The VanaFest Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway Has Begun!Follow

Pity my wife and I combined our POL accounts into the same SE account. Only one of us may enter.

I was distinctly disappointed with the lack of any impressed with the range of useful stuff for Scholar in the Rank 2 prizes. Oh well. My entry is in, here goes nothing!

Surprised it wants you to actually type in your character and select your server though; would have thought that being SE account based that it'd just give you a list of your characters?

Edited due to naiveity which was subsequently corrected by Fynlar ^^

Edited, Jul 8th 2012 1:09am by Drusenija

There really should be a consolation prize for everyone who enters but doesn't win. My suggestions to SE for a costume item that turns you into a log went largely ignored for some reason.

I'm at work and can't log into my SE acct to fill this out. Are the questions fill in the blank, or multiple choice? God forbid I misspell something if it's fill in the blank, haha.

The only thing you have to spell is your own character's name. Good luck.

I picked Kenkonken. I hope I win, just to annoy people.

Ryunohige
Umbral Marrow
Drachenhorn (was torn between a few things, so went with one I knew I'd get use out of)
Scythe


Just like the SATs, someone, somewhere, will get this wrong.

Ryunohige (why anyone would take something other than a mythic is beyond my realm of understanding)
5 marrows (I didn't like pretty much any of the choices here, so just went with the one with the current highest gil value)
Huginn Gambieras (most of that new HQ abjuration stuff is not that impressive to me, considering how hard it would be to get normally, but I'll take haste+5% shoes for BST)
The scythe (duh)

On a side note, the one winner of the rank 1 prize is totally gonna be someone who picked an empyrean weapon, most likely someone not realizing that they will only get a level 90 version of the weapon and not 99, meaning they still don't get to skip the 1500 heavy metal plate stage.



Kenkonken is one of the good mythics though. If you wanted to annoy people you should have gotten the SCH staff or something.

Worse, they'll have picked Kannagi.


I thought SCH Staff is friggin' amazing at lv90+. KKK is pretty good too. If you wanted to annoy people I'd think you're thinking of Claustrum, which has no caster value whatsoever.

People seem to get annoyed at those who enjoy themselves in this game, so I wouldn't be surprised.

I went with Kenkonken, Girru, Iaso Boots. Went with Girru over a nyzul piece since the odds of me joining an LS for Legion are slimmer then the odds of me winning a nyzul(not that I am really all to concern with it). Iaso boots, Movement speed and cure potency for my whm and scholar. What's not to love.

The second you fight Prov Watcher, you will likely have a Sanus Ensis. It's a relatively common drop, and most people don't want it/already have it.

Edited, Jul 6th 2012 1:50pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

Kenkonken for Rank 1
Riftdross for Rank 2
Scythe for Rank 4

Still deciding on Rank 3, since off-hand, I have no idea what most of that stuff does .

That may be, but considering I still need sea and sky access, I am a heck of a long way from prov watcher

i dont know what to pick for #3..i dont know any of this gear XD lol

yea. I went with things that would make my DRG better. It is always my main, even if i hardly ever play on it.

The problem with the gear is it can get additional Augments and that is probably where the OMG WTF THATS GOOD sh*t lies. As it stands most of these pieces are mediocre at best without knowing what the possible augments are.

Edit: almost half the mythics can be safely categorized as useless. The other 40% of them are in the "Not worth the effort" category. While maybe 3? Are really good.

Edited, Jul 6th 2012 11:25pm by Laxedrane

Wow, thanks for curing me of my ignorance. It's awesome to see I can clear the whole questline. I honestly didn't know.

Told you I was a filthy casual

Also anyone else reading this thinking that maybe this quest is a precursor to being able to travel to Andolin?



Also hilarious that technically this is an extension of the wings of the goddess storyline... still. So when we talk about how long it took for the storyline to get fleshed out... lol



Edited, Jul 7th 2012 12:13am by Olorinus

Hehe, add me to the surprisingly large list of people who picked Kenkonken for 1st rank prize. It's not THAT surprising when you consider that a Mythic is the best use of the prize from a standpoint of "hardest to get earning it yourself" standpoint, and that Kenkonken is one of the better Mythics.

Paired that with choices of 5x Marrows, Tessera Saio (nice piece for all 7 of my jobs), and Scythe.

You're quite right, ignore me, only been back a week and got lazy on my research >.< Looked up the Saio only and was comparing to AF3+2. The set actually does come across a certain shade of awesome; didn't exist when I last played.

For what it's worth, I actually did put Tupsimati as my rank 1 prize. I'm working off the following reasoning:
1. If its purely random, I'm not going to win (statistically), so it doesn't matter
2. If they weight the selection towards more active players, I lose anyway, I've only just come back from a year's break, and only play a few nights a week casually
3. If they weight the selection towards weapons that already exist in large numbers, I'd still likely have no chance since everyone is going to pick those ones - they're obviously popular for a reason
4. If they weight the selection towards rare weapons, based on the latest census, there isn't any Tupsimati's in existence at the moment, therefore I give myself a better chance of winning

I really don't have any interest in other jobs at the moment (although that may change with the new ones coming), and since the Tupsimati is one piece of Scholar gear I can honestly say I am never going to own legitimately (I don't see a casual player in a small linkshell amassing the 30k Alexandrite required to upgrade the damn thing), I figured why not list it? Anything else is going to go to waste anyway since I'm not playing any other jobs at the moment.

In which case, my scenario #1 applies, and realistically I'm not going to win it anyway ^^

It's among one of the most ridiculously powerful weapons in the game atm. Not only do you get a +30% damage increase to an already strong WS, it is incredibly easy to keep a 300% TP aftermath up.

*lights the Banalaty Beacon for further clarification*

Aftermath turning it into a 151 Damage OA3 weapon aside, a 30% damage bonus on Drakesbane is goddamn bonkers.

You might think 'Well what about Liberator?'. Crappy 25% STR+MND mods on a non-critting and laughably scaling 3.5-4.0 fTP is why. Drakesbane is a straight up 50% STR mod which is still fantastic on a criting WS.

The most important bit is that even though it's only the lv90 version, it's already past the hard part unlike Empyreans which will still have to do 1500 Heavy Metal (we all know the Rank 1 winner will be some asshat wanting a Kannagi, statistically). People are more than ready to jump in on Warden runs if you farm them.

Hands down the strongest weapon in the game (Unless KKK is fixed to OA3 both hands, which I can be kinda sure it doesn't). I considered also Burtgang to go with making an Aegis for an easy brick-wall PLD.

As far as I know the first hit only still. *shrug* I wouldn't know what math to do to compare O3 lance with jump bonus verse O3 h2h on one hand with 0(is it negative at 99?) delay added and the O3 transferring to a significantly stronger pet>.>