Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I think the ban fearmongering is silly and borders on aggressive. If there was a way to underflow your gil with it or something like that it would be self-evident that it's banworthy. I don't think that it's likely someone's going to be banned for finding a gil threshold that works with the intended mechanic to save them a little bit of gil. Botting your mule to constantly buy from bazaar for it, maybe.

Definitely a dumb idea, though. The cost of using it as intended where you need it isn't that substantial, and even if you can get away with an in-between set you're still using suboptimal gear in a piece of content you already judged to be worth tossing gil at. If you could theoretically find a way with bazaar nonsense to wear 50% DA and get the other 50% from hoxne at half price, I still wouldn't ever do it.

If it's 10% of your remaining gil when under 1k as you posted (I didn't test it, I found an old post where you said that), you'd be maxing at 10% DA from it anyway. At that point, just use a coiste bodhar and go on with life.

Hey does anyone have a list of "required" (or maybe BiS?) beastmaster pets?

I know the TP leech, the 10% ooze, the AoE grasshopper, but are there any ideal "let's do sortie, limbus, odyssey, dynamis, etc. Together! All arounder to have?

I was reading the guide (which is fantastic) but I just dont have the inventory to keep much more than 4-5 pets ready to call, and im trying to figure out which ones I should have.

Honestly, outside of a niche fight like TP denial, you can do everything with just Generous Arthur for the guaranteed defense down and be fine. There's no situation where the other pets are desired for much of anything besides just having some lateral (weaker) application of a buff or ability. It's all extremely minimal and effectively useless in the grand scheme imo.

Lynx offers attack boost, sheep offers rage. Raaz offers haste, bunny offers cures. That's about it really. Arthur is cheap and practical mostly all of the time.

Slime can be nice to have in the back pocket as just an easy way to grab and hold a pack of mobs, though arthur can also do this tbh

That automation can in theory result in a ban is nothing new, no one on FFXIAH needs to be "warned" about it, in particular not if the automation is as obvious as Maletaru suggests.

Anyway, afaik ban able offenses have always been actually executing a exploit or using the tools to be able to execute one, not theorizing over how far you could min-max a game mechanic or whether exploiting something is possible or not?

Odd coincidence that you're frequently participating in conversations where the guy opposing your opinion gets labeled the ***. Either you're a saint or you also have something to reflect about.
Still, if it was genuinely a friendly pointer that I miss read as a encoded threat then I apologize.

IIRC It doesn't instantly drop you from ~1k to 0 gil, the amount deducted below the 1k threshold is a percentage, maybe half of the gil you're still holding. The DA rate decreases in some correlation to the amount deducted.

Depending on how much DA a WAR would miss to cap 100% in a optimised set and how steep the hoxne buff DA rate drop off is the frequency at which new gil would need to be exchanged could be quite a bit longer than every second.

However, all this back and forth isn't worth much until we verified how Hoxne Ampulla buff works in correlation to other DA equipment below the 1k threshold. Unless I overlooked it I think there hasn't been a definitive statement by anyone, just assumptions.

I agree that if you'd want to keep the gil count pin point at a precise value to force Hoxne Ampulla's DA% yield at a specific value at all times it would require automation. Even In a best case scenario I'd imagine it to be very tedious to execute manually, to a point where it's not practical for a longer duration although it might be possible in theory.

Gil spent (when your gil is under 1000) doesn't seem to scale with how much DA you have.

MNK/BLM with no DA and 500g: 50 gil lost per swing
MNK/BLM with 48% DA and 500g: 50 gil lost per swing

No idea how much DA it gives you, because I can't be bothered to trade myself gil 10000 times to test the DA rate.

Understandable.
I remember that DA proc rate gets pretty low below 100 gil. I can only guess but I'd assume it's something along the lines of 1000 gil left at the point of deduction = 100% DA, 500 gil left = 50%, 250 gil left 25%... no clue if it's tiered or a steady decline.

I am 100% a ***, what else is new.

You know this is XIAH right.

OTOH I don't call people names unless they're really asking for it. There's being a *** and there's.. whatever that is.

This takes the cake as far as ridiculously stupid dpsmaxxing goes.