Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Nolan has a couple augs that are useful as well.

The other day I was searching through head gear for bard and was gonna go do delve for fast cast
I had just warped home after getting rapid shot feet and accidentally found vanya hood has fast cast for bard so I went back

Having a local output file would help a lot as ai tends to hallucinate when it hears gear names and no values it goes out and gets it from who knows where

Is there a value that could be lifted for the augments when doing mining? Is this so obfusticated that we don't know until we explore the content?

Bunzi's Hat (Nahtira Hat) is a non-augment FC+10% that can easily be searched through this website, so you would have found a better and more modern piece if you search for it.


There's also 119 Abjuration gear and Nolan sets from Escha. They might seem outdated, but there's a few pieces here and there that fit very BIS niche slot situations (I still use Ryuo Somen +1 in NIN Gokotai DW build, because it has highest STP and DW you can get in head slot, but you can't search the STP so you wouldn't necessarily see that in a search). I'm pretty sure my COR uses Pursuer's Pants for when I have Flurry2 active for max Rapid Shot.

As I mentioned, it's also Odyssey gear and augments too. I've found a number of instances where I was looking to build a set and Odyssey armor was preferred, but there was no augment search capability. For example, when I first started making a RUN SIRD set, I started out with Taeon, but then found better pieces in my search. Eventually I stumbled upon Agwu's Pigaches, which at R30 have SIRD-10%. I ended up not needing any Taeon or Agwu in my set at all, but the point is it would have been nice to search for the stat and see everything in one place, rather than jump to several pages to see augments.

Another (larger) issue I've found with augments is that absolutely nobody bothers to update the wiki anymore. I was building SBII sets on various jobs, so I went to the BG Wiki Subtle Blow page. It had the first few common items from Omen era and Su4/5s, and nothing after that. Mpaca's Hose was missing, Ikenga's Hat missing, Gleti's Knife missing. I added them, but I found several specialized pages just like that where no mention of the relevant gear is even listed (go to the BG Wiki Daken page, no gear is listed. You'll never find Tsuru or Kunimitsu unless you had it ranked up high enough or knew it was an augment for the weapons). The previously mentioned Agwu's Pigaches still were never added to the Spell Interruption page, but Agwu's Cap is on there (the difference is one is an augment and the other is not). People just don't update the sources anymore, so it's much harder to find stuff you're looking for.

My advice: Check all of the above gear sets' augments after searching for Items on this site. It might be buried in one of these pages as an augment that nobody updated.

Yes, but no

Bunzi = WHM RDM BRD SMN
Nahti = WHM BLM RDM BRD SMN SCH GEO
Vanya = WHM BLM RDM BRD SMN SCH GEO

Vanya also doubles as a cure potency piece

Well, he didn't mention it for Cures, and he's likely already carrying Bunzi's hat for BRD TP so it's not an inventory investment at all. I use Kaykaus +1 for BRD healing anyways (but Vanya for GEO), so that's not applicable in my case, but I digress.

I didn't really intend to get into a debate about efficiency and inventory optimization, I was just responding to his query in that using the search feature for Fast Cast on this site would have returned the Fast Cast head piece he was looking for, unless he specifically was looking for a cure piece or multiple-fc/cure job piece.

I can't believe I didn't see bunzi
But ultimately I believe the vanya will be better for fc due to the mp lost on swaps

Am using kaykaus +1 for the actual cures

Missing out on things like shinjitsu fc augment with the mp
Instead of embala sash

Y'all are very right that I forgot Escha - Zi'Tah gear (Nolan), and Escha - Ru'Aun (Abjuration), in my mind they're wrapped together because it's all Escha but they're definitely different categories of stuff, with some really good pieces still. Imma edit my post.


The bgwiki team has kind of given up on mantaining those pages - it's a royal pain in the *** because the wiki is not setup as a database, and each of those tables needs to be mantained manually. They're probably just going to disappear entirely someday in favor of people using FFXIAH's power search.

(if anybody here doesn't want them to go away... well then maybe they could contribute mantaining them, don't need to edit all of them, just amending the one you found lacking is plenty.)