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'Bout; Slightly less worse each time
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By Sylph.Shadowlina 2025-11-21 03:41:57
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By Quetzalcoatl.Jakey 2025-11-21 04:43:23
guess that makes it a lot easier to get rewards on mules while probably still leaving you out of luck if aiming for title.
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By Phoenix.Velicity 2025-11-21 07:09:13
What have we learned here? First rule of Vanabout You only do what Vanabout tells you. *insert Fight Club gif here*
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By Phoenix.Enochroot 2025-11-21 09:42:40
* play mandy mania
* complete "only the best"
* complete a sheol
* materiel storm, again
* sinister reign
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By Asura.Sylveni 2025-11-21 09:59:30
Is it just me or does getting plaudits this time around feel… slow.
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By Sylph.Shadowlina 2025-11-21 10:05:47
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* play mandy mania
* complete "only the best"
* complete a sheol
* materiel storm, again
* sinister reign Just to add. It's touch the ending of a Sheol and to fully complete all 3 waves of Sinister reign.
Reward today was 80.
Current max is: 680.
Silver reward is now claimable with the patch.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-11-21 10:06:33
They cut down on the big number dailies. Though to be fair, most people were finishing up after a week.
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* play mandy mania Did they make this minigame less shitty? I remember when it first came out, it was super *** slow.
Asura.Eiryl
By Asura.Eiryl 2025-11-21 10:08:10
Is it just me or does getting plaudits this time around feel… slow.
It's a lot of busywork instead of just do something in ambuscade.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-11-21 10:18:05
Oh look, Eiryl wrong, again
Its "slow" because you can only get 80 plaudits daily and 280 for doing all the non-repeatables. Heres my post from May's vanabout about how many plaudits available:
Dailies: 130 plaudits per day
Non-repeatables: 510
So yes, thats why its slow. It has nothing to do with "its a lot of busy work instead of jerking off in Ambuscade".
Also
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* complete a sheol Eiryl in shambles, he wont be able to do this one.
By Chimerawizard 2025-11-21 10:20:09
They cut down on the big number dailies. Though to be fair, most people were finishing up after a week.
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* play mandy mania Did they make this minigame less shitty? I remember when it first came out, it was super *** slow. it's still that slow, you using fastcs to get through it quicker or maybe just don't feel the hurt since you aren't trying to get the rewards so you only did the game once instead of 50x.
I wish they gave us more different campaign ops that way the higher tiers would unlock and i could get them into my completed missions tab instead of the stuff that either we do anyway or won't have any effect on mastery rank.
quest busywork, fine. sinister reign, odyssey? been there done that a thousand times.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-11-21 10:25:11
it's still that slow, you using fastcs to get through it quicker or maybe just don't feel the hurt since you aren't trying to get the rewards so you only did the game once instead of 50x. That was my problem when I did it the first time it came out.
I dont think fastcs worked on it though? Unless thats been fixed too.
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By Cerberus.Cahlum 2025-11-21 10:25:29
So has anyone claimed the AF voucher and confirmed if its a full set?
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By Sylph.Shadowlina 2025-11-21 10:29:09
Is it just me or does getting plaudits this time around feel… slow.
It's a lot of busywork instead of just do something in ambuscade. To me it's that theres a lot of random things that are heavily time gated, which are made worse on high population servers. Aside from day one, every objective has been completable within the hour, if you have no queue and no competition.
Will say though, putting several of these behind Adoulin missions, Rhapsody and weekly/daily resets. (Sparks, Odyssey) feels incredibly mean, when this is incredibly rewarding for a new / returnee.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-11-21 10:30:59
Well, just doing the 10/20 pointers will clear silver, and that's what new players need.
It will keep them from gold, which gold sucks anyway. So it's working perfectly, even if it's mean.
Doing enough bout to silver twice should be worth something significantly better than 3 random earrings (just logging in gets you 16 earrings) 2 Apex mobs worth of exemplar points. 1 free sortie. or 1 run worth of segments.
Everything in the gold category is a slap in the face.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2025-11-21 10:44:21
Also
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* complete a sheol Eiryl in shambles, he wont be able to do this one.
I don't care if an asteroid collides with our planet or if we all go to war with Matrix Revolution-style robots. Don't EVER let this die.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-11-21 10:52:38
Already did it. You don't have to fight anything.
Never have had any issue with odyssey. I don't need segments for what I do.
(If I did, I wouldn't do it with trusts)
The problem I have with odyssey is other people should immediately start grinding it but the entry point higher than it needs to be for that.
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By Phoenix.Enochroot 2025-11-21 11:24:38
Mandy mini-game requires a play-through until the end - can't just play and immediately give up, lol.
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By Lakshmi.Haaydee 2025-11-21 11:34:15
So has anyone claimed the AF voucher and confirmed if its a full set?
Its a full set. It behaves in the same way as the AA armor kupons. If you trade it and then dont select a reward you get it back as a KI.
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By LightningHelix 2025-11-21 11:36:04
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »Mandy mini-game requires a play-through until the end - can't just play and immediately give up, lol. ...that's super misleading, because you get the jingly as you capture the Mandragoras. And like, it makes sense, but still funny.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-11-21 11:57:43
Also
Phoenix.Enochroot said: »* complete a sheol Eiryl in shambles, he wont be able to do this one.
I don't care if an asteroid collides with our planet or if we all go to war with Matrix Revolution-style robots. Don't EVER let this die. If you have a contact at NASA: ask them if there is ever an asteroid heading to earth that it must be named Nostos.
By Nascia 2025-11-21 12:25:29
"Ra'Kaznar Plate Fragment x1"
Is this really just another one time Sortie entry, up in the gold tier of rewards?
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-11-21 12:27:27
Yes
By Nascia 2025-11-21 12:28:45
Good, I was looking for something stupid to waste my time on. It's why I play this game, after all.
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Asura.Eiryl
By Asura.Eiryl 2025-11-21 16:13:08
ugh this dumbass mancala mandragora game is so stupid
Someone make a lua to just autolose this thing
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By Asura.Certainly 2025-11-22 03:12:19
I understand that it takes 5 minutes of your time, but the Mandragora Mania game is actually pretty smart and simple at the same time. Played it many hours when it first came out.
By LightningHelix 2025-11-22 05:30:13
ugh this dumbass mancala mandragora game is so stupid
Someone make a lua to just autolose this thing mmmbot.lua already exists (god help me) but I think it hardcoded packets to look for Chacharoon
yes I'm just posting this because it has a downright incredible name
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-11-22 06:00:07
I understand that it takes 5 minutes of your time, but the Mandragora Mania game is actually pretty smart and simple at the same time. Played it many hours when it first came out.
It's just a slightly modified mancala
All the correct moves are predetermined as soon as the pattern is revealed. When playing against an AI that will always make the optimal move.
By Dodik 2025-11-22 07:30:28
When XI itself does not waste quite enough of your time it needs to invent mini-games within the game to do it.
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By Asura.Certainly 2025-11-22 09:01:59
More of the same:
- Donations
- Fear of the Dark
- A Feather in One's Cap
- Stock and Awe
- Unwanted Orbs
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By GooseFactor 2025-11-22 09:52:24
More of the same:
- Donations
- Fear of the Dark
- A Feather in One's Cap
- Stock and Awe
- Unwanted Orbs
Same as the first set. Seems we might have our pattern complete. If so, tomorrow should be:
-Monster Rearing
-500+ Lightning damage in ambu
-Auction
-Gobbie Box
-Incursion
So, I don't think there needs to be a new thread. That was the point of not calling this "the fourth bout" etc.
Everything is basically locked in, as it were. The objectives may change slightly but by and large you can assume they're going to be more or less the same.
Do (element) damage.
Do a skillchain and/or burst.
Live through a buscade.
Cure and/or Raise someone.
Do one of the five minor bcnm/orb fights. (use bsts/pups for automatic wins)
Fish and/or craft.
Run the bird.
Not expecting anything radically different. The event is the same, the rewards are the same, no point in much discussion really.
The sortie crates are not special in any way. Still random. Segment campaign is still spectacularly mediocre. We will certainly hit the 150% goals. Blah blah blah.
I think we all know the deal by now. And as much fun as it was to shit on the first 3, I expect all the fun has been sucked out of it going forward.
Everything is pretty well explained.
(VBD) Are dailies
(VB) Are Totals for the whole event
It's all simple shit, Win an Ambuscade. Don't die in ambuscade. Do obscure minigame. Pet/poke/etc your rearing monster. Chocobo dig. Fish.
Don't forget to wake up early and do Day Zero Dailies.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/vanabout/
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/The_Swarm
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/The_Gathering_Storm
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Mercenary_Camp
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Heroes_Combat
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Heroines_Combat
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Heroines%27_Holdfast
https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/A_Chocobo_Riding_Game (don't pick ride to/from windy unless you're cheating~)
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