Random Question Thread XV: This Is Not The Sticky You're Looking For

[Cream Soda]

I'll probably keep Fetter for now then as I work towards an STP stingray. Not sure atm where lack of rose strap puts me on eligibility though, so we'l see.

[Byrthnoth]

It's impossible to know which will be better (STP vs. WS Damage). If a few STP pieces come up and suddenly you can make a 5-hit where you couldn't before (using the STP weapon) then hooray! If a lot of STP pieces come up, and you can suddenly 5-hit the WS damage weapon but not 4-hit the STP weapon, WS damage obviously wins. Think about how far you are from 5-hitting the WS damage weapon, then think about how far you are from 4-hitting the STP damage weapon. Place your bets.

[Raenil]

Aurum, Rajas, Stingray+1, Brutal and /SAM would put you at 18.6 TP/hit.

Carbonara/Rose Strap/Ace's Sabatons are options. Two of the three paired would put you at or close enough to 5-hit that additional hits from Drakesbane would be enough. Or Atma of Deep Devour, which has +10 STP on it.

[Cream Soda]

Well I don't see 4hitting as a realistic option, ever. (outside of sam roll), seeing as you would need 88 STP (only getting 15 from /sam) to do so. That being said, I guess it'll come down to whether you can 5hit w/o the 12 from stingray in the future w/ the WSD. I'd bet on STP lance at this point, unless they start shoving a lot of store tp in slots we weren't getting them before.

[Cream Soda]

Aurum, Rajas, Stingray+1, Brutal and /SAM would put you at 18.6 TP/hit.

Carbonara/Rose Strap/Ace's Sabatons are options. Two of the three paired would put you at or close enough to 5-hit that additional hits from Drakesbane would be enough. Or Atma of Deep Devour, which has +10 STP on it.

Hmm,well I don't see rose strap ever happening. I hate the fuck out of campaign, lol. That plus I see at minimum getting 3 tics between non jumped WS' from E eve's atma. I'll have to see if Miraun updated his spreadsheet for this.

Edit: 10 campaign rank ups. Yea, that's 2 months, assuming I rank up once every 5 days. Fuuuck that.

[Enedin]

I don't see why it wouldn't. You can think of it like: Damage*1.1 = New Damage.

The downside to the dagger (apart from how horrible it is to make) is that you have to main-hand it.

Main hand sure, but Kila+1 is only 3 DMG more, that shouldn't be a significant difference anyway.

[Cream Soda]

Tomahawk worth 5/5'ing? War group 2 sucks so hard outside of war charge lol even though I have nothing else to spend merits in, I'm still hesitant to do it.

[Lordesequiel]

Random question time!

Anyone been having problems playing FFXI for the last wek or so? Sometime around the 29/10/10 the game basically broke for me, my ISP (AOL) says its nothing on their side, my PC is up to date and was working fine with FFXI before that but now i just lag constantly and consistently. My S&R go really low but not to the point where i DC. Is it just me?

[arus2001]

Otherwiki says there is a Yagudo High Priest by the telepoint in Meriph Moutains (S) and ApRadar shows one there too but never is up :s It get removed or something?

Beastmen positioning in Campaign areas can vary based on who controls the zone. If it's not there, I'm assuming Windy holds Meri.

[shepardG]

Can a bravura double/triple damage proc on a retaliated crit hit?

[drwaffles]

Random question time!

Anyone been having problems playing FFXI for the last wek or so? Sometime around the 29/10/10 the game basically broke for me, my ISP (AOL) says its nothing on their side, my PC is up to date and was working fine with FFXI before that but now i just lag constantly and consistently. My S&R go really low but not to the point where i DC. Is it just me?

Change ISP.

[Lordesequiel]

Yeah im on that atm >.>

[Byrthnoth]

Tomahawk worth 5/5'ing? War group 2 sucks so hard outside of war charge lol even though I have nothing else to spend merits in, I'm still hesitant to do it.

Tomahawk is awesome in specific meleeburn situations. The problem is that increased merits result in increased duration rather than decreased recast. I don't need a 3 minute tomahawk on a mob that's alive for 30 seconds, so I went 1 Tomahawk, 4 Savagery, and 5 Warrior's Charge.

[Cream Soda]

Hmm I'll probably just do that.

That aside, is full usu going to be fine for pup from 75 to 85? don't plan on using it outside of the mage puppet, but need to get it to 85 first.

And that'll leave dnc as last from 75 to 85. I'd assume a decent evis set (razed ruin) and just keeping up haste samba will be doable? haven't touched gear on either job since before the first lv increase.

[Raenil]

Does the Light Magic Attack Bonus from Atma of the Beyond have any effect on Flash Nova?

Edit: or hell, do the elemental specific attack bonus' work on any elemental WS?

[rog]

Just going to leave this here, so people don't get mad when i change wiki's page on atma of heavens (ignore blizzard, had a brain fart <.<):

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l.../heavens-1.png

[lolwut]

Does the Light Magic Attack Bonus from Atma of the Beyond have any effect on Flash Nova?

Edit: or hell, do the elemental specific attack bonus' work on any elemental WS?

Eyeballing my results on QD and Wildfire damage while using Smouldering Sky Atma, I'd say yes. If I can get out of playing War and Rdm long enough to mess around with it, I'll try to get some comparisons of the elemental matt vs standard mab for elemental WS.

[Dooom]

Random question time!

Anyone been having problems playing FFXI for the last wek or so? Sometime around the 29/10/10 the game basically broke for me, my ISP (AOL) says its nothing on their side, my PC is up to date and was working fine with FFXI before that but now i just lag constantly and consistently. My S&R go really low but not to the point where i DC. Is it just me?

Not having anything near this bad, but this weekend I've been having a lot of connection issues just with ffxi. Everything else works fine, can play other online games np and sometimes ffxi is fine, but then the connection will just die for a few hours. UK, Tiscali (or whatever the fuck they're called now).

[cdgreg]

Saw Rog ask about this a few pages back: Anyone have any info on Maahes? Would love to grab the grip but no testimonials or anything on wiki.

[cdgreg]

vallus + Minerva make it easier to cap MDT and add more MDB.

What is the MDT cap?