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

[Eldelphia]

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.

Teal Body is better than the weskit, teal legs are better than errant (lol) legs. Hat is nice to have but it's your call.

[requim]

Looking to improve my Rana build, any help would be appreciated:
Head: Usukane Somen
Neck: Snow Gorget
Earring1: Brutal Earring
Earring2: Hollow Earring
Body: Haubergeon+1
Hands: Enkidu Mittens
Ring1: Ulth
Ring2: Rajas
Back: Foragers
Belt: Warwolf
Legs: Shura
Feet: Perle

I plan to camp Virtuoso soon, not sure what Ring I should be using (Vulcans vs Sniper+1?)
Any help would be (again) appreciated

Rana has a TP accuracy bonus so I would think you would need more attack and strength than that amount of accuracy you have. O/B kotes over enkidu's, Aesir over Hollow, whatever your YGK hat is over somen, STR ring over Ulth etc.

I basically geared it like Yukki with extra focus on attack and then only went back to add any accuracy gear if necessary, though it is also mostly limited to relatively weak things so again - STR & ATK.

[Motenten]

Should I sell my Scorpion Harness+1 and get a Aurore Doublet for soloing?

How much acc is needed for Salvage bosses to cap?

What's the recommended salvage to do for a new group?

1) I would.

2) Each one is different. ZR I'd put around 390-400. SSR and AR have somewhat higher (perhaps +20). BR I think depends on which side chariot you kill.

3) I'd do Zhayolm or Bhaflau first. ZR because it's completely predictable, BR because you get tons of drops early on, mobs are easy, and you can let the big numbers you can hit on the rampart mobs distract you from the low pop/drop rates. ZR boss is far easier for new groups, though. BR can mess you up with Homing Missile if you're not good at pulling the gears.

[Wakabo]

I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or too lazy, but restarted playing ffxi again and downloaded the latest windower. I go to run it but not working, just get a blank gray box that I can click cancel.

[Thrustie]

Can Perfect Counter actually proc. more than once?

From a couple tests without counterstance up I've assumed:
- it doesn't wear off if counter proc.s normally
- still has an accuracy check and
- can only proc. once

I think the accuracy check is the only truth there. It can proc up to 3 times. It always does critical damage. It overrides normal counters (in my experience, anyways).

[TheTaru]

Anywhere better than Terrigan to kill beasts? Such an enormous clusterfuck of people there all the time, and no one wants to team up, so I only get 30~ kills/firesday.

Tired of playing Fafnirabbit.

[Onorgul]

Uleguerand Range for Beast kills. You can slaughter the tigers and bunnies up there very easily.

[requim]

Sync to 10 and go to Windy to kill rabbits. Soooooo many rabbits. Can get a hundred within an hour easy peasy.

[Anoat]

Uleguerand Range for Beast kills. You can slaughter the tigers and bunnies up there very easily.

Also the buffalo!

In similar fashion, a trial question myself...whats good place for 200 vermin fireday/weather? I've been doing Dragonfly in Meri Mountains [S] and they are super easy, just not many pops and spread far apart, and sometimes goblins or rafflesia will come over and say hi. Anything better short of level syncing into a chigoe burn?

[Onorgul]

I prefer Biddybugs in Jugner Forest [S] at J-4/J-5. There are seven in and around the hollow up there and they die easily (and profitably), perfect for solo kill speed given the 5 minute respawn rate.

[Khajit]

Window should be open immediately after maint.

Side question: Why do people boither camping this now that cap is 80? By the time you get one to drop, in all likelihood, the cap will have raised to 90. You're looking at a pretty short window of use <_<

rng and whm can use octave fully active as well. If you get either to 80 it seems like something fun to have. I dont know why they're starting that nm this late though. They get to miss out on other stuff they could be doing(like enjoying a fully active octave) because they decided to camp it late.

Also. can anyone please explain exactly why a gimp sj like /sam is being paraded around by dancers? /drg and /war seem like they would do far more even halfassedly than some shitty meditate every 3 minutes.

[ronin sparthos]

anyone ?

The T1s are a joke. Most self-sufficient jobs can solo.

[Khajit]

brd 80 able to solo em yet?(not 80 on it yet. just asking incase i can finally solo my t1 for my brd character)

[Thorny]

Come to think of it I haven't heard anything of people trying kraken zerg on Abyssea stuff, I'd imagine it would be pretty brutal with the cruor HP boost and the ton of new +HP gear they added.

If they have the SE resistance like AV/Ein bosses then o well to that then.

40% damage(with abyssite) and a few miscellaneous pieces of HP gear isn't going to compare to pdif caps getting easier and easier to hit and weapon base damage continually increasing on old mobs(and current abyssea mobs/etc) for real DD. At 80, MNK does 2/3 the damage of a kraken DRK during a zerg.. I can't see it not pulling ahead by 90. It might be competitive in abyssea(or even ahead by a little), provided of course that the mobs don't resist souleater, but it's certainly not coming anywhere close anywhere else. It's not like kraken drk will far surpass anything at 90/96.. granted it'll take forever to die, like the age of samurais and paladins.

[Amok]

pdif caps getting easier and easier to hit

How so?

[Thorny]

How so?

Did you read what I said? Unless you think all of current endgame is going out the window, going 80-90 will give you 50 attack, 10 lvcorrect, and some minor attack from STR. I did specify 'on older content' there <_<

[FailureMidgard]

Did you read what I said? Unless you think all of current endgame is going out the window, going 80-90 will give you 50 attack, 10 lvcorrect, and some minor attack from STR. I did specify 'on older content' there <_<

Not to mention level correction going down? Which helps everything besides a KC drk really.

[Chen]

thorny was the 40% you posted from the HP enhancement with abyssite?

cause my RDM went from 850~1100 ish, which is about a 30% boost

and failure i think thorny meant that by the 10lv. correct?

[FailureMidgard]

thorny was the 40% you posted from the HP enhancement with abyssite?

cause my RDM went from 850~1100 ish, which is about a 30% boost

and failure i think thorny meant that by the 10lv. correct?

Apparently I missed it, haha...trying to read BG on 2nd monitor while doing stuff in game makes me misread things at times! And there's an abyssite that increases the stat gain from Cruor buffs.

[ronin sparthos]

brd 80 able to solo em yet?(not 80 on it yet. just asking incase i can finally solo my t1 for my brd character)

If you can solo a T1 VNM outside Abyssea, you can solo a T1 inside it.