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Odin.Eikechi said: » Sylph.Kawar said: » I looked on the wiki for Charybdis it says a dancer at level 75 can do it.What i would like to know is what gear set do u need to do it as a dancer at level 75. Probably just need to spam fan dance with a hybrid evade/haste set. Why would you want this item on Dnc though? TPing on NIN, Miodio gloves or Koga +2?
Does TH increase Geode drop rates? Nearing the end of my STR dagger and don't want to pay 4M for geodes >_>;
Not sure if there's more information out there, but I'm a little tired of arguing with people in voidwatch groups trying to convince them that it can't hurt to cap lights (especially when 5 is nearly done).
Majority of the people seem to think that since the first slot is always the rare drop, that blue lights/cells only increase the number of junk drops you get. Small number of people think that having the extra slots from blue increases the chance of one of those being the rare items. (As in capping blue lights and not just red is beneficial for other than just junk stuff). (Hope I'm typing that out in a way that makes sense!) Has it ever been proven either way or is it all just speculation? Is there any conceivable way to test any of this? The way I see it, is the more blue the better. I think the "good" drop only SORTS to the top. I don't think it's necessarily the first roll.
Odin.Eikechi said: » I think the "good" drop only SORTS to the top. That's what I always assumed, and that having more blue/items gives you small little extra chances at the rare items, but so many dgaf about blue and argue otherwise that I can't help but wonder if I missed some testing or something somewhere. Sylph.Hitetsu said: » Does TH increase Geode drop rates? Nearing the end of my STR dagger and don't want to pay 4M for geodes >_>; Odin.Calipso said: » Odin.Eikechi said: » I think the "good" drop only SORTS to the top. That's what I always assumed, and that having more blue/items gives you small little extra chances at the rare items, but so many dgaf about blue and argue otherwise that I can't help but wonder if I missed some testing or something somewhere. I'm not even sure how that would be possible to test. But people on our server can be stupid as ***in that regard. I haven't played in a bit but it looks like the VW idiots are just as rampant now as they were then huh? sad >_< How would I macro Spur in Spellcast?
I've tried Code <if type="PetCommand">
<if spell="Spur" />
<equip when="precast" set="Spur" />
</if>and that doesn't work at all. Lakshmi.Zyphos said: » How would I macro Spur in Spellcast? I've tried Code <if type="PetCommand">
<if spell="Spur" />
<equip when="precast" set="Spur" />
</if>and that doesn't work at all. Not overly well versed in spellcast but try Code <if type="PetCommand">
<if spell="Spur">
<action type="equip" when="precast" set="Spur" />
</if>Also this might work too sure on pet commands though Code <if Spell="Spur"><equip When="PreCast" Set="Spur"/></if> Odin.Calipso said: » Odin.Eikechi said: » I think the "good" drop only SORTS to the top. That's what I always assumed, and that having more blue/items gives you small little extra chances at the rare items, but so many dgaf about blue and argue otherwise that I can't help but wonder if I missed some testing or something somewhere. Asura.Chexmix said: » Lakshmi.Zyphos said: » How would I macro Spur in Spellcast? I've tried Code <if type="PetCommand">
<if spell="Spur" />
<equip when="precast" set="Spur" />
</if>and that doesn't work at all. Not overly well versed in spellcast but try Code <if type="PetCommand">
<if spell="Spur">
<action type="equip" when="precast" set="Spur" />
</if>Also this might work too sure on pet commands though Code <if Spell="Spur"><equip When="PreCast" Set="Spur"/></if> What stats to macro for jumps? I mean, new ones don't have modifiers right? Do you guys wear anything special for them?
There's no simple test to conclude whether they have an effect or not.
If you made a LS event out of it and did, say, 20 pils with 18 people with cobalt+rubicund then another 20(probably on another day unless you guys dont like sleep) without you'd have a decent sample(360 kills with/without). It wouldn't give terribly accurate results on tocis/dilaram yet, but it'd give you a good idea of whether cobalt effect plates and aliyat. Of course, you'd need members that don't feel a need to say 'lololol another dilaram drop i cant keep' when they didn't get it. Reliability of reporting in VW has always seemed a bit poor to me, people love lying for attention. With a fixed ability to reduce delay, what jobs would you pick and why for low-manning medium difficulty fights?
I have 2-box for Haste spell and 2x Marches which gives me capped magical haste. I also use /DNC on the bard to give me another 5% JA Haste. For the 3rd box I frequently bring SAM/WAR for Hasso and beat up fodder and dyna mobs with near capped delay. This hasn't helped be to beat any NMs obviously because it offers little to no offensive value. Given the circumstances, what will win hard fights the best given the above details? What jobs benefit most from capped delay? If you could add 2 more jobs, what would they be? I'd like to be able to multi-box Durinn and all the fights leading up to him. Thanks in advance. Multi box durinn? Abyssea use war nin or thf. Don't need no damn brd in abyssea. Dynamis Drg will probably be your best bet as far as benefiting from delay. Mainly because stardiver wrecks and drg has alot of JA procs. If you want a good setup for your trio box though, do brd/whm, dnc and thf for dynamis. Safe as far as having to cure spam and can bank about 600 a run if geared well. As far as abyssea jobs that benefit the most from capped delay, I would say war and drg. Drakesbane and raging rush are broken in abyssea. But for abyssea NMs, they die really fast with just good atma setups. I would recommend doing something like thf nin whm for abyssea.
Are you actually struggling with SAM/WAR, or just looking for an alternative? SAM has decent evasion, great PDT/MDT, and Seigan/TE. It's well suited to tanking. WAR benefits from having its face beat on a bit due to Retaliation; MNK and NIN are obviously safer alternatives and there are other adequate jobs too. Still, it's Abyssea at 99 cap. A WHM can simply out-cure damage taken in most fights without any issues, and Durinn is not an exception to that rule. Don't overthink it, just take your best DD or whatever offers the appropriate procs.
Phoenix.Sehachan said: » What stats to macro for jumps? I mean, new ones don't have modifiers right? Do you guys wear anything special for them? Small question about skill and skill ups if i am a pld trying to skill healing do i get healing or whm magic skill ups slower then a whm would seeing as if that is right then i need to take my whm to 99 soon.
Sylph.Kawar said: » Small question about skill and skill ups if i am a pld trying to skill healing do i get healing or whm magic skill ups slower then a whm would seeing as if that is right then i need to take my whm to 99 soon. healing magic is healing magic. you don't skill faster just because one job is A+ where one is B+ or w/e Is capping Store TP effect and Meditate recast still an ideal group 1 merit setup for SAM, or did the Zanshin update change that?
Zanshin and Meditate came out fairly even last time I looked at it. Low buffs favors Meditate a little, high buffs and constantly engaged favors Zanshin. Koga owners should max Zanshin regardless imo simply because base Meditate timer lines up neatly with AM3 duration, but that's not really relevant here. Fun weapon though!
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Ok so, a spellcast\autoexec related question!
Fairly sure it should be possible to have autoexec change a group in my xml whenever I change my main weapon, but what would be the code for this? Like, if I equip Apocalypse, it automaticly changes my group to "Apoc". And would it be possible to make a rule that lets you toggle stuff on\off in a variable? Let's say I have an accuracy variable, with the values Low, Mid, High. Would it be possible to have 1 macro set up that lets me toggle between these 3, if possible with an echo message every time I change it? I had this SC question for RNG awhile back, I think w/ couple obvious changes and a little expansion via NotGroup="Scythe|Great Sword|Axe|etc" it should help for your first question.
Cut and pasted from RNG forum: Fenrir.Kaomii said: » For my weapon check: Code
<if Advanced='"%EquipRange"=="Yoichinoyumi"' NotGroup="Archery">
<action type="command" when="Precast">input /sc group Archery</action>
</if>
If Yoichinoyumi is equipped, and the group is Archery, it skips the check. If it's not archery, it'll change it to archery. You'd just make a rule for each weapon you're using. Cool thanks! :)
That should probably work! Edit: Just tested it and yep, works like a charm :)
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Odin.Eikechi said: » Sylph.Kawar said: » Small question about skill and skill ups if i am a pld trying to skill healing do i get healing or whm magic skill ups slower then a whm would seeing as if that is right then i need to take my whm to 99 soon. healing magic is healing magic. you don't skill faster just because one job is A+ where one is B+ or w/e How do job merits work when your not on that job i know mp and hp merits stay no matter what can someone explain this to me and how this works.
Odin.Eikechi said: » healing magic is healing magic. you don't skill faster just because one job is A+ where one is B+ or w/e Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: » Odin.Eikechi said: » healing magic is healing magic. you don't skill faster just because one job is A+ where one is B+ or w/e Talking from personal experience I get more enhancing skillups on WHM than I do on RDM, despite RDM having the higher skill. I know you're talking about healing skill and enhancing but its sort of the same thing. Healing skill as far as my personal experience has always sucked to skillup anyway. I personally think that the lower your skill is the more likely you are to get skillups, hence my WHM mule getting skillups every other cast because her skill sucks. All this could be mere coincidence though. |
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