Rapture and Banish 2Follow

So for fun I have been making the Surya Staff +2. Working on making it complete. This one at the moment has +5 light affinity I was hoping to do good dmg to Luminhelix. t does close to 850 right now.


But Then my friend told me try it out with /whm and banish 2. I was doing 800-1k at worm camp. Then I tried out rapture, as it enhances next white spell. And well its doing 1300-1700 banish 2's

I thought it was weird as all I ever used rapture for was healing. I am presently surprised though.

I totally agree with this.

Most people didn't care about sch enhancing until embrava. It be nice to have a good divine spell non two hour and a second spell equal to Kaustra with white magic.

This stff if good if your main healing some low mn event, and want to swap out your cure staff real fast for a hard nuke or luminhelix . then reequip the cure staff.

Proto-Ultima is light-based, so that wouldn't be worth using in there.

Magic bursts work regardless of the magic type as long as they're of the proper element to burst. A light element spell, be it Divine, Enfeebling, Elemental, Summoning Bloodpact, or Blue, will burst off a Transfixion, Fusion, or Light skillchain.

Elder Grip would do the most among those three. Wise Strap (the magic crit) is generally useless, since while it'd improve the damage far more than any other grip when a magic crit did kick in, the actual rate that it kicks in is so low all in all that most of the time it's absolutely worthless. Divine Skill would more affect resist rates than anything else, so +3 skill wouldn't mean much.

I will say though that, like your other "boasting" comments, you should probably supply some screenshots to show evidence to your actions. Just claiming high numbers but showing no screenshots or anything to back it up is instantly going to open you up to criticism.

Edited, Sep 9th 2012 7:21am by Vlorsutes

Those are some of the things though that I'm meaning. You make these claims, which are a good deal beyond what should be possible given the steps done to perform them, and then when asked to provide evidence you don't do so. Rule #1 when it comes to making claims is to have evidence to support it or to be able to provide information should someone ask you about it. I know in multiple topics, people have asked for you to supply information on gear or to post screenshots showing the numbers you've been pulling off, but you've not done so. I know if I were making similar claims, I'd be willing and ready to post all relevant information the moment it was asked of me (if I didn't post it up front),

For what it's worth, getting pictures is quite straightforward, just don't use the built in screenshot tool since it doesn't show the chat log. If you're playing in windowed mode, you can just hit the Print Screen key to capture whatever is on the screen to the clipboard (you may have the FFXI not be the active window for this to work, it's been a while). Then you open Paint or another graphics tool, paste the image in and save it.

Then upload it to PhotoBucket or whatever free image service floats your boat, and post the link back here on the forum. I don't think it'll show the picture directly in the thread but people will be able to see it.

I'll say that ppl didn't respond because it wasn't clear that is what you were asking, or ppl thought it was an excuse and did not believe you were having trouble with it.

When are you going to learn that absolutely no one is impressed by the unwieldly ways you generate subpar damage in Abyssea?

The thing is though is that posting about how high your numbers are and how you're doing 9k+ on mobs and that Meteor Black Mages and other jobs will kneel to your damage IS considered boasting. You're proclaiming that your numbers are extremely high and that other jobs are inferior to you damage wise or that your methods are better than what other jobs have available to them is boasting about your abilities, but boasting without evidence to actually back it up is never a good way of going about things.

Secondly, it's not IN Abyssea that people have been doubting your abilities, since Abyssea, with the proper atmas, etc, will result in extremely overpowered numbers. It's in those situations where you're boasting about numbers far beyond what should be capable outside of Abyssea that people have the arguments about. You've been mentioning pulling off numbers in Legion on your Blue Mage that, given how Legion works, is just not feasible. Likewise, some of the other non-Legion/non-Abyssea things you've mentioned are also just not really possible and, given the gear you've been shown to wear in the past, people are going to be extremely skeptical about some of the things you say you're able to do on your Dark Knight, your Blue Mage, etc.

If you want people to believe what you claim, then you need to post screenshots of those numbers as you get them. I would say that to anyone making claims about their damage, and I personally would not make any boasts about damage without having the screenshots to support it.

fair enough, but keep in mind people just taught me how to take screenshots. So when the time comes and I do something well outside of abby, I take the pic and post it.

Well, part of the reason it comes off as being boastful is that when you post about it, you more often than not don't post about it in a way to suggest that you're trying to understand why you're getting the numbers that you are. You post about it in a way that comes off as being boastful (i.e. the whole "Meteor Black Mages will kneel to Scholar damage" example). With the Rapture affecting Banish, yes, that wasn't so much boastful as just being surprised that it worked like that, but a number of your other comments come off as saying that what you're doing is the best and that anyone else is inferior, thus bragging.

Your approach is what leads to this seemingly hostile environment in response to you. When you post comments like this...



...it's being overly boastful. You're not trying to determine why you're getting the damage that you are, you're just listing off numbers and making comments about those numbers to set yourself on a pedestal. It's in those situations that people are going to want you to prove your numbers. You're making boastful claims and setting yourself up to be superior, so people are going to want you to prove it with screenshots and the like.

Similarly, with the whole situation of Blue Mage, given that you have given incorrect information in the past regarding Blue Mage, and just how Blue Mage and Legion work, the numbers you've mentioned as far as your damage would leave anyone skeptical, which is why I asked you to list off your gear. I didn't even ask for screenshots, just listing off your gear.

The way you're treated on here is largely determined by how you treat others on here. If you're nice, respectful, give accurate information, and aren't arrogant (or at least not overly so), then you'll more often than not be treated with respect. However, if you come in and making outrageous claims with no evidence to support it, give information that's incorrect in one way or another, come off as being overly arrogant, or are just rude, people will not have a very high opinion of you.

Edited, Sep 13th 2012 2:13pm by Vlorsutes