Spell details for Stoneskin  

i've been reading the posts in here about stoneskin and i wanted to post my own comments about it ive seen the hit rates very from use to use depending on my job and equipment and have tested the fact that the longer you wait to get hit with stoneskin on the less stoneskin blocks i think it is becouse just like sneak and invisible can ware over time. stoneskin also wares over time andthe longer you have it in use before you get hit the chances of being hit increase's but also like one guy said above i've also just casted it at times and depending on te mobs moves i've seen it striped away easily so i guess its realy luck of the draw on how much it can take some times before it dissapears

Ok, can someone test out this hypothesis?
RDM61/DRK30
Use Stoneskin/Phalanx and Soul Eater. Will this work? If so, then adding Carapace latency gear after HPs are in the yellow (after Soul Eater wears off) added with Last Resort and an En-spell could be a nice new form of DDing.

Since your post is rather recent, much more recent then I made my edit update on the post, I think you should read posts completely before making a post. Like I said, I looked into the formula after been proven wrong with the Enhancing Skill +50 part (the formula just happened to get the same value at one point with my equipment). However, now I've calculated and so on, and the formula has so far been 100% correct.

Quote:
"F1: ([Enhancing Magic Skill] / 3) + MND when X < 100
F2: {([Enhancing Magic Skill] / 3) + MND} * 2 - 60 when X = 100 - 150
F3: {([Enhancing Magic Skill] / 3) + MND} * 3 - 190 when X > 150

"X" is calculated by

X = ([Enhancing Magic Skill] / 3) + MND + 20"

100% Correct so far. Also, this makes WHM's mainly (assumed that they have the melee skill with them) able to actually kill cactuars SOLO, which only SMN, BST, DRG and MNK can, without having to sub SMN or BST, or for WAR and some other jobs; WHM alternative RDM. However, Medicine Earring does NOT help against 1000 Needles like Physical Atk -% does unfortunately. /cheer all WHM's. Anyway, I bet lots of people have found out ways to kill cactuars solo, this spell just helps whm's who dont have a up to par SMN sub or bst sub (which not many do anyway).

While fighting cactuars in Western Altepa desert with a friend, I could easily calculate the absorbing damage for Stoneskin, the above formula posted is more complicated and probably wrong, a better way is: Enhancing Magic Skill + 50. and thats how much your Stoneskin will absorb. Atleast mine absorbs that, and yes, increased with 1 point of absorbing when i leveled enhancing one more lvl.

Edit: Ok so I dumped some stuff, and suddenly my assumption was wrong, I retake my statement that the formula was probably wrong as it is most likely correct, I'll look into it more if I got the time.

Edited, Thu Nov 4 14:57:51 2004

"Cast Stoneskin when you're poisoned, and you can still sit and rest"

I found that out by accident when farming in Rolanberry Fields (crawlers). My HP will not tick -1 with Stoneskin on and I can rest with Poison. This this is helpful if you're not subbing /WHM.

Just thought I'd share something with others ^^

I just wanted to say that i could not find this scroll in the magic shops of the first nation.

I am on Alexander and currently Windhurst is rank one. So I travel to Windy to see if I can get the stoneskin spell. I check all the magic stores in Windy....Nothing. I am from Sandy. I found a friend from Windy to check the stores too. Nothing. Windy is in 1st place and I had a Windy ready to buy me the scroll. But it was not available in the stores. We even waited for a day, hoping the stores would regenerate their inventories and offer the scroll. No Luck.

Well I had to bite the bullet and buy it from Windy AH for 9.5k ick. Has anyone been able to buy this scroll and under what conditions?? I can't find it with the conditions people have been talking about.

If a mob aggros you, you can continue to sit for that ever needed med time while you have stoneskin on. This will also let you sit if you have Dia or Bio as long as it doesn't overide your auto-regen. Spells cast on you will still make you stand up but they won't do damage. A very handy and extremely useful spell.

Edited, Tue Apr 13 10:28:51 2004

First thing's first:
If your country is in first and you're buying this spell for you or someone else, just do quests to get the price lowered. It runs anywhere from 5K - 8K in the stores, 10K at AH on Diablos server.

2nd: It's not a good spell in a group if you're chaining b/c you waste 29 mp plus the time you lose for mp healing. Blink is a better spell, but still not reccommended for groups. By the time you can get this spell, you have auto-regen. So just cast regen on yourself, save 14mp and healing time, and let the vokers pull mobs off of you after one or two hits.

3rd: It is a great spell for soloing and if you're in a group that is fighting 2 battles at the same time. That way, when you heal one group and the other's enemy aggros you, you'll be ok. It's also useful to use before a bene or a DS/Curaga or Curaga II. If you don't have a pal and the party isn't going to kill the baddies, you'll have enough protection to make it to the zone.

I reccommend buying this scroll, but don't use it religiously in the middle of chain battles. I see that happen too much. If your party is good enough that you aren't using much mp, then that's acceptable. But I've seen whm's lose mp, someone die, then the mob dies b/c they used stoneskin. Think of that extra cure II or DS/Cure II you can get out of your last 30 mp.

When San D'oria is in first place the magic shop there has it, and for very cheap too, only like 5k-ish gil (maybe, maybe less)