August 2026 Version Update

Which one of these bodies are people swapping to R30 nyame path A for?

Literally impossible to wade through this mess to find useful information

None of them.

Nothing stopping you from doing it though. It's only a couple hundred damage. It's not life shattering.

None of them, for a lot of reasons, including but not limited to:
Nyame is all jobs, and this armor isnt.
Nyame has MAB and this doesn't
Nyame has SCD and this doesn't
Nyame has much better meva
Nyame has more DEF, HP, MDB, etc.

But even still, comparing them to R25 nyame:
Nyame has 2 more WSD than all of them.
Nyame has 10 more STR than Egbesu, 5 more than Nzame, 2 less than Olorun, 3 less than Ruwa.
Nyame has 9 less DEX than Egbesu, 23 less than Nzame, 14 less than Olorun, and 2 less than Ruwa
...You can go down the list and check all the other stats for your WS, but generally speaking: if it's a DEX WS maybe it's better but for the majority of cases, Nyame beats the new armor.

You can swap if you want to sacrifice WS damage on nearly every WS on nearly every job, wear a less defensive piece in your WS set, etc. to trade in for a better TP piece. It's not really a good idea for any job.

If you exclusively play DNC or DRG and no other jobs, the argument could be made. For anyone with even a tiny amount of job diversity, it's a terrible idea to trade R25 Nyame for this stuff. For R30 Nyame, it gets even worse.

I'm sure NM camping and lottery spawns will entice new players to spend 13 bucks/month on a ancient game with ancient graphics, UI and clunky controls.

This is not da way...

I've been considering it pretty hard. I play a lot of jobs, many that would greatly benefit from path a body.

I'm not convinced its a bad choice to make, however it'll mess up your hybrids for sure.

What are the jobs that greatly benefit from path A body? GEO, SMN, BLM, SCH?

WHM: Sworn
MNK: JSE, Malignance, Mpaca, Duty
WAR: Revelation, Boii, Sakpata, Hjarrandi
THF: JSE, Malignance, Duty
RDM: Malignance, Sworn
PLD: Sakpata, Sworn
DRK: Sakpata, Sworn
BST: Malignance, Duty
BRD: Revelation, Ashera
RNG: Malignance, Clemency
NIN: Malignance, JSE, Revelation
SAM: JSE, Clemency
DRG: Gleti, Hjarrandi, Clemency
BLU: Malignance, Sworn
COR: Malignance, Clemency
PUP: Malignance, Mpaca, Duty
DNC: Malignance, Duty
RUN: Ashera, Sworn

the only thing most people are entitled to give advice on on this forum is what the best order would be at a mcdonalds drive thru.

you're implying they should update the graphics/UI/controls?

do you have any idea how much work that would require? not to mention what they are doing currently to help bring new players up to speed appears to be working.

are you people *** insane?

It's immediately "popular" because it's new. Even people in nyame were doing it.

It won't hold subs, it's already fallen off pretty hard, and when they reveal no update for them next month and next month and next month and next month lol

What would hold subs, I don't *** know. I don't know why on earth any sane person would start or stay in an mmo. It's too old to start and sunk cost is a ***.

i have no idea who you're talking to, i don't see the word popular anywhere on this page.

it seems very evident to me based on the drop rate / spawn rate, that SE intended for these to be "always up" NMs.

they intended a player to say "Hey i need a piece for this job I just got to 99 and am a new player, what can i do?"

the enlightened mcdonalds drive thru customers on this forum: lmao just skip all the content buy some gil and buy a v0 clear or grind sortie for a few months

the reality of what someone wants to do: go kill a mob thats up and spend 20 minutes getting a free piece of starter gear.

it is amazing this has to be explained so many different ways

Future upgrade usefulness aside (and I'm the type to hedge bets so I'm getting most of these "just incase") - I was surprised at how much I am into camping these. Call it old 75 era habits dying hard, but I was immediately back to figuring out exactly where to stand to see the full spawn area at each camp, making sure my targeting was on point...all of the old ways were coming back. I, like most posters here are well beyond most of this gear but it is surprisingly engaging at least for a little while to do this kind of thing again. Colour me surprised.

Of course, I'm teaming up with others I see although a lot of new players don't seem to know that you can't be invited if you have Trusts out and language barriers have made this difficult a few times.

And hey, if future Olorun Gloves +2 mean I don't have to make yet another Duty piece then this was a few hours well spent.

No, that was not what I meant. I was trying to point out that FFXI already has several legs down in competing with other current titles (graphics/UI/controls) and SE decided to use the worst antiquated BS system they ever made to convince new people to give them monthly payment for something that they can get elsewhere, better and for free.

They trying to advertise their exciting product by making people stand around and wait or kill a bunch of mobs over and over in a set interval, it doesn't get much less engaging than that.

New people don't have a massive pile of sunken cost fallacy that keeps them subscribed no matter what, they most likely don't bot either so NM and lottery camping is the worst of the worst decision imho. If you trying to lure in new people you usually try to represent yourself from your best side, not your worst.


Not my experience, the lottery pop I camped took ~60 minutes, maybe longer, to spawn both times.