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just finished twashtar on thf. trying to figure out the best offhand for me with my current gear. i have 0 odyssey bosses complete so no gleti's.

the calculator is showing Aeneas is best offhand DPS by a fair margin and then Jugo Kukri +1 but the difference between Jugo and Ternion is like 20dps doesn't seem worth 5m in augments since I have augmented ternion.

Also, I'm not entirely sure how to make the best use of twashtar.

I assume my goal is to hit 3k rudra's for lv3 aftermath and can't decide if I hold TP to 1750 or just spam at 1k tp now. I have moonshade.

no!!!!!!!!! because how will the casual player get those 2 extra chests?!?!

i can fix Limbus:

3 guaranteed matters per zone a week. this caters to the casual player.

the remaining 2 and extra chests from killing NMs will be chance and cater to the grinders.

Boom, Limbus fixed for everyone.

It doesn’t have to be an either-or situation. They can make small changes that do not impact the 10-hr/day players too much, but that make a significant difference to the 5-hr/week players. Server congestion, in my opinion, is not really an issue, except possibly on Asura for these events.
For instance:
• Make Odyssey 45 minutes per run. This would enable solo players to get enough segments in a run to obtain a Mogphone II plus an amp, while full-clear groups can still do full clears, and groups that are close to full clears can now achieve them. It’s a win/win with little downside—maybe a bit more gil entering the economy (lower the gil reward, SE, if that’s the bottleneck).
• Get rid of the requirement for Mog amps entirely. All this does is add a second segment gate that serves no real purpose other than increasing the effective cost of a Mogphone II from 3,000 to 4,500 segments. Removing this helps casual players without much impact on the 10-hr/day players who already have all their gear capped.
• Make Sortie 90 minutes per day instead of 60 minutes. Casuals get more gallimaufry, and 10-hr/day players hit 9/9 (or higher) more frequently than before. Increasing the rate of hardcore stage-5 primes isn’t a bad thing, because those players will keep doing them (there are a lot), whereas casuals who currently see a massive wall just to reach stage 3—and therefore don’t even start—might actually play more because it becomes more feasible.
• Limbus literally takes about 20-hours plus to do the 5 climbs each for a causal – that’s not causal…
As a casual who plays from time to time and tends to quit after 30–45 days due to the overwhelming daily requirement grind, these changes would help someone like me stay longer.
I’m also curious whether SE has ever done an analysis to determine whether “daily” requirement events actually hurt retention rather than improve it. I’d be interested to see the results, as I’m not a dopamine-junkie type of player. Once I start feeling the itch of addiction, my brain forcibly shuts it down. I’ve deleted my characters many times because of the forced “wait until the monthly update” period to undelete characters.

It's definitely an issue that can happen vanilla, but vanilla it generally just happens if you're doing something very HDD intensive in the background - like video recording, but not only.
Addons definitely make it happen more often, specifically mote gearswap libraries had a thing where they would let you switch macro book/set when changing jobs... with a delay that was too short, and could cause file load errors in some situations, causing macro/equipset wipe. We since patched it in windower, but plenty of people still have similar lines in their homemade GS profiles, so the issue still happens a lot.

And there's other ways to cause it too, ofc! But the issue is always failure to load from disk due to busy disk or due to file lock (= multiple entities trying to open the same file at the same time).

Perfectly valid complaint; I don't think it's good content either. It's definitely casual and solo-friendly content, though.

I just don't like it, it's boring to me. Also the rewards are the end of a chain of other stuff and it's all too long winded, i cbfa with it.

He only seems to want to maintain or improve stuff that leads along the path of upgrading af/relic/emp, it's all so tedious in a way that's obnoxious. You used to be able to login and do other stuff, but he has allowed players to exhaust all those other things.

You used to be able to login and just farm some Malig for mules, other htbf or Ambu or try get perfect augs with dark matter, or whatever but it's been around so long it's mostly all burned tf out and they refuse to extend these things to keep them relevant. It's easy to extend this stuff but he refuses to do it.

I'm lazy asf with this game lately, and I have fk all to login for anymore that I want to do. The malig change was the tipping point for me, I got a final piece I wanted for an alt and have barely logged in since.

people don't want "hard content" and they don't want "group content" and they don't want content that "takes a long time"

you guys just want the game to give you BIS gear for logging in don't you? put everything on login points.

sad

Limbus definitely feels like content for casual/soloers. It's soloable for maximum rewards. There's no meaningful penalty for grouping, so you can easily hop in an existing group if one is going. The big bosses are free entry so anyone can participate with no commitment. Mats for the new gear drop like candy so if you don't want to craft you can be sure the +1s will be dirt cheap and +2s won't be insane.

Pretty sure the AF ecosystem is just meant to capitalize on nostalgia, personally. What part of Limbus do you think is poorly suited to casuals or soloers?

RadialArcana pls. It's too early in the week/month/year for this ***.

SE posted an update for once, that aligns with their previous annoucement, just a month prior: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/63817-February-Version-Update ...and it's the most positive display of incremental progress in YEARS. Let's just all be happy and pray to Altana that the FFXI momentum continues.

Thanks Rooks! Will the front page be getting fixed?

FWIW, maybe I've just been lucky but I've never experienced this issue of macros being wiped from my palettes, but tons of friends have experienced it, often multiple times a month.

I'm not convinced it's a home grown FFXI issue, I think it has something to do with an addon, plugin, etc.

Get as many Vorseals to level 10 or 11:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Escha#Obtaining_Vorseals

Activate RoEs for things you're doing along the way. (Don't let RoE NMs or specific titles delay you from completing progress on content first. (See the vorseals list and I think you'll know I'm talking about).

Congrats, Please tell us what to focus on to rank up? I'm Rank 6

Panta discovering the intersection of Isekai x Shojo.

Nothing good will come of it Panta, come back from the ledge.

Correct, FFXI is written for PS2 where there's nothing else accessing the disk at any given time, so in many, many scenarios when the game client can't load a file, it doesn't think "oh it's busy let me retry", it thinks "oh it's corrupted let's nuke it and start from scratch".

I know what you're trying to say, but rest in peace in Valhalla is a giant oxymoron.

Suggestions

*Glances over at Army of Darkness*

It's an isekai, bros!

I miss my Enfield.

Yo! My elf fetish!

I've been there, still occasionally still am. Sorry again Dray. Thanks for talking me down.

Yeah seems like that to me too lol. I get embarrassed the next day when that happens but apparently not when its your everyday. I'm like what did I send and to who, imagine that being all the time

This is definitely possible. I don't know what I have personally to keep seeing this one character have his macros turn blank every zone attempt though. When I do a full-shutdown and restore from POL server, the issue goes away for a long time. (Maybe it has to do with a /shutdown in a busy zone with lots of yells vs /shutdown or /logout in mog house? (I know that on Vanilla POL/FFXI, at one point in time, the Macros and Markers in your USER folder would only get saved to disk until the client is /shutdown).

That's my assumption. They come and post in waves, then disappear. It's gotta be drunk/bender posting.

I can't read his post because I blocked him, but I'm not sure how you can tell he's drunk because everything he says is absolute gibberish.

Maybe he's drunk all the time.

We can tell.

Seeing as how this is sort of related to the program, Question for simon. Do you have any guesses on what level of defense and vit/agi values current endgame mobs may have (aminon, sortie basement bosses, ody t3/bumba?)

I want to add a target in with maybe slightly closer to proper stats than what is included. I've just been using a 3k defense/375 vit+agi/1740 evasion "Boss" mob I've added for more endgame level gear sims. Assume the vit/agi is prob too low? Def maybe too high or not high enough? Cant really find any info on current endgame mob melee stats beyond evasion levels.

good look