May 2019 Version Update

I was at work so I couldnt explain it properly in last post.
My point wasnt asking DD to bypass gravity with certain methods, gravity was just an example to illustrate the importance of casting speed. My point is that erase is a slower spell than esuna. What DD do doesnt matter in this discussion.

Esuna has 1 sec base cast time, with fc thatd be 0.2 sec casting time. Our avg reaction speed without bot/tool is probably 0.5 to 0.8 sec. That means any tp move with charge time of 1 sec or more, you can react by precast esuna on animation and have it land right after animation is over. If the tp move comes with draw in or knock back, you can erase everyone before knockback/drawn in interupt your casts. If you wait until knockback/drawn in finish then cast, then thats another 1 sec delay to erase everybody.

Its easier to explain it with a video:


Check 1:18 in the video, I casted esuna on animation and all the debuffs were erased before my character got drawn in and moved to a different position. If I cast after drawn in animation occur it will be MUCH slower than cast before drawn in.

Now that esuna is no longer aoe, this technique will be much harder to utilize on vanilla, even with yagursh.

Erase has 3 sec base cast time, at capped fc thats 0.6 casting time. Add 0.5 to 0.8 reaction time thats 1.4 sec total. The NM tp move will need to be longer than 1.4 sec to be able land spell before knockback/drawn in and thats WITH yagrush. Without yagrush you are completely screwed in fight like this.

How people think this nerf "amazing" is something I dont get. You have to be either:

1) use bot or react to completely bypass the reaction time required to cast on animation.

2) doesnt care about getting erased as soon as debuff lands.

If you are 1 or 2, then we are not on the same page, lol.

As a vanilla player without yagrush, this change is a huge nerf to me, I wouldnt trade it for 24 sec recast amnesia remove. Im a cor anyways, so fat chance is that whm will remove amnesia on a real DD, by the time its up again my amnesia is already off. Its not like Im getting any gain on a DD job either.

Worst nerf in past 10 years.

I'd honestly be fine for RDM and BLM if they maintained the macc or potency bonuses from extra merits in those spells, but at least gave us a spell list from scrolls that included all the options. I'm not clamouring to use Blind II left and right, but nonetheless would like to have it.

Does anyone have an answer on that easiest to grow objective?

I know that tree cuttings take no crystals, but they still take like 10 days. Does every gardening thing take over a week?

Porcelain(fastest pot?) + anything is still going to take half a month?

Went to gardening section of ffxiclopedia. Seeds are much faster to grow, and only require to be fed a crystal once.

I looked around but couldn't find anything that said (number of days to grow)

I checked somepage! piko's pots (holy ***old school) http://ffxi.somepage.com/gardening/

It would be very easy, just replace each of the spell categories with an enhancement to that series of spells effects, duration of accuracy.

The campaigns for the month just started. You can get six DM augments now before JP midnight, which is in seven hours.

2 merits per kill, delicious pulse weapons

Should be able to get every ambu weapon done this campaign.

It went from "*** impossible" to "holy ***that's easy" with one little change.

BG doesn't have the requirements to unlock each category for glowies

It does, on the Emporox page, you have to hover on the right column in the table. It's not the best format maybe, but the data is there.

Did anyone figure out what the monthly objective for the Mog Garden was? I tried seemingly everything, but I can't seem to clear the objective. :(

Think it's old school gardening in your mog house.

I was having same problem. I put a flower pot in mog house. I guess you don't have to do anything... I don't know...

It is an amazing fix to potpourri, especially in conjunction with the current campaigns.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Talk:Emporox

Sooo... guessing that petrifacts are the easiest/most mindless way to actually get a glowy weapon unlocked if using the goblin? The other options seem like kind of a pain

I would argue legion but hey you do you.

Ancient Beastcoins. Can get 70~ every hour, or just buy them if you don't have dozens stored.

Sure but you can't unlock a pulse weapon from Limbus.

How exactly does Emporox work? Is it 25000 merits + Condition Items for each pulse weapon?

You have to trade him some items to unlock the ability to purchase those items with merits. the items listed above are what you need to buy a pulse weapon

Yeah, it's that simple. give em 36 Abdahljis honors then 25000 merits, get a pulse katana.

I'm on day 3 of the 5(6?) day grow cycle so I'll finally know if grow and harvest works or not.

And the HTB is Ifrit, not superman.

Grain seeds should be the fastest to grow, fertilize 12hrs after you plant them with a fire crystal and in the next 12hrs you should be able to harvest taru rice.

Would've been nice to know 3 days ago lol

I wonder if this theoretically may cause pulse cells to drop in price.

This basically slightly increases the gil/hour for botters who farm 24/7 on stuff like 500+ dmg sparks or Job points or both.

Though it does have a moderately high barrier of entry to unlock. Maybe?

Has anyone confirmed yet if whats his face will convert Pulse Weapons into Pulse Cells if you dont have the kill title?

My gut says you may need the title first but who knows. There have been a few ways now to obtain VW pulse weapons without touching VW now. Mogbonanza, Potpurri, and now later can also get one for the monthly points...

If you dont need the title to trade in, then botters can also passively obtain a pulse cell every now and then.

Depending on what kind of exp rates we are talking on even shitty bots, that could be substantial.

And if that happens, pulse cells will flood the market and prices will go a fair bit down.

Im hoping this happens and Ambu weapons become a lot more accessible.

Edit: Assuming they on average earn even something garbage like 3 merits a minute, thats like a pulse cell every 5~6 days. Thats like an extra million gil a day easily.

There is no barrier to entry. Bot VW for a couple hours or enter legion and farm it once(buy honors).

30m for pulse weapons was HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE in the first place, it should drop them significantly, but never underestimate stupid... especially asuran stupid.

Goblins do not give cells, only whole weapons. Merits, won't directly lower the price of cells.

It took 2 days to get 25,000 merits. Fully expect to get all the important weapons I need before the campaign ends!

holy moly... that seems fast

what were you fighting?

Merits are fast with the campaign, I've gotten 7k doing aoe cp pts that tallied close to 5hrs spent killing.

The EXP method (via emporox's effect), along with heroism points just makes it easier for the average casual player to get a pulse weapon in a reasonable time, with a end goal in sight. You can also get them via gobbie boxes and in the NNI event (which has been popping up frequently), albeit rare. In a short time, the price of pulse cells will definitely drop, if they haven't already. The emporox effect + the cp campaign should all but guarantee that every single player has the chance to get a pulse weapon this month, if you're not lazy (theres a CP Campaign PLUS coming up soon, too). I can't imagine how/why people are still paying 30mil for a pulse weapon when there's too many ways to get them, and we're already 2 months in with them. Most people have the weapons they want already, so the pulse weapon craze died down a bit at this point.

It's a pretty opportune time to ease the acquisition methods for this anyways, especially with the free campaign going on. You don't want new/returning players being locked out of weapons due to some long-term unattainable goal, particiarly because that was the supposed reason for creating these weapons in the first place. SE is basically giving these weapons away if you're willing to work a short bit to get them (you're already gonna be doing CP spam if you're returning, most likely). The timing couldn't have been better on SE's part.

It's still faster to farm T3s if you can manage killing them in 1-2 minutes. You might average one pulse weapon every 100 pops or so. I was lucky and got 3 in about 150 pops. A stack of plutons is ~400k? You'll see at least one in 5 stacks, if you can stomach the monotony.

Only VW pulse weapons would work, since only VW Pulse Weapons can be turned into Pulse Cells and sold for profit. The rest cannot be traded or sold in any manner.

You cant easily bot VW if you dont have stones built up.

Most bot mules dont have the stones built up.

But yeah I forgot you need to trade in all the stones too to unlock buying it.

So yeah, its not quite easy enough that you can just power level an alt to 99 and set them up on a bot (what these people do atm), so maybe they wont bother with all that extra effort for an extra 1~2 million gil per week.