Sharpshot and Abyssea Lights

[Horadrim]

um why not? When i go to abyssea i sit at 200 pearlescent 255 ruby 128~150 azure and 200+ minutes. If someone is saying no ruby, then they are clueless and losing out on a lot of exp (gold and ebon light)

The rule of thumb, typically, is to get to 200+ minutes after capping Azure, then you can cap Ruby. Its just a lot of people come to EXP parties without stones so they cry and demand that you cap Azure for TEs first -- even though most people have 100+ stones just from the fact you seldom actually need them.

Its just people being needy/lazy.

If I'm looking at time of 200+ minutes and we don't have ruby for some reason, I usually leave.

Side note, technically Weapon Skills are special attacks, so it doesn't surprise me that, since just about everything outside of melee and Casting the Automaton does is considered a special attack, you'd get Ruby from a ranged attack.

[TimeMage]

A party that denies Ruby is a party I'm going to leave ASAP. Playing solo, and depending on your skill level, sure, if you kill slow you should first focus on azure and pearl. But in a party? Just go apeshit on mobs until eveything is capped. If mages are smart, and snipe kills (easy to do with 5k spells) Azure will come first usually, anyway.

[Kristal]

Side note, technically Weapon Skills are special attacks, so it doesn't surprise me that, since just about everything outside of melee and Casting the Automaton does is considered a special attack, you'd get Ruby from a ranged attack.

I think it was Camate that recently said it on the forum, but automaton ranged attacks are indeed considered special abilities. With the added bonus of being immune to Amnesia.

[Treellis]

Speaking of weird lights i once got an amber light while killing with my pup, the only weird thing that happened is that pacotille was using Flashbulb while i delivered the final hit ( regular h2h no ws)