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let his ideas stand on their own merits like anyone else. yes it turns out there was very little actual substance to the strategy, as many have shown, but don't shoot the guy down based on the language barrier alone.

the newest pld job guide here comes to mind. the author got quite a lot of feedback and criticism for the information in the guide, and I believe went on to fix a significant portion of it to make corrections. everyone should get that chance.

why does dhartok not have a butthole?

Is anyone else struggling to make good VS numbers on ilvl content?

With Godhands and trusts vs locus imps, I'm pretty sure I'm pdif capped, but I'm only doing 16-22k dmg with my victory smites (go at 1k tp w/ 950 tp bonus). My shijin spirals are doing 22-28k. Is it just the extra hit in shijin and godhands bonus that is making it better than VS?

I have r0 mpaca and r20 nyame and all jse gear except my neck is a plus 1. I've tried, crit, physical dmg cap, DA, TA, and nothing seems to move the needle much except for equipping vere.

It's not trolling to point out glaring absurdities, incoherence, and incompetence. This guy is going out of his way to be difficult to understand - after it has been made clear to him that is the case - but then basks in the sunshine of even trolls praising his efforts. This entire thread of sekretzzzz is literally 10 years late to the party. Vagary is pretty well figured out. 2015 is calling ---it needs dem vagary seeecreeetzzz. rofl.

Oh jesus I forgot this is the linkshell test guy. Someone find that thread, it's *** hilarious.

Not really, most of the included statues or merch in those sets are cheap mass produced crap. I guess if you into art books

How trash is your DD that you need an Idris Geo for this month’s Ambu? Lol

"Have you upgraded to piss tier yet?"

Got this working fine now, so you can change the icons if you so desire :D

This working perfectly, thank you so much!
Exactly code for anyone in the future searching

My vote goes for extremely obnoxious yellow.
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So, an interesting thing to note is that while Poison is a water elemental spell, the DoT damage from poison doesn't have an element(or even a dmg type for that matter.) Meaning you can poison a mob that absorbs water damage, and the DoT will still do damage, not heal them.

So I think there's pretty much no chance that Mandau's poison add effect can set A/E boss off that way. Now, if it had an enwater dmg add effect, then it'd almost certainly be absorbed and piss the mob off.

zero chance they thought that far ahead with Nimbus, they don't even have the NMs ready for launch. We're gonna get the same charmable mobs that operate off of archaic battle mechanics (Sic is terrible)

This is another example of a sentence that makes absolutely no sense on its face. I'm sorry but you're not really at the point where you can convey your messages without lots of confusion.

I think what you meant to say was: "If this isn't a new strategy, why are you asking for more details about it?"

Assuming I understood what you're trying to say then I'll answer:
The answer to your question is already in my post, you just didn't understand it because of the language barrier.

To re-answer this question:
The intent of my post wasn't to genuinely get the answer to these questions, I don't give a ***what your "guide" is saying because I already know how to do Vagary objectives and I would never use a NIN for it.
The reason I made that post was to point out, to you and to others, WHY the poor quality of the writing in your post was detrimental (harmful) to the reader, and how it is a relevant criticism and not just nitpicking.
If you made a typo and put "there" instead of "their", it wouldn't affect the quality of the guide or the readability. The examples I provided show how the poor quality of the writing makes the guide less useful and honestly, confusing.

Don't get me wrong, a large % of native English speakers don't have anywhere near the second language skills you have, including most Americans in my experience. It's commendable that you know this much English in addition to whatever other language(s) you know.

That doesn't change the fact that your English skills, as shown by this post, are nowhere near good enough to be writing a guide for ffxi unassisted. Maybe you're "writing too fast" and that's the problem, in which case...I'd suggest not writing too fast, because it's embarrassing and frankly, it causes massive problems with the usefulness of your guide.

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SMN occupies several niches, they're just not very necessary in the meta.

1.) Hateless, safe damage that doesn't feed TP to the mob. Physical, magical, and can do it all from range (for the SMN anyway)
2.) Plenty of useful buffs, some of which are unique to SMN. They don't stack up, but they come "Free" with putting SMN in the pt so it's a nice bonus
3.) One of 3 jobs that can TP drain
4.) One of very few jobs that can realistically remove hate from someone. DRG can do it with Spirit Surge, THF can take but doesn't dissipate (and has a much longer CD), Cover is trash.
5.) One of very few jobs (WHM, SCH) that can actually remove debuffs from people, so it can be considered a main healer, under the right conditions.
6.) Unique buffs (Avatar's Favor) that stack with all other buffs of that type.
7.) Perfect Defense is in a league of its own, in terms of defensive buffs.
8.) Conduit can do some whacky ***.
9.) Altana's Favor is also super helpful and totally unique.

Unfortunately, all this stuff doesn't usually qualify for a slot, but it's not as though it's lacking an identity, it's just lacking...balance? Potency? It's got lots of things that make it unique and exceptional and lots of reasons you could want to bring it. Those things just aren't required all that often, so faster/more efficient things are taken. It happens to a lot of jobs.

This is the cost of having unique jobs; you can't fit every unique trait in every piece of content, so many of them are gonna be left out.

if you leave it out for 23 years it'll cast haste on you, too.

I always thought that with trust AI revealed that they might have eventually made avatars more intelligent and autonomous when you aren't using pacts. Thats kind of how I imagined SMN in the beginnings when I knew squat about the game. When I was reading about how the light spirit had a very basic AI to use cures.

Floor 1 mobs absolutely do not have 70k+ HP, unless you're talking about halo mobs. They're barely over 60k, if even.

SMN needs an identity, IDK what to even classify it as in 2025. It doesn't DD by modern standards, not even close and that's before the BP walls everywhere in modern content. It's buffs/debuffs aren't as potent as BRD GEO or COR. What it can do is doubly limited by pet swaps and the BP timer. So it doesn't have a slot to fill and if slots are limited it literally isn't up to the task.

SMN and its crappiness aside I'm guessing we're getting incremental increases in stats with some PDL sprinkled around. I'm really hoping for some exciting new Brutal/Loq. earrings with beefy augments to chase with new extra-ancient beastcoins.

You lose far too much offensive capability truly maximizing evasion that it is not worth it for some slots. I did make a specific evasion dt engaged set and an engaged issekigan set, but to start with not utilizing daken is a massive loss. JSE neck and Shuriken are an absolute must to even be considered practical in my opinion.

Theory is cool, but practical is better lol.

Look at his hands.

There are SIX fingers!

Thats thr proof he is NOT a real frog!

HOLY ***!

Only now I noticed but Negan Froggs is not real.

He is an AI!!!

That TMNT collector's edition looks pretty awesome though. I would never buy it but at least they are doing it right.

You could say that about the entire 21st century so far.

Yeah but that resist with 23TP more still wouldn't kill it.