Adventuring fellow weapons

[Niiro]

weapons*

Gave my AF a schlaeger to use, when called shes using a shotel tho, I'd read about weapons not being the same as the one you traded, but is there any way to keep it from happening? Shotel is all well and good, but i gave her a schlaeger cause i wanted her to use a fking schlaeger.

I already traded another schlaeger which the mithra accepted, but nothing changed.

Before I try and trade another weapon and waste my gil on another schlaeger, does anyone know a way to get around this?

[el_tio]

I think you'd have to trade them in order, like:

Bronze Sword Xiphos Scimitar Longsword Tuck Tulwar Schlaeger

[Araelus]

Bad news is, unless one of the other swords appears as a schlaeger despite how it should look, there's no known way to get the schlaeger appearance... which is inane, I have no good reason for Square to make it like that.

Apparently this is the case for a lot of the NPC weapons, though. juni66 at otherwiki (here) has bought and traded a ton of them and most of the appearances do not match the base weapon.

My advice would be to .DAT swap, if you are comfortable with that. (Am I allowed to say that?)

[Seraph]

Bad news is, unless one of the other swords appears as a schlaeger despite how it should look, there's no known way to get the schlaeger appearance... which is inane, I have no good reason for Square to make it like that.

Apparently this is the case for a lot of the NPC weapons, though. juni66 at otherwiki (here) has bought and traded a ton of them and most of the appearances do not match the base weapon.

My advice would be to .DAT swap, if you are comfortable with that. (Am I allowed to say that?)

If you pay attention to the 'upgrade weapon' quests, you will notice that the Mithra mentions that your NPC is starting to think for himself, and not necessarily using the weapon you provide for him anymore (And SE demonstrates this by causing certain tier weapons to not match the weapon traded). The assumption is that your NPC is now more of a companion/rival, and not just a pet. This climaxes with the NPC G4 battle, for obvious reasons.

[Araelus]

If you pay attention to the 'upgrade weapon' quests, you will notice that the Mithra mentions that your NPC is starting to think for himself, and not necessarily using the weapon you provide for him anymore (And SE demonstrates this by causing certain tier weapons to not match the weapon traded). The assumption is that your NPC is now more of a companion/rival, and not just a pet. This climaxes with the NPC G4 battle, for obvious reasons.

Normally I'm all over plot in this game. Plot is why I picked up FFXI to begin with. I can't get enough plot. Unfortunately, since it's one of the few cases where damage is the same regardless of appearance, I have more sympathy for the people who want to choose a specific weapon type and have their NPC use that weapon instead of the interesting NPC who is "thinking on their own". Perhaps because it's not really pseudo-AI, it's more Square being a pain.

To add insult to injury, the NPC quests that contain moar plotz narr are on my list of "To-Do" but since I needed access to the Qu'Bia Arena for a movie project I left it stuck at Mirror Images.

Spoiler: show

Since Fellow G4 uses that same battlefield, I might as well go ahead...

[Seraph]

Normally I'm all over plot in this game. Plot is why I picked up FFXI to begin with. I can't get enough plot. Unfortunately, since it's one of the few cases where damage is the same regardless of appearance, I have more sympathy for the people who want to choose a specific weapon type and have their NPC use that weapon instead of the interesting NPC who is "thinking on their own". Perhaps because it's not really pseudo-AI, it's more Square being a pain.

To add insult to injury, the NPC quests that contain moar plotz narr are on my list of "To-Do" but since I needed access to the Qu'Bia Arena for a movie project I left it stuck at Mirror Images.

Spoiler: show

Since Fellow G4 uses that same battlefield, I might as well go ahead...

Right, I didn't say it made a ton of sense, it was just that the 'random' weapon thing isn't really random at all. It's just for the benefit of a stupid NPC plot line. What is even dumber is that the cool looking weapons are usually very expensive. :_:

[Niiro]

lesigh~

Guess ill mess around with different stuff till I wind up with somethin i like.