Random Question Thread XIV: No Not XIV, XI

[rog]

Salvage is a dying sport and most mobs are blink tanked/kited/pinned now.

Because blink tanking is almost never needed anymore. With 2-3k hp, there's little risk of dying, because you don't have shadows, and since healers always have infinite mp, there's no real benefit to blink tanking. You may as well hasso tank everything.

[Yugl]

Really now? I've been lolRDM/NIN burning everything, so I haven't tried that. Interesting concept to say the least.

[Tekni]

How long will it be before i can update my CC information so i can start playing. It keeps giving me message about unable to update while payment stuff is processing.

[rog]

Really now? I've been lolRDM/NIN burning everything, so I haven't tried that. Interesting concept to say the least.

Not that interesting. Healers have infinite mp, so the only risk is dying faster then they can cure, which should basically never be an issue either, except maybe if your only healer is a single rdm (i swear, if we don't get cure5 next update...).

[rog]

How long will it be before i can update my CC information so i can start playing. It keeps giving me message about unable to update while payment stuff is processing.

1-2 days.

[Tekni]

So the second or the third? or what?

[Deader2818]

Wait, didn't you say Slow II is only good for when you are blood tanking, so therefor, its useless, but now you are saying no one should be blink tanking? Wouldnt that make Slow II more useful then or it shouldn't matter because your mages should have no MP issues?

[rog]

Wouldnt that make Slow II more useful then or it shouldn't matter because your mages should have no MP issues?

Yes, and yes. Any time the extra slow matters, you'll be blink tanking, so doesn't actually matter.

[rog]

So the second or the third? or what?

I don't know exactly. No later than the third.

[Salodin]

Is there a reason sorcerer's rings are dropping so heavily in price? Is there a new, better pair of rings out? Or are all the blm quitting? Or is everyone spamming bcnm for rings to sell now since they are pretty much worthless as far as farming them for money go atm.

[Deader2818]

Think a lot of people are selling theirs off because they rather not drop that much HP doing abyssea

[Salodin]

Why wouldn't they?

[Francisco]

Because blink tanking is almost never needed anymore. With 2-3k hp, there's little risk of dying, because you don't have shadows, and since healers always have infinite mp, there's no real benefit to blink tanking. You may as well hasso tank everything.

Just because that 1500 damage TP attack won't one shot you doesn't mean it's a bad idea to blink tank.

If a melee tank takes 1500 damage, that still needs to be cured, or the next 1500 damage TP attack will kill you.

Cures generate enmity for the mages. Damage taken reduces enmity for melees/tanks. This adds up to dead mages. Dead mages lead to dead melees (if no line of defense aside from HP)... and when that happens, you've got yourself a wipe.

Cures should be you last line of defense, not your first.

[Aerynlia]

Kill things really fast too.

[Guitarman]

t2 VNM, a few different nm share zones with each other. Is there a way to get one over the other? Or is it completely random which t2 will pop up? If i zone the wrong nm, will that reset the timer to 1 hour before another can be popped? or will that let me try again for the correct one?

[Aerynlia]

If you use apradar you can tell which one you are popping. Their timers are separate. Despawning one does not reset its timer.

[Aerynlia]

If you use apradar you can tell which one you are popping. Their timers are separate. Despawning one does not reset its timer.

[Guitarman]

will it show up on radar, just underground? or do you mean their death spots?

[chazzyphizzle]

unlock apradar, I see dead people, show all, then i'd type in the names of the t2 vnm in your current zone. you will be able to see which is which.

[Guitarman]

awesome, thank you