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The TP offhand meta feels sadge : [.

In terms of REMA, I think I might do Excal first for fun. But empty am3 is fun :)

Dont be jelly

Ive seen slightly more than average hype for Expedition 33. Many youtubers saying it is a masterpieçe.

Reminds me Wukong had about the same amount of hype. But already there is some time since I heard about it again.

Personally I like to play (or watch) the entire serie in order, and not skipping numbers.

Thus, playing 32 games just to play Expedition 33 is no bueno for me.

I'm finally gonna sport my WAR-PLD Galka! Stand in front of people with no Ja0...

No galka goes to heaven. They aren't even good though for hell.

Maletaru is going off-topic. Please somebody ban him.

(Thanks for sharing that vid btw. That's really good info)

8th post in this thread is all it took for someone to ask for the actual difference in stats.

All dogs go to heaven... except that one.

Personally I've done 2 race changes in the 21 years I've played FFXI.
I started in February 2004 as an Elvaan M and within maybe a couple of weeks rerolled as the Hume M I was until last night.
I literally did a 1:1 (excepting size) swap Hume M F1A -> Hume F F1A (med.->large).
Could I have swapped to Elvaan F for the increased STR and MND for more Savage Blade damage? Sure, but would I have liked the animations? No way.
I was always satisfied as a Hume, so "correcting" the gender was sufficient for me.
If you wanna throw $11 at SE every 2 weeks to min/max, more power to you.

The arguments are silly, almost everyone that does this will be doing it for cosmetic reasons.

Matamata will destroy your bubbles much faster than Kalunga's spins. I don't think you can avoid both from hitting your bubble. Can you?

Are the stats really that important? As long as you switch from Tarutaru to something else then you are good to go!

I have to disagree with you Nynja. I think the min-max argument should not stop at race change if you want to go this far. If you are telling me that you are such a min-max shizzler that you changed your race because that's how serious you are, then you better be bringing repast +2.

That's because min-maxing with repast+2 is just as stupid as min-maxing with race change.

Also, a whole lot of the min-max gang are mediocre players. I often see people treating min-maxing as an accomplishment in itself. Bros talking about how they min-max that 1% HP while sporting their R25 gear, 2 years after V25 come out.

How good is your min-max if you aren't beating anything relevant with it? Just swap to the race that you like and stop pretending the min-max argument has any meaningful impact in it.

Is DEX/DA/Att the focus of FBII?

That's funny because a guy in my Sortie group who has nothing left to buy in game does volunteer a Repast (not +2 because they're not usually in stock or are terribly overpriced) before every run he's there, lol. And there was a guy who was desperate for a certain V25 clear and shouted for a merc, but instead, a group of us just told him he had to supply the Repasts for the attempts in exchange for our help, instead of the 100+ M he was willing to pay an RMT. #minmaxing

The bubble shouldn't even be remotely close to either of Kalunga's legs. It should be like 9' away from his tail, minimum. With widened compass it should be in center field, totally off camera where the matamata don't even realize it exists.

I have no idea why you'd be threading the needle trying to put it close to Kalunga, it should be behind the pillar

"hei guyz y arent u using the 65 million dollar food lulz"

Shittiest and absolute stupidest bad faith counterargument I've ever seen here. 5/5 Eiryls.

Reforged relic +3 pants have 22 dex, and 60 atk. Wayyyyyyy better than zoar subligar +1

Without anything to support my post, on a pure hunch I would say Flametongue.

I did a Kalunga run where we stood specifically on one of it's legs and when adds popped, the person with hate on them (usually the WAR) would run far away then back to the other leg and force it to the opposite side of the party. In a situation like that, the GEO might be able to strategically place the bubble closer to the first leg but just outside of range of the Matamata's attacks, but still benefit both groups on either leg. like almost on the tail you'd put the bubble and the adds would be on it's side (but might not stay there due to knockback)

Ok, but if you take this logic then any single INT is an advantage. Time to server transfer so you can get a better luminous isle tincture. Why aren't you using an altana's repast+2 on every attempt?

The problem i have with this mindset is that the measuring stick is just wrong. If you lose as a galka then also lose as a taru, you could say that being a taru gave you an advantage, but what's the advantage worth when you lost?

Unless your bumba is sub-1% when you timed out, your race didn't matter. That's why I said pretend, because it didn't matter and if you think it did, you're living in a fantasy pretend land.

It's fine if people want to live in fantasy pretend lands where being a Galka is the reason they're able to hold hate, being a taru is why they beat bumba, and being an elvaan is the reason they do so much damage. I'm gonna point out how wrong and stupid it is though.

Spoiler because kinda not on topic

I was looking at the guide and noticed that the main LUA it recommends is no longer available (pastebin says it was removed for security reasons earlier this year?). I noticed there's another one just below (https://pastebin.com/raw/wm8AYzxq) is it still up to date? What was the other one like?

I have a friend who is wanting to play BST so I'm just searching for some information for them. I haven't played in a few years so I'm not up to date with current stuff

Logged into ffxi outside my normal playtime and boy... is it dead

Fixed my bard lua so I can bard like no ones business but everyone's in their business so its kinda mute as a mother *** on bismarck.

Went back to expedition 33 - Figure I beat this before I figure out what to ffxi when I have free time.

Need to hit 50 on monk again since bumba deleveled me and I guess I can make a masamune for sam and get it to 50 as well (48 atm)

need a ton of sheol C...

and what mog weapon to choose... yuck

Yeah but how much HP is enough? is 1500HP enough to tank Kalunga or is 5000HP too much? You only need as much HP as is necessary to survive a move until you get healed, right? So anything else is wasted stats? Does that apply to Magic Evasion, MDB etc? How much Magic Evasion should a person wear when in range of a V25 Odyssey boss, max meva, or should they be aiming for a specific number and fill the rest with offense? Does the additional Magic evasion even matter at a point? How much attack do I need to cap vs Gartell on GEO? I don't know, maybe the person doesn't really know how much HP (or any stat for that matter) they will need for any given situation, so they might try to optimize as much as possible by putting extra in a set. That's not necessarily delusions, that's just what we've always called minmaxing. If someone wants an extra 130 HP in their fc set or Random Deal set because they lose 300 when they swap to potency stuff or whatever, that optimization is their choice. I couldn't tell you in every single case what does and doesn't matter in the long run, or if it would save a person from dying etc., which is why people enjoy optimizing their sets as much as possible to be prepared, regardless of the circumstance. Personally, I try to load up on defensive stats on harder bosses as much as possible. Is this delusional because I don't really know how much I need to survive a move and don't want to take any chances?

For example, how do you decide on what is a better option between two pieces of gear that offer similar attributes and stats but are slightly different, and affect or modify the ability or ws in different ways? You can't just eyeball it because that's not always going to be accurate. You could just sim it out to get perfect answer, but then you're assuming a person would perform like a computer in the same way, and that's not realistic either. You could just say "who cares, both are close and neither make a difference in whether I beat it or not, good enough!". So in some situations, the human factor will intervene and the person would decide what they feel is best in the given scenario. It might not make any difference either way, but that's part of playing a video game in that you can make decisions for your own character on what you think is best for any situation. You might guess wrong, right, or its inconsequential, but you still can decide.


Only if your INT, HP or MP matters. Comes back to situations and decisions. They latter examples are something to consider overall, but they only matter when they do. You might not care about your MP or INT, or play jobs that benefit as much from that, so you can decide if the optimization path for racial stat differences is working more for whatever goal you're interested in. Doesn't mean you can't talk through the pros/cons.


Kinda strawman. If INT is what's important for landing the most damage for a certain spell, then better is better. Whether that results in a win or not is completely different story, but I don't think I ever said having more would be the difference between winning and not, only that someone might choose the better option for any given circumstance because it gives them an "advantage". The results may or may not change, but again, that's literally called minmaxing for the occasion.

STFU Alfania...

If they change race to get content cleared it's because they are stupid, not because it's required, or because it helps.

You are not taking into account the BS min-max argument will completely vanish, statistically. One of your mates take a few seconds longer to WS on, say, a bumba fight, and there goes your $11 optimization.

In a 1H sortie your min-max argument will get consumed by someone taking a little longer to warp between bitzers. lol.

Which of the swords is best for a war mule that I am jyst using to clear Mission/Abyssea content and not intending to put in endgame?

OK, at least 80% of my point is still valid though.

Min maxing what? Say you're a PLD, is having 3100 HP min maxing? Why not 3200? Are you min maxing your enmity? How about MDB? INT? How do you min max INT, MND, and HP? Is min maxing your VIT by being Galka not ruining your STR min max because you're not elvaan? What about if you pick elvaan, you've failed to min max kaustra damage. If you pick elvaan for max STR, you're losing accuracy by not being mithra for min maxed DEX.

You can't min max any single job, let alone a whole character. Pretending that you're playing perfectly optimally by picking any race is still a delusion.

Say you pick elvaan for max STR for your WAR, whoops now you don't have the max VIT for Upheaval. Pick galka for the HP on PLD, whoops now you lost INT for resisting nukes. Picked mithra for THF, whoops you died to an AOE because you don't have enough HP.

I mean obviously none of these things are going to happen because the accuracy difference is like .05% increase...but even given their ridiculous premise that 10 of a stat matters...you still can't pick the right answer, even for a single job.