Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

You could also consider meriting Shijin Spiral if you have the room for it.

Figure I'll try here..

Ever since I downloaded & Installed the new expansion pack and Windower4, I cannot play any other sound why the game is running.. I've looked through sound settings, tried to see if there were updates to my drivers, and.. honestly I'm just stuck!

Any suggestions would be appreciated. :)

Ty!


Also, not sure if this deserves a new topic or not but figured I'd ask here first.

Is anyone elses' <stnpc> <st> <stpc> broken? <stal> and <stpt> still work, but if I use any of the first three it just tries to use the ability/spell right away, though it still puts an arrow over their head :/.

Using windower 4, and a friend is having exactly the same problem so it's not just me.

Anyone know why Guildwork isnt picking up my RUN levels? Ive logged in and out and flushed several times. My friends profile is showing his RUN leveling up and shows it as level 20 on his page and mine still shows level 0.

Im playing on windower4 if it means anything. Not sure if hes on 4 yet.

anyone have a picture of what the chocobo tshirt looks like?

Yep, me too and one of my lsmates confirmed they are as well.

Has anyone done Salvage II since the update?
I noticed mobs were taking considerably less damage from weaponskills. To the point where I couldn't kill the 3min chariot in AR2 in anywhere close to the time limit. Not sure if they buffed it or is this related to that defense update?

How do you make a video with windower4? I remember someone mentioned it's possible but I don't know how.

Use the command: video start <xres> <yres> <fps> <quality>
To stop it use: video stop

What is dhalmel leather used for in SoA? Price spiked up to 24k per single piece on Odin -_-

A quest to obtain one of the survival skills(it starts in Hennetiel, camp at entrance from Sih Gates).

Thanks, any suggestions about fps and quality? I'm very nooby with such things.

The quest to get the key item waterboarding, the quest is obtained in foret de henetiel (sp?)

The key item us used un certain places to travel across parts or water in some zones.

I did AR2 last night and I've only noticed the bosses hitting a little bit harder (blu/war with cocoon) and the name of the last floor boss has changed.

Not too familiar with it, but it seems like 1 is the lowest quality, and higher numbers = higher quality. It's possible that I'm completely wrong, only messed around with it for a bit.

FPS is the framerate the video is recorded at. 30 is probably good enough, although you may want to go for 20 or 15 depending on how much it affects your performance.

Edit: After messing around with it again, I can't tell the difference between 1 quality and 5000 quality, and it seems you can set the quality to 0(which also looks the same). It claims that my framerate is suffering too much when I use the higher quality, so I suggest just using 0 or 1 unless you can tell the difference.

Need to update spellcast resources for new equipment to be recognized or am I just derpin? Thurandaut set not equipping D:

where's the best place to farm beetles? I need lots of jaws.

Is cocoon really helping with the new def update? That went live this patch, right?

Clawer's Nest, Blazer Beetles, and Helm Beetles when all the Blazer's are dead.

Anyone feel like the new Enmity adjustment isn't working as intended? lol.

I changed to 99 PLD last night to help a my GF get GEO spells (level 23). Afterwards we went Adoulin so she could pick up some spells in advance. I decided to check out Rala Waterways while we were there cause I haven't went in there yet. We walked a little and I aggro'd a Diremite. Tough, probably level 103-104. I was fighting that a little, it's HP was down to about 55-60%. She was still level 23 GEO but decided to play around. So she put Indi-Regen or Poison on, I forget which. Then she casted Paralyze on it. She pulled hate and died >,>...with 2 *** spells, after I had been hitting it for 35% of it's life. There was probably time for me to use Flash or something to pull it back to me, but I was too stunned to do anything.

I never really did much besides fighting. I did use Palisade, and I may have Cure IV'd myself once. It may be working 'as they intended' but what happened just seems really broken to me.

Is there a way to get bayld from the mobs in reives, and if so, how?

Yeah it's been really easy for people to pull hate with simple cures, you REALLY need SA/TA now to have any hope. Started spamming TA + Exent last night on my DNC friend and the RDM healer stopped pulling hate

Supposedly, I tend to just use cocoon all the time anyway, but the khimaira (NQ boss) was hitting me around 70-90 with about 30% pdt equipped, but then it could crit me for anywhere between 200-300 damage.

You tend to get it when they die.
But there's instances where I don't get Bayld from killing a mob from 100%, but then there's times where all I do is attack the branch and get credit for a mob I haven't touched.

what jobs are needed for meebles? how ewll geared do you have to be?

I don't think you get bayld for killing mobs. You get evaluated every 60 seconds, the upper cap of what you get is determined by damage done to root/rock/boss since last evaluation.

I've had best results just sleeping adds and zerging roots. Averaging over 20k bayld/hr atm 8boxing with a couple friends tagging along.

Do Goblin Bounty Hunters have set areas of a zone for different levels? Or do they all pop with such a large level range?

"Otherwise, these mobs are roughly the same strength as mobs in their vicinity."

I found this line on the page, which leads me to think that they have different levels depending on what's around them.


Just looking at them as a potential exp mob while they repop so quick.

have seen some exceptions to that rule, like the ones in qufim. the ones on the shores there are higher lvl than the surrounding mobs by a pretty decent amount

Just going by my (now) crappy memory, I think the GBH at the pond in the middle of Qufim were always EP when doing worms there, but the ones roaming the coast were a much higher level.

Can't really confirm this now at all, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct. Not sure about other zones though since this is about the only place where they patrol an area other than some coastline.
edit: Should maybe refresh a little more often.

Much appreciated guys :D! Guess I'll take a looksee around and see if I can find something good.