Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

initially i beleive bind worked similar to the mobs variant but it was obviously taken advantage of so it was changed to what it is now, same for stuff like enfeeb resistance building not being around until later on for the same reason.

Mob gets to cheat because it doesnt have potentially up to 18 or more players worth of actions it can do at any given time. That said i did hope that they would go look back and bind/break and apply the veil formula to it where you could hit the mob x times before it broke based on users skill and maybe potency

Not questioning the need for resistance building from a balance point of view, just saying the mitigation is not ideal, breaks immersion, and makes the experience frustrating.

I am all in favor of a system where you can't stun lock mobs while fighting them, but I want it to be symmetrical between Players and Enemies.

Hell, it could be as simple as: if an enfeeble gets resisted, some damage is taken instead. Have that scale well and you can reach a state where players have to consider that during the second half of the fight they might not be enfeebled as much but they'll be taking extra dmg, presenting healers and tanks some interesting decisions.

Is there a way to keep lockstyle despite weapon type changing? Currently idling in a club but if switch to a staff it breaks it.

Dressup addon in Windower, but in the base game there is absolutely no way to do this, no.

Thank you. That's what I needed!

What's a good macc and enfeebling skill level to land Silence on Dyna D Wave 3 trash and NMs?

Getting my RDM up to snuff, and I know the NMs kind of need Immunobreak or Stymie mostly, but having issues on the regular mage mobs too.

bit vague on my part but emp+2/3 with AF body/relic head, good macc skill+macc weapon + shield or macc OH and the basic MND/macc accessories are about it along with a good macc food. Can build down from these sets https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/55385/rdm-end-game-gear-guide/ though i like to keep chironic hose in anything with an immunobreak chance on it.

Depending on where your gear is at some of the mages or RUN can take an additional cast, usually immunobreak will trigger on the 1st if my memories right though and the 2nd cast will land. NMs, especially casters can take more, BLU and RDM in particular you want to save CS/Stymie for as both can ruin your day if not taken care of asap, rest you can just immunobreak down normally imo as they dont have near as much immediate danger

Anyone ever meet their LS in person?

Not the whole LS at once, but a few people here and there over the years.

I met one of my best friends on FFXI. Even had them in my bridal party.

I've met one person briefly at AX

When I was younger I really wanted to meet my LSmates in person, for a time. Closest we ever got was sharing IRL pics and Facebooks and stuff.

Always curious about my XI buddies' lives, but still yet to meet up with any solely XI buddies in person.

On the reverse I had several RL friends play, but none really lasted.
1. Played for a few years. Was never any good at FFXI, just played MNK.
2. Played a fair amount for about 18months, just about did some sky at 75 as the hardest content he did.
3. Barely lasted 5 minutes, think he tried to level BLM on Mandies and was targetting things that were too high level and raging when he died.
4. Played a bit, reached Valkurm Dunes levelling, didn't play beyond that.
5. Didn't last 5 minutes, huge WoWfag so just carried on with that.

Not everyone, but a few people across the years, yes!

Anyone know what this is about?
Seems sudden and reactive

That seems to contradict an earlier report where someone said if they open a box with full inventory, they cant get their matter and its lost.

So either they lied (and I'd prefer not to go that route) or SE ninja patched it so if you open a box with full inventory the matter will stay in the box. I'm not sure how usage of the furnace ties into matter in inventory though.


Alternatively, someone was playing with packets and found a way to upgrade their accessories without wasting matter. I didnt see any bug reports on the JP side about the furnace being locked out.

Being a new thing there was certainly a packet manipulation exploit to max out instantly

The wording doesn't really lend itself to a packet exploit. I haven't done Limbus, but the matter are a real item so don't you need to trade them to the furnace to upgrade? If they hadn't been received yet, you wouldn't have them to trade.

If it was an exploit, I'd guess it's probably something more stupid like when the card exchange was busted for trading RUN cards. Talk to furnace while still in the crate and it gives you free upgrades with no packet shenanigans because they halfway implemented a system that checked stock in box before deciding to use a real item. Dunno.

I guess if you see someone running around with a maxed cape, you'd have your answer. Perfectly likely it was just fixing something that costs you rewards, though.

Someone earlier said if you open the crate with full inventory, you wont get the matter and its lost.

Also, theres no "stock in box", if I'm understanding what you're trying to say, you cant store matter anywhere.

I cant find the post though, about opening crate with full inventory? I checked the limbus thread and the oct 2025 threads, even the Sept 2025 thread. Did someone else delete their account too??

It was a loose guess at a potential error they could've made. Perhaps the initial intent was to store whether you earned an upgrade and handle it through the furnace directly instead of using an item. If there was an exploit, that would be my best guess.

Obviously it doesn't matter much, since if it was exploit related it's presumably fixed now.

Well now that they added the matter and that it's 100% you would not have the ability to upgrade anything without it now

Because you would get one on your first chest.

You also couldn't talk to the furnace before completing one chest

Just a weird check to add at this point

The NPC wouldn't interact with you if you didn't have enough points for the armor piece before

I couldnt find any related bug report on the NA or JP side, so thats why I was leaning towards an exploit fix.

I wonder if it was due to this "bugged" +4 that a JP person reported getting a few weeks ago, shortly after the Accessories came out. I haven't heard/seen anything other than this though:
They claim they simply traded the +3 to the Furnace and it spat this out. I will try find link and post on edit.

Edit: https://x.com/bersha14/status/1972180222184481265

Do we have any info what that yellow text means and possibly what those elements mean? I wonder if this is stuff they're planning for the future.

(vs beasts attack +4)

I know you wondered what the augment was

Posted that fast asking. The quickness.

against beasts: atk+4 i think, so looks like it spat out a evolith augment somehow. SE spaghettis code strikes again

There is literally zero chance that's real. As is this is unequivocally not an accidental sneak peak of whats to come. Bug, possible, of course. But there's no reason anything remotely like that should exist.

Among the myriad reasons,

Random augments on storable gear is for all intents and purposes, impossible.
Stars don't exist as a socket
The furnaces are infact not synergy related in any way
Double element instead of element/socket
They're not going to revive content they abandoned 15 years ago (evoliths)

Finally, they're bringing synergy mechanics to limbus augments!!

(Officially confirmed by a screenshot of a UI with text I can't read)

Several individual members. One friend I met on FFXI back in the Aht Urghan days (but who quit around the end of the Abyssea era) is now a good RL friend who I talk to all the time, we've taken international trips together.

Met up at a restaurant with another long time LS mate who lives near my sister one time when I visited her, went to a FF fan convention with another current LS member. At the PAX convention in 2023 I ran into the leader of an LS I did events with back in the day, he was there exhibiting his indie game at the show and it was nice to be able to introduce ourselves in person.

No bad experiences so far.

My guess was there was a way to manipulate your inventory such that you only had to consume Temenos/Apollyon Units to upgrade while having only collected one or two matters. Maybe recycle bin shenanigans with Matter's previous spot in inventory or something? Idk.

The matter obtainment rate is super bad, even if you have NM credit, and while it has been 6 weeks since implementation of accessories/matter, so it is, theoretically possible to have obtained 30 matters legitimately, you can only increase your unit cap by 15k per week, and it takes like 630k units total to upgrade to R30.

So it's even just super sketchy when you see people with R20 earrings. That's like 230k units and 21 matters spent (an intial matter is required to make the accessories). I think there must have been an exploit, since I have seen people with R20 earrings. And that would mean they've only missed getting 9 total matters...

It'd be one thing if they were just some joe blow too, but when they're also armed to the teeth with R30 and Stage 5s, it seems suspicious. What's more likely, the guy who has it all is also insanely lucky, or the guy who has it all is using whatever means necessary to be as high on the totem pole as possible?