Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

How does Farsha with AM3 and Calamity spam stand up with Naegling spam on both WAR and BST and what's some solid Calamity/Cloudsplittin' builds for both?

First DPS slot should always be Shantotto II for 300 points this month, she's literally twice as good as any other DPS trust in the game (the one time I parsed random leveling sessions she was doing 60%, so she might actually be 3x as good?)

Next three slots go to one tank, one healer, one more dps:
Valaineral is the best tank because he opens encounters with Uriel Blade to be a dps too, and he's free from RoE starter objectives
Apururu and Yoran-Oran both are lightyears better than any non-Unity healer option before Monberaux, both free from joining a Unity which you have to do anyway for Silver Vouchers - if you time out for the week and lose them, login still doesn't get you anyone significantly better than Kupipi for low-level use
Semih Lafihna is free at Rank 3 and gets Sidewinder at level 1 so she'll be second best dps basically always

Even if you did get the fifth slot, you would just use either Zeid II or Halver, who are free with RoV 1-17 and Rank 3 respectively, since Zeid hits like a truck and Halver gets Penta Thrust like Semih gets Sidewinder.

If you care about them long-term, get them all for the +trust level key items eventually, but the 100 pointers are all borderline useless. The only niche cases I've ever used any of them for are Ullegore/Teodor, who never miss with melee attacks no matter how underleveled you are, and Karaha-Baruha, who is a healer who also casts Haste 1 but heals way less well than the Unity trusts over long durations.

tl;dr: Shantotto2 at all times levels 1-98, 300 points this month, don't skip her, ignore everything else for your use case

Ygnas may not be available to a lot of players but he deserves a mention here as well, as a WHM who will cast Haste. Even though I'm in Yoran's unity, I use Ygnas for leveling jobs for that reason.

My usual loadout is Valaineral, Semih, Shantotto2, Ygnas, and Zeid (1 not 2).

I did not know about Halver getting Penta Thrust early, may have to try him instead of Zeid one of these days...

Definitely not worth a mention, given the context.

Farsha is a monster with AM3 up. I used it on Kalunga25 and the mob just melted. The downside is putting up AM3.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/All_Jobs_Gear_Sets/Warrior

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/All_Jobs_Gear_Sets/Beastmaster

Thanky

Anyone have suggestions for mobs with easy access, loads of HP and no abilities to interupt you (knockback, stun, paralyze...) for testing purposes?

Qutrub?

VW Qutrub has stun and dispel, whats the testing

You could do like UNM garbage gel (but your trusts will get smoked)

Pretty much every nm has either stun knockback dispel or paralyze, there aren't many that have none.

Could do something like the Ceizak wamoura out in the field and make sure it stays debuffed so it can keep healing itself, depending what your goal is.

Despawns after 20 min, fwiw

Benumbing Blaze is para (disqualified!)

Broxa t1 marjami delve has only colibri moves

locus rabbits and dhalmels in bibiki will heal frequently too, depends what you're trying to test.

Ghost-Locus-Crabs.

For that matter, apex frogs can't do a damn thing. They are training dummies lol.

Not a ton of hp though, but fast respawn.

The apex mobs in promy zones are tanky as hell but not sure about para and the like. It's been a while since I dabbled in there.

If you kill fetters in W3 Dyna before killing the fomors, does the fomors dispawn?

no

Thank you.