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The other factor here is Whistle boosts Honor March, whereas horn does not.

Gearswap maintains its own inventory structures that it doesn't wipe on zone, so it is able to equip stuff before your inventory loads.

I mean, Very-kun

I would nuke just because she misspelled the name Vyer-kun

An entirely expected ending, and subsequent cliff hanger.

No idea if they will get to make season 3 at this point. The story kinda went round and round, is anyone even still watching.

This is basically the first time I did it for real, but I did get 1400 Plaudits so maybe I'm done!

Why would they do that? The people who have stuck around the longest to accumulate all that gear or are willing to jump through in-game hoops are the exact people who are going to be most willing to pay the $2 fee. Giving those people perks for free that they are willing to pay for doesn't sound like smart business.

SE hasn't raised the base subscription price of this game in over two decades. That's a small miracle, so to me I view the wardrobe costs as just the price of the game going up over time like every other subscription, and the way I vote with my wallet that I'd like FFXI to continue operating.

I think it's a pretty smart, elegant, and fair solution for them to get some additional money from the players who use the game the most, and who can best justify the additional expense, while keeping the base price low to be more appealing to the LARGE amount of more casual players.

Does gearswap not bypass that limitation? I have seen equipviewer show my swaps from wardrobe stuff the moment I cast when zoning in. Think that's an equipsets limitation?

Make wardrobes free and instead make us subscribe to make them load faster. I'll pay $6/month so I can stop waiting at the start of sortie for my inventory to load enough to let me warp

can't believe i'm seeing +3 linos being suggested in 2026 !

my 2 cents: you'll make the horn eventually anyway.

to answer OP, if you want to gear BRD, i suggest to go all out. it's a lot but that's when the job gets fun anyway. you will be rewarded with probably the most useful job in the game in 99% of situations.

I agree with this but think it disproves your earlier point. They know they're holding gear hostage in those wardrobes during the free-to-play periods. I don't think they expect folks to dive head first back into serious endgame content during free-to-play periods, maybe just visit with friends or do seasonal events or whatever. So they likely see it as "if you wanna do serious stuff, pay up."

I also agree the free trial of services like netflix and hulu probably aren't great analogies because you're starting those accounts fresh. Maybe a free trial of amazon prime, where it remembers your watch history could be more appropriate. If amazon gave you a free trial but prevented you from watching certain things it knows you'd like until you pay up, that'd be a pretty decent analogy, I think.

They had lots of ways to address the wardrobe cost. They could've made it a heroism deed reward when you reach some threshold - by being subbed for so long, you've paid for the wardrobe(s). Or maybe total earned login points over time. They could've unlocked a wardrobe for every year you've been subscribed - so those who've stuck around the longest, through thick and thin, get rewarded for it.

But...

Big Brother wants to watch YOU!!

But, this being the internet age, you have to download the app.

White House app is a security and privacy nightmare

The White House released a mobile app. It logs users' exact location every 4.5 minutes.

@Vrye This is at least politically adjacent. If you deem it too political please nuke it.

It is, for me.
But I find it more than acceptable if you disagree!
Let's say both present a perfectly acceptable option in the same slot that is -1 potency compared to HQ neck and Ghorn.
I don't think either is particularly relevant (altough if you go that route for both slots it becomes potency-2 not -1, which is still okay imho, buuuut you get what I mean).

So what's the difference? The difference is that Neck, even the HQ, is pretty cheap imho, and it's literally ready the second you get it, no trials, nothing.


With that said if the guy has limited funds and goes to 0 gil or close to that after a few things, then by all means go for the NQ neck and you won't regret it, can always re-sell it on AH and buy HQ whenever he gets more gil!

and you are not saying you have done that, cuz you never tell a lie. (i think you missed a v)

Because it's a single item, it doesn't conflict with other items in that slot (well, NQ I guess lol) and because it's just 19m with no quests, no trials, no chores, nothing to do about it.
You just buy it and it's ready, 30 seconds?

Of course you can just use the NQ and it wouldn't be such a big deal, but the difference in time/gil is so small it's not worth it, imho

<3 SOE

Can you explain why Moonbow Whistle +1 is a priority over Gjallarhorn, if, as you say:


If the potency is indistinguishable to the eye for the majority of players, why couldn't he also just buy the NQ whistle and make Ghorn? It's just one potency under.

I don't disagree. Was just putting forth the likely reason people go for GHorn first a lot of the time. Depending on your luck, could end up spending millions getting that +3 Linos. I know I did.

I agree with what has been said so far on Ghorn.
Even people who demand it for their parties, I can tell you 90% of them wouldn't even notice if you sing songs with one of the +3 songs options.

Daurdabla99 and Neck+1 are absolute priorities imho.
After that probably Carn and Ghorn last.

It's true that Ghorn is pretty easy/cheap to make, but when you have to make 2000 things you gotta prioritize something, no?

A lot of people end up doing GHorn first because it is very cheap to just buy the mats for it. I think last I checked, it's only 30-40M on Asura, compared to 120-150M for Daurdabla.

Marsyas, Daurdabla, and Whistle+1 should be your focus. You can get by with a +3 song from skirmish flute until you can afford a Gjallarhorn, and Carn can be saved until much later or if you're absolutely sure you're gonna main BRD. A lot of ppl do their GHorn before Daurdabla, and that's completely fine, but imo 4 songs is better than the loss of stats between +3 and +4.

Congrats! This is my first ever doing vana'bout and I'll settle with 700+ tier

Basic logic, and talking to a lot of more casual FFXI players. I don't know if I've ever even heard of a casual player spending $2 a month on wardrobe 3. That's squarely in the realm of the kind of player who talks about FFXI in places like this, keeps up with endgame events, etc. Which is, and I know it's hard for people here to believe, the small minority of total players.

SE aren't stupid. They've been running a paid subscription MMO for two and a half decades, with free login campaigns for much of that time. They probably know a little bit about what they're doing.

Yes, especially with the proper STP/Jump build, Samurai Roll, and even better with Hoxne Ampulla (a luxury). Even without those things, Spirit/Soul Jump with your Wyvern present will almost always produce >1000TP (Soul Jump specifically can leapfrog you straight to 3000%). Jump/High Jump without Samurai Roll or a Double Attack proc might land you under 1000

It's manual player input vs addon, but check out https://besiege.info/cgi-bin/stat.cgi

Doesa anybody knows who mantaines the whereisdi site? I think it's fed through information coming from players on the various servers who are using a related addon, right?

Could it be possible to add other stuff to the info that gets send to the website? I'd love incoming besieged. Since the release of the content I managed to catch it online (and when I'm not inside instanced content) only a few times sadly.
Having that info displayed on the website might not change much but it would be helpful imho!

Noob question (leveling DRG so I can try it out endgame later), can the jumps with all the JSE for TP bonus etc give enough for doing WS > jump > WS > high jump > WS? Or is it less TP than 1000.

The idea of doing chains like that somewhat interested me.

Probably worth remembering that Daybreak, who manages EQ and EQ2 now, were at one point Sony Online Entertainment. Sony spun off all the MMO projects under their umbrella as a separate company at some point.

My own kid was haranguing me about p2w when he saw me logging to a succession of lvl 1 mules. Login pts, daily tally/gobbiebox, aman trove, mog gardens... these are all p2w systems. I have more +2 earrings than I would've. I have more gil than I would've. Some days I don't even have time to play, just quickly log to mules to collect points - I like having that option, but it's still p2w.

Max is 1400, first time I have managed to get the full amount since this began!