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

[Yugl]

How would you stop it from killing you with melee attacks? Is there a pin spot for it?

Also, if Avatar magic pacts produce 0 TP like the physical ones (and your summoner is competent enough to dismiss before the avatar is hit) that could be an option too.

Pin at the Lamprey spot? Never tried, but it seems feasible.

Also, I agree with rog's assessment. It sacrifices the convenience of those who answer for those asking questions.

[Snick]

I love this thread as is :s You don't even need a question to learn something D:

[rog]

Also, I agree with rog's assessment. It sacrifices the convenience of those who answer for those asking questions.

What? Just because you spend countless hours camping the thread to help quickly answer every question asked you think you're more important than everyone else!?

But yeah, seriously. Individual threads might be better for the majority (maybe?), but fuck the majority. There's about 5-10 of us or so that regularly check the thread to answer everyone's questions. We do all the work, so it should be whatever way is most convenient for us, which is a single thread.

[Yugl]

And lets be honest, if we're going to go with that plan, we may as well had not merged standard and advanced.

[jimbobsonofgod]

To be honest If you can just post on a main page what the best GK is, how much acc you need in a WS set and how come people still play sam, there would be about 4 questions asked a month instead of 3 every second.

[rog]

To be honest If you can just post on a main page what the best GK is, how much acc you need in a WS set and how come people still play sam, there would be about 4 questions asked a month instead of 3 every second.

Oh come on, it's more like 3 per day, not 3 per second.

[Fottiti]

Are there any pinning spots or kiting circuits that really mess up pathing in Abyssea-Tahrongi?

I have heard that there is a rock that people have used for corse but not sure if its suitable while solo.

[Kidnoftle]

The rock by corse isn't really great. If you ever dip into yellow, you're fucked. It also doesn't open up much if any time for casting anything besides bio/poison. There are some decent pin spots around chukwa and generally most martellos screw with mob pathing pretty well. I can't give an exact pos of the top of my head though, sorry.

[hykiri]

Is there a place to find what mobs drop what lights in Abyssea?

[rog]

The rock by corse isn't really great. If you ever dip into yellow, you're fucked. It also doesn't open up much if any time for casting anything besides bio/poison. There are some decent pin spots around chukwa and generally most martellos screw with mob pathing pretty well. I can't give an exact pos of the top of my head though, sorry.

It's not a great spot, no, but it works fine. Yellow hp is only an issue and half the time, and only on the north side. You can easily get nukes off without getting hit there too (kite clockwise, and you can easily nuke it from the south side, as it rounds the east).

It is a bit risky with the corse around, but it's not too big a deal as long as you can safely take 1-2 attack rounds while you cure yourself from the south side.

[Diddy Kong]

Auric/Dex/Astrolabe
25 Acc Salade/Soil Gorget/Brutal/Aesir
Mirke(10 acc/attack)/AF/Flame/Rajas
Amemet+1/Warwolf/Pahluwan/Etoile

Anything I can do to improve my Dancing Edge without spending a lot of cash or incredibly difficult drops? I'm just a semi-casual player. Also, can I just carry this over for Pyrrhic Kleos? Or would PK require a different build entirely?

[Plow]

Most people don't read every post, and there are some great discussions that occurred in this thread that most people don't see because it is just too dense and interrupted by other questions and posts.

It is a preferential difference really, nothing substantial, but in the end I just feel like a lot of the FFXI area has become too condensed. It may be time to expand on some successful ideas and give them space to grow.

There are other areas of the forum that could be pruned too, like the Aeon section, but that is a different discussion.

As long as they're not bitching about "zomg search the random question thread," I.E. as long as you can ask whatever the hell you want without having to worry about if it's been asked before, it's really fine because you can just ask again if no answers.

Anyway...

Anyone got a basic percentage of t2 abyssite changing to t3? My rates are sucking balls, hoping it's just a bad streak and not really going to be like this always >.>

[Nightfyre]

Auric/Dex/Astrolabe
25 Acc Salade/Soil Gorget/Brutal/Aesir
Mirke(10 acc/attack)/AF/Flame/Rajas
Amemet+1/Warwolf/Pahluwan/Etoile

Anything I can do to improve my Dancing Edge without spending a lot of cash or incredibly difficult drops? I'm just a semi-casual player. Also, can I just carry this over for Pyrrhic Kleos? Or would PK require a different build entirely?

Tumbler Trunks, Love Torque if you have it, Fierce/Virtuoso Belt (as appropriate), and while it's not really an improvement to your WS build (potentially the opposite in fact), consider redoing your hat augments.

[Kalisa]

Is there a "Gear Collector for dummies" guide out there anywhere?

I've downloaded it, I've read the guide included, and it's still not working. I set my windower directory... I think... but nothing happens. I have a global.xml in with my spellcast files, copied straight from the guide. I've edited my spellcast xml files to use the abbreviated gear names. I don't get an option to choose the windower instance, I don't see my character name anywhere, and most importantly, I don't see a list of the gear that's in my spellcast's dnc.xml. I'm sure I've skipped something, but I have no idea what.

[Diddy Kong]

I use the Salade for my MNK as well, but would it be worthwhile to get the H2H hachimaki, and the dagger one for WS, and change my Salade to CHR+6/Waltz recast -2?
Also, for Pyrrhic Kleos, do I just use the same as my Dancing Edge?

[Kyte]

The H2H headband will be a bit worse overall than the +25 Anwig, even if you don't need the full accuracy. Which job do you care about more? If DNC, then you should definitely change at least one of the augments (to Waltz -2). If not DNC, you may still want to consider it- in a practical sense, you probably will gain more from it. Theoretically you could still keep one of the augments as something WS-related.

[Nightfyre]

Theoretically you could still keep one of the augments as something WS-related.

^

STR +4 WSACC+15 CHR+4 Waltz recast-2 is a pretty nice piece. I toyed around with various options (have BLU, DNC, leveling MNK for Anwig jobs) and eventually settled on that combination after a discussion here a while back.

EDIT: Yes, you can use the same setup for PK. One option I didn't cover is AF+1/Rutter Sabatons for feet if you're overcapping accuracy.

[Byrthnoth]

I'd go full on CHR+6, Waltz recast -2. That said, casual players don't have access to Chloris.

[Nightfyre]

Issen Hachimaki doesn't really help MNK, though the H2H Hachimaki does grant a skill tier currently so it would be comparable to STR+4 WSACC+15 depending on your WS of choice... Hmm.

Lowman strat for Glavoid? I'm leaning towards using melee for damage but if TP is a serious issue I'd like to know so we can move to a mage-heavy setup. Anything other than hate reset I should watch out for on BW?

[Tortalius]

question: Soil Gorget is worse than Love torque for Dagger wses? as a DNC?