Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Yeah, all Sigil buffs work in Odyssey. Gaol too.

You can elongated a Marine Stewpot for your whole squad, or an Altana's Repast.

When we were doing Bumba V25 attempts, I shocked my group by giving them 8 hours of Repast. (which only the last attempt of the night got to carry forward because of KI1).

I kind of miss Bumba V25 sometimes, simply for the days after where I was walking around with Repast :)

Is there a cap for a server's Grace buffs in limbus? My server is still at weird #s such as +26 stats, 52acc, 1300 hp, 52 exp loss. Curious how much more there is for that to grow

I thiink - can't cite this because I don't remember where - a dev said at some point that we were "about half power" when we hit +25 stats / 1000 HP or something?

I remember talking about this casually with another person in-game, it would have been early this year ish?

edit: searching my random discords:
12/28/26 but I didn't cite my source. check for an aman or something around then and that's likely from the Reddit transcription of it or something?

edit2: found it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxi/comments/1pwx4cr/aman_live_stream_translations_coming/

Asura at the time was around the numbers you're quoting now iirc

Asura atm is sitting at 2000hp, 80 acc/race and 40 BP(I think?) and 80% xp reduction loss.
If I'm not fumbling the numbers.
I reckon the cap is 100 acc 2500hp and 50 BP.
So we're about @80% from max Grace.

Did something change recently that may cause a gearswap to be forcing <t> (even thru shortcuts typed) to change to <stnpc> where you have to confirm the target?

Not that I know of personally.

My question now: can Gada go over +6% enhancing duration with dark matter? I can't find any concrete answer.

I don't think I have ever seen enhancing duration with DM rolls, though i primarily have been doing it on armor so weapons might get it for all i know

Some weapons like Gada roll it innately (fern stones up to +6), and dark matter can go above cap on some stats. I've seen some guesses of it but also seen some people just questioning it, with no proof either way.

I'm aware of the innate roll possibility, just never seen DMs roll that aug which "should" be possible since DM covers just about every roll and then some, but again havent done much in the weapon area so it may just be restricted to them and i just havent chanced upon it yet(only thrown sword/gs at it occasionally for phalanx rolls)

answer is no

edit: nvm thought you said 'Indi Duration'

Do you already have a target selected? With no target, iirc shortcuts may switch to st for targetable spells. Otherwise you get "no target error".

So it seems isolated to my SMN GS. I have a target selected and <t> (or shortcuts i do //assault) and it forces it to stnpc where you have to confirm the target. When I turn the GS off it goes back to normal. There a setting for NPC target selection but its off, I have no idea what its referencing to keep making it do that. I didn't even touch this gearswap in ages and it worked perfectly fine the last time I used it.

I'm working on campaign ops and my final ones for San d'Oria are those in the Northlands zones.

This week, Sandy owns the 6 areas surrounding it not including La Vaule and they have started dispatching units to fight there and in Beaucedine Glacier.

How can I ensure we take the Glacier (and Xarcabard?) so I can open the remaining ops? I seem to recall some sort of mini guide on this but I can't find it.

I did this on Sylph just last week, though I did it mostly alone since NPCs weren't being dispatched up there. All you gotta do is roll into Xarc/Beucidine/Zvahl Keep & Baileys and slaughter the alliance-tagged enemies. Every kill on them shifts the influence bar a bit in your favor; in my experience, wiping them until they retreated moved the bar somewhere around 5~10% in your nation's favor (depending on how many squads are present, commander killed, etc etc). It's really just that easy. Roll in every half hour or hour to see if there are enemies passively on the defense, and slaughter them. Repeat until glorious victory.

If you want to flip all the northlands at once, take note of the Keep in particular, it's a bit of a pain to travel to the alliance-tagged campaign area, and campaign enemies seem to defend it somewhat less than other zones. Make it your first zone you visit when heading to the northlands for influence shifting.

Hi folks, some friends and I are considering a server transfer away from Bahamut to escape the lock on new characters, because it's preventing us from inviting others to join in and try the game. But I know next to nothing about the other open servers; are there any other worlds that have a somewhat healthy EU population and economy?

You won't find a "healthy" AH anywhere you can go. That's the whole point.

Go to the bottom server and make it healthy. It's stupid to go to the server that will close next.

Won't find a somewhat healthy EU population either. Game is already weakest in euro hours everywhere.

I'd say take the highest population (Shiva, Fenrir, or Ragnarok) and make a dozen accounts there while discount campaign is on. Then, if it closes you're still covered for new mules or friends.

Thats a bridge too far I think. Buy and start a dozen characters just in case. Then give them to a friend who plays one month and quits.

You have to go through the process 12 times and name them. Can't pick a server without starting so they won't even get the free month.

Just start going to the last place server instead of the next to close. It's much more reasonable.

Seconded.

There is no heavy EU population anywhere. AH is more or less the same outside the about-to-close servers.

Go to close to smallest to be sure it won't close.

Speaking of transfers. I wonder if gist quit again or if they came out of their shell leaving asura for phoenix.

Rarely find greener grass and just waste money.

It's been a few months

Has anyone else had issues with the latest dgVoodoo? Tried v2.87.3, within 30 seconds FFXI crashes to desktop, Event Viewer shows pol.exe crashed with code 0xc0000005. Reverting to 2.86 fixes it, so I know it's dgVoodoo at fault.

This is with a 9070XT on the latest driver.

Two Quick Draw questions

Neither Wikia nor bgwiki agree with me, but I thought that Quick Draw needed to be used within a certain amount of time of a debuff being applied to boost its effects. Is that not true and it's just good practice to use it right away?

If you use a shot on a monster with multiple aligned debuffs (e.g. Blind and Bio), does it enhance both of them?

Afaik it can be used anytime a debuff is applied and impacts any debuff aligned with that QD (so slow/rasp both get boosted)

Apparently there's a bug right now that Bio is reduced or cancelled

How do you complete the Hawk Eye campaign op?
What do they mean for "stronghold"?
For me the 3 strongholds are Beadeaux, Davoi and Castle Oztroja, but the mission details says "go to any beastmen controlled zone in your nation territory and locate the stronghold".
What the hell is a stronghold then?

The tower, dood. The fortification spot whatever it's called

The tower dood? Wut? D:


Nvm I found it, it's the regular fortification.
Why the *** is it called "Stronghold" on Wiki? That's very confusing, it's simply the zone's fortification...

Go to the tower and click a ??? on the ground in a zone the baddies control

How many Campaign ops of one tier do you have to do to unlock the following tier?
I was remembering 5 tier 1 to unlock tier 2 but maybe there's some other requirements, like you need to wait JP midnight or something?