Freshly Picked #71

Has not and likely never will. You just have to go earn those missing titles blindly until it happens. (and cap all your combat/magic/synthesis skills and unlock all portals/home points and do that pesky *** garden and collect trusts)

Now that it will mean +30 STR/DEX, you should be highly motivated to do so.

Are these knowledge ranks tied to records of eminence?
Or when players were testing aman chat rank is was based on something else?

Assuming this is a a connected system

I'm at about 688 RoE done, all nations completed, all story besides ACP and the WotG quests for Bastok and San d'Oria, all mog garden upgrades completed (missing some monster mementos though), all combat/magic skills capped for all jobs 99, all but two trusts (see WotG), at least one REMA from every class except ergon and prime, all crafts capped, medal of Altana, pretty sure I have every home point, have all quests done in all of Windurst just for fun...

And I'm still mastery rank 6.

The fact that you have over 140 more ROE completed than me, way more mission and quest progress etc, but are at the same rank as me, would indicate to me that there's a cap on each category. Unless you happen to hit like 700 ROE and you rank up or something.

edit: eh maybe not. went over to that Mastery Rank thread and see people with higher rank who have 1000+ ROE, so maybe there is another tier up there somewhere.

edit 2: 5 years ago:


So yeah, I've literally done close to nothing in 5 years from a progression standpoint but gained a rank. Interesting (and incredibly lazy)

i don't have a sim installed any more, is +30 all stats earring that good? assuming 1 or 2 mods per ws and availability of tp bonus or wsd alternatives

for spells 30int is pretty huge obviously

I love this, can cap TH4 with just volte body and this ring (or this ring plus belt and tvr egg)


When the pic dropped I theorized that this was 1000 gil per hit and not just an one-off activation fee, did they elaborate on that? Being on hit would make it a bit more like virtue stone weapons, in a way, and be a serious gil sink, which FFXI sorely needs.

I assume it's 1000 gil per attack round

IF it auto-activated every melee attack round it would literally drain 1 million gil in 10 minutes.

I mean, +30 STR/DEX/INT/AGI/MND/CHR is like having a Prime Weapon's attributes in the ear slot. An extra couple dozen Master Levels worth of attributes. Items like Thrud, Regal, Lugra+1, capped Alabaster are phenomenal because of all the stat vomit, +30 is absurd. So yes, very good. There isn't a WSD alternative that would be better than +30/60 to any WS. Or even nukes or modified abilites (Waltz etc). Moonshade might even be in question.

cool, if anyone has time to run some example numbers I'd love to see

Sorry, I wasn't clear (it's after 2am here and I am tired lol). Yes, at 2:27:04 Fujito says "every time a double attack procs, you will consume 1,000 gil," hence the Zeninage joke/comment. I'm gonna sleep but if you/anyone has more questions I can give it a proper watch tomorrow and try to answer things.

SE's creative new way of making gil vanish from the servers. Well done (not falling for it)

Every attack round and ws for 1 entire minute is like 100k

Double for DW

Based on the 1 minute recast, I thought it would be a one-attack round enchantment?

But if its not, how many jobs would actually benefit from 100% DA?

A few, like pure-mages(whm, blm, smn etc) jobs with little in TA and middling in DA like drk or drg, cor and rng i guess

Item usage in this game sucks.

Depends how long it takes to use and whether it has to stay equipped, but at only 1 minute duration it's highly likely that it'll just be a buff for starting high performance fights. Thus, it's not really 100k/minute, but 100k/fight because it won't make sense to use it again. Maybe there will be weird fights (Master fights?) where it makes sense to use it more often.

For some napkin math, if you have 30% TA, 30% DA (1.81/round) before using this, and then you use it and have 30% TA, 100% DA (2.3/round), which is only a 27% increase in swings at the cost of probably a significant usage delay and ability usage lockout following it. Also, you're generally using multiattack gear initially because the other stats on it are good, not for the multiattack, so it's not completely obvious that you'd even change your gear if the enchantment was active.

If it had no usage delay and/or lasted 10 minutes, then it could potentially be an epeen extender. If it is as I expect, though, I think it would be more annoying to use than anything else.


Anyway, what's the difference between Knowledge Rank and whatever they had previously (Mastery Rank?) - Nevermind. Reading through it seems like they're the same thing. I hope they raise the Mastery Rank cap some day!

Did the frepi say the enchantment lasts 1min? Because I see no reason why it can't last longer in itself, but vanishing when the ammo is unequipped, hence the 1min recast time on the ammo.

It just depends if it wears off when taken off. If so, COR/RNG can't use it at all, and SMN likely wouldn't because they have to use a non-ilvl ammo for their avatar. For the mages like WHM GEO BLM, they use Nyame in their TP sets, which already comes with DA, so you'd have to "pay" for at least some of the DA that was once free, lol.

Now this ammo could be a useful item to add to the Aminon-strat rotation (along with Prish Boots, I. wings, Volte Harness, Tincture, Frontier Sodas), and locking your ammo (if necessary) wouldn't be too much of a problem for most jobs (minus COR). You get guaranteed 100% DA on every WS, and judging from my last Aminon Parse, I did 23 WS as GEO. 23k gil for guaranteed double attack Judgments is pennies.

If it only lasts a minute (pure speculation), it's good for short-burst fights like Peculiar Foes or Sortie Bosses where you want to push your performance even further for a short period of time. The recent Green Festival also had 5-min food options that had interesting stats that fill the same purpose, but never replaced other current food options.

It would get a very high amount of use as a disengaged 100% ws DA device, indeed

For the weaponskills that DA helps with, unlike Rudra for example

FWIW you can stand outside of melee range and still use WS, since the distance between the two actions are different. Mostly everybody does WS disengaged, but it can even be done while engaged without any gearswap functionality with proper positioning. Just not many people do it anymore (I've seen some who still do).

You know i was just basing it off the image so i assumed it was a neck piece, it being ammo does change some things lol

I think people just didnt care because the food wasnt available 24/7 and people werent gonna fill their storage with it.

I think if the food was available (add it to various region vendors), it would be more popular. I'd assume they dont want to piss off cooks by doing that though.

When was this recorded? Weekly reset is in 2 days, maint is in 5 days. Are they suggesting that the reset for limbus drop rates is tied to the monthly server maintenance?

If that Mastery Rank earring is as good as y'all are supposing, then maybe finally something will replace Moonshade WS phase? :D :D? :D? :D?

No?

Damn.

It might beat moonshade on anything with a 3 stat modifier (2handed+utu), and everything that has no scaling, all crit ws etc

.... Though I assume it will replace EVERY secondary earring instead, flat out

So 90% of your ws will be Moonshade/new earring, and the other 10% are like sherida/new earring

No more use for Thrud or Lugra and half or more of the empyrean earrings

I'm not sure I'm buying the future plans slide because it sounds too good to be true, need better translation of the slide and the things they were saying around it.

I think I'd rather the Gil to DA ammo just work when equipped instead of messing with a timer or use effect or the cast/ability lockout that occurs with so many items. I don't like using a RR item and then can't cast anything for like 5secs after the item's animation finished. It seems like they're targeting a use of it basically any time you want, anyway. Let my gear swaps dictate instead of a use-effect.

What specifically? Some of it they have mentioned before (BLU, PUP sets). The Grouping Assistance sounds like more stuff to benefit newer players. Actually, most of the update in general is just newer-returning player improvements.

What if I only own one face?

Its so no one can complain that they accidentally drained their bank because “oops it was equipped and I didnt notice”. Its equipped and its a conscious* decision to use the enhancement.

* until someone automates its usage