Mastery Rank Data

Grab a soultrapper and some plates (I personally did the trapper 2000 and regular plates for quicker snaps) and take a pic of your preferred monster. I did a Roc because i already had one started from back in the day.

Go to wajoam woodlands and snap puks until you get a plate with "instant blink"

Go to promy and take snaps of the non-apex mobs there, I was trying to get en-petrify but settled on en-slow. also grab "neutral attack bonus" from the drifters.

Apply these 3 feral skills to your monster, and start fighting! they dont do too much at first but level up with each battle, and once they are capped become really effective.

you do not need to go into the battle area for each fight, you can just trade reflector to enter. wait at npc, and trade back when fight is over. rinse and repeat.

Once your pet gets to about lvl 25, move to the diablo cage. here its "winner stays on" so you can actually drop it off and come back in a couple of hours to see how it did if you don't want to sit there. the cap for exp is 2k points which is 10 levels!

leave the pit and forget about pankration forever.

1 taru girls with red hair parted in the front and tied back in a ponytail
2 mithra with blonde hair tied in two braids on either side of the face
3 taru girls with bluish-white hair tied in there braids and cut straight across the forehead
4 Mithra with red hair cut straight across the forehead and purple markings
5 elvaan girls with red hair tied into braids in the back
6 Mithra with colourful headband and brown hair tied in the back in two small pigtails
7 elvaan girls with shoulder length silver hair brush back from the face
8 hume girls with long blonde hair parted on the left and tied back in a ponytail
9 taru girls with voluminous green hair parted in two and tied back behind the ears
10 hume girls with short black hair brushed neatly over to the right
3* taru girls with bluish-white hair tied in there braids and cut straight across the forehead
11 hume girl with shoulder length chestnut colored hair
12 elvaan girls with white hair bound backwards while leaving the sides to frame the face
6* Mithra with a colourful headband and brown hair tied in the back in two small pigtails
13 Taru girls with green hair tied in three braids and cut straight across the forehead
8* hume girls with long blonde hair parted on the left and tied back in a ponytail

1* taru girls with red hair parted in the front and tied back in a ponytail
2* mithra with blonde hair tied in two braids on either side of the face
3* taru girls with bluish-white hair tied in there braids and cut straight across the forehead
4* Mithra with red hair cut straight across the forehead and purple markings
5* elvaan girls with red hair tied into braids in the back
6* Mithra with colourful headband and brown hair tied in the back in two small pigtails
7* elvaan girls with shoulder length silver hair brush back from the face
8* hume girls with long blonde hair parted on the left and tied back in a ponytail
9* taru girls with voluminous green hair parted in two and tied back behind the ears
10* hume girls with short black hair brushed neatly over to the right
3** taru girls with bluish-white hair tied in there braids and cut straight across the forehead
11* hume girl with shoulder length chestnut colored hair
12* elvaan girls with white hair bound backwards while leaving the sides to frame the face
6** Mithra with a colourful headband and brown hair tied in the back in two small pigtails
13* Taru girls with green hair tied in three braids and cut straight across the forehead
8** hume girls with long blonde hair parted on the left and tied back in a ponytail

The ones that note I haven't talked to the NPC are correct. I haven't done that content at all.

Hmm... this isn't quite right. I finished Voidwatch on him, at least, including killing PW.

15.5 days playtime.

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OPTIMAL RACING CHOCOBO -- BUILD SHEET
Derived from 69 races / 552 chocobo-races of packet data (FFXI Chocobo Circuit)
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STATS (budget-capped, ~647 total observed)

Strength 255 SS priority 1 -- 2.18x value per point
Discernment 255 SS priority 2 -- 1.76x value per point
Endurance 137 B priority 3 -- 1.31x value per point
Receptivity 0 F dump stat -- 1.00x value per point

Total 647. Model value +0.78 (lower is better; even split scores +6.84)

If your budget is lower, keep the order: max STR, then max DSC,
put the remainder in END, leave RCP at F.


EQUIPMENT (tested within comparable builds)

Speed apple fine
Stamina apple fine -- no significant difference
Pepper biscuit fine -- no significant difference
Shadow apple fine -- no significant difference
Gysahl bomb +0.63 WORSE (z = +2.6, significant)
Fire biscuit +2.80 WORSE (z = +13.9, strongly significant)

Only two items measurably matter, and both are penalties. The first four are
statistically indistinguishable from each other, so pick any of them.

AVOID FIRE BISCUIT ABOVE ALL. Its penalty exceeds a full rank of Strength.
The gysahl bomb is mildly bad for its carrier, consistent with it acting on
the OTHER chocobos in the race rather than helping its own.


ABILITIES (no measurable effect -- educated guess)

Gallop + Canter

Reasoning: both raise movement speed, and the two strongest NPC racers
observed carried exactly this pairing. Not proven by the data, but it is the
safest guess and costs nothing to prefer.

ORDERS / STRATEGY (no significant effect -- see note)

Final Spurt

Raw finishing positions look decisive: Final Spurt averages 3.25, Keep Pace
4.65, Sprint 7.42. But that is a CONFOUND, not an effect -- the game assigns
orders from the stat profile:

Sprint STR 253 END 253 DSC 3 RCP 5 total 514
Keep Pace STR 169 END 157 DSC 164 RCP 150 total 640
Final Spurt STR 230 END 160 DSC 130 RCP 118 total 638

Sprint birds are freak builds with no Discernment and a smaller total, which
is why they finish last. Final Spurt birds simply have more Strength.

After controlling for stats the residuals are -0.012 (Final Spurt), +0.010
(Keep Pace), -0.000 (Sprint) -- no significant difference (z = -0.16).
Final Spurt is picked on the marginally better residual and because its
trajectory closes rather than fades. Treat this as a coin-flip preference,
not a finding.


WEATHER PREFERENCE / DISLIKES (no measurable effect)

Any. Prefer a common weather (Clear or Clouds) and no dislikes, on general
principle rather than evidence.


GENDER, NAME, AFFILIATION (no effect whatsoever)

Irrelevant. Names are regenerated per race for NPCs and carry nothing.


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ONE-LINE SUMMARY

STR SS / DSC SS / END B / RCP F, Gallop + Canter, Final Spurt,
any item EXCEPT fire biscuit or gysahl bomb
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CONFIDENCE

HIGH stat priority order STR > DSC > END > RCP (cross-validated)
HIGH Fire biscuit and gysahl bomb are penalties; other items equivalent
MEDIUM the exact 137 END figure -- treat it as "the leftovers"
LOW abilities, orders, weather -- no measured effect, guesses only
orders in particular is confounded with stats in the NPC data, so
the test has limited power to detect a real effect either way

The single most actionable finding: Discernment is the SECOND most important
racing stat, not a minor one. It is worth 1.75x Receptivity per point and is
commonly under-prioritised.
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======= General =======
-RoE 1104/1104
-Zones visited 292/292
-Titles 1010/1049
-Missions 816/829
-Quests 1110/1110
-Magic 881/881
-Warps 365/365
======= Story =======
-San d'Oria Missions 20/20
-Bastok Missions 20/20
-Windurst Missions 20/20
-RotZ Missions 17/17
-CoP Missions 63/63
-Assaults 52/52
-ToAU Missions 47/47
-Campaign Ops 233/246
-WoTG Missions 53/53
-ACP Missions 11/11
-MKD Missions 14/14
-ASA Missions 14/14
-SoA Missions 110/110
-RoV Missions 97/97
-TVR Missions 45/45
-San d'Oria Quests 81/81
-Bastok Quests 93/93
-Windurst Quests 90/90
-Jeuno Quests 146/146
-Other Quests 90/90
-Outlands Quests 57/57
-Aht Urhgan Quests 72/72
-Crystal War Quests 91/91
-Abyssea Quests 191/191
-Adoulin Quests 109/109
-Coalition Assignments 90/90
======= Key Items =======
-Permanent Key Items 338/374
-Magical Maps 116/116
-Mounts 38/40
-Claim Slips 0/89
-Abyssea 210/210
-Voidwatch 80/80
-Mog Garden 121/124
-Active Effects 43/45
-Atmacite Levels 600/600
======= Magic =======
-White Magic 185/185
-Black Magic 169/169
-Summoner Pacts 22/22
-Ninjutsu 37/37
-Bard Songs 103/103
-Blue Magic 196/196
-Geomancy 60/60
-Trusts 109/109
-Corsair Rolls 31/31
-Puppetmaster Attachments 127/127
======= Leveling =======
-Craft Skills 790/790
-Wing Skill 100/100
You must talk to any Chocobo stats NPC @ Nations Chocobo Stables
-Merit Points 919/919
-Job Points Maxed 22/22
-Master Levels 620/1100 (Highest: 50)
-Alter Ego Points 338/550
======= Warps =======
-Home Points 121/121
-Survival Guides 97/97
-Waypoints 51/51
-Telepoints 9/9
-Cavernous Maws 9/9
-Lycopodium 3/3
-Eschan Portals 32/32
-Outposts 17/17
-Proto-Waypoints 26/26
======= Other Content =======
-Fishes Caught 164/164
-Ergon Locus 30/30
======= Monstrosity =======
-Monster Levels Maxed 64/64
-Race/Job Instincts 32/32
-Monster Variants 89/89
-Monster Instincts 192/192
======= Battle Content =======
-MMM Vouchers Unlocked 9/9
-MMM Runes Unlocked 100/100
-MMM Maze count 1000/1000
-Meeble Burrows Goal #3 32/32
-Sheol A (17/20)
-Sheol B (30/31)
-Sheol C (9/11)
-Sheol Gaol Vengeance (390/425)
-Eschan Vorseals (181/185)
-Emporox Goodness 13/13
======= Titles =======
-Titles 1010/1049
--Missions titles 127/128
--Ballista titles 1/2
--Master Trials titles 3/7
--Crafting titles 12/33
--Fishing titles 7/8
--Quests titles 358/359
--Other titles 5/6
--Mog Garden titles 40/47
--NM titles 60/61
--Voidwalker titles 6/7