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By . on 2026-03-23 16:51:18 |
"sauce"
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Zesho - nyame head over mpaca's...is this just because you are holding TP enough such that the TP bonus on mpaca is worthless/there is a bigger gain from nyame?
Simon posted the ideal gearset for Zesho some time ago, and it had Hitaki in offhand (not sure if it had Nyame head or Mpaca, but besides the point). Every WS is at minimum 2250 with Moonshade. Even though Euvedant originally posted gearset with Kunimitsu offhand, in the video he showcased he very clearly is using Hitaki, or WSing at 3k eff TP anyways. He even said he can push damage higher with Hoxne Earring, but he would have to drop probably Moonshade for it instead of the PDL from JSE+2 earring. So TP Bonus gear is doing nothing after a certain point, and devalued with a TP Bonus offhand, especially for a job like NIN that will almost certainly over TP with TA+Daken proc or Hoxne DA proc. You can't always WS at exactly 2k and guarantee you get full benefit of Mpaca head/Moonshade earring, so at effective TP 3k, TP bonus stuff should be the first to go. |
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All plugins are closed-source. Windower team maintain them.
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Ahem.
There are people in this forum that have 6-boxed v25s.
The number of people who can successfully 6-box any V25: Probably less than 10 across all servers
The number of people who can't clear any V25s with 6 real players: Probably over 10,000 across all servers
The exception doesn't disprove the rule. |
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By enoch on 2026-03-23 15:41:17 |
Dude shhh, I've got like 5 other characters who still need to farm these, lol. Yeah, they're 100%. I just survival guide to meriph(s) and then to graub and hoof it so there's time for warp rings to replenish. |
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Plaything ch78!
Quote: The dog went crazy! Three videos in three days! Plaything 78!!
Hey everyone, it's Panta here.
I think we now have the most recent chapter of Plaything published (at the time of this post).
I used a Chinese translation as a base. I couldn't read the group's name, but I want to thank them for the scans.
I still don't know the publication frequency of Plaything, so I can't say when we'll have a new chapter, but know that as soon as I get the chapter 79, I'll do all the work right away, so subscribe to follow this series together with me.
Speaking of the chapter itself, after a couple of slower chapters, with a lot of preparation, the long-awaited confrontation between Karma and Ahyun finally began.
We're close to the climax of this arc, and this chapter was quite fun to read.
Another comment from me, in this video I ended up doing more editing than the previous two chapters. Maybe I exaggerated a bit trying to do justice to an action story, but little by little I'm getting to the right point. YouTube Video Placeholder |
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Ahem.
There are people Bots in this forum that have 6-boxed v25s. |
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By Dodik on 2026-03-23 15:34:01 |
Ahem.
There are people in this forum that have 6-boxed v25s. |
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It's the 2 Vorseals I miss myself.
If someone wants to set up a party and let me leech for a night or two, I'd be very thankful! :-P
I'm at like 65k kills or something like that.
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I like Escha-Sky NMs for skilling robot.
temperance is immune to magic.
faith takes reduced melee.
teleport away and let them idle back to 80~90% before re-engaging when they get to <10%.
if someone actually needs the kill, just hand it over so they don't complain.
robot gets your atma buffs or w/e they're called for basically infinite MP.
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By Taint on 2026-03-23 14:41:31 |
Gaol is get one win then cheese for points by NOT doing the fight
The cheese method came later, it was never part of the initial Release. I used to farm V15 Gogmagog solo on MNK for 360~ RP/clear, to finish out my Coiste Bodhar. I did dozens of fights this way before any cheese existed. SE threw all of us a bone by allowing amplifiers in the first place (and I'm certain they flubbed the execution so much but never bothered to fix it). In any case, absolutely none of the RP cheese method has anything to do with "depth".
You don't think Odyssey Gaol has any depth? Okay. Probably trolling but I'll bite because it's a slow Monday at my desk.
- You need 6 real players (not mules or alts) to have a chance
- You need 6 unique jobs per fight. Multiplied by how many successive fights you were willing to do (2 fights = 12 jobs, 3 = 18 jobs. Nearly impossible for plebs)
- You can't rely on your support job to supplement weaknesses in the group (i.e. if your healer sucks, your GEO or SMN can't help out.
- Everyone must be top notch geared, at least on the higher veng levels.
- You need to have appropriate macros and sets, or you will get exposed for being the weak link in the group.
- You need to know how to use your abilities properly, and you need to watch out for key triggers. Timing JAs was so important, if you used Rayke/Gambit/Subtle Sorcery/Wild Card/Soul Voice/Threnodies/TP Drainkiss/Impact/Helix at the wrong time, you might as well warp out. The fights were THAT strict
- You could change the difficulty for each boss slightly to challenge yourself. If you couldn't beat a certain tier, it was clear evidence you were not good enough.
- Each boss uses a very specific strategy, but before some of them were discovered, groups bashed their heads into a wall surviving things like Tiiimbeeer (looking at you Poseidon's Ring and Rampart RD rotations). It was incredibly frustrating figuring out all the mechanics early on.
- Positioning is incredibly important in certain fights (standing in front of Kalunga or Gigilorum = run over). Sometimes you need to employ a very different strategy (like kiting) to even have a chance. Even the Craklaw can one-shot a superbly geared RUN.
- You needed specific weapon types or magic damage to even hurt bosses past a certain veng level.
- You can't even be carried on some of the higher level bosses. There's some people know who still can't beat Kalunga V25 with 2 KIs (because they lack job depth and strength), even WITH primes and gear creep.
- *They give you three chances to clear one boss, with the caveat that you can't repeat jobs in subsequent attempts. Most players only have really good A and B jobs. PUGs struggle heavily with 2 KI fights because their secondary jobs are weaker comparatively. I've never seen a PUG 3-KI fight, because organizing that many people to have non-conflicting top notch jobs x18 is almost impossible. This forces people to level up all of their relevant jobs to even have a chance. If you refused, you simply could not clear (unless you "cheesed" out and bought the clear, your loss)
- *You could challenge yourself as a group by attempting to fight 3 bosses in one go. Not "cheese", but really trying to fight and clear. 99% of players NEVER attempted this not a single time. Amplifier cheese ruined people's desire to even attempt the challenge, but I'm certain the devs wanted players to challenge themselves. I was proud of my then-static that successfully did 3 V15s in one visit using all of our ABC jobs. It was an incredible test. Go back and read the first few stabs at V15s in the Odyssey thread and look how engaging all of the community was with sharing information.
You can't convince me that Gaol didn't have depth. Just because most players skipped past the majority of the event years later doesn't diminish the quality of the content (it did come out with a ton of bugs initially, but that's not a depth issue).
Compare all of this with Limbus, where you literally put 5 alts on follow, pull trash, sleep them, spam the same ws 15 times in a row, click a porter, and repeat 20+ times. The comparison isn't even close.
but people clear V25 and then never go for the kill again because of how *** it is.
Hard disagree. Gaol clearing on V25 was F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-N-G for sure, but not ***. The issue was the fights were so hard at first, it made people upset because they were basically locked out of clears until all the good players figured it out for them. Personally, I formed my own group and lost tons of sleep over Gaol fights (ESPECIALLY V25 AREBATI FK THIS GUY FOR LIFE, but most fun I have had in a long time). The frustration with losing so many times led me to never want to form a static for these fights ever again, it was so frustrating. But that frustration wasn't because the content sucks, I sucked. We just didn't win. Until we did. Then it felt glorious. The content MADE me want to get better, more MLs, improve my timing and learn how to better anticipate moves, or even think of new strategies to deal with the challenges we couldn't overcome. Every single ounce of frustration was validated the moment we won a single V25. It was just a matter of were you willing to keep going after dozens of failures.
And I happily go back and help people with these fights, even to this day on fights where I am capped RP and get nothing from it. But I guess I'm in the minority of people who thought those fights were (except Bumba V25, absolute incredible horseshit, but maybe we stopped trying to figure it out) very challenging and entertaining. [/spoiler]
100% agree and I also geared up multiple non-main jobs just to get all my v25 clears which added a layer to the game. |
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By Taint on 2026-03-23 14:38:50 |
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The entire FFXI game is based upon "boss" battles.
Do shitty trash mobs for the opportunity to fight a boss that drops something cool.
HNM = Boss
Dynamis = Boss
Sortie = Boss
Limbus 1.0 = Boss
Savage = Boss
Meebles = Boss
High tier battles = boss
Legion = Boss
Odyssey = Boss
Ambu = Boss
Unity = Boss
Vagary = Boss
Limbus 2.0 = Trash only (hopefully its not done) (and no, zone wide fights that happen at lunch time only don't count)
My LS has pretty much stopped doing Limbus, a couple guys do a couple chest per week. The rest just pretend it doesn't exist, I stopped later than most and am glad to avoid it at this point. If it was good we'd be grinding it like everything else over the past 20+ years. I am still hopeful since the augmented gear has some sweet pieces.
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I get asked pretty often which set I used in my mnk solo YouTube video
Enough to make a post about it on my website
ItemSet 385590
H2h has +dmg augment
Rings have str augs
Mantle has dex
Neck has mnd
Cap has vit+3(I also have a str+2 one but prefer the vit+3)
Feet have +attack
Waist has an Aug but I can’t recall I think +atk
All nearly perfect or perfect augs
I got serious about 60 cap ballista when that was a thing on azura for a few years
Field of valor augs
Body and legs also have aug but that’s not field. Should be pretty obvious which one you want though.
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I didn't know some of those had Augs. I didn't see anything in terms of Augs for the Brown Belt. I am already using some of this gear...I'll tweak the rest accordingly. |
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How is Gaol better in depth??
The fights themselves are somewhat varied between them, granted i'd say damage resistances that raise every rank does a fair bit of the work there along with limiting you by subs and 1 job lockouts but any fight that makes players have to innovate a bit is refreshing.
The RP/clear gate stuff is entirely separate and I think fumbled a bit but credit where it's due on the fights. |
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By Taint on 2026-03-23 14:30:27 |
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Congrats!!!!
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By Anza on 2026-03-23 14:11:53 |
If you need to farm a lot of bottled pixies at once, there are something like 6-7 High Priests in the first area of Oztroja, possibly on a slightly longer but not unreasonable spawn timer.
Yeah, and as you go further into the castle there are even more. Doesn't take that long to find one. And competition tends to cycle out once they get the 100% drop from a High Priest (since the item is R/E, so each character can only hold one at a time and there's a need to go turn in the pixie and then return).
I'd definitely recommend going inside the Castle if doing in a party and trying to get drops for multiple people, a lot more spawns in there. You'll probably get it faster than waiting outside in Meriph for the small number (1? 2?) of High Priests there. |
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By Dekar1 on 2026-03-23 14:11:42 |
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I've finally jumped back into Chocobo Raising after 20+ years and am excited to work on this! A lot of info is spread across multiple threads so I wanted to make sure that my understanding is correct. This is my most recent Chocobo:
Day: 68 (After day 64, your chocobo's stats will not raise any further via careplans.)
Jockey: Hume (F) DNA Yellow Black Blue
STR 152 - 24~25/32RP
END 134- 6~7/32RP
DSC 0 - 0~1/32RP
RCP 0 - 0/32RP
Abilities: none
Personality: Very easygoing
Weather: prefers clear days, dislikes none.
Riding speed 90.0%
Riding time: 33 minutes
Current Standings
San d’Oria: Minor (old)
Bastok: Minor
Windurst: Dominant (current)
I’ve just started racing my Chocobo in Windy and seem to be having much better luck with Free Runs. If I’m understanding correctly, I have two avenues that I can pursue:
1) Raise a second (better) bird and focus on Gallop and Cantor as well as getting more Chocobucks. Assume this bird won’t be capped and invest Chocotrains in my third bird.
2) Build up Chocobucks and focus on making my second bird capped with Chocotrains.
I’m aware that Chocotrains don’t stack and that I’m looking at a massive amount of inventory loss. I’m prepared to sink the gil and space into it as necessary
In terms of raising a new bird, should I focus on STR and END early or go for DSC and RCP to learn Gallop and Cantor ASAP?
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If they offered the same thing for Limbus, you know people would do it that way to. Like instead of climbing up each of the 4 towers - if you could do just floor 1 in each, but still get a chunk of credit people would do that rather than full climb. Then every 3rd one of those get an HQ chest just to add the dagger
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By detlef on 2026-03-23 14:00:38 |
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If you need to farm a lot of bottled pixies at once, there are something like 6-7 High Priests in the first area of Oztroja, possibly on a slightly longer but not unreasonable spawn timer.
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Sounds like I would need to build a new one then.
Not sure I can find enough strength of will to, though.
Regardless of that, thanks for your sincere inputs! Very much apreciated.
Do you have a list of checkpoints you should aim for, for a racing chocobo?
I guess 200+ end, 240+ STR, then enough DSC/RCP (how much?) to be able to learn Canter and Gallop which are mandatory.
Correct?
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As far as we know from what they told us over the last few years, they have no "dedicated" people who only work on FFXI, zero, niet, nada, niente.
They have a certain amount of "main" devs and game designers who occupy a lot (but not all) of their time as SE employees working on FFXI.
Then they have occasional people from other teams (mostly FFXIV, since a lot of those devs USED to work 100% on FFXI many years ago) who give a temporary hand to the "core" team of FFXI who are like, I dunno, 3 people maybe?
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By Anza on 2026-03-23 12:54:32 |
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Either way, Recall or book are both close. I did it with 2 in party and one WHM, so Recall was easier for me since could just cast it wherever and not even bother warping/zoning to go to a book and move through the menu. Like I said, low effort lol.
Also, I found there were several people sitting right at the survival guide who just wouldn't even notice high priests popping in the general vicinity. Easier for me to just ride on through on mount and then hop into Castle if nothing is up outside.
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Would second that, too many points in END, that low DSC/RCP is gonna get you PvP'd on all the serious ones because the enemy items are ruuuuuude. And no Gallop/Canter.
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By . on 2026-03-23 12:00:54 |
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Before you started to like anti-AI posts.
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By . on 2026-03-23 12:00:27 |
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You were better in the past Ms Chatty
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I'm rank 8: Titles: 1025/1087
RoE: 1 left (Aminon)
Meebles: complete
Proto-waypoints: complete
Waypoints: complete
Homepoints: complete
OP Warps: complete
Job Emotes: complete
Reisenjima Goblin (Emporox): complete
All Vorseals: 2 left
UNMs: complete
Dynamis - D clears: complete
Cavernous Maws: complete
MMM: complete
Campaign Ops: complete
Fame: complete
Unlocking a Myth: complete
WSNM quests: complete
Spellcheck: complete
Automaton Attachments: complete
Corsair Rolls: complete
Mounts: 1 left - Moogle :(
Chairs: 1 left - Adenium Bench
Incursion KI: Level 131 / 143
Moogle Mastery: complete
Unity Shirts: complete
Chocographs: complete
Fish checklist: complete
Monstrosity: complete
Gladiator: complete
UNMs: complete
Orchestrion: 11 left
Trusts: complete
Moogle Mastery: XLV, but aurum costs not floored
Odyssey: V15+
Relics: All made, 85+
Mythics: 9/22
Empyreans: 4/16
Aeonics: 10/16
Tinctures (Rienne): complete
Crafting Shield: Final stage, 80k Spirit
Crafting Key Items: complete
Crafting Skills: capped
Quests: 1020/1020
Monster Rearing: complete
AF/Relic/Empy iLevel Upgrades: 848/1210
Combat Skills: 16500/17298
Master Trials: 3/7 (cleared another last night)
Dynamis - D unlocks: 76/88
Sortie Unlocks: complete
Adventuring Fellow: complete
QoL Kis: complete
I'm working on:
1. Keep doing Master Trials
2. Get the Vanabout title this time
3. Finish the Crafting Shield
4. Keep getting Dynamis - D unlocks and upgrading relic
When I have more time, I'll start running around zones and talking to every NPC to make sure I'm not missing any quest clean-up dialogue.
Get those last 2 vorseals! What are they? >_>; |
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By Garuda. Chanti on 2026-03-23 11:36:06 |
"sauce"
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By enoch on 2026-03-23 11:28:11 |
Even if you get doctor status, a rune item isn't guaranteed
My main, which has had doctor status forever, went 1/3 on the rune. The first two alts I tried, having never done this before, got fresh doctor statuses and both went 1/1. At least now I have extra chips and cores. I'll be interested to see what happens with other alts or if I just got lucky.
I do think this is better than the last round. We're on day 3-4 and we're able to get t2 already. I was concerned about the bottled pixies, but have been able to do it on 3 chars already without much headache. |
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It really is a shame how far below the standard of OG Limbus they made this new version. Feels nothing like it, the music is just white noise now. I remember climbing the floors of original Limbus and there were floor objectives/chests and gimmicks on each one. The roaming NMs served different purposes and were fun to tackle. The new KI system and chests really mucked up the original system. Should have known it wasn't going to be anywhere close to the original when they said "open world".
They haven't made content as fun and engaging since Gaol bosses imo.
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By zedoma on 2026-03-23 10:38:26 |
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I don’t believe you have a chance with your old chocobo, and the reason is you will burn all stamina at the beginning portion of the race. Pushing you up front in the first half which makes you the target of all the negative NPC items which all will land because of the low evasion.
Final Spurt + Speed Apple is imo always the best combo.
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