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By Valefor.Prothescar 2012-07-03 09:13:33

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Awesome. Congrats!

I hit a wall after zipping through Briareus - still 0/50 sobek. All these 85 Almace posts are making me jelly.

Keep after it! It's worth all of the dedication and will not let you down.

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Congrats on the Almaces!
I got mine to 85 not to long ago but sad because Idk how to make it show on ffxiah, I know i have to do something with guildworks but its still a little unclear with me.

Just have to install and run the Guildwork client or Windower plugin and it will update your Guildwork profile with your currently equipped gear. FFXIAH draws from that automatically afaik.

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Been having a blast with cdc tho, it is very fun when you can knock of 10-20k hp on a NM.. can't wait to get it to 90 etc.. but who the hell wants to do apademak /cry

Apademak isn't that horrible, particularly not now. I did over half of my 90 Almace when Sisyphus Fragments came from chests 90% of the time. Nightmare.

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By Fenrir.Kelyn 2012-07-03 09:32:07

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Just leveled Blu a month & 1/2 ago. What a friggin' blast this job is!

Capped Blu magic and sword skill.
Finished Shikagar and grabbed Isador. (Almace next)
Learned 65% of all spells. (will get em all soon)
Grabbed a Tarutaru sash w/TH. Blu/thf Abyssea farming just made my thf/dnc obsolete. Drop rates seem similar to thf/dnc, with Blu kill speed.
Charged Whisker, where have you been all my life? (Made str trials easy)

Can't wait to try Dynamis farming.

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By Quetzalcoatl.Krylon 2012-07-03 09:44:22

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Quetzalcoatl.Krylon said: »

Awesome. Congrats!

I hit a wall after zipping through Briareus - still 0/50 sobek. All these 85 Almace posts are making me jelly.

Keep after it! It's worth all of the dedication and will not let you down.

Thanks for the encouragement ^_^

Fenrir.Kelyn said: »

Just leveled Blu a month & 1/2 ago. What a friggin' blast this job is!

Capped Blu magic and sword skill.
Finished Shikagar and grabbed Isador. (Almace next)
Learned 65% of all spells. (will get em all soon)
Grabbed a Tarutaru sash w/TH. Blu/thf Abyssea farming just made my thf/dnc obsolete. Drop rates seem similar to thf/dnc, with Blu kill speed.
Charged Whisker, where have you been all my life? (Made str trials easy)

Can't wait to try Dynamis farming.

Dynamis farming on BLU is very fun. Make sure you have a good idle refresh set and you'll be golden. Delta Thrust/Heavy Strike/Vanity Dive ftw.

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By Carbuncle.Omgwheresmyname 2012-07-03 10:14:23

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Valefor.Prothescar said: »

Carbuncle.Omgwheresmyname said: »

Congrats on the Almaces! I got mine to 85 not to long ago but sad because Idk how to make it show on ffxiah, I know i have to do something with guildworks but its still a little unclear with me.

Just have to install and run the Guildwork client or Windower plugin and it will update your Guildwork profile with your currently equipped gear. FFXIAH draws from that automatically afaik.

Thank you sir, I shall try that as soon as I get home, I'd like to show off the good almace cause I'm proud of the hard work i put into it.

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Been having a blast with cdc tho, it is very fun when you can knock of 10-20k hp on a NM.. can't wait to get it to 90 etc.. but who the hell wants to do apademak /cry

Apademak isn't that horrible, particularly not now. I did over half of my 90 Almace when Sisyphus Fragments came from chests 90% of the time. Nightmare.

Do you know the best way to kill Apa? Is it best to just brew the damn thing 5 times within 1 brew, or actually try to fight it?

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By Valefor.Prothescar 2012-07-03 10:21:48

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Brewing's certainly effective, but not necessary. BLU + WHM/BLM is sufficient.

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By Remora.Brain 2012-07-03 20:51:10

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I've tried and failed to solo that *** twice now. I have no idea how Draylo manage to go that fight with only 1 resist. At about 70% he resist and proceeds to maul me. Smooth as hell until that resist, but then it's all down hill.

I have to use Ultimate as I don't have Merciless Matriarch, but they're both MACC Superior right? I used my drink and macro in some MACC gear, but it just doesn't want to not resist at ~70%.

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By Leviathan.Draylo 2012-07-04 21:36:23

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How much MACC gear did you have? I had my set in the solo thread for it which has a decent amount of MACC in addition to the atma.

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By Leviathan.Draylo 2012-07-04 21:47:32

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Also got these tonight:

~~Was it said how much FC they are?~~

I see on last page, kinda sucks -1 inventory since I have to keep blood legs lol

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By Valefor.Prothescar 2012-07-04 22:01:29

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wtf is that drk? heathen.

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By Leviathan.Draylo 2012-07-04 22:03:28

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Even worse, PLD! I didn't change yet lol

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By Valefor.Lisamarie 2012-07-04 22:40:17

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50/50 helms (took like, a year and a half, because I'm lazy, but got that about 2 weeks ago) and now 26/50 skins.. Still working on drooling daisy :\ Hopefully almace by the end of the week depending on help for sobek, and NM/VNM trials.

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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2012-07-05 17:16:54

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Odin.Llewelyn said: »

Got Enif Cosciales~ Did some testing to see if it has more fast cast than the Homam version and it would appear to have 10% fast cast. Used the Reraise method:

Enif Cosciales - 53 seconds
Augmented Kaiser Schaller with 5 Fast Cast + Goading Belt - 55 seconds
Nares Cap + Goading Belt - 53 seconds

It's difficult to get an exact value from this. Could you do this instead?

1) Go to Abyssea as /WHM with your normal gear.
2) Put on capped Haste with no Fast Cast (other than the Cosciales).
3) Cast Reraise, let something kill you, and get up.
4) Cast Reraise again and look at the recast from the menu (Control-M)

By weakening yourself (+100% Slow) and capping Gear Haste (+25% Haste), you end up with +75% Slow, which is represented exactly in base 2 and gives you a 105 second base recast. 105 seconds is more than 100, so it gives us enough precision to determine exactly what the Fast Cast % recast reduction is. Because Fast Cast only reduces recast in even amounts (3% Fast Cast reduces recast by 1%, 2% also reduces it by 1%), you need to also do this:

5) Warp back to the entrance (while still weakened) and put on a 5% Fast Cast Atma. ( http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Atma )
6) Cast Reraise again and check it from the menu again.

Sorry that it's more complicated and more work, but it's the easiest way to test this.

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By Odin.Llewelyn 2012-07-05 17:54:45

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Capped gear haste + 5% from Cosciales: 43 seconds
Weakened + Capped gear haste + 5% from Cosciales: 100 seconds (1:40)
Weakened + Capped gear haste + 5% from Cosciales + Atma of the Lightning Beast: 98 seconds (1:38)

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By Ragnarok.Martel 2012-07-05 17:55:02

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Seeing as I got my Enif legs awhile ago, and I'm curious about this myself...

Following the above test guidelines:
Capped haste gear 0:43
Weakness+haste gear 1:40
weak+gear+Atma 1:38

EDIT: Lol, beaten by seconds. But hey, dual confirmation.

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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2012-07-05 21:18:34

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100/105 = 96% (8% or 9% Fast Cast) (.96*105 = 100.8, floored to display)
98/105 = 94% (12% or 13% Fast Cast) (.94*105 = 98.7, floored to display)

8%+5% = 13%, which is the only valid solution

So they're 8% Fast Cast.

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By Ragnarok.Sekundes 2012-07-05 21:22:35

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/drool Thanks byrth!

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By Remora.Brain 2012-07-07 22:24:56

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I have a question for the mathy ones. Is Oce. Headpiece +1 really better than AMKD Headpieces with Crit damage and WS damage +2%? I do NOT have a Toci's yet.

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By Odin.Llewelyn 2012-07-10 12:48:59

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Yay~ Was so happy to see those in my box. :3 Totally wouldn't have gotten them if the leader making the run hadn't sent me a /tell to come out, either! Think they're decent enough for STR spells to get rid of Heafoc? <_<

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By Cerberus.Kvazz 2012-07-10 13:01:05

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when\if I ever get those, will replace heafoc for sure.
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By Odin.Llewelyn 2012-07-10 13:13:39

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I probably will, too, then. Physical spells, Magic Fruit, Idle/Refresh, Fast Cast, TP, CDC, Eva, MDT puts me at 79/80. 80/80 with Linkshell on, and that's using Aliyat Chakram ._. Impossible for me to carry around my Ammo pieces without gimping one of my sets. :(

Edit: Well, 77/80. Forgot I still had Enhancing Magic skill gear still on me from playing /RDM. D:

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By Quetzalcoatl.Krylon 2012-07-11 07:57:50

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Almace Update after slacking for a little bit:

15/50 Skins. Got 15 in one outing thanks to a few good friends and awesome Guku luck.

Also dinged NIN99 to make this Almace farming so much easier!

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By Quetzalcoatl.Krylon 2012-07-12 07:44:56

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23/50 Skins. Grinding it out now. Hope to be finished by the time the weekend is over!

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By Bahamut.Cantontai 2012-07-13 05:22:22

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I hit 150+ Pil recently trying for Toci's, and got the boots to drop today. I would like to say it was a good feeling, but I mostly just want stupid Toci's.

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By Quetzalcoatl.Krylon 2012-07-14 13:56:09

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Finally done!

Thanks to everyone on the forums who gave their encouragement and tips!^_^/

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By Odin.Llewelyn 2012-07-14 14:17:12

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Congratulations! :3

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By Bahamut.Bekisa 2012-07-14 14:37:51

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Valefor.Prothescar said: »

Brewing's certainly effective, but not necessary. BLU + WHM/BLM is sufficient.

I did about half of my horns blu/drk + whm 2 box. Wasn't too bad most times but sometimes it did seem like it leveled up without me noticing. Then again seems like all NM's randomly get really tough 1 fight out of 10 or so (Cara comes to mind here ...) Rest of them I brew on blu/blm, was able to do 6-7 most times unless I got hit with en-stun. Paid people 100k for KI's, and other run I got 7 KI's for free just so a LS could lot pops XD Lucky though I guess since they didn't need horns.

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