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Final Fantasy XI 2014 |OT| Kumhau, The Blackthorne Coven, and the Mog Wardrobe.
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Join us on Sylph! Don't worry about starting from scratch either - with the rate of leveling now, you'll catch up to where you were in no time flat.
No more Abyssea items in the next login campaign. I guess that's what I'll spend my points on tonight. Rem's Chaptrs 6-10 are finally going to be available and it looks like Savory Shank and the +2 stones are going to stay around as the 3000 point items.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/campaign/login/login23.html
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/campaign/login/login23.html
ShadowSoldier89
Member
Mildaurion trust and excalipoor! this is a great login month
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Eponymous? Really?
I consider my Vocabulary to be well above average, and even I had to look that one up.
Nicely played SquareEnix translator.
On another note, can't you get Rem's Tales from Sparks? Wouldn't that be a better option?
You can, but the 6-10 pages cost 15,000 sparks each, and you need 8 of them to upgrade one piece of gear. So you're looking at 120,000 sparks for enough pages to upgrade one item.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Man Yuhtunga Jungle is super confusing to get through
My advice? Install these maps: http://forums.windower.net/index.php?/topic/10-xi-vision-v103-maps/
Then you can see something like this in-game:
What Talym said. You can buy them with Sparks, but it's a really boring grind to get 120,000 Sparks for enough to upgrade one piece to 119.
Yes it is. If you have the Seekers Edition, you should have everything.
Great, thanks!
No, they switched it some time back to a more standard billing style.
pancakesandsex
Member
Fight stuff of a level appropriate to the drop. Abyssea is good for some actually, you're limited by a weird timer on the drop rates for them, i think you can only get 1-2 every 5 minutes.
Remember you can convert them 3:1 for the ones you want too.
I barely even have enough to convert. I have 2 Beastment's Seals, 32 Kindred's Seals, 1 Kindred's Crest, 2 High Kindred's Crests, and 0 Sacred Kindred's Crests.
pancakesandsex
Member
Do you toss the ones you get normally?
what are you looking for? I have a ton to burn and plan to spam the mobline comedy when the event starts.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Who are some good trusts to use? I could use a balanced team so I have ways of dealing with stuff that laughs off melee damage.
Do you toss the ones you get normally?
I used to toss them for a long time until I found out you could store them. I'll probably use the login campaign for a couple months to build up a stock of them.
What job are you playing?
Darrcyphfeid
Neo Member
Something like 1 per party per 5 minute window, although the window resets upon zoning. When SKCs were fresh people would camp the zoneline between Woh Gates and Kamihr Drifts, bouncing back and forth as needed; I used to use the Cape Terrigan -> Valley of Sorrows zoneline for that annoying gather 5 Crests/Seals RoE timed challenge.
For Login Campaign, buying Kindred's Seals is ideal unless you specifically need Beastmen's Seals. You can use the KS on fights like Contaminated Coliseum for guaranteed 109 upgrade materials, and the 3:1 convert rate matches the 30:10 login point fee; you'll even come ahead if they do another of those 2:1 convert rate events (they used to always have them when the BCNM event was live).
tiggerkiddo
Member
I mainly play as MNK/NIN.
Gentleman Jack
Member
ok while I wait for the hilariously inefficient POL updater process to run I have some questions and I don't want to further pollute the welcome back campaign thread:
- Does it let you pick what server to start on? I remember needing silly in-game items to 'invite' people to create new characters on realms. Part of SE's misguided attempts at evening out realm pops was to randomize your first character, if I recall correctly.
- I'm starting from scratch so I'd like to get a good idea of WS/casting animations before I roll my first character, youtube's not helping me out here. Anyone got a good resource?
- Did they change how outposts work? Back in the day LSes would 'raid' nearby outposts by trading them crafted goods so you'd end up with strange outcomes like Windurst controlling Ronfaure and people taking advantage of Outpost warps everywhere in the world. That really opened up my options of moving around the world and I'd hate to have missed the boat there. Are Outpost warps replaced by better options in 2015?
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
The old outpost "conquest" system is dead these days to all intents and purposes.
However there are several fast travel systems that take all the pain out of getting around.
For a start off there are numerous new home-points (big blue crystals) that once you've touched you can teleport point-to-point between. These are most common in cities and near bcnm entry-points.
Then there are survival guides, these are floating books found in most zones of the games that again provide point-to-point travel options once you've activated them. You'll find these at all outposts amongst other field areas, and there is one in each city/town zone so you can use them to immediately warp out to battle camps.
They are often found near FoV/GoV training manuals which are great for supplementing your xp income by doing preset training regimes (kill x of y monster), as well as offering a whole slew of useful things like food, sneak/invis, and warp/home-point functions. Unlike the previous options which simply cost gil to use, these features are paid for with their own currency gained by completing training regimes.
Hold onto your hat though, there is more...
Then there are geomagnetic founts which are similar to the survival guides in that they act as waypoint systems. Primarily found in the Adoulin regions (you access this expansion area via the one in Lower Jeuno) these are activated by clicking as usual, but are paid for by trading them crystals. There is a smaller sub-system of these waypoints found in the middle-lands areas (proto-waypoints as opposed to normal waypoints) that are activated using a quest chain that starts in Ru'Lude Gardens in Jeuno. Very handy in the early game as you get rewarded for finding/activating them.
Obviously on top of all this there are a couple of older point-to-point jump systems, such as the one built into the Voidwatch battle system, the tenshodo quick warp to the older BC areas, and of course the venerable outpost and crag homepoint warp systems that nobody bothers with anymore!
And don't forget to pick-up a warp ring with conquest points, as I'm sure you'll find it utterly invaluable.
pancakesandsex
Member
First Rhapsodies battle content info, this sounds interesting.
New Area: Escha Zi'Tah (05/11/2015)
A new thread has been created in the Updates section of the official forums:
[dev1267] New Area: Escha Zi'Tah
Good to see that SE is still pro at making up words that are mashups of other words they like to use.
Of note though is "Escha" is actually a real term. (Atelier fans would be familiar with it) It comes from a Greek word meaning "last", and Eschatology is the study of the end of the world from a religious perspective.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Does Shadowplay work with FFXI? Alt+F9'ing doesn't seem to do anything.
Pretty sure it'll only work if you use the full desktop streaming mode - FFXI is still using a really old DirectX version I think.
Imagine Wagons
Member
I too am curious about balanced Trust teams for RDM.
That sounds really weird.
It sounds like Abyssea with a timer and augments.
Using "escha" as the name for the areas is really poignant. It really is the end.
The Localization team (which as it turns out has a lot of power when it comes to naming things in the game) rarely disappoints.
pancakesandsex
Member
That might have been a reference to vagary.
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
I am stuck at the POL viewer. I really don't want to start from scratch, but I'll be damned if there is no good way to reset your password. Did I migrate it to a square enix account? Square says I did, but then tells me that the email that received that notification two years ago isn't associated with an account in 2015. I might end up emailing... maybe.
Really? Is there any story with Vagary? I remember everyone being excited because they assumed it was a Dynamis reference.
pancakesandsex
Member
There actually is a story to it, but the fact that you fight clones of the final story bosses is kind of a spoiler for the main plot.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Since I've restarted, what's the best thing to spend my copper vouchers on? It's a bit of an overload trying to look up what all the various currencies do. I'm just trying to level up and enjoy the missions/quests.
Seems that way, but it feels suboptimal since FFXI is eating my inputs and preventing me from toggling it. Guess It's back to Fraps.
Seems that way, but it feels suboptimal since FFXI is eating my inputs and preventing me from toggling it. Guess It's back to Fraps.
So my brother and I installed everything yesterday. We're ready to go sometime later this week. I'll be a DRG again. Not sure what he will play. Maybe SAM.
What are some easy but good Trusts to get that would complement us and help us through the story? Anything specific I should know?
What are some easy but good Trusts to get that would complement us and help us through the story? Anything specific I should know?
tiggerkiddo
Member
Welp got further but that NM I have to fight for the MNK AF pants still kills me. Guess I just have to upgrade my equipment further.
pancakesandsex
Member
Since I've restarted, what's the best thing to spend my copper vouchers on? It's a bit of an overload trying to look up what all the various currencies do. I'm just trying to level up and enjoy the missions/quests.
Seems that way, but it feels suboptimal since FFXI is eating my inputs and preventing me from toggling it. Guess It's back to Fraps.
Are you running windower as administrator? Might help.
Some early good ones are Kupipi (Windurst, healer) and Trion (San d'Oria, tank). The DD ones in general are good for leveling, but fall off in usefulness the higher you are.
Thanks. Apparently you need Rank 6+ to get Trion so I'll have to settle for Excenmille but he should be fine.
What's the fastest way to get to Windurst as a fresh Lv 5 afterwards? Any shortcuts or do I have to run for it at least once to get the home point warp?
Ah, forgot about the rank req. You can also get Curilla as a tank once you hit rank 3. You can combine the journey to Windy for Kupipi and Mission 2-3 into the same trip if you like.
Easiest way is probably to go to Jeuno first and get your chocobo license (Needs Lv20), and then ride down to Windurst. The more interesting way would be West Ronfaure > La Theine Plateau > Valkurm Dunes > Selbina > Ride the Ferry (Watch for Pirates!) > Mhaura > Buburimu Peninsula > Tahrongi Canyon > East Sarutabaruta > Windurst
You usually have to get there the old fashioned way once, although I vaguely recall that my first visit to San d'Oria involved a special event teleport, probably during
At the rate one levels nowadays, it might just be viable to walk there safely by killing most things in your path to level up and handle whatever's further ahead in the way.
The path would be South San d'Oria -> West Ronfaure -> La Theine Plateau (watch out for rams) -> Valkurm Dunes -> Selbina -> take the ferry (might be safer to stay below deck in case of skeleton pirates earlier on) -> Mhaura -> Tahrongi Canyon -> East Sarutabaruta -> Windurst.
Ah the old fashioned way it is then! I was usually pretty good when it came to sneaking around so I hope I can make it on my first attempt. Don't want to level too much beyond 5 so I can level with my brother once I got the Trusts.