Mog Bonanza

You mistake my desire to nail your *** to the wall for me caring about your opinion, or the weapons at all. I care about neither, I just wanted you to actually back up your *** for once. However as usual, you are trying to leave yourself an escape route to slink away when someone does eventually call you out for being idiotic. You are, after all, a coward.

Youre going to have to look, cause I've said it more than a dozen times.

And it's never been anything different.

Again, you over estimate how much I give a damn about WHAT it is. I don't.

Cool. Then *** off with it and we'll get back to whatever it was before you wasted two pages k

Eiryl is an idiot, I don't think anyone needs to hear that.

I'd say miracle cheer is a nice item, albeit very niche to the point of almost becoming pointless. I'd still get one but wouldn't recommend it to most.

Yagyu is game-changing, but not on anything that matters. It realistically won't offer a new strategy on anything difficult, but you can do some funny memeing in easy *** which is novel.

Onion sword 3 is the most practical and offers the most novel options and new possibilities.

Pandit's staff offers incredibly little, but not nothing! Far from game breaking or meta changing.

Diamond aspis is a really nice option and very powerful, though still not really changing anything strategy-wise, it does offer the user a nice boost to their performance.

Maybe dragon fangs are nice for those jobs, but i doubt they'd offer a significant change to any strats or viability.

Pretty sure the rest are memes that suck. Did I forget any?

There's only 2 weapons worth grabbing, katana and onion, 1 actually since nobody cares about ninja. Without know what they'll be, I'd probably pick both of those if I doubled up, rather than upgrading onion sword III.

The rest of the items are whatever, some just bad;
the shield has a minor application but I wouldn't bother. There's maybe 3 buffs you'd care about using it with.
There's a couple swords and daggers, they're all weird and uninteresting, nothing special (10% mod is cool).
Someone might pick the staff for a healer mule, no weakness is a pretty nifty trait.
Miracle cheer looks more like a QOL for a lazy mule, but I have no idea where you'd use something for 15 minute songs that isn't going to want Mac potency.
The gun is dumb, should have been ammo that CAN'T be stacked isn't consumed.
Bow is funny but it's a bow without a prime WS, so why bother.
The scythe, axe, great swords, great axe, h2h, and great katanas are all weird and tied to some ja recast but you have to suffer using an inferior WS, super thumbs down. Well the fangs might be interesting depending on the mods, haven't looked them up (but Godhands already busted and easy to get in 3 hours)
Nothing about that club is interesting, free casting is already a thing.

Edit: hilarious I typed all this during Maletaru's comment (did not see it before submitting) and it's almost the exact same answer

It's the same because it's the answer everyone knows, well except one person

Genuinely doubt you'd pass being the first and only +1 though. It'd just be silly to think you'd take 2 over an improved one, especially without even seeing what it was first.

Everyone wanted an onion sword for dancer 3 years ago, but do you still care with prime dagger out and tree v25 beat.
(the answer is no, which is why they're improving it)

... am I the only one who thinks that the kupo set is still basically the best top tier prize? Double food duration, +3 to all crafts, and a get out of weakened free card once per event? And an all jobs 18% movement speed option that doesn't cost you your Adoulin reward ring!

The only thing that could possibly be better is some kind of very large painting with no particularly meaningful moghancement effect and a loose tie to a bit of lore.

Double food duration (or more) is already available for the cost of a miniscule inconvenience, unless you're in an instanced zone you can't leave (you can eat food before it) and also food costs are nearly meaningless.

+3 to all crafts in the same slot as escutcheon is totally worthless.

Removing weakness is the best part of this set, and requires that you're already *** for it to be useful. Meh.

Movespeed takes a steaming dump on your defensive stats and several slots that could be refresh.

It's not awful, but far from the best choice, IMO

Upgrade the painting... brilliant!

Not gonna lie, if I could reforge the painting just to give it an afterglow aura to tell people who visit my mog house that I threw away not one but two bonanza rank 1 prize choices, the satisfaction I would receive from their disgusted reactions would be far greater than anything any simple weapon could provide.

Also:

Kupo masque's effect should stack with other double duration effects, for x4. If I could find any possible way to do it, I would love to be able to throw on a nomad moogle shield too, and roll the dice on getting it up to x8. Can you imagine an Altana's repast +2 with 32 hour duration? It would be insane! Mobs from two zones away would be rushing in to aggro and kill me!

I would have picked the Kupo set had I ever won rank 1 as well, before this update at least. Will have to see what the upgraded weapons look like, not that I'd ever win anyway...

The weakness removal rod would be so valuable in certain situations to me. Need to sac somebody? Soloing something with helix and run into double weakness before it's dead? Need to die to reset a mob for some reason? Plus the flex when one of your friends dies and you're able to use it.

The double food duration hat is just a QoL boost so I don't have to spend 3 minutes zoning into escha then back out staring at a black loading screen half the time, I can just throw on the masque and use the wc while the Gluttony enchantment charges and be fresh before playing the game long enough when I would need double food duration. The craft shield and the movement piece are extras

Varga Purnikawa wholly negate Dragon Fangs one benefit (being able to SC Distortion for H2H), especially when you consider that Dragon Blow didn't receive the H2H WS update pass.


In other news, I can't see the Iris being anything other than a "swap your Rank 1 Prize weapon for another Rank 1 Prize weapon" item.

What would be the point of that? If you won the rank 1 prize that you'd need to claim the moogle iris, you could just claim the other weapon you want. It's not like they're given out randomly, they're not Sortie earrings.

At what point in ffxi history has SE ever used the word reforge in this way?

Flametongue on blu is impressive.
I played few times with a guy who has it (Cerebrator) and it was a hell of a show.
I would pick the shield for Killer Instinct on bst...just because.

I had thought about this as well. I seems the shield only extends the duration for effects applied to the shield wearer, so it sounds like only the BST (and not the whole party) would get the extended Killer Instinct duration.

What specifically did you notice about Flametongue?

Hum, you reckon?
I think that every "/ja xxx <me>" would work with it, regardless of the fact that it extends to party member?
But it's a good piece of equipment also for Unleash (is it considered standard?) or Run Wild.
Out of all the prizes in there, if i decided to get something for bst, i'd go with the shield 100%.

As for flametongue, the amount of fire damage dealt was impressive, this guy was melting everything in odyC

Unleash is an SP so it wont work on that and Run Wild, while its self target its not a self buff, despawns your pet after 5mins so +25% duration isnt going to do much.

Ah shi* right, Unleash is sp!
I mean, 1 minute and 15 seconds it's not too shabby.
Im still curious about KI tho, wish i knew someone with that shield

There was testing on it wrt to KI, from what I recall it applies only to wearer.

Flametongue and Ice Brand are still the highest base damage weapons in the game, together with the 3 divergence swords at r25 and r15 Tanmogayi+1. I know a guy who took the Ice Brand for his BLU and swears by how good it is - wheter it is or not I don't know.

If Diamond Aspis applied to SPs, that would be very useful application.

I won $1B dollars on the lottery. All I need to do is win again to get the prize!!

Wish my luck.

Well, yes. That's literally how it would work.

They would take half in taxes. You DO need to win twice to get the billion.

I snagged the GS (Brave Blade III) some time ago. For the jobs I play, my choices of good weapons were... not good, so opted to go the route of testing! The PDL could be nice, but it lacks any tank stats that would make it useful on Rune. I main drk so I can't justify using it over anything else. I'd never build the emnity needed for it. Only fight I really see that shining would be a Dyna-D Boss when hitting the ceiling is possible. Of course, surviving becomes another issue. Maybe if they give a +1 version that has -DT or -DTII and emnity...? (daydreaming)

I forgot you get taxed on lottery wins there

how much Enspell damage was it roughly doing?

"Played FFXI for 20 years, never won anything special from those. SE should give everyone a special reward for playing that long. Let's say, for example, it could go like 10 years for the first, 15 years for the next, and so on."

Other people might find this interesting, I googled mog bonanza in japanese and came upon a small japanese youtuber who from what I can tell has won five times.