Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Anyone make a crafting shield on their main? Do you regret making it there instead of making it on a mule? On a mule you can dedicate inventory space without having to clean up/put mats away, and also pick the adoulin crafting ring instead of other combat related ring options. I'm interested in starting one for completion but the min/maxer in me is making me doubt doing it on my main

Confectioner's ring is basically Orvail ring minus the material loss which it hard to measure, so that shouldn't be the reason you pick an alt over your main. Other than that, really depends how organized you are and how much free space you have (are you a hoarder?) without craft ingredients.

I feel personally insulted.

There are two ring slots. You wear confectioner's AND orvail+1. Orvail competes with craft master's, so picking it gives success rate (probably not important) and material retention.

I have crafting ring on both my mains. I used to feel worse about it, but these days the other adoulin rings are much less impressive so it's not much, if any, sacrifice to take orvail

Would also consider if you have other active accounts [not same-account mules]. There is some aesthetic pride in having the shield on your main with all your other nice things. If you want to synth for friends, signing with your main's name is cool. You could create a $1 mule on an alt to hold your materials, and then simply clear enough space to craft and park that mule next to you when you feel like crafting. Best of both worlds. As MT said, adoulin ring should not be a dealbreaker either way.

If you only pay for one sub, the same-account mule as a craft shield is much more appealing.

Anyone know the def of sortie bosses?

There are japanese blogs that mapped those attributes for Sortie bosses.

Im not sure if its the long horned reference, but check it in the FF wiki references (I would post the link but its Twitter and here we still have this shitty block).

Yeah, not having great luck finding those. I was hoping someone had the numbers or something they could point to where I could find them. Google's not great and I don't see citations in bg-wiki. I did find a longhorned post but it had everything except defense for Gartell.

Only his defense or everyone else defense?

If its only his defense, maybe you can make an educated guess by considering the average defense for the level and for the job a mob have.

every boss. A lot of the mobs in there have defense listed, but all 9 sortie bosses have zero defense listed, which is why I asked this thread because if anyone does have that it would be fantastic and a huge timesaver over the amount of trial and error required to calculate it