Fun FFXICLOPEDIA Testimonials Section

While going down memory lane yesterday, I stumbled upon the “Testimonials” section in FFXICLOPEDIA. And honestly, it was such a great laugh.

My favorite was people being really upset that Proto Omega was listed as a summoner even though he doesn’t use Astral Flow.

“Why In gods name is he SMN as job, he does not use Astral Flow as his 2hr so why would he be SMN. Instead shouldn't his job be something more melee , like WAR? 19:03, 6 September 2008”

I guess back then we really focused a lot on that. I hope this thread is taken lightly and we can all laugh at old testimonials that we thought were relevant to us back then. :)

https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Project_-_Shantottofication#Solo_Strategy_Mnk13/War6

Final Shantotto Ascension battle versus Domina and Belle Shantotto. Talk page #10 reads as:

"Solo Strategy Mnk13/War6

Tried fight, didn't win. got one-shotted."

https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Kirin#Testimonials

Job Question:


"Person 1:
I know Kirin uses Astral Flow, but does he use Manafont? Usually when a monster uses a 2-Hour, that is considered their defining Job.

Many monsters use elemental spells, such as Element IV & Elementga III at higher levels, and not all of them are Black Mages. If Kirin does not use Manafont or other defining BLM abilities, this is something that should be discussed or else BLM is going to crop up on the list of jobs for almost every higher level monster

Person2:
This is ridiculous, the spells he casts unmistakably makes him a Black Mage, it is possible for a mob to be more than one job, and Kirin is one of them.

Person 3:
If he was a Black mage he would manafont, wouldn't he?"

Yeah, what was the obsession with knowing the jobs? lol

At a guess, it'd probably be so people could wager a guess at traits the mob may have? Idk, it is a bit of a weird thing to argue over.

Oh Trial NMs are the best because you can see the sanity of the writer falling apart after 17 hours camping.

https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Almighty_Apkallu

some of the spawn theories on here are pretty great

It's the sky post for me the Zip Genbu and Ull ones are great. This Serket comment was one of the ones that had me laughing the most.

So: Serket does not prefer one attack over another each time it hits 100 TP? Does it use them all in its "standard" preference, but at a higher rate?

You're not exactly making this clear to me.

Also: Serket is a spellcasting mob? This is Bindga as in the spell? If so, is that the only spell it uses? It doesn't exactly make sense for SE to give it one spell; Even spellcasting NMs like Maltha have at least two spells to work with.

--Yes, Bindga is a spell. Serket can be silenced with a RDM with around 320 enfeebling skill. This prevents him from casting Bindga for a mild duration.

Leaping Lizzy


https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Leaping_Lizzy#Testimonials

I remember this NM and the interview that predated their answer very clearly. SE/Devs was asked about it and they said "We don't know what Almighty Apkallu is and why he isn't popping" and everyone lost their ***wondering how in the hell SE does not know about the NM they created

There's thousands of NMs in the game (maybe 1000-1500 when that question was asked), so it's not exactly surprising that the people that answer questions wouldn't know offhand about the details of a single one that's only notable because it rarely appeared. It'd be like asking the developers what Sickle Moon's mods are and expecting them to be able to tell you without looking it up.

If you had asked the programmer that coded Almighty Apkallu's spawn behavior, he might know offhand if it stuck out enough, but there's basically no chance a dev would know spawn methods for a random NM unless it was part of an endgame system they had a hand in designing.