Random Question Thread XIII: If You Get Linked Here, You're Retarded

[Mrbeansman]

Is there a viable way to get a 5 hit with keitonotachi without usu feet or should I stick with hagun?

[Akyrey90]

any low men strategy for Scouting the Ashu Talif,Royal Painter Escort and Targeting the Captain?

any1? even normal strategy would be cool to know!i heard blu and blms r good,just that

[Yugl]

any1? even normal strategy would be cool to know!i heard blu and blms r good,just that

BLU/BLM/RDM + PDT sets. Melees can work too, but AoEs make it easier. For the monkey, get someone to kite the other dude + have a normal TP burn set up for the main NM. TP burn for the last one too if I remember (Did this 2yrs+ ago though...).

[fredjanx]

Always use apradar to make sure no one is in range, and it's perfectly safe. If someone IS is range, invisible can be used so they can't see you (NEVER speed/pos hack without invis, since you never know when someone will come in range of you), though there is some risk, since they may be using apradar themselves, or true sight, or might just happen to tab onto you.

Just saw this, but Mappy lets you see who is tabbing what.

[rog]

misread

[Slynkee]

whats the best strat for tiamat these days, every shell on alexander still does sleep on the ground nuke in the air. So was just curious to what was the best way to go about killing him faster than that and what jobs for any fighting while on the ground, thanks

[rog]

Safest way is the tank/sleep on ground, fastest is to dd on ground, nuke in air.

[Jimothy]

Retarded question: Is it possible to connect a blackberry or droid to a PS2 and use it as a USB keyboard in anyway?

[Apnea]

When you walk around a zone, only monsters within viewing range (50") are 'loaded' on your screen. The client sends a 0x16 PCNPCRequest packet (as it was called back in the Project XI days) which requests a PC or NPC based on a given Target ID. The target ID can be found for each monster in the monster list .dats for each zone. This is how the game normally works.

What ApRadar does is it requests all target IDs for a given zone, even those out of range of your character, giving you a 'widescan' like effect. There are no checks server side to see if you are actually in range of this monster, or even if the monster is alive; the server blindly replies with a location. Some HNMLSes use trimmed down versions which only request the ID of certain HNMs e.g. Dark Ixion but it uses the same method (but only sends packets for HNMs).

In other words, ApRadar gets the location of monsters by sending requests to the server, which is extremely dangerous since it can be very easily found by SE. Windower plugins however like TParty read active memory (RAM on your computer) which is a lot safer since you aren't altering anything, merely reading memory on your own computer. Writing to memory for things like gamma adjustments/spellcast/etc are also fairly safe, since SE doesn't/can't in some cases read your process memory for any changes you've made.

The problem is that it only really takes a simple distance check between PC and Target to find out "hey you shouldn't be able to do that, BANT." server-side to screw you over.

To put it in more perspective, it's easier to find out you're using ApRadar than it is to find out you're using a claim bot.

Just to clarify this. 100% of it is wrong. The client does not send a 0x16 for each mob. Mobs in range are transmitted automatically from the server to you. There is a 16 packet that is used to request the server for a mob pos out of range, but it is rarely used. The game will occasionally use it to spawn an important mob. Now that all being said, ApRadar 2 or 3 don't use packets and don't send anything to the server. They get the mob ID's from the DATs not the server and merely read what is in memory. When you move outside the range of a mob, it stays in memory, but you don't get any updated data from the server about it. You will only see the last location, hp etc at the time it left your 50' range. ApRadar will show you this if you enable show all, however it is far from a widescan.

As for your claim about a distance check between pc and target. I don't even know what this has to do with ApRadar. It doesn't target anything for you, or let you target mobs out of range.

To clarify, ApRadar does not use packets. Does not request anything from the server. It merely reads what is in the memory of your pc. There is no way for SE to determine that you are using Apradar short of them Process scanning (which they don't) or you shouting "Hey guys look I can see this mob though the wall. Thanks ApRadar!"

I do love that you claim to know how ApRadar works though. FAIL...

[Cream Soda]

Just got a Brisk mask. As someone w/ Mnk drg cor pup dnc, what is the best way to utilize this?

Mnk would work for footwork build, but I expect footwork to be dying off soon anyways when the magian h2hs get stronger.

As for cor and dnc, use over turban when acc uncapped and/or drops x/hit?

For drg, this paired w/ haste body?

As for pup, I only use mage frames anyways, so I don't see any use for this at all.

[tonystigma]

You can use a Droid for a PC keyboard with GMote.

[Fottiti]

whats the best strat for tiamat these days, every shell on alexander still does sleep on the ground nuke in the air. So was just curious to what was the best way to go about killing him faster than that and what jobs for any fighting while on the ground, thanks

2 DD/nin (sam works best since gekko can overcome his defense which is considerable and keep hasso up at same time), Pld/nin, Rdm/Brd/Whm for tank party. Fill other parties with blms/cor/smn whatever and use accordingly.

Any linkshell that uses sleep on tia for anything other than recovering from double/triple roar is terrible and should commit mass suicide

[Nightfyre]

his defense which is considerable

Eh? Could be wrong but a difference that drastic would surprise me.

EDIT: Anybody having issues with random NPCs completely failing to load? One of my shellmates had to wait an hour to enter Abyssea today because the NPC for using stones didn't load on the first attempt and just now the WG warp NPC in Windurst didn't load for me. Wondering what's up and if this is ongoing or recent.

[dem0nfr0g]

any1? even normal strategy would be cool to know!i heard blu and blms r good,just that

2x BLU with AoE spells (Frypan is awesome) does really well on the first tier. Get a RDM/COR/BRD for some support and a healer and you should be set.

2x DD/SAM and a "popper" for the T2. Go in, Med up to 200+ TP before you open the door. Have the popper hang out in the back of the boat and be ready to claim fomors with damaging spell/attacks ect (no damage Ja's and whatnot, voke won't work). When the captain pops sekka WS>WS. We made a Light SC to make sure he died. He should be dead before anything bad happens.

2-3 DD/nin + a healer can prolly end up doing the captain T3. One of the DD/nin grab the captain if you can't sneak attack the monkey and kite him up and down the stairs near where you enter. The remaining 2 DDs and the healer kill monkey and let the healer full rest (kiting the captain isn't hard). Then just slow and steady on the captain, make sure you are trading hate as he hits pretty hard.

[Gun-it]

Just got FFXI on pc.
What are the links for usefull plugins and windower?
Also how did I get say a Xbox 360 controller to work on my pc for FFXI?

[rog]

Just got FFXI on pc.
What are the links for usefull plugins and windower?

windower.net

Spellcast, recast, statustimer, yarnball, tickle, timestamp, distance, blinkmenot, silence, tparty, light luggage, and logger are typically the useful plugins you'll want, depending on job, etc. Most of those should come with the windower download, grab the rest that don't.

[psubond]

having problems finding a solid answer. what is the max number of traverser stones you can store on NPC?

[rog]

Was my answer on alla not good enough?

edit: oh, you posted here a minute before i posted. Well, do you have that little faith in alla that you need to crosspost it here 30 seconds later? God some times it takes me more than a minute.

[Katoke]

Does Mappy do the same thing with detecting VNMs and shit?

[Khidir]

EDIT: Anybody having issues with random NPCs completely failing to load? One of my shellmates had to wait an hour to enter Abyssea today because the NPC for using stones didn't load on the first attempt and just now the WG warp NPC in Windurst didn't load for me. Wondering what's up and if this is ongoing or recent.

can say that (Rarely) even the maw doesnt load I dced in la theine plateau in vicinity of the maw, logged back on to find no maw; people were there and entering even ran through the space where the maw was suppossed to be and nothing.

Of course I rezoned and there it was but it was still funny, not npc related but its not the only stuff that randomly dissapears possibly npc displacement? its happened in low jueno for years where you'd see the waag deeg shop npcs inside the gobbie shops.

sorry that doesnt directly address the question