Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

How much PC know how do you need to use spellcast?

Not too much if you're just gonna use pre-made scripts. It's basically editing some text to reflect the gear you have.

If you want to create your own though, you'd need a working knowledge of XML.

Yeah i would just want to use pre-made scripts i am not that ambitious. Best place to start would be...windower page?

It worked, thanks dude. (Your comments were amusing as well.)

Yup, bg has some good ones to.

If you're willing to take the time to sit down and go over existing xmls and figure out how they work, you don't need any prior programming experience. It's fairly simple and nearly all the rules are documented on the windower wiki.

I'd recommend looking at the xmls on the BG page rather than the windower page, as most of the windower ones are old and not particularly well designed. The BG scripts as a whole are fairly complex (Yugl's and Motenten's in particular), but there's a few simpler ones you can easily dig into as well.

I had the equivalent of about a year's worth of programming experience when I started digging into spellcast, but no experience with xml whatsoever. If you understand if-then/elseif/else statements and basic and/or/not logic, you'd be at about the same point as I was relative to what you can actually do in spellcast.

I will take a peep thanks

There's some good working scripts in the job forums here, as well.

Not saying I'm GOOD at making spellcast stuff, but I know nothing of programming other than what I've learned from just reading through xmls other people have sent me, and a bit of reading on windower.net spellcast info.
And from that I've learned how to make xmls a bit more advanced than what I would personally concider "basic".
So it's not hard to learn at all, it's all very obvious codes.

For my Omphalos safety, since my previous code didn't save it...
Is this enough? Should I add more to be sure? I'm fairly certain my previous one was shot due to lag...

What are ninjas used for these days? I want to start gearing out my ninja with Kannagi and a Str katana but I heard Ninjas are worthless outside abyssea. Is this true?

Procs in VW, but that's mostly just magic procs.
In general yes, Ninja is "useless" outside of abyssea.

But really, "outside" means VW, Legion, Dynamis and Einherjar these days.
For all old content, you can use your ninja just fine if you wish.
Dyna farming NIN\DNC is ok, but a job with TH would be a better idea.
For ADL farming\other dyna bosses, NIN is useless.
Legion, you'll never get a spot on NIN.
Einherjar, Ninja is a good tank for lowman OdinV1, but it's not a very good job for OdinV2.

Haha I'm an idiot. Deleted the entire previous post. The .xml I was editing was sent from a friend so it was on the desktop and not in the Spellcast folder >,>

What is the best food for a Thf/Dnc soloing in abyssea and also soloing Dynamis?

Also what is a better offhand for Aluh. Agi Thokcha, Triplus, or Twilight? TY :)

Jos would know, he is a uber THF!

quick question about ZENI: do Armored Gears and Experimental Lamia still take special tactics, or has that changed since lvl 99?

Which atmas should be used for SAM? Just straight DDing, nothing else..

Depends what you bring really, if you're in a group of 3-5 you can most likely just power through lamia without worrying too much about adds. Armed Gears still basically requires magic damage, its DT- is ridiculous.

Use Stardiver and then just standard crit atmas? RR, AoA, SS.

SAM is only 87 atm, have 0 Polearm skill but I do plan on going 5/5 Shoha/Stardiver. Polearm beats GKT on all lower stuff I'm guessing?

You can power through it. I did it DNC + WHM.
Wonder if Requiescat ignores the DT?

I'm fairly sure a non-RR setup came out tops when I last looked at SAM atmas, but this was some time ago. 4-hit polearm and cruor buffs shifts most of your damage over to WS, so maximizing WS frequency and output becomes your best approach. Apoc and A&O should definitely be used, just not sure on third atma.

so the charm from Experimental lamia isnt an issue anymore? And how would a Blue Mage hold up against Armed Gears? and sorry for a long pause in between my first and this one. was at work when i posted before and am now just getting home :/ but ty for ur reponses:)

Lamia uses charm each time an add dies, fairly sure it will never use it otherwise.

right so basically its the same as it was at 75,just dies quicker?

I recently did it as DRK + healer, just equipped twilight scythe and auto-attacked it to death in no time. :P

Edit: What I meant by that was Req should work!

Req tears the ***outta armed gears. Was doing ~2k Reqs on PLD/war, with a 30 DMG sword(Magian OA2~4.)