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Have you done a lot of Limbus climbs?
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By waffle on 2026-03-20 08:17:35 |
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There's been a decent amount of talking about Besieged over on the JP OF as of late. Discussion about difficulty, point values, the final update etc. In particular, some folks have griped about the difficulty of earning points on non-melee jobs, especially if they are in ambuscade gear. As result of this, I learned something I hadn't heard before.
I knew that the archaic mirrors in the beastmen strongholds were related to how fast they can prepare for a besieged, but I honestly had no idea that the large reduction in magic damage besieged mobs take was directly connected to the archaic mirrors. Apparently if you actually destroy them all, they take full magic damage.
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By Asura. Iamaman on 2026-03-20 07:14:09 |
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Doing those Burt trials might have you buying it again
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By . on 2026-03-20 05:50:28 |
Picked up Crimson Desert. A co-worker has been geeking out over this, I guess he likes the developer's previous games. It looks cool and will be my latest excuse to not finish Nyzul to get my Burtgang.
Crimson Desert on Steam
YouTube Video Placeholder Looks like I'll be grinding out Nyzul this weekend... I refunded this thing. I played for 57mins, 20mins of that was trying to screw with graphic settings to get it to look right. All of the presets were junk. Ended up on high, no RTX, HDR, no motion blur, and no depth of field... only then could I actually tell what was happening. This is with a 3090. Couldn't do better than 60fps, even on low I only managed 90fps. Ultra everything was like 30-40fps.
The controls are what did it. They are absolutely horrendous. If this is supposed to be some kind of open world breath of the wild type of game, they couldn't have made worse controls.
This could be one of those "oh it opens up after like 15 hours" kind of games, but those kind of reviews are from copium addicts. |
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By Arael on 2026-03-20 05:44:35 |
Hit Rank 9 last week after getting my 'Wing Skill' from 19 to 25.
- 1017 Titles
- 1079 RoE (Missing Aminon and the Escutcheon ones)
- All missions done, all quests that appear in the log done
- All but 10 Campaign Ops completed (those damn Elvaans just will not lose a zone!)
- 127/153 Monstrosity Species unlocked, all 40+, majority 60-75
- All jobs mastered, all spells obtained, all skills capped (excluding Automaton)
- All trusts/homepoints/waypoints etc.
- Adventuring Fellow 99
- All craft skills capped except Chocobo Digging 25 (at the time), zero progress on an escutcheon
- Lu Shang/Ebisu +1 obtained, all fish caught, 3/4 Fish Ranking titles
- Master Trials: 1/7
- Abyssea: Complete
- Mog Garden: All mementos obtained, missing 7 titles (trying to avoid the putting down ones so as not to traumatise poor Chacharoon, will be done with the rest in ~250 days)
- Odyssey: T1 & 2 cleared V25, T3 and Bumba cleared V20
- Vorseals: Missing 3 |
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Interesting analysis about indie game market.
It is a one year old, but still nice insights.
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And it updated today!
Server: Phoenix
Floor: NW#4
Location: Just before exit!
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By . on 2026-03-19 17:28:25 |
I will never understand why game companies do this.
Not like there has been video game piracy since the invention of video games or anything. |
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At the same time though, who knows? I mean, are we 100% sure that it's Perceptivity that raises the chance of a dig to be succesful? Or that it allows additional items past the first one? Or both things? RCP has a direct correlation with dig accuracy. Your current 35% dig accuracy is the same as when I equip Denim +1 pants, without them on I am at 85%+ with 224 RCP + TH Birds.
3 items on a single dig should only be possible with a Bore and Burrow chocobo and 4 items on the same dig in theory should be possible with the same chocobo and an egg helm equipped. Does anyone have a screenshot of that?
I love your enthusiasm for chocobo digging because I've been playing game for 20 years and never tried it until about 1 month ago. In fact, my only experience was seeing a handful of JP chocobo diggers in 75-era digging in the jungle outside Kazham.
Have you noticed any interesting or noteworthy items from the extra item slots? In my case, I got 2 philospher stones in ~1000 digs, but nothing really noteworthy. I'm not really expecting anything but it's interesting to do and learn about. (Oh, the things I do for Rank 9/10 Hoxne earring bonus... ) |
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By Carbuncle. Nynja on 2026-03-19 15:35:10 |
Picked up Crimson Desert. A co-worker has been geeking out over this, I guess he likes the developer's previous games. It looks cool and will be my latest excuse to not finish Nyzul to get my Burtgang.
Crimson Desert on Steam
YouTube Video Placeholder The popular game journos dont like it
So it must be a banger
Shame about the 25th hour inclusion of FPS-Killer DRM |
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Bruce Lee short documentary.
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But I do remember seeing another documentary about Bruce, one more cinematic. This other documentary even had a mental fight between Bruce and some warrior that represented death, just to symbolize his demise. |
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Is there an addon that writes a party message whenever someone in your party gets an XI roll? °-°
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By zedoma on 2026-03-19 11:46:21 |
At the same time though, who knows? I mean, are we 100% sure that it's Perceptivity that raises the chance of a dig to be succesful? Or that it allows additional items past the first one? Or both things? RCP has a direct correlation with dig accuracy. Your current 35% dig accuracy is the same as when I equip Denim +1 pants, without them on I am at 85%+ with 224 RCP + TH Birds.
3 items on a single dig should only be possible with a Bore and Burrow chocobo and 4 items on the same dig in theory should be possible with the same chocobo and an egg helm equipped. Does anyone have a screenshot of that? |
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By zedoma on 2026-03-19 11:35:49 |
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Intensive Training (75 chocobucks) and Special Training (80 chocobucks) are only usable on chocobos currently being raised in the stables. If you want to alter stats on a chocobo that has already retired, you need to purchase a retired token found in the purchase items menu in the 100-chocobuck category. This category is only available if you are aligned to the racing team in first place of your server.
Intensive Training is a waste as it saves you 5 bucks but increases a random stat, pretty much useless.
Special Training (80 bucks) and Race tokens (found in the 90-chocobuck purchase items menu) give + 5 to the chosen stat for each use. There is a weird nuance that occurs once past a certain stat threshold where a single use of a race token or special training will either be +4 or +6 to the chosen stat.
Retired tokens (100 chocobucks) give +2 to the chosen stat. Only great for micro adjusting stats at the very end of the raising process. Trying to correct a poorly planned chocobo already retired is not really feasible.
Raising a stat a whole tier cost 512 – 576 bucks during the raising process and 1,600 if retired.
Dye is lost whenever you register your bird to snapshot updated stats.
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By . on 2026-03-19 10:57:51 |
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Should I make them a variety or just stick to one look. Decisions, decisions...
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Is there any up to date BLU DPS spreadsheet available that includes recent changes from like end of 2025-2026? I believe everyone has just moved on to the simulator now. It works pretty good, honestly.
Simulator? is the simulator in question. |
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By Rairin on 2026-03-19 08:02:22 |
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I could definitely believe that could happen, but like, why? Craftsmanship is incredibly simple/cheap compared to the rest of the shield.
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Wonderful explanation about petrodollars
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Has anyone or "a friend" ever scammed a GM out of a craftsmanship crystal by:
1.Getting a shield to 100% craftsmamship
2.Dropping the crystal and then zoning
3.Getting the crystal again with 100% craftsmanship (from like 80%)
4.Upgrading the shield via craft
5."Ooooooh noooo I dropped my crystal. Id like to use my one time oopsie to get it back plz"
Re-using the same item 4x for the escutechon has to have been exploited somehow
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First question is yes, stats "snapshot" on registration so you have to re-register if you change stats.
Second question is... I think yes, reregistering also means you have to re-dye? But I'm not 100% certain on that. I feel like I got bit by that once in the past.
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Oh, 4 points per training is low but... could've been worse.
I guess I might want to put em all in RCP in the bird I'm currently using.
Of course after doing that I'll need to re-register it for racing and for mount, right?
I have another question about the chocobo dye.
I know if I dye my mount-chocobo that dye is gonna stay on the mount (and not on the race).
What happens if I update my chocobo stats and consequentially I decide to "update" those stats on the mount by re-trading my VCS card to the npc.
If I do that, will it "reset" the dye? Or will the dye stay even if I update the mount?
This is very convoluted I just woke up, I bet you guys aren't even understanding what the *** I'm saying lol
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Is there any up to date BLU DPS spreadsheet available that includes recent changes from like end of 2025-2026? I believe everyone has just moved on to the simulator now. It works pretty good, honestly.
Simulator? |
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I believe it's 4 points per training - like 4 points from Ivaar's addon showing actual numbers, so 8 of those per letter rank.
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Wing Skill 89-90, 393 successful digs.
Wing Skill 90-91, 385 successful digs.
Wing Skill 91-92, 406 successful digs.
Should just about finish up from the campaign, if not, curious to see what these levels are like without the campaign.
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By Kayte on 2026-03-19 03:17:35 |
Just to give a small update, it took me AGES to reach the cap for daily successful digs with a 200 base Choco + Blue Body (endurance).
I was 29, somewhat around halfway through for 30.
At the end of this session? I'm 37. With 14 successful digs on the way for 38.
Not sure how many total digs but it took me over 10 stacks of gysahl greens.
For the first 4 stacks I was in West Ronfaure, didn't dig a single Gysahl Green.
So I found an area with better pathing. After spending some time in La Theine and Dem, I found an horizontal path where it takes around 13 mins from one way to the other. It's not perfect but I'm doing this manually without a bot so I can't expect too much lol.
Anyway, took me 69 succesful digs to go from 36 to 37 and at least 64 for 36 to 37.
Not sure how this compares to the data you guys recorded.
Once I manage to get 150 chocobucks I'll try to get the Sky Blue thing as well, see how that works for me.
Ultimately I feel you really need a specific choco with zero STR, 200+ End, lotsa Perception and some discernment too.
With ~36% succesful dig rate otherwise the time it takes for each session becomes... intense.
That alone makes me lean a lot towards Sky.
With shorter sessions and ~90% accuracy in digging, then even 400 digs a day becomes less stressful I guess.
That's super interesting that you didn't get a single Gysahl in west ronf at all. I wonder if they're part of the Burrow or Bore pool then. I would get them probably 40-50% of my digs.
I'm not entirely sure how those skills work but suggestions have said they basically add separate "dig slots" for their unique pools, which may be why I usually got 2-3 items. But in doing so, it means you basically triple the chances you find something, I guess, which would shorten time needed on failures. |
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Server: Phoenix
Floor: NE#3
Location: Hug left side while traveling from the entrance towards exit, it is near the edge!
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By . on 2026-03-19 00:22:04 |
Whatever. I'm gunna go read yaoi doujins of Chris x Leon.
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The cheaper one is for birds still being raised while the more expensive ones are for birds that are retired. I thought I saw somewhere (ffxiclopedia?) it takes like 560 chocobucks to raise a stat a full rank. I believe this was for unretired birds. Also a lot of other info on both wikis has had questionable accuracy in my experience.
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By Aspens on 2026-03-18 21:33:03 |
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the selection of crepuscular ring and the AGI cape are the same limitation of the sim. Basically the sim is looking for the 'fastest to x tp' under your given conditions/restrictions. So if you are acc capped AGI and DEX are the same and crepuscular and chirich+1 are mathematically the same and it doesnt think beyond 'get to X tp' or count other non tp stats (except DT, if selected)
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By Aspens on 2026-03-18 20:56:34 |
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I played with the sim and got a similar set.. when I turned off hasso
check that your hasso is checked and see what that set looks like
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