Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Just for an update after 4 days of testing, TH DOES effect more seals dropping in this event. More than a little bit too.

bosses only route

Is there a good trust to pair with Ygnas to help him with MP? Apururu could restore her MP pretty handily, but ever since I switched to Sylvie I've had multiple times where my trusts ran out of MP and couldn't heal me.

Monberaux, Selh'teus, and/or Arciela

IIRC August + Arciela + Ygnas have a double synergy (aka, 2 MP icons). Gonna check it soon but i think this is a strong combo. If you arent taking too much dmg, your party can go on for hours.

Lunar wyrm memento
Great Dhalmel memento
Jumbotender memento

Any good ones I'm missing from memento? I like the Lunar Wyrm but I also like the move speed on jumbotender. What do people use?

I swapped to jumbotender aeons ago and kept it every since.

Green Wyvern has +1% Haste
Behemoth/King Behemoth has +2% Attack

Arciela 1 will unlock Ygnas having an Auto Refresh (3/tic at 99; unsure if scales lower when you're a lower level) aura around him. Arciela 1 also uses AoE HP restoration move "Illustrious Aid" to help with healing.

Pair that with the Jumbotender's always-on Cheer effect from Mog Garden that gives trusts Auto Refresh of 3/tic (As well as +7% Capacity point bonus, 2% movement speed, and Auto-Regen of 5/tic). The Auto-Regen + Auto-Refresh affect trusts only. They don't apply to you directly.

If that isn't enough MP for you, try bringing out Selh'teus. He uses unique weaponskill Rejuvenation in response to the player taking a hit that depletes them to at least yellow HP or when the player is asleep. Restores HP, MP, TP to the entire party. Used every 30 seconds. Very nice.

Finally, if you're really hurting for MP after all of that, Iroha II can use "Rise from the Ashes" often to restore HP as well.

If you can't stay alive with all of that, it may be time to look into finding help from a competent White Mage.

Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

RDM trusts will cast Refresh II on the healer. Not sure if Arciela does it on Ygnas, tipically Arciela 1 casts buffs only on herself and the player, and she's unique as in she will cast buffs that normally get cast on players according to their job.

For instance Koru-Moru doesn't cast Refresh on certain jobs and doesn't cast haste2 on others.
But he will cast Refresh2 on healers, it might take some time though, since Koru has so many things he can do in his priority list.

King Of Hearts is a mixture of Koru and Arciela. He will cast some spells on other party members according to their jobs, but cast everything he can on whomever has currently hate from the current target.


Arciela II is, I dunno, never really experimented too much with her because sometimes she gets stuck too long in her "DD mode" and takes forever to reapply buffs.
When she doesn't do that, she's nice because she has an Enhancing Magic Duration bonus.



Oh one more thing about RDM trusts.
Koru will tend to not overwrite a Haste1 with Haste2, I think KoH is the same and probably Arciela II too.
Arciela 1 is unique as she will always cast Haste2 on whomever summoned her, no matter if he has Haste1 on or no haste at all.
This made her a really nice RDM to use with Apururuu as WHM. For the same reason Korumoru was probably a bad choice if you wanted to be sure to always have H2 on and not H1.
Since Ygnas is a whm who casts haste himself, I think the same things I just said for Apururu apply to him as well.

How useful is SCH these days? I'm trying to figure out a main job but don't want to be one of the "over-saturated" ones like COR and GEO but still wanna be useful. Was also thinking DNC.

Niche, but when he can do the work, he can do it well.

SCH is probably one of those jobs you can't play 100% of the time, but when it truly is needed, nothing matches it. Its extremely potent and has unique benefits for some setups, but in the most traditional setups it often just "gets by" pretending to be a whm or the like.

But- like I said, when its needed NOTHING can replace it, so its a great tool to have in your arsenal if you like it.

Perfect, thanks

I think between SCH, DNC, and RDM I'll probably have my bases covered

Sup

Random question but if im on THF trying to tag TH on multiples mobs like sleepga. Is the sleepga enough to tag full TH on all mobs or is there any penalty to this?

Thanks in advance

As long as u got full TH in your midcast, should be fine.
On a similar note, you have to take some sorta action to apply the TH, cant second hand it by, for example, casting cure on a tank/blu that has hate on everything.

With LightLuggage you chould say if item isn't "whatever" pass, so it would pass everything except that item. Which was great.

Is there a way to do this with treasury?

What's the lowest amount of people can win Dynamis Wave 3, 6 or 7?

I'm sure everybody knows that "Atma of the Dread" gives a special TH bonus that allows you to break the TH4 cap for non-THF jobs.
If you have that Atma and TH4 in gear, you can actually reach TH5 even if in theory the cap is TH4.

The same doesn't happen on THF main.
Even if you have that Atma and TH8 in gear, the cap remains TH8 and Atma of the Dread doesn't make it TH9.

You can see this because the first upgrade you get is TH9. If the Atma worked to break the cap, the first upgrade you would see would be TH10.



Personally I didn't know this second part until yesterday, thought someone else might want to know.

Can you hold multiple Malformed KIs, like you get one, gather your points again, and get a second, and the kill the NMs a single time to get credit on both?

Or can you cancel you progress on one, and switch to a different one to restart.

You can't hold multiple, but you can abandon progress and obtain a different one.

Q1: No.
Q:2 Yes, Goblin will let you end the current KI w/o refunds.

Triple check which KI youre buying as there is no system check if youre buying a KI for an aeonic you already own. I did it once. Save your beads/work.

Hm, should I allow him to take my scroll of Voidstorm schema...
It's only TH1. Think I'll just drop a void crystal.

What is a good NM or high level mob with tons of HP and def but manageable offensive moves? I want to do a lot of WS comparisons without having to change targets much or at all. Something like a puk but not as weak that I could heal would be good too.

Secondly, could I just get a low level weapon but make sure to cap attack and get the same comparison results I would with 119 weapon? Not sure how weapon damage would skew the WSD formula if at all. As long as my WS are doing in the thousands I feel comparisons could be performed so I am producing enough digits.

If I cannot cut corners with weapon damage that is fine.

as long as you're just doing comparisons and don't need to factor out the pdt, use https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Broxa

You can use wildeskeeper reives for testing. Tchakka and hurkan the best suited as the rest can slow you down by shadows, encumberance, terror, doom, etc. or grab an apex mob. Wk would be easier to target though.

About the ws dmg, here is the formula

Melee WS Base Damage = floor(( Weapon Base Damage + fSTR + WSC ) × fTP)

So, a lv1 weapon affect the 2 firsts terms.

Great ideas guys thanks. I had forgotten about Broxa completely. I should be good with a low level weapon on WKR but may not get enough variance on Broxa so I'll try both!

Any tips to reduce lag multiboxing? I use /hidetrusts, disabled shadows and weather, turned min mapping to 1 and turned off bump mapping, and use the DirectX 8 fix.

The only thing I know that I'm not doing is using a program to direct a CPU core at my main character. If anyone has a safe source for that, that should help.

Otherwise, anything I'm missing? The above has helped quite a bit, but there's still more lag than I'd like with four characters.

Are you using dgvoodoo and are you using the dedicated graphic card to run the game?