November 2021 Version Update

Well safe to say its one of the most impactful updates in a while lol. Will be interesting to play around with new things once we reach the cap and get more things from sub job.

I think it's just the job you're on, same as killing the boss before was just the job you got the kill on. When I did it I got the countdown message on a character that did not have +3 slot on that job and not on another character that did (but that needs it on other jobs).

Something major must be in the pipeline if they’re letting us power up this much…

yeah, them shutting down the servers and saying, "goodbye, it's an offline game now so we made you strong enough to solo whatever. Deal with it."

Either that, or it's more progression toward the inevitable day where they stop adding new things, there's less people to play with, and the increased power becomes mandatory to solo/duo everything.

(:

New expansion!

Bigger numbers and better survivability for DD/drg is cool and all, but that's already part of the meta. Letting mage jobs access Foil, Embolden, and a third rune is gonna be one hell of a wild ride.

Anyone checked what will /drk bring too ?

A tiny bit of extra atk with attack bonus III.... and that's it

RIP DRG

RDM will have access to what, a 12 min or so foil, theoretically?

This will end up being like the FFX Sphere Grid. Where if you spend enough time and effort, you can have access to all abilities and spells on all the characters at the same time. Be able to do a solo 99,999 WS > 99,999 WS + 99,999 SC, followed by a 99,999 MB Fire 6, followed by a 1700 HP Cure 6 with Cureskin

Nice to see they are still taking care of the PS2 players that had broken disc drives and couldn't/wouldn't install anything passed CoP.

Isn't it all PC now though? Is your install on PC still tied to whatever you had unlocked when you were on PS2? Jesus. Going out of their way to keep those old JP sticks-in-the-mud that would never pay for upgrading passed CoP on their SquareEnix account, if so.

(This goes back to my understanding that at the point of abyssea's initial release, they had added higher level monsters to Promyvion zones for the explicit reason that there were PS2 players with broken disc drives or people that would never buy new expansions and needed somewhere to exp after level cap was raised 76+).

Those players take "classic LV75 server" to the extreme if so.

Edit/clarification: I was under the understanding that it was more of a Japanese issue than any other language client. Something about how most FFXI JP players (or many/enough) would only play on PS2 are were real hold-outs about "CoP era and nothing else exists passed it". Hell, I guess even if it were just a single player that wouldn't upgrade, then they would have to make camps for them. I would think the numbers like this are very low, but then again... what happens on backwater servers stays on backwater servers.

Welcome to exactly how I felt when WHM (or any job I guess) couldn't /SCH Accession Haste to make Hastega at 80 Main and 40 /SCH sub.

It's not about the duration, it's about the recast.

WHM is my favorite tank.

The drop rate of the scales in Omen is actually decent if you use THF.



I got 13 Scales with 4 canteen KIs on THF with TH8-9 on my AoE set
and countless sacred kindred's crests and stones but i don't want them =_=


Edit:
Now I don't need to run Omen for at least 2 months because I don't have any gil at all to upgrade 13 pieces of AFs to +3...(´▽｀)



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Everytime a scale dropped I took a screenshot and posted on twitter if anyone wants to confirm it(forgot to take one scale drop on the second run)
twitter post link

Inshallah

butwhy.gif, who neeeeeds all these scales

Wonder if scales share drop slot with Astral Detritus or if it's an additional slot.
If it's the former then SE guys are really evil xD

I think I'll play again in May, give this time to build out and wait for the anniversary thing.

That's still not entirely clear. Might mean that you only need 100 kills on a job, in any Divergence zone, to unlock the ability to reforge all 5 slots from +2 to +3 - but could still require entering each zone on that job (like the +2 requirement), even if you don't need to redo the 100 kills step.

Someone (not me, I already unlocked all my jobs) should also check whether it's retroactive - i.e., if you went into Bastok but never cleared wave 1 on that job, then got the job unlock in some other zone... does that mean you can upgrade hands to +3?

idk I never had a problem with it, and it gave an incentive to do the NMs... now theres really no incentive unless you need gear. Seems like a silly change and dumb

Sorry you aren't allowed

It was to stop people from "having to" pay mercs for scales. remember?

Also, means people can always farm detritus/cards/solo and never "have to" fight the bosses again.

Disincentivizing merc culture. Whether anyone agrees it's a good or bad idea.

Probably to promote regular group card farming?

For Voracious Resurgence mission 5-1...

1) Anyone have a better setup than fly lure to catch hoptoads? I have 110 fishing, Ebisu +1 and Lu+1. Tried both rods a couple dozen times each with fly lures (as noted on wiki page), and a handful of shrimp lure casts too. Reisenjima rivers (mostly the eastern one between #5 and #6, but a few tries in the western part of the zone too). Haven't had a single catch yet. Is it just this low of a rate for everyone, or maybe a better bait/location?

Just grabbed some various other bait now from the guild (meatball, insect paste, little worms, worm lure, sabiki rig) to see if anything else does better...

2) For Eastern Ginger, couple tips for easier ways to get them than hoping for gold boxes in Reisenjima:
a) If you have any Chocobucks (check Currencies 1 menu), can buy them for 3 bucks each.
b) Bhalflau Thickets harvesting is a pretty good rate. I got my 2 there, took only 3 harvesting points and a dozen or so harvesting attempts.

Automaton skill is displayed as current level/max level right?(I honestly don't remember) >.>;