Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

You can make mules on Asura if you're there. I also have a mule on Bahamut I've been playing (made a year ago before lock) and was able to make another mule there to hold alex for it recently.

I was out shooting through a few stacks of wooden arrows just now, skilling up archery. Every skill-up said it raised by "1 point" or "2 points" or whatever, not .1 or .2. How long has this been going on?

This update apparently, but not if you have battlemod (or maybe it's the xiview, not sure which ones the cause)

I usually adjust my own gear based on the situation do i dont really look at sets. But since i came back i wanted to see what was new, and im seeing mid buff and high buff sets. Its a stupid question but, for these gear sets what constitutes high? 1hrs? Being/nearly being capped?

See https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/All_Jobs_Gear_Sets for full details

It's FFXI so the answer really is: it depends.

If you're fighting an ilvl 125 UNM mob, you need a lot fewer buffs than if you're fighting Aminon.

Those sets are essentially not attack capped -> Pretty attack capped -> Overwhelmingly attack capped.

Also depends if your target has full DEF, DEF-33%, or DEF-87%

I googled it before I asked and all I got was 1 reddit thread then off topic for the rest, I am surprised I didn't get this wiki page, thanks.

And yeah, so if you were to consider a 6 box with idris and all the rest are filled then you'd go high buff sets most of the time until the super end game mobs

Yes, full potency frailty does most of the work.

I play vanilla.

It's also inconsistent! From a friend:


(they are just normal decimal skillups, just... sometimes displayed wrong)

edit: actually they might not be real at all:

285 + 5 + 5 + 0.5 + 0.1 + 0.5 = 286.x right?

I never saw any inconsistency at all through five stacks of arrows. It was always whole numbers. I'll try again tonight and see if I get any decimals.

At first I thought it was just some kind of bonus since I'm so far behind on archery, but realized after a few minutes that it was still tenths just displaying wrong.

I wonder if it's happening for crafting/fishing as well.

EDIT RESPONSE TO EDIT

Yes, looking at that bigger picture it looks like he should have hit 286 before the log actually shows it.

ANOTHER EDIT
I was just looking at the new items. Could this glitch be related to the new ring somehow? Admittedly farfetched since there's no way to acquire it yet, but it's the only thing in the patch related to player skill gains. The other option would be related somehow to the change in trust combat skills, but from reading the patch notes it seems like those are just direct increases, not a new cap they can skill up to.

I've seen some photos on Twitter of people who keep multiple Prismatic Chests inside of their Mog House. Is there any evidence showing more chests = a higher orb refund rate?

That's not how moghancements work. They're just dumb.

Or trying to overpower another furnishings aura with multiple boxes, because again, they're dumb. Furnishing floor two is the correct way to do that.

...or they just think they're cute UWU

What about Floor 2? I've never tried this

Aura doesn't work on floor 2.

You put the item you actually want on floor 1 to get the moghancement. Then you put all your other *** on floor 2 so you dont screw up the aura.

Stall / Clock / Prism box etc floor 1
Well / Panetiere / Dressers / floor 2

It's pretty funny, because it means my main mog house that I see whenever I enter it in my home city is spartan AF and my second floor that I never visit looks cool.

SE could fix this by letting you set what floor you want to be your default mog house entry. They already have the NPC's outside the three nations mog houses that do nothing since they got rid of extra rent-a-room prompts.

They should just let us choose auras from a list kind of like mog garden cheers. Would be a nice quality of life update.

IDK what extra rent-a-room prompts you're talking about, but those NPCs, if they're the ones I think you're referring to, are for entering other peoples' MH. I've used them somewhat recently to go into a friend's MH.

So they do nothing other than for the one person (you) who invites their mule into their mog house for funzies.



I said GOT RID of the rent-a-room prompt. Once upon a time, you actually had to talk to those NPC's to get access to the rent-a-room, otherwise you'd get booted back out when trying to zone in. If you went to your home nations mog house without confirming with the NPC's outside to cancel your rent-a-room, your mog house wouldn't have a moogle present.


This was removed in the Nov 2007 patch, but the NPC's were repurposed. They could very easily add a second prompt on these NPCs to determine what your default mog house floor you enter is.

You don't have to get all defensive just because were ignorant of this feature.

I didn't "invite my mule for funzies". A friend asked me to help him hold hundreds of items he had in his mog safe, and rather than pulling them out 80 at a time (if he even had that inventory space), exiting, trading me, re-entering, trading, exiting, re-entering, etc. He invited me into his MH so we could trade in there.

Today I found a Trust Manual (100 points) in my inventory.
Is it coming from an ongoing campaign? You just login and you find it in your inventory or what?

Should only be a primer(20)

No it was a Manual, but only on my main, not on my mule, what happened? :-(

The Trust Tome gave me 100 points. I never saw an item called "Trust Manual".

Sorry! Checked the log, it was a Tome indeed. 100 points!

I got primers across the board, you mustve sleepwalked through ambu or the anni event to get the tome

119 RSE armor source found yet? synthesis or quest?

The same source (and more) as the last set. https://www.playonline.com/pcd2/topics/ff11us/detail/40250/detail.html