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Uh...what bosses and jobs are your referring to? COR on dynamis bosses?

Spoiler: absolutely no mage is routinely hitting 99k on anything, and "light DDs" whatever that means, are also not routinely hitting 99k on endgame bosses. I've probably hit 99k like 5 times ever on BRD, like 3 times on RDM, never on BLU...I'm not really sure what jobs or situations we're talking about here but it's not a thing in my experience. Are you out there popping 99k on GEO, SCH, BLM, WHM, SMN? On what?

99k is the pervue of extremely buffed prime holders, WAR under mighty strikes, hybrids, and maybe Bolster sv aria for heavy DDs. Absolutely impossible on any sheol gaol fight worth mentioning.

This "everyone hits 99k on everything" myth is really insane and doesn't even remotely reflect reality, unless I and all my friends have been playing the game wrong for years and you all have some secret to tell me.

magic ws + malaise mostly

This is true. But it requires even more optimizations and ideal conditions, that are frequently glossed over or explained incorrectly.


I agree wholeheartedly. I completely feel the frustration in Maletaru's reply. For the entire life of FFXI, some people will always inflate theirs or others' in-game performance for any number of ridiculous reasons. It also creates disinformation and hurts other people's understanding of game mechanics.

TLDR:

1. You're not better than anyone because you do 99k damage.
   

2. You're a better player if you strive for continuous improvements, no matter how small AND share what you learn and make the people around you better.
   

3. If you're not going to share how something is done and make baseless assertions, just don't say anything. Stop wasting other people's dailies with phony mules or fakenews.
   

Edit: This forum is replacing the phrase "fake n-e-w-s" with "facts I don't like". Amusing, but it diminishes my point. I've made a minor edit to bypass Rook's filter.

Very inconvenient, those.

That's so funny...I typed 'f-a-k-e n-e-w-s"

facts I don't like.
facts I don't like.
fakenews
fake News.

This must be a Rooks-feature: "f-a-k-e n-e-w-s" gets replaced with "facts I don't like" >_>; I personally thought it was hilarious when someone called "fake n-e-w-s" as "alternative facts", lol.

That's because that's a stupid phrase, and for a while it was used very much in the manner the text replacer modifies it to. If something is a lie, just say that.

I also dislike some facts.

Personally I dislike more people who say the facts I dislike than the facts per se.

With FFXI, it's not that simple. People spread (and sometimes readily accept) misinformation by accident. To them, it's just news.

Ooooo
I exaggerated numbers


Point stands that people whos mains have no business taking Nyame B are taking Nyame B because of how powerful it is compared to the others.

How many hours until maint start and end?

No derpy posts about doing the math necessary.

18 to hours start 90 minute duration

This comes with cheaper AF+Relic right? I've been sitting on multiple whm hands and body+2 for a while among other things!

So they say. Nonspecific about relic mats decrease.

should be reducing shards and voids, but what they should do isn't what they will do. Could be delve mat or vagary mat.

I hope it is the mats more tbh

Meh delve is 10 minutes and vagary is an hour with 100% all alli drop.

They're both meaningless. (which is why they'll be the one they change from 3 to 1)

The shards/voids are twice weekly ***drop rate and 10x the gil (for the good ones)

It obviously wont be the npc mat

If it's just the Void/Shards then they should remove them (and cards) from AMAN trove.
But of course they won't do that...

Bad drops exist to dilute the good drops. It's not an accident, if they remove them you'll just get a different bad drop added.

On that, theyve specifically said that trove is a "bonus" (thats why no exp loss on death)

And if its a bonus, that pool should only have objectively good drops and not require excessive dilution... But yeah.

Gacha games are not 100% good drops, or even a high percentage.

The reward is rare but statistically significant enough to make you want to play the game.

Indeed Genshin 5* characters are about a 1% pull rate and the only reason people actually get them is the pitty system which guarantees you get a 5* after 80 pulls which is nearly £200.

The rest of the pulls are trash 3* weapons or 4* characters/weapons that have limited uses.

Yep! Exactely what I meant!
It is what it is, alas.

Pretty significant change from ~250 to ~70


2 Less delve mats, 1 less shard, 1 less void, 1 less vagary mat

That is a reduction beyond what I was expecting °-°

Couple of surprises there. Previous messaging about the quest weaponskills had made it sound like they weren't lowering the requirement, just boosting the value of skillchains toward it, so... now it's kind of unclear how that's going to work?

Also, wow, so, a bunch of sorely outdated weapons that I don't remember hearing about when they were new are getting easier to activate latents on, just what everybody's been asking for! I have to imagine that that's something somebody just noticed was happening as a side-effect of the changes to other weaponskill point latents, and they just threw it in there thinking it would be an easy win, a bit of "look how much we do for you."

I've been putting off unlocking the latent on my Destroyers for far too long, nice to see my patience rewarded.

76 job cards gets you an entire +3 set now. Those 170 cards I farmed for my new job last month looks sad now, but at least farming them going forward is going to be waaaay quicker. Sadly the gil is usually my roadblock for the last couple pieces of each set.

380 job cards of any job type gets you an entire set of any other ones you want.

They included the reforged Bonanza Weapons in the dats. They don't seem to include a Shield or Instrument (but always possible I missed it).

Ice Brand
DMG:201 Delay:264
INT+40
Accuracy +50 Magic Accuracy+50
"Magic Atk. Bonus"+45
Magic Damage+257
Sword skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Weapon skill INT bonus +10%
Occ. absorbs ice damage
Additional effect: Ice damage

Flametongue
DMG:201 Delay:264
STR+40
Accuracy +50 Magic Accuracy+50
Sword skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Physical damage limit +5%
Weapon skill STR bonus +10%
Occ. absorbs fire damage
Additional effect: Fire damage

Dragon Fangs
DMG:+217 Delay:+126
DEX+40
Accuracy+50
Hand-to-Hand skill +269
Guardian skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Kicks occ. deal double damage
"Dragon Blow"
Puppetmaster: "Kick"+14
Pet: Accuracy+50 Ranged Accuracy+50
Magic Accuracy+50

Premium Hearts (now Plural, for some reason)
DMG:+195 Delay:+96
STR+40
Accuracy+50 Hand-to-Hand skill +269
Guardian skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
"Chakra" heal potency +50%
Counter: Chakra recast -1s
Pet: Accuracy +50
Ranged Accuracy +50
Magic Accuracy+50

Chocobo Knife
DMG:143 Delay:176 AGI+40
Accuracy+50 Magic Accuracy+50
Evasion+50 Magic Evasion+50
Dagger skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Acccuracy skill +269
Haste+10%
"Resist Slow"+90
Movement speed +18%

Air Knife
DMG:114 Delay:150 AGI+40
Accuracy+50 Evasion+50
Dagger skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Haste+10%
Weapon skill AGI bonus +10%
Occ. absorbs wind damage
Additional effect: Wind damage

Onion Sword III
DMG:183 Delay:240 DEX+40
Accuracy+50
Sword skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Chance of successful block +10
Fast Blade II

Save the Queen III
DMG:201 Delay:264 MND+40
Accuracy+50 Magic Accuracy+50
Sword skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Enmity+10
"Cover" effect duration +30
"Cure" potency II +20%
"Cover": Sentinel recast -1s

Brave Blade III
DMG:366 Delay:480 STR+40
Accuracy+50 Magic Accuracy+50
"Magic Def. Bonus"+11
Great Sword skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Increases physical damage
limit based on enmity

Demonic Axe (which used to be a Rank 3 prize)
DMG:259 Delay:340 STR+40
Accuracy+50
Axe skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Skillchain: Ready recast -1s
Pet: Accuracy+50
Ranged Accuracy+50
Magic Accuracy+50

Drastic Axe
DMG:385 Delay:504 VIT+40
Accuracy+50
Great Axe skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Negates "Berserk" defense penalty
Skillchain: "Berserk" recast -1s

Final Sickle
DMG:403 Delay:528 HP+250
Accuracy+50 Magic Accuracy+50
Scythe skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Weapon skill:
"Souleater" duration +1s
"Souleater": Negates autoattack
HP consumption

Hebo's Spear
DMG:375 Delay:492 MND+40
Accuracy+50 Magic Accuracy+50
Polearm skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Weapon skill MND bonus +10%
Occ. absorbs water damage
Additional effect: water damage
All Jumps:
Restores wyvern's HP
Pet: "Regen"+5

Yagyu Darkblade
DMG:173 Delay:227 DEX+40
Accuracy+50 Ranged Accuracy+50
Magic Accuracy+50
Katana skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
"Utsusemi" now affects an area
"Utsusemi": Party shades -2

Zanmato +2
DMG:354 Delay:464 STR+40
Accuracy+50
Great Katana skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Skillchain: "Sekkanoki" recast -1s
"Sekkanoki": Grants TP bonus
without consuming TP

Mutsu. Yoshi.
DMG:343 Delay:450 STR+40
Accuracy+50 Ranged Accuracy+50
Magic Accuracy+50
Great Katana skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Increases count damage based
on "Third Eye" evasions
Skillchain: "Third Eye" evasions under
Seigan +1

Wizard's Rod
DMG:165 Delay:216 INT+40
Magic Accuracy+50
"Magic Atk. Bonus"+45
Magic Damage+272
Club skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Magic burst damage increases
based on skillchain duration
Elemental magic occ. doesn't
consume MP

Pandit's Staff
DMG:314 Delay:412 MND+40
Magic Accuracy+50
"Magic Atk. Bonus"+45
Magic Damage+319
Staff skill +269
Parrying skill +269
Magic Accuracy skill +269
Enmity-20
"Fast Cast"+20%
"Cure" potency +50%
"Refresh"+2
Enchantment: Reraise V

Artemis's Bow +2
DMG:336 Delay:540 AGI+40
Ranged Accuracy+50
Ranged Attack+50
Archery skill +269
Weapon skill hit:
"Barrage" recast -1s
Unarmed: Ranged Accuracy+100
Ranged Attack+100
"Store TP"+20

Exeter
DMG:160 Delay:600 AGI+40
Ranged Accuracy+50
Magic Accuracy+50
Marksmanship skill +269
"Store TP"+10
Does not consume stacked ammo

Then a few new Beseiged related items:
Anguine Dastanas
Hands WAR, RDM, PLD, DRK, BST, RNG, SAM, DRG, BLU, RUN
DEF:103 HP+30 MP+30 STR+30
DEX+30 VIT+30 AGI+30
INT+30 MND+30 CHR+30
Accuracy+30 Ranged Accuracy+30
Magic Accuracy+30
Evasion+60 Magic Evasion+60
"Magic Def. Bonus"+3
Haste+3%
Besieged: AGI+50
Ranged Attack+50 "Barrage"+2

Lacertilian Ring
Ring All Jobs
"Magic Def. Bonus"+6
Besieged:
Magic Accuracy+50
"Refresh"+5

Jotnar Ring
Ring All Jobs
DEF:30 VIT+10
Besieged: Damage taken -50%

Misc
Prishe's Boots
Level 1, All jobs
DEF:1

Prishe's Boots +1
Level 1, All Jobs
DEF:2 Haste+3%
"Store TP"+5
Enchantment: TP+3000

Just pick two different numbers

edit: if Prish Boots don't take 20 seconds to use, new Aminon Volte Harness-like item in the rotation?