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I think people may be underestimating just how many people ignore their doctors advice when they offer lifestyle intervention advice or don't understand what to do. In their defense, some of these things have spectrums and challenges.

Going to the gym for instance. It can be an intimidating atmosphere no matter how welcoming it is. That and a lot of people who are addicted to engagement - guilty - find it boring as hell. Many folks "exercise" by doing it at home but never really push themselves because they don't know what to do. Some gym memberships are expensive and training is even more expensive, which leaves it to people who can afford it. That's not considering folks with limitations - I went from exercising 6 days a week to barely 2-3 b/c CTS makes it impossible otherwise even postop - I find ways to manage but it's very difficult to motivate myself to do it because the only exercise mechanisms I have left bore me to death.

Dieting can be hard too. They go eat a salad because that's society's form of 'dieting' then get hungry an hour later and eat ***. I have people in my life who have no clue about nutrition to a laughable extent. Most doctors aren't going to sit there and lecture people who proper eating habits because they don't have time. Everything we eat has sugar in it also and unhealthy food is a lot cheaper than eating healthy is unless you grow your own food, so again this comes down to an income issue and with larger families it becomes harder. If you have kids, the tendency for shitty food to be sitting around is a lot higher too even if it isn't in your house.

This all assumes people can keep it up anyway even if they can afford these things. There's a reason gyms get slammed in January then are emptied out by March.

Then there are people who just ignore it entirely and move on or don't go to the doctor at all.

Don't get me wrong, it's a self discipline and control problem barring some circumstances. That said, intervention via weight loss drugs is more likely to prevent the average person from having some cardiac event because lifestyle changes are difficult, expensive, hard to maintain, and require some education on the subject, making them less reliable.

SCH gives a large boost in healing magic by bumping you up to B rank and has the same single target cures iirc while also providing its own light storm. So if the comparison is strictly which cures single targets better, /SCH no contest

Let's make them spawn pops on 72h timers.

I personally imagine the NM system a tiered one, with some nms that pop, some that you have to pop.
Killing them gives you units and some unique drops. Last but not least, a KI.
Once you collect all the KIs (in a typical tiered system) you can access Omega and Ultima, which will be instanced and will allow even a full alliance.

That's just my personal view but I'm not a game designer and I sure as hell am not a SE dev so...

Thank you for this suggestion.

I tried out the wrapper and everything felt smoother at first, but then the stuttering set in again. :(

I also noticed the wrapper does not prevent FFXI from crashing when the display settings change, like dgvoodoo, which is a must-have for a laptop.

Yes, I have confirmed the gamepad setting is disabled in the FFXI config.

Nin

Facts. Haste Samba upkeep is definitely the most obnoxious part of /DNC

I wonder if/when they release NMs (Ultima + Omega eventually as Mega Bosses), that they might make them more like open world content: Besieged/Domain Invasion, and less instanced: Sortie/Odyssey. They are putting a lot of focus and work into allowing everyone to do the same content at the same time without needing a reservation or dedicated time block. I could see the lower NMs being something like old Dynamis NMs that pop randomly and must be claimed and killed for whatever drop or points they give out, but Omega/Ultima being a zone-boss that everyone can fight at once and earn large amounts of Units/new currency that needs to be farmed at regular intervals (Mireu as an example).

Interested to see how they implement NMs into these zones nonetheless.

For gaol fights specifically geo can only contribute blunt dmg, which is just not that common. That's why it is not used for dps in gaol.

On bumba geo can contribute 10% dmg, which is the difference between winning a V20 bumba and not winning it.

Some people really do not have lives outside of a video game and just don't get how important this aspect is. I'd love for the gear to be a bit better, I suspect there will be another round in another month or two. Each job has 1~3 items that objectively better to use, especially if it's something they wear in TP / DT / WS, that is sufficient to motivate people to do the event. On Asura the zones are always filled with people doing stuff.

For CDC it would be DEX/Crit until you're close enough (or over) 100% Crit rate, at which point DEX/DA will become the best option.

Kinda depends on your gear, your buff, the type of target and the rest of the gear you have in your other slots.
Given how RDM doesn't exactly have a pletora of +Crit gear to pick, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that more often than not DEX/Crit will be the best choice for CDC on RDM.

Yeah but I use it because I can't be arsed to keep haste samba up sometimes and DA+10% if diminished when you have high TA. If you're with a DNC definitely don't use it.

Yes, you're totally right about that. I didn't fully develop what I had in mind.
I wrote what I said with the context of being a good dps in mind. And while GEO is indeed used in pretty much every ody fight, I think that for 90% of them it's just cast bubble and stand there for 15 mins. Just hit the bolster button once. So while you're definitely contributing to the fight with your bubbles, you're really not doing much else which often doesn't feel much satisfying (even on the support side).

Agreed.
Granted the content is not complete too, there are small tweaks I can envision.
It's very relaxing and well thought imho, with its soft gates that leave a lot of freedom to tackle the content the way you want, when you want.
I missed this feeling.
Last but not least, it's not instanced! Gives a wonderful feeling of being in an MMO instead of in an online game with 5 other friends.

There's also the larger than 6 part. Is it less efficient? It totally is, but just the fact that it's a possibility... well, I find it awesome honestly.
If I still ran an event based LS like I did for many years before new content (or lack thereof) killed it, I know I would set up Limbus events for sure.

Yes the AF+4 is slightly lackluster and the content overall, beside all the pros I listed, is a bit dull.
Hopefully NMs will add the pepper it's missing, without making it too restrictive or excessively grindy (the amount of grind is already a bit higher than it should if you ask me, considering the level of upgrade you get from these pieces)

The longer I'm on FFXIAH, the more I think about this meme...

I wish entries on this website had augments attached in some way
Everytime I use power search I miss out on things like unity items.

Was looking for a conserve mp belt for brd and totally missed the one with 15 augment from unms was gonna use one with a 4 lol

If there exists a huge data dump somewhere id love to feed that an AI and ask it stupid questions like I use the power search now

For the CDC Cape, would that not be DEX/Crit? Or would a DEX/WSD also be good? And for the idle cape, yea.. I'm not sure if the raw 50Meva outweighs a MND/MEVA/Regen cape..

As for the DW cape, I am leaning into making that, but I primarily use /NIN a lot more then DNC, so the earring combo seems to make sense to me.

My current preferred kalunga strat does not use a geo for 1 KI. We've found it significantly better to drop the geo for a blu (additional DPS) because of hate issues with just 1 DPS, brd, cor.

You might not need the cape if you use Haste Samba, but I use my DW cape even when /NIN for stuff where I'm not Haste capped (Cornelia isn't present) and trusts will die (Ulmia, Shinryu VD). You'll only have 30% Magical Haste from Haste 2, so you need 31% DW to cap attack speed. For me, that takes the legs, waist, back, and earring slots. So I agree, a DW cape is very nice to have.

DW cape is good for /DNC.

Its incomplete but I get it. Was fun the first week, I got a few "key" items for my mains and now I don't care to go back.

Hopefully the rumored NM system will improve the content.

Honestly, I don't think GEO is in a good spot right now and its utility has been reduced to a few instances where it's really needed. The same applies for its DPS options.

Solo, you probably won't enjoy it much. It's very very subjob dependant and it's not the most fun for either melee or magic dpsing. (just try it in ody gaol and you'll see how limited you feel) Since you come from RDM which is quite versatile... you might find it pretty boring to be honest.

In party, the main issue comes from the fact that lots of newer content don't really use GEO because the bubbles are nerfed pretty much everywhere nowadays and the luopan management really sucks when there's too much running around involved (segs, limbus,...).

Now there's a few instances where it's still very useful and enjoyable. For example, i do like being geo on 9boss sortie runs. And on fights like Aminon, it can really provide good dps competing with brd or rdm. But i feel like it has become the exception rather than the rule.

They managed to come up with a content worse than Sortie. That takes talent.

don't forget to make a pet:haste cape for the time (this time doesn't exist) where you're gonna be rdm/smn and need carby to swing fast!

Man, these are the real PS2 limitations huh? FFXI is probably riddled with so many nested or piece-wise functions that there probably is more than 1 or 2 silly unintended side-effects like Filamented Hold.

Thank you for the thorough testing! This was really insightful and interesting to read!



You could Idle in MND/M.Eva/Regen (the increased MND, couldn't theoretically lower your likelihood of getting silenced. (I do not know how well this compares with the M.Evasion+50 on Null Shawl, unfortunatley).

You also could make a (STR or DEX)/DA/WSD cape if hybrid WSes make a comeback?

You could make DEX/Crit/WSD for Almace/CDC?

I guess...none of these are truly necessary...and this is why I have almost 60 capes worth of materials taking up ~50 inventory slots:

I do want to remind people if you have gamepad on and you don't have a gamepad plugged in you will get a stutter

You can use "input /macro set 1" to bind to the G keys and just use those to switch your books.

Another option is to use a macro "/macro set 1" as a macro. You can do it haphazardly/randomly but probably makes most sense to use 1 on each screen (saw cntl-10 spot) to always go to page 1 and have page 1 just go to other pages. (I suppose the other idea would be cntl-10 goes to the next page and alt-10 goes to the prior page)

Some jobs lends themselves to some more obvious combinations than others. (ie set 1 on summoner both summons the avatar and goes to the set with the abilities of that avatar macro'd)

The catch is the side effects.

GEO DPS is considered to be the lowest of any standard group. It's a contribution nonetheless, but it's far behind RDM, and a bit behind BRD since likely it would be using Black Halo or Judgment vs Savage Blade (and BRD gets better gear than GEO). That aside, it can still add things like Box Steps, Stun if /DRK (helpful on a couple of Sortie Bosses), and it can cast for TP instantly with an Occult Acumen set, which is quite handy. I've hit a 60k Judgment on Normal Aminon at 3k TP before, so you can deal respectable numbers just by building the proper sets and running the correct buffs.