FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread XI: "How you liking that Beta Phase 5?"

[Seravi Edalborez]

Actually shard dropping is a weird deal. Take this:

http://zam.zamimg.com/images/3/0/306...18ca741a06.png

If a mob is, say, Lightning, it will drop Lightning Fire and Wind shards. Not sure how it relates in regards to crystal drops (or if it's own element is the only x6 shard), just something I noticed.

[Datonare]

Yeah, I'm not sure how/why/what determines the two other x3 shards, but I was under the impression at least the x6 shard dropped identified its element.

[Rocl]

There seems to be a bonus for exploiting weakness though, no? For instance, earth beats thunder, and maybe I'm imagining it, but gnats and thunder elementals take more damage from Stone and Stonera. (I can only hit four digits on them at my level, for example) but yeah it was more of a "don't use this" thing. Like don't cast Aero on Dodos.

I have no idea why the fuck I didn't think of shard drops though '~' hurrdurr

[Niiro]

Mob weaknesses/resistances were only ever loosely based on their their given affinity* if you will but the properties changed much with 1.20 since we're now much more harshly limited in our spell selection.

It appears they deliberately moved around mob elemental resists in an effort to make them more conducive to the new parameters on spells. For example not many mobs outright resist thunder or fire as they're THM's best nukes and only AoE nukes respectively.


*What I mean by this, when I asked a similar question about a known mob resist/weakness database a while ago I noted that...

Really annoying that resists/weaknesses don't even coincide, goats are weak to water, so you'd expect them to be earth based and resist thunder, but they're neutral to thunder and resist....ice?

[madpersian]

Can anyone recommend an entry level gear/materia setup for a Lancer to take on Ifrit?

[Manako]

Can anyone recommend an entry level gear/materia setup for a Lancer to take on Ifrit?

Lancaster has a good article, the skills are out of date but the armor is not. http://www.bluegarterls.com/tutorial.../lancerdragoon

[madpersian]

Ok thanks. I read that and was wondering if it still applied because of the 1.19 tag on the post.

[Manako]

Ok thanks. I read that and was wondering if it still applied because of the 1.19 tag on the post.

doesn't take into account PIE as a stat, but I don't think there has been enough testing to determine whether its better to go straight str/attk vs having some pie.

[miokomioko]

A lot of people I talk to are convinced that PIE only affects auto-attack damage and that STR universally boosts all weaponskills. I'm not too sure how convinced I am of that yet.

[madpersian]

Thank you. That's another thing I was wondering about, is it worth putting points into Piety or somewhere else.

[Carraway]

I'll get around to updating my LNC guide when I have a stable internet connection, but yeah, most of the gear info still holds true.

One thing that I can add: everything that affects damage (STR, PIE, ATK) affects all damage (minimum, maximum, auto-attack, WS). I haven't done any rigorous testing in 1.20 but my hunch is that PIE is worth slightly less than STR, point-for-point.

[madpersian]

Thanks! That bit of info is appreciated.

[Sephiroth]

Anyone got a link to the moggle mog battle music in MP3 format?

[Criosist]

Have noticed recently and this needs checking first but i believe that completing other players regional leves and being in parties while other players finish local leves both count towards your achievements

[Corrderio]

Anyone got a link to the moggle mog battle music in MP3 format?

I can rip a high quality version off YouTube if that works for you.

[Aratharn]

Have noticed recently and this needs checking first but i believe that completing other players regional leves and being in parties while other players finish local leves both count towards your achievements

Even if true, that's still a lot of work to get to 10k.

[Raldo]

Maybe that's how they plan to root out RMT. Have you seen them at Cedarwood? There's a full party of lalafell/miqot'e in weathered gear and 1 other person. One of the junk characters starts a leve, and the 1 normal character goes out and completes it. I bet they'd hit that number pretty fast if they don't cycle characters. I'm sure getting credit for an almost constant stream of leves would allow you to hit it relatively quickly (the character that actually does the work, that is).

For some reason they're usually out doing that sheep faction leve.

[Corrderio]

Possible good reward? I know damaged cudgels are pretty pricey and come from a faction leve.

[Criosist]

or it has the highest drop rate and lowest lvl sheep to farm karakul fleece on, also uncontested 24/7 lol

[Raldo]

My point was they'd rack up credits toward their leve achievement super fast which might help in identifying who is RMT, but sure, those things too. I never really thought about why.