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The way a dogs forehead smells is very interesting.

Thinking about changing my TVR Ring. (Currently Medada's). Since Epam is often listed as just a high buff/PDL swap, would I get more mileage out of Ephramad's than Cornelia's for Savage/Last Stand?

This is the common XI player paradox that happens every time new items come out. Downplay circumstances to suggest you'll never be attack capped enough for the ring to matter, and then within the same breath laugh at everyone else who isn't bringing GEO/BRD/COR/RDM to literally everything to cap attack.

did that, fixed the name issue and now the eqiup menu is borked up. (can't see gear...even the piece i'm wearing!) (managed to hack the macros back in too)

can see all the gear in the bag browsing and the /equip commands work.

So what are the strange happenings?

Might be worth checking out the jp wiki page on chocobo feed for some of their data. Some of it comes from one of SE's books for what that's worth - https://wiki.ffo.jp/html/34020.html

Gotta be honest, i got the body and the legs from limbus, changed my belt to sailfi+1 r15, changed telos to sup earring for the dual weild and it just feels like a straight up downgrade tp wise

No null shawl yet but other than higher DT and more evasion/meva im failing to see the upgrade? Am i missing something?

tldr: Zegham carrots and celerity salads most likely do nothing for STR/END/DSC/RCP. Just feed it affection greens (azouph/sharug). Vomp carrots build str (shown in post above), but by the time you are building str, you are destroying affection with adult care plans.

Yeserday, I went to the chocoguy, checked on my bird, printed a card, fed it 2 tornado salads then a celerity salad and printed another card. No shown stat bonus. This did move my affection from "wants to be with you all the time" to "regards you as a parent." Considering celerity/tornado salads also give the "swallows in a single gulp," I'd think its obvious it gives an affection boost, but it is not listed on either wiki that it does this. I've seen salads fix bored, sick, hurt, and maybeee spoiled. So its an affection boosting ailment remedy, whereas most other corrective actions/foods suggest affection loss. Not sure where the belief it boosted discernment came from, but both wikis have this. It wasn't a huge boost to affection as I was back to "wants to be with you..." affection today after delivering messages. Not sure I'd actually recommend farming/growing them though. I have been able to pick some off the AH, and if I were only raising one bird, that would have been enough. I assume people are getting these from the gobbie box and just toshing it up there. They also can be crafted from cooking kit 75, but this is a horrid recipe for crafters points, especially for cooking, so expect to never see any.

Today I again went to the chocoguy, checked on my bird, printed a card, fed it 3 zegham carrots, and printed another card. No stat bonus. My affection was not capped before/after feeding these. I suppose it could be possible that I need to be on a DSC/RCP boosting care plan to get benefit from these. This could be why vomp only gave only STR and not END as deliver messages is str only. However, I have fed 4 birds zegham carrots for 1-2 weeks each while listening to music and/or exhibit to the public and the carrots never crossed a stat tier threshold. Of course that doesn't rule that out entirely, but it adds to the evidence these carrots don't increase DSC/RCP. I could test it and change my care plan, but tbh I don't want to do that and I most likely won't.

Someone asked if greens increase mental stats, and other than affection, I've never seen any suggestion it does. I'll keep an eye out for it as I feed my bird/measure stats, but if I don't say something, assume I found no evidence of stat increase from greens.

Greens should be the primary food though, because affection and ailment correction seems to be the most meaningful thing to do with food.Whatever she swallows (in a single gulp)

You've jogged my memory, I was DNC on that fight lol. I think when we were weak and 2 KI'ing it I might've used RNG.


BRD and COR are in nearly every comp for all content, so I wouldn't consider that a fair comparison, nobody is bringing them for DMG specifically.

The DNC and DRGs are fair points though.

Last I checked bard and cor don't use kraken club. Paired with a cath palug hammer lockstyle it's the most glorious thing ever! A symphony of meows that never ends. Nyehehehe =^..^=

Exactly. And to your point, I took the Weatherspoon ring for nothing more than buffing Trueflight, which again, is a meager gain compared to other options, but damnit I like RNG lol.

I've always been a proponent of Ephramad's Ring. When the rings first hit, people down played it massively, saying that everyone would hardly ever have requisite buffs to trigger the PDL, and so it was a slightly better Regal Ring, and that was unimpressive.

However, a truth about XI is that you're often romping through old content to make ultimate weapons/gain mastery rank/*** *** get money/for the lulz.

You'll hit PDIF cap on old content almost by default, and depending on its age, you might need Trust buffs!

Also, often overlooked fact about PDL, is that it works on Auto Attacks. +10% PDL when you trigger it with buffs/debuffs OR by doing really old stuff = +10% auto attack damage. So if you rework your TP sets to feature Ephramad's Ring, you get more white damage on top of higher WS damage. And PDL currently works across all hits of multi-hit WS, so it's better for those, too.

And this is just talking about the PDL benefit of Ephramad's. It has 10 STR/DEX/AGI on top of +20 of acc/racc/atk/ratk. This makes it the highest accuracy and attack option in the ring slot, something that massively benefits any job willing to melee or shoot. It's a top end ring regardless of your progress in gearing, because of this benefit, too.

The only place Ephramad's doesn't shine is on Magical WS and un-engaged styles of dealing damage(casting Magic). It's the ultimate physical ring.

Meanwhile: Lehko's Ring to me seems like a TP set optimization piece/specialized build piece, mostly aimed at allowing you freedom in adjusting your TP sets such that you can wear almost whatever you want, and still cap haste/hit Store TP value you want/crit as a cherry on top. It has some bearing on some WSes, but it's not something you just throw into almost any WS set and call it a day. In my experience in modern endgame, the gains you'd get out of this ring are meager, super situational, job dependent. It's an enthusiast's ring.

Cornelia's Ring does what it says. It beefs up your weaponskills, regardless of their type. This is fantastic, because it's a big bonus, and you ain't gotta fret about having appropriate buffs. However. it still has drawbacks. It only works on weaponskills, so that is the only builds it will be participating in. This means there are situations, like being Amnesia'd for 30 seconds to a minute, where this ring does absolutely nothing for you. If you get dispelled and suddenly need more accuracy to be able to hit to build TP to WS, this ring does nothing for you. If you're border line even after buffs, and could nudge yourself over the line with +27 accuracy... this ring does nothing for you. And this is before we get into the job dependent stuff. Certain jobs don't care about WSD+% in a lot of their WS sets (mainly MNK, but any multi-hit WS without a frontloaded hit). This ring does a little bit for those, but not as much as other options

Back to Ephramad's... It's the happy medium that excels when you do.

It's funny and true. I think with newer MMOs, XIV especially, I'd assume people got used to shorter patch cycles, 2 year expansion cycles, and gear that's constantly outdated and useless every 6 months.

3 years in this timeline is considered "new". Most players have never made a stage 4 prime, let alone a 5. And the first primes probably weren't complete until end of year 2023-early 2024. With that in mind, even Odyssey is still relatively current content for a lot of players who have never completed it.

They have been releasing things with an expected lifecycle of 2-3 years+ (look at Odyssey, Sortie, Dynamis-D and even Limbus grind). They consider everything in that to be their "new battle content" (see their emails they advertise to new players)

Eh, expected stats to be boosted(kind of expected maybe some acc/eva and such but i guess base stats do that..) though a bit low for a start. Hope the equipment does something decent

according to the reddit transcription thread:

were the new stats/their caps dropped somewhere?

Oh, I guess the caps on these stats for trusts is going to be raised in the future. So this is just a start

So the trusts can affectively get an additional 250hp, 100mp, and 50 of all the 7 stats (str, dex, etc)?

I'm not sure that is really going to change much tbh. I guess the extra 50 dex would give them like an extra 30 accuracy or some ***, and the 50 vit would make them slightly more durable I guess?

My only wish for limbus weapons is that when they are introduces it makes the grind for other things considerably easier, kinda like when the basement was added to Sortie the armor became very easy to make

Updated this to take out the accuracy line. Also happy to see some good points being shared here.

I'm still on the fence about which one to pick. Will decide after I get time to run some calculations to see just how much Ephramad is needed compared to Cornelia with the gear I have and the buffs I get versus what I usually fight.

Im waiting the “Sahzi, the sexy dancer doing twerkings”.

Unless you mean the damage is already so high on those it doesnt matter, true shot doesnt apply to ranged magic WS though so can atleast ignore positioning a bit with those(through hot/flaming still benefit on the phys side iirc?)

I don't want to derail this into a RNG thread, and all points taken and mostly agree with, but these are some pretty reductionist takes on what RNG offers.

Hover Shot is a pain in the ***, though really has no bearing on TF, Flaming Arrow, or Savage blade builds, but point taken.

Pretty sure RNG is required for at least 2 of the T3 Ody NMs, and IIRC, was instrumental in the latest MT clears, the absolute hardest content in the game. I get it takes more work to gear and more brain power than spamming your jinpu/fudo macro, but every job has its issues.

I probably like the job more than the average player, so I'll admit I have some bias, but reducing it to a savage blade job simply because it's the best at it is kind of narrow-minded imo.

Still choosing Lehko's because Arma AM3 goes brrrr.

at least finally CoP expansion gets an ultimate weapon

With "just came out" you mean (almost) 3 years ago, right? :-P
They were added in the May 2023 patch.

I personally don't see them being on par or close to primes, if they are then shame on SE.
Being on par with other REMAs though well uhm, situationally why not? I don't wish for that to happen, honestly, but I can see that happening for real.

I only just started trying to do a bit of Limbus regularly as of a week or two ago as HQ1s are fairly available/affordable now - I kind of wish augments required alternating matter or something rather than two every time. Two just feels steep considering the amount of time it can take to get one if you're unlucky. I know it should even out over time but even just setting out for 'one of each matter per week' can turn into quite the ordeal.

That said a lot of that probably would be fine or at least feel better if Limbus didn't require so much time spent running, sneaking, load screening, menu interacting, etc. It is a very frictiony activity.

Not a lot of content where you can make use of hover shot stacks since a lot of stuff is just zerged / cheesed.

If you're just looking to Savage blade spam, there are other jobs that can do it and add more for the party like Warcry from WAR or Angon from DRG.

If you've done more than 20 hours of limbus already, you aren't the target of easing so don't worry about it just get back to grindin'

Which is crazy to me, it's such a strong job.