Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Limbus is 5x runs a week, if you do them, and if you do more there's just points no rewards.

Sortie you need to do daily if you want to finish within a year.

Free play is in 2 weeks for ~10 days. Use it as it's supposed to be used. See if you want to come back and grind like a meth addict again or not.

Save yourself a hundo with the test week

it should start may 15th (or the 14th if youre one of the lucky ones)

Im actually ok with that kind of grind, that's like half a mythic. At least it doesnt feel like ody or omen where if you miss it its wasted money which is good but no goal to work towards. Thanks again

I'm just gonna keep being a broken record here: you don't have to either commit to a static or play totally solo. Every other day there's a post on here from another person asking about solo because they don't want to commit to a static.

If 50 of you got into a linkshell, there's 0% chance you couldn't slap together an 8 boss sortie run with whoever's online, whenever you feel like playing. You could set something up impromptu same-day, or make a twice/week static. Or anything you want.

Also the exaggeration of years of commitment is overblown. You can upgrade JSE to +4 in an hour or two. You can get a piece of the new limbus armor in a single day, probably multiple pieces. If you want to rank it up to max (depending on set, this might be more or less important), it will take a few months (per piece, average), but...it's a returning player. They can take that at their own pace.

Getting a prime weapon stage 4 (usable, very nice weapon) is 60 decent (but not amazing) sortie runs. That will take a year...if you do sortie twice/week...

It takes a year to get the new limbus armor...if you want an entire set, fully augmented.

Wouldn't it be much more disappointing to hear "yeah, the only content released since you left is simple, you'll be finished in 3 months"?

In that case then yeah. There's no gil from either. The gil drops from limbus are pennies. You only lose progression there's no pressure to go farm swarts every day etc

They're both just grinds to be ground

....of course if you do come back, will be penalized for not doing the daily omens for those swarts... so... yeah...

Murky/Alabaster parts are half a mil
shards are 1-2 mil


"pennies"

On Asura the parts are like 20-30k or so. But the Shards are 500k-1m depending on race, week, and stock, so he's incorrect there. You can make like 10m/wk depeneding on the stock.

I expect the mats to go up once they release weapons.

Shards are pennies. They come from naturally clearing each tower asa party, you don't have to go out of your way to farm them.

Where as the loss of not 6x single running swarts every day. Very different feel. Grind out all 10 limbus in one day each week vs ~48 omen runs that must be done at least every 3 days.

Swarts are pennies too, btw, before you go trying to compare them

Wait, is it 5 total between apollyon and temenos or is 5 and 5?

You can open five chests per zone (Temenos and Apollyon) every week. This number can be increased by participating in battle with NMs in each zone, adding one chest per gauge filled for their respective zone.

Already reinstalling and paid. Well kinda knew this was a thing, but at least i wont feel guilted from losing out on money, just pushed back by another day for getting the prime


Back up, it's now more effiencent to do all 6 characters one at a time? No way lmao I am NOT putting that time in again

You're not losing out on anything. The goal/prize just gets delayed by one more day. There's no real hurry, game aint going nowhere. Anyone pushing FOMO on you isn't a real person, just ignore them.




Like this. This is dumb advice. Complete nonsense. Just play the game at your own pace and do whatever you get done during your playtime. Tomorrow you can repeat the process. Or next week. No sane person who touches grass 7x a week runs 6 individual omen swart runs for gil. Get real.

5x per tower. 10 total per week for both towers.

And if you want to complete a Sortie weapon then you have to no-life it if you want to finish within a year.

Idk why anyone would try to justify that, it is what it is. You could go 2x a week for 2-3 years, or daily for 6 months.

"It's content for you to do for those years". That you have to do if you want to finish. This is a walking simulator we're talking about, not exactly peak fun factor content. There are people that were "done" with Sortie after they got all their +3s it was so fun, yet went right back to it when weapons came out.

The choice is do it, or don't.

Up to you.

If it wasn't supposed to feel like FOMO then the KI would simply accumulate like voidstones.

This is the case for basically everything - Omen, Sortie, real-time-limited chests like Limbus, real-time-entry like Dyna[D] - and I maintain a vague hope that the EU's legislation goes far enough to inspire some changes.

(it won't)

It never wasn't. If you take 6 characters in at once to farm 10~15 swart, you're doing it wrong.

6 individual farmers get 60~80

And that's absolutely not advice, don't do it. But it is an accurate statement. If you were fomoing about losing a 6box run, sorry, I just gave you a heart attack by realizing you were losing so much more.

I guess I missed out on the optimal farming, I would have definately did it back then when I had more free time. Asura feels emptier than it used too. Multiboxers are every 2 feet instead of sprinkled now too. Mhura seems dead/slow. Is there a new spot everyone afk's at or is the server shrinking from lack of ppl making characters here now?

It's shrinking, a lot. It doesn't have a choice. Number can only go down.

As for where they are, all botting exemplar in cn bhaf bibiki ranps or their bot died and they're afk in eastern adoulin

Not even, you missed out on theorycrafting. Now everything is solved and optimized, you have the benefit of cumulative community knowledge and don't have to waste time doing suboptimal runs. To your point on Asura, I haven't noticed a major difference in population, multibotters, or activity since the server was closed. PUG yells have been more sparse, but they were also tapering off prior to closure.

Is debuff Geomancy nerfed in the Crystal Paradise master fight?

RMT probably bought hundreds+ of copies of the game before they closed the servers and activated 18 characters on Asura, they still seem to login fairly regular as new accounts.

I don't think the servers are ever going to re-open as they were unless Fujito has a change of heart, the throwaway RMT accounts that pop faster than you can ban and the carpet baggers strip mining smaller servers to resell on Asura was a serious issue. There is no way they can counter that either, outside of closing the target servers. The reselling was a serious issue, to the point you could not get many things on a smaller server.

I guess the only counter would be something like adding a flag to anything sellable, so you can only sell / bazz it on the server it was spawned on. They are too lazy / understaffed to do that though.

If I had to guess, now that the throw away rmt practices are harder it has become more profitable for people who multibox for $ to sell gil and so you're seeing more of that and those people coming back to the game now.

It never stops blowing my mind seeing another brand new 6bot (most often a 4pack) in peacekeeper gear doing adoulin fame every single day when new accounts are blocked.

It's wild. You'd think they'd have run out by now but nope.

The real issue isn't RMT, as much as people like to cry about it. Closing the servers may have taken out small RMT, but it increased profits substantially for the ones who know how to scale.

If they ever reopen them, there will be an immediate influx of real players who don't want to lose their opportunity. They've managed to bolster Odin, Phoenix, Ragnarok, and Shiva to the point they're all somewhat viable. If they unlock servers again, that progress halts immediately and a huge chunk of it will be undone in the first week or two.

has supply in, or number of bazaars standing at paparoon or oboro changed much? I remember there being enough for multiple people to finish a mythic on demand any day of the week, same for the 10k items. this was well before the servers closed, though.

I mean, people can't jump 600 stacks over from another server anymore, so, yeah, the economy ain't economing

Less bazaars, and no new blood to sell to, even less bazaars

It doesn't even make sense to pay the $13 for a bazaar mule if there's no damn customers. Nothing shittier than waking up with 3 checks and zero sales overnight.

This is embarrasing as I should know this but its been 3-4 years, I understand how geo works, geo bubbles placed now the geo needs to be on the hate list for something like geo frailty to proc by either placing the luopan, dia or cure, but what about indi? For example, indi frailty, does that need the geo to be on the hate list to proc on mobs?

13k in Bazaars and 215 stacks on Auction House
I would be surprised if there were only those three Bazaars currently in Nashmau, the number is likely quite higher. I have not seen any substantial decrease of in-demand items such as REMA mats as a result of Asura's closure roughly a year ago.

Tl;Dr: yes

Long: Confusingly, not in every fight. Events with zone aggro (like some BCs including ambuscade iirc) put you on the hate list immediately and therefore you don't have to do anything.

If SE converted some jobs like BLU/DNC/BST to be on the same level as BRD/COR/GEO in terms of being able to buff a party: Do you think people would lose their ***? revolt?

I personally, am very tired of gathering 5 people in 10 minutes and then waiting 1 hour for a BRD (if one even shows up).

...Party disintegrates. So Frustrating. :/