Random Question Thread XX: The Aforementioned Goddamn Random Question Thread

[Fievel]

Best way to go about obtaining Zeni? Can Ein be reasonably done with 6-7?

I always just took pics of flowers in sea, they give a decent amount of zeni no matter what the npc is asking for.

I'm sure it can be done with 6-7, I recall hearing somebody was pulling the zone and PD cleaving them with a couple wars.

[Eeeks]

Well you can get refresh hairpin from abyssea too. Af2 now have better drop rate and you can farm the zone in a party but you can also wait till patch and easy solo it for free.

I've done a number of pickup Dyna-Xarc runs in the past few weeks. If you can manage it, go into the zone with a party of friends as to avoid competition for the hat. Most people in pickups want either THF hands or RDM hat, so you'll have a lot of competition and the droprate on these two items is still annoying low (this is purely ancedotal based on my own experience). It's anyone's guess as to how easy/annoying it will be to get a hat after the Dynamis overhaul with the May update.

If you plan on leveling other mages, it'll still be a good idea to head to Abyssea-Konschtat anyways to farm up a Refresh hairpin. While farming the hairpin, you'll also be farming Dark Rings, and these rings can see augments of up to -6% PDT and -6% MDT (among other defensive stats). You can farm lights with friends or join an exp alliance for an hour or so and have them build the lights for you.

In case you're interested, this was my method for solo farming rings/hairpins:

- Kill 8 Tier1 VNMs to cap (or nearly cap) Pearl light. They seem to spawn in the twisty passages south of Conflux 02 and travel north. If no one had been killing them recently, I generally found a number of them near Confluxes 02, 04, and 05.

- After killing 8 VNMs, I just stayed near 02 and killed the saplings with Aeolian Edge, although any easy mobs that give amber lights would work just as well. Also, claim and kill nearby Ephemerals with elemental weaponskills.

- After about 40-60 minutes of killing mobs, bask in the joy of checking gold chest after gold chest that load with temp items or key items.

It took me about 7-10 days of farming (only one 2 hour session per day on days I farmed) to get a Refresh hairpin, and in that time, I got a three pretty good Dark Rings and tons of spells, craft mats, and poorly-augmented items to NPC (some of the ores/ingots still fetch a decent price on the AH). Since you're only leveling mages (unless I read incorrectly), you can bribe melee friends to help by offering them all the NPCables. God knows I made a good chuck of change from NPCables while farming my hairpin and rings.

[Dooom]

Tahrongi Canyon Emp farming, what's the fastest way (with 7-8 chars), when doing Chloris+Glavoid together.

Kill all the NMs for KIs with capped Amber and hope for extra KIs from chests?
Cleave NMs for KIs and when most sets are finished, go kill any NMs needed to finish them.

Would be nice to hear others opinions.

Cleaving ftw, imo. My current group is working on a bunch of weapons at once in Tahronghi. We started off cleaving, then after a few runs decided to just farm NMs to see how it compared. We almost all agreed that farming NMs left us wanting to just quit, so back to cleaving we went, for our sanity's sake. If we end up needing just a certain KI and capped on all others we'll kill the NM for it, but for my group at least, cleaving is the best option.

[Devolver]

Which WoE flux is the easiest to low-man? Slimes perhaps? What would the ideal setup be to minimize people needed?

[Ocara]

Which WoE flux is the easiest to low-man? Slimes perhaps? What would the ideal setup be to minimize people needed?

Slimes. mnk/dnc, whm, brd is what worked best out of the combos I tried. Brd sacs, mnk kills bosses, and you have room for 2 leeches to enter before you start losing chests. Used to use rdm sac but marches speed things up significantly and debuffing boss just slows down counters. (Para can be nice for interrupting spells that get through your hits but whm can do it.) Trio it was about 15-20 mins per run, depending if temps items/mob placement was nice to us.

[Taim Meich]

What's the counter rate of Counterstance as /MNK? Is it fixed, or it depends on the base counter rate? and if so, do counter atmas count towards that? How does Counterstance (or counter, in general) interact with Retaliation? And finally, is WAR/MNK good for tanking, or it's always better to go /SAM or /NIN?

Thanks in advance.

Reposting myself, one last try.

[Radec]

I always just took pics of flowers in sea, they give a decent amount of zeni no matter what the npc is asking for.

I'm sure it can be done with 6-7, I recall hearing somebody was pulling the zone and PD cleaving them with a couple wars.

Haven't needed zeni to test myself, but LS says Mini-Faf/Sandworm in A_Tahrongi give (alot, 100+/plate) more than flowers, regardless of the asking mob. Downside they don't sleep, but eva-gear+atma up and should be fine.

[Ocara]

Reposting myself, one last try.

If you're countering you're not retaliating. I haven't seen any reason to believe counterstance is anything but a static boost to counter rate. Atmas will add counter rate on top of cs, just think of counterstance as +40% counter on top of 10% trait or whatever it gives. Generally as long as your support can keep you alive you'll want /sam for an easier/possible X hit, hasso, meditate, etc. I don't really see why you'd go war/mnk, you lose retaliates and whm shouldn't be having an issue keeping you alive (Inside abyssea, at least.)

[Fereydoon]

Haven't needed zeni to test myself, but LS says Mini-Faf/Sandworm in A_Tahrongi give (alot, 100+/plate) more than flowers, regardless of the asking mob. Downside they don't sleep, but eva-gear+atma up and should be fine.

I'll go test this in a bit, I thought the max was 99/plate?

[Fievel]

Haven't needed zeni to test myself, but LS says Mini-Faf/Sandworm in A_Tahrongi give (alot, 100+/plate) more than flowers, regardless of the asking mob. Downside they don't sleep, but eva-gear+atma up and should be fine.

Oh holy shit

[Foldypaws]

So the WotG Nation quests now prevent your medal from degrading past a certain level based on your quest.

Does that apply globally, or *only* on the nations you've done the quest for?

I.E. I'm aligned with Windy in the past, but I'm doing to Bastok quest line. Do my medals degrade or not?

[Atoreis]

Haven't needed zeni to test myself, but LS says Mini-Faf/Sandworm in A_Tahrongi give (alot, 100+/plate) more than flowers, regardless of the asking mob. Downside they don't sleep, but eva-gear+atma up and should be fine.

If that's true I love ya!

[Michelob]

I'll go test this in a bit, I thought the max was 99/plate?

Nope. Several times I got 100+ zeni plates off of a slept Tiamat at 1%.

[Atoreis]

That would be super cool. I can probably easy make those mini fafnir do 0 damage with ochain so unless they have regain sleep is no problem

[SaviorSelf]

Just the NA PC client that has the secure code/verified by visa bullshit right? 360/PS2 no problems? Need access to xbox live for POL too? About to pick up a 360 from a friend but unsure if it's banned or not. Need to know if thats a deal breaker since I'm only buying it to pay for FFXI.

^

[Yugl]

Edit: Ignore this post

[Yugl]

Reposting myself, one last try.

Not a MNK, so I can't give you anything specific, but from what I've read, Counterstance =/= Retaliation. The former will not give you the TP gain of the second. If that's the case, it's probably a separate check (like how DA and OAT). WAR/MNK tanking has been debated. One side says /SAM because survival is not difficult with WHM and /SAM will boost your damage more than /MNK. Counter atmas do stack if that's what you're asking.

[Cymmina]

I have a similar new account/character level/mission progression question.

Here is my current plan:

WHM to 18
BLM to 37
WHM to 49
BLM to 49
RDM to 90
WAR to 18
NIN to 37
WAR to 25
NIN to 49
BLM to 90
SCH to 90? Not sure if it's worth having w/ RDM and BLM lvled. Thoughts?

Note: I do not want WHM at 90+ because I don't like being a heal/buff bot. I know RDM does this, but there is a lot more you can do with RDM up to and including soloing stuff.


Rank 1 -> Rank 6 for Airship?

Sky to Abyssal (Or possibly Suppa for melee later on? They worth getting for 90/99?)

COP to Tamas (I doubt this is worth it..should I get a Rajas for possible melee or are they needed anymore at 90/99?)

TOAU to Balrahn's (Is this worth doing anymore? Great ring at 75..at 90/99?)

Nyzul..not sure if this is worth doing anymore..hope not it was a pain..

Skip Campaign

WotG Missions..not sure here..what is needed if anything?

I plan on wearing AH gear with a few easier to get r/ex like AF1 until AF3 etc. Skipping AF2 because...screw Dynamis.

RDM and SCH basically have no purpose inside of Abyssea. You *can* use them, but you're just as well off not taking them in most situations since their ability to cover enough trigger spells is rather low (decent for cleaving, but not all that useful for a vast majority of NMs). Kiting/pinning is usually slower than just taking a MNK+WHM (plus whatever jobs you need for triggering to get the desired drops) and meleeing it down.

Take the Tamas. Yes, Rajas is the "correct" ring, but if you don't have jobs to make use of it, you may as well take one you can use. Once you decide you need Rajas, you have 1 free reset where you don't have to wait to get a different ring.

I still use Balrahn's. All the ToaU rings are mediocre compared to other mission rewards. Useful for jobs that would want MAcc, but don't get a lot of options for it (like for DNC's Violent Flourish).

Campaign is pretty much dead, but SE recently hinted at revitalizing it. You'll still need notes for getting around (just do Campaign OPs, better notes/time ratio).

Windurst WotG storyline is worth a look for the Zodiac Ring. The story for that nation is pretty good (slow to get interesting, but the last few CS more than make up for it). Also the Moonshade Earring, which was already mentioned.

[Fievel]

Anybody mind sharing typical COR gear sets? Just finished gems/lanterns for armageddon but still need to level the job from 75 to 90 and I realized I have no idea what to really wear anymore on it other than the obvious.

Reposting as it was lost in cleave talk x:

[Nishida]

Where can I get the following:

Expwatch for current Windower (the one on their site is outdated I believe?)
FFXI Map Dats (Emiko's link is broken and outdated)
Dat swaps? FFXIDATS is dead..any new site for this?