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

[Chen]

today i was shouting to fill up my group, wouldn't take a gimp BST, and they started abusing me in shout. this is why you shouldn't shout.

but really it's worked well for me.

any tips on manaburn tav? we're about to enter with
1meripo PT
5blms/rdm
3blms/2rdm/SAM

[Darkmagi]

Does anyone have a good torrent of FFXI with all expansions/add-ons?

[Marcicus]

Possible to kill Ninja Maat @ 66 using level up trick? 203 Katana skill; I won't be able to land any enfeebles.

[Rehn]

So my friend was swept up in the midst of the hackings on SE side and got his account stolen (he doesn't have a token). He got it back and they "started" the recovery, and 1.5 months later it still isn't done.

Anyone got experience on this recovery process crap? Or how long it took?

[DionyShiva]

With the partial defense ignore effect on YGK, does Smilodon Mantle+1 beat Amemet+1/Forager's for WS?

[Ned]

With the partial defense ignore effect on YGK, does Smilodon Mantle+1 beat Amemet+1/Forager's for WS?

The answer i've seen to this in this thread before has always been go with Smilo+1 for gekko due to the bonus as STR will be more use than the extra attack.

We just killed Adamastor 6 times and no key item for mega. Are we doing somethign stupid or its just shitty luck?

Bumping as no reply from a few pages back -- anyone know the answer please?
Thanks

[Sin Harvest]

I wanna take away 8 merits to cap hand to hand skill, Great katana or Polearm gots to go. Help me.....

[Dooom]

I would cancel GKT. The extra attack from those merits does less for GKT WS than the attack your polearm ones give Penta, plus samurai polearm base skill is lower than GKT anyway so the extra accuracy from your merits is more of an improvement, especially as for GKT you normally eat food for accuracy without worrying about attack. Hope that all makes sense.

[Sin Harvest]

Well for food I eat carbonara for a 5hit.

[gnat]

Could anyone give me the best order with justification to +1 SCH AF?

[Gergall]

I wanna take away 8 merits to cap hand to hand skill, Great katana or Polearm gots to go. Help me.....

You use GK in some situations and Polearm in other situations. I think that the best way to answer your question is to find out which events you care the most about with your SAM.

Then again, it's tough to gauge what the game will look like after each level cap increase. It's safe to say that GK will always be all-around good, but polearm's future is not 100% certain.

[NotGreyheim]

Are any pieces of the Teal set any good (aside from legs)? Currently wearing Demon Helm/NQ weskit/Zenith mitts(AF in high resist situations)/errant legs/rostrum pumps for nuking.

Don't have access to any salvage gear, nor am I looking to get it anytime soon. I hate salvage with a passion.

I'm thinking about getting the hat and legs for my Black Mage. They're the ones that seem to be better than my current nuking pieces just eyeballing. My other options are to get some Perle for my Samurai and my Warrior(already have feet), or some more Aurore for my Thief and eventually Dancer and Blue Mage (for which I already have legs and feet).

And in case anyone wants to rag on my blm gear, I know it's bad. That's why I'm trying to upgrade. It's the job I play least of all my 75+

[Atoreis]

Are any pieces of the Teal set any good (aside from legs)? Currently wearing Demon Helm/NQ weskit/Zenith mitts(AF in high resist situations)/errant legs/rostrum pumps for nuking.

Don't have access to any salvage gear, nor am I looking to get it anytime soon. I hate salvage with a passion.

I'm thinking about getting the hat and legs for my Black Mage. They're the ones that seem to be better than my current nuking pieces just eyeballing. My other options are to get some Perle for my Samurai and my Warrior(already have feet), or some more Aurore for my Thief and eventually Dancer and Blue Mage (for which I already have legs and feet).

And in case anyone wants to rag on my blm gear, I know it's bad. That's why I'm trying to upgrade. It's the job I play least of all my 75+

Salvage is best event ever!

[NotGreyheim]

Salvage is best event ever!

[Atoreis]

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Also Goliard feet? Yigit feet? Nyzuls and assaults also not cool events? XD

[Scritch]

I don't really shot BLM, but from my understanding Teal body should be better than NQ weskit, hat's INT+6 > demon's INT+5. Hands and boots look useless, but I'd grab them just for the Fast Cast.

Teal body is definitely more accurate than NQ weskit, and I'm pretty sure INT+6 MAB+4 > MAB+6

[NotGreyheim]

Also Goliard feet? Yigit feet? Nyzuls and assaults also not cool events? XD

I've got no problem with Nyzul or Assault, just with them sharing tags for access :/

edit:

I don't really shot BLM, but from my understanding Teal body should be better than NQ weskit, hat's INT+6 > demon's INT+5. Hands and boots look useless, but I'd grab them just for the Fast Cast.

Yeah, I was looking at the body, but I wasn't how the 4macc and 6int measured up to weskit's 1 extra MAB, 5 elemental skill and +2 CMP. Thanks

[AidenCarby]

Long story short, gf bought new computer and is going to install ffxi on it. We heard a rumor about something that would let you download all the ffxi updates much faster through just a plain old download. Is this true? and if so a link would be much appreciated. Or was it nothing more than just a rumor?

[Not Kuno]

On FFXIAH's point system thingy, how do you search your point ranking based on your ls? I know there was a way to do it but I can't find it any more.

[Ned]

On FFXIAH's point system thingy, how do you search your point ranking based on your ls? I know there was a way to do it but I can't find it any more.

Achievements from left menu >> top of page 2 options:
- Top Linkshells Overall
- Top Linkshells by Server

or click the number in brackets after LS name when looking at the member list.

http://www.ffxiah.com/achievements/linkshells