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

[Motenten]

What is the ideal set up for mnk's these days with out any usu gear. TP and WS please :3

Technically no single 'ideal'. Aside from issues of what gear you can actually acquire (eg: limited to AH, or Yilbegan drops ok? if Usukane is off limits, would think other hard-to-acquire gear is as well), there's a limit to how good certain gear is in certain scenarios. For example, in Abyssea with str buffs, and with fire path Taipan Fangs, it becomes extraordinarily easy to cap fStr, making the value of Str on other gear easily diluted (Shura body will usually outdo Osode for weaponskills, for example). Variables also change based on target mob and food being used.

I keep trying to write an answer, but it always comes down to the fact that the question is far too open-ended. Choice A beats choice B, unless working under condition x, or fighting mob y, or getting buff z. Choice C may be better than both, but is ludicrous to suggest due to difficulty in acquiring. If it were feasible for you to acquire, then you should know better in trying to formulate such a question and narrow the scope to something answerable.

What Phoenyx answered is certainly reasonably good, but it's also definitely not 'ideal'.

[Gun-it]

Is Ungur broken?

Been helping a friend camp it for a few hours now and the place holder in the room it pops in is not even poping.... Did the update break it? Got a friend waiting on GM atm.

[rog]

It's a lottery pop, nothing is unusual until at least 20 hours of kiling the ph.

[Gun-it]

Not even the PH is poping

[Carraway]

Not even the PH is poping

From wiki:

Lottery Spawn from a Typhoon Wyvern around E-9 or G-6 on the second map. Typhoon Wyverns spawn at both locations. The correct placeholder can spawn in both locations and can shift to either side every 16 min after killed. The correct placeholder always spawns in the back area of E-9, or at the front of G-6.

[Darkmagi]

The PH alternates rooms....

[Gun-it]

Triple post lag

[Gun-it]

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[Gun-it]

Guess its just weird that a PH has not poped in NM room for 4+hrs, Thanks for all the fast replays.

[rog]

Guess its just weird that a PH has not poped in NM room for 4+hrs, Thanks for all the fast replays.

Why is that weird? If you don't kill it, it can't possibly repop there...

[Gun-it]

Were killing the other PH too but just killed NM finally.

[evilpaul]

What zone are the mobs people can't find in the first three Abyssea zones? And antlions, I think?

[thalandor]

Do Nin gets DualWield V at 85 like it should?

[Midge]

I was having a moan in LS about my crappy luck with the Aqua Puraga quest when someone told me that the drop rate on the seals got nerfed since the emergency update? Is this true or are they just having crappy luck too?

Is there any figures on the drop rate of seals from these quests yet? Aqua Puraga I'm about 0/12 on any seal at the moment.

[Rehn]

I went 3/14 seals from boxwatcher's behest. It's all random as hell.

And does anyone know where kemas earring come from?

[Clash Perez]

And does anyone know where kemas earring come from?

It drops from Cep-Kamuy at Abyssea - Misareaux.

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[Diddy Kong]

Has anyone confirmed if conserve TP works on steps, waltzes, and sambas?

[Nightfyre]

It doesn't.

[Deftscythe]

Kokushitsunotachi with a 5hit setup that doesn't drop haste is the best nonrelic(IE: Usu body+feet). If you don't have usukane, keitonotachi+1 5hit is probably your best bet. Both beat Hagun.

I have Usu shoes, but I don't have the body and I don't expect to get it any time soon. I want to go with Keitonotachi+1 then? If so, which version?

[buddha_masta]

I have Usu shoes, but I don't have the body and I don't expect to get it any time soon. I want to go with Keitonotachi+1 then? If so, which version?

Definitely don't need the Haramaki to attain 5-hit, especially with 10 sTP now on weapon. There are many different configurations of sTP that you can work around, dl FFXICalculator and have at it. I'm sure a 5-hit Keitonotachi+1 is superior to a WS dmg+10% Keitonotachi that you have to 6-hit.

Also:

I'm trying to get my PS3 controller to work on my Win 7 pc but haven't installed any other games to test it out yet. This is a silly question but FFXI on pc has USB controller support right?