Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I remember one or two instances where I dealt water damage, I think it was a accidental distortion SC and didn't get demolished right away, at least vs ghatjot.

If one of the KIs doesn't protect you against water damage once or twice what is the bar indicator on the top left with the KI name above it for?

Poison?

anyone now how to macro Pandit's Staff by any chance?
I picked it up for my dedicated Healer mule and I can't seem to get it to work.

tried /item "Pandit's Staff" <me> with various mixups in the caps and front and back slashes but the thing just doesn't want to send it seems like.

wouldnt it be /equip? Unless you mean to use the enchantment in which case that should work if the timers up, least from my memory of macroing warp cudgels in the past

As I said I did see arciela healing ghatnoj with her attacks once in the log.

So it could be that.

Selhteus you just gotta watch his tp amd avoid SCing with him.

I'll just summon another healer who'll poisona me I suppose instead of arciela

just changes the taint debuff into poison. taint is nonremovable, and poison of course is removable.

Nope, the staff has been on full-time. Timer is Zero/Ready but nothing I input into the text box or macro is sending it.

I tried a few things but I figured there has to be something I'm doing wrong so I came here to ask lol

macro may require
has something to do with gearswap or windower iirc, though that may not be 100% accurate.

Do jug pets carry in from the lobby into fights in Sheol Gaol?

yes

Any point in employing the Plague effect from Left Hand Yoko on Mboze, or just better off riding TP Drainkiss in the TP denial strat?

id wonder if it could land in the 1st place given the resistance rates on ody/sortie bosses

I have doubts it lands. Cesspool from BLU would not land when I tried it. Never tried Lowing.

don't think it'll land on him, I've tried w/ rune ability's and it doesn't wanna land on him or her. however it identifies

Well the reason I considered Left Handed Yoko for Plague is that it's dark based move just like TP Drainkiss, and Yoko also has the Monster Affinity being Vermin vs. Plant.

But I guess resistance to plague is a different attribute technically?

fatso tp drainkiss cannot be resisted, even considering he is not an 119 jug.

Plague(unless yoko is somehow different) is fire based, so if hes got any fire resistance then its unlikely to land, as always sure would be nice if SE could just add a line to moves "target took xx dmg and is (insert debuff)" they could do it for violent flourish, but could never repeat it

If it lands, its a 45 second plague at -50TP per tick. Each tick is 3 seconds, so thats -750TP, but that is entirely subjective on the very big if it lands. Fatso can remove more, and theres no guessing if it landed or not, you see the results in the chat log immediately.

Thats also an extra 15 seconds waiting to do another TPDrainkiss (unless you're using Charmer's Merlin, but I dont think thats advisable?)

Dont bother with it.

This axe has been made obsolete.

The minimum recast time for Ready is 10 seconds per charge when taking into account all effects from merit points, Job Point Gifts, and equipment. If you're using Gleti's Breeches (you should be) at 100 JP and 5 Ready Merits, Charmer's Merlin does nothing but lower your pet's magic accuracy and iLvl

Didnt know (or likely forgot) there was a JP gift for ready recast.
I dont play bst really.

Random newbie question: besides the Oboro Augment unlock, is there anything you can do with JP once you've mastered a job?

Follow-up: which dynamis D bosses are considered to be the "hardest"? I have a relic that could use some augmenting but don't want to start investing tons of JP in it if it turns out the dyna D windurst boss that unlocks them is "easy"

Define “easy”?

You dont have to kill it, just deal enough damage over a few runs to fill mask.

yeah that's all for JP

Sandy's probably the most annoying of the 4 just due to more aoes they have access too + aoe enfeebs, id like to say the taru is the easiest among them all as the times ive done W3 windy hes spent the majority of it just spamming aeolian edge or energy drain, but they're all similarly difficult if just for the waves of adds they pop, and they eventually get aoe variants of emp WS which are all similarly pretty potent dmg wise

Warrior in Windy has access to Fell Cleave, which can easily one shot and is AOE.

Just getting to the boss with enough time to do >50% is a decent dps check, depending on the size of your group.

FWIW the proper use of the lobby pet is applying KI. Put up KI, call fatso. If you're good and your fatso never dies, after 5 minutes you can dismiss fatso, call KI pet with loyalty, dismiss it, recall fatso with call beast.

2 KI can make a significant difference in your damage for Arebati KI1

I'd say it's not the w3 boss you need to think about, but the zone in general. For me, it goes Sandy -> Windy -> Bastok -> Jeuno, from hardest to easiest.

Do Master Levels help Jug Pets at all, in anyway?

They get similar benefits that the other pets get, plus some ready dmg increase, bst thread has several breakdowns of various ML milestones but yeah it does stuff for them

Aight so, after a buncha approaches I have a very solid working strategy for Casket #B1 in sortie (kill within 30s)

I can pretty reliably down them in like, 20s easily.

What I learned:

1. Most of my issue was the fact I had a typo in my lua and my Pixie Hairpin +1 wasn't being used for leaden salute. Yeah... that's gonna definitely hamper my kill speed. Fixing that made me reliably down the fire elementals in only a 3step of Lead>AE>Lead

2. I can shoot and pull them, and without even using triple shot, simply just doing 2 Shots > Leaden > 2 shots, I'd have the TP to pop off Aeolian edge and most of the time the elemental would have finished its casting and now be within melee range to get slapped with AE

3. Using Rostam + Gleti's substantially improved how reliably I could 3step, instead of Naeg+Tauret.

I am now using the comp of:

Sylvie
Joachim
Ulmia
Ygnas
Arciela (Summoned last, this is important to keep her at the back)

And because I can just pull the elemental, and keeping arciela at the back of the trust crew, she won't do AoEs anyways and wont pull aggro.

Problem/Question

Something is whack with Casket #B1, and I wanna know if anyone else has experienced this.

I dunno if it happens sometimes cuz I get the killshot on an elemental on the ramp. Or if it's cuz I happen to get Chest #B3 at the same time on the same kill, or what...

But has anyone has found sometimes Casket #B1 just refuses to spawn?

And I check my chatlog, I have the exact timestamp when I shot an elemental to start the pull, and then I kill it, and I'm killing these things in like... 18s from my first ranged attack hits, I'm *** em up real good, and I'll kill the entire room of fire elementals, and then run around tabbing thinking maybe I just didnt notice the chest spawned, but its nowhere to be seen.

I'll respawn the room and kill some more and then Chest #B4 spawns and I still havent seen the dumb coffer, and I'm getting sub 30s kills on about 8/10 of the elementals I killed (when I have to re-apply haste samba that one will be a whiff)

I dunno wtf is going on, I'll scroll through the chat and there's no log indicating I cleared the objective.

All I can think is maybe there's more to the objective than just "kill them in under 30s", like something else I have to do first?

Cuz some days, depending on my route, I very easily get this chest, often I get Casket #B1 before I even get Chest #B3

The only thing I can think of is the fact I usually scope out where Porxie is a little bit, and I'll open some doors, but on some days the porxie spawns in one of the first rooms I see so I don't go around opening doors... I also sometimes have not used any teleports yet, and I havent done Chest #B2 / Chest #B5 yet. Sometimes I have...

Is it possible there's more to it than this?

Thanks all for the answers on JPs!

I think I'll start investing them on the relic unlock for now then and if I get lucky enough to get carried through Windy then it's okay :) It's not like I got another REMA lined up anyway lol