Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I think a fluke 4 str would rip on them actually. My physical shoes atm are medari brogues with 5 STR. I'm honestly not sure what shoes to use. I have a lot of options.

When chosing skillup food should I account merits or base skill?

I always went with base skill.
I personally only ever really used Magic Skill Up food for SCH where Light/Dark Arts puts you way beyond your actual skill and using food for the lower base skill always worked very well. I never tried using the food for merit/Dark/Light Arts skill so I could be wrong, but I don't think that I am.

Hope that helps you.

Hello, im kinda new to spellcast and i was wondering is there a way so if a spell is still on recast timer, but you hit macro for it to make it put you back in idle gear?

Speaking of Spellcast, is there a guide anywhere on how to get started? I want to try it out but I don't have a clue where to start in regard to xml's and stuff.

Short answer is no. There is not really a practical way and certainly wouldn't be worth all the hassle and possible mistakes the system would make since there are things spellcast can't see or account for. An easier way would be if you accidentally hit a macro to simply have an Idle macro that would run your rules and put you back in the proper set like idle gear or tp gear.

Edit: I should note that it may be possible to make something with the new Lua but that's a thing for the future for now.

I've seen a few resources in the past and if I can find any I'll post them but I don't recall any of them being exceptionally nice for teaching you how to write good xmls but they may help in getting things first set up and at least functional. The best way is to look through the lists of variables and rules and then just hop in and start looking at people's xmls and see what does what and also read a few XML help threads. By seeing what mistakes people are making, you can learn a lot about what to do and what not to do.

If you have a question about something in particular you can post here or in one of many other places like BG's thread.

Bleh, ok. Thanks for the quick response :)

I'm considering getting the Ultimate Collection but was wondering what the installation process for that would look like. I already have all previous add ons and expansions - would I have to basically reinstall everything or would I be able to simply install Seekers of Adoulin? Hoping some ppl on here got the Ultimate Abyssea addition and can shed some light on this based on how that worked.

Is +5 blue skill better for cures than 7 MND? I'm thinking Relic head vs Chelona Hat. Don't have the AMK hat since it's currently tied to my mages.

Blue magic skill doesn't affect Blu cures, healing magic skill does.

And 1 Mnd ~ 5 skill

Hmm, I knew healing skill did, couldn't remember if blue skill had any effect. Oh well, I`ll stick with Chelona for now then, thanks.

it should be noted that blu cures still follow the old formulas, unfortunately.

kind of a nub question, but how does Anhur Robe fare as far as usage for WHM, BLM or BRD? I usually only see it benefitting RDM, SCH and SMN.

In terms of WHM, still best in slot Enhancing Magic (tied with manasa chasuble) and second highest Fast Cast piece they can wear (highest being Marduk's jubbah +1). If you got it, use it, but can be replaced down the line withe above pieces of gear if you have them (or just want to carry a single item versus the two listed).

It's a great fast cast piece to have for any job, especially if it's on your mule. There are a couple upgrades you can get, but mine don't ever leave my inventories.

Onto my question(kinda tech related, sorry if wrong area), I've heard SSD lifespans are drastically reduced if you write to them too frequently. My first one crapped out recently, less than a year old. I monitor hardware temperatures and do semi-regular dusting. I've since replaced it. However, I had my windower folder on the old SSD. In retrospect, I'm questioning whether it was particularly wise to have 8 characters writing logger files to it. Could anyone who's more knowledgable about the technology give me some information there? For the time being, I put my windower folder on another drive.

Also it should be noted the FC on marduk body+1 is only 1% more.

Anhur isn't terribly useful for brd's songs as you have other options for that, if you cast any other spells it is. I have 2 fastcast bodies on brd. One for songs and one for normal spells. Though if you are capped on song casting time you could save some space by using a FC piece in some slots instead.


You just need to change the install location during install. It may require you to uninstall first but I've not tested this so I'm not sure. But during the install you should see a screen like this:


So if you have another drive, say drive F and you want to put it on there just browse to the location and select it. This is for windower 4 but it should be very similar in other versions too.

Yeah think I would rather get Marduk's +1 honestly. I'll have to get Salvage access for my WHM/BLM/BRD alt at some point for it

You'd still need a second body for enhancing skill. The anhur is a really good all around piece, despite it not having refresh.

besieged is taking forever....

anyone know of a quick way to snag some imperial standing outside of that?

Sorry, think you missed the question.

I'm asking if keeping windower on my solid state drive will have a negative impact on it's lifespan, due to the early death of my last drive. This concern is caused by the fact that I regularly log on 8(or more) characters and keep logger running fulltime, presumably resulting in a very large number of writes.

If you kill an archaic mirror in mamook/arrapago/halvung and take the mirror it drops(100%?) to a NPC, you get 1000 IS. I'm not sure if this is repeatable, but you can do the nearest mamook one in a matter of 10 minutes counting travel using voidwatch warp. They seem to have a decently long respawn time(4h?).

definitely endlessly repeatable.

duelist's tabard +2 says hi.

Good to know, I was thinking it had a conquest tally cooldown for some reason.

Heh, guess I'll have to aim for that then (again). x.x

what about elemental skill+ though? Unless I go with Morrigan's +1 I guess, with Duelist's for precast.

good call, I'll hit that up instead of waiting around like a tool.

thanks.

If those writes are being written to the same bits over and over and over then yes, if they are being written to different ones then no. I can't say for sure but logically, it isn't going in and rewriting anything as each write session is "permanent" as the logger info doesn't change, it just is adding more to it each time and each logger file is separate so there aren't multiple logger plugins accessing and saving the same parts. Each one would write in sequence and thus would avoid the issue of constant little rewrites which is the issue with SSD as it has a limited lifetime.

Even with 8 sessions, the amount of data being written isn't* a huge deal compared to the on goings of stuff like Page file temps and other OS related crap which wasn't really designed with SSD's in mind but rather to conserve ram by utilizing diskspace. So if you haven't already, you may look in to that to extend the life of your drive.

But I don't really think that windower is not going to see a large improvement from being on the SSD drive anyway so you may as well keep it off it.

I adjusted the page file and confirmed TRIM when I first got it, guess it was just bad luck. Appreciate the explanation, thank you.