November 2022 Version Update

Yesterday Killed A B E bosses no ore and i have Katana in inventory if i am on paladin i should have shield in inventory for it to drop? and every 1 must have access for it to drop?

Nothing even remotely close to 2 hours a day, twice a week for 10 years. And in the end you didn't even get a hat.

There will be m50 people a week after the update. (unless they get banned) Already a hundred will be there tomorrow lol.

More bots in Ranps than existing players on entire servers

No, Sortie trash gives trash EP. You get like 80-100 from trash compared to 250 in Odyssey, and Odyssey mobs die faster to boot.

Does anyone know when the next autumn alter ego extravaganza will be?

I thought it would start with this patch

December 1st - January 31st
Days Until Start: 17

The peeps at BG do a great job keeping this information up to date on the main page at the bottom. https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Main_Page

They let us power creep our subjobs. Idgaf about anything other than that. ML50 can be as far away as it needs to be because it doesn't give me anything new from my subjobs.

No. Got some on RUN when I had GK in mog house.
Also no. We have someone in party that hasn't touched VR and we're still getting Eikondrite for the rest of the party.

Maybe if you're noobing around on floor 1..
Maybe if you're noobing around on floor 1. Fomors start at around 400 a kill.

This whole time in this discussion I thought you will need to do stage 2 for December, but I think it's just basic stage 1 needed right? Now Im even more confused.. You was really implying that some people will struggle to farm 10k galli? Literally any ilvl119 player can do it without even knowing Sortie. Just go around and kill 300 mobs in A as worst case possible. Prime weapon will be literally needed to do some symbolic damage with it on something like World Eater Egg probably. I honestly wouldn't consider that as anything more restrictive than we had before.

I think SE said Stage2 will be required soon, but that will probably (hopefully?) be the last required stage to progress through TVR.

It's not a big deal for any "real" player who plays the game and does the content, but it's an idea that I personally dislike and with no precedent in FFXI's 25 years history.

There have always been gatings in FFXI MSQ here and there. Most of the time it was about waiting 1 game day or get some drop from random world monsters (most of which you could buy off bazaars/AH if you wanted anyway)

Here we're talking about the main story requiring you to do an end-game activity and farm a certain amount of points before you can progress through the story.
I don't think FFXI ever required players to do that until now and imho it's a bad choice that will end up gating some (minority) of players who will take several days/weeks to farm the necessary >20k Gallimaufry.

That, and the fact that you can't use Shield or Instrument is another thing that sorta annoyed me, but w/e, not like things will change at this point.

I dont think you need Stage 2. They only said about Primal with damage (Stage 1 also has damage) and that Prime horn and Prime shield cant be used (they said Prime Shield not Duban, which also hints Stage 1).
Also end game activity is only a name. Mobs in Sortie A are 119-121 level (just with higher HP, kinda like low level Apex). If you call that end game, then I would say it's entry level of end game and easier than most fights in SoA missions.

Also it cant be shield and horn, because

Really?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the imprimaturs / coalitions necessary only for the Ergon weapons and for some post-ending side-quests? (The Arciela/Ygnas ones).

I could be forgetting something but I don't recall people having to wait weeks/months to complete that stuff other than for the things I mentioned.


@Simon
The "story reasons!" explanation makes no sense to me.
It's not like the Story "already exists" and SE has to adapt their game to make it coherent with the story.
They are the ones writing the story from zero so they could've written a story where any weapon would've been fine to progress through the missions, if you get what I mean.
It's not a big deal for players like us, but I find it to be a bad concept in terms of game design.
Just my personal view on the thing of course.

Oh I completely forgot that. I stand corrected then.
That would've meant at least 1 week of wait to generate that many imprimaturs.

Nah, there are like 3 times, when you need to use imprimaturs to progress further. How many depends on your fame I think. I was doing that recently on my alt and was hard walled with this. Let me find it.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Seekers_of_Adoulin_Mission_1-6
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Seekers_of_Adoulin_Mission_1-8
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Seekers_of_Adoulin_Mission_2-7-3

Looks like at least 30+ imprimaturs at fame 9 and fame 9 is pretty big grind on its own.

Golden Shell update from Takutu. lol@auric sand being higher than nuggets



WRONG RESULTS IN THIS SCREENSHOT

Corrected results
NQ 2 sand
HQ1 4 sand
HQ2 2 gold nuggets
HQ3 4 gold nuggets

Sounds like the original Relic trials lol.

What does "Slowly Devours Your Soul" do? Sounds like a DoT or something.

Slowly devours your soul: -1hp and -1mp per tic

nice! sand goes for a few hundred mil on a good day

im getting different results from this post?

nq 2 sand
hq 1` 4 sand

This is likely correct due to a bottle of vodka.

Corrected results
NQ 2 sand
HQ1 4 sand
HQ2 2 gold nuggets
HQ3 4 gold nuggets

https://imgur.com/a/KWTWOZy

2 loud freaking thuds...all morning i've been getting crap from loud thuds....even got two udug jackets TWO!

The jokes on SE. I sold my soul to this game a long time ago, therefore, I don’t have one and nothing on me ticks away.

I noticed the same thing last night. One loud thud, and only got 3 items and a bewitched something or other.

Did they nerf it or screw it up somehow?

The change was made months ago when they added the rainbow chest events. Players end up getting more 'loud thud' messages on average so the event feels more rewarding. Unfortunately, they dumped so much junk in the loot pool that the better items are even more rare than they used to be.


Shouldn't really be a surprise given that SE has a history in the gambling side of 'gaming'.

Random nonsense but

http://ffxidb.com/items/1878

The mob that drops this was removed from Bibiki Bay. Does it drop from something new or is it just unobtainable outside of Mystery Box RNG.

I am on The Voracious Resurgence Mission 10-2, BUT, did not decide to grab a prime weapon until today? It seems if you progress to this point, there is an game error locking you out of both obtaining a prime weapon or completing this quest. I can not seem to find a way to remedy this.

Has anyone else had this happen?