Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I think RDM is pretty close to GEO's nuking potential, TBH I don't know for sure and it doesn't matter.

If you don't like the description gimp then call it what ever you want. Fact is with the nuke wall nerf and BLM and SCH being above GEO in the MB hierarchy it means GEO doesn't get to MB in magic party setups because there usually are 1 BLM + 1 SCH or 2 SCH present that get priority over GEO.

The argument that roaming content doesn't play well with GEO's mechanics still stands, regardless of whether you think a potency nerf of up to 95% was a elegant solution or justified.
Omen, Dynamis D, Odyssey, Sortie and Limbus all require roaming.

GEO got hit from every angle and as a result they are in the worst position among the support jobs, with a far margin. The fact that GEO still occasionally gets invites is not prove of GEO being in a good position, it's prove that the support role has way to much weight in FFXI's meta.

Not even close. Rdm can't even do the non magic burst dmg objectives in Omen.

Bonanza

rank 3: last digit 7
rank 2: last 2 digits 26
rank 1: 683

To pivot from a buffed party Magic Burst context to a solo stand alone nuke one to drive that point home is odd... but fine.

Here are some other peoples takes for the scenario that you chose:Omen objective 15k magic damage thread
According to Sechs RDM could clear omen 15k objective back in 2018.

Buukki claimed NIN could also clear it in 2018, does that make NIN a more competent nuker than RDM?


Still, to the point I was making above it's not relevant how far apart RDM or GEO nuking is, anything below BLM and SCH nuking potency is usually watching from the sideline.

Geo can hit cap easily in Sortie MB setups, with both sch and blm nuking too. Rdm cannot.

You can dig up examples of Rdm hitting 15k, sure. Doesn't change the fact Rdm is a piss poor nuker compared to geo. I used one anecdotal example with no details. Anecdotal is just that, anecdotal.

Is it normal to hear sound effects in aman trove opening chests even when I have sound effects + music turned off? Or is that just a me thing with my setup? Started happening when they added the ITG thuds. Always startles me

It was added when they reworked trove, and the sound effect works like a <call> in macros in that it ignores your in game sound settings.

A thing that constantly annoys me.

RDM is absolutely inferior, altough "not even close" seems an exxageration? Depends how you want to interpret it.

RDM misses the 2 nuke powering JAs GEO has (meh), the directional buffs (meh) and most of all RDM misses the Geo Bubbles which alone are an insane difference, so if we're comparing GEO solo vs RDM solo, then by all means the difference is absolutely insane.

If we're comparing nuking in a "proper" party then RDM, while clearly behind, is not that bad compared to GEO?
Doesn't have access to Agwu, and Bunzi is clearly an inferior option (but it's there) and then there's Ea+1.
It's not THAT bad overall.
~70 less elemental skill, but given the amount of macc RDM has, resists are not really an issue.
You can also boost your INT by 70 with Gain-Int to compensate for inferior stats.

So yeah, RDM in party is likely behind GEO but it shouldn't be THAT far behind, if you ask me.


Sadly we did 8 boss magic setup with RDM only once and things were overall pretty smooth.
We also did it several times with 3x SCHs (one SCH replacing the BLM) and that was also fine.

no

I have Rdm, blm, sch and geo with near bis nuking gear, all high mls. Rdm is very far behind in nuking power.

Rdm has a lot more macc, and can cast more often due to FC. That doesn't help with nuking due to the nuke wall.

Often in MB setups you see Rdm casting first, blm second and sch or geo third. The blm and sch or geo do similar or even more dmg than the Rdm even though their nukes are nerfed, coming after the first nuke.

Not being on agwu hurts Rdm the most Imo, best option they have is jse and EA. Meanwhile sch blm and geo have massive boosts in MB damage from jse, plus agwu on top.

The maths just doesn't math for Rdm nukes, even if you ignore anecdotal evidence.

171k pearls sold is...not great

Comments like that are gonna make it rather difficult for you to beat the "doesnt play FFXI" allegations.

Its been 2 pearls for like 13 years now.

He does have a point though.

3 digit number

My bad
Seems it was the Nov 2020 revision that dropped it to 2 pearls / 3 digits.

Felt longer, either way. Still 6 years lol

I just forgot, but the 6 numbers I always choose don't line up with any of the winning numbers, so I ended up just saving 1.2m.

Can you offhand the Trainee Knife for +1 cooking?

I know the Debahocho +1 specifically says "Main hand" on it, which makes me think yes. And obviously the Trainee latent is only active 0-40. But I'm still curious!

Is there something similar to dressup that functions on monstrosity?

The camera angles while working on Gigaworm/other extremely large models are pretty terrible, I'd much rather swap to the pygmy models or a mandragora.

Can you not just datswap it

Take file X and replace file Y and now all sandworms are goblins

I like the guy that decided to make erinys and his adds into apkallu. Good stuff.

DATswap works, though some models crash on swap or don't have casting animations. Eventually one did work - DQ blue slime, ROM/309/7.dat

Thanks!

Pretty new to Monster Rearing. Is there a trick to having monsters with natural evolutions actually evolve? Monsters with evolution foods are cooperating as well as I imagined they would, but things like my Baby Lizard have been sitting at max stars for a week with no real signs of evolving to a normal Lizard on all 3 of my characters, so I don't know if it's normal, bad luck or if I'm doing something wrong.

Just bad luck, as far as I'm aware. I always kept feeding them the same trash food (so Hare Meat for the Baby Lizard for example) that I was using while they were growing up, but entirely out of superstition.

I gotta agree with you on this. I had a baby lizard that took an insane amount to evolve and I have no idea why. I just think those 'natural evolving' monsters just take double the time to evolve.

Encountered same thing + also finally took up monster rearing within the past few months as well. Raptor baby took a couple weeks after reaching max growth to become adult raptor for me. Meanwhile I've been pretty lucky with the behemoth and fafnir lines immediately evolving after trading the HNM pop item once. Gotta love wierd luck disparity!

This question comes up a lot. *Do not feed it* once it's at full stars. Set priority to growth, check on it, but don't feed it.

It needs no food. Leave it alone.

Someone other than me can add this to the wiki and not credit me - I don't want to.

Is there a dedicated BG Wiki feedback thread here? The "BG mods/admins" apparently decided it was worth keeping all the "Category:Memes" pages, including the edit protection, including the one that still says r****d.

so my feedback is, knock that ***off, it's 2026, and as I said over on the Suggestions page, I won't be editing the wiki further until at minimum you remove both that slur on the "Guild" page and the entire page named, I ***you not, "Mentally Deficient"

if someone answers my question in the affirmative, I'll take this discussion to that thread, and if not I'm happy to have the conversation here, because I am very stupid and absolutely going to pick a fight about it

edit: sorry, that's this page named Guild with the slur, and this page named Mentally Deficient