November 2023 Version Update

it was only the display that is bonkers right now- they will trade individually and with PorterPacker just fine.

Not exactly easy to know which you're trading when, but PP doesn't care if that's your concern (I rarely meet folks who use the Porter Moogles long without hunting down that addon, sorry for generalizing).

I don't have any friends

Wouldn't you still get Random Deal and get to keep your Steal+ equipment? I have never tried Random Deal as /COR, not sure if it's nerfed.

Yes you do get RD, but no WC. RD isn't nerfed per se, but COR get merits and relic body to enhance its accuracy. I think a mix of both is probably most efficient. If going solo I'd probably go on THF/COR rather than COR/THF, but since steal gear's value is unknown, we probably don't know for a fact which has faster steal rates. I imagine it's gotta be THF though, since COR/THF has an advantage once every 45/20 minutes, and THF has it every 5.

Had an interesting run last night. Only a couple of charms got off and our group did something different last night. The RUN ended up not putting buffs back on himself, so he was speculating that charm happens when buffs are stolen. Going to try again next time to see if it holds true. The RUN also asked one of the RDMs to Styme + Manifestation + sleep 2 and it worked.

So who's going to set up a bot to use steal 1000 times with +0 +15 and +30 Steal to find the maths?

Just in case anyone without THF wanted to farm the pop to try Peach Power you can do it this way with the Romaa Mihgo trust. Just get the Imp below ~20% HP before it uses Blaze Spikes so it gets the horn out. Once the Imp puts up Blaze Spikes she'll attempt steal for an aura steal which can get the item instead.

Just tried a Run without buffs on tank, didn't seem to have the desired effect. I did end up using OFA and Valiance to establish hate which i forgot to cancel until after first charm, but after that was routinely cancelling buffs and we were still getting hit.

That ain't why, lul
(He also doesn't steal, no thf does except Romaa I believe)
((And only Nanaa has despoil, I believe))

Ok, then what's the explanation for Aldo UC?

Bots

50% fasterer gil for last place (so many bots join last place that the bonus points make them first the following week)

Why do you think Flaviria is doubling Apururu right now, Aldo was last, last week so all the bots jumped to aldo this week.

I didn't know that, or at least, I must have forget. So they just spend that first/only 100k sparks/accolades? Does that 100k cap apply to both?

I didn't notice any mention of Trust Synergy between Aldo and Romaa, listed here: https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/BGWiki:Trusts#Aldo_(UC) ...so what's the connection between the two Trusts? I mean would Aldo's unity trust boost Romaa in some way?

Also, second question: Has anyone noticed that tanking the Peach Power fight is much easier on RUN, than on PLD? Does PLD tanking require an item-level shield like Srivasts or Duban? (Aegis is a non-starter, you just get crushed, especially when starting tank has no buffs).

If its anything phys based aegis is the worst shield to have on, even a basic ilvl shield will block better, so yes dubans good, or ochain/priwen

Depending on the mob level, Priwen may be at a greater disadvantage for this fight specifically. As you cannot maintain reprisal, and without it, Priwen's block rate drops massively. Which is unfortunate since Priwen has higher block dmg reduction than Ochain or Duban. And these things hit hard when they hit. The block dmg- is more relevant that normal since we can't keep phalanx up, so we take the full post block dmg.

I was taking about 60 dmg a hit, blocked, with Burtgang/Duban. Normally Phalanx would have zero'd that out. 156 unblocked. So that'd be 487 before PDT, then for a non Burtgang PLD 243 unblocked, and 97 blocked(Ochain/Duban).

These have terrible acc though. I had a 76% evasion rate wearing DEF focused gear.

I need to find out what level these are, but I think they're high enough to make using Priwen/Srivatsa without Reprisal look pretty bad. Very much an Ochain/Duban fight for PLD. I didn't parse at capped block rate, but I also didn't have them lined up in front of me the entire time. So who knows how many hits were flanking. That said Duban stage 4 parsed in the upper 90% range. Wasn't using a block focused set.

Also, PLD empy+3 set bonus actually does some work here. The hit hard enough that an absorbed hit recovers a few hits worth normal blocked hits worth of damage. So that can help a bit while you're animated and can't cure. God I wish PLD had a piece with the Turms hands HP recovery effect, except procing on block...

Can the charm be avoided with loads of Meva and Runeiest's roll etc.?

Cheat Mode: they can't steal nor dispel Embrava.


Not sure but there's definitely a way to avoid it since in the past few fights we did, 2 out of three characters didn't get tango'd. It appears to have to do with characters which didn't take any offensive action on the mobs yet, but it might have just been a blunder and a coincidence and just a meva resist.

Hmm, It might not remove it from the player, but was anything done to verify that they didn't get a copy of the effect?

In case nobody really noticed, I'd like to add that you get 10 JP per kill in addition to the 10k EP if your job IS mastered as well.

I dumped my JP into oboro so I wasn't capped and ended the fight up 60k EP and 60JP

hmm most recent memloc post I see is for June Version update.

Can anyone confirm if it works or if we need a newer on?

Yes, landing a 20k Kaustra and a 10k helix on each so that even if they get it, it doesn't matter :P

Assuming it was a resist, I wonder if it was a Resist! or a magic evasion resist. Has anyone tried Fealty on it yet?

I went pld the first time (evasion run since then) and I definitely used fealty and want to say I remember being berserked even with it up, but I'm not 100%

Can tell you tenebrae pflug doesn't make you resist it any more often

So I doubt its resistable, but the dust cloud animation is red, which suggests the move is fire based. Try barfire and water runes if you wanna try to resist it.

I think each Flan will only use it on one person? If there are more players then flans remaining someone usually ends up not getting berserked.

yeah pretty sure its not something that can be resisted, simply a numbers game ^^.

It can either be resisted, or it has only a chance to land, or there's a gimmick. Today our SCH didn't get Tango'd on the first volley, and the SCH was the only one dealing damage (pld does banishga > sentinal > rampart to spike hate against kaustra's). All three Flans used it for sure.

I have been wondering if you're immune to it while casting...

I have had Fealty up and still been animated.