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

[Ocara]

Are faith h2h worth using in any situation anymore?

[rog]

BLUs also works, and probably not as tedious as needing a RDM and BLM along. QC and Diss can usually 1-shot, while Head Butt can often polish off one that might live with a sliver. Could theoretically kill 168/hr like this, but the BLU would need some extra Refresh while possibly being wary of the Aptant NM hiding amongst a chigoe grouping higher up in the southern area. ~100 is more realistic if they have /RDM available and nobody else is killing. Still kind of mind numbing and boring, though, as I had to do this for like 1000+ kills across various stages.

Blm in attohwa can solo 20~ every 3 mins pretty easily. Even accounting for tunga preventing you from pulling everything, you'd have to really suck to get less than 200 kills per hour, and 300-400 is definitely reasonable.

[arus2001]

Well, if we're talking Abyssea, I'm sure you could up BLU's numbers by virtue of Atma and including GR/FR/HB. Was talking Grauberg, though, and only really needing one person instead of multiples to gather and kill.

[rog]

only really needing one person instead of multiples to gather and kill.

So was i. Grauberg is kind of silly compared to abyssea.

[Ladydeathstrike]

talking about grauberg its better to pull all of them at once/ into 2 groups and kill w CA Whirl of rage and frypan / body slam wiffs or ones w/ slivers of hp

[Francisco]

Also what are the top 3 options for for AF Feet/Hands/Legs?

For Ascetic's Fury...

Hands: Heafoc Mitts > Alky's > Pallas
Legs: Hachiryu > Usukane > Shura
Feet: Tantra+2 > Tantra +1 > Usukane or Denali

[arus2001]

talking about grauberg its better to pull all of them at once/ into 2 groups and kill w CA Whirl of rage and frypan / body slam wiffs or ones w/ slivers of hp

Unless there's a better path than the one I'd run that consists of 14 chigoes (16 if you risk the NM grouping), you're still doing a lot of running and then waiting for repop times when you go back to start all over again. By the time I get back to the first 2, they're usually repopping or close to it. To that end, I can't really see gathering here being more productive.

[Fiarlia]

Vampiric Armor Set easy to farm? Or abysmal appraisal rate?

[arus2001]

My money's on abysmal, but I've only ever appraised Mal-rings from ??? shit.

[Kirschy]

Vampiric Armor Set easy to farm? Or abysmal appraisal rate?

Friend managed a pair of these when we did assault spam for Mythic Weapons. Pretti sure he toss'd them since the enhancement is marginal. I think it's a ~5% boost, which is hard to detect even /w controlled testing because of the natural variance of the spell. (Wiki's +30% is complete bullshit.)

[Cream Soda]

Is it even worth the JA delay to deploy/maneuvers my automaton w/ razed ruin and stringing pummel? My maton parsing like 2.5% in this pt and I'm doing 23% >.>. AH DDs, 2nd place is 13.53% (and i'm lv 76 /sigh)

[Latheille]

Has anyone had any problems logging in today? Everytime I try I get the "Network is busy or there are connection problems message" followed by "Version Updated Failed". I've reset my router, I've restarted my laptop and I've even checked my files to repair and see if that'll fix things, but I cannot repair it because I'll get the "Network is busy" message again.

[Fiarlia]

Friend managed a pair of these when we did assault spam for Mythic Weapons. Pretti sure he toss'd them since the enhancement is marginal. I think it's a ~5% boost, which is hard to detect even /w controlled testing because of the natural variance of the spell. (Wiki's +30% is complete bullshit.)

Oh. Well that's both depressing and good news. Thanks for the info.

[cdgreg]

This probably belongs in what's better, but since it's a follow up to another few posts here:

For RDM -mdt set, is killer shortbow a viable option or is the standard Lamian Kaman +1 a better choice?

[Nightfyre]

Killer Shortbow will only work if you're the target of the spell, but if you are I'd argue it's the best option hands down. Otherwise, Lamian Kaman +1 or PTath.

[cdgreg]

Killer Shortbow will only work if you're the target of the spell, but if you are I'd argue it's the best option hands down. Otherwise, Lamian Kaman +1 or PTath.

Good point, the build I'm putting together is for me generally soloing. So I'd be the target of the spells 99% of the time.

[Xantavia]

Anybody know why yoran-oran (attowha) likes to not load so often, or any fix? Getting pretty sick of wasting minutes having to conflux away and back an extra time just to get him to load.

Is he one of the NPC's right by the maw? If so, you could always wait to see if he loads before getting visitant status. AFAIK, that free 5 minutes doesn't subtract from your stored time.

[rog]

This probably belongs in what's better, but since it's a follow up to another few posts here:

For RDM -mdt set, is killer shortbow a viable option or is the standard Lamian Kaman +1 a better choice?

Honestly, i never even considered using it for mdt set, especially since the proc rate is so horrible (.75%), but honestly, even though it's not better (at least not over time), it's still pretty decent, and can can potentially prevent you from getting killed if you're at low hp for any reason. it also prevents shadows from being wiped, which is always a plus. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything for magical ws, but meh. Idk, even if the kaman is better, i'm starting to think it may not be worth the inventory.

[rog]

Is he one of the NPC's right by the maw? If so, you could always wait to see if he loads before getting visitant status. AFAIK, that free 5 minutes doesn't subtract from your stored time.

That doesn't help when you go back to finish the quest.

[Francisco]

If a NPC (or maw) doesn't load, all you need to do is run out of visible range of it (~50 yalms), and go back. It's worked every time for me.