General Tips for FFXI

[Ruiner]

I would just like to emphasize how important keeping a buffer is. I cannot express how frustrating it is as a RDM to have to support a single WAR kiting Kirin because the other needs to wait for an R3 so he won't delevel. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep a buffer.

[_chuchu]

I would say 30k buffer is good enough if you must sac anything at any given time

[Kaylia]

A word of advice for those of you who just recently hit level 75. Buffer the god damn job out. Either cap it or get near to cap because if you dong you only make yourself the butt of a joke and end up being an annoyance to a WHM usually because you "have" to get an R3 to get your level back. I don't want to hear "Oh it's 4 wasted merits I could have had." Shut the fuck up with that lame stupid excuse.

It's not funny, it's not like you don't have the time and it's not cute. Don't fucking dong yourself or just do it the way some of us do and let the exp roll-over past the cap into merit mode. It's sad as fuck seeing a 75 RNG at Kirin Dong out of an Osode and running around shooting it with no body armor on because he can't be assed to keep his job capped.

There are way to many gearsets on my DRK DRG THF MNK WAR PLD ect that have gear that is 75 only. If I dong, I lose 2/3rds of my abilities along with my gear so yeah I'm 43999/44000 on all of my 75s.

Best part is when you have to waste your time/xp because those morons are too lazy to get a decent buffer. I've seen too many wipe that could have been avoided if people would have bothered with a buffer (and rr1).



Anyway, one tips I could give is to call for help every time you sleep a monster you don't plan to kill (running around in sea). It's really helpful to keep track of the incomming monsters because of the big orange dot on radar (+cfh name)

[Ambir]

Autowalking toward a ship/airship before it arrives means you can happily afk, and come back half an hour later at your destination. God knows how I played for 4 years without working that out >< .

(also works for annoying doors with annoying conditions to open... 4 pillar door, 1st banishing gate, Necropolis doors etc)

[TheDirtyHobo]

Using /ta <stnpc> works when you're dead. Please stop asking what percentage a mob's health is.

[Aksannyi]

Using /ta <stnpc> works when you're dead. Please stop asking what percentage a mob's health is.

Really!?! I'm tempted to die so I can try this, but most excellent tip right there.

[Devia]

Along with getting teleport crystals, outposts and maws, please have all level appropriate spells ready for use.

[Spekkio]

Using /ta <stnpc> works when you're dead. Please stop asking what percentage a mob's health is.

i find problems with /ta <stnpc> sometimes if i've done it already on this death and lost the target. if that fails or gives you an error, try /ta <st> which i've never had a problem with. also, if you hold down shift, your arrow keys will let you look around easily to see if it's clear to get up. you can also look around with the arrow keys by default if you're targeting something while dead or by using the mouse.

[dejet]

if you had a deal with the group your in. do not mess with them and ninja lot it. give the item to the person who was meant to get it. fairly simple but god ninja lots get me mad lol.

[Eldelphia]

Using /ta <stnpc> works when you're dead. Please stop asking what percentage a mob's health is.

I never knew this lol...

[MrBubbles]

I can't believe I never knew that lolololo

/ta <stnpc>, rad

tip I always like - once a mob starts casting you have to be more than 30' to stop their casting, so you can just stop @ like 30.1' and your good. But once they start running at you, can usually start casting @ like 24' since they are coming towards you... server lag or something idk

[Xrave]

/ta <stnpc> only works if you die facing the mob you want to target (or within your front view). Sometimes if it's off to the side you can hit the tab key after /ta <stnpc> and find the HP. If you die facing away from the mob and it doesn't move infront of where you were looking before you died, you can't target it.

[PeaceNLove]

Or just use /ta <st>, target yourself or PC around then tab over to the mob, using Shift+Arrow Keys to move the camera around.

[Kaelia]

I can't believe I never knew that lolololo

/ta <stnpc>, rad

tip I always like - once a mob starts casting you have to be more than 30' to stop their casting, so you can just stop @ like 30.1' and your good. But once they start running at you, can usually start casting @ like 24' since they are coming towards you... server lag or something idk

Does that apply to all mobs? There are some that you can start casting on at a farther range just because they're bigger.

[MrBubbles]

Ya I've noticed on bigger mobs like in NW Apollyon that you can get away with casting farther away (like think I got away with 27' start casting on Kaiser Behe lol)

[Valyana]

Kaiser meteored me at 30.1' once, so I'm running to 31' from now on

[Tricen]

Has it been mentioned to get your OPs ASAP? I would assume so. But the most important ones would be:
Xarc
East Altepa
Zitah
Bcd is good to have
Elshimo places
Tavnazia places

[Eruantalon]

Kaiser meteored me at 30.1' once, so I'm running to 31' from now on

AoE extends to 8 surrounding the target victim. So if you were 30.1, the target person hit with the AoE could have been as close as 22.1. Unless you meant you personally were hit at 30.1, then yeah, 31-33 is usually safe.

[Thorny]

Meteor aoe is much much more than 8' >.>

[Valyana]

I was the target (and the only one hit).