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Lilisette would be really sad to see this.

donno how i blanked on the most used xpac earring, my bad best girl

Does it even work like that? I’ve never used trusts in Dynamis. I thought you can’t have an alliance with trusts? And even if you had 3 separate parties, it sounds like you can’t share claim

Not a claim, but a statue. Statues spawn 4ish mobs. Unclaimed. Each party can take a mob off the statue.

If 3 parties all claim 1 mob thats significantly easier than soloing 5 mobs at once with no sleeps.

3 valainerals tanking 1-2 mobs each is worlds apart from him getting massacred by 4+statue at once.

I heard a rumor theres a job that can cast a sleep-type spell and doesnt have to worry about being interrupted casting it, even with 4+statue wailing on them.

Surely such an overpowered crowd control spell could only be offset by only being available on the absolute shittiest job in FFXI.


I already know he's logging in incognito see what I read, and he's gonna chime in with "no one plays bard, thats a stupid bot job", I guess he's right, these selfish Naegling only DDs are screwed with no options at all. Yes, its a shitty option, but the alternative is leveling and gearing a job that will get you in ANYWHERE. Every endgame group has a bard that wants to use their other shinines.

Correct, claim works the same as it does on regular mobs. We used to bring a BLU or RDM to sleep, but for solo entry you'd need to rely on AATT and practice.

Solo entry is definitely a step up from trio difficulty, but casual players these days have a ton of extra power we didn't have back then. Fresh 99's in Ambu gear? Nah. But once they get stars, maybe low ~10-15 ML, some un-augmented Ody gear, or start reforging empy? Yeah, totally do-able, and most players in that zone are still going to need unlocks. Some jobs might take more than one run to get to 100 kills, but that's fine.

I got confused for a minute there because it sure sounds like you're talking about summoner, but everybody knows summoner status effects never land on anything.

I come bard to dd

Nick with the rest of his DD's

Me getting ready to bard a sheol C (or solo a limbus cuz no one's on)

Thinking a little deeper into the new RoV rewards we have coming. I get the feeling there will be a list of 6 accessories to choose from. One for each of the heroines portrayed at the end of the story.

Iroha
Lillisette
Arciela
Prishe
Nashmeira
Lion

I wouldn't be surprised if the accessories we're named after them, as well.

Anyone wanna try to make guesses on what kind of stat each heroine would focus on?

Iroha would probably be some form of DD accessory, maybe Store TP, among other things.

Lillisette I think might get some multi-attack.

Arciela would probably be some form of mage ring, since she's a RDM?

Prishe is a MNK, so probably another DD ring?

Nashmeira would probably be pet related.

Lion could be DD related as well.

Obviously not all of those 4 I listed as DD's would be DD rings, one would probably be tank related instead. And there could be something else in there with some form of random stat also. Kind of like how we have the movement speed ring from Seekers. or the crafting ring.

Let's theorycraft some stat guesses!

Prishe is mnk/whm; healer accessory?

Lilisette is the quick DD.

Lion maybe the heavy DD?

Iroha could be heavy DD, but her "you can't kill me" gimmick makes her the most likely candidate for tank.

Arciela gets the nuking accessory.

And yeah, Nashmeira is the "why would you ever choose this" accessory. Or, who knows, maybe it will magically make pet jobs worth playing seriously in the 2025 meta.

I'd kind of like to see a different sort of breakdown, though. Like... enchantment: reraise iv, 18% movement speed, crafting speed +30, food duration +50%?

Or I'd settle for a "pick any single other storyline completion reward" option; a second Voracious Resurgence ring would beat pretty much anything SE could give us for Rhapsodies.

gimme an 18% movement belt w/ all jobs and i'm happy.

though to be annoyingly pedantic, they said "exclusive spoils" which doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be gear. this is SE we're talking about... it could be a stack of fireworks. it could be a new vorseal. it could be a trust. it could be a KI that gives you AMAN hints at some stupidly low rate.

spoils. exclusive spoils.

they're also not the greatest/most reliable with translations...


...could mean that if you've beaten RoV you can get something exclusive via AMAN.

but whatever it is, i think we're all prepared for disappointment by now.

MNK WHM BRD COR, great party selection.

The WHM could also be a GEO but imo that's a Staff, not a Club - it's 2-handed.

This next campaign is even worse than the last one. They just keep *** it up more.

7 days on
7 days off
12 days on

This ***is so stupid. Where's the dumbass community reps.

Did they ever say why they decided to change things this way? It makes absolutely no sense to me why they do this.

They never said it, my original guess was that they wanted to make some "more powerful" campaign present in a month but last less than the whole period.
They already experimented with this format in the past and they wanted to make it "standard".
But the recent months kinda made me re-evaluate, honestly I can't really tell anymore what their intent really was.

The original and only purpose was to put a break in campaigns to run vanabout because it was overwhelming to have both on at the same time.

But its been completely bastardized

They want people to have time to do the stuff they want without feeling FOMO about missing campaign time. For example, if you want to get voidwatch done during the campaign, instead of having to do nothing but voidwatch for 14 days straight, to take advantage of the campaign, you can do a week of voidwatch, then a week of other ***, then go back to voidwatch.

They also tried splitting up the campaigns so if, for example, you wanted to do VW and Unity, but they're both in the same 2 week period, you'd have to figure out which one you wanted to do. They split them into 2 weeks so you wouldn't have to decide, and could focus on only one of them.

IDK if these effectively helped anyone's FOMO feelings, but it's pretty clearly the intent.

One of the problems is Phase 1 and Phase 2 are the same *** campaigns
If you're going to split it, atleast change some of them.

Another problem is they may be reducing the amount of campaign time there is. So if muh FOMO is a rationale, then why reduce the time its live?

June campaign ran from June 11 to July 3 (23 days, the last time a campaign wasnt split)
August campaign ran from Aug 12 to Sep 6 (23 days)
Sept split campaign was Sep 12-23 and Sep26 to Oct 8 (25 days, but they also changed both bonuses)
Oct campaign is Oct 10-23 Oct 29-Nov 4 (21 days)
Nov campaign is Nov 14-20 and Nov 27-Dec9 (20 days)

I'm pretty sure that before they started splitting the campaigns, they were roughly 3 weeks long. It's about the same as it was, just a break in between.

Except its not
I edited my post as I was looking up previous campaigns, but these split campaigns are clearly shorter.

I hate it
Where is the feedback box

Yeah, I can't really say why it's not consistent other than obvious changes to the day of the update and/or the length of the month. Close enough to what it used to be and ample time for people to get what they need.

Right over here.

What's that thing called
When a group gets together and pools shares to try to influence a company?

Fantasy