You'll Shoot Your Eye Out! - New FFXI RNG Guide

Also, anyone test if switching weapons out mid-fight resets the bonus?

Thank you for the supplementary clarifications. I was honestly not expecting this work on WS's. Was trying to see where the regular rattk cap would hit. The description threw me off as well. +100% dmg on WS takes the cake... the boss slayer is back!
how did you manage to keep your target alive that long to hit that 80k last stand on it? do the frogs have a lot more hp? I want to go mess around with all the ultimate weapons see how the WS are doing. Let me know where would be the best place to do this

I like the way Falkirk did it in the BST thread in the gearset section. Listed the top set, and then included alternatives/additions section (like a good handful).



This allows people to see the top set they should strive for, but can make use of something else in the meantime instead of asking "what do I use if I don't have [item]". You'll probably get it anyways (and people should know how to do basic downgrades), but it should be minimal.

IMO, This style of gearset is very helpful, because the job I am gearing might be my 2nd or 3rd or 18th job, so I don't really NEED it to be the BEST of the best. And I might not particularly care to go after that item if I have something else nearby that is just "as" good. But those who absolutely want the best options don't have the set downgraded for "the minority". Just my 2c

Hi everyone, I am monitoring this thread closely for feedback on the new skill and I will try to have it updated into the node today.


Regarding the Trueflight set do you guys think I should just slap the Weatherspoon ring in the set? I think it will six one way or half dozen the other with people asking "What should I use if I don't have Weathersppon Ring?" I am open to a more 'user friendly' suggestion as well.

With these updates I'm not even sure weatherspoon is as valuable as it was. Sure for single target mobs like dyna volte it's still great but whenever you can take advantage of hover shot it's value will drop off because you can only do so much damage. Same thing with annihilator, although I already thought it was a massively overrated weapon to begin with. I think this update will change some of the RNG gear optimization around.

Hover shot only works for single target. You wont automatically cap damage on everything now because of hover shot.
I dont get you Annihilator argument tho. You mean Hover nerfs Anni in some way? If anything 50k+ Coronach with white damage higher than AM3 arma before this update sounds like low hate mechanic on WS can be even better? Like I have seen Arma and Fomal pulling hate before on Lamia Ambuscade for example. Now you can use Anni for much more damage than those weapons were doing before Hover shot, but with less enmity. Sounds rather cool.

I didn't say hover shot nerfs anything. I'm saying that the enmity decrease you get from it plus the changes to decoy shot made the perks anni brought to the table less impactful. I've always thought it was a very niche / mostly garbage weapon but now the value it had is diminished by these changes (plus ikenga gear). Same thing with weatherspoon ring, on mobs where you don't build stacks it will still be great but when you can build them it won't add as much because damage caps at 99k.

Idk, Increase in damage from Hover Shot is relatively much higher than increase in enmity- from it. So if you were getting hate before Hover Shot, you will probably get hate in the same fights with Hover Shot. Anni should probably be useful for exactly same instances that it was useful before.

It's going to be a challenge finding a mob to test that on, any ideas?

The enmity- has been tested already?

I didn't say hover shot nerfs anything. I'm saying that the enmity decrease you get from it plus the changes to decoy shot made the perks anni brought to the table less impactful. I've always thought it was a very niche / mostly garbage weapon but now the value it had is diminished by these changes (plus ikenga gear). Same thing with weatherspoon ring, on mobs where you don't build stacks it will still be great but when you can build them it won't add as much because damage caps at 99k.

well, no, but early impressions and the nature of the ability is that it slowly ramps up - ergo you're getting minimal enm- until you've stacked enough.

since you can't use decoy shot alongside it, you can't really make use of the boosted enm- for initial hate.

does that make sense? am i making sense? it adds up in my head but i'm *** at explaining

It's going to be a challenge finding a mob to test that on, any ideas?

Tried on hurkan but he started spamming tp moves that erased velocity and hover shot so i just killed it at that point