Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Seems reasonable to assume, since DM pool appears to be fixed.

I can say at least, that I've done Phalanx + on Gada, Colada, and Zulfiqar. Seems fairly reasonable to assume any Oseem augmentable wep can get it from DM augs.

fair enough.
I guess thats the closest thing to the good drop iv ever gotten then.


Can alabaster matter be sent within pol act?

No, which is why a lot of people commented about how removing Old Case +1 and replacing it with Alabaster Matter is a dumb financial decision when the December login campaign rewards dropped. A lot of people felt the Old Case+1 was worth creating/activating POLacct mules for the cases.

Absorb-TP doesn't get affected by things like https://www.ffxiah.com/item/26030/erra-pendant , correct? Literally only the Bale Gauntlets line, so /drk for Aminon doesn't have any relevant gear for it?

Apparently it does:

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/49688/jack-of-all-trades-a-guide-to-red-mage/145/#3734101

Erra pendant does affect absorb-tp afaik.

...I even posted in that conversation. Thank you!

Back with an even dumber question. Can you get two pop KIs from the same Abyssea Amber Pyxis? Or can you only get one key item per Amber Pyxis? I've never seen two, but if they're rare it could just be like a two-augmented-equipment Pyxis, which I've seen like three or four times in my life ever.

(I did try googling this, but any combination of "two key items one pyxis" didn't work in addition to sounding like the lamest porn parody imaginable)

Nah you can't get two KIs in one box. Literally never seen it ever, and I have done an awful lot of Abyssea.

You can have two boxes spawn in the exact position, open both, and each has a different KI while looking to an onlooker like it's the same box, though.

The Rare item pops for preliminary mobs, though, yeah you can see multiple of the same or different in the same box.

Perfect, thanks! I was pretty sure, but I never want to rule anything out when I'm trying to figure out exactly how awful something can be. (It's Glavoid, obviously.)

(Certainly don't mind multiple of the same Rare pop, that's why they gave us that lovely "add all lottable spoils to treasure pool" button.)

Has Atomos summon's suck and blow feature been used for any cool shenanigans?

I seem to remember using it on dyna windy D wave 2 boss at some point? Maybe? Idk

I have used it for various attack buff stealing but it's quite rare. Even more so now with how short fights are. His whole sequence is probably 8 seconds? Fights usually last 15-60 seconds?

Circling back to this in hopes that anyone has done more testing and or has additional information as to how Imperial Accolade earnings are tallied.

From my attempts, I don't think it's solely based on damage dealt.

Edit: Just did one on ML20 NIN/WAR. Full crit set like I use for bead farming. No WS, 117 crits total, 327 credits/6328 exemplar. This is less than when I attempted WAR/DRG SB spam with constant 1hr/buff replication with revit/temps which yielded 375 accolades.

I would love to figure out what is bare minimum needed to cap.

Another attempt today, 12/14. Strictly using provoke only on mobs. 11 Credits, 218 exemp

IME it's a mix of actions. Doing damage does give points, but damage alone won't cap you.

Self buffs, party buffs, heals, doing dmg, taking dmg, kills, number of mobs fought, those all give some points. The more varied the actions you take, the more points you get.

I go DD and mule healer.

DD always caps, healer gets around 300. I make sure to tag as many mobs as possible.

I always just bunga in on WAR and see how close I can get to full Mighty Strikes uptime with how often Revitalizers and temps are thrown at you.

Usually kill/do serious damage to 3 or 4 NMs during the course of the Besieged.

Always walk out with full credit, unless I was late getting there. I also provoke NMs as well, sometimes to make them run at me, other times just to do it. I'm pretty sure that enmity generating actions are rated highly.

Does anyone have any hot tips for leveling an Adventuring Fellow in 2025? ...This is so awful. I'm killing mobs, like a Beastmaster without a pet, before Release at Level 35. I let my Fellow get 1 move off, then I one-shot whatever we're fighting. I do this about 15-20 times and they get a level (hopefully) ...but it's so random / slow / delayed. Also, I don't have the Tactics Pearl yet. The stupid NPC won't give it me the quest yet. :/

I should get on that. I forgot to do it since Trusts are a thing during the course of my LP.

I think Vyre had Radille Elvaan lady back in the day. I think, even now, you'll probably have to put up with tedium. I never even finished the process back in the day. I think I got her to around level 55 or something.

It seems OK ...but very, very bland. I've spiced it up a bit, by running around as BLM/WHM with Kraken Club and a Tank trust. Every engage, I can hear the Fellow use Provoke or Engage pretty quickly, so I one-shot the mob with a WS or a Nuke and it dies immediately. I'm assuming my fellow still gets the max 400 xp/kill. (Of course, nothing on the screen tells you this. You just get a level up every 15-20 mobs or so.

Can FoV or GoV improve Fellow XP? ...I'll take anything at this point.

Can your fellow gain xp without a tactics pearl?

In any case it's old school xp-ing. Grind out whatever mobs he can get xp on. Should get a message on how much xp your fellow gets, depending on filters. There are also genkai quests for the fellow.

I remember there is some limit to kills per pearl,right?

Once you get a tactics pearl, things will go faster. Really just a matter of putting in the daily kills / talking to them each day.

This is correct - there is a limit to kills per summon. (Used to start at 50 and go up to 100, nobody knows anymore because they patched it higher long after anyone cared but it felt like doubled, start at 100 go up to 200 for me maybe? FFXIclopedia says "start at > 90, end at 200" so that fits my vibes data.)

The Promvyion quest that rewards the Tactics Pearl also gives some XP to the Fellow directly on completion. I don't think there's any other way to level them without kills - kills also generate Fellow Points, which you can use to buy Fellow-targeted Miratete's Memoirs for 10k Fellow Points each (for perspective, I bought the relevant permanent buffs from https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Ajahkeem and have my Fellow at max level and I have 6.2 million extra Fellow Points, so it's not meaningless, but it's mostly "too late to matter"), but you have to kill stuff to get those points, so.

I found out as a result of these posts that my fellow is merely level 96, so now I will rectify this. Leveling them up is so much easier than it used to be with the 6 hour signal recast and trusts.

It looks like I already bought everything I could using fellow points.

I don't have much hope that this stuff matters for mastery Rank, but I will report back!

Given how extremely you used the system, have you found a use for fellows in 2025? They seem like worse healers than trusts, with the advantage that they can cast when you haven't engaged. My memory is that they're also bad DDs, but clearly I never saw them in their ilevel glory if mine was only 96 (now 98).

Edit: nevermind, looks like they juiced the fellow points too. I got 500k from a single 200-kill session when I only had 300k from all the leveling I did before. bgwiki notes it is based on the xp you (the player) get while killing with the fellow, so it makes sense that it jumped way up.

Edit2: holy ***, 50 charges for a Tactics Pearl is crazy. Wasn't it originally 5?

Edit 3: I'm capped now. They're super easy to level atm, to the point that it's probably going to be annoying. I imagine the compatibility upgrades and level cap quests are going to be the terrible part for people who haven't done them yet. Go kill 200 Apex monsters with them and you can probably buy every item in the fellow point store. As soon as you get a Tactics Pearl, it's basically not time-gated content anymore.

Haha, your edits covered basically everything I had to say - all these numbers are buffed from 2006. Like buffed by a factor of 10+ (Tactics Pearls were originally 4 uses, not even 5 - there's still an image of the old item over on the ffxiclopedia page for them.) I got the 6.2 million points just by leveling from 30-99 (to be fair, without paying attention - I likely overkilled at cap because I wasn't looking for the ding. I liked Gustav Tunnel a lot, those little adamantoises/giant worms go up to level 102 and it's an area nobody else tends to be.)

The time gate is bond levels / getting the Tactics Pearl to begin with. If you're diligent about checking in daily in Ru'Lude at the Rendezvous Point you can build the bond up to the 30 cap in advance of doing anything else, but the 30/50/70/90 caps are gated by the Fellow questline.

Unrelated: What do the abyssites (Kismet/Prosperity/Destiny) that say "bearer will experience greater fortune with [X type] of pyxis" actually do? They're not a buff to light upon zoning in (still entering with 0) - BG says "Certain Abyssites (listed in the above table) will occasionally cause a chest to be a stronger than it would be normally.", so is it just "tiering up" the chests (get more cruor on destroy / bigger effects / the big Amber Pyxis that can have NM pop KIs etc) in them, or is there more to it?

As far as I know they give you the better chest at lower light values if you killed / had hate on the mob. Not sure the exact threshold, but the one with the amber ones is pretty obvious. You can start getting large ambers having all those with pretty low amber.

Out of curiosity, if I wanted to get a FES key in the window before jp midnight and after starlight celebration starts tomorrow, which of the listed events would be the fastest, assuming I get existing rewards out of storage to force the key?