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Just like buying a rare drop vs farming it yourself. Some people just want to cut their losses and do something else with their time. I still don't like buying drop, playing mule lottery or whatever, but it has become a thing now since SE insists on making terrible drop rates.

Got to get over that silly ***.

It doesn't matter how you got it. You can either waste 100 hours getting it, or spend that 100 hours having it. Same results.

(Don't pay idiot tax though!)

It's funny you say that. i was the person who helped expose the current shinryu glitch, and since then, plenty of people have gotten armor/weapons, including friends of mine who say it didn't take them many runs to get the dagger or cloak or w/e. I've even had some people offer to sell me shinryu items because they got everything they needed from it. The absolute nerve. Something about paying 150m for a cloak don't sit right with me, so I'll just farm RMEA cases instead of paying someone else xD

I do 2nd run with alt almost every day and still have not even one +2 earring.

Keep in mind you not only need to level mule to 99 and finish whole SOA, but you also need to gear that mule or else you can only do few non combat chests. Also even a simple non combat run takes like 20+ minutes and if you want to do easy combat like Obdella, 5 acuex etc. its like 30+ minutes for ok geared mule and you maybe on avg will see like 1.5 cases from that run, so maybe one +1 case every 15 runs. Using 15 mules you would probably cut time needed to get a +2 earring you want to like a year+, but good luck running Sortie for 8.5 hours per day :)

For best chances on a mule you would need the following things:
D Key,
C Key,
B Key,
B Plate(hurray @B tele),
B Sheet (run d/c/b (unless someone figured out a way to get this better)
Full Empy for the job of the mule (F Blitzer)
C Plate (kill 1 mob at C Tele)
C Sheet (respawn C)
D Plate (drop Temp)
D Sheet (Get Carried through fomor clear once)

This gives you 3 basement Blues, in addition to A Blue for resting, B Blue for locked door, C Blue for doors.

6 non combat chests per run, without the D clear you get 2 basement blues and 3 main floor blues with 0 combat (after 1 C kill on 1 run).

This is probably your best opportunity for earring mule farming.

Also don't skip repeat KI chests that are quick because 900 A door chests turns into a case for another NQ/+1 Earring chance.

Bon Chance!

I would never buy Old case tbh. I just use Galli to slowly make +3 empy on mule, so its useable for something else, like Omen Swart farming or Ambuscade and to get more chances in Sortie by killing Acuex, Obdella. At some point it will be good enough to solo all roaming NMs for 4 red chests, Aurum and also kill 6 fomors for 2 more blue. I do all that every other day on him anyway, because I do 4 runs per week with static on my main, and in those days I use my alt to triobox and my boxed chars are strong enough to carry my alt. I only solo on him in days I 3box with my main.

With ml50 we should demand a reraise 3 ring or smth .. f man

Testing out a strat will cripple your ep

They should've put a cap on that.
Just like there was a cap for Experience Points at level 75 when it mattered.

"You lose X% of current level EP when you die, but never more than <cap>"

It's simple as that.
Losing >30k EP per death is gonna be insane.
And honestly so anachronistical...

10-11 it was 41,205 to next level
20-21 it was 109,112 to next level 2.64 increase
30-31 it was 258,409 to next level 2.36 increase
40-41 it's 769,426 to next level ~2.98 increase

Kinda inconsistent, but I wouldnt count on anything below 2.5 increase again, so around 2M buffer at ML50

We lose ~2% of buffer, so we will lose more like >40k :P

Freshly picked 63

Ambuscade for Nov is iron giants for v1 and mantis for v2, like we already knew. They went over the changes like Matsui mentioned in his post, no need to repost.





December is meebles for v1, v2 is under adjustments.



Voracious Resurgence

Second stage of Prime Weapons will be implemented, and the names will change. Here is the list of names, for each weapon type. They might be altered for the English versions, but thats what I thought about Sortie... so who knows. Stats were not shown on stream.

Hand-to-Hand: Valgapurnikawa
Dagger: Pump Gundling
Sword: Caliburnus
Great Sword: Helheim
Axe: Spalilithos
Great Axe: Lafria
Scythe: Foenaria
Polearm: Gaybeed
Great Katana: Shrieking (Could also mean Wailing, or Lamentation)
Katana: Kusanagi
Club: Rogue Mole, or Roguemor
Staff: Opasholo
Archery: Pinaka
Marksmanship: Earp
Instrument: Rackna Shade
Shield: Duban



From Dec onwards, a weapon with a damage value will be needed to have stage 2 to progress further in the story.

If you made a sword or shield, make another weapon to progress.

My guess is there is a solo fight where you need to use the weapon to damage a mob.



Sortie

Adding the lower boss, stronger than the ones in the event now, be prepared. Asura.Essylt said it sounds like new loot from this boss. New cheats being added too.

Adding key items for each job that has unlocked emp armor, like they did for dynamis. Speak to the transposer to get all the ki for jobs you already unlocked.



Other Adjustments

Mig slip 30 implemented for emp +3 armor

Master level cap raised to 50. "This will be the last time the cap is increased"

Adding Locus mobs to Bibiki Bay

Swapping Cornelia for Matsui-P





Events

Mog Bonanza next month, and free login/discount campaigns start 12/23

Aman trove silver voucher x2 a day campaign starts on 11/18



New merch

Whew that's it, lots of merch.

Unless I completely misunderstood that, they also said that they're adding some new loot dropping from the new boss(es).

I need the merch

Jeeze, 300+ dollar watch? maybe not that one lol

Bibiki the choice for "seeing the sky", old school camp, entirely unused zone. Wide open.

I dig golden mobs for bibiki, there better be golden dhalmals doe. There are zero apex/locus beasts and too many aquans.

Needed to be silver metallic ones first, but whatever. Also zero chance of locus goblins.

locus dhalmels that zerk and then everyone ws's them for 99999. I'm sold

Nice, I said Bibiki bay a few pages ago. Always liked that zone, the music was very fun for its time and it will be fun fighting out there for a change.

The free login campaign and the silver voucher campaign do not overlap this year.

...***.

That merch is pretty good and makes up for the lackluster stuff earlier this year.

I'm going to put some money into it - might be the last time we get new FFXI merch.

Hopefully the merch isn't super expensive like the other stuff, but it's SE and it's worse for European customers because of the extortinate shipping prices. That Ark Angel shirt is sick.

Love that they are doing something with Bibiki Bay and are finally putting a cap on Master levels.

Some merch announced today is available on the NA square enix store already for preorder https://store.na.square-enix-games.com/en_US/merchandise/preorder

May be cheaper to import from the JP store with an agency? considering SE's ridiculous shipping fees they tend to have.

Hm, I wonder why some items are missing from JP store, and a lot more missing from the NA store.

Cheaper even w/ agency fees thanks to how weak the yen is rn

The Vanarium stuff is specifically from the third party (Ebten Games), and price/availability is unknown right now.

Any precedent for their stuff to appear on NA stores, or on PlayAsia, etc?

NA store already has preorder for some. Not sure about the rest.

If they have them on the JP store and not the NA then it's probably not going to change unless they are just updating them today.

Amiami usually had the best deal. They on maintenance atm but in sure it will all end up there. SE store almost never worth it

Amiami is good but it's pretty much an account ban if you cancel a preorder fyi.

This is how it used to be before covid. They have become much more lenient about cancellations now.