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

[Epysian]

Leveling RDM, its at 49 now. What is a good order to buy staves in? I can't afford them all at the moment, but plan on it eventually.

Dark for Sleeps/Drains/Aspirs
Ice for Bind/Blizzard/Paralyze
Wind for Gravity
Earth for Slow
Light for cures.

Those are the most important ones. You can live without Fire, Water and Thunder for now, but you should aim to buy them all. Thunder is good for THunder III nuking, and Water is good for sticking Poison II if you have an issue sticking it to tougher mobs.

[Amele]

I'll take that challange!

Generally to get a better look, use multipliers of the overlay resolution for the background resolution. (1.5-2.0 multiplier gives a good look imo, use less if fps drops too much.)

continuing!

oversampling the background res is a hack to get some of the effect of Anti-aliasing in a game that doesn't actually support AA.

square resolutions are because old cards (and I mean *old* kiddies, like back when 3dfx still existed.. ) could draw square images faster due to hardware path designs relating to being optimized for only equilateral triangles.

newer hardware isn't really optimized for this, so using a square res today is giving you an inconsistent AA effect (more compression on vertical lines, less on horizontal etc.) and you should use a non-square background image with any modern card.

[Rehn]

Can do faith with just MNK/NIN WHM/SCH and THF/WHM, all 80. WHM may need to use a yag drink or 2, but that's how I've been killing all mines since update. If the MNK has merits/good gear, then I'd recommend carbonara; if the MNK is average, then pizza should be better.

Eyeballing, and I don't notice myself evading much. I wouldn't count on evasion unless you're willing to gear for it (or have both cor and brd). And even then, just going all out on offensive buffs would be way faster.

[zagex]

If I quatermaster myself, and a rare/ex item drops that I already have, does it get floored or stay in pool?

goes to pool

[Mercilessturtle]

You need cure V, I wouldn't try leaving out the whm. If you don't bring rdm you have no gravity to recover from stonega+cleave, but pops are easy to get so it's up to you if that matters. You're better off having the thf go /whm to do the erases and blindnas (and stona if they are 80) so the whm can rest more rather than have them give a 2 tick evokers. And if you leave out the rdm, then the thf has to /whm, and your whm could have mp issues. Don't bother trying to evade, it just drags the fight out longer, making the only dangerous thing more likely to happen. Normal hits aren't going to kill you, getting unlucky with a stonega+cleave is.

[Diddy Kong]

Gonna try with MNK WHM RDM THF BRD

[Yugl]

Is it too late at this point in the game to consider building a relic? With Trial of Magians introduced, it doesn't seem that Relics will be trumped ever. I'd like some opinions, is all. I can make maybe 3-4 mil a month. I wonder if the gil farming for relic or the hunting for currency would be tougher.

Depending on the relic, it's most likely to be outclassed by other magian weapons already. Furthermore, even if Magian weapons brings it's tier up to par, you'll spend months doing the 1k+ Magian WS quests. In short, you spend months doing a relic and then months doing magians just to make your relic worthwhile. Pointless? I would say so.

[evilpaul]

Where the hell are the Sea Monk mobs in Arrapago Reef? I need to proc 350x on them for a Magian quest and SSG is overrun by people.

[requim]

Honestly haven't done Faith in forever so I forget how hard and frequent his moves are.

The main factors are just having two people who can stona, a main mage and a back up healer (THF, BRD, etc). Once you have those two things is when I was considering altering the setup.

Assuming you have two people who can benefit from evoker's roll you essentially negate the difference in MP from refresh sources that would have been gained (ie ballading three people gives you 9 MP, ballading and evoking two people will give 8-10).

Then you include the fact that the THF could give the MNK a roll. In a good situation this could be chaos/hunters and help kill faster, in a bad situation you could do ninja or margus rolls to help recoup some of the healing ability lost from going /COR.

Even after breaking even on MP refreshed per minute and reducing the healing needed (either faster kill or more evasion/MDB), the THF would still be able to Wind Shot once a minute for a pretty decent amount of damage, as well as whatever damage they could have originally contributed from SA/TA.

Plus you add in the fact that a huge portion of the thief population consists of people's mules solely existing for the purpose of TH so giving them two responsibilities every 2.5 minutes can result in a substantial increase in sustained effectiveness as opposed to alt tabbing every several minutes for a couple more curing.

Good luck with the torque though DK!

[Kalisa]

Where the hell are the Sea Monk mobs in Arrapago Reef? I need to proc 350x on them for a Magian quest and SSG is overrun by people.

There's no one place they're gathered--you just find one on an island here, one tucked away in a corner over there, that kind of thing.

The ones in LoO should be of level to give exp to you--barely. They're 55-59, I believe the cutoff for exp is 56?

[requim]

Depending on the relic, it's most likely to be outclassed by other magian weapons already. Furthermore, even if Magian weapons brings it's tier up to par, you'll spend months doing the 1k+ Magian WS quests. In short, you spend months doing a relic and then months doing magians just to make your relic worthwhile. Pointless? I would say so.

The exact same reasoning exists for those moogle empyrean weapons as well, so relic/mythic/empyrean are all essentially not worth the effort if you don't plan to play for long after FFXIV is released.

If you aren't current on the trial they will be inferior to fully quested trial weapons, which at least for many jobs makes the fire and STP/WS weapons by far the most powerful since they are a bajillion times easier to complete.

[Diddy Kong]

Honestly haven't done Faith in forever so I forget how hard and frequent his moves are.

The main factors are just having two people who can stona, a main mage and a back up healer (THF, BRD, etc). Once you have those two things is when I was considering altering the setup.

Assuming you have two people who can benefit from evoker's roll you essentially negate the difference in MP from refresh sources that would have been gained (ie ballading three people gives you 9 MP, ballading and evoking two people will give 8-10).

Then you include the fact that the THF could give the MNK a roll. In a good situation this could be chaos/hunters and help kill faster, in a bad situation you could do ninja or margus rolls to help recoup some of the healing ability lost from going /COR.

Even after breaking even on MP refreshed per minute and reducing the healing needed (either faster kill or more evasion/MDB), the THF would still be able to Wind Shot once a minute for a pretty decent amount of damage, as well as whatever damage they could have originally contributed from SA/TA.

Plus you add in the fact that a huge portion of the thief population consists of people's mules solely existing for the purpose of TH so giving them two responsibilities every 2.5 minutes can result in a substantial increase in sustained effectiveness as opposed to alt tabbing every several minutes for a couple more curing.

Good luck with the torque though DK!

Well, fucking mages screwed that up. So no torque for me.

[Eliane]

Whats the repop on Chuwka? Is it an hour exactly or something like 60-90min? (Ada NM, abyssea tahrongi)

[Leolai]

I haven't been arsed to look into the magian options for thf yet, but is there any options worthwile to do to replace my old trusted blau/sirocco combo?

[Neosutra]

Whats the repop on Chuwka? Is it an hour exactly or something like 60-90min? (Ada NM, abyssea tahrongi)

I've killed it and had it now be up 50 min later, and killed it and had it be up 30 min later.

I'd say 30-60 min repop.

[Aristio]

What is the highest accuracy food in the game? And which one gives the biggest bang for it's buck. What food should I be using the most?

Level 80 PLD/40 SAM
Level 80 TOM GS with +4 STP
Full Perle, Swift, Sharpeye Mantle, Brutal/Etheral, Rajas/Acc+7 ring, PCC, Pole Strap
4 GS merits
Balm Satchet too

[rog]

What is the highest accuracy food in the game? And which one gives the biggest bang for it's buck. What food should I be using the most?

bream sushi+1, bream sushi+1, pizza+1.

[Fiarlia]

For the Sorc Ring, does food factor into the equation for the max base HP? Cream Puffs have HP-10, so I'm wondering if I take Max HP (minus ring/back/convert hp|mp gear) and subtract the 10 HP before multiplying by .76 to get the number I need to hit, or does it work kinda like Z.Mitts where it lowers your HP but doesn't affect calculations?

Thanks in advance. Freakin' level cap making me have to rework latent triggers.

[rog]

Yes food affects it.

[Zephirian]

Nevermind: Seems what I was looking for was right under my nose.