What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[KingOfZeal]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Wireframe lasts until you change it to another setting, since it's not a plugin but a setting within Windower itself that makes the game display altered (in this case, by not applying any of the skins, [pretty things]). Since it's simply an application of a skin, it's also very possible to alternate between one and the other in a very short time frame. That's also why it's so ugly -- that's literally the 'base code' of the graphics being sent to your game; curved corners require more surface details (more angles) and require more lines to differentiate between each surface. But since it's being hidden by the skin, it doesn't matter how ugly it is as long as it gets the job done (which I also refer to as the programmers bane).

Honestly, there's very little wireframe is good for -- the switches in Castle O are a good example. In Nyzle, the only use is seeing where the mobs are, and frankly there are better options for that (ApRadar, Mappy on the Windower forum, or a similar program). With Nyzle, those programs are FAR better, since they also show where the walls are and how you can get to where the mobs are, as opposed to wireframe that only shows there is a wall.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

So I took my freshly minted XML file for a test drive in an Abyssea party tonight and holy damn is this thing sweet. You couldn't pay me to go back to vanilla macros now that I've tasted the sweet sweet nectar that is Spellcast. Everything's just so damn smooth and seamless. It's very liberating to no longer have to sit there and mash four macros just to get one spell off in the right gear and another few to get back into idle gear. It's improved both my reaction time and wrist fatigue immensely. I'm now kicking myself for not trying this out sooner.

That said...there's still some kinks to work out. There were a number of times when my aftercast just didn't trigger and I'd get stuck running around in potency gear rather than Idling in a Royal Cloak. Not quite sure what's causing that since it seemed fairly inconsistent with when it would happen. The other thing that drove me up a wall was when I'd end up casting in my chapeau but shirtless...
I'm guess that has something to do with going from my idle cloak into a precast that simply equips the chapeau, but it remains unclear whether that's just an animation issue or whether I'm actually casting without something in the body slot. Worst of all was when this would stack with the other error and I'd end up running around without a shirt on. Luckily I kept some of my gear macros intact in the palette so it wasn't too big of a deal, but I'd like to nail down exactly what's going on with all that. The missing shirt seemed to happen only when I used healing magic(raises or cures), so I switched my cure set to inherit from my MND set on the fly and reloaded the XML. After that my shirt stayed on more often, but it still cropped up so I'm not really sure what's going on with it.

Overall I'm pleased with how it's working now, but I definitely want to expand on it.

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[cidbahamut]

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Bleh, more downtime at work. I should be moving to a new office tomorrow for some actual concrete assignments but today it's slow city so back to spellcast. Yes I am using this thread to give a running commentary of how things are going and I intend to keep doing it until I finish or until TM tells me to knock it off.

I went ahead and cleaned up some more of the formatting and added in a few things I'd forgotten, like having my Skulker's Cape on for sneak and invis, or simply nuking in nuking gear rather than the INT build from which it inherits >.<
Tweaked the Fast Cast build so it includes a body piece to hold me over until I can get a Duelist's Tabard.
Oh, and since I now have spellcast, I went ahead and bought an Uggalepih Pendant last night and added some logic to incorporate it. Nothing fancy, but it should get the job done. I've also got a rule that I'll be using to test whether or not I can use spellcast to blink me out of JA animation locks, or if I'll have to keep my old macros intact to do that.

Now comes the tricky part: incorporating melee into the whole thing. My gut instinct is to create a second group of sets and have those manage all my sword-chucking, along with a rule that basically goes "if group=swordchucks, ignore all the spellcasting section and use this swordchucks section instead". But that would mean having to redo all the rules I've already got in place and be utterly redundant. I'm not keen to stick in if statements on all the current rules checking for which group's in use either, so now I'm just sort of poking the documentation for ideas. I'm sure there's a very elegant way to do this that'll make the whole thing very easy, I just haven't spotted it yet.

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[Truece]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I noticed that you equip your Royal Cloak for resting. You would recover more MP if you equipped Errant Hpl. At the 2nd tic of resting (~30 seconds) the cloak would have returned +10 MP, which is the same amount of MP returned by Errant. By the time your third 'tic' of resting (~40 seconds) your royal cloak would have given you +13 mp, where the Errant body will have given you +15 MP. The disparity grows from there with each resting tic.

As a rule, auto-refresh will always stay ahead of anything that is hMP +3 or less. hMP +4 and higher gear will yield more mp recovered over time. If you have a piece of gear that has hMP +6 or more, auto-refresh can't touch it. By the time you get that first tic of MP back, your hMP piece will have returned more MP than your auto-refresh piece.

With that in mind, Errant body beats any auto-refresh piece (maybe an exception for the full Yigit set, with the hMP and auto-refresh set bonus). Duelist's Chapeau beats every other hMP head piece (at least I don't think you can get more than 3 hMP on a head piece). The refresh subligar is good for idle, but the Nisse slacks win out over time.

If you aren't resting for a long time, just for a single tic or two, then keep your auto-refresh piece equipped. If you plan on staying down for more than 2 tics, get that hMP gear on.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

If you aren't resting for a long time, just for a single tic or two, then keep your auto-refresh piece equipped.

This is basically what it boils down to.

On paper hMP+5 is indeed better, but in field tests Refresh gear is still king just because I'm never down for very long and I'm always having to get up right in the middle of a tick, so more often than not I'm actually losing out if I go with hMP over Refresh. If I'm gonna be down long enough for the hMP to matter I can just swap it manually, but that doesn't really happen unless I'm waiting on people who are afk in which case I'll probably be back at full anyway.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

This is basically what it boils down to.

On paper hMP+5 is indeed better, but in field tests Refresh gear is still king just because I'm never down for very long and I'm always having to get up right in the middle of a tick, so more often than not I'm actually losing out if I go with hMP over Refresh. If I'm gonna be down long enough for the hMP to matter I can just swap it manually, but that doesn't really happen unless I'm waiting on people who are afk in which case I'll probably be back at full anyway.

I agree. It was always pathetic that I had +15 hMP on my SMN... but it was always more effective for me to release my Avatar and rely on my +7 Refresh. That 10 seconds or so it takes for the first hMP to kick in just kills the entire point. In the first 30 seconds of resting, I can have 90mp back... + the time it takes for my standing animation to put my back on my feet. If I just stayed standing, I could have 70 IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME! The only difference is that i dont have to gear swap and make myself vulnerable and unable to run or act quickly if I need to. I really don't see many times where that extra 20MP would makeor break me.

[Aksannyi]

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On SMN unless you were main healing an alliance at Fafnir, you most likely wouldn't, honestly. There were some times on WHM where I needed as much MP as quickly as possible, and I had an exceptional hMP set so I did sit, and sit often. You'd be amazed how much damage some people take without even trying.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

On SMN unless you were main healing an alliance at Fafnir, you most likely wouldn't, honestly. There were some times on WHM where I needed as much MP as quickly as possible, and I had an exceptional hMP set so I did sit, and sit often. You'd be amazed how much damage some people take without even trying.

I'm well aware. We may not have won any of the 3 fights we tried today against 1 of the Abyssea NMs... but our WHM worked her ass off to keep everyone healed. She was freaking awsome.

Name: Chrystiania
Race: Hume Female
Job: White Mage
Server: Valefor
Title: Yyg's most highly reccomended WHM... period

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

You'd be amazed how much damage some people take without even trying.

No, I really wouldn't be, but I might let them die just so I wouldn't have to waste resources on them

[Aksannyi]

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Couldn't do that. Then people think you're just bad at your job. Because apparently, you're supposed to just heal through stupid. I had a WAR in my ls who would constantly pull as much hate as possible at everything so he could win parses. Because the only way to win parses on WAR, as he claimed, was to be able to smack back with Retaliation. So he'd be fucking tanking Dynamis and I couldn't keep up with his WAR/SAM ass and he'd die and bitch me out.

Dude, what the fuck do you want when you have hate on a MNK mob that used Hundred Fists? Benediction? Fuck you. You're not worth wasting my two hour. Which I might need for DL.

[cidbahamut]

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Couldn't do that. Then people think you're just bad at your job. Because apparently, you're supposed to just heal through stupid.

Oh god. That's like saying a Black Mage is bad because they don't chain-nuke until they're out of MP. Utterly absurd.

Resource management is key, and that fucker over there hogging all the resources is dead weight no matter how much damage he's pumping out.

[Truece]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I agree. It was always pathetic that I had +15 hMP on my SMN... but it was always more effective for me to release my Avatar and rely on my +7 Refresh. That 10 seconds or so it takes for the first hMP to kick in just kills the entire point. In the first 30 seconds of resting, I can have 90mp back... + the time it takes for my standing animation to put my back on my feet. If I just stayed standing, I could have 70 IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME! The only difference is that i dont have to gear swap and make myself vulnerable and unable to run or act quickly if I need to. I really don't see many times where that extra 20MP would makeor break me.

OK, but what about outside of those 9 zones?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

OK, but what about outside of those 9 zones?

I'm not talking about Abyssea, lol. As a SMN/RDM outside of Abyssea:

2mp/tic natural refresh
2mp/tic from Caller's Horn +2
1mp/tic from YYR
3mp/tic from /m "Refresh" <me>

My hMP outside abyssea mainly comes from Pluto's Staff. The rest is scattered among various other stuff... like Heirarch's Belt Errandt Houp. I'm sure the total is more than 15, but I haven't actually taken a look at it recently.

Thanks for bringing my attention to that though. I have to edit my original post to say 8.... not 7. I've gotten into a habit of neglecting YYR recently. Sometimes I opt out of wearing it entirely. I need to change that... it's so stylish.

ehh screw it... all the math is off at this point.

If I were talking about Abyssea, those numbers would be a hel of a lot higher.

The original 8 + 10 from MM alone would put my refresh at 18. 15 if I decide to go without /RDM... which I usually do. I personally prefer /whm or /sch. As a taru... it's not worth it to be able to convert... especially with my HP total.

[cidbahamut]

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Sword-chucking is a no go so far. I has a sad

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[Yygdrasil]

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Sword-chucking is a no go so far. I has a sad

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You stop that... you stop that right now. NuklearPower and 8Bit Theater are behind me now. I has a sad that I left them behind me... but thats where they are. I would not like the only reference to come of that webcomic to be SWORDCHUCKS.



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