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Random Question thread (FFXI related)
By Seun 2025-05-03 19:52:36
Yeah, the benefit of PUP isn't that it is the fastest option (more like 4 minutes average for me without overdrive), but that it takes zero actual effort. I use Grape Daifuku, Deploy, and keep up 3 maneuvers. It's easiest to spend about three workweeks doing fights if you can multitask during them.
I've done BST a few hundred times but I'm PUP-curious. What Idle-Pet set and frame/attachments do I need for Up in Arms?
Your gear won't be important here because the stats get clipped by level capping. You can use a level-capped animator to issue maneuvers, but I think you would need Auto Oil +2 to use Repair while capped. Food is really giving you the most benefit here.
You could probably go naked with just the animator and be fine as long as you kept out of range.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-03 20:13:31
Yeah, that is basically what I did. I think I wore whatever gear I had that PUP could use on, but some of it was pretty lame.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-05-03 20:31:05
Its pretty neat to have regen and refresh so you never stop to heal up while orbing.
By Seun 2025-05-03 21:05:41
Your HP and MP will yo-yo from cap > uncap so you don't really need to cure yourself.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-05-03 21:10:59
Goes down but not up. Thats why you need refresh. Faster kills than warp ring can supply. /blm warp and ~3 tic refresh gear will get your 100 back before the next one.
Regen for all the times you get whirlwind or maelstromed
Extra nice if blood of the vampyre happens to be up
By Seun 2025-05-03 21:42:50
You only need to restore your HP and MP to the effective max while inside the BCNM. If you don't take any damage, you don't need any healing. If you do take damage, you only need healing that would get you back to the effective max inside of the BCNM.
I don't know if warp saves all that much time here either. You can set HP to PJ entrance and just get a warp scroll every other run. What else were you doing with those 80 billion conquest points?
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-05-04 00:27:28
Are you asking the gilseller to waste their conquest points on warp scrolls instead of gil items??
By K123 2025-05-04 05:46:58
My experience with doing the BC as pup is that it isn't as easy as the "hurr durr just walk up naked, engage and afk" posts. If not botting it then using sushi and meleeing and having oil to heal puppet are recommended to speed it up and minimise risk.
By Felgarr 2025-05-04 06:13:24
My experience with doing the BC as pup is that it isn't as easy as the "hurry durr just walk up naked, engage and afk" posts. If not botting it then using sushi and meleeing and having oil to heal puppet are recommended to speed it up and minimise risk.
This is kind of what I'm looking for. What attachments/frame/set can I wear? (I use my PUP to tank any Dynamis-Divergence midboss and that's about it, so DD Automaton version of PUP is unknown territory for me.
Edit: I know this is only a 60-cap fight, but if I gear a character with more seals for an easy PUP victory, I'll do it for fun.
By Dodik 2025-05-04 09:28:38
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By Shukudai 2025-05-04 13:59:06
Didn't want to necro a keyboard thread but: are there any keyboards with 6 mappable keys on the left hand side? I used to have a Logitech like that that worked great for controlling a 2nd char. But I also saw a post saying you can do that with a Streamdeck? I couldn't find any other information or videos on it so if anyone uses a Streamdeck for extra macro keys/2boxing, can you tell me how that works?
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By Bismarck.Radec 2025-05-04 17:04:06
https://docs.windower.net/plugins/binder/
The binder addon is setup with a number of extra-keys keyboards listed there, including streamdecks.
If you have/get something that isn't in that list, check windower discord. They may be able to work with you to add your device to binder.
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By Shichishito 2025-05-05 07:16:12
May here. Free campaign where? What happa?
By LightningHelix 2025-05-05 09:04:17
May is also 'good campaign month' so they have to announce those first to get hype resubs and then wait a little bit before announcing the slightly later free login!
(this is mostly not a joke, I think that's how they tend to do it)
three days later edit:
they just announced the free login, May 16-26, I was right
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-08 07:45:52
I'm farming EP as a trio of real characters (THF/WAR, Idris GEO/RDM, Idris GEO/DNC). I can Entrust Indi-Haste (fulltime) on the THF and have the GEO/RDM Haste to cap Haste. Then the GEO/RDM keeps Indi-Fury up (and casts Dia II) while the other keeps Indi-Frailty up. One of them can cast Geo-Malaise for better MBs and the other could cast Geo-Acumen, I guess.
Qultada and Monberaux seem like obvious trust choices, but who should my third be?
I don't want them to do AoE damage and, if they break skillchains, I frown at them. Also, I don't want to do something annoying like switch unity to Naja and resummon her until she chooses Peacebreaker. Experimentally, August is incapable of holding hate long enough for me to SA. Should I just be using Matsui P?
By K123 2025-05-08 08:10:05
Are you talking about automated there? How do you get your 2 GEOs to entrust haste alternatively?
You could do Indi-Haste+Haste from /RDM for magic haste cap and do Indi-Fury, Geo-Frailty + Geo-Malaise then entrust MAB on your GEOs alternatively?
Arguably someone that does Dia3 is your best 3rd choice. Koru does it most.
By Dodik 2025-05-08 08:15:21
Have one geo go /cor for corsair's roll. F**k Qultada, he's useless.
Monberaux, koru-moru and Another. Koru will do dia3 if no one else casts dia. Probably haste2 the thief too.
Matsui if he's on. Or a passive buff trust, mab or refresh.
By K123 2025-05-08 08:18:15
I'd just do Koru+Ulmia+Joachim with one of your GEOs curing tbh. You don't take that much damage if raping Colibri and using hybrid gear. If doing crabs I can see why MB helps speed a lot.
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By Carbuncle.Maletaru 2025-05-08 08:22:44
entrust MAB on your GEOs alternatively?
You (effectively) can't entrust bubbles on a geo. Only one bubble per character. You could probably entrust them on your trust, idk. Or just put it on the THF.
If you're making darkness, could do KoH. He won't firaga unless you make lique/fusion/light and always instantly applies dia 3.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-08 08:49:25
KoH is tempting but I think if I don't let him make Fusion with Bludgeon he will start using Deal Out (AoE, conal?).
I probably could go with Corsair sub.
With Malaise, the GEOs MB for 90k+, so I don't really want to give that up. Honestly, a lot of my time is spent moving between monsters. I wonder if I should just figure out how to pull monster ahead of time. The key with EP is to never let chain drop, so my worst kill time can't be more than 30s (IIRC). If it drops, 50k/hr. If it doesn't drop, 100k/hr. Subbing COR will push that up by maybe 8~10% on average, but if it makes me less likely to maintain chain then it is unlikely to be worth it.
By Dodik 2025-05-08 08:58:33
MP becomes an issue if you have your geos nuking.
Will need some source of refresh so probably AOE refresh trust. Koru should also refresh them.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-08 09:14:35
The GEOs are both using Seidr Cotehardie, so they don't have MP issues. As long as Stone V does >7800 damage, I think it's free? Even when I miss MB, it tends to do at least that much. Also, I keep Refresh up on them with the GEO/RDM and Monber tosses them 160MP every 2 minutes or something.
I'll try Koru though. August and Joachim were useless. I might even try Valaineral and just lean into AoE pulling.
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By Bismarck.Radec 2025-05-08 10:18:19
If your fights are typically something like WS1 > WS2 > 2xMB > dead, maybe Star Sibyl? 19MAB is pretty minor, but it'll always be up.
By K123 2025-05-08 12:02:13
What mobs are you doing?
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By Asura.Vyre 2025-05-08 13:02:08
I'm farming EP as a trio of real characters (THF/WAR, Idris GEO/RDM, Idris GEO/DNC). I can Entrust Indi-Haste (fulltime) on the THF and have the GEO/RDM Haste to cap Haste. Then the GEO/RDM keeps Indi-Fury up (and casts Dia II) while the other keeps Indi-Frailty up. One of them can cast Geo-Malaise for better MBs and the other could cast Geo-Acumen, I guess.
Qultada and Monberaux seem like obvious trust choices, but who should my third be?
I don't want them to do AoE damage and, if they break skillchains, I frown at them. Also, I don't want to do something annoying like switch unity to Naja and resummon her until she chooses Peacebreaker. Experimentally, August is incapable of holding hate long enough for me to SA. Should I just be using Matsui P?
Depends on what you're fighting, I guess?
Assuming Trusts could actually land hits, Abquhbah could get you his Salaheem's Spirit for +24 to all stats sometimes.
Chacharoon could occasionally provide a defense down or amnesia on the mobs.
If you're fighting Undead, you could use Mayakov to get real Haste Samba, and then sub out dual wield gear in your TP set accordingly for slightly beefier THF TP phase.
Lilisette II could also be employed for Rousing Samba for higher crit rate.
Selh'teus could provide extra MP restoration and occasional stuns.
Curilla is hot arm candy that you can TA. No she won't speed up your chain, but them thighs man.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-08 15:46:18
I'm doing Apex Bats in the Outer Ra'Kaznar basement. There's rarely any competition for them and I can get 100k/hr with the right setup. This is probably my last job that I can include in "the right setup," so I'm trying to enjoy it!
Lilisette II seems to be the winner for me right now. I don't really know why, but after pulling her out chain hasn't broken. I wonder if Rousing Samba is also doing something else. I'm wearing crit rate +10% in gear with tons of DEX and am parsing a 44% crit rate, so it's probably at least giving crit rate +10% as documented. It wouldn't shock me to learn it's also giving 10% JA haste, but I shouldn't really benefit from it because I'm using enough DW to cap anyway.
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By K123 2025-05-08 17:07:46
I'm surprised a rudra to rudra doesn't kill them with 2 geo.
An evis rudra rudra definitely should.
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-05-08 18:25:41
Evisc -> rudra's -> MB x1 kills them most of the time. MB x2 if Malaise is down.
The consistency is the key. It is possible she is saving chain by making skillchains.
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By Asura.Vyre 2025-05-08 18:57:50
Rousing Samba testing when :D?
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By Bahamut.Bojack 2025-05-08 22:21:00
What's the best Salvage 99 zone to farm for Alex and is there a guide somewhere on how to mazimize Alex?
For those of you that visit Bg you already know the premise of this thread but for those that don't, it's simple.
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Any questions goes be it FFXI related or not this community has a plethora of people surely one will be able to assist you.
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If your answer is on the large side either providing a link or spoilering the answer might be a good idea to help reduce the thread size.
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