Comments | rukenshin: How my NIN works..

rukenshin

How my NIN works..

Aug 11, 2005 19:26

16 times now I've been asked to explain/tell/show how I do this by different people over the last month.. Apparently what I do has given some really good results :D.. But it's incredibly difficult to describe it all in tells, and even in a PM.. So, I just decided I'm going to post it all here and whenever I'm asked about it again I'll just /point ( Read more... )

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dyson_odin August 13 2005, 15:38:09 UTC

Just one quick question, what different kinds of food do you use? I don't think I saw you say that. ^^;

rukenshin August 13 2005, 16:57:22 UTC

Oh, good question.. lol

There are 5 types of food I switch around between:

Sole Sushi: I use this for exp PTs, occasionally in the highland dynamis runs, lower level NMs that I can melee, and soloing any mobs that are VT..

Yellow Curry/Bison Steak: Used when I go out to solo mobs lower then VT, or for the Dynamis city runs..

Carbonara: One of the foods that I occasionally use while tanking HNMs/higher NMs/other.. It gives a bunch of HP, putting me at 1700 to 1750 HP depending on what I have equiped. Usually I only use at the out PT for Tiamat, since sometimes I kite corses and the extra HP really helps to have between all the ga magic and poison. Then occasionally I have to eat Stonega IIIs from Earth Elementals (can't stun them><). I don't really use it much tanking anymore though ( ... )

dyson_odin August 15 2005, 04:39:26 UTC

you used sushi for the high damage on aura statues?

rukenshin August 15 2005, 05:53:48 UTC

Yep.

anonymous August 15 2005, 18:01:31 UTC

Pretty nice setup all around. Just a couple suggestions ( ... )

rukenshin August 15 2005, 21:27:41 UTC

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll look into that earring.. I have merman's rings from my RNG already, would really help at something like Kirin ( ... )

anonymous August 15 2005, 22:26:28 UTC

Huh, I never noticed the breath doing less damage when standing to the side. I guess I'll try side stepping a bit when I see it come up in the log. I did know it was a breath attack since wearing Merman's Rings did nothing to reduce the damage. Hard to say if they help with Whirlwind or Sandstorm since the damage is all over the place with those. I could try sneaking a Jelly Ring on when no one is looking ( ... )

rukenshin September 3 2005, 20:07:30 UTC

Oh... Like 3 weeks later I realize I never replied to this. XD

Sorry, lol..

I like defense/VIT/HP gear more then -damage reduction, but it's just my preference.. If you could get enough -damage taken I'm sure it'd give pretty good results too.

CHR gear does not effect the STR of Provoke or Debuffs, it was said by SE themself in an interview almost a year ago.. It only effects the ability to Charm and the strength of that Charm for Beastmasters, and how well BRD can land debuffs on HNMs with their songs. It also works as a damage modifier for Dancing Edge and Shadowswitch, and apparently also has an effect on how often the "Killer" effects happen. But it gives nothing other then those properties.

BRDs get so much hate from spamming debuffs (like we do), playing songs over and over on people with hate (gives a lot of hate over time), and curing PT members.. All that combined together with the fact that they rarely have any -enmity at all unlike most other jobs = they will pull hate pretty often.

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ivadelll September 12 2005, 12:26:46 UTC

wow thanks for all this info, ia go home and try this. and I have an answer to your recast timers. there is a add for the windower that shows all the timers for every job ability and magic you just used. I <3 this, it sits in a little transparent window in the corner, now all i gotta do is look up and see when Ni, Voke or Ichi is up. so beautiful, I'll try and find a way to post it so i don't get castrated.

rukenshin September 13 2005, 01:23:09 UTC

What plugin is that? :o

ivadelll September 13 2005, 07:03:26 UTC

FFXIrecaster maybe not so much a plugin as a program that runs with windower, since you have to start it outside of FFXI.

Earrings anonymous October 18 2005, 16:49:34 UTC

Quick question, why do you prefer Bat Earring's w/ +15 eva when blinded over Melody earrings w/ +5 evasion skill as latent that kicks in when you have any song on you? j/w

Re: Earrings rukenshin October 18 2005, 19:28:45 UTC

+30 evasion versus +10 evasion skill?

I don't always have songs on me, and I almost always have blinding pots... Easy Alchemy recipe.

I'm pretty certain the +30 evasion would give better results than +10 evasion skill though regardless.

Re: Earrings anonymous October 19 2005, 06:58:26 UTC

Idk if I agree with that >.<, I was always told that Evasion Skill > Evasion. I guess theres no way to tell which is better than the other, or is there? O.o

Re: Earrings rukenshin October 19 2005, 07:05:56 UTC

It is... Evasion skill is better than Evasion.

But, 30 Evasion versus 10 evasion skill? No contest... If it was 30 evasion versus 30 Evasion Skill, then yeah evasion skill would definately be better. Maybe even 20 evasion skill or 15 would be better or at least even with the benefit of 30 evasion, but just 10 is way too small to compete with 30 evasion IMO.

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