Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Back again please with few more questions about Mboze RP if you will allow.

I want to see how BLU will do and wanted to ask about spell set and maybe a melee set.

This is spell set i used for V25 clear but i wasnt engaged so not sure if the spell lineup is still best.
Any spells i should change around?

For TP set I was thinking:Or would move Nyame/etc be better over Malignance?

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Went with friends last night as DRK and it worked alright but the SP reset needed and possible bad luck kinda stunk. Took some PUGs but they didnt do great. So just trying to figure out best way with jobs we have. No RUN i think my BST could land ooze if we had RUN but not sure. Anyway thanks again and Happy Friday the 13th!

Use ClosetCleaner it will cross check everything in your inventory with everything in your gearswaps and creates a text file letting you know how much everything is used.

I always find a insect wing (or some junk) hiding somewhere and a few pieces of gear that go unused. It'll also catch typos in gearswap.

This set isn't haste capped. Swap Brutal to Alabaster or use Malignance Tights. Also, I'd use Thibron over Sakpata's sword if you're getting some form of accuracy buff (sushi, songs). The survival aspect of Sakpata's is great, but the DPS difference is massive. If your objective is to deal damage as fast as possible, Thibron for sure. I'd also sooner drop Bathy Choker +1 and use JSE+2 neck instead for the accuracy and STP. Use Peiste Belt +1 if you're dead set on using Gleti's Breeches. You'll still need Alabaster Earring.


That spell set is all over the place. I would just equip DD spells (Zahak Reborn list) and slot in Feather Tickle, Reaving Wind, Silent Storm, Magic Barrier*, Saline Coat*, and one healing spell (Magic Fruit or White Wind), slowly removing less essential DD spells for utility, based on what you want to do during fight. Silent Storm might not land on it's own without Nitro Wind Threnody, so maybe Chaotic Eye/Auroral Drape to save points. Can drop stuff like Sinker Drill/Paralyzing Triad etc. Glutinous Dart for more HP might be helpful if you have extra points. Cimicine Discharge or Embalming Earth for slow could work too, if you can land it.

You'll need a BRD to Nitro Wind Threnody so Silent Storm can land though. That will keep Mboze casting, but it has the Occult Acumen trait, so you might not want that either. Nocturne might be better, you'd have to see for yourself which one prevents the most TP for it.

The BRD probably wants to Earth Threnody and try to land Elegy, but Mboze is Earth based, so that may not land on him. If he does get Earth Threnody on, you can try to stack Slow on top of Elegy. But you would need to be fast since Nitro could wear off and you won't land Elegy on Mboze.

Monster Rearing question: Someone is telling me that when you put down certain monsters in Monster Rearing, you can never rear them again? I don't see that here: https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Monster_Rearing

Is there a difference between parting with a creature (Send back home) vs (Putting it down)?

I know that "Tidbits of Information" tells how many creatures you put down, but not "sent home" >_>;;;

It's nonsense someone made up.

The difference is one gives gil and the other gives items. Both are largely insignificant

Definitely not a thing. You can always get more mons. Never heard anyone say killing one meant you could never raise another of the same.

Title for killing. No title for sending home.

Does that mean if I've sent them home I need to redo each and everyone of them to get it count towards mysteray rank?

I'm presuming theres only one title, not one for each mob type available.

"Xxxsefirofxxx's title: Let Chacharoon kill Baby Vrtra"
"Xxxsefirofxxx's title: Let Chacharoon kill Baby Nidhogg"
"Killallgalka's title: Let Chacharoon kill Baby Leaping Lizzy"

Not gonna lie, I think they should the generic title is and do this instead

It's not "kill one of each" it's total kills. So any you sent home don't have to be redone as it were. You could just kill 1000 sheep. Or cactus as revenge for jumbotender annoyance, if you wanted.

It's 10/100/1000 kills, so unless you reaaaaallly want it, not a lot of point starting if you won't hit the thousand.

OK, thanks. I went ahead and killed my Lunar Wyrm after getting it's memento and I got 2 Reviler's helm. I guess you can get family/NM/HNM-specific drops from some of the higher-tier monsters that you rear:




You made a typo. I would not prefer unique titles for killing each type of monster. There's more than enough silly stuff to chase in this game that has little to no consequence. (Do I need to share my chart of level 1 costume items?)


Oh, the things we do for Mastery Rank... So, when I get to this point and finish all of the mementos, I'll share how many kills you can earn per day. I'm guessing it's 4 monsters per day = 250 days to reach 1000 kills (This is from zero of course, but after reaching Monster Rearing Rank 7 and earning every Memento, I'll have 50-100+ kills in the bank already).

Make sure you pet them everytime you kill them or youre gonna be mad when you find out you have to raise and kill even more since you forgot that other title too

I killed the full thousand and paid for Chacharoon's therapy. He apparently forgave me because the New Years presents still arrived.

It was a *** joke my word

You can only raise and kill 3 per day iirc, so a yearish to finish it.

A year? For beastiary? Im so glad i never touched that lol

I'm trying to up scale the size of my ffxi base ui (chat log, vanilla menus, etc.) without upscaling the size of all my windower UI. An addon I started using (Xivcrossbar) doesnt work well with the windowers UI upscaled and cant be shrunk (by me at least lol).

When I use vanilla ffxi config to upscale ui it seems to be reset to the smallest value when the game is played through windower. Is this avoidable? I got it to load once without shrinking vanilla UI but I havent been able to do it again

Not sure about how to scale things independently, but for the windower/vanilla issue, that UI scaling setting is in your windower profile and overrides what's in the ffxi settings program. Set the windower one to whatever size you want

Right, I want windowers UI scaling to be small without overriding ffxi config (the vanilla one) so that vanilla menus remain large. If I make the windower scale large my addon doesnt work right. If windower scaling is small I camt read the vanilla menus. Everything (my pc, windower, and vanilla config) are all set to the same resolution btw

Update: I found a happier middle ground by adjusting the profiles ui scaling in the file directly. This let me use a non integer value where the slider does not

What is this a thing?

A thing, yes

Does the AMAN mimic have repeated WS damage reduction?

I don't believe so. My last few fights have been pure Savage blade.

Oh do you mean the interact titles? I was being far more literal thinking there was some "need to pet before taking old girl out back" type pre-req.

Thanks, decided to throw away about 10m for testing so I bought 2 su4 and some crystals to almost cap the fists, and it does seem like in most instances Path A gives quite a lot. There are rare instances where B suddenly gives a lot but I found it way more consistent with A probably because of the fixed STP and the multi-attacks just increasing that.

Though so many things I'm sure influence that like my TP set and the % for DA / TA / QA / STP etc (which I forgot to include, though demonstrations I've seen have a few bits that do seem to reach a lot more multi-hits), and su5 does have 50% chance for triggering both things, I tested with like 38%.

Also to reply about my TP sets on RDM and MNK, using these at the moment:

MNK (subbed DRG or WAR) - usually Godhands
Coiste R30 / Adhemar +1 Head / JSE Neck +1 / Malignance Body / Malignance Gloves / Bhikku +2 / Tatenashi +1 R15 / Segomi DA% Dex / Moonbow +1 / Schere R15 / Mache +1 (for Godhands) / Chirich ring / Defending ring

RDM (subbed NIN) - usuall Croc/Naeg/Max + Thib
Malignance 5/5 / Coiste R30 / Lissome neck / Reiki yotai / Defending ring / Chirich ring / DEX STP Cape / Eabani earring / Mache earring +1

Can anyone explain to me what's going on with Wyrm Ash on Bahamut?

Ever since the server got closed/or maybe since the residual Asurans moved in, some dude's been trying to set the price of Wyrm Ash to 3.5million gil.

No one real buys it for that price. But this dude keeps juggling the bulk of what's on the AH for that price, some how never buying anyone real's Wyrm Ash.

So when you go to list, you just gotta ball park what you think a real person will pay, but within a day, the fake mules juggling it, get it to appear as though it's still selling for 3.5mil.

Ever since then, the most I've been able to get it to sell for is 2 million. Here recently, it's as low as 1.5, and I'm seeing earlier today before jugglers flooded with false sales, some people selling as low as 1.2mil.

What's the deal? Why try to get people to pay 3.5mil when it's clear no one real is paying that amount?

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

it's also possible they want you to flood the house, so raising the price entices people to farm, but they find out the price is fake and undercut. A doublebluff.

They get the 146 on the AH next week for 800k

MNK TP set looks fine enough so it wraps back around to if you're getting proper haste buffs/hitting acc cap, depending on your trusts you could be getting haste1 by mistake for example, or a march got lost for some garbage song instead, least that was always my experience with solo + trusts.

As for RDM you could put the DW on the cape and that frees up the belt/earring, alternatively you get null cape and keep the other slots the same. Anu torques also a decent upgrade if you can get it, haste and acc shouldnt be as much an issue keeping up since you can cover haste2 and have distract3.

rate of MA does have some impact on how easy it can be to keep a chain going, especially when you lack SAM roll, but least from my experience just chaining mobs in the past the kicker will be that lost march or a haste1 instead of 2 that will break the SC, or you're on drk and last resort drops, or your accs just not at cap. But if the Su4 is enough additional push to get you to consistently chain then good deal.

RIP - Kobe.

Also, what Eiryl said.

The RMTs are trying to drive up fake demand in order to artificially lower prices, buy them for cheap then server hop and sell them for their actual price on another server.

They do similar things on small servers. Either pushing up stock to drive price down and buy it all for cheap or buying existing stock that is cheaper than the big servers.

I have been really really lazy about limbus. Am I screwing myself by not grinding this right now? What I mean is more am I missing access unlocks or anything that would make people not want to go with me in future? Thanks.