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

[Dathus]

For Corsair, how good is Martial Gun compared to other options for both slugshot and detonator?

Martial Gun is still number one, aside from the max damage paths. The ones past the Magnatus stage.

[Koyangi]

Confused how to do my DNC merits, currently 5/5 Haste Samba, advice on rest of t1 and t2 please.

[Darkmagi]

Reverse flourish 5/5, At least one in Fan/Saber, rest depends on play style really.

[Kalisa]

Confused how to do my DNC merits, currently 5/5 Haste Samba, advice on rest of t1 and t2 please.

Standard merits are 5 Haste Samba, 5 Reverse Flourish, 5 Closed Position, 3 No Foot Rise, 1 each Fan and Saber dance.

[Koyangi]

Thanks, I was leaning that way

[Fiarlia]

Tried in What's Better, no answer, gonna try it here:

Witch Sash, Searing Sash or Cognition Belt?

I know I should be getting rid of the Witch's Sash, Searing should give the same (ish) Macc for dark based, and I'll still have Penitent's for MND since I use it as part of my Sorc trigger set anyway.

Just not sure whether to go for Searing or Cognition.

[zagex]

Personally, I'd prefer Cognition belt because
1) Searing adds nothing to m.acc, whereas cognition has roughly the same m.acc as Witch Sash
2) Rdm can benefit from int to enfeebling
3) The damage should be very similar between the two
4) I don't want +enmity

[Nightfyre]

Did anything ever come of the Saber Dance discussion from a while back?

[spider123]

Completely unrelated, but Fiarlia who is that in your Avatar? :Q

[Byrthnoth]

Did anything ever come of the Saber Dance discussion from a while back?

No, it kind of died when it became obvious Kalisa was the only one who could contribute information. Also, we'd probably need to analyze the log attack-round by attack-round to really figure out what was going on.

Bottom line that I got out of it was that Saber Dance is (at most) probably +25% DA to start and drops off. It seems likely it drops off by number of attack rounds, rather than time, which makes it difficult to parse anyway.

[Nightfyre]

Alright. It'll be a little while before I can do so but I'll look into generating some data on it later.

[Fereydoon]

I think I might be going crazy, does Bolter's Roll seems to hit XI far more often then other rolls for people that aren't me?

[Fiarlia]

Personally, I'd prefer Cognition belt because
1) Searing adds nothing to m.acc, whereas cognition has roughly the same m.acc as Witch Sash
2) Rdm can benefit from int to enfeebling
3) The damage should be very similar between the two
4) I don't want +enmity

Thanks, all good points.

Completely unrelated, but Fiarlia who is that in your Avatar? :Q

No idea, I google image'd "sexy redheads" or something to that effect and scrolled until I saw a sufficiently hawt one. Sorry.

[hykiri]

Where is a good place to kill bombs in Vunkerl Inlet?

[Cairthenn]

Tried in What's Better, no answer, gonna try it here:

Cognition Belt is your only choice for nuking. Searing Sash is an awful nuking piece, you shouldn't really be using it for anything. If you're Enfeebling, I'd still stick with witch sash.

[Kalisa]

Alright. It'll be a little while before I can do so but I'll look into generating some data on it later.

It's just going to be really hard to get data for it considering the way the available parsers show data right now.

I still feel like the DA chance when you first pop the ability is extreme (70%+) with a very quick dropoff, possibly working like fan dance in that it drops by some amount for each hit you land. I just don't know how to easily parse this and other theories to be honest, because it IS obvious to me that the chance starts very high and levels out very quickly.

Anyone with ideas for hard testing is welcome to let me know and I'll go wail away on steelshells or something to see!

[TaruMortis]

I've just recently returned to the game and am pretty overwhelmed by all the new gear they added. My main intent is BLM and War.

BLM: I saw there were some magian weapons with affinty x element. Am I researching correctly by concluding they were less accurate than hq staves but deal more damage? If so, how much more?

Current gear for BLM (regular nuking, nothing huge with HNMs atm) Wiz hat +1, HQ staves, Genie weskit, moldy, novio, Snow ring, Tamas, Goliard clogs, sorc belt, prism cape, morrigan cuffs.

I've seen the Teal slops but am I not sure how they stack up with mahatma. Anything else I should be upgrading?

Warrior: Hauby +1, brutal earring, assault, dusk gloves, aurum feet, byakkos haidate, swift belt, w turban, snipers, PCC, perdu ax, fire bomblet. Weapon skill in mostly heca gear.

Thanks to anyone who can help me out ^^;

[Darkmagi]

10% more damage, also get an int +6 ring (not expensive) and ditch Tamas. Rajas for war all the way.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

How does one join or leave a LS on that fucking LS community LS beta site? I can't seem to rejoin my current LS.

[TaruMortis]

10% more damage, also get an int +6 ring (not expensive) and ditch Tamas. Rajas for war all the way.

Well, I'm also a rdm and whm but ty for the staff answer ^^