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[Motenten]

Can you macro Tantra Crown +1 in for Perfect Counter, or do you need to keep it on to get the damage boost?

From the way it's written, and from my own experience, it appears to work like +kick damage boots: it boosts base damage if you have it on when the event occurs. Therefore, yes, you need to keep it on.

[Hanyoko]

What determines when a mob deaggros? Was lowmanning orobon mis coast boss and was trying to deaggro to reset weakness, ran around for 3-4 mins with nobody taking action on it and the mob never getting close enough to touch anyone but it never lost aggro. Actually it might have lost hate on one person and still been after me, but it was hard to tell if it was just hate decay over time or not. Does each person with hate have to deaggro it? Even used deodorize on the offchance it tracked scent but it didn't seem to matter. I always thought non-scent tracking mobs deaggro'd if they weren't acted on and didn't take action on anybody after ~30 seconds.

Mobs like to deagro when you reach the 30+ range away from them for 10-15 seconds. At least that has been my experience when pulling.

[Motenten]

What ACC is suitable for XP/NMs in Abyssea? ACC is relevant no matter how you slice it and answers such as "ACC should be capped anyways" do not help. For the purposes of comparison, this mainly concerns BLU since I need to decide between TPing in Aurora or AF3+1.

From my experience, somewhere between 440 and 450 acc should cap you for most stuff (440 puts me at "possibly barely below cap", so 445 would be capped, and 450 to be safe).

[Francisco]

From my experience, somewhere between 440 and 450 acc should cap you for most stuff (440 puts me at "possibly barely below cap", so 445 would be capped, and 450 to be safe).

Good to know. I'm at 444 Acc w/out food inside Abyssea, but now I'm wondering if I should still use pizza inside Abyssea.

While I TP at 444 Acc, my Ascetic's Fury gear drops that down to 406 for WS.

[Jex]

i have two listed and i can't say which is what:
858-790-7529
310-846-0345

the 858 one was NA SE thx bro.

[Thorny]

What determines when a mob deaggros? Was lowmanning orobon mis coast boss and was trying to deaggro to reset weakness, ran around for 3-4 mins with nobody taking action on it and the mob never getting close enough to touch anyone but it never lost aggro. Actually it might have lost hate on one person and still been after me, but it was hard to tell if it was just hate decay over time or not. Does each person with hate have to deaggro it? Even used deodorize on the offchance it tracked scent but it didn't seem to matter. I always thought non-scent tracking mobs deaggro'd if they weren't acted on and didn't take action on anybody after ~30 seconds.

Any monster will lose hate on it's current target after 30 seconds of chasing without entering tracking range. To deaggro a monster, you must have nobody on hate list.. meaning the more people you have, the harder the mob will be to deaggro. Actions don't reset this: You can recast gravity after 25 seconds out of tracking range and mob will still deaggro 5 seconds later.

[spider123]

Rapidus Sax useful in any serious THF set, or is it merely a toy compared to Auric & Magian Daggers?

[Raen Ryong]

When I did basic math on it, I found it to be a very strong choice in the absence of fully upgraded Magian daggers but inferior if you have them. Rapidus vs Auric I never did I don't think because it was a given in my case ;x

[hykiri]

How much light does an Empyreal mob give when killed? Like for Azure, etc.

[Jeryhn]

Does it need to be the 3 from Visions, or can it be any 3?

It can be any three.

[Buffy]

When is the creepy synth support guy gonna have enough gil for his operation?

[grevenilvec75]

Anyone know which .dat is the sublimation animation?

[rog]

Any monster will lose hate on it's current target after 30 seconds of chasing without entering tracking range. To deaggro a monster, you must have nobody on hate list.. meaning the more people you have, the harder the mob will be to deaggro. Actions don't reset this: You can recast gravity after 25 seconds out of tracking range and mob will still deaggro 5 seconds later.

To further explain, it takes longer to deaggro a mob that multiple people have hate on, because it takes ~30 seconds to deaggro from each person, one at a time. Also, any mob that tracks by scent will NOT deaggro, unless you have deodorize on (which will cause the mob to act as if it did not track by scent, and be able to deaggro like anything else), it's raining (does the same thing as deodorize), or you run through water (will instantly deaggro).

[Manf]

Just asking for confirmation: You can proc. atma !! during Ironclad Pulverizer's head mode, correct? Tried this evening, and couldn't get it to pop for some reason.

[rog]

You can't get it while they're using a ws (or casting?), which could be why. Not sure about your question though.

[Massimo]

Just asking for confirmation: You can proc. atma !! during Ironclad Pulverizer's head mode, correct? Tried this evening, and couldn't get it to pop for some reason.

Yeah.. there's been some talk about this over in the Abyssea NM Weaknesses thread, which I figured you were reading up on as well, but I guess not.

It looks like you'll have to proc it during the giant form though, so either have your melees WS while it's running, time it well between its melee hits or bring someone to stun it so you can WS.

[Manf]

Yeah.. there's been some talk about this over in the Abyssea NM Weaknesses thread, which I figured you were reading up on as well, but I guess not.

It looks like you'll have to proc it during the giant form though, so either have your melees WS while it's running, time it well between its melee hits or bring someone to stun it so you can WS.

Hm, I definitely did miss that thanks. That would explain it, however. I was trying to proc. it on WAR(while he was still in full form), but at that point we didn't have access to katana, great katana, or dagger(I should've subbed ninja..) weaponskills. It was in head mode before we did, and it didn't proc. from any of the 13 known weaponskills. We'll try again soon, and I'll make sure we have all the necessary weaponskills from the start.

[Tribe]

Fafnir killable by Pld Rdm Blm Sam?

[Eldelphia]

How much light does an Empyreal mob give when killed? Like for Azure, etc.

If you mean Ephemeral then speculation is something like 10 I think.

[Massimo]

Fafnir killable by Pld Rdm Blm Sam?

While I think that setup is pretty fucking stupid, yes it is. Easily.