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

[NotGreyheim]

interested in this as well. last i tried to pull one of those all four came, but that was when it was first introduced, so...

Yeah, all 4 still come when one is pulled :/

[Deathbringer]

Does TH affect the rate of getting abyssite of celerity from tonberries (to the one that aggros/pulls it)? 0/40 on it ><

[Massimo]

Does TH affect the rate of getting abyssite of celerity from tonberries (to the one that aggros/pulls it)? 0/40 on it ><

No. It took me 16, 43, 90~ and then 9 kills to get my four. Random is random.

[Byrthnoth]

Several things:
* Fast cast caps at 50% cast time reduction, like cure cast and song casting time.
* I am not entirely convinced that new area abyssea mobs don't have ridiculous base stats.

* What kind of drop rate are people seeing on seals off force pop NMs? Sans thief I went 4/6 with 3 of those dropping off the 2 we triggered grellow !! on. So 1/4 without !! Am I unlucky, or does the drop rate suck? Quest spamming looks like the more time efficient option if this is normal.

[Maxwell]

Honestly I've been moving away from the 5-hit Keito's due to spending a lot of time in abyssea. With Eve's atma and low manning most of the abyssea NMs, I find myself with TP overflow a larger percentage of the time and any TP overflow pulls DPS ratings of Keito much lower than other options.

I keep going back to it, but I'd say the Fire GK path is still the "safest" option if you're not going to do relic/empyrean/WoE+1.

[Ocara]

Several things:
* Fast cast caps at 50% cast time reduction, like cure cast and song casting time.
* I am not entirely convinced that new area abyssea mobs don't have ridiculous base stats.

* What kind of drop rate are people seeing on seals off force pop NMs? Sans thief I went 4/6 with 3 of those dropping off the 2 we triggered grellow !! on. So 1/4 without !! Am I unlucky, or does the drop rate suck? Quest spamming looks like the more time efficient option if this is normal.

Drop rates i've seen are usually only 0-2 seals without triggering weakness, but you can usually hit grellow as long as you've got a rdm so unless you're soloing them, pop nms aren't a bad way to get seals. With grellow weakness it usually seems 2-4 seals drop, with repeats allowed. Even with as few as mnk/rdm/whm i've killed quite a few pop nms in 5-10 mins. So unless you've got an extremely quick quest, or don't have friends with the right jobs available, I'd say pop nms are a pretty time-efficient way to get seals (providing the nm in question isn't a bitch to lowman for whatever reason.)

[Fereydoon]

I've heard it was possible to solo farm coins in WoE. Any good strats for doing this? I'm looking to farm Coins of Decay for my Hiradennotachi(+1). I tried crabs as sam/dnc... but there was a group of 4 right on the stairs, so I couldn't pull one away.

I haven't seen a drop personally. BUT, there is one lone crab in the corner to the right of those stairs, if you kill him others will come. Might get lucky and one will get left alone etc.

Just make sure when you kill it you run '16 away so the new ones don't aggro you.

[Byrthnoth]

Okay, I guess granite borer just wasn't putting out then. We got 1 and 2 with grellow !!, only one cast of the offending spell. SCH friend and I were killing him yesterday and having shit luck. Farming the pop items and spamming all our spells was taking a lot of time. Next time we will probably seriously have the SCH sub thief and use the MKE atma.

[Dooom]

Without thf it's pretty dire, but with th4 I'm normally getting 2 seals per mob with no !!s. But I will point out that NMs drop things other than seals! Can make a nice bit of pocket money from them.

[Ocara]

Okay, I guess granite borer just wasn't putting out then. We got 1 and 2 with grellow !!, only one cast of the offending spell. SCH friend and I were killing him yesterday and having shit luck. Farming the pop items and spamming all our spells was taking a lot of time. Next time we will probably seriously have the SCH sub thief and use the MKE atma.

We've been buying pop items when possible to waste less time farming items too. Worth a little gil to save time in abyssea imo. I guess it might be hard for stuff like wams that nobody ever wants to kill, though.

[Byrthnoth]

Yeah, we hit jeuno after our run and got pops again. TH, TH atma, grellow, and probably a 15 minute kill without 2-hour (mostly due to spell spamming delay while we try for grellow). Also, neither of us are 85 yet. It is a very convenient NM though. We want 3/4 of it's drops. Also, the wamouras were IT, so someone must kill them. Only 4 pops on AH though (we got 2 for next time).

[Ocara]

Can anyone post an idiot's guide to lowmanning iron giants? I've tried with a few friends doing blm x1-2 / sch / rdm but i've never really done anything with pinning and it always ends up raping someone with a stun hit x2 or 800-1200 damage ws at some point when we've tried. Getting frustrated at reports of being able to solo them and we can't seem to do it with 3-4.

Also where is the pin spot for the giant in attohwa? In the abyssea attohwa thread someone said "the rock to the west of conflux 00 with a hole in it" but not only is the entire area rocks with holes between them, we kited it around most of the rocks in that area and it always liked to either attack through them or walk right over them. I'm wondering exactly which rock it is.

[Souj]

reasking this because it most likely got lost right at the end of the last page;

I just found out recently they they added "Cardian Prototypes" to the game. ( I haven't played for a while), and I was curious as to what they looked like.
There was an Vanadiel Tribune article a long time ago explaining prototype cardians that looked way different than regular ones and I always thought it'd be pretty cool to see them... but, I'm willing to wager they look exactly the same.
bah, I can't even find that article anymore.

[Fereydoon]

I haven't seen any thing that looks cardianesque. So it's probably just an npc with a cardian model.

[Salodin]

Why is it that almost every screenshot I see on these forums for ffxi have people that never check their damn email? I don't know why but I find it kind of annoying...

[Darkmagi]

Most people have no damn clue what their mail password is.

[ronin sparthos]

reasking this because it most likely got lost right at the end of the last page;

Im pretty sure (90%) that the Cardian Prototypes that come out of the Belfry are the same skin as normal cardians with a different jobset.

[Salodin]

I don't get why people would use a password they'd never remember...the second I get an email in game I need to log out and check it (mid party, mid event, I don't give a fuck), that blinking in the top corner is so damn annoying.

[Deader2818]

Would the Lizard in Coast be duoable for RDM leg seals? People in my group are low on time and id rather kill an NM then deal with the quests.

[Yugl]

How many kills does it take to cap out lights? With Kismet?

Edit: Solo.