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Jake wrote on 2015-09-13 20:45
Quote from callback;1286428:
What? It's from an old event gacha. You clearly CANNOT always get more. There are a finite number out there to be bought and used, and every time a burn fails or someone finalizes a weapon with one that's 1 fewer to go around.
You can always get another for now*
Does that work better for you?
I'd still kind of say you can always get another one regardless because I've found that if you pay enough for even the oldest and most rare items regardless of source in the game they'll eventually come your way. Just as there is a small chance of the supply becoming literally 0, there's a small (but I'd imagine a greater chance than supply reaching zero) chance of re-release as well.
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Rynn wrote on 2015-09-13 21:03
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Unless you're fanatic bashing, but that's about to be phased out by divine bastard. Still, it's a 2h bash stick, and I suspect giants probably love to do that with a vales. The pierce with 67 should be enough to out-perform a fast speed weapon, especially with divine's crit enhance set, compared to a 1h 5 c-enhance fast sword with divine shield.
1. Divine bastard is the 1h which is inferior to CRK to begin with so I don't see how it would phase out anything.
2. Divine 2h gets about the same dmg and pierce level as fanatic (because Silence ES is not allowed) and both are still inferior to CRK. I mean, if you're a giant you have no other choice... but still.
Also, the critical enhance set effect is just an underwhelming +7%. It just makes dual-wield bash crits go from 334% to 341% or single-wield crits go from 292% to 299% which is barely a peanut in terms of average damage.
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Intimacy wrote on 2015-09-14 09:19
Is ingredient hunting supposed to be this much bullshit rng?
If not how do i up my collection % for this, should i just be fhing foxes or something? for the raw numbers, or should i be killing other things
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Zeo wrote on 2015-09-14 09:49
Quote from Intimacy;1286481:
Is ingredient hunting supposed to be this much bullshit rng?
If not how do i up my collection % for this, should i just be fhing foxes or something? for the raw numbers, or should i be killing other things
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/CYpsY2g.png]
Unfortunately it's all RNG. I just spam-kill the foxes or raccoons and hope they drop a leather or ingredient each time up to r1. Once you get r1, just don't try to train to get Master on purpose, just let it train passively and you'll get a Master title in no time.
Quote from Rynn;1286397:
Lances are only used for judgement blade now, and you can't put 67 on bhafel hunter or royal xbow.
So... I have a question related with that... What about the elves that does the role to use Judgment Blade (like me) in the Girgashiy raid, since they can't wield a lance?
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UnclePine wrote on 2015-09-14 10:19
So this Saturday I'll finally get my very first Royal Knight Armor, but I've never upgraded an armor before and since RKA is very expensive I'd rather not screw up.
Should I prioritize magic defense/protection or "normal" defense/protection?
Is the 240 upgrade path listed in the wiki (Surface Enhancement 2/Surface Enhancement 2/Surface Enhancement 3/Edern's Heavy Armor Modification/Artisan Upgrade (Max Roll)) the best option in the long run?
Right now, the only thing I know for sure is that the last upgrade will be Weiss' Artisan.
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alwmiioktm wrote on 2015-09-14 12:30
Quote from Zeo;1286483:
Unfortunately it's all RNG. I just spam-kill the foxes or raccoons and hope they drop a leather or ingredient each time up to r1. Once you get r1, just don't try to train to get Mastee on purpose, just let it train passively and you'll get a Master title in no time.
So... I have a question related with that... What about the elves that does the role to use Judgment Blade (like me) in the Girgashiy raid, since they can't wield a lance?
That's kind of the thing, if you're looking for efficiency giants> humans> elves and even then in a srs girgashiy squad elves are usually spikers along with support shotters. Bladers are the only group that actually need investments gear and damage wise (aside from bohemian SS effect and SS master title for spikers) and piercing is an absolute must for girg. If you insist on doing elf I guess do it with whatever gives you the most damage? Royal xbow I guess for the piercing, but I'm only assuming it would apply to blade.
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Quote from UnclePine;1286485:
So this Saturday I'll finally get my very first Royal Knight Armor, but I've never upgraded an armor before and since RKA is very expensive I'd rather not screw up.
Should I prioritize magic defense/protection or "normal" defense/protection?
Is the 240 upgrade path listed in the wiki (Surface Enhancement 2/Surface Enhancement 2/Surface Enhancement 3/Edern's Heavy Armor Modification/Artisan Upgrade (Max Roll)) the best option in the long run?
Right now, the only thing I know for sure is that the last upgrade will be Weiss' Artisan.
240 upgrade do that and hope you get a good roll on prot
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Zeo wrote on 2015-09-14 12:34
Gotcha. Was thinking the Royal Celtic Crossbow would be the best thing as well, and even so, I know the gear and damage are pretty important as well.
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callback wrote on 2015-09-14 13:42
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1. Divine bastard is the 1h which is inferior to CRK to begin with so I don't see how it would phase out anything.
2. Divine 2h gets about the same dmg and pierce level as fanatic (because Silence ES is not allowed) and both are still inferior to CRK. I mean, if you're a giant you have no other choice... but still.
Also, the critical enhance set effect is just an underwhelming +7%. It just makes dual-wield bash crits go from 334% to 341% or single-wield crits go from 292% to 299% which is barely a peanut in terms of average damage.
Human of course CRK wins. I'm talking divine 2h for giant bashing, and divine bastard for elf.
Quote from Intimacy;1286481:
Is ingredient hunting supposed to be this much bullshit rng?
If not how do i up my collection % for this, should i just be fhing foxes or something? for the raw numbers, or should i be killing other things
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/CYpsY2g.png]
Go into saga episode 1, to the point where you can spam the mongoose SM. Then do exactly that. The tails count for normal drops in massive bulk, and it shouldn't need too much RNG for the ingredients to come out. I don't think CP affects the ingredient drops, and the SM ignores CP for the tail droprate. I got mine up extremely fast this way.
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Blissfulkill wrote on 2015-09-14 14:35
Okay, so I'm hunting ancients, mostly those in my level range Strong-Boss, and and I feel that the chances of getting gear, upgrade stones, powder, etc has decreased significantly. Is it true? I noticed a significant increase in the gold value of ancient powder going up to as high as 500k with a minimum of maybe 350k nowadays. Coincidence or was there a secret maintenance?
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Rydian wrote on 2015-09-14 14:45
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Okay, so I'm hunting ancients, mostly those in my level range Strong-Boss, and and I feel that the chances of getting gear, upgrade stones, powder, etc has decreased significantly. Is it true? I noticed a significant increase in the gold value of ancient powder going up to as high as 500k with a minimum of maybe 350k nowadays. Coincidence or was there a secret maintenance?
People want powder more nowadays (strong enchants added with Renovation and existing strong enchants dropping from Alban regularly), and CP has been rising overall with the introduction of Ninja (STR is harsh on the CP) and lots of AP to rank more skills.
The thing is drops from enemies rated weak and less are decreased*, and unfortunately The Ancient title doesn't modify an enemy's CP (as titles don't change CP and it's the title that does the stat modification).
Wear -CP gear and/or hunt strong ancients like beefy Iria monsters and/or use a weaker character to hunt ancients for better drop chances overall (so that more things you kill have the base drop rate and not the lessened).
[SIZE="1"]* I don't know the specifics on this, just that less than normal CP is less than normal drops and it's a noticeable change.[/SIZE]
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Blissfulkill wrote on 2015-09-14 14:55
I am hunting in Scathach Beach versus Golems and rather large Ornata Spiders and I'm just not getting anything. In the past I was having quite the lucky streak. I've gotten several high quality Bohemian wears.
I'll try the CP thing.
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Rydian wrote on 2015-09-14 15:22
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I am hunting in Scathach Beach versus Golems and rather large Ornata Spiders and I'm just not getting anything. In the past I was having quite the lucky streak. I've gotten several high quality Bohemian wears.
I'll try the CP thing.
Watch out for the camping penalty too. When I go ancient hunting I fly around Iria so I can attach various groups.
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Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-09-14 21:37
Quote from Intimacy;1286481:
Is ingredient hunting supposed to be this much bullshit rng?
If not how do i up my collection % for this, should i just be fhing foxes or something? for the raw numbers, or should i be killing other things
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/CYpsY2g.png]
RNG on IH's own drop table. For just getting drops, Fennec Foxes just outside Filia east have 100% arrow drop rate. Of course, kill them with a weapon and don't stay too long because anti-bot shit.
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UnclePine wrote on 2015-09-14 22:16
Quote from Intimacy;1286481:
Is ingredient hunting supposed to be this much bullshit rng?
If not how do i up my collection % for this, should i just be fhing foxes or something? for the raw numbers, or should i be killing other things
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/CYpsY2g.png]
Spamming FH against monsters in Ant Hell also works for getting ingredient drops. They're all weak, die in one hit and spawn in higher numbers as soon as you kill them. They are also from different species (goblins, ants, bats, worms, desert warriors), so I
think you're safe from anti-bot measures.
Pick a Return Coupon to go back and forth easily without having to hunt down Ant Hell's entrance with an L-Rod.
Quote from alwmiioktm;1286495:
240 upgrade do that and hope you get a good roll on prot
Thanks, I'll do that!
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Poshwosh wrote on 2015-09-14 22:34
Even though I'm rank 1 blacksmith now, I still get "above average" results. I'm confused.
This happened to me before on Mabinogi EU when I was rank 7 over there, I could never get B+ rank, even though I always hit all the spots correctly with magnifier.
Is this common? Is B+ incredibly rare?