/e ammo isn't as advantageous and Double Shot shares the timer, take your US merits out and put them in Camouflage.

Group 2, I have 5/5 Snapshot, 1 Flashy and 4 Stealth and wouldn't take that back for anything. People will argue Snapshot is hard to take full advantage of, but it's better to have it than not. IMO you only need 1 in Flashy since a lot of things don't benefit from it much (especially in instanced zones like Dynamis/Limbus) and for everything else, the fight isn't gonna take much longer than 15 minutes anyway. Stealth Shot is amazing, it makes a huge difference in when you can WS especially if you load it up like I did. It also stacks with Flashy Shot so if you have more than 1 in it, you still get Enmity- overall (assuming Flashy Shot is +10 - this is not tested).

One extra note on Stealth Shot - the cap from gear and Enmity Decrease merits is 50 total. However, you can have 50 additional Enmity- from JAs such as Camouflage and Stealth Shot. This was tested on Kaeko's enmity testing. Multiply the two together to get the real reduction - so Enmity-50 from gear/merit and Enmity-50 from JA gives you an effective Enmity-75. So no matter what sort of Enmity- gear you have, you can still benefit from 4/5 or 5/5 Stealth Shot.

[rog]

Nice nice! I have a friend giving me more, so hopefully I catch em all!

Any not in there send my way przz.

[Yugl]

Apparently it was his friend on AIM BSing. Lame!