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Sad that people seem to think the only campaign worth a damn is double CP.

I'm *** stoked for the Domain Invasion campaign. Want to get to at least 8 in regen/refresh.

Edit: And you know this could get eschite ore back down to like 100-200k? Come on HQ abjuration gear, lets do this.

I've been finished my 3 jobs for a while. I never even Apex'd on my THF, I just do enough content on it I'm 2100 and almost to 500 stored. COR and RUN got like 2 Apex parties each (had them from 1200 cap) and that's it. How many jobs are people playing they need to non-stop Apex every double CP campaign? ...which comes every other month, basically.

Except no it's not. JP, specifically gifts, provide stat boosts to your character that go beyond gear or traits and the most potent posts are in the 1200 ~ 2100 range.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/45366-Gifts

Warrior


Extra 25 defense, 25 attack, 13 evasion, 13 accuracy, 13 magic accuracy, 70 TP Bonus on Fencer, 3% double attack and 3% critical hit damage.

Blue Mage


Extra 25 defense, 25 attack, 13 evasion, 13 accuracy, 13 magic defense, 13 magic attack, 13 magic evasion, 13 magic accuracy and 13 more Blue Magic Skill.

Black Mage


Extra 5 magic defense, 18 magic attack, 15 magic evasion, 15 magic accuracy, 13 elemental skill, 13 dark magic skill, 7% magic burst damage, 7 magic damage, and 2% elemental celerity.

Every job gets useful stuff post 1200, more defense, more attack, more accuracy, more evasion, more magic attack and some other special stat bonus's. Your CP gain rate skyrockets past 1200 as all those CP Bonus's stack. The hardest part of getting CP is getting the first ~700 JP's to get decent CP gain bonus's, then it gets super easy.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's hope they are actually useful. Skillchain damage is the one they said they would consider making a while back, maybe that is coming? Turbo Charger III would be nice if it caps haste with only one wind maneuver. An attachment that makes magic damage not suck in some way would be awesome...

Also, hurray healing blood pacts boost.

No mention of the 2hd changes though, perhaps those aren't coming in this update?

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fixed that for ya

Fixed your fix.

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There's a few significant 550s, 1200s, etc. BLU's 100/1200 is just... it's as good as a real JP Bonus should be. Some jobs got the shaft because the team designing JP probably didn't understand the job.

Edit: Or, more likely, the team didn't understand what they were doing with some of the good JP gifts.

But most people complaining are complaining about sub <200 which I don't understand. Like a main-BST saying "I can't get more than 50 JP on any job!". My BST accidentally has 200 just from farming merits and gain-exp.

Camp {I'm playing solo on a terrible job right now.} {over there} is trying its damnedest to get aoe'ing nerfed rather than A) using an AOE job, B) Using your AOE job to...AOE or C) Teaming up with an AOE job. I facepalm when I see a BST, BLU, WAR, BLM or GEO going 1-v-1 with mobs.

If any player would have ever asked me to leech off my AOEs and either pull for me or heal me/regen me on the run, I would have taken them right away. Regardless of that, I've let plenty of people leach anyway even if all they could contribute was a random waltz.

That new quest better offer something amazing as a reward because getting the Golden Shovel KI is a stupidly excessive requirement.

I need JP on my Geo and blue Mage mule. I play 2 hours a night and I'm need to gear mule get master status on geo and blue mule make a almace, tizona. Naturally JP comes at the expense of other stuff cause it's boring. Double campaign at least makes it tolerable

Wait face palm when geo goes 1v1? Geo can aoe solo and survive? How?

Speaking mostly for Zi'tah--

A good -dt set allows you to gather up several mobs easily. If you have aquaveil up, there's no trouble.

I run around with indi-refresh or indi-acumen depending on the state of my mp and don't actually worry about a geo bubble.

Because of /rdm enhancing, phalanx isn't terribly useful but I'll use it and Ice spikes. I can easily gather up 8 mobs.

For trusts, I would use Kupofried, Koru Moru, whm x2 and Leonyne (because he also aoes).

Unlike the other jobs, you are still a mage and the eight-mob limit to elemental aoes (before they start diminishing) is still a factor so I don't try to gather up more than eight.

Edit: Also, Koru-Moru will have phalanx on you most of the time. I was doing this before I had Koru and Kupofried so it was basically just a lot of whms following me around.

You may eventually run out of MP. I have ethereal earring which helps a great deal in this specific situation, but with refresh, convert, devotion from the whms. It works well enough.

It's not my preferred job to AoE on but when I needed merits and still needed JP on my geo? Sure, why not.

Here's an easy 43% PDT set (assuming 5% dark ring) that still has +3-4 refresh, ignoring whatever headpiece and earrings you use.

(Edit: said 47% because I forgot GEO can't use flume.)

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A bit easier for me since I have Defending and Vocane. If you have defending, you could forget about one or the other of the rings shown and cap.

(edit: And a GEO should have a solid DT set anyway, as it's within melee range more than any other caster.)

Your statement


That bolded part is factually incorrect. JP's post 1200 are some of the easiest ways to increase your characters power level as those increase's are permanent and stack with everything else for the rest of your characters life. In essence gifts are "extra levels" added to your character.

I was responding to his comment that JP's (assuming past 1200) were one of the least useful things you can do to improve your characters power level, which is patently false. JP past 1200 isn't even hard to get, it's piss easy because the amount of CP Bonus's built up make it come fast when compared to the early gift levels.

What about Apple Jacks? Balance must be maintained.

Judging by the other KIs leading up to the Golden Shovel KI, it's probably this. Hopefully not since the point of this would be to help get to Legend rank faster for Ergons and well....it requires you to get Legend rank so....

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Seidr_Cotehardie

That and a second Adoulin Ring wouldn't be too bad I suppose, but it's still quite a time-sink for anyone who hasn't already hit legend in all coalitions. Especially when the difficulty/complexity of the new quest is unknown.

^^b

OMG Apple Jacks, flashback to childhood! SO good.

GEO is not on the flume belt, is there another dt belt that GEOs can use?

Given that we don't know how much it reduces, (I can only pray that it's more than the piddly amount the other shovels do...) something on the line of Rhapsodies reductions would be ideal...
And they DID mention forever ago that they'd look into reducing imprimatur charge time further... (since HPB outside of campaigns was basically nonexistent... Though they have "fixed" the lack of Salvage equivalence with Ambuscade... Not quite the same though.)
Maybe the Scope will drop them to 1hr or so.
(I can dream my crack dream.)

Though I'd almost want a second ring more. (Since a massive reduction in imprimatur charge time is a finite boon.)
Though given that this is an epilogue quest... It could really be anything.

Mission Epilogue Rewards:
RotZ+CoP: Earrings
ToAU: Alexander and Odin
WotG: Atomos summon and Lillisette Trust
SoA: ????

All we can say for sure is...

Lol, my bad.

And apparently there's not, but there's a few mdt belts
http://www.ffxiah.com/search/item?&slots[]=1024&jobs[]=2097152&description=damage%20taken#adv

ok from way some are making it sound you can get more then 1 refresh vorseals off the dragons? cause when i killed one of them twice i didn't get a second vorseal from it

Is it expected that this new quest would reduce imp times?