New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition

[Koyangi]

Is there a way in-game to see all of your ROE (and possibly other sources of this) permanent + CP% rewards, or would you just have to manually add it up all yourself?

Thanks!

[StaplerGuy]

Fuck it, it's thirteen years later, let's try this game again.

Are there many time-based clocks I have to start? My quick research turned up abyssea, voidstones, and gobbie dial, nothing else. Looks like a lot of "wait until JP midnight" got turned into "wait until vana'diel midnight" which is way, way better.

[tenkiki]

Adoulin Imprimaturs for story progress, 6 months worth for Ergon weapons for Geomancer and Rune Fencer. Keep up with Mog Garden if you want Ygnas trust and upgrade your ring from beating Adoulin story to +1.

[StaplerGuy]

Perfect, thank you. I actually had Mog Garden on the list (if nothing else, very-long-term it has a whopping +9% CP bonus, and it looks like it goes off real time days so it'll take forever) but had totally whiffed on Imprimaturs.

edit: my god, can I literally never get rid of the POL Mail notification in the top right now because those servers no longer exist?

[Buffy]

That’s awesome, and probably not

[StaplerGuy]

I mean, serves me right, I always had that notification blinking thirteen years ago. But now it's spiteful (and I love it so I am not even mad)

[Koyangi]

Anyone know answer to question I posted? Also, if nothing "in-game" exists, is there a Windower addon for it? Thanks!

[Byrthnoth]

Anyone know answer to question I posted? Also, if nothing "in-game" exists, is there a Windower addon for it? Thanks!

you have to add them up yourself, iirc.

There might be some easy way to know (like x monster always gives 100 CP base, so just go kill it), but I've forgotten what unboosted CP looks like.

[StaplerGuy]

Is there a list of Trusts that don't suck that aren't from a login campaign? Cause I basically only have baby's first set (plus some from doing the plot of various expansions, obviously)

[Koyangi]

So, is Ygnas, the best healer trust in the game (based on what I read on the wiki), then can change to a different Unity?

[arus2001]

Unity trusts have to be maintained weekly by completing unity RoV objectives, so you can't get them all hopping around. Aparuru was my goto healer, personally.

[Obsidian]

Ygnas is the best non-Unity healer, but he falls pretty far short of Yoran (and Apururu I guess). Ygnas doesn't have the cureskin, MP efficiency, or status ailment resistance that Yoran has, and he doesn't have the AoE cures that Apururu does.

[Byrthnoth]

Ygnas+Arciela 1 will never run out of MP (he gains a refresh aura and more autorefresh beyond that), but his AI focuses on MP efficiency and is thus is sometimes too slow to use Cure V/VI. That combo gets you Haste II and very good heals, but if you need a timely C5 you will not get it.

Apururu overheals and prioritizes -aga cures too high, but rarely runs out of MP. I use Ygnas when I can get away with him but she is clearly a heavier duty healer still.

[Draylo]

Monberaux is pretty good also if you use him with Ygnas and want that unity slot for maybe Sylvie.

[tenkiki]

Is there a list of Trusts that don't suck that aren't from a login campaign? Cause I basically only have baby's first set (plus some from doing the plot of various expansions, obviously)

Excluding Ygnas and Monberaux because they take forever to unlock (although some of these are from story completion):
Healer: Kupipi, Cherukiki
Tank: ArkEV, Gessho, ArkHM, August
Ranged: Semih Lafihna (skillchain), Tenzen II (skillchain)
Support: Arciela, Joachim, Koru-Moru, Ulmia
Melee: Ayame (skillchain), Excenmille (S) (AoE attack+haste2 buff), Iroha I/II (AoE Cure), Selh'teus (AoE Cure/MP/TP), Tenzen (Skillchain), Zeid II (Stunbot)
Magic: All fall short of Shantotto II, but can grab any 5 of them to make a firing squad for easy leveling early on.

[StaplerGuy]

I can't get Semih Lafihna because I'm on Windurst mission 6-2 so Kupipi won't cough up the goods - what's up with these trusts that are giten "during mission 2-3", should I just switch nations and grind up from rank 1 to actually get them? None of them are being given when I talk to the proper NPCs at Rank 6, even the one for the nation I'm a member of. Similarly, I'm on Windy 6-2, so I'm locked out of Ajido-Marujido until I do 9-1 and that locks me out of Shantotto and all the "bundle of scrolls" ones after her, including stuff like Excenmille (S). Should I just change nations so I don't have to deal with Windy 6-2 through 9-1? Or just grind up high enough it doesn't matter and bad-trust solo all the BCs involved?

(but thanks for Ulmia, I had missed her because I'm locked out of Prishe until I kill Bahamut apparently and just assumed they'd both be that way and I guess they're not)

[tenkiki]

I would continue with windy missions to completion since I think you'll still be locked out of some of them for being at 6-2 windy, plus you'll get the 10% cp bonus for finishing, so it benefits you to beat all nations eventually.

[StaplerGuy]

Fair, the 10% bonus is definitely something I want to pick up sooner or later. How rough are the missions with only a 75 in old gear + four Trusts? (don't have the KI for the fifth one yet, will rush that if needed.)

[Byrthnoth]

Fair, the 10% bonus is definitely something I want to pick up sooner or later. How rough are the missions with only a 75 in old gear + four Trusts? (don't have the KI for the fifth one yet, will rush that if needed.)

I suspect you would be able to comfortably clear them but I admit I haven't played at a power level even close to that in a very long time.

[Koyangi]

Gorpa-Masorpa just talks about some letter and certain things get listed in green text, makes it seem like I have to do something here? It's random when he's talked to again. So the problem is, I have no idea how to get him to show me what I can buy with Hallmarks. The Spider has been cleared twice on Normal from Primer Vol. 2. Thanks for any help. I found nothing about this on either wiki.