Riposte
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I'm really curious how they do difficulty with the cap being so high now. I'm assuming they are not really trying all that hard like ToAU and on, but I wonder where they actually start the content.
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Final Fantasy XI 2013 Seekers of Adoulin |OT| Go West, Young Adventurer!
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I'm really curious how they do difficulty with the cap being so high now. I'm assuming they are not really trying all that hard like ToAU and on, but I wonder where they actually start the content.
pancakesandsex
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They have been giving monsters obscure but easily exploitable mechanics, so that once the community figures things out, it's just a matter of being able to effectively function as a team, and output the right amount of damage in a short amount of time to win.
For example, there is wamoura who has -100% damage taken on pop / claim, but loses bits of it every time he uses exhuviaiton. Now when it first came out, the fight could take upwards of 20 minutes, now it takes less than 5, because people figured out how to exploit this mechanic.
creid
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pancakesandsex
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This should be interesting. I wonder if that includes weapons.
pancakesandsex
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Couple folks quit so IHOP is a little empty while some of us have events. Tuesdays and Sundays and late evening on other days are the best times to catch people.
pancakesandsex
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Indi spells are a bubble around you, geo spells are a bubble around the target.
pancakesandsex
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One of each. They get very mp intensive too, so conserve mp gear helps in your casting set. Later spells cost upwards of 400 mp.
GC wrote up a super useful pastebin with "how to geo in delve" which is a good guide to go by if you're wondering what you're expected to do.
http://pastebin.com/H3uEnmp7
I usually see the back line geo using Focus / Languor, and the other using Refresh / Frailty (if running 2 backline) or Frailty / Torpor (if using 1 back 1 front).
The frailty geo will bolster on tojil and once it wears, the 2 geos swap spells so the other geo can bolster. You may also be asked to haste the scholars in your party, sleep nms, and do light nuking on certain mobs, or cast impact.
Here is another useful resource:
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/37254/geo-equipment-thread/
pancakesandsex
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Another login campaign:
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/campaign/11th/login04.html
Also it's update day. New 80 inventory!
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/campaign/11th/login04.html
Also it's update day. New 80 inventory!
creid
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I still haven't cashed in my points from Campaign 3. I haven't started collecting Empyrean stuff at all for my WAR - can I go pick up Empyrean pieces with cruor and improve them to +2 with the Coupon S? Or is that not what it's for? Otherwise I can't decide what is best to spend my points on.
pancakesandsex
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Kupon S will give you a full stack of +1 seals to upgrade the NQ empyrean piece of your choice. It gives a full stack for whatever piece you choose. So 10 body or 8 for the rest.
pancakesandsex
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Double xp this weekend, and new login campaign.
Apparently can get Empyrean seals and mog kupons from BCNMs for this weekend too?
And spells that have gotten uncommon, and expensive crafting stuff AND apparently Prov/Legion Abjs.
Despite SE calling it out, no one seems to have gotten dyna currency yet.
Conrad Link
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What caused them to go so cheap? Event having them as a prize or something?
pancakesandsex
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There was a weekend long BCNM event where the monsters in certain BCs had actual drops besides the chest drops. Those scrolls, among other things, were dropping like candy.
AM spells dropped so much we lost some because we had no one to hold them. Raise III was EVERYWHERE.
So so so so so wish we could have done more. And that they had included Army's Paeon V...
You don't.
Conrad Link
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Haha that sounds awesome. I miss XI.
XIV is cool too in some of its own ways, but its not the same.wait. I thought you could by getting moogle coupons (???) and then exchanging them by using login points ????
You can get seals to +1 Empyrean Armor, but you can't get anything for weapons.
so i can get armor ???
You'll still need to get the base, non-upgraded armor (buy with cruor, from drops, etc, depending on the piece), but you can get the seals to upgrade it to the +1 version from the login campaign.
awesome. thanks for clarifying that.
I remember the armor was worth several thousand due to a campaign a month or so ago, has it returned to the default cruor price now ? also, are all these equipment purchasable via cruor, or do I need to acquire them via a quest.
Head and hands can be purchased with cruor, body is purchased with dominion notes, legs are purchase with resistance credits, and feet are drops in gold chests.
All the info you could want (and more!) here:
http://bg-wiki.com/bg/Category:Empyrean_Armor
shiet. that's a lot of work...
If you only care about body and hand pieces, doing enough Abyssea Altepa exparties, making sure to use the Dominion officer's exp bonuses, you can sometimes get free seals, and the accumulated cruor and dominion notes make the gear easy to afford.
Partirs are at flux 8, fighting dolls in groups of 5 and checking with the taru dominion npc for the exp bonus.
If your level is low, you're expected to contribute by buying forbidden keys with cruor at an npc by the zone entrance, and use those keys on the chests left behind when mobs die - that requires having a substancial amount of cruour on you, and might be tricky to get an invite if someone's already doing that.
Might want to search the zone for party leaders before entering asking about vacancies.
At levels high enough to fight, don't engage other mob types so the exp isn't broken - if there's (magic) aggro from an elemental, use the Call for Help command, or only attack once its name is yellow.
I rejoined recently, catching up with older content (damn you Eldieme gates) though I should check if the occasional Skirmish shouts could help my monk's gear, now that I have Rigor Baghnaks.
I just really feel the pull of getting old content out of the way, since I love me some lore/quests/cutscenes, so I'm trying to do those by zone release order.
thanks. I've got 100k plus from that promo SE gave to people. I bought about 50 keys worth 25k.
Do I wait outside the maw or do I go inside and ask around ?
Might as well check for party leaders in the zone and try asking them before going in.
Some keep an eye on people searching inside the zone if their level is high enough to fight, but it's trickier for key work, since there tends to be some competition for those spots (which doesn't means some groups don't have more than 1 low level working the chests at once).
pancakesandsex
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Don't buy them from the npc. Check the AH or try and get them from skirmish. All the high tier ones (the ones that cost 100k + come from skirmish and can be found cheaply in bazaars or on the AH.
As an example, indi-fade is 700k at the npc, and it's 5k on the AH.
I bought all the ones that are on the AH, but there are still a lot that aren't on there.
pancakesandsex
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Which ones are you still missing?
I don't know. I'll have to check and see what scrolls I've got the next time I'm on.
DigitalVeil
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I miss you guys ;(
pancakesandsex
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Wahappen?
In case it wasn't obvious I am done with XI and I think this time it's for good.
My account is still active so if anyone wants gil or my junk let me know in the next week and I will dbox it first chance I get.
Thanks for all the fun times to anyone I played with in the past and special thanks to Pan for all the help.
My account is still active so if anyone wants gil or my junk let me know in the next week and I will dbox it first chance I get.
Thanks for all the fun times to anyone I played with in the past and special thanks to Pan for all the help.
I want your gil and everything else. I'm on bahamut server, isual is my user name ther.
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