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Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Haha I love the WotG music. This is a good improvement.

Ooo a new 80 slot bag to fill with stuff I won't see forever. If they could do an "open all bags at once" quality of life improvement THAT would be something special.

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Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Red mage relic is "atrophy" gear? fitting...

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Male of the Century posted:

Yeah I'm looking at some of the new weapons and it seems like you could just completely wreck Abyssea NMs and make any emperyan you want over the span of a weekend. Might be worth it to finally make an ochain, but I don't know if I'd actually get any use out of them.

Jesus god those numbers are insane. The drg polearm from the bee thing...

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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So if I were to resub, what would I be looking at in terms of getting a good weapon? I currently have a joyeuse. Is doing the magian trials thing still valid or what?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Gruknor posted:

I am looking for the polearm and great sword. Other than that, everything on my runs would be FL.

How easy is it to get bayld? Would it be worth it to get the 50k bayld and update to gear quick over say, genbu's shield or some other toy I've always wanted to have? I could get the 99 high end club and robe for my RDM with that.

Also, are there still leveling/merit parties going on and easy to get into? I think I'm stuck at level 92 or something.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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So do the +ws bonuses apply all over vana'diel or just in SoA areas?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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So I could get my rdm up to 99, go to SOA and buy the 106 weapons, then go back to regular vanadiel and just wreck poo poo?

How easy are leveling parties to find now that everyones levels are presumably capped?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Systematic System posted:

There are some fun things you can do with SoA gear that would have been impossible with regular level 99 gear. Soloing Pandemonium Warden for example.

This is actually along the lines if what I was thinking. I have lots of unfinished missions and quests and add-on content and whatnot that I want to tear through.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Goddamn whatthefuck i'm installing ffxi again. Anyone else find it hilarious the seekers collection still installs tetramaster?

I'll be in the game after like 30h of patching.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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I'm looking forward to the trust system. I'm chronically soloing content so this is right up my alley.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Anyone know how to use windower to fullscreen FFXI on my second monitor? I can't seem to find it in docs anywhere, there used to be a wincommand plugin or something that's no longer there.

Speaking of which, are there any "must have" things of this nature to make the unbearably poo poo ui more bearable?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Eight-Six posted:

The crossover event between FFXI, FFXIV, and Dragon Quest X has been announced! While I haven't touched Monstrocity yet, I'll definitely participate now if I can be a Spriggan.

I'll be all about a slime shield.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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BUGS OF SPRING posted:

If any goons are looking to make money I am currently buying Bronzepeices en mass for Aegis. I need 6139 more! So I'll buy any you get.

Also If you have login points you wanna burn I'm also buying Beastly Shanks.

How much for the shanks? I think I have 3

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Someone give me a winning number so I can get a Mandau 10000 Byne Bill. Because I'd totally rather have a component than the real deal.

Lol@ blackbelt drops being rank 2 and HNM spawn items being rank 3.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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What's the fastest way to burn through Imprimaturs and open WKR? Scout survey Ceziak?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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In an hour and a half I ended up getting PLD from barely 23 to just under 28, and managed 2800 and some change in sparks. Awesome.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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I was actually wondering, what's the possibility for solo farming relic/mythic stuff now that we can get spark gear

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Majumbo posted:

Combine those leveling systems with the new Trust system and you can basically summon a party at will and allow you to either experience on content that is more rewarding and complete a decent amount of quests/missions without relying on others. With the ability to summon healers, tanks and damage dealers you can have a party of 4 ready to go in no time.

I can attest to this. My pld went from 27 to 35 'solo' in 1:45:00 last night with GoV/RoE/Trust killing worms and bats in korolloka. I got several self-exp chain 3's (which at double experience made a single kill ~780xp).

Abyssea is currently abandoned :( I hope I can get in on a worms party on Friday night so I can level pld to 99 and hopefully get decent sword skillups.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Majumbo posted:

Abyssea may see a bit of a resurgence since the new ark angels battlefield require 20-30 merit points to enter each time. This may also see a return of some voidwatch NMs since they are a super easy way to get fast experience.

And the battlefields are where you get the artifact upgrading papers. I really wanna get in on some upgrading, Atrophy +1 just looks awesome.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Cool Blue Reason posted:

So is it pretty easy to get to cap without having to rely on level syncing in one place for hours? That was fast (when I could find a group) but grinding in level appropriate zones seems like it would be more interesting even with an NPC party, plus the prospect of skilling up from almost nothing at 99 didn't sound fun. I was thinking about resubbing to XIV but it just doesn't hold the same charm, so maybe I'll give this another shot.

I wish alter egos worked in parties, I'd put get a mule to a "sweet spot" level and park it on the other side of the zone out of exp range, then go nuts on "* of valor" pages.

Skillups are really easy through 30 if you have the beret/shirt, one of them gives + to skillup chances.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Moldy Taxes posted:

I've talked a bit about it before, but the skillup system is really in need of a reworking for the three people every month who want to start the game fresh, and the people coming back after a long, pre-adoulin hiatus. They seemed to have fixed or alleviated most of the old-school grinding elements in this game, and yet they keep this one around. Sure, you can buy food to help it along, but it doesn't help new or poor mage players when Pitaru tends to be criminally expensive (although I just checked xiah and I guess prices have gone down some since?)

Really, if I had my way, A+ would cap at 100 and all other caps would trickle down from there. One skill per level up to the cap, with two at 99 for an A+ skill. Adjust all other gear with skill increases to fall in line with this. Either that or just allow skills to increase by whole numbers if you're incredibly undercapped.

The convenience options like teleporting between home points and Trust magic are really something, though. I'll probably be stopping into goon shell this weekend before the big XIV patch next week, but if I like what I see I might keep my sub going after the holidays. At least so I can scare up some of the new AF for my red mage.
You can buy books with sparks that give skillups ranging from .1 to .5, so to max a skill from 0 to a+ you'd need...

(426/.3 (average gain))= 1420 books at what, 300 per book? 426k sparks.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Moldy Taxes posted:

I'll see if I can take advantage of that, then. All I really remember is that my RDM and BRD haven't seen their spell caps since Abyssea hit, and it always kind of bugged me. Didn't bother me enough to make me run a spellcast script overnight to cap them, but still a bit of a bummer.

I also want to take a whack at that monstrosity stuff, because from what I've read it seems fun as hell.

I know I can script enhancement up by overwriting bar-spells on myself in town, how would you script healing/enf/ele/dark/div?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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frodnonnag posted:

In an effort to rennaisance the gently caress outta goon-ffxi and lure in more suckers, does anyone wanna make up some banner ads and/or contribute towards them, or help me flesh out the OP? I think if we did that we could luck out and get a few more addicts back.

FFXI! It's not like you were going to be doing anything else this Kwaanza

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Teamed up with misandry tonight, we started at the bastok market gate synced to my level 10 dancer. We killed everything in sight making 1 loop around vamp hill, then going straight to the dunes. By the time we crossed into the dunes we were level 23 and I had enough sparks to get an entire eminent armour set in addition to the sword i got last night.

By the way, can a level 99 party sync to a level 99? If so, we could totally spark/merit farm by getting an alliance in a zone with high spawns and setting the appropriate crystal gathering RoE. 100 sparks per 10 crystals, kills, high damage, and level sync kills. We'd be getting sparks at like 10-20k per hr and capping merits. Good way to get rem's tale pages and merits for DM pops.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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I leveled BLM to 58 and WHM to 49 last night in la theine worms=, but then the party broke (it was a shell going for DM2 merits), so I switched to 99 rdm/blm and solo'd Genbu, Byakko, and Suzaku. I only needed to cast cure when fighting Byakko. Tonight I'm going to hit Seiryu and try Kirin, then do another pop set or two.

I wonder if I can solo the kings? I have 2 sets of pops

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Genbu and Suzaku went down solo without even needing to heal

Byakko and Seiryu, I needed to toss a heal here and there

Kirin finally got me, but not before I took him down to 30%. I'm pretty sure I can do this, I just need to plan a bit better.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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MarquiseMindfang posted:

I've evolved into Big Beautiful Elasmoth now.

ffxi crossed over with pokemon?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Shantotto cometh

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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I want to set up a weekly nyzul run if anyone is interested, we'd need enough to be able to succeed at lamp floors. 5 would probably be ideal. Ultimately I'm wanting to get my Murgleis so if anyone else is working on mythics or wants to, post or PM

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Eight-Six posted:

The farther away something is from your relative skill level, the faster you get skill ups. Or so I've been led to believe. That's why it's encouraged to find a wide enough disparity and then make up the difference with +accuracy. However, with the introduction of ilvl gear and massive amounts of +skill on it, the best thing to do is get your hands on an ilvl weapon you want to train in, and then go whack worms in a party like frod said. My Greatsword skill is only 190-ish, and while training it in a worms party with Kaquljaan equipped, I've got more than enough skill to hit 90%+ of the time while getting frequent skill ups.

P. much this, I had 232 sword skill and an eminent scimitar. I ran through the sky bosses once, now I have 245 sword.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Gruknor posted:

I am up for doing NNI.

I'd like to do at least one standard nyzul climb first if that's cool? I haven't started yet so I need the complete.

LiquidFriend posted:

I'll come on MNK if you guys run on Sat-Mon. (I won't be available for awhile this saturday though!)

What times are good? Saturdays and Mondays are good for me, I prefer later in the evening because I'm generally putting the kids to bed until 8:30-9:00 PST

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Unlocked salvage earlier today, ran through bhaflau rem. and died at the long bow chariot after chainspell/convert/stoneIV spamming it to less than 10% hp with less than 1 minute remaining. Bought craptons of spells I was missing, as well. Coming back is fun :)

I hope I get faster alex gains... I only got a total of 3 that run :/

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Gruknor posted:

I would also like to do a regular nyzul climb as well. I am free anytime in the evenings EST.

Is 9pm PST on a saturday still "in the evening"?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Next update on the 26th is when we get trust: shantoto and trust: volker among others.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Gruknor posted:

9pm PST would be 12am EST, so it is late evening for me but still evening. It being Saturday, I can do 3 or 4 runs.

Grunknor and LiquidFriend (in game names the same?). Anyone else for starting a Nyzul Isle climb Saturday at 9pm pst?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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LiquidFriend posted:

Accounts are made through the Square-Enix account management webpage and yeah it still sucks.

Sometime possibly this weekend, I plan to run a lot of Kindergarten Cap (30 Kindred Crest bc) to try and get WoE stuff. If you don't mind me taking pouches, I'll solo your orb in a few minutes tops and the rest of the drops are all yours! This is a great way to complete AF3 as you're almost guaranteed to get a mog kupon that you can trade for 8/10 af3 seals you want and the boss will drop a random assortment of AF3+2 items. (I'm also willing to do other BC's)

Any reason to do the af3+2 now with the new relic available?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Don't forget to bank an assault ID for tomorrow night's Nyzul Isle run. Starting on floor 15, 9pm PST.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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ToxicToast posted:

I am totally bummed out. Called tech support and learned that my account was deleted because it had been inactive for so long. I had not played since 2005. I am still thinking about starting all over again but I mostly wanted to just spend time revisiting old zones and goofing off. How long does it take to get to ride the airship and go to Kazham, get to Jueno, things like that now? Could I do it all in a afternoon or two?

You can unlock most areas by running to them once and touching a home crystal. You can now warp to any home point you've previously visited by touching any other home point crystal. It's not outside of reason to get someone to escort you around a few places so you can teleport within a few hours.

Khazam requires item collection so it may be marginally more difficult, but still doable.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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Jalisr posted:

I bought this game and made a new character on Quetzalcoatl as well, in as Jalis and currently in Windurst.

Couldn't figure out who to contact as I don't know anyone's in-game name and you apparently can't search for people's linkshells. If anyone could contact me or tell me who to contact, I'd appreciate it.

Look for Frodnon, jamiemaddox, beautiful, jewbacca, anyone with a green linkpearl left of their name. If you check them it will show the "Get Out" linkshell name.

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Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

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frodnonnag posted:

Seriously, get them all for RoE. Especially the new four as they're timed (As far as i know) and only require their expansion's points to get. be it campaign points, imperial standing, cruor or whatever the gently caress WOTG uses.

And they're ultra cheap, too. 1k campaign points, 2k imp standing, 2k cruor, not sure on the wotg one because I've only incidentally been in the wotg areas so I need to get in there and explore

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