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I was doing fine till 30 secs ago
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Simon gets the point.
If we just assume 40m for +2 and 4m for +1 it’s roughly 880m for a full set of +2 vs 88m for a full set of +1s, many of the +1s are bis for 1 or more stats (except for the +2) or offer some unique bonus/stat. I personally make about 40m a month without focusing on Gil, spending almost 2 years to upgrade 22 jobs for 1 slot is not appealing.
Obviously if you don’t play a job a ton, dumping the Gil is probably not worth it. Even though some like rdm give solid boosts to multiple stats. Although that varies per person.
Tier lists are ok but it’s an indirect answer to the question, I guess if you play all jobs equally which 3-7 would you +2 ? Of course reasons help
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By Karppa on 2025-08-23 10:07:05
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+2 all my mule just keeping crafting
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No, it’s gear swap only
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Worth mentioning is that like the Helheim, the Kusanagi features Detonation/Compression.
Not as game changing for Great Katana, which is the ultimate skillchaining weapon in FFXI, but even so, allows Samurai to do the endless skillchain of Detonation <-> Scission with purely PHYSICAL weaponskills in addition to being a great Darkness option.
(Can also do the endless Compression <-> Transfixion but that involves Goten in this case)
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The question was which ones were worth it, not what you would rank them
The question was specifically which one are worth (meaning worth throwing gils at it) +2 over +1 and I answered that with my first post.
Mnk,nin,rdm,brd,drg > sam,whm,thf,drk,sch,dnc,blm > blu,pup,bst,rng,run,war,cor > geo(much higher if you don't have Idris) ,pld
Of in my opinion.
You ranked them. There’s no dividing line on which ones are “worth it.”
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Well, the good news is k123 disagrees with your ranking, so you're probably spot on.
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The question was which ones were worth it, not what you would rank them
The question was specifically which one are worth (meaning worth throwing gils at it) +2 over +1 and I answered that with my first post.
Mnk,nin,rdm,brd,drg > sam,whm,thf,drk,sch,dnc,blm > blu,pup,bst,rng,run,war,cor > geo(much higher if you don't have Idris) ,pld
Of in my opinion.
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By Taint on 2025-08-23 08:36:08
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Can't say I've Fudox2 since I got Mumei access.
4/5 Step Light, 3/4 Step darkness or Mumei spam for pretty much everything.
Even for Hybrids I just use Kusanagi for the additional macc and DA.
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By Dodik on 2025-08-23 08:22:20
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Ok. You're wrong though.
/shrug
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Still looking. If you’re geared and have 8 boss experience, can reach out and we’ll get you up to speed for Aminon. Thanks!
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Bzzt, wrong. Kusa's PDL pushes fudo damage higher too, and all the other WSs in a 4-step. Fudo is not as high as masa, but close enough and the dmg increase on the other WSs makes it catch up.
Lol yeah... apart from you are bzzt wrong. Even if you are using the full PDL AM, 35 STR advantage and 10% fudo buff is making that double light combo stronger with masa, not to mention masa high white dmg. Test it yourself on sim or game if you have stage 5 kusa and r15 masa. Not that kusa isn't top tier, but it isn't always bis.
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By on 2025-08-23 07:40:03
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Quetzalcoatl.Jakey said: »Like sure its probably the best but lets not pretend we weren't already regularly limited by the damage cap with Shining One.
What is this nonsense? What are you fighting, Qutrubs?
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I'm unlocking it from scratch so I'd need to run through Tojil, Daku and Muyi as well.
FWIW, if the leader is bringing you in, you don't need to do this.
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By Dodik on 2025-08-23 07:30:09
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And unless SE nerfed it, you should be able to bazaar One Ambu Full Clear to easily purchase 5 Pulse Cells so there really isn’t an excuse there?
Wut.
Is that Asura-speak or something? No comprende.
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Mnk,nin,rdm,brd,drg > sam,whm,thf,drk,sch,dnc,blm > blu,pup,bst,rng,run,war,cor > geo(much higher if you don't have Idris) ,pld Simon literally the one that derailed the thread then had a pissy fit when someone deviated from his personal ranking. Get out of your Stalin mindset.
It's not about the ranking or me, I simply followed OP question and answered it, then I pointed out that your answer was off topic and gave my arguments why I think your list was flawed even when following your meta logic. I'm pretty sure I did exactly what this forum is for.
The question was which ones were worth it, not what you would rank them
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Those upgrades are basically given so it doesn’t make any sense to NOT get them.
"If you spend a bunch of time farming a pulse weapon you get it for 'free'".
It's not free if you're spending time on it.
Any upgrade in XI is going to cost you time.
Whether it's time spent grinding potpourri while doing other things, time spent farming gil to buy cells or HQ gear or anything else.
Unless you're whipping out a CC to buy gil, of course.
Well, you’re almost there but you’re still supporting my point: Some Necks just aren’t worth it to +2. For Ambuscade it’s almost entirely a VERY SHORT grind to get everything there each month so other than how one goes about getting the completed weapon, not +2-ing Ambu stuff is on the lazy side imo. Nothing wrong with lazy, it’s your time use it as you see fit. And unless SE nerfed it, you should be able to bazaar One Ambu Full Clear to easily purchase 5 Pulse Cells so there really isn’t an excuse there?
Odyssey is the same but in a much slower boat, especially for returning players; that’s why we don’t bark at people for not having a full set of r20+ armors.
Now we circle back to the JSE Necks because 95% of players aren’t gonna be able to make them, and they can get expensive. You mentioned the cost of time, assuming a player is playing normally to earn Gil, it’s going to take muuuuuch longer to purchase a +2 than a +1 so they’re probably getting the +1 and leaving it there unless the +2 of said neck is worth the further investment of time and money. But many of them are not worth it, at least not imo.
40m for the +2 Neck itself then another 31m to Augment it unless you have a Dyna Group. So in the case of THF Neck+1 vs +2 is 71m worth 5ACC/ATK/EVA, 3DEX/AGI, 1% TA Rate and Damage?
Mind you, that’s current market value which is MUUUUCH cheaper than it was when Dyna was fresh, this debate had much higher implications back then lol.
The juice isn’t always worth the squeeze.
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By Jakey on 2025-08-23 06:53:32
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I definitely prefer my drg over rng for pure savage spam, the ws bonus drg gets is just so strong and tp bonus doesn't do much when you are already using K-club. Also jumps don't feed tp so you have ways to not completely feed all tp all the time.
I see all this hype about the polearm but it just looks like a minor upgrade over shining one to me. When you compare shining one Impulse drive to Diarmuid you get slightly better equivalent fTP (counting the 40% bonus on shining one) and of course the pdl but lose the ability to crit on ws . The prime also can SC with its self which may or may not be good depending on the content. Like sure its probably the best but lets not pretend we weren't already regularly limited by the damage cap with Shining One.
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Mnk,nin,rdm,brd,drg > sam,whm,thf,drk,sch,dnc,blm > blu,pup,bst,rng,run,war,cor > geo(much higher if you don't have Idris) ,pld Simon literally the one that derailed the thread then had a pissy fit when someone deviated from his personal ranking. Get out of your Stalin mindset.
It's not about the ranking or me, I simply followed OP question and answered it, then I pointed out that your answer was off topic and gave my arguments why I think your list was flawed even when following your meta logic. I'm pretty sure I did exactly what this forum is for.
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By on 2025-08-23 06:47:24
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Ok I just checked and BRD has stp and PDL. I thought the QA was the augment.
So you made a tier list not even knowing the stats on the neck. Thank you for your insight :)
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By on 2025-08-23 06:42:47
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By on 2025-08-23 06:39:22
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By Dodik on 2025-08-23 06:37:00
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You can stop using them because kusanagi is always up there, but masa is stronger for standard double light (fudo kasha shoha fudo) and doji is stronger for jinpu spam (two common GK use cases).
Bzzt, wrong. Kusa's PDL pushes fudo damage higher too, and all the other WSs in a 4-step. Fudo is not as high as masa, but close enough and the dmg increase on the other WSs makes it catch up.
Doji is only technically stronger in jinpu if you don't mind losing TP and Kusanagi's AM3. If it's just one pack I don't even switch to Doji.
Only time doji gets used is if only spamming Jinpu or on Kei. Masa's been on a mannequin since stage 5 kusanagi..
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By on 2025-08-23 06:35:19
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This is an interesting way of analysing a DRG only wep... Also, not sure I would agree with "way more powerful" vs naegling on fencer WAR or Rng with kclub/tpbonus bow/DI arrow.
Point is every other DD prime is a nice upgrade or sidegrade, but Gae Buide is in a different league vs the next best polearm.
War's and rng's Savage is nowhere near Drg's at the same tp threshold. War fencer dps is also nowhere near Drg's unless you pair WAR with DNC's Haste samba. Rng can kinda keep up with dps because it has 1000tp bonus advantage, but it's still behind and neither war or rng can't simply do regular 90-99k Savage without Aria by reaching higher tp thresholds. Also DRG doesn't really need KC or any specific subjob, meaning it can do it on any content.
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I also would like to buy a Jinxed Mithra.
Well not buy, but rent
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Those weapons are a decade old and work now the same as they did.
Differences are:
* Setan is mostly used for flourish recast reduction during zergs, I think
* Twashtar benefits much more than Terpsi from augmented Nyame gear, but if you don't have that then it doesn't affect the math.
* Terpsi is fun and probably benefits more from Air Knife (you may use Centovente offhand with Twash), but maintaining AM3 is annoying.
If I was getting one of those three today, it would be Twashtar
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By Dodik on 2025-08-23 06:25:43
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Those upgrades are basically given so it doesn’t make any sense to NOT get them.
"If you spend a bunch of time farming a pulse weapon you get it for 'free'".
It's not free if you're spending time on it.
Any upgrade in XI is going to cost you time.
Whether it's time spent grinding potpourri while doing other things, time spent farming gil to buy cells or HQ gear or anything else.
Unless you're whipping out a CC to buy gil, of course.
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