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niiice. excact link i was looking for. =) blm af2 gear looks so much better.

Okay I've seen these twice and no one can ever tell me what they mean.

What does the symbol by someone's name that is green and yellow, and looks like nothing so much as an arrow fletching, mean?

Go to SEARCH on the menu, and then there should be something down the bottom called "Edit Comment". That's where you type in your search comments (the things you've been reading). Before you can type in your comments, you have to choose from the following four colors:

The green dot is for EXP Party. The Red dot is for Quest/Missions. The blue dot is Item Related and the yellow dot is Other.

Hope that helps you out.

Edited, Wed Oct 13 10:05:52 2004 by Xanoxonax

Ah, I saw my first one of those last night. Yoshimusa, I believe, was the bearer. Saw him in South Gustaberg while helping an LS member hunt Lizzy.

Looks like this, right?

That symbol in Japanese culture indicates a beginner or a training-level permission or activity (Japanese drivers' learner permits have this insignia on them). In this case, Square uses them to denote players on trial memberships for press events or public demonstrations.Unfortunately, you can't have multiple messages, so many people just pick the red or yellow dot since they're the most visible. By the time you're of an appropriate level to know to use Search Comments, you've probably done all the solo quests you can do, so trying to get a group quest done would equally merit the red or yellow dot.

The blue dot is not very visible at all in searches. I wouldn't use it.

As a note, the number of Japanese players that use Search Comments is a lot higher than those that don't, so using Search Comments makes you a more favorable candidate to Japanese parties.

While we're discussing this, I should probably talk about something else you see often in search comments: "X", "O", a double-circle, and a triangle. The Japanese often use these to indicate status or approval/disapproval. "X" (batsu) would obviously be disapproval, or a lack of a particular status (for example, (Erase): X - no Erase!). "O" (pi-pon) is ideal or approval ( (food): O ). Triangle means "so-so". A Japanese player might use this to indicate that he/she would be open to doing something, but would prefer otherwise ( (Yuhtunga Jungle) (party): O / (Yhoator Jungle) (party): ^ *assume that's a triangle). The double-circle has two-concentric circles, and that indicates a very positive condition, moreso than "O".

Now, we don't get the fontset that the Japanese use, but you do still have O and X at your disposal. To make it look more authentic, use the Auto-Translate menu, and go to Controller. In the second page of the Controller menu, you'll find items showing the four PSX buttons. Hit one of those, and then delete the "button" text. Sorry, no double-circle...but this helps. :D

Edited, Wed Oct 13 10:19:59 2004 by Cutriss

Bored at work, Valcrist? ~.^

Thanks for that info on the Xs and Os and what not. I'd always wondered what the hell that was all about.

I know some bored individual somewhere out there has listed every single auto-translate word available.
(C'mon, I know you're out there)

Does anyone know where such a list can be found?

^^ I wanna have fun with some of my macros.

About the cursed items, I quoted this from our LS website. All credits goes to Rhayn, PLD73:

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List of Cursed Items:
http://www.akuadvanced.com/cursed.html

To briefly explain, when you get an abjuration for a specific equipment slot, you must acquire the matching cursed gear for that slot. After this, take both the Abjuration and the Cursed gear to the NPC Alphollon C Meriard in the church in Northern San d'Oria. Trade both the abjuration and cursed gear to him, the curse will be removed, and you'll get the uncursed item back.

Both the abjuration and final product are Rare/Ex, but the cursed gear itself is made from various high-level crafts.
---Quote---

Btw, abjurations are Rare/Ex scrolls dropped off God HNMs.

HNM = Honorary Notorious Monster

It means the NM grants you a title after you kill it.

I don't think this is correct. If you kill Stray Mary, you get a title.

Yes, from all the research I've been able to do into this subject, Winawer is absolutely correct, as are the people who have stated similar things on the main forum. There are several different tracks. Furthermore, actions like Provoke are sent back to the server with a "timestamp" to determine which player used Provoke first. Let me try to dig up a couple of the threads.

Agree, You don't get any title for killing any of the gods except Kirin (kirin captivator is the title) Also never heard HNM called Honorary Notorious monster before.

You get title for killing easy HNM like steelfleeced (hornsplitter) and serket,but not amikiri or Tyranous Tunnok (they are basically Serket on steroid and drop claw also).

The explanation might be that amikiri and Tunnok are lottery pop of the scorpions around their zone while Serket is a just a scorpion pop in Garlaige where there are no scorpion mobs. Hence the game considers Serket a rarer event than amikiri or Tunnok though the latter two are harder. but again Mary is just a lottery pop of those sheeps around her so I don't really know how it work.

Some other HNM that give titles are

Roc (roc star), Sigmurgh (sigmurgh poacher), Serket (serket breaker ) fafnir and Nidhogg (faf and nid slayer) Voluptious vivian (vivisector) Cassie (cassinova,)Aspidochelone (A. Sinker)

Normal NM give titles too like

Stray mary, the 7 skulls in Eldieme (Skullkrusher), the Royal Demon NMs in castle vazhl (Hellsbane), Cacrot Rapido (Cactrot Desacelerador)

Some mob considered HNM (in that they're very hard and drop stuff people want) that does not give titles are

the 4 gods (genbu, seiryu, suzaku, byakko), Tunnok and amikiri, The bomb queen, maybe Hakutaku.

Thank you, Germonick - I hope you can find the threads, because I'd be interested in reading them again and saving the information. :)