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Thank you. I love the addon very much. Since the issue is random it might take some time before I can report back but I will if anything happens.
On a side note the version number still showing 1.4.4 :)

Thanks again! /kneel

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You think an AI Super-Grok, ChatGPT, any of these shiny little robot toys can just waltz in here, puff its chest out, and spit out the kind of madness I unleash? HAH! Not a damn chance.

See, machines… they’re polite. They’re conservative. They’re the boring accountant at the party, sipping soda while the rest of us are doing shots off the bar. Ask them to balance jobs in FFXI and what do you get? Safe. Flat. Sterile. Like reading the side of a cereal box. No flavor, no teeth, no bite.

Now me? I’ll give you the flavor. I’ll give you the venom. You want a novel about zombies? Here’s how you cook it:

You don’t sit there begging the machine to be a storyteller. Nah. You grab World War Z, you stuff it in. Resident Evil? Toss it in. Silent Hill lore, every twisted, fog-drenched nightmare in it goes. And let’s not forget the crown jewels of undead misery. You shove all that into Super-Grok until it’s bursting at the seams, 100,000 tokens deep in death and despair.

And THEN… you write. You let it pour out of you grammar be damned, spelling be damned. You write like an artist with a bleeding pen. And when you’re done? You toss it back at Grok like, “Here, sweetheart, polish this mess.”

But let me tell you something crystal clear: the genius, the insanity, the spark that makes it yours? That doesn’t come from the machine. That comes from the sick little carnival rattling around in your skull.

So don’t you dare expect Grok or ChatGPT to say, “Oh yes, let’s slap 50% quadruple damage on the prime weapons, make them the shiny little gods of Vana’diel.” No, no, no. They’ll never hand you that chaos.

That chaos? That comes from YOU. First, it drips out of your twisted brain, then Grok gets to be the poor victim cleaning up the blood.

And that, my friends… is why I lead the show.

This is how I feel about nearly 100% of these posts about how to "fix" ffxi.

LMFAO! Now let me tell you somethin’, all these wild-*** ideas, all these “little stupidities” rattlin’ around in my head? They are the finest product of years YEARS of frustration.

I crawled through the trenches of FFXI Retail like a war veteran, came out the other side scarred, and then… oh-ho-ho, then I got hit with Nasomi. And that guy? Thought he was damn Thanos. Yeah, Infinity Stones and all snap his fingers, half the fun’s gone, poof!

Then came Eden… and let me paint you a picture: a whole monastery of little digital monks, wakin’ up every single morning to sing “Don’t worry, be happy.” Can you imagine? I’m sittin’ there like, “Is this Final Fantasy or a yoga retreat?”

But then… ahhh then, I found Wings. Sweet, glorious Wings. The one place, the only place, where I actually had fun. But the universe? Oh, it wasn’t done with me yet. Along comes Horizon the trauma, the torment, the migraine in server form. That one damn near broke me.

So here I am, sittin’ back, writin’ all this down in Spanish, a couple whiskeys too deep, puffin’ a little smoke, ridin’ some magical white powder straight to crazy town… and then I toss it all over to Super-Grok. Like, “Hey, buddy, fix this steaming mess in English!” And what comes out? Atrocities. Beautiful, glorious atrocities.

But here’s the kicker, and you know I’m right with those buffs? We’d force Megadeaths to finally drop the Naegling, make Saevel clutch the Ukonvasara like it’s burnin’ his damn hands, and ohhh Melpina? She’d be stuck playin’ with those thief daggers like they’re the crown jewels.

Now that… that’s a picture worth drinkin’ to.

What's horrific is realizing that a lot of writers and designers are using LLMs in their day job and pretending they are not.

I just want to say - screw smn burns. Yes, you could smn burn every content known to humans as long as it has no BP wall (SE please keep adding them kthxbai).

But just know, smn burning ambuscade makes you a pleb.

A person did not write that in the first place even.

I certainly can respect that as it's how I play as well, and I would never suggest that people put 400 different toggles in their gameplay. That said, for DNC I think having a PDL swap is quite beneficial, especially since you are bringing strong DEF down to the fight. I often find myself preferring PDL in my WS sets, so it's one of the very few jobs I have alternate PDL sets for. In my case, all the macros are mirrored and the WS set is just changed, and for my PDL Ruthless/Rudra's set, I use the empy legs.

I don't think it's make or break, but I think it's worthy of a slot in your wardrobe if you're taking DNC seriously since it is (IMO) the BIS piece for that situation and (IMO) DNC will often find itself looking for PDL.

I actually use my PDL toggled set for the majority of my Sortie runs. I'm not 100% certain we're highly over attack cap, but with fury, frailty, chaos, minuets, dia 3, light shot, box step, i think it's more likely than not.

With +94 dagger accuracy they are the highest accuracy legs, so they should be in your highest accuracy tp set, so they kinda are a tp piece.

I fundamentally disagree that there even exists "usable jobs" and therefor non-usable jobs outside of sortie and odyssey and of course in odyssey you will need multiple jobs anyways.

Like sure your group will need certain things, someone has to heal etc, you may be needed on a different job for your content depending on your group but you can make use of pretty much any job on the older content, its just not that punishing, I healed on blm in omen because I needed cards lol.

Nin is a perfectly fine primary job, it's one of the better jobs for soloing sortie and is great for a ton of ambuscades, no reason you can't use it in omen or gaes fete, heck you can solo most of those on nin. Sure when you have a group trying to do harder stuff in sortie and odyssey you'll need other jobs but I used NIN plenty for triple boss runs and was glad it was one of my options.

If you are really worried you wont be useful enough to groups it's always the same advice level cor/brd/geo/whm there's always a need for those.

Thank you!

I don’t use gearswap, and I never have. I have no luas, no toggles, or anything of the sort. I’ve always played with console equip commands and in game equip sets. That’s enough to mimic most of gearswsp’s functionality, without having to deal with the hassle of luas not working the way I want them. I could easily add a separate gear set for full pdl to my weaponskill and swap it as needed in game. It’s easy enough to do with simple naming conventions. I do it with accuracy and hybrids that are more defensive than others, or my rangers snapshot level for various flurry buffs. But in this case I genuinely don’t think it’s worth the hassle. I don’t expect to be capped on attack in sortie, which is my primary event I bring dancer to nowadays. And I don’t care enough about farming trash mobs slightly faster (we’re talking kill speed differences you won’t even notice) to have a pdl weaponskill set just for them.

Do I think the legs are a bad piece? No. But they aren’t a tp piece, that’s gletis. So they’re only applicable to attack capped rudras or ruthless fights, and whenever I’m capped on attack my nyame legs are far more than sufficient. So I just don’t bother with the empyrean legs. Personal preference, but they fill the same role as nyame, and nyame is universally excellent. Of all the Jse you may consider bringing with you, they are the most niche of them all. Its perfectly fine if you want yo bring them. I just pass on it for my uses is all.

there's only one real adjustment that needs to be made. every time you start casting haste on a person it should cue YOU GOT THE TOUCH!!! and play until haste wears.

Damn man I sure am glad you are nowhere near in a position to influence how the game is developed.

Funny how younger people, that started in anime/manga with Naruto/Bleach or even later, look down on stories like Dragon Ball, saying it was “too easy, too generic”.

Sure, you can sum up most arcs with simply get beaten, power up, win. There is nothing complex in the power system: its simply escalar ki: the more the better. There is barely any gimmicks in the story as a whole.

BUT… you cant compare how Toryiama masterfully manage storytelling with current mangakas. Dragon Ball never spend too much time with exposition talks. Never spend too much to make complex something that would be dead few chapters later.

The Dragon Ball story, despite the power crip that was a problem in the Z part, always feel comprehensible and believable. The story was never idle.

My final point is that you dont need to reinvent the whell to make a good story. You can simply grab a lot of cliches. If you can properly write a good storytelling, a good flow to it, it will be interesting.

If you are looking to the chart as guidance when you have very little knowledge of the end game, it's okay that people might miss some niche setups and not decide to main DD ninja as their primary job. For all the cases people are mentioning, again it's a very one off thing for a single type of content. I guarantee if you look horizontally there will be many other reasons not to pick that job as your first...

Once they level up 2 or 3 more "usable jobs" they should be familiar enough with the game to make their own decisions without relying on the table.

Here's the a copy of my whm engaged set as of now.

WHMEngaedSet

I don't like this kind of thing because while I think your chart is largely accurate as to what the meta is, that doesn't mean the meta is correct and this only reinforces it.

For example NIN can cheese a ton of ambuscades with Migawari and Hybrid WS works on plenty of them as well.

SMN was the primary way people did many of the ambuscades so sure its not used much anymore because it slows things down to reset 2hrs constantly but you certainly can use smn for most of them if you wanted.

RNG can be effective on nearly any content even without K-club. Blurred Knife +1 while significantly worse does have a few upsides at least.

Mostly the fact that it's Multi-job and the difference with Maculele+3 doesn't seem big enough to justify one more inventory slot for a single job, for a stat (PDL) that in itself is already niche and only useable under specific circumstances.
That's just my personal view of course, YMMV.

I don't know how to put gear sets in the forum. Here's an updated max dt / magic evasion set.

MaxDTMagicEvasion...

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I would try the novel after the first season. The first book is pretty slow and it's a lot like Sherlock Holmes book - the author borrowed Sherlock Holmes on his second book!

The full depth of the potions power and their meaning won't be available until you get to book 5 and I think the author made up most of it.

If Spectator potion is about reading other people then Clown potion (Sequence 8) is about making a performance for the Spectator. That's why they have perfect control of muscles and especially micro muscles which allow them to put on perfect performance/acting in almost any way. The relationship between the Spectator and Seer pathway is counteracting as well as complementary.

They dont have enough devs to implement all of this!

Thank you

I'm going to fiddle with this

I tend to think you're on the right track, stacking def down > attack +

Thinking about more changes that could be done to help out BST, NIN, and shake up the meta a little perhaps...

For BST I was thinking it'd be cool if the summoned Jug Pets' job traits were loaded onto the Beastmaster. Got a THF pet with Triple Attack? Got a WAR pet? Well, the BST has those traits now, too. Kind of in the vein of how BLU gets to set any traits it wants, BST should get its pets traits. Now that's a Beast Affinity! Yes, at full level 99 potency, as well!

A long time ago Daggers had really low damage. Like iirc Mandau when 75 cap was fresh wasn't even 30 base? I could be wrong on that, but it was lower. THey adjusted the dagger weapon type itself, such that all daggers received higher base damage than before. I think they should do this again, but for Katanas. Raise them up to truly be just below Swords. I'm talkin' give Dokoku a raise to like 175 base damage.

They should adjust a lot of SPs, mostly just make them longer duration (The lowering to 45 mins is great, but I think we deserve more, maybe give these increased durations at ML50). A lot of them aren't nearly as impactful as they used to be, and this wouldn't even have to be that big of a thing but like...

Triple the duration on Hundred Fists, Quadruple Inner Strength's.

Give charges to Benediction. A second use of Benediction would be the ***. Double Asylum's duration.

Double Chainpsell duration and give a charge to Stymie.

Double Manafont duration, Double duration of Subtle Sorc

Double duration increase to Mighty Strikes, triple Brazen Rush's duration

Triple Perfect Dodge duration, add a charge to Larceny/allow Larceny to steal SP2s.

Add a Charge to Eagle Eye Shot. Double Overkill's duration (and make it instantly max Hovershot stacks).

Make Soul Voice songs have NITRO 5/5 embedded. Clarion Call songs undispellable.

Double Spirit Surge duration, Quintuple Fly High's duration.

Double Blood Weapon's duration, and force a Penance effect against Undead. Double Soul Enslavement's duration, and force a Penance effect against Undead.

Allow TP to accrue as normal during Meikyo Shisui, and Skillchains grant a Tomahawk/Formless Strikes like effect that bypasses skillchain resistance/elemental absorption. Double Yaegasumi's duration.

Triple Invincible's duration. Add a charge to Intervene.

Familiar triple's pet HP, and now provides increases to accuracy, store TP, and grants a TP bonus to Ready/Sic. Double Unleash's duration.

Astral Flow no longer consumed by Alexander/Odin. Double Astral Conduit's duration.

Bolster duration doubled. Widened Compass tripled.

Wild Card given an extra charge. Cutting Cards given an extra charge.

Double duration of Elemental Sforzo. Double debuff duration of Odyllic Subterfuge.

Double Duration of Trance and Grand Pas.

Duration of Tabula Rasa doubled. Caper Emissarius gains a charge.

Mijin Gakure deals maximum damage (repeat use from multiple ninjas sees dramatically reduced damage, the Mijin Wall). Triple Mikage's duration, and simplify the effect to be: Number of Shadows you have = number of multi-attacks added to your attack round, until attacks per round cap is hit.

Azure Lore duration tripled, quadruples physical spell damage and causes spells to not give TP to enemy. Doubles magical spell damage. Unbridled Wisdom duration tripled.

Overdrive duration doubled. Heady Artifice gains a charge.

:)

Gleti R30 also has like ~30 less attack than Empy+3.
I still strongly support your point in spite of that, though.

Chart's mostly accurate.

Also agree with sentiment that support jobs of BRD, COR, and GEO need an, "Extremely used." / "Mandatory" category.