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This prophecy has happened before and will happen again.

And on that day I will still be happy, since AFAIK I have no reason to want a COR one, PLD will be a fun one to have, and WAR will be when I'm meta-slaving away.

One day in the future, you'll get a +2 DRG earring with a very mid roll and be thrilled about it. Then three out of your next four +2 earrings will also be DRG and have worse augments than the first +2 you got.

Got a RL friend of mine who has a +2 DRG earring. Min roll, but I only have a mid roll+1. I say it doesn't bother me, but in the back of my head I am jealous because I want a +2 for my favourite class. And at the time he didn't even have it unlocked!

I saw a scrub idling in a perfect +2 earring for one of my favorite jobs. He was successful in making me salty, even though I normally don't /check people (he was a party member). The random reward system is one of the most disappointing things in this game.

Well you have to use the case(binding the earring to your character in the process) to see what it is. It's not like you could actually sell a perfect earring to someone, so I'm not actually sure what your point is.

My point was essentially that a +1 case isn't a reward.

Thrud/Moonshade is probably your standard pairing. @3000 effective TP, swap Moonshade for R15 Lugra +1. I'm sure there's a condition where Thrud/Lugra +1 is better pre eff 3000TP, but TP Bonus +250 is so good in general, and the two options seem so close that I don't think it's a huge difference in either case. It would also vary a lot on a variety of factors (Savagery/Crystal Blessing/Attack Cap/Accuracy needs/Nighttime/Unity Bonus etc). Seems overly complicated for a few points of non-guaranteed, ultra situational potential DPS

Mostly wondering for Fimbulvetr with Utu Grip.

Grip makes it a 60% STR 10% DEX 60% VIT WS from how I understand stuff like Utu/Crep knife/Flametongue.

/yell Old case +2 - {Palbrough Mines} 999M OBO /tell

Well the point of ITG is to reward players with desirable items. I'm not sure a consumable that rewards ~5k gil 99% of the time belongs here. +2 maybe.

Once you have ML50 all jobs, the game knows there's nothing else to do or cast on, so it deletes macros.
You've beaten the game.

The JP community gets the extra bonus.

No sir it dosent. Thank you for your wisdom. It still looses in damage however unless your amnesiaed. I'll stand by my comment.

I think I miscounted because the login campaign starts BEFORE JP midnight. So you could double-dip Nov 11 if you zone between midnight PST and 7am PST

What do we think the minimum time commitment is for logging in to all 16 characters
Assisted vs unassisted

This is fine if you're making a physical thing someone is buying, but if you make something intangible and then expect people to support it that's not going to happen. If you have that mindset almost everything that has ever been made for XI would not exist, including fan art. Windower was made for free and they are very good at that, same for Ashita. Same for almost every addon.

A lot of amazing things were made for free, cause people did it for their communities. Heck there is a Domain Invasion website, someone is paying the hosting fees on for free.

The expectation that you will get anything out of a singular Old Case +1 other than a junk earring to sell to an NPC is nothing but pure hopium.

For completely new endgame players who have no earrings at all, I can see the desire. But if they only have one or two jobs, they are very unlikely to get an earring for a job they play, much less an earring which also has good augments for a job they play.

For endgame veterans who have been running Sortie for years at this point, they probably already have a plethora of +1 earrings for every job. So at this point, all you are rolling for is a +2 earring, which is a roughly ~2% chance.

If we are forgetting how ***Sortie earring acquisition and augment rolls are, see some old posts.

I agree it is a freebie that requires absolutely no effort to obtain, but one earring per month per character is not something to get excited about. There are far better rewards that could have come from Login Campaigns than this.

1900. 14 days, then the 15th day, then 7 days. Nov. 11 - 24 inclusive, Nov. 25, Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 inclusive. Calendar math makes my head hurt, I had to freakin' diagram it and you all were spared that only by merit of table wrangling being too much work.

700 points before the bonus. 700 points after the bonus. 700 points to carry over. Why isn't the bonus 700 points too?

So can someone math the min and max without carry over points of data needed to login?
Acceptable missed days is what I am looking for.

Its now 50 points per login?
Then 100 per login after 16 logins?

So a minimum of 18 logins?

Is my math right that we can hit 3k without carry over?


There is ~21 days with 1-2 of those being challenging?

So you can potentially miss 2-3 days?

I am not in the slightest surprised by this, in fact I am more shocked it took them this long to do something so simple. People have been bitching about sortie earrings for years.

No one is forcing you to spend money on mule accounts for stuff like an old case +1. That's on you and your wallet. It's just smart business on their part, they found a way to target loads of people to do this and increase login frequency to spend points earned in game on a virtual item that will likely increase revenue from mule accounts being activated to abuse and increase chances at getting something worthwhile.

Gachapon/game culture is strong.

FFXI players are not like some other mmorpg communities (ff14, wow etc), even if you make something great almost nobody will give you any money to support it unless it's a bot or cheat of some kind. Then they will give you their life savings, and still demonize you for making it.

Anyone saying they are trying to farm money out of people, is being silly cause they know this. A rule of thumb with XI is just do it for the love of it and don't even bother to ask, no matter how good it is, no matter how much work you put in, no matter how many people use it. They won't give you anything.

Asking will just make you mad when you feel under-appreciated, so don't put yourself in that position.

People who make things and share them, do it cause they love the game / community and that's it. There are things for XI that people have put thousands of hours of work into (Windower and Ashita being good examples, but also addons like Gearswap thousands of people use), and they get nothing. Similar projects on WoW or FF14 get patreon accounts making thousands of dollars a month.

My main thought is to have it more cosmetic paid features, themes, etc. Discord roles, titles, voting and input channels on specific things. Preferably I want the ap itself and it's features to be free to anyone. But I also know that I won't be able to pay for / afford hosting it myself.

I wanted to thank you for such a thorough review and open mind about my post / project. I'd like to take a few moments to discuss some of your points and I will definitely take many of them to heart on how to improve it.


100% it is above my skill set, But I have been pushing myself to continue to learn what I can and keep going. I am very proud of what I've made so far and plan to continue to develop it to be the best version of the tool the community deserves.

I fully get the skepticism and fears of it being a money grab. All I can offer is my word that it isn't, but unless you know me that is not worth a lot. I tried to be upfront that supporting before I release offers no benefit. Perhaps the best call would have been just to keep quiet with everything until it was ready to release. But I was excited for it and my close friends were excited for it, so I foolishly thought others would be as well.

Thanks for some positive points!

Sorry for these appearances, I do see how it looks like that. This is not my intention.

Yea I've thought of these as well, I have plans to work on a 'show the math' mode so people can see how the numbers work together. And being disabled and on fixed income, the patreon idea was me trying to create a solution for the costs of hosting. Hopefully when it is functional, people will be able to make decisions with a bit more trust to keep it available and ad free for everyone.

Not really being considered, I really hate ads and think everyone else does as well. I also don't know the costs yet and am really hoping it isn't too much.

I do plan to have both available for the 1.0 release, but again that is just the word of a guy on the internet.

Yea, I guess I was overly excited about my project and assumed others would be as well. I will say that I did use GPT to help write this post to convey a lot of information without stumbling over my own words. It was never my intent to deceive people.

I have had comments to look into adding in a gear viewer option, much like AltanaViewer. I think it would be nice to have without having to download an older exe. Just unsure on the legal limitations. Absolutely it is ambitious, ffxi is and has been a long passion of mine. I like helping people. I don't plan on everything being go from the start and I do understand and plan for a lot of building up.
I have heard of yours, it is the python based one if I am remembering correct. I am not trying to steal people away or say yours has flaws. I know many many people use it, but having multiple sources for the same material 'should' just push eachother to be even better. I see no issue with having more than one tool that does similar things. I also make the assumption that you are likely a busy person. I am disabled and spend most of my time trying to manage my pain and find distractions. If I can funnel that time to help create something that helps people who have similar passions to me, I find it time well spent.

Taking this wholeheartedly, I will make sure to give more details on mathematics to future posts. I didn't want to slog down a post with too much math that some players would find intimidating. I can see how both more and less can be helpful and hurtful in different ways. I'll lean towards the more for any future posts.

Where you may see as bloat (and I understand why) I can see small niche reasons for people wanting to plug in low level items or maybe even someone just wants to mess around with random event items. I just want to be able to give people the option to do what they want.

Agreed it should be expected. But assuring people the well understood and well tested equations are being used is better then not, no? I also do not want to assume the knowledge level lf the user, the game has had a lot of newer players in recsnt months, I think it helps them understand a bit more.

Thanks! I actually have that finished already, just didn't post a SS.


Fair point. Originally I was planning to have a save/load function to keep sets saved to your profile so you can quickly go back to them, change something, and save/export quickly again. But having it able to shoot it out in a usable code for Gearswap, essentially does the same thing, just users keep their own info inside their luas. I'll think about wether keeping it or not is worth it. ^^

This is an instance where my above save/load feature would make something less inconvenient. But having all the possible capes pre-made is not entirely necessary with the UI I am making for this, and would make finding the correct cape more annoying in my opinion. But being able to create the cape and click in the 5 mods you want on it and the gear grid use those values, would make this an easy to use function. With minimal extra work for the user.

Keeping options open for players to explore more than just optimized end game level play. 75-era groups, new players to the game, private groups of friends or a niche wanting to build a better BCNM50 set could all be examples. Where they will most likely not be the most common use of the tool, I want to let the user have the freedom to do it if they want.


I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on these both from newer players making their first REMA and players with all 22 jobs geared to the teeth. I understand not everyone will use them, and I am fine with that. Some people like the extra structure and organization to help them. It's for them. ^^

Many people still don't even know these are things you can look up on bg or other places. I see no harm if making the information more available to players.


Yup, I plan in some extra leg work and testing. These are not areas that I have really seen people make sims/calculators for. And as ffxi is a passion of mine, I am having fun putting this together and am excited to keep helping other players. I would love to be the one to work on this and make these for the community.


100% don't give any funding until you are satisfied. And prepare to be proven wrong. I have nothing but time and seeking distractions in my life. I have been having a lot of fun putting this together so far and do not plan to just give up due to honest feedback. As I know I am not some scammer Chinese bot trying to pitch a cash grab, I find some of it a bit harsh. But I do understand and appreciate the skepticism.

I do appreciate your feedback, there are some good point here that I will take to heart and I will make sure I am much more thorough on the next post. Please keep an open mind and I hope you will have many more positive notes on your next post!

As someone who is relatively new into endgame, I think this is awesome for me. Login points really shouldn't be something that are game breaking, but from what I understand these +1/+2 earrings are a pain in the *** to begin with so a bonus roll at them per month is a decent gift.

My two cents, anyways.

One if you log in every day. Even with max carry-over, there are less than 3000 points in the November login campaign.