Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Did the same experiment last night killed 1, waiting a min. killed 2 more and got chest (I think about 2:30 from 1st pull to 3rd kill)

This seems to support < 30s theory and not overall. So maybe its 25s or there's a 2nd condition (or bug) that affects it (based on what's happened to me I'd suspect its related to changing mob types, aggro or leaving the B area via porter the times I've struggled with it. (maybe there's a limit like the 5min. after entering C area for Bhoot too, although I've gotten the chest after 6+ kills once or twice I think when I had minor issues with speed)

Currently my theory is it might just bug out if you get the kill on the ramp, and the chest just spawns inside the ramp or something dumb.

I think you have to actually open the chest for it to count for porxie kill, cuz I'll wipe out the enture room and then kill porxie and I don't get the porxie chest.

So couple things and i aint great at math so could be off too;

-its 7.5 ftp before accounting for wsd which roughly pushes it to 12 ftp with 60% wsd on a 95% hit

-The more hits in a WS the more likely it is to have a miss in it, at 5 hits you have a 77% chance to land all hits at 95% acc at 8 hits its 66%. So if we say 1.5 per hit on reso or 12 at 8 hits, then its more likely to be around 9 just due to misses, while your single hitter is just relying on 1 95% hit chance for 99% of its dmg.

Multi-hits used to and still sometimes give bigger spikes due to additional hits, but they also spike low for missing more, bringing their avg down to below a general frontloaded ftp WS, especially now with all the dumping of WSD


what do you mean the ftp is unknown, its 1.08 aint it? If i were to use ruinator or any multi-hit on war id just stick to deci, 99% acc on MH with about triple the ftp

It's unclear as to why a 1.5 ftp ws is losing to a 2.1 ~ 3.75 ws?(because you're using at 2k at the min.) the WSC is lower but the ftp matters more typically. Prefer howling over both even if miss rates at 99% are much lower just cause i like that atk boost(95% hit chance at 5 hits for 99% hit rate)

I can try again today, I did double check my bst's gear and threw in a bit more pet:macc that I may have left out when I was stripping down the GS.

Even at 99% acc i dont think it changes the standing of 1 hitters getting a good lead due to globs of WSD, it would close the gap a lil but think they still fall behind. Then you just go back to in reso's case having to compensate for a -15% atk penalty

So the TP bonus on Aymur confuses me a little.

The BG Wiki states that it gives 500TP to the pets, but then has a hidden 500TP bonus on top.

But there's no listed value on the weapon itself, and then the pet TP bonus values listed on the ready page just list it as a TP Bonus+1000, no caveats.

So what's the caveat if there is one, and how was it distinguished to be two 500 bonus effects?

Iirc It gives pets a passive +500 tp bonus(think aeonic) then also gives it another +500 tp bonus on ready use. Easier to just say it gives pets +1k TP om ready moves. Not sure how it was found to be layered like that

How often does a plant need to be examined in gardening to help it grow properly? It is a once-a-day thing or more based on when you initially planted it?

I do once a day, but sometimes my moogle negs me by saying the plant is sad. Can't forget that FFXI came out in 2002!

I'm not sure it's necessary at all unless you're not feeding a crystal, in which case you do have to at least look at it during that phase.

Not feeding any crystals. Been trying to look at it once a day but the moogle is saying it doesn't look so good, but might improve now that I've looked at it.

If you're trying to grow something specific you'll want to do the maximum 10 pots (or as many as possible) since there's not a 100% chance of getting what you want. If you're just trying to grow *something then feeding a crystal when it asks for one will be faster than not feeding one. As I mentioned earlier, if you choose not to feed a crystal, I suspect the only time you need to inspect is once during the crystal feeding phase. But checking more often won't hurt.

If I'm wrong then I'm sure someone will correct me.

Pretty sure you need to check every earth day, whether you feed crystal or not.

If you don't feed crystal it will always say "plant looks sad but I'm sure it'll perk up now you've looked at it (kuppo)".

After a few days it will start blooming. The crop differs whether you feed or don't feed, but always blooms.

Hey, so I thought Aita's fetter condition was SCs, but today he just shat them out like every TP move.

What's his actual condition for Fetters?

We were using Resolution, Savagex2, Black Halo, and Judgment.

Aita drops a fetter (or two) every time he uses a TP move, after his first one.

Pretty sure it's HP% based, spawning more at at a time as his HP drops. I noticed after his first forced TP move, if I brought him down to 90% or so, we'd get 1 fetter to spawn. If I hold off on doing any WSs until after his first forced TP move, he won't spawn any fetters at the start. With double MNK he won't use another TP move until about 10%, if ever, and after that one he always spawns 3 fetters.

Are there any good distribution tables or whatever that high level shows what ??? items are available, and how much they are available, based on floors of nyzul isle?

For the case of trying to min max what floors you wanna run in NNI depending on what you wanna farm

There's a NM list on the nyzul isle page that shows what their ??? and what floor range theyre in. If you're after weapons they can be on weird things since there's limited ??? weapons, like h2h can be from ??? dagger. If you mean potential chance of things like a pulse i doubt theres a table for that just because of how much is in those drop pools

*lights the Martel signal*

Heard you did some Slow vs. Haste tests recently.

Saw it was for recast, was it verified with Attack Speed as well?

Is there a command to trade "upto" instead of exact for tradenpc.

Say I have varying amounts of copper vouchers, I just want to input trade upto 99 on all of them instead of lowballing it to like 80

No. You could write a small lua to use windower command to count number of vouchers in inventory then feed that exact amount to tradenpc.

Over engineering

Not to mention that addon already exists lol

Uhh... "recently"? I'm gonna need some context here, cause I'm not sure what you're asking.