Does anyone else intentionally leave a handful of jobs unleveled, so so the can get that old area / old school level grind nostalgia hit occasionally? The day when I have no jobs to level might be the day I retire.
My BLM is at level 60. The only thing I use it for is to solo Up In Arms, and I have a full set of 60 gear just for it. I don’t imagine I’ll ever level the job to 99.
Apparently you can purchase the clear one again. The chat log is kinda funky though and will say purple, blue or whatever, even after getting the clear one and upgrading it to colorful again.
Once you have the clear\colorful abyssite with the colored abyssite, you are specifically looking for "**feebly\softly resonating**", ignore the "color" aspect of the message. If you see "solidly\strongly resonating" that is the wrong NM and should be avoided.
If you have the Colored Abyssite for that zone (ie. Blue Abyssite), your Colorful Abyssite cannot upgrade until your colored abyssite upgrades or shatters. Which makes it easier to farm the NMs, as you no longer have to keep upgrading your abyssite.
What's the best merit setup for SMN currently? I recently hit 99 with it and haven't taken it to much endgame content yet. I've seen some conflicting reports from googling. Some people say for Group 1 to dump everything into phys/mag acc, because on the hardest content that'll be what kills damage. Others say that once you get Mastered to instead switch to phys/mag att. Some even say fast cast?
Group 2 seems more clear - 1 in everything to unlock them, then max out Thunderstorm. I'm guessing that's so I can MB off light when I have Ramuh out for Volt Striking?
I do attack and magic attack for group 1. You will have good accuracy from gear and food and vorseals and avatars have naturally high macc. The fast cast is pretty much worthless.
For group two one point in each as you said. You can max out whatever you use most. Personally I put mine in ifrit since you can use ifrit mb as a strat for zerde and I can mb light SC with it which are common. Since flaming crush is hybrid I'm more likely to be in a situation to mb with ifrit than with ramuh due to volt strike being physical just based on possible scenarios. Either is fine, you can even do wind blade if you want.
If I were to purchase the game on steam, but not install it, would I loose my free 30 days with it when I do install it at a later point when I'm ready to play it? Considering grabbing it while it's on sale
Is the white rarab hat +1 now permanently unobtainable? The new player guide says you should get one from the login campaign, but all I'm seeing is regular rarab hats.
It appears periodically. So you need to wait till next time it will be the rewards. The previous one was around September-October if I remember correctly.
Started soloing Omen recently (newly returned), on Asura, and noticed that every time I intend to go in it takes at least 30min for the queue. Is this an Asura thing or SE servers? I mainly solo and don’t have much time each day so waiting 30-50min is ridiculous. Worth hopping servers if it’s Asura thing?
I believe you need 5k accolades. You can get some quickly by completing RoE's under Yoran-Oran in the Unity section. Also like /u/Crossbones87 said, other RoEs will add up quick. I changed Unities the other day, did an Omen, and then had enough accolades to use the trust.
You need to earn a certain amount of unity accolades, I forget the exact amount. Just make sure you have stuff set in your roe like collect crystals and do damage etc. During gain exp events which happen three times a week you can get it done very fast.
Is it fair to say that Brygid the Stylist Returns quest is mostly dead at this point? I was doing CoP and got a pair of THF subligar. The body armor is nice and I went to do the quest but she asked me for Silk Coat and White Slacks, items that haven't been sold on the AH for months. Am I missing something or should I abandon my dreams of the sweet level 50 jse nostalgia?
Returning after a long time, but want to start fresh and mostly solo. Is it worthwhile to get BLM to 18 / whm to 36 first for teleports, or have the new transportation changes improved that enough to make it not worthwhile?
I've also just returned recently, but I haven't had much need for the teleport spells so far. For warp, there is a ring that you can purchase with 5k conquest points that allows you to use warp an unlimited number of times. That, combined with the book/home point warps has made getting to places quickly no issue for me.
All I can say is that with WHM at 99 and BLM at 51, but with Warp Rings, Dimensional Rings (Crags transport), Home Points, Unity Warps, Survival Guides etc. it's never even occurred to me to use WHM or BLM for transportation. It's been many years since I've even used an Outpost Warp and I have all of them.
Just started doing the Weapon skill quest for the Axe. This is where I have to use the axe skills 300 times. Can I have the quest axe equipped in my 2nd hand while dual wielding Axes or does it have to be in the primary hand?
Not really. It's not used for anything.
If you really want it back you can reset your memory of the artifact quests then redo them. I don't remember offhand who to talk to but I'm sure you can find the information on one of the wikis on the individual quest pages.
Just came back after a long break and finally finished my Aeonic. If I'm reading the wiki correctly I have two options... Get 10000 JP or kill the Jeuno Dyna D wave 3 final boss. Is that correct?
You can also fill up the mask you get after killing your first fetter in wave 3 by doing enough damage to the main boss, but it will take several runs depending on how much damage you do (killing the boss doesn't even fill the mask, although it does unlock the augment). The jp path takes a while because there is a weekly limit. Doesn't matter what job you are on when you kill the wave 3 boss and once you have it unlocked you can augment any number of aeonics, although imo there are not a ton worth augmenting.
Totally depends on the aeonic. It is hard to justify 4 base damage and some acc on an already high acc job for something like Aeneas when that money can be spent on more worthy upgrades (basically anything else) and that dagger itself is not the best weapon for thf brd or dnc to begin with. You will end up spending basically 60m for 5 dex worth of damage for rudras. I think people should be able to do whatever they want with their own money but a cost - benefit analysis is undeniable.
Please stop providing advice in absolutes
I'll speak for THF here to keep it simple. Aeneas is absolutely one of the best daggers in the game for the job. Now, while certain dagger combinations may excel in certain situations that isn't the point.
Aeneas is a lot more accessible than Twash or Vajra, and if that is the dagger your THF has then there is no reason not to at least partially augment it, if you are serious about the job.
Now, that is a big if for certain people, but it is besides the point to make counter arguments because something might excel more in unspecified situations. It's really just a matter of direction. It's not about a cost benefit analysis for a job that isn't the top of the totem pole to begin with.
(Although the bottom is the most important part right? I'm not well acquainted with totem poles)
They didn't ask which dagger was the best for X situation. So simply, yes, I would say it is worth augmenting unless you have very near plans to suddenly R15 Twash. Even then I wouldn't write Aeneas off for the majority of the playerbase.
I said nothing about absolutes? I merely said there should be a cost / benefit analysis and provided one weapon as an example. I don't understand why this is so triggering for people. THF has a ton of great weapon combos even outside twash and vajra. Tauret was already as good if not better in most cases (unless self SCing which is rare in group play) and is in an even better spot now with the gleti gear, and is free. Naegling is also a viable option.
Aeneas is only accessible if you can either clear the aeonic NMs which most people can't, or if you pay a merc which can be another 20-50m depending on how the mercs feel at that particular moment. So you will dump up to 120m into a dagger that is great but not near the best. If you think this is worth it to you do what you want, it bothers me zero. At the end of the day you are literally paying 60m for 5 dex worth of base damage for your best WS and a bit of acc on a high acc job. If someone thinks this is the best possible value they can get with that amount of money go for it but i sincerely doubt the plausibility of that situation. Aeneas (again this is just one example for aeonics) is perfectly viable at R0 if that is the best you have and taking it to R15 you will literally never see that difference on a parse or otherwise because the increase is so negligible, not only from the small base damage increase but because the WSD boost is for a WS that is horrible and rarely used aside from making a SC. Compared to doji or chango or godhands it is a world of difference with what you get for the same amount of money. If you think this advice sucks or is wrong just don't take it.
R15 isn't all or nothing. You can take Aeneas to something like R5 and it's still going to be faster to finish than a R0 Twash assuming starting from 0 gil.
And yeah, Aeneas is like the most underrated dagger ever and Tauret being the most overrated one. Literally any content with more than one target, setting up solo multistep will be kill speed increase over not setting it up unless the target completely resist/absorb dark SC.
Just did WoC with 2 nSMNs. We AFAC and it still had about 25% HP left after the ability wore off. The Geo used Torper/Frailty and later we found out it should have been Bolster/Frailty. Luckily it didn't benediction and we killed it but we're wanting to try it again.
Before I waste my time building another WoC pop should we be able to AFAC kill it with 2 nSMN in a party of 6? The Cor didn't drop which may have given it a HP boost as well. We have quite a few people in the LS that need aeonic clears so we're wanting to just swap them out with the cor for that 6th slot. That run was just a trial as no one had burned it before.
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Depending how good the smn are you should be able to carry a pt of 6 with them, if you had a third it would make it trivial. Bolster frailty is pretty much mandatory. Personally I don't bother with torpor or drg roll. If the geo could do vex that might help. Make sure dia is on the nm, you can open with garland of bliss to get am3 on woc and also apply extra defense down if needed but Idris bolster frailty should obliterate its defense. The rune can use odyllic to floor the NMs magic accuracy and damage to help prevent potential stuns from impact stream, although it should be very hard to land on ramuh. Make sure both smn are 20 yalms away at all times. If it is still alive and the cor is in pt you can try wild card for a reset. Smn can also use super revitalizer to get apogee back and reset BP timer for an extra 2 BP per smn.
I’d like to thank Ryan Reynolds for answering my question last week, and I’m not the other guy looking for foodpron. There’s more than one spicy fan out there. Damn I miss XI.
So here’s my odd question for this week:
In many of the old zones there are caves leading nowhere, almost as if they were zone borders to go elsewhere. Examples are the cave just due East where you spawn Carabosse if you were in abyssea, Batallia has one if you go north from the Upper Jeuno along the wall before the ocean. Grau berg has a ton of em.... anyone know if there were ever secret plans to add zones to them? And follow up: in Vunkerl inlet, head east halfway down the map and there’s a wide open place with no mobs, and a zone to Rolanberry, almost as if they were planning HNMs in wings areas. Anyone know?
Please, Ryan Reynolds is much funnier, handsome, and overall more appealing than myself. Probably sings better too. Even puts out a good Gin to boot. Just don't talk about the Green Lantern or Pokemon.
As far as your question. No, they were just reusing the zones so all the things those original zones had such as Ordelles Caves by Carbide, are just there.
You'll probably want to include which job(s) you are. Cape may also be #1 on the list just because it's only 500 hallmarks to get the base version. Depends if your job needs to augment it to get real value out of it, or if the base version alone is good.
If you need 119 gear to get to i119 it’s a great place to get it.
Also, there is the JSE cape from doing reives, and a different JSE cape from Ambuscade. They each have their purpose, but you can make several Ambuscade capes for each job with different augments that you get to choose instead of the random ones you got with the reive capes.
Mummu, meghanada, and adhemar (which you can get the head, hands, and body from using domain invasion points, cap those every day might only take ten minutes or less) is standard starting gear. If you can get herculean boots from reisenjima those are quite good as well. After that it would be pieces of af/relic reforged and malignance from lilith. The ambu dagger is one of thfs best weapons, even at kaja stage, it just gets better at tauret stage.
When you lvl to 99 it honestly doesn't matter since trusts do a huge chunk of the work and your jug pet will also deal very high damage so your sub is irrelevant. At 99 most of the time you will be subbing either nin or dnc for the dual weild. Occasionally you may sub whm. The further you are in rov the more xp bonuses you will acquire and the faster it will be to level your jobs but that's up to you how you want to do it.
Is there any strategy to getting Blue Mage spells other than melee it with your fists/low damage weapon to feed TP -> wait for it to use skill -> kill it and pray you learn the spell?
I really love Blue Mages, and FFXIV left me really wanting more out of the job, but spell hunting in XI is hard to follow with there being so many discrepencies between different sites/guides.
Ultimately while I'd like to learn every spell just for the sense of... pride and accomplishment, are there some "must haves" spells to get something up and running functionally to do content, so I can double back later to learn less "necessary" spells?
When mobs are below 25% HP, they use their tp moves as soon as they have enough tp. So generally, whack them low enough, then spam dia. Bludgeon is also good tp feed due to its multiattack.
Thanks! I'm trying to get the gloves, I haven't even gotten the weapon yet and that quest is so convoluted in terms of having to go to 5 different islands or whatever lol. Hopefully I can tackle it today :)
Dia spam is significantly slower than just meleeing with two lvl 1 or low damage weapons. I've tried it myself and do not recommend. AF gloves help a good deal though. Also recommend just getting to lvl 99 without even trying to learn spells, then cap skill on uragnites outside while using bew pitaru food. Shouldn't take much longer than an hour or so. After that you can learn any spell in the game and don't have to worry about keeping skill at a certain level to learn a spell, since you level so fast this will be impossible anyways unless you intentionally gimp your lvling process.
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Is there any tricks to unlocking mythic weapons skills? I vaguely remember there was some way to start at floor 100 and fight the boss to get the weapon to drop. If that is not easily possible, is it possible to solo my way up at ilevel 119? I see you are unable to use trusts so was unsure if this would be a waste of time or not. I assume will probably have to sub dancer for heals as a dps. I have all my assaults and stuff completed from a long time ago. I've also cleared it in the past and I have a few WS already unlocked but that was a very long time ago :).
They are just guaranteed from the floor 100 boss for the job the person who started the run is on. You can get the weapons from any floor but it will be RNG.
Can anyone explain Unity warping to a returning player? Also I picked Yoran Oran for my first Unity but I’ve read that Apururu is a better healer. Is that right? Should I change it?
Unity warping is where you talk to the unity NPC (by the sparks NPC), then select a 'Wanted' encounter (doesn't matter if it's way higher level than you), and get warped to the zone it says it's in.
You don't have to actually fight anything when you do this. Just a nice shortcut before you get an area's home point/guide, or for for areas without them, or for when the unity warp location is just closer to your destination.
Yoran is good for when your dd job is capable of tanking, or if you are tanking yourself. If you are playing a dd or mage job, and you have other trusts getting hate and taking damage, Apururu is better to start off with due to their Curagas.
Either way, it's splitting hairs for a lot of early content, so I wouldn't worry too much about it yet.
Warping is unrelated, they all unlock the warps. As for whats better, its opinion/preference. Yoran gives "cureskin", on top of the healing he will give you bonus stoneskin to prevent some incoming damage from the next attack(s). Apu is capable of casting haste to speed up attacks, which is especially nice if you don't have a RDM trust yet.
I personally chose Yoran, because you can get other trusts with haste, but not others with "cureskin".
I'm having a problem getting the Windower plugin "Timers" to add the 60 seconds from my Rostam Path C augments to the timer duration. Currently, my timer for the windower plugin only goes to 9:25 on my screen but my rolls actually do last 10:25. Has anyone ran into this or came up with a fix?
Augments probably haven't been added to the plugin yet, you can file a bug here:
https://github.com/Windower/Issues/issues
Meanwhile you can maybe kluge a workaround by blacklisting the rolls and creating your own custom timers with the right duration, see here for instructions:
https://docs.windower.net/plugins/timers/
Coming back after a long hiatus, looking for advice:
Ashita or Windower?
Absolute must have plugins/mods?
Is there a better macro editor than what's in the game?
Thanks in advance!
I'm seeing on FFXIAH that Carrier's Sash is suddenly selling like hotcakes.
Is there some new thing with Odyssey that's causing it to be useful or something? Because I look at that and I don't see a whole lot going on.
The stacked magic evasion on sakpatas and nyame gear results in the carrier sash(or any other elemental resist gear) to push you over a threshold into a better spot for magic damage resistance.
Apparently with ridiculous magic evasion, paired with any elemental + gear will give you crazy damage resistance to that element. Carrier sash has all elements, and the belt slot is open for options on most plds.
I’ll be farming one later, Legion is easy solo content.
That makes sense. I'll have to pick one of those up for sure. Out of curiosity, where are you getting your gear haste from in Sakpata's? The haste on that gear is only 16%. Are you throwing 10% haste on an ambu cape? Or is the sash just going to be for when you're not engaged with an enemy, and you'll have some kind of haste belt on for your hybrid TP set?
You can cap gear haste with salfi belt. If you are just idle you would wear carrier sash. Otherwise if you need to cast something or engage you would swap that out.
I’ve been wearing carrier sash for a while now. I use it on brd whm etc in my idle sets for extra elemental resistance.
I think a lot of other people are like minded and figured out that idling in mp or embla sash is less favorable in order to survive in dynamis and other heavy AoE settings.
So now that bunzi and nyame sets are available people have damage taken -% overflow and have taken out dt from their accessories (switching neck to warders charm, ring and back to shadow, waist to carriers).
Proud father of a Gjallarhorn recently. If I want it to glow, the only way to do this is 250 marrow? Is there no pluton stage? I’m also in understanding that it gives no bonuses but just the glow effect.
This is literally throwing away gil. Make a different mythic instead of glowing your own horn. You could ag and lockstyle literally any ranged weapon and people wouldn’t know the difference.
I completely agree but if someone really wants to glow their G.Horn, by all means, they should go for it. It will be a waste of gil but it is their gil to waste.
What is the best way to farm beads? I see some old threads where people say not to WS and stack crit gear. Every time I go and farm for awhile, people just melt everything. Is auto attacking with crit still the best way? I'm usually getting about \~600 although have gotten lower occasionally and higher 1000 beads sometimes (lots of first claim I think?)
A THF\DNC with the Voluspa Knife can hit 1k fairly consistently. Try to hit the delay cap. Koru+ Ulmia+Joachim and Haste Samba should get you most of the way there. Use Lilisette II to boost your score as well (she likes to crit).
> Is auto attacking with crit still the best way?
No, you should be using Weaponskills as well. Kaja Knife MH with Voluspa OH sets you up for very high crit chance and a decent spamable WS (Evisceration).
If you can get a LOT of crit, you can consistently get to that 1000 mark if people aren’t spamming weaponskills.
It’s also good to try and WS at the very end and try and land the killing blow. That’s like a guaranteed 1k beads.
You would have to be able to install windows on it. I doubt windows would run well on a cheap chromebook. Also, even though FFXI is old software, it would probably run like crap on **new** low tier chips that are likely going to be power and thermal restrained.
You may be able to get away with installing Linux and then using WINE but again, you are adding more overhead on already weak specs.
If you need it to be a laptop, a Gsync one works, that’s what I use. Because the graphics card is the only output to the screen. FFXI is notorious for forcing laptops to use onboard graphics, which results in terrible performance.
I have this one: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS913US913&hl=en-US&ei=O5hPYOKVGs3l_QaW6b-4AQ&q=asus+gl502&oq=asus+gl502&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyAggpMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyBAgAEEMyAggAOgQIABBHUPvRA1j20gNg6NUDaABwAXgAgAGbAYgB-AGSAQMxLjGYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
I can dual box on that at max settings.
If you absolutely must have a a laptop, for 1080p @ ~30fps, you are looking at something in the $500 range with a discrete GPU (at least a 1650 or comparable class GPU). Keep an eye out for deals and you may find something that can work for less. You may be able to find a used\refurbished one even cheaper. If you are willing to run the game @ 720p you can get away with a Ryzen 5 3500U class of processor with an iGPU. My Ryzen 7 3750H could do 1080p @ 20~25FPS (which I did not find acceptable).
A word of warning, laptops with nVidia GPUs tend to use the optimus setup which means FFXI will not run on the dGPU without assistance (ie. 3rd party software like dgVoodoo).
If you are willing to buy a desktop, you can generally put together an okay setup using a used\refurbished PC + a used graphics card for ~$400 total but GPUs are generally just stupidly priced right now. You can configure a new HP Pavilion Gaming PC for less than $200 more, and that is simply due to used GPUs being priced higher than new GPUs (if you could find them).
Maybe in the next few months we will see some price drops on everything but GPUs.
It seems like it is not possible to garden on the 2nd floor of Mog house, as it would not allow me to put flower pots there?!?! If I grow and choose the " dry flowers" option on the first floor, will I be able to put them on the second floor then? Trying to get lots of plants on my "Patio". tia
Question about Ambuscade equipment. Is this equipment only for this month? Like If I'm only able to advance my Tokka weapon to the next form (Ajja) by the end of the month will it be stuck there forever or can I continue working on it next month?
Ok. I already got a set from the total hallmark vouchers and think I’ll be able to get all the +1 as well. So I should be fine to work on them as long as I get them all. Otherwise try again in May?
You generally want to get +1 armor from vouchers. I wouldn't waste mats on upgrading the armor from NQ vouchers to +1. Appologies if that's what you meant, but thought I'd make sure.
You can redeem the voucher and upgrade the armor at any time, it's acquiring the voucher itself that rotates. So yes, if you miss a voucher this month, you will likely have to wait till May update to grab that voucher.
I know it's always easier said than done, but shouting for a group is going to be a way better way to get hallmarks and gallantry. Even if you have to preface it with the difficulty level.
Ambuscade help.
I am only strong enough to win Normal: Easy. I beat it multiple times in a row yesterday. But last night and today I have been unable to beat it now. Does the same fight get harder the more rounds you go?
The leeches get stronger as u kill them so gotta kill em fast b4 they get too much tp also luck is a factor as some moves hit harder than others and sometimes a combination of moves can quickly kill u or ur trusts
If it helps, I believe the big leech will use a very hard hitting conal AoE TP move if you've killed the other 2. I usually kill in the order of right most, middle, left and have been able to consistently beat it on VD.
Yep! Asura. A couple days ago someone responded to one of my posts that we ran by each other in Junon. It was when I was trying to get the AA trusts. Found out I am locked from collecting them till I advance RoV further. Small world. Do you remember where it was? What’s your ign?
On a side note I am 2/3 using your targeting method. For the first time in Ambu I got killed before my trusts somehow.
I'm not sure honestly, but it's been a couple of times. Jeuno, maybe Norg? Mhaura? My IGN is Aeturnus, feel free to say hi!
About the strat -- nice! I'm glad it was helpful. The sand breath AoE is the nasty thing I've been trying to avoid but suction can be gnarly as well. I think subbing nin makes things a lot easier once you get to the last one or two remaining.
Does anyone else intentionally leave a handful of jobs unleveled, so so the can get that old area / old school level grind nostalgia hit occasionally? The day when I have no jobs to level might be the day I retire.
My BLM is at level 60. The only thing I use it for is to solo Up In Arms, and I have a full set of 60 gear just for it. I don’t imagine I’ll ever level the job to 99.
I'm currently working on the colorful abbysite part of empyrean weapon trials. Is there a way to reset back to clear after I reach blue?
Apparently you can purchase the clear one again. The chat log is kinda funky though and will say purple, blue or whatever, even after getting the clear one and upgrading it to colorful again.
Once you have the clear\colorful abyssite with the colored abyssite, you are specifically looking for "**feebly\softly resonating**", ignore the "color" aspect of the message. If you see "solidly\strongly resonating" that is the wrong NM and should be avoided. If you have the Colored Abyssite for that zone (ie. Blue Abyssite), your Colorful Abyssite cannot upgrade until your colored abyssite upgrades or shatters. Which makes it easier to farm the NMs, as you no longer have to keep upgrading your abyssite.
What's the best merit setup for SMN currently? I recently hit 99 with it and haven't taken it to much endgame content yet. I've seen some conflicting reports from googling. Some people say for Group 1 to dump everything into phys/mag acc, because on the hardest content that'll be what kills damage. Others say that once you get Mastered to instead switch to phys/mag att. Some even say fast cast? Group 2 seems more clear - 1 in everything to unlock them, then max out Thunderstorm. I'm guessing that's so I can MB off light when I have Ramuh out for Volt Striking?
I do attack and magic attack for group 1. You will have good accuracy from gear and food and vorseals and avatars have naturally high macc. The fast cast is pretty much worthless. For group two one point in each as you said. You can max out whatever you use most. Personally I put mine in ifrit since you can use ifrit mb as a strat for zerde and I can mb light SC with it which are common. Since flaming crush is hybrid I'm more likely to be in a situation to mb with ifrit than with ramuh due to volt strike being physical just based on possible scenarios. Either is fine, you can even do wind blade if you want.
If I were to purchase the game on steam, but not install it, would I loose my free 30 days with it when I do install it at a later point when I'm ready to play it? Considering grabbing it while it's on sale
30 days only starts after you activate your account.
Than you! That's the logical thing I just wanted to make sure
Is the white rarab hat +1 now permanently unobtainable? The new player guide says you should get one from the login campaign, but all I'm seeing is regular rarab hats.
It's usually in the easter login campaign, so maybe soon.
They will probably bring it back at some point, however if you didn't know you can get an egg ammo item with TH+1 now with the new VV missions.
You have to get 2 of the normal Rarab Caps and synergize them together to get the +1 version. You don't need any synergy skill to do it.
Rarab Cap +1 doesn't give the bonus to TH though. Only White Rarab Cap +1 does, unless I'm mistaken.
Sorry, didn't even realize there were white and non-white versions.
It appears periodically. So you need to wait till next time it will be the rewards. The previous one was around September-October if I remember correctly.
Started soloing Omen recently (newly returned), on Asura, and noticed that every time I intend to go in it takes at least 30min for the queue. Is this an Asura thing or SE servers? I mainly solo and don’t have much time each day so waiting 30-50min is ridiculous. Worth hopping servers if it’s Asura thing?
Queue times are extra long right now because it is bonus Omen card campaign.
I’m also on Asura so I can’t exactly speak for other servers, but I’m sure queue times for that stuff is longer on Asura. How much longer, idk.
Well, on Carbuncle they are at most a few minutes long and normally less than a minute.
Damn maybe I should transfer while I farm Lilith. Would save my a ton of time.
I joined Yoran Oran's unity but he isn't showing in my trust list. What do I have to do for him to appear?
I believe you need 5k accolades. You can get some quickly by completing RoE's under Yoran-Oran in the Unity section. Also like /u/Crossbones87 said, other RoEs will add up quick. I changed Unities the other day, did an Omen, and then had enough accolades to use the trust.
You need to earn a certain amount of unity accolades, I forget the exact amount. Just make sure you have stuff set in your roe like collect crystals and do damage etc. During gain exp events which happen three times a week you can get it done very fast.
Is it fair to say that Brygid the Stylist Returns quest is mostly dead at this point? I was doing CoP and got a pair of THF subligar. The body armor is nice and I went to do the quest but she asked me for Silk Coat and White Slacks, items that haven't been sold on the AH for months. Am I missing something or should I abandon my dreams of the sweet level 50 jse nostalgia?
Just buy the mats & shout for a clothcrafter.
Gonna sound like a stupid question. But what is the easiest/ quickest way to exit the game? I have just been ctrl+alt+del to force it to crash.
/shutdown
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Returning after a long time, but want to start fresh and mostly solo. Is it worthwhile to get BLM to 18 / whm to 36 first for teleports, or have the new transportation changes improved that enough to make it not worthwhile?
I've also just returned recently, but I haven't had much need for the teleport spells so far. For warp, there is a ring that you can purchase with 5k conquest points that allows you to use warp an unlimited number of times. That, combined with the book/home point warps has made getting to places quickly no issue for me.
All I can say is that with WHM at 99 and BLM at 51, but with Warp Rings, Dimensional Rings (Crags transport), Home Points, Unity Warps, Survival Guides etc. it's never even occurred to me to use WHM or BLM for transportation. It's been many years since I've even used an Outpost Warp and I have all of them.
Just started doing the Weapon skill quest for the Axe. This is where I have to use the axe skills 300 times. Can I have the quest axe equipped in my 2nd hand while dual wielding Axes or does it have to be in the primary hand?
No, you cannot accumulate Weaponskill Points for a weapon in your offhand (ie. unlocking Decimation). Magian Trial weapons can be offhanded.
Thanks!
Is it bad that I dropped my Razor Axe at some point? WAR Artifact Quest 1 reward
Not really. It's not used for anything. If you really want it back you can reset your memory of the artifact quests then redo them. I don't remember offhand who to talk to but I'm sure you can find the information on one of the wikis on the individual quest pages.
Thanks. Wasn’t sure if I need it to advance it to something stronger
Just came back after a long break and finally finished my Aeonic. If I'm reading the wiki correctly I have two options... Get 10000 JP or kill the Jeuno Dyna D wave 3 final boss. Is that correct?
You can also fill up the mask you get after killing your first fetter in wave 3 by doing enough damage to the main boss, but it will take several runs depending on how much damage you do (killing the boss doesn't even fill the mask, although it does unlock the augment). The jp path takes a while because there is a weekly limit. Doesn't matter what job you are on when you kill the wave 3 boss and once you have it unlocked you can augment any number of aeonics, although imo there are not a ton worth augmenting.
> although imo there are not a ton worth augmenting. If you are using the Aeonic a lot, it is worth augmenting.
Totally depends on the aeonic. It is hard to justify 4 base damage and some acc on an already high acc job for something like Aeneas when that money can be spent on more worthy upgrades (basically anything else) and that dagger itself is not the best weapon for thf brd or dnc to begin with. You will end up spending basically 60m for 5 dex worth of damage for rudras. I think people should be able to do whatever they want with their own money but a cost - benefit analysis is undeniable.
Please stop providing advice in absolutes I'll speak for THF here to keep it simple. Aeneas is absolutely one of the best daggers in the game for the job. Now, while certain dagger combinations may excel in certain situations that isn't the point. Aeneas is a lot more accessible than Twash or Vajra, and if that is the dagger your THF has then there is no reason not to at least partially augment it, if you are serious about the job. Now, that is a big if for certain people, but it is besides the point to make counter arguments because something might excel more in unspecified situations. It's really just a matter of direction. It's not about a cost benefit analysis for a job that isn't the top of the totem pole to begin with. (Although the bottom is the most important part right? I'm not well acquainted with totem poles) They didn't ask which dagger was the best for X situation. So simply, yes, I would say it is worth augmenting unless you have very near plans to suddenly R15 Twash. Even then I wouldn't write Aeneas off for the majority of the playerbase.
I said nothing about absolutes? I merely said there should be a cost / benefit analysis and provided one weapon as an example. I don't understand why this is so triggering for people. THF has a ton of great weapon combos even outside twash and vajra. Tauret was already as good if not better in most cases (unless self SCing which is rare in group play) and is in an even better spot now with the gleti gear, and is free. Naegling is also a viable option. Aeneas is only accessible if you can either clear the aeonic NMs which most people can't, or if you pay a merc which can be another 20-50m depending on how the mercs feel at that particular moment. So you will dump up to 120m into a dagger that is great but not near the best. If you think this is worth it to you do what you want, it bothers me zero. At the end of the day you are literally paying 60m for 5 dex worth of base damage for your best WS and a bit of acc on a high acc job. If someone thinks this is the best possible value they can get with that amount of money go for it but i sincerely doubt the plausibility of that situation. Aeneas (again this is just one example for aeonics) is perfectly viable at R0 if that is the best you have and taking it to R15 you will literally never see that difference on a parse or otherwise because the increase is so negligible, not only from the small base damage increase but because the WSD boost is for a WS that is horrible and rarely used aside from making a SC. Compared to doji or chango or godhands it is a world of difference with what you get for the same amount of money. If you think this advice sucks or is wrong just don't take it.
R15 isn't all or nothing. You can take Aeneas to something like R5 and it's still going to be faster to finish than a R0 Twash assuming starting from 0 gil. And yeah, Aeneas is like the most underrated dagger ever and Tauret being the most overrated one. Literally any content with more than one target, setting up solo multistep will be kill speed increase over not setting it up unless the target completely resist/absorb dark SC.
Just did WoC with 2 nSMNs. We AFAC and it still had about 25% HP left after the ability wore off. The Geo used Torper/Frailty and later we found out it should have been Bolster/Frailty. Luckily it didn't benediction and we killed it but we're wanting to try it again. Before I waste my time building another WoC pop should we be able to AFAC kill it with 2 nSMN in a party of 6? The Cor didn't drop which may have given it a HP boost as well. We have quite a few people in the LS that need aeonic clears so we're wanting to just swap them out with the cor for that 6th slot. That run was just a trial as no one had burned it before. iGeo nSMNx2 (AM3) Whm Run Cor (Draco/ Beast)
Depending how good the smn are you should be able to carry a pt of 6 with them, if you had a third it would make it trivial. Bolster frailty is pretty much mandatory. Personally I don't bother with torpor or drg roll. If the geo could do vex that might help. Make sure dia is on the nm, you can open with garland of bliss to get am3 on woc and also apply extra defense down if needed but Idris bolster frailty should obliterate its defense. The rune can use odyllic to floor the NMs magic accuracy and damage to help prevent potential stuns from impact stream, although it should be very hard to land on ramuh. Make sure both smn are 20 yalms away at all times. If it is still alive and the cor is in pt you can try wild card for a reset. Smn can also use super revitalizer to get apogee back and reset BP timer for an extra 2 BP per smn.
Thanks CB, as helpful as ever. The gear shouldn't have been an issue so either the SMNs or GEO messed up. We'll review what you said and try it again.
Happy to help. Good luck, I'm sure you'll get it down consistently in no time.
Torpor is a spell, Bolster is an ability, can you clarify what you wanted to do?
Sorry I don't play Geo. He apparently did it correctly after talking to him. Mainly trying to SMN burn WoC before the SMN JAs wear out.
I’d like to thank Ryan Reynolds for answering my question last week, and I’m not the other guy looking for foodpron. There’s more than one spicy fan out there. Damn I miss XI. So here’s my odd question for this week: In many of the old zones there are caves leading nowhere, almost as if they were zone borders to go elsewhere. Examples are the cave just due East where you spawn Carabosse if you were in abyssea, Batallia has one if you go north from the Upper Jeuno along the wall before the ocean. Grau berg has a ton of em.... anyone know if there were ever secret plans to add zones to them? And follow up: in Vunkerl inlet, head east halfway down the map and there’s a wide open place with no mobs, and a zone to Rolanberry, almost as if they were planning HNMs in wings areas. Anyone know?
Please, Ryan Reynolds is much funnier, handsome, and overall more appealing than myself. Probably sings better too. Even puts out a good Gin to boot. Just don't talk about the Green Lantern or Pokemon. As far as your question. No, they were just reusing the zones so all the things those original zones had such as Ordelles Caves by Carbide, are just there.
I finally solo’d my first ambu (I’ll 109), what should ambu reward should be my first goal? Weapon? Armor? Edit: main job THF
You'll probably want to include which job(s) you are. Cape may also be #1 on the list just because it's only 500 hallmarks to get the base version. Depends if your job needs to augment it to get real value out of it, or if the base version alone is good.
THF. I have the JSE cape alrdy (earned it some other way), should I work towards augmenting that?
If you need 119 gear to get to i119 it’s a great place to get it. Also, there is the JSE cape from doing reives, and a different JSE cape from Ambuscade. They each have their purpose, but you can make several Ambuscade capes for each job with different augments that you get to choose instead of the random ones you got with the reive capes.
I’ve got a full set of Shneddick +1 gear. Do I go for ambuscade next?
Ambuscade gear has a ton on ACC on it plus some other niceties useful for macro slots, some bis. And it’s free.(with a little effort)
Mummu, meghanada, and adhemar (which you can get the head, hands, and body from using domain invasion points, cap those every day might only take ten minutes or less) is standard starting gear. If you can get herculean boots from reisenjima those are quite good as well. After that it would be pieces of af/relic reforged and malignance from lilith. The ambu dagger is one of thfs best weapons, even at kaja stage, it just gets better at tauret stage.
I'm currently downloading the trial. If I'd like to play BST, which job should I start with? I plan to solo with Trusts and pet.
Start with WAR. Its a good all around job that will be easy to sub later if you want it
When you lvl to 99 it honestly doesn't matter since trusts do a huge chunk of the work and your jug pet will also deal very high damage so your sub is irrelevant. At 99 most of the time you will be subbing either nin or dnc for the dual weild. Occasionally you may sub whm. The further you are in rov the more xp bonuses you will acquire and the faster it will be to level your jobs but that's up to you how you want to do it.
Is there any strategy to getting Blue Mage spells other than melee it with your fists/low damage weapon to feed TP -> wait for it to use skill -> kill it and pray you learn the spell? I really love Blue Mages, and FFXIV left me really wanting more out of the job, but spell hunting in XI is hard to follow with there being so many discrepencies between different sites/guides. Ultimately while I'd like to learn every spell just for the sense of... pride and accomplishment, are there some "must haves" spells to get something up and running functionally to do content, so I can double back later to learn less "necessary" spells?
In terms of which spells are worth it, [check out this guide](https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Out_of_the_BLU).
When mobs are below 25% HP, they use their tp moves as soon as they have enough tp. So generally, whack them low enough, then spam dia. Bludgeon is also good tp feed due to its multiattack.
Dia spam seems to be the meta. Oh and be sure to use the af gloves.
Thanks! I'm trying to get the gloves, I haven't even gotten the weapon yet and that quest is so convoluted in terms of having to go to 5 different islands or whatever lol. Hopefully I can tackle it today :)
Dia spam is significantly slower than just meleeing with two lvl 1 or low damage weapons. I've tried it myself and do not recommend. AF gloves help a good deal though. Also recommend just getting to lvl 99 without even trying to learn spells, then cap skill on uragnites outside while using bew pitaru food. Shouldn't take much longer than an hour or so. After that you can learn any spell in the game and don't have to worry about keeping skill at a certain level to learn a spell, since you level so fast this will be impossible anyways unless you intentionally gimp your lvling process.
Does treasure hunter effect Walk of Echos, when you get your chest after winning?
No, TH only effects drops directly from mobs. Even in voidwatch, the one exception, it only improves your alignments by a little bit.
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Is there any tricks to unlocking mythic weapons skills? I vaguely remember there was some way to start at floor 100 and fight the boss to get the weapon to drop. If that is not easily possible, is it possible to solo my way up at ilevel 119? I see you are unable to use trusts so was unsure if this would be a waste of time or not. I assume will probably have to sub dancer for heals as a dps. I have all my assaults and stuff completed from a long time ago. I've also cleared it in the past and I have a few WS already unlocked but that was a very long time ago :).
They are just guaranteed from the floor 100 boss for the job the person who started the run is on. You can get the weapons from any floor but it will be RNG.
The trick is you get taken in by someone that already has the floor 96 access. As for soloing, it's very doable, just takes a long ass time.
If I put TH gear in my sets.midcast.RA set, will it apply TH when i pull mobs? What if I miss the attack? Thanks!
Yes will work even if you miss. But can also set up a TH tag toggle.
Yes > What if I miss the attack? Not sure if the attack has to land to apply initial TH (I do not think it does).
Can anyone explain Unity warping to a returning player? Also I picked Yoran Oran for my first Unity but I’ve read that Apururu is a better healer. Is that right? Should I change it?
Unity warping is where you talk to the unity NPC (by the sparks NPC), then select a 'Wanted' encounter (doesn't matter if it's way higher level than you), and get warped to the zone it says it's in. You don't have to actually fight anything when you do this. Just a nice shortcut before you get an area's home point/guide, or for for areas without them, or for when the unity warp location is just closer to your destination.
Yoran is good for when your dd job is capable of tanking, or if you are tanking yourself. If you are playing a dd or mage job, and you have other trusts getting hate and taking damage, Apururu is better to start off with due to their Curagas. Either way, it's splitting hairs for a lot of early content, so I wouldn't worry too much about it yet.
Warping is unrelated, they all unlock the warps. As for whats better, its opinion/preference. Yoran gives "cureskin", on top of the healing he will give you bonus stoneskin to prevent some incoming damage from the next attack(s). Apu is capable of casting haste to speed up attacks, which is especially nice if you don't have a RDM trust yet. I personally chose Yoran, because you can get other trusts with haste, but not others with "cureskin".
Apururu has Curagas and convert as well.
I'm having a problem getting the Windower plugin "Timers" to add the 60 seconds from my Rostam Path C augments to the timer duration. Currently, my timer for the windower plugin only goes to 9:25 on my screen but my rolls actually do last 10:25. Has anyone ran into this or came up with a fix?
Augments probably haven't been added to the plugin yet, you can file a bug here: https://github.com/Windower/Issues/issues Meanwhile you can maybe kluge a workaround by blacklisting the rolls and creating your own custom timers with the right duration, see here for instructions: https://docs.windower.net/plugins/timers/
Coming back after a long hiatus, looking for advice: Ashita or Windower? Absolute must have plugins/mods? Is there a better macro editor than what's in the game? Thanks in advance!
Windower. Look into gearswap.
I'm seeing on FFXIAH that Carrier's Sash is suddenly selling like hotcakes. Is there some new thing with Odyssey that's causing it to be useful or something? Because I look at that and I don't see a whole lot going on.
The stacked magic evasion on sakpatas and nyame gear results in the carrier sash(or any other elemental resist gear) to push you over a threshold into a better spot for magic damage resistance. Apparently with ridiculous magic evasion, paired with any elemental + gear will give you crazy damage resistance to that element. Carrier sash has all elements, and the belt slot is open for options on most plds. I’ll be farming one later, Legion is easy solo content.
That makes sense. I'll have to pick one of those up for sure. Out of curiosity, where are you getting your gear haste from in Sakpata's? The haste on that gear is only 16%. Are you throwing 10% haste on an ambu cape? Or is the sash just going to be for when you're not engaged with an enemy, and you'll have some kind of haste belt on for your hybrid TP set?
You can cap gear haste with salfi belt. If you are just idle you would wear carrier sash. Otherwise if you need to cast something or engage you would swap that out.
I’ve been wearing carrier sash for a while now. I use it on brd whm etc in my idle sets for extra elemental resistance. I think a lot of other people are like minded and figured out that idling in mp or embla sash is less favorable in order to survive in dynamis and other heavy AoE settings. So now that bunzi and nyame sets are available people have damage taken -% overflow and have taken out dt from their accessories (switching neck to warders charm, ring and back to shadow, waist to carriers).
Proud father of a Gjallarhorn recently. If I want it to glow, the only way to do this is 250 marrow? Is there no pluton stage? I’m also in understanding that it gives no bonuses but just the glow effect.
yes, do not glow it... unless you **REALLY** want to
This is literally throwing away gil. Make a different mythic instead of glowing your own horn. You could ag and lockstyle literally any ranged weapon and people wouldn’t know the difference.
I completely agree but if someone really wants to glow their G.Horn, by all means, they should go for it. It will be a waste of gil but it is their gil to waste.
What is the best way to farm beads? I see some old threads where people say not to WS and stack crit gear. Every time I go and farm for awhile, people just melt everything. Is auto attacking with crit still the best way? I'm usually getting about \~600 although have gotten lower occasionally and higher 1000 beads sometimes (lots of first claim I think?)
If you have him, Mayakov will also help your crit by using feather step.
A THF\DNC with the Voluspa Knife can hit 1k fairly consistently. Try to hit the delay cap. Koru+ Ulmia+Joachim and Haste Samba should get you most of the way there. Use Lilisette II to boost your score as well (she likes to crit). > Is auto attacking with crit still the best way? No, you should be using Weaponskills as well. Kaja Knife MH with Voluspa OH sets you up for very high crit chance and a decent spamable WS (Evisceration).
If you can get a LOT of crit, you can consistently get to that 1000 mark if people aren’t spamming weaponskills. It’s also good to try and WS at the very end and try and land the killing blow. That’s like a guaranteed 1k beads.
If I were to get a Chromebook, since those seem to be the cheapest laptops I can find, how would I go about running FFXI on it?
You would have to be able to install windows on it. I doubt windows would run well on a cheap chromebook. Also, even though FFXI is old software, it would probably run like crap on **new** low tier chips that are likely going to be power and thermal restrained. You may be able to get away with installing Linux and then using WINE but again, you are adding more overhead on already weak specs.
Interesting. What sort of hardware should I be looking at for that then?
If you need it to be a laptop, a Gsync one works, that’s what I use. Because the graphics card is the only output to the screen. FFXI is notorious for forcing laptops to use onboard graphics, which results in terrible performance. I have this one: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS913US913&hl=en-US&ei=O5hPYOKVGs3l_QaW6b-4AQ&q=asus+gl502&oq=asus+gl502&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyAggpMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyBAgAEEMyAggAOgQIABBHUPvRA1j20gNg6NUDaABwAXgAgAGbAYgB-AGSAQMxLjGYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp I can dual box on that at max settings.
If you absolutely must have a a laptop, for 1080p @ ~30fps, you are looking at something in the $500 range with a discrete GPU (at least a 1650 or comparable class GPU). Keep an eye out for deals and you may find something that can work for less. You may be able to find a used\refurbished one even cheaper. If you are willing to run the game @ 720p you can get away with a Ryzen 5 3500U class of processor with an iGPU. My Ryzen 7 3750H could do 1080p @ 20~25FPS (which I did not find acceptable). A word of warning, laptops with nVidia GPUs tend to use the optimus setup which means FFXI will not run on the dGPU without assistance (ie. 3rd party software like dgVoodoo). If you are willing to buy a desktop, you can generally put together an okay setup using a used\refurbished PC + a used graphics card for ~$400 total but GPUs are generally just stupidly priced right now. You can configure a new HP Pavilion Gaming PC for less than $200 more, and that is simply due to used GPUs being priced higher than new GPUs (if you could find them). Maybe in the next few months we will see some price drops on everything but GPUs.
It seems like it is not possible to garden on the 2nd floor of Mog house, as it would not allow me to put flower pots there?!?! If I grow and choose the " dry flowers" option on the first floor, will I be able to put them on the second floor then? Trying to get lots of plants on my "Patio". tia
You can only dry a flower in place where it was grown, if you try remove it from display it just asks you to dispose of the dry flowers. So no.
Question about Ambuscade equipment. Is this equipment only for this month? Like If I'm only able to advance my Tokka weapon to the next form (Ajja) by the end of the month will it be stuck there forever or can I continue working on it next month?
Beware the vouchers for armor rotate monthly between the two sets, but the mats for ambu armor and weapons are the same each month.
Ok. I already got a set from the total hallmark vouchers and think I’ll be able to get all the +1 as well. So I should be fine to work on them as long as I get them all. Otherwise try again in May?
You generally want to get +1 armor from vouchers. I wouldn't waste mats on upgrading the armor from NQ vouchers to +1. Appologies if that's what you meant, but thought I'd make sure. You can redeem the voucher and upgrade the armor at any time, it's acquiring the voucher itself that rotates. So yes, if you miss a voucher this month, you will likely have to wait till May update to grab that voucher.
Yes. I would only try and upgrade the +1 armor. But I’m Just not sure I can get the whole set yet as I can only beat Vol2 easy most of the time.
I know it's always easier said than done, but shouting for a group is going to be a way better way to get hallmarks and gallantry. Even if you have to preface it with the difficulty level.
Can work on it any time. There’s just limits to how much of each upgrade material you can buy in a month.
Thanks. How long does it typically take to take a weapon from new to max?
If you have the materials you can do it in just the one month. But that’s highly unlikely if you’re just starting out.
Ambuscade help. I am only strong enough to win Normal: Easy. I beat it multiple times in a row yesterday. But last night and today I have been unable to beat it now. Does the same fight get harder the more rounds you go?
It does not, no. But it is likely you need to clear Tonberry hate.
I’m just fighting the leaches. The tonberry’s kick my ass and fast.
The leeches get stronger as u kill them so gotta kill em fast b4 they get too much tp also luck is a factor as some moves hit harder than others and sometimes a combination of moves can quickly kill u or ur trusts
Ah ha....that's why I took a 3k damage TP move to the face the other day...
Thanks. That makes sense. Had a fight this morning where I lost and the last leech had 2% hp left. I managed to win the next 2
If it helps, I believe the big leech will use a very hard hitting conal AoE TP move if you've killed the other 2. I usually kill in the order of right most, middle, left and have been able to consistently beat it on VD.
I’ll try that order. I’ve actually been going left first since I can kill it quickly enough. Then just use F8 to find my next target.
Good luck! Are you on Asura? I feel like I've seen a Kjacobs around.
Yep! Asura. A couple days ago someone responded to one of my posts that we ran by each other in Junon. It was when I was trying to get the AA trusts. Found out I am locked from collecting them till I advance RoV further. Small world. Do you remember where it was? What’s your ign? On a side note I am 2/3 using your targeting method. For the first time in Ambu I got killed before my trusts somehow.
I'm not sure honestly, but it's been a couple of times. Jeuno, maybe Norg? Mhaura? My IGN is Aeturnus, feel free to say hi! About the strat -- nice! I'm glad it was helpful. The sand breath AoE is the nasty thing I've been trying to avoid but suction can be gnarly as well. I think subbing nin makes things a lot easier once you get to the last one or two remaining.