Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

That's not your first lamb, right? Cause.... 80% sure it can never evolve. (As that would break the questline.)

My friend Iragel http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Shiva/Iragel can't seem to have his missions/merit points for his achievement points showing, any suggestions?

How much does melee value +% critical, for both autos and WS? How does this compare vs Double Attack or Attack stats?

Except in a few instances where white damage can be very valued, usually a combination of multiattack and store tp is much more desirable as weaponskills along with skillchain combinations resulting from them are a much higher part of your damage so getting to them quicker is the better path. I can think of three examples where crit is valued in autos:
1) ODT and ODD procs such as on empy WS can make the white damage very respectable. Especially on RNG but on many jobs.
2) For things crits will disable on a NM. Such as this months VD intense Ambu breaking weapons to drop auras.
3) Any time where you can't WS a mob due to mechanics of a fight.

I'm sure there's others.

As for the WS themselves, a lot of WS can't even crit and THF can force crits as well as DNC on the first hit of a WS even if the WS itself can't crit, same goes for Mighty Strikes for every hit while it is active. You really only want to worry about crit hit and crit damage for a WS if it can critical. As for multihit on a WS, it can help any weaponskill but the ones it is worth gearing for it tend to be paging weaponskills, in other words ones where fTP carries through on additional hits like evisceration and CDC.

And if the weaponskill CAN critical, what is the value of the stat versus alternatives?

Preferably looking for a measurement of sort (weights), but even just an idea is fine.

Unrelated question:
I heard at some point that FPS values over 60 can potentially cause autobans to occur... is this still an issue? Would it be an issue for FastCS?

Unrelated question to the unrelated question:
Are food % buffs based on base stats, or your current stats? If current stats, and upon food use, these current stats are not enough to reach the cap for the food (and thus you are granted a suboptimal value), does this bonus granted dynamically increase or decrease as your gear adjusts your stats? Does it "snapshot" the stat granted upon use?

Unrelated question to the unrelated question to the unrelated question:
Does Dia work for equipment that grants Treasure Hunter? Diaga? How about even when it does 0 damage?

I still keep myself capped to 30fps. I heard it was an issue with fishing but never anything else.

Crit will give you an increase of 1 to the pDIF calculation. So if pDIF is capped at say 3.25, the multiplier becomes 4.25. On top of that any and all crit damage will apply as a multiplier in a different term. It's impossible to say weights without knowing context of the situation. An example, when pdif is low (you are attack starved) pdif can go from .5 to 1.5 on a crit, tripling your dmg. When pdif is capped it becomes less of an affect but it still allows you to bypass the attack/defense ratio cap when you crit. Note this is for melee, ranged and even pets have different calcs.

I'm unsure on the food stuff maybe someone else has tested or can answer.

Any action that would put you on the hate list in any way and is a direct action on the mob will apply TH, even a missed ranged attack.

Is the furrow on Mog Gardening based on quantity harvested or amounts of time harvested? Felt like I've been spamming for a week and nothing for Rank 6.

I cant say for sure, but spamming revival roots, you will be having high number of harvests and quantity harvested imo.

Based on bgwiki (https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Weapon_Skill_Damage) the dmg of magical WSs contains the Lvl of the player as one factor.

Does any1 know if this is still applied and if so, if this value exceeds 99 accoding to the iLvl of the weapon?

Yes, main-hand weapon ilvl affects them.

Is there a cap on how many mobs that can give exp when killed simultaneously?

Based on the days of SMN burn, I doubt it.

I belive the cap per pull is currently at 15

I'm assuming you mean critical hit rate? Or do you mean critical hit damage?
Either way they are more useful in WSs than they are in TP builds. (RNG being an exception as it has a suuuuper high crit rate. It's the king of white damage.)

Acc and QA/TA/DA/OA2~3 are better for TP as more hits = more TP = more WSs... and the fact that for most jobs, White damage is garbage compared to spike damage.
Really need to know if you meant rate or damage here. Both are relevant to WSs that can crit (Eviscerstion & CdC) and those who can be forced to do so (Rudra's Storm). And depending on which you're talking about depends on which is better.
It gets you instabanned and always will forever and always due to the fact that animations are tied to frame rate in XI. Meaning you will literally move faster than you should (and appear to poshack) if you start going at 60. I *think* there are ghetto alternatives and work-a-rounds... but I don't know their specifics. (Not worth risking a ban to find out IMO.)
They give you an effect of +n% to a stat with a specified cap. Just like if you wear a piece of gear with +5 attack and then add one with +10, you'll have +15. It's not a +n effect, but a % multiplier. So don't worry about changing gear.
(In case that wasn't clear enough, food buffs are dynamic when they have +n% values.)
Yes. TH is applied when any action done to the target produces enmity. Usually damage, but an enfeeble spell will also do it. And 0 damage is still damage. Even if it didn't reduce the target's HP.

Curious about this. Was running uncapped fps for a bit when messing with my new gpu and didn't encounter anything other than things looking silly

yeah, i've been running 60fps via the windower plugin for the month that i've been back and havent been autobant yet

Yep, same here. It doesn't seem plausible that they'd ban for running 60fps,let alone have an autoban system in place for it

Critical hit rate.


I know this, but the question is if the value is determined and kept upon use (the value gained based on the %) or will it increase/decrease accordingly as your stats change while the food buff is still active.


60 FPS is fine, but I've been told in the past that values over 60 can trigger the autoban system, mainly when zoning, because the game thinks that you might be speed hacking. As far as I can tell the FastCS addon uncaps the frame rate during the cutscene, which speeds it up... but wondering if this can trigger that system, or if that system is still in place.

Thank you for your responses.

I did run uncapped for a bit. Don't remember if I zoned with it, but I had it on in my moghouse. My moogle looked like he had too much cocaine or something and was spinning too fast, and my tail was going nonstop so I figured it wouldn't be practical for anything.

I will say that fastcs has given me no issues. I really doubt an autoban system is in place for anything in this game anymore, but who knows.

well i'm back, Still same problem with my lamb (and yes its my first lamb) it doesnt do anything although it has three stars now....so what am i doing wrong? The wiki sais i can get the next quest when i get monster rearing to rank 2. So do i just keep daily feeding and checking on patsy and will i then be able to buy a book like for the other mog garden nodes?

You need to trade it an evolution food. Boyahda Moss for Adult sheep or Napa for Karakul.

Anyone experiencing crazy lag or constant d/c when dualboxing since the most recent Windows 10 update? Are there certain addons/plugins I should be taking off?

Do the aftermaths from AG Bravura and Claustrum break the 50% DT cap, or are they the same as the old Bravura aftermath?

No one has the AG Claustrum to my knowledge, so will have to be Bravura testing. Will AG my lolstrum one day

Yeah, my ***locked up a lot when it updated.

Did a rollback and problems went away.

System Restore? I keep crashing during ls events in Reisenjima with a full alli. I never crash otherwise. Tried turning off all effects blah blah blah and nothing. Maybe I'll try this when im home.

There's an option within the update menu to revert back to a previous state.

From there, do a registry hack to trick windows that you're on a metered connection to block the update from auto downloading itself again.

A couple of probably silly questions but it's been bugging me for some time...

1. Is the game capable of picking gear between the various inventories at the same speed when swapping? I mean am I sure when I use a ja or ws from stuff from different places that it all works as intended? I'm a bit paranoid...

2. and on that note..when you have the little wheel that says it's still loading the bags, does that mean that they are unavailable to gearswap as well in that moment?

1. I think once it's all loaded, it doesn't really matter, all the inventories are the same.

2. Gearswap will still work immediately after zoning. You just have to wait if you want to move items between inventories.

Thanks, that makes me feel better! *can relax again*