Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I thought I submitted this PR for TradeNPC already. Doesn't it accept * for the quantity argument?

/tradenpc * "Wind Crystal" "Ephemeral Moogle"

For instance

If I knew I wouldn't have asked, don't keep up on the update notes

I see that you added it on the github, but I don't have the merger and icy hasn't officially merged it

Idk actual time frame (maybe it was from last year), someone was linking me a Discord blurb where you tested whether or not Haste from GEO/other source overpowered Slow or not.

You took a RDM and GEO to ballista, and did full power GEO Haste, and then casted Slow II from RDM.

Results were your recast still went up by like 13 seconds, so the Haste did not impact the penalty from slow, at least as far as recast was concerned.

I was just wondering if it was the same for attack speed?

Whats the actual optimal amber light to aim for, for farming augmented items in abyssea?

Going too high seems to always give me key items + temp items and thats it, I stop seeing augmented items.

But they dont seem to show up at low amounts either.

Not sure where I wanna aim for...

I feel like I see them the most with Small Gold Pyxis. The Abyssea Light page on the old Wiki seems to have some info on it.

Trying to target farm wivre hairpins in konschtat, so trying to maximize my odds of getting refresh aug.

I saw some people on random threads here and there indicate that while you get augment items from lower tier boxes, the "better" augments come from max tier boxes, I guess?

Anyone able to speak as to the truth vs *** of that?

I was getting the occasional hairpin at max amber light, I ended up seeing 9 of them total so far in about 2 hrs of cleaving so not an awful rate, I guess.

Honestly the worst part about konschtat is there just doesnt seem to be any particularily good spot to cleave, almost every enemy pack is spread out really wide so its difficult to gather em up

I ended up going with the 2 sets of tonberries, they aggro by sight but at least their density is okay so I can gather all of them up, I dunno if folks have anything better theyd recommend.

If you're looking for an all jobs refresh headpiece, why not go for Null Mask?

Unless it's for 75cap stuff I guess.

Wonder which takes longer. I got both my masks on VE without too many runs though...

There is also the Stearc Subligar from "Brygid the Stylist Strikes Back" in Aby-Altepa. This can be augmented with +1 refresh and is all jobs. It has been ages, but I remember this was much quicker that the hairpin for me (although I wanted both, of course, lol).

Not sure if it is low level all job Refresh you are looking for. Unless you use many jobs and all bags are pretty full, you can also get at least +2 Refresh on all main armor slots via DM augments much easier now that you get 6 DM augs every day.

I'm very aware other refresh gear exists.

For discussion of the "why", please see this thread here: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/58581/hp-down-odyssey-chest-farming-set/

The tl:;dr is I need to get my hp down to 1/1 which means items like null mask which have hp+ on them actively ruin the build.

Need to use wivre hairpin + stearc subligar + sybil scarf to get 3tic refresh in gear and 1/1 hp.

So, back to the question I actually asked:

The only information really is more items come from ~100 and more key items come from cap

Light doesn't affect the augment
Oldwiki seems to suggest light might affect which augs you get. I don't necessarily buy that, but if so, then max it out.

The more amber you get, the bigger the loot pool will be. So if the odds of the aug are better, it's cancelled out by the odds of the drop.

Can't really speak to "truth" as my experience is anecdotal but back in abyssea era I did actually farm myself a refresh hairpin. Spent several free evenings to get it, and when I farmed back then I always capped amber.

Anyone able to vaguely speak as to the rarity of the refresh Aug on the hairpin itself?

Like vaguely how many hairpins you had to see before you saw refresh?

IE I atm am 0/11 now on it, I have 11 hairpins in my inv

it's pretty rare, 1-3% range if i had to guess based on having farmed a few when abyssea was fresh

Thanks!

Also RIP my sanity, I need 3 of these @-@;

Anyone have a recommended area to cleave in konsht?

I'm doing tonberries atm but open to hearing if any other spots have better density.

I'd say I average about 6 gold boxes per cleave atm? Not terrible but man, konsht's density just sucks so much

Cleaving abyssea blows. Leeches are... acceptable.

Everything else is dogshit. Mobs that aren't sight aggro, do link, and have good density are nearly non-existant.
(having to pull them all with diaga isn't a great answer, either)

You can try blood aggro ghosts or magic aggro corpselight.

Its less an issue of aggro type for me, and more an issue of density imo

Even the densest of the monster packs (tonberries) just dont have much, I have to pull both types of the tonberries together to get a half decent cleave, but thats still not even that many.

Compared to other abyssea zones where I could pull more mobs in less time purely cuz of how many there are in a given space.

I havent checked the ghosts out though, maybe their density is better, but the tonberries at least are fairly densely packed.

Aggro type is very relevant because for sight aggro you have to walk in front of each one. Blood aggro range is much further and doesn't require you to be in front of them. Sound aggro is OK but not perfect, since it's shorter than blood or magic.

Ideally you want something that links, but alas...

What job are you cleaving with?

I have several jobs that can cleave, mostly I use Aeolian Edge.

Pld, Cor, Thf, Dnc, Brd, I can AE cleave on any of those in abyssea.

I also have a war and can traditional cleave.

I mostly prefer pld, but I don't find much difference between jobs as long as they have 18% movespeed gear

Cor is nice for the initial getting around and building amber phase though.

blu is great for aby cleave because if you one shot mobs without claiming you don't change your lights.

Blus selling point is more that you can just run around and subduction. No "cleaving" as it were, you just cast as you go.

But that's where mob density is a failure. AoEing 2 mobs at a time, is junk. Non-sight aggro and linking is priority one.
(geo and blm are strong enough too, but less optimal amber/pearl gainers)

Actually i was asking because as a melee you need to run to a place so you can stack mobs so youre not dealing with “unable to see” messages whereas blu can just laugh and subduction em all down without a care.

Man... don't remind me about that hairpin. Same would be said for La theine's TH+1 taru sash up until Chaac belt was released :p.
Be sure to reset Tonberry hate after you're finished lol. Although I agree with tonberries being the better cleaving option as far as aby konschtat goes, but hey at least you can sell those Dark Rings for 33k a pop.

Yeah unironically dark rings are decent gil, I just vendored like 20 of em, that's 660k passively on those alone!

Recommendations for best food for magic weaponskills, that doesnt cost a fortune?

I'm mostly just eyeing Gyudo, for WSD and the double attack to improve skillchain'ing.

I think it outperforms Fruit Parfait?

Mostly for the context of doing Leaden > AE > Leaden > Wildfire 4step double dark SC in sortie on cor.

I doubt food will make a difference either way but...

Fruit Parfait is cheap
Cehuetzi Snow cone is better
Best is probably STP, one of the 50 pizzas/pastas.

Is fruit parfait actually going to do better than gyudon though?

I feel like WSD+5 is gonna do pretty nice for magic WSes, since you typically dont get as much WSD on your sets compared to phys weaponskills.

Then again, Matk also is a pretty chase stat, hmm

So uhh, the Phorcys Schuhs, right?

They say, "Enemy TP accuulation -10% when physical damage taken."

What, uhh, what exactly does that do?