Random Question Thread X: Fucking 99 Level Cap, How Does it Work?

[Not Kuno]

When do the marbles end (for purchase)? The site says the 7th but everyone keeps telling me tomorrow is the last day. D:

[Counterfeit]

Does Dagger skill need to be capped for it to be useful for DRK zerg? Usually do not get madrigals.

[rog]

Does Dagger skill need to be capped for it to be useful for DRK zerg? Usually do not get madrigals.

Shouldn't matter too much if you've got feint i think. Unless it's like really low, then you should probably level it some.

[SargentRemora]

Does the "Grimore: Reduces spellcasting time" on Scholar's Loafers/Argute Mortarboard apply to Utsusemi?

[rog]

Does the "Grimore: Reduces spellcasting time" on Scholar's Loafers/Argute Mortarboard apply to Utsusemi?

No.

[The Stig]

When do the marbles end (for purchase)? The site says the 7th but everyone keeps telling me tomorrow is the last day. D:

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/gui...bon/index.html

EU site says 7th June too, Monday

The anniversary event ends tommorow though (25th)

[requim]

Does Dagger skill need to be capped for it to be useful for DRK zerg? Usually do not get madrigals.

Feint is -50% evasion so it would depend on what you're trying to kill, but chances are if it is above 150 skill you're close enough (with dex/gear/food).

Plus if it is an actual zerg where you have a ton of haste gear it would skill up ridiculously fast to where it would be within the capped hit rate with feint on by the time feint wore.

If it is below 150 you could probably just sub dancer and go melee some lesser colibri in woodlands or thickets to get some easy skill ups without fully committing to kuftal tunnel or the tree.

[Jado818]

Do items with charges (ie curaga earring) work while under level sync below the items level?

[Khajit]

No. i found this out when i forgot to get a lowbie warp item for myself after a bahamut run.

[ZhiGaruda]

When do the marbles end (for purchase)? The site says the 7th but everyone keeps telling me tomorrow is the last day. D:

People are morons, as you probably already know.

FOR REFERENCE: THE ANNIVERSARY EVENT IS NOT THE SAME EVENT AS MOG BONANZA, RETARDS

[solanis]

Which is better to farm HQ phuabo organs, om'phuabo or ul'phuabo? Otherwiki says the lower-level version but this seems counter-intuitive.

[ZhiGaruda]

Which is better to farm HQ phuabo organs, om'phuabo or ul'phuabo? Otherwiki says the lower-level version but this seems counter-intuitive.

Higher level always drop more.

[nitsuj]

AMK hat for SCH or SMN, Not sure what to put on it. D: Pet buffs on it kinda suck, and my sch is on it's way to 75 but not quite there so not sure what head pieces beat it. So what should I put on it?

Your questions keep getting loss in the typical epeen relic shit heh.

Honestly, I don't have my head yet because none of it really excites me. But I would probably go with Cure Potency/fast cast if I had to pick today, just for a cure macro (not sure what SCH usually cures in, but it's a pretty awesome SMN Cure piece if you have the space to spare).

Another decent pick, in my opinion, is Pet: Regen. Carby has innate regen, which most people don't abuse, but it's great fun to solo farm with carby and allow him to automatically cure himself versus having to recast, but it's only a fun thing, not really saving you anything great.

[Thalandor46]

What's a good path to take for a Dyna Xarc farming run, not worrying about Dynamis Lord or Demon NMs?

[Nightfyre]

Go behind Berith's tower. Clear the 3 eyes + pops there, hit time extension. Head back south past Berith tower and go east. Clear the 4 eye square in this order; SW -> SE -> NE -> NW. The summoner from SW pop looks like it'll link NW eye, but it won't aggro you or link unless you sleep the ninja at it's spawnpoint. Head east, sac the eye tower with one melee taking each eye that starts up(sac just aggros to spawn the rest and runs off). Kill both eyes, kill extension. Head east, have a RDM chainspell nuke the extension and die once you're past it(alternatively, blizzard3 -> bio3 -> poison2 can be done without chainspell if fast enough). Go past entrance down near club mob. Have one melee assigned to each of the 3 eyes, and leeroy them at the same time. All 6 demons will pop at once, have sleepga on center of the 3 eyes to hit all 6 demons. Kill off eyes, kill demons. Move north, there are 3 eyes to your west here. They will all link if you do this wrong, send a RDM to go behind them west. Have someone pull center eye, sleep demons on pop, RDM needs to bind it from behind while it's casting initial spell, then gravity, then kite it around back to the group WITHOUT LINKING. Kill demons, kill eye. This leaves the other 2 eyes clean. Kill them, move west. There are 2 sets of 3 eyes + 9(?) demons, pull and kill. Continue west, there's a group of 4 eyes + 8 demons(ALL blm or rng, so one competent BLM can control all demons, focus resources on taking out eyes). Continue west, go past south NM tower. There are 2 paths, each with 6 demons + 2 eyes. Clear them both, one at a time. Head west to eye wall, sac out claiming the middle 4 demons and 2 eyes. Kill them, then you have 2 pulls of 4 demons + 2 eyes left. Take those pulls, kill extension, head NE. Assign a melee to each of the 2 eyes, they pop 3 demons each, leeroy at the same time so one sleepga hits everything. Continue east, there are 3 eyes, each pops 2 demons. Assign a melee per eye, kill eyes, kill demons. Go northwest, there are 4 eyes wandering that each pop 3 demons. If you're careful, you should be able to get 2 eyes and 6 demons per pull, but it's possible to link it all. If you still have time left, go back behind berith's tower and up the ramp, sac the eye in the way to get far far NE. Work your way back, a few easy pulls left.

These pulls can all be handled with about 10 competent people, and it's a relatively efficient path. I wouldn't expect to kill it all in the same run with 10, but i don't know how many you have or how you're geared.. what I mean is that any single pull listed there can be handled with 10.

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[TheTaru]

So I just started playing again and, to my raaaaaaaaaage, I found out they STILL have not fixed the issue with Xbox 360 d/cing. The system itself is such a piece of shit, it doesn't log out/shut down properly randomly even if I don't just lose my connection. Is there really no solution to this other than to reinstall FFXI -every single time- this happens? I don't really want to spend 4 hours every other day reinstalling. I don't even understand how they possibly could not have fixed it by now(been like 6 months?).

rage, lol360, etc.

[Deader2818]

I think there was something about downloading a CD or hooking up an MP3 or something to the 360 to fix the problem, let me try and look it up

[rog]

Play any music file, and it'll work.

[TheTaru]

Play any music file, and it'll work.

Sounds easy enough, but I don't have anything that could load music onto it lol. Or can you get music off of some Xbox live thing? I really have no idea.

[Deader2818]

Should just be able to rip music off a CD.