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Lehko vs. Cornelia vs. Ephramad
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By Asura.Melliny 2026-03-09 09:15:30
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In limbus the red mage is usually busy hasting, buffing, curing, and fighting alongside the dd's, while the geo typically opens with dispelga, if there is a geo at all. Many groups run with a third dd instead of a geo. In my experience when the pulls get large a lot of the mobs die without getting dia'd; not because the mages aren't casting dia, but because it just takes too long for them to target everything before it dies. There is such a thing as too much PDL. We have PDL on the majority of JSE necks and earrings, aria, prime aftermath, and sroda ring and crep pebble. If you stack enough of it there does come a point where you're not always attack capped. Blindly assuming you always will be is a mistake.
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By Asura.Saevel 2026-03-09 09:26:52
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Asura.Melliny said: »
In limbus the red mage is usually busy hasting, buffing, curing, and fighting alongside the dd's, while the geo typically opens with dispelga, if there is a geo at all. A lot of groups run without one in favor of an extra DD. In my experience when the pulls get large a lot of the mobs die without getting dia'd; not because the mages aren't casting dia, but because it just takes too long for them to target everything before it gets killed.

There is such a thing as too much PDL. We have an abundance of sources of PDL, from the majority of JSE necks and earrings, to aria which is more common then ever, prime aftermath, and accessories like crepuscular pebble and sroda ring. If you stack enough of it there does come a point where you're NOT attack capped anymore.

Yes you can have too much PDL for a specific content event. Limbus is one of the "easier" places to abuse PDL but only if someone is willing to bring a GEO. With Geomancy there is a trick, run the debuff as the indi spell instead of the geo spell. Then when you use dispellga / sleepga it instantly tags every monster with a juicy -41.8% defense effect, the equivalent of +71.8% attack. I don't think anything in there has resistance to geomancy debuffs so can really abuse that frailty.

Dynamis D regular mobs also take full effect from geo debuffs, GEO's can use the same trick to become a walking defense down bubble. Sadly NM's take -75% reduction in effect so not as useful on them.
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By Nariont 2026-03-09 09:46:59
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Wouldnt it juat be 14%? Thought +geomancy only applied to geo-bubbles.

May be bundling it with only geo spells can be ja boosted
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 09:49:50
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Asura.Saevel said: »
Yes you can have too much PDL for a specific content event. Limbus is one of the "easier" places to abuse PDL but only if someone is willing to bring a GEO. With Geomancy there is a trick, run the debuff as the indi spell instead of the geo spell. Then when you use dispellga / sleepga it instantly tags every monster with a juicy -41.8% defense effect, the equivalent of +71.8% attack. I don't think anything in there has resistance to geomancy debuffs so can really abuse that frailty.
Is this guy trying to gaslight everyone??
How is running with indi-frailty and casting sleepga/dispelga any different from:
A-Droping a bubble and tagging every mob with dispelga.
B-Cure the bard after they Lullaby everything.

???


Yes I'm aware that you have to drop the geo-frailty bubble, but this step is offset by his method requiring the geo-fury bubble to be dropped.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 09:50:27
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Nariont said: »
Wouldnt it juat be 14%? Thought +geomancy only applied to geo-bubbles
+Geomancy doesnt effect Entrusted indi's, thats it.
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By Phoenix.Capuchin 2026-03-09 10:26:16
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Dodik said: »
Asura.Vyre said: »
Name a ring with higher accuracy in the ring slot

Cornelia has wsacc+20.

It does not. Cornelia has wsacc+10. So, substantially less Acc than Ephramad's Acc+20/DEX+10.

I'm a Cornelia guy myself, but Vyre makes a valid point here.
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By Asura.Saevel 2026-03-09 10:29:41
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Nariont said: »
Wouldnt it juat be 14%? Thought +geomancy only applied to geo-bubbles.

May be bundling it with only geo spells can be ja boosted

Ehh ... no ....

+Geomancy applies to both Indi and Geo spells, it doesn't apply to entrust spells. BoG / EA only apply to the Loupon itself, meaning Geo spell. Of course if you are moving around like you do in Limbus those aren't that great.
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By Nariont 2026-03-09 10:29:58
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Phoenix.Capuchin said: »
It does not. Cornelia has wsacc+10. So, substantially less Acc than Ephramad's Acc+20/DEX+10

https://wiki.ffo.jp/html/39077.html

ウェポンスキルの命中+20

Unless thats a mistake
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 10:34:31
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You can actually leverage the site to confirm this by going to the JP version:
https://jp.ffxiah.com/item/26227/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0

ウェポンスキルの命中+20 ウェポンスキルのダメージ+10%
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 10:37:33
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Also
respectively
who gives a ***about WSACC??

Unless you're using a multihit WS, in which case you shouldnt be using Cornelia's anyways, the first hit of a WS has a +100 accuracy boost. I dont believe theres any gear that will require you to neuter your accuracy to pump up your STR/TPBonus/WSD/PDL to make WSACC matter.

For those who may be confused: I'm not saying accuracy isnt important, I'm saying if you're concerned about the WSACC on Cornelia's Ring, you're likely not hitting accuracy cap while TPing.
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By Asura.Melliny 2026-03-09 10:41:39
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Looks like just another case of our localization team doing its finest work. How you manage to get 10 out of 20 though is beyond me.

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No DRG for party, camp spot site with 30 dmg, but is it for 20 like 30 dmg when you no hit be it for dd, for 30 dmg instead? or half is 10 for 20 dmg?

Oh wait, never mind. They must be using AI to do all the translation work now. That's how you get 10 from 20. (it's probably more likely than you think)
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By Asura.Sechs 2026-03-09 11:26:19
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Nariont said: »
Wouldnt it juat be 14%? Thought +geomancy only applied to geo-bubbles.

May be bundling it with only geo spells can be ja boosted
I think you're mixing up with BoG and EA.
Geomancy+ applies to Indi and Geo alike.


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How is running with indi-frailty and casting sleepga/dispelga any different from:
A-Droping a bubble and tagging every mob with dispelga.
B-Cure the bard after they Lullaby everything.

???
I don't think it's a huge difference either way, both systems are fine but I too find the way Saevel suggested more efficient for these reasons.
Between Frailty and Fury, the former is -by far- the most "powerful", in terms of what it grants to party.
Furthermore, if you have an indi-debuff bubble and tag a group (sleepga, dispelga, whatever it doesn't matter) then the debuff is applied instantly to the targets.
If you do it with a geo bubble first you have the additional time required by placing the bubble (ok, ~1 second?) and then you have to consider that geo debuffs are applied in "tics" cycles.
So once you placed the bubble and once you tagged them, the debuff will be applied 1-3 seconds later according to the next upcoming cycle of "tic".
Neither is a huge difference in themselves, alone, but paired together it's slightly more relevant?

Altough, as I said in the premise, I don't think it's a huge deal either way.
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By Asura.Saevel 2026-03-09 11:50:54
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Asura.Sechs said: »
If you do it with a geo bubble first you have the additional time required by placing the bubble (ok, ~1 second?) and then you have to consider that geo debuffs are applied in "tics" cycles.

It's about 4~5 seconds not 1, spells come with a 3s global cool down effect. Once you cast geo-whatever, you have to wait 3s before you can cast another spell to tag a group of monsters, or cure the bard who might be sleeping stuff. The more important aspect is that loupan's can't be moved once placed and monsters don't always place nice and stand in a perfect circular formation around a loupan. The Geomancer running indi-frailty can easily reposition themselves to catch everything in the defense debuff bubble while the geo-fury bubble is exactly where the geomancer wanted it since it is placed via <me>.

To make it even more fun, the Geomancer is going /BLM and using sleepga / sleepga II to "Tag" the monsters when they come in. Since indi-frailty is already up, this immediately tags them all with the defense debuff and acts as crowd control. It's one of those neat tricks for when your party is rapidly moving camp like in Rimbus or Dynamis-D.
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By Shichishito 2026-03-09 11:52:33
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During instanced content these delays combined with the lag/delay that frequently seems to be multiple seconds it adds up enough that one can barely place their bubbles before most mobs are dead.

FFXI doesn't play well with roaming content, GEO plays even worse with roaming content. SE knew it which is why there was barely any roaming content before the introduction of GEO. Wonder if they view it as some sort of barancing to bombard us with roaming content now that GEO is a thing.
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By Asura.Saevel 2026-03-09 11:57:12
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Hence the two easiest macros for a GEO to use

/ma Indi-Frailty <me>
/ma Geo-Fury <me>

Don't have to worry about positioning a bubble, just position yourself. Pop circle when the team is unassing the camp and continue on.
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By Asura.Vyre 2026-03-09 11:59:53
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Dodik said: »
Asura.Vyre said: »
Name a ring with higher accuracy in the ring slot

Cornelia has wsacc+20.
Still less than Ephramad's in all situations.
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Phoenix.Capuchin said: »
It does not. Cornelia has wsacc+10. So, substantially less Acc than Ephramad's Acc+20/DEX+10.

Have posted this JP wiki link a dozen times by now - https://wiki.ffo.jp/html/39077.html .

Cornelia's ring has the wrong English description and is actually WSAcc+20 not 10.

It will never be fixed, because the JP description is correct.

Asura.Vyre said: »
Still less than Ephramad's in all situations.

How is 10acc + 10 dex, so 15 acc, more WS accuracy than WSAcc+20.

WSAcc is important for 2H jobs which drop a lot of melee accuracy in their WS sets. Drk and Sam mostly, War not so much. Also for cor which has lower native accuracy.
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By Asura.Vyre 2026-03-09 12:12:32
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Asura.Melliny said: »
In limbus the red mage is usually busy hasting, buffing, curing, and fighting alongside the dd's, while the geo typically opens with dispelga, if there is a geo at all. Many groups run with a third dd instead of a geo. In my experience when the pulls get large a lot of the mobs die without getting dia'd; not because the mages aren't casting dia, but because it just takes too long for them to target everything before it dies. There is such a thing as too much PDL. We have PDL on the majority of JSE necks and earrings, aria, prime aftermath, and sroda ring and crep pebble. If you stack enough of it there does come a point where you're not always attack capped. Blindly assuming you always will be is a mistake.
In my experience, a lot of people aren't doing Limbus :^)

But my experience with those that do go regularly is that they lower the level of the mobs to 128 or less to make climbs faster by giving the mobs less HP and stats. Sometimes just 119 to get the climbs for the week in.

Then they set up their bots to get units over night, where optimization only goes as far as, "How many yalms will we allow our characters to move. Make sure you set your bot to Dia every mob." etc.

On another note: Sroda Ring is terrible, and not an acceptable substitute for Ephramad's. The delta on accuracy between it and Ephramad's is -30 DEX, -42acc. -7 PDL. In party with actual people, also -15atk. Throw it away. Embrace Ephramad's.

Plenty of jobs don't have PDL necks or ears. RDM in particular starves for PDL sources. Pretty much any mage or tank job does, too.
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By Asura.Vyre 2026-03-09 12:17:01
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Dodik said: »
Phoenix.Capuchin said: »
It does not. Cornelia has wsacc+10. So, substantially less Acc than Ephramad's Acc+20/DEX+10.

Have posted this JP wiki link a dozen times by now - https://wiki.ffo.jp/html/39077.html .

Cornelia's ring has the wrong English description and is actually WSAcc+20 not 10.

It will never be fixed, because the JP description is correct.

Asura.Vyre said: »
Still less than Ephramad's in all situations.

How is 10acc + 10 dex, so 15 acc, more WS accuracy than WSAcc+20.

WSAcc is important for 2H jobs which drop a lot of melee accuracy in their WS sets. Drk and Sam mostly, War not so much. Also for cor which has lower native accuracy.

It's +27 total, thanks for playing.
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By Taint 2026-03-09 12:17:12
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STR+10 DEX+10 AGI+10 Accuracy+20 Attack+20 Ranged Accuracy+20 Ranged Attack+20 Physical damage limit +10%
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By Dodik 2026-03-09 12:22:12
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Oh doh it's 20. True, ephra still higher.
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By Nariont 2026-03-09 12:30:05
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Maybe if they'd just made wsacc work on all WS instead of just phys for whatever reason. Made the stat kind of redundant anytime it appeared
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 12:34:53
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Asura.Sechs said: »
I don't think it's a huge difference either way, both systems are fine but I too find the way Saevel suggested more efficient for these reasons.
Between Frailty and Fury, the former is -by far- the most "powerful", in terms of what it grants to party.
Furthermore, if you have an indi-debuff bubble and tag a group (sleepga, dispelga, whatever it doesn't matter) then the debuff is applied instantly to the targets.
If you do it with a geo bubble first you have the additional time required by placing the bubble (ok, ~1 second?) and then you have to consider that geo debuffs are applied in "tics" cycles.
So once you placed the bubble and once you tagged them, the debuff will be applied 1-3 seconds later according to the next upcoming cycle of "tic".
Neither is a huge difference in themselves, alone, but paired together it's slightly more relevant?

Altough, as I said in the premise, I don't think it's a huge deal either way.
So you're concerned over two seconds per floor due to technical limitations when you could have swapped the GEO for another DD and cleared each floor significantly faster without dealing with these technical limitations. Thats not just me, multiple people here have stated that Limbus climbs go faster with 3DD vs 2DD+geo.

But, lets be real here, we all know why that is not an option to some people:
Why parse ~25% of the group (3 DD with BRD COR doing DPS) when you can parse ~40% (DD DD with BRD COR doing DPS) of the group? Why do 40k WS's when you can do 55k WS's and let your e-peen fly high? Who cares if its slower as a whole, your personal numbers look so much better.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2026-03-09 12:38:35
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Asura.Vyre said: »
But my experience with those that do go regularly is that they lower the level of the mobs to 128 or less to make climbs faster by giving the mobs less HP and stats. Sometimes just 119 to get the climbs for the week in.
Honestly, lowering mob level to 119 saves maybe 3 minutes. I did this time comparison of 119 vs 130. I dont know how much time you'd save dropping from 135 to 128, but I'd be willing to bet its a double digit number when counted in seconds. Half the time spent climbing is running from portal to portal and fighting with access to port up.