Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Fastest way to skillup geo skills for me was to cast the geo spells on Uragnites outside Adoulin.

Outside of a Skillup campaign it is very slow sadly. You can summon trusts and cast Geo-Precision(dont forget Ionis) on trust > Full Circle > repeat. Cast Geo on a Reive or buy a weeks worth of skillup books from sparks.

At a certain point you'll get better skillups casting on a high level target vs self-targeted buffs.

I was probably going to try that next. I've just never been in a position where I've been more than like 6 levels behind in any magic skill before and thought maybe there was some XIV 1.0 "progress gradually gets slower until it stops" malarkey.

From my experience, all skill up rates kinda halves midway, possibly reducing even further in the last lvs.

Reives are my go-to training place. For geo, tossing geo poison in those roots did the trick.

I dont remember how long it took though. Maybe over 4h. All EoV bonus enabled, ionis, trust and tema set

I'm sure everyone is very impressed that you have a K club and have more ffxi points than those that don't have it.

Please write up a detailed reason why we all should spend 400 M on a glorified toy.

Yes, fight

I want blood

He isn't worth it some noob not even a lazy noob at that. He actually gives a ***about FFXI.

I suggest everyone even new players spend 400 M gil on a k club as soon as possible. Who gives a ***if you are still gimp as ***. Buy it now.

Do you know how fast you can skill up club skills with a k club.

It is worth it just for skill ups.

FFXI is all about having stuff that other people don't have.

Well that's interesting to learn that it does have a practical purpose still. I'd figure it'd gimp your iLvl too much even as an offhand and still be an accursed TP feed. But then I guess I've seen stuff like Mewling Lullaby and TP Drainkiss and stuff to keep TP on mobs down? Huh.

Oh also, I noticed that the old merited spells have appeared as scrolls now? What's the deal with that? Are there new merited spells or...?

Jobs got merit adjustments, a lot of the mage group 2s changed

Manually...? With a lushangs... maybe 40. Going higher than 10-15 above skill really makes it obnoxious.

Gotta pick a new Aeonic today for the start of a new run. For my jobs (mastered & high end TP/WS gear for all of the jobs that use the below weapons), the ones I have interest in are:

Chango - I kinda feel like I'm leaning toward this, it would be for my WAR with no RMEA but all of the relevant Ambu/UNM weapons. So like... still prob gonna use Naegling SB most of the time as default, with Shining One/Loxotic as needed for piercing/blunt. But do situations where Chango is the best option (i.e., SC focus, 1-2 DDs) still come up with enough regularity these days to make this a worthwhile pick?

Godhands - For my MNK currently using Karambit. I'm a little less excited about Godhands because I'd rather just get Verethragna (I just really, really, really hate farming Chloris buds) and I think that once that happens it would mean I almost never pull out Godhands... right? Whereas at least my other Aeonics under consideration would still retain a niche.

Dojikiri Yasutsuna - I already have R15 Masamune, so that's likely to remain my standard go to option. But sorta like WAR, are any SAMs really loving Doji these days? Maybe more worthwhile for Jinpu spam now that Nyame B gear exists?

What's the community vote here, given my situation? :)

Godhands are definitely used and worth it even if you have Veret. Unless you can maintain Impetus whole fight. I personally don't use Chango, but I also don't use Naegling. I use Ukonvasara, because white damage for life. I can see Chango being useful for self light/Radiance tho.

Thanks, Simon. That surprises me a bit even with Impetus down, due to Veret still having killer white damage just from Empy AM3 (especially on crit procs, and MNK TP sets often feature strong crit gear like Kendatsuba+1/Mpaca). Plus the low delay, huge STR augments, and better associated WS. But I'll take your word for that and assume the higher DMG and TP Bonus on Godhands means stuff like Howling/DK actually do enough additional WS damage to outweigh non-Impetus Verethragna.

Guess I'm interested in whether anybody else with similar other WAR or SAM alternatives to my own finds themselves using Chango or Doji enough to justify making them. If not, Godhands at the very least would be an improvement for my MNK pre-Verethragna (and maybe retain more utility than I had been giving them credit for even if you have both options)...

Vere is the worst Empy for Am3.


I would add all three of these weapons are great and have a use.

Chango is great when you can SC

Doji can be great for Jinpu and even some NMs for mutli step SC

Godhands has simon said.

I would think godhands would get the most use of the three for the jobs. But that will really depend how you play etc.

Chango > GH > Doji would be my ranking.

Anyone elses price history feature under your profile broken?

Thanks to everyone for the Aeonic input! Went for Godhands - almost a toss-up between that and Chango, but I guess H2H would be a bigger improvement for me in more situations (and the comments about GH's continued utility were helpful). Appreciate the replies!

This was where I envy my brother who took the time to level his adventuring fellow to 99.

She counted as a mob, not a player (like trusts) and skilled up extremely fast on skills like healing magic and enhancing magic

Anyone figure out if aqua spikes does anything special? Or just water dmg based spikes.

Edit: Just fluff it seems, neat effect but maybe some crab NM had this already, "Deluge Spikes" lol.

In light of the Shinryu battlefield, could someone refresh my memory:

Are you talking about if you look "down" in that BC you see architecture below? I always thought that the nexus in Qufim brought you to a stellar landscape above Vana'diel, and that structure below is actually Delfkutt's Tower.

Whoa, I never realized that. My Fellow is really high level - not sure if she's 99, mind you - but I'll have to play around with that.

As long as it’s at at least level 90 it should be able to take you all the way to cap

The Uragnites in Ceizak are great for skilling up to cap, or apex if you can get trusts to just hold em for you to spam stuff on.

Skill-up campaign is up right now, too. Good timing for all this advice.

Thanks for the answers, all!