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By Moonlightagb 2024-12-03 19:12:46
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Bismarck.Rosalee said: »
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Also, in the name of progress, I have finished all Monstrosity Birds to 99 and have started in on Aquans.
Gotta go fast, this Ambuscade's rotating next week and wow is it ever good. Got everything I've got to 30 and taking some stuff beyond and it's gonna be like night and day compared to the chain exp campaign that won't ever kick in.

Yeah, the chain campaign just really sucks. I'm on monster #51 though, so at some point another double xp campaign should roll around and I can finish up.

Doesn't the base exp get doubled during the "chain exp campaign" anyway even at chain 0 very first mob? It doesn't say that on the wiki or event description but I've always used that for spamming Easy Prey mobs in Bubur for Monstrosity unless my memory is wrong?
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By Bismarck.Rosalee 2024-12-03 19:49:54
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You're probably right, I wasn't reading into it very well. I'm just salty I never chain though since I too am spamming EP's for XPs. Wish they slapped the plus on it for the extra dedication though.
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-06 13:40:04
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And like really not maxed, Grauberg's last quests are at fame rank 3 of 6. And specifically Grauberg sucks to grind, because your choices are Harvesting Points or kill wyverns -> give Wing to Cornelia -> zone, repeat, and cutting out zoning by doing Dominion Ops instead would be really nice. (But it looks like they don't? Or not much at least?)
I'm sure this no longer applies to you but I finished Grauberg recently and as mentioned, by far the best way is to leave a multi-boxed thf at wyverns and spam the wing quest. I also did a rotation of the goblin item quest, the egg quest, the wyvern wing quest since they're roughly in the same area. I'd hit up any harvesting points I saw as well for the chocobo quest. The Teekesselchen quest wasn't too bad to add into the rotation since you have to go there to complete the egg quest anyway.

Anyway Grauberg is a silly place designed by jerks and I'm convinced something's wrong with the fame in that zone.
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By LightningHelix 2024-12-06 17:41:05
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Bismarck.Rosalee said: »
You're probably right, I wasn't reading into it very well. I'm just salty I never chain though since I too am spamming EP's for XPs. Wish they slapped the plus on it for the extra dedication though.
Oh if it does double base EXP that'll be lit, complaint retracted! I thought that was the other campaign they didn't run anymore. Was misled by the wiki page:
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Chain Monstrosity Bonus Campaign

When this Monthly Adventurer Campaign is active, players earn double to triple the normal amount of Experience Points from monsters when they earn a chain kill.
Depending on the number of chains, Experience Points earned accumulates at double to triple the normal rate.
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Anyway Grauberg is a silly place designed by jerks and I'm convinced something's wrong with the fame in that zone.
Yeah! And yes I did get it done with wyvern wings nonstop but sheesh, it's excessive.
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-20 02:14:05
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So this happened a lot sooner than expected. I also thought it would actually show up in the chatlog but if it did I couldn't find it. I believe it occurred while I was doing Monstrosity, just leveling Eft from 50 to 60 and Rabbit to 30. I have three 99's already.

I'm missing a ton of titles including a lot of easy ones from quests (see spoiler). I haven't read every post but I think 926 titles might be the lowest amount I've seen (I'm counting 1098 total titles and I'm missing 172). No doubt missing a ton of quests since I haven't even started tracking them seriously. I think high playtime might've played a role. Don't turn off your pc when you go to bed, kids. I also did a lot of the content when it was relevant so there wasn't much I missed. Some of my standout titles are Venerated Adventurer (Vana'bout), Sandworm (thanks for the maintenance tips Byrth), Yilbegan (did this when it was relevant), Maze Overlord (we got a good head start spamming marbles doing level 1 mazes before they patched it).

Let me know if there's anything information I can provide that might be useful to others. Big thanks to everyone who's contributed to this thread, I especially appreciated the Abyssea, Monstrosity, and Chocobo information. I hope a real Ballista fanatic comes along someday to lay down the info.

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By LightningHelix 2024-12-20 06:48:07
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Congrats on 8!

also lol at you having Yilbegan Hideflayer and not Zeruhn Sweeper which is literally "turn in 3 zeruhn soot to a npc" (there's always one on a list that is the "funniest" one)

Did you unlock a species in that session? Tiger is Rabbit level 30 I think, so it might literally be "species unlocked" then? Or "mementos possessed", obviously, since you also got Eft II.
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-20 08:21:18
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LightningHelix said: »
Congrats on 8!

also lol at you having Yilbegan Hideflayer and not Zeruhn Sweeper which is literally "turn in 3 zeruhn soot to a npc" (there's always one on a list that is the "funniest" one)

Did you unlock a species in that session? Tiger is Rabbit level 30 I think, so it might literally be "species unlocked" then? Or "mementos possessed", obviously, since you also got Eft II.
Yeah when you are completing titles in alphabetical order... To answer the second question, yes I unlocked Tiger that session. Although I also unlocked and played as the Onyx Rabbit otw to Rabbit 30. Definitely need to be doing some Monstrosity along the way, although I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of it.

Also prior to that monstrosity session, I did do 500 JP on THF (to about 1000/2100 JP) with the JP still unspent as well as a chocobo digging session with no level up. I'm usually pretty good about doing a quick Mastery check every so often so it's most likely the Monstrosity triggered the level up.
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By Lakshmi.Avereith 2024-12-20 08:41:46
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Congrats on joining the rank 8 club!

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By LightningHelix 2024-12-22 05:35:20
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In case anyone was wondering, the Monstrosity Chain Campaign does double base exp - better than last month's ambuscade for the 30 cap Buburimu Peninsula farming strat. Just so people know!
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2024-12-22 19:11:08
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Without digging through the somewhat 50 pages;

What would the best resources be for just starting the project of "Get rank 7/8" be? I understand Titles is a large portion of the grind. Is there a guide to looking each one up? is there some google doc/spreadsheet checklist type thing that people use and/or can share?

Is there a list of High priority and Low priority 'accomplisments' to aim for 1st? Like for example; Go do Monstrosity 3-5x lv 99s (or x amount of species unlocked?) VS get Atma of the Savior. One may be worth More than the other

Im sure its not all known for certain and it's all arbitrary, but curious if you all who went through the journey had tips/tricks and "Avoid wasting your time with this until absolutely necessary" type anecdotes
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By Asura.Eiryl 2024-12-22 19:17:52
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The node I made, how to get every title, If you get every title you'll max out. Or be damn close.
How to get every title
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2024-12-22 19:23:54
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Asura.Eiryl said: »
The node I made, how to get every title, If you get every title you'll max out. Or be damn close.
How to get every title


Thanks, that's actually very helpful. Given how from what I've read, most players have been just going down the checklist and stumbling on a rank up, its not really determined how much 'weight' each titles/activity holds yet? Or are their certain ones that are a given and should be done first on the journey
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By Asura.Eiryl 2024-12-22 19:39:41
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I only managed to get to rank 5 before they banned the account I was doing my testing on.

I couldn't really determine any weight to each thing. It just made sense to do the thing that took the least time.

So like do fast quests while you're motivated. Afk near HMM to find tods while not playing. Focus on thing that given tangible "points" before doing things that may count like campaign ops, monstrosity species etc

Mostly common sense, get home points, way points, survival guides before you try getting a 3 day spawn HNM. Get job master during campaigns. (master levels presumably don't count, other than raising your combat and magic skills which do count) Finish storylines. Avoid ridiculous ***like ride the airship 1000 times, kill 1000 monsters in the mog garden, "brown magic" (without a lua)
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2024-12-22 19:57:51
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Asura.Eiryl said: »
I only managed to get to rank 5 before they banned the account I was doing my testing on.

I couldn't really determine any weight to each thing. It just made sense to do the thing that took the least time.

So like do fast quests while you're motivated. Afk near HMM to find tods while not playing. Focus on thing that given tangible "points" before doing things that may count like campaign ops, monstrosity species etc

On that note; any recommmendation for getting Sandworm?... seems like the most nightmarish old school HNM to encounter, with 7+ zones to scour, and only 1 hr window he's up. Does it change zones after the 1hr? or does it de-spawn and then you have to wait another 20+hrs.
Even using something like AllSeeingEye to see where he was last, it's a nightmare to stumble on his pop without multiple characters. Maybe I'll try to team up with some people.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2024-12-22 20:01:40
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Team up and/or pay people to help you. Sandworm is really irritating. You can't reliably guess spawn cause it despawns. It's absolutely the worst.

I hear there's still functional tools that can aid in detection, but not familiar enough with them (not allseeingeye)
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2024-12-22 21:19:27
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Valefor.Philemon said: »
Sandworm (thanks for the maintenance tips Byrth)

Maybe ask Philemon. I can't remember what my tip was.

If you were using allseeingeye, one extreme option is:
1. Find the corpse/phantom of sandworm in every zone it can spawn in and record the location.
2. Return to the locations in a few hours (you need to zone to clear the old corpse/phantom) and see if it has moved. If so, you've narrowed the despawn time to be between the two times you checked.

If you imagine doing this at 6PM and 10PM each night, you have about a 25% chance of a hit and then you'll know sandworm will respawn between 3PM and 10PM the next night. The first run to find the corpses will be terrible, but after that it'll be pretty easy because only one moves each day.

The server sends NPC update information about dead/despawned monsters to your client just like living monsters, so you get the new info as soon as you're within 50 yalms of where it died or despawned. Thus, if you find its corpse but it isn't there when you come back, it is either up in the zone or has died/despawned since the last time you looked for it.


Alternatively, just widescan the zones randomly. You have about a 5% chance of getting it if you scan all zones.
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-22 21:50:49
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My advice would be do almost anything but camp Sandworm. Why do this to yourself right off the bat? There're dozens and dozens of things you can do that (probably) count the same. Why do the one that takes up to 5 hours at a time? If Rank 8 is the goal I don't see any reason to put any effort into it at all.

If the kill and title is important to you on its own, I'll say I had a good chance finding it up in the hour after updates (that was Byrth's tip). That's literally the only time I would ever bother looking for it if I didn't have the ToD. There are seven zones to cover and it likes to spawn at the edges of the zones. You need RNG to widescan for it; it spawns at the bottom of the regular mobs, right before any campaign mobs. If you have one character, you can cover all 7 zones completely, with about 10 minutes of leeway per hour.

I haven't camped it extensively, but I did get it something like 5 times in a row a couple months ago. I've had it spawn pretty late in the 5 hour window, which sucked. Conversely, the nature of the 21-hour respawn means that the ToD can easily move out of your playtime and it's not something that will still be up and wandering about when you're ready to play. I've never seen it despawn, but I've only camped it when I knew it would spawn in the evening when I'd be online.

So yeah, good luck with that. Lambton Worm is still on my bucket list. If you can find people to team up with then that should really help.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2024-12-22 22:24:14
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Waiting for maint would be a great tip, if the damn maint wasn't always ending at 1-3 am (if you're NA) Really makes it unreasonable.

It really wouldnt matter if the damn thing didn't despawn. AND that it has nm's within the nm you need for secondary titles so you have to be willing to wreck your sleep for a week+ to do it.
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-22 22:29:56
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Yes it's true that SE has has a penchant for scheduling updates late in the evening, often during everyone's favorite ROE.
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Speaking of NMs I don't have the title for - Cemetery Cherry? Did they move it or do the Saplings still spawn where the Apex are? I guess I could test that with scanzone giving me coordinates for the corpses or ASE or something but I'm sure someone here knows without me having to learn a bunch of stuff.

(btw scanzone can get you coordinates for corpses from anywhere in a zone - saves you having to actually run to where Sandworm was last)
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2024-12-23 04:19:34
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Valefor.Philemon said: »
My advice would be do almost anything but camp Sandworm. Why do this to yourself right off the bat? There're dozens and dozens of things you can do that (probably) count the same. Why do the one that takes up to 5 hours at a time? If Rank 8 is the goal I don't see any reason to put any effort into it at all.

If the kill and title is important to you on its own, I'll say I had a good chance finding it up in the hour after updates (that was Byrth's tip). That's literally the only time I would ever bother looking for it if I didn't have the ToD. There are seven zones to cover and it likes to spawn at the edges of the zones. You need RNG to widescan for it; it spawns at the bottom of the regular mobs, right before any campaign mobs. If you have one character, you can cover all 7 zones completely, with about 10 minutes of leeway per hour.

I haven't camped it extensively, but I did get it something like 5 times in a row a couple months ago. I've had it spawn pretty late in the 5 hour window, which sucked. Conversely, the nature of the 21-hour respawn means that the ToD can easily move out of your playtime and it's not something that will still be up and wandering about when you're ready to play. I've never seen it despawn, but I've only camped it when I knew it would spawn in the evening when I'd be online.

So yeah, good luck with that. Lambton Worm is still on my bucket list. If you can find people to team up with then that should really help.

I only brought it up because I'm pretty sure I have all other old HNM titles, I just know for a fact I dont have that one. I'll def do easier stuff 1st, but if it comes down to it i'm curious how people manage to deal with it. As I thought it seems like a real pain in the butt
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By Odin.Bangla 2024-12-23 04:45:27
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The spawn for Cemetery Cherry was not moved. The saplings spawn among the Apex Beetles.
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By Lakshmi.Avereith 2024-12-23 07:59:37
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I don't play anymore so I'll be honest, I hardcore cheated to get sandworm/Lambton worm, oops

If you don't want to cheat, it's going to be miserable unless you get lucky. It's not really meant to be a single player endeavor

There's what.... 9 zones it can spawn in? And its only up for like an hour if not killed or something like that?

I did scanzone tricks that I can't remember to determine if it had popped in zone, maybe I was see if pos changed compared to corpse, or maybe live one had different id than corpse. Can't remember exactly how, but if it popped I rang out max volume <call>s of whatever the loudest one was. Almost thought one using some sort of interaction to alert me on discord but that was way too much trouble. Think I stayed in zone for 5 minutes at a time and then kept rotating between book warps.

Each zone has a book warp so at least that's a plus even if you don't want to cheat or automate.

Think it took me 5 or so sandworms to see Lambton, though might have been more.

And allll of that nonsense, and any other useful thing I made in my relentless search to get titles is all lost to time in my non-functional desktop pc. Bye bye ffxi stash of trash.
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Odin.Bangla said: »
The spawn for Cemetery Cherry was not moved. The saplings spawn among the Apex Beetles.
RIP, might wanna move off Asura if I really seriously want that one huh?

(I'm not doing that. lol.)
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By Valefor.Philemon 2024-12-23 10:10:37
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I only brought it up because I'm pretty sure I have all other old HNM titles, I just know for a fact I dont have that one. I'll def do easier stuff 1st, but if it comes down to it i'm curious how people manage to deal with it. As I thought it seems like a real pain in the butt
No worries. I think collecting every NM title in the game is a worthy endeavor on its own so Sandworm's definitely something you'll want to circle back to.

If you haven't completed every RoE I think that's a great first step. There are a lot of quests that take many days like the Lu Shang +1 or the Aht Urhgan photo quest. There are also quests that are once a week like the beastman helm quests, Odin quest, or escort/eco-warrior quests.
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2024-12-23 10:26:00
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Lakshmi.Avereith said: »
And allll of that nonsense, and any other useful thing I made in my relentless search to get titles is all lost to time in my non-functional desktop pc. Bye bye ffxi stash of trash.

You'll come back one day... They always do. Us Garuda folk gotta stay strong
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By Bismarck.Rosalee 2024-12-24 14:46:56
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I wish they WOULD make a new server so I can do those Courier's Coalition assignments that I missed bc I had to deal with some family drama.

Also: 5 mons to go!
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What's the better stat to stack for Buburimu Peninsula Monstrosity for the monsters that can't be BLM - STR or ATK?

...and also I guess are the ones that can be RDM strong enough with "only" +35 lightning affinity from instincts that spamming Thunder instead is optimal?
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I vaguely remember being attack capped, so multi attack, crit, crit damage, haste, and STR are probably the play. It doesn't matter too much, though, because you have to run around and engage anyway. It takes ~2 attacks or so to kill the monsters. Multiattack makes it more likely you will have that happen in one round vs. two.

You can still use stone + engage for those monsters that can just to pull, which saves you chasing monsters.
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By Bismarck.Rosalee 2024-12-28 20:06:34
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I used a pretty hamfisted setup:

Tiger 3
Behemoth 3
Behemoth 2
Gnole 3
Chigoe 2
Raptor 2
Raptor 1
Hippogryph 3


Now I have no more monsters to level!

Also new progress:
Mog Gardener
Finished Steel Resolve IV (W)
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