Character Singing When Trying To Use Bow

I have recently comeback to FFXI Retail and i am playing SAM mainly and have an issue. I use an Orb in amo for TP and made macros for usinf my Yoichi and awhen iuse the /ra <t> wait iwth or without <wait 1> my character sings and no bow animation appears, but if i zone with bow equipped it shows the drawing bow string animation. Howerer if i do this whith my Aurgelmir +1 Oreb she sings. Is there a fix for this?

You are using dress up or similar to lock the appearance of your range/ammo slot. Stop doing that and the bow will appear.

/ra and song animations are driven off the model in that slot. Singing is what you get without a ranged, wind, or string weapon.

On a different note, thats actually prettty funny to swap Shooting Animations with something entirely different like Singing.

Never considered using Dressup for a small giggle like that lol.

i am using dress up to change char race but that's all. my macro is /equipset 17 <wait 1>
/ra <t> <wait 5>

equipset 17 is my racc set for my sam and yoichi and arrows. it only sings when i use DU or if i have bow equiiped before zoning and shoot it doesn't sing. I tried unloading DU in game and it is fine. I have heard i can change my characters dat file using Altana Viewer, but not sure of my character's composition. All i know is that he is a Taru Male with a ponytail.

I had this happen on Ninja and found it hilarious.

I locked it because the blinking from shurikens was annoying me.

Yes this aligns with what Byrth said. Your dressup refreshes on zone, thats why when you zone with bow equipped it works as expected. Its also why dressup keeps your gear on in Salvage: dressup locks your visible model before the pathos effects kickin and strip you down.

The ranged slot isnt visible, but its still in memory for the purpose of character actions.

Be glad theres a default singing animation otherwise the game would probably crash trying to do a ranged attack with no ranged weapon in memory to use.

If you want to not have the singing, you need to alter dressup to allow blinking, or idle in your bow and arrows so theyre always equipped when you zone.


WAIT
Why are you swapping ranged and ammo?? I get tp gain is snappy in 2024, but that still resets tp.

i can't shoot a bow with no arrows, sometimes i like to use namas arrow and need to remove orb in ammo slot for arrows

You cant equip Yoichi and Aurgelmr at the same time tho.

To make what Nynja is saying more explicit:

If you are using an orb (nothing can be equipped in the ranged slot) and swap to Yoichi+Arrows, you reset your TP to 0.

If you are using Yoichi+Arrows and swap ammo to Orb, Yoichi automatically unequips and you reset your TP to 0.


Thus, it is very unusual to swap between bow&arrow and orb unless you are doing it for pulling or something.

that is what i am saying, i remove the orb to equip the bow and its arrows

You should probably just use the normal in-game lock style. It will behave the way you expect in this situation.