Oct 7th Update Notes

Man, idk if this would work. Can someone from the GEO community test this? Cant play FFXI for a bit, so I'd really like to see how effective this could be. It would essentially allow CORs + GEOs to cheat, by prebuffing with Bolster/2 Indis, and then WC for an additional (and new bolster). That would indeed be game breaking imo, but would make GEO a REALLY good prebuffer. One could Bolster > EntrIndi (COR RD) > EntrIndi and then drop party before someone enters battlefield. Yes I know its only 3minutes, but for those 2:30 or so, you're a demigod.

According to the Dev Tracker it was stated Bolster and Geomancy+ skill gear doesn't work on entrusted colures, though it does state that JA refreshment will let you entrust more than one.

Welcome to goofy *** automaton AI, now retrofitted for the rest of FFXI so you can feel the 2006-present PUP community's pain LOL.

This is classic PUP Scanner (which is also built into the BLM automaton head even without attachment) behavior. Basically, the Scanner AI routine forces the automaton - or trust in this case - to not cast a spell on a mob that has a very high chance of resisting that element. It's intended to prevent wasted cast cycles and MP on spells that are highly likely to be resisted. Always led to some weird behavior by puppets, like not casting ANYTHING in some fights against highly magic resistant mobs. Standard PUP advice has basically always been DON'T EQUIP SCANNER to avoid this kind of nonsense.

Cherukiki obviously uses the Scanner AI routines, so she's choosing not to cast fire-based spells when there's a mob that strongly resists fire. And Haste is associated with fire. Obviously it's dumb that there's even a check for a PARTY targeted spell (as opposed to a mob-targeted nuke or enfeeble), but hey, S-E.

As is standard, working as intended, standard operating procedure etc. It's like you forgot the entire previous update was junk too, except for windbuffet. And the one before that... etc.

Haste is of the wind element.

Entrust (10/3) I will talk a little bit about the new Geomancer ability, Entrust. This ability allows you to cast Indi spells on party member, but each character is limited to one Indi spell. This means if you use Entrust, you will be able to simultaneously use spells for the Geomancer, the Luopan, and a party member, for a total of 3 Colures. If you have a corsair in the party using Random Deal or Wild Card, you can create even more colures! (It should be noted that there is a limit in that Bolster cannot be used for Indi spells casted on Party Members, and the effect "Geomancy +" will also not apply to members given Indi spells through Entrust) We think this is a very effective and versatile ability, and we hope players experiment with it in various ways!

Alot of these new items are trash.