Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I thought Spirit Lantern (BLM ammo from that fight) gave magic damage +10% for its enchantment's duration, but I see that bgwiki and ffxiclopedia have it at just +10MAB.

If its a token based incremental reward for clearing the fight, I highly doubt they're going to parse logs going back to September 2019 to retroactively grant credit. Even if they were going to, I'd rather they didnt:
These people cant even fix the *** ??? in Temenos.

These are also the same people that were like
"We should let people NPC their Saphires for gil. What price should we set"

"Less gil than it costs to use a home point."

Why can't I trade in earrings for a case
Or sapphire for a case

Or x case for case +1

Because thats not what a masochist would want

I wanted to say they will use the Decanter system, but that seems unlikely since Malignance is marked with Rare tag, and Sinister Reign gear is Ex. There would need to be a system in place to make sure you get a drop of malignance that isn't one you already have, and i doubt they will put that much effort into it.

Maybe just an item that has a chance of dropping from Lilith HTBF that can be redeemed at a deeds NPC or Bonanza Moogle or something for a piece of gear of your choice.

I'd settle for a consolation system that rewards longtime sortie goers with the ability to trade 3-of-any-earring of a tier for one of the same tier.

i.e. 3x MNK+2 + SCH+2 + NIN+2 = +2 <anyjob> of your choice.

This would help players who get earrings for jobs they will never play, you can trade them in for something useful. It also gives a purpose for repeat earrings you can't do anything with besides feel bad and sell them or throw them away (mule them).

This system already has precedent with Empyrean Footwear exchange and Omen Card trades. Would be a harmless system for most players and would benefit people who have been running for years and still cannot get a +2 that they give a damn about.

Just make it a Kupon KI to choose any armor you want. Stop ffff over complicating things that don't need to be complicated.

3 would be too extreme, 2 maybe... or +2 and +1 and NQ of the same job for +2 of another.

There should be 2 exchanges

1) 10 earrings of the same type, to get an earring of the same type of a higher tier
2) 3 earrings of any type, to get a specific (your choice) earring of the same tier

There, fixed the earring system!
Each time you get a new one there's a new "roll" on the stats of course, so you can keep tryin getting the same +2 until you get the stats you want (max?)

Or Reset the sortie RoE each month.

Why are Pil's Tuille 3M when it's 5% drop rate?

3 idiots decided to make 5/5 sets on the same day spiking it

Stupid. Are the FFXI DB numbers meaningless for VW though? Doesn't account for procs etc?

Close but that's too inventory intensive unless you can store the earrings at an npc.

Probably should be X cases for a case +1 and Y case +1 for case +2
Or 4 (same) <job> earrings for a tier up for 3 (mixed) <job> earrings or 2 (same) <job> earrings for different earring of the same tier.
X= 30, Y= 10 maybe?

Cases can (and should) be a larger number if doing exchanges since they stack and also yield the same random chances, this works out to be 300 cases to get a +2 from all NQ, or 600 (worst case) for the job you want. If you can sacrifice some inventory I think it'd be a bit faster if you're lucky. (still painful but better than we have now!)

Not that it matters, as said system probably won't be implemented. The dev team is Keith Moon and we're a hotel room at this point.

Lmao. Nice one.

I did way more than my fair share of VW, most with 3-6 chars. The craft material like Pil's Tuille drop rate without capped lights (with cobalt/rubicund cells) is quite low. Best to stock up during campaign if possible. Heavy metal, riftdross and riftcinder are not affected the same way.

Pil's Tuille is a pretty common drop in trove, that's where most of them come from.

These *** DRK hands are costing me a bombshell. How can there be 9 handshards on AH with a history of 200-350k and I not be able to get one for 450k?? fffffffffff

Where does, "Winds of Change" play in game?

My memories of the time are pretty vague, but IIRC we knew that the 2716 trade had special dialogue basically instantly (because the special dialogue happens no matter when you do it, Mine Shaft #2716 has always had that number, people are curious idiots) but we didn't know that Lightsday in particular made it rigged in your favor until SE told us so?

That's the part I'm trying to track down.

For heavy metal pouches, the FFXIDB data showed maybe a 4.5% drop rate with ~no light vs. 6% with full light.

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/129316-Voidwatch-cells-What-do-they-do-Do-they-do-things-Lets-find-out?p=6796775&viewfull=1#post6796775

(The data in the DB was flipped, so the posts after the first don't make much sense.)

What's the rate of absorption on the WKR elemental capes and do they stack with the Abyssea elemental sachets' damage absorption?

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/46016/first-and-final-line-of-defense-v20/137#3682264

From what I can tell, there's a few different type of "Absorb damage":

1) Absorb physical damage
2) Absorb specific element (Abyssea Sachet/WKR Capes)
3) Absorb magic damage (Warder's Charm, ect)
4) Absorb damage (PLD/RUN Empy Set effect)

Each of these terms seems to stack with each other but not the same type. Example: I can't use an Abyssea cape/reive cape or I can't use Warder's Charm and Tartarus Platemail together.

While not totally relevant, damage nullification is a separate effect and does stack with "Absorb" damage.

So tried SAM out in Sortie today. Pretty sweet on a lot of it.

Was curious though about Hybrids in basement. On ground floor I was able to hit capped damage without any sort of magic oriented buffing.

But basement bosses were quite different. E, I couldn't get over 30k. G, on the other hand, still hit capped Kokis the whole fight.

Is just a resistance thing on the other bosses, then? And higher MDB cause basement? Is there a method to hit capped hybrids on all basement bosses?

Just higher macc requirements, you need a threnody to get hybrids consistent on E/G

I didn't need threnody or storm on Ninja using Chi/To on AEBF and was still able to hit close to capped damage with standard DD buffs and no magical support/GEO. It's probably a gear issue somewhere, or maybe Frazzle wasn't on? Maybe it didn't MA proc.

Could also just be elements, E for example i think is more susceptible to earth vs wind or fire iirc. Frazzle for E is also unlikely least in my experience its a crapshoot landing it

Threnody and extra macc accessories are needed on Sam, or will get resisted a lot.

"But I don't need that in Dyna". Sortie isn't dyna.

Why do AEBF instead of CG? How much is blade to doing during wind hands?