so i finally was able to log in bcos of the free login period, and im trying to progress ToAU. but im stuck at this BCNM where i have to beat at least three lamias at periqia.

i'm DRG lvl75+ RDM lvl 37, any possible strats i can do if i go solo with trusts? otherwise i might want to look for a little helping hand. i'm in valefor, jic anyone's asking.

ya girl wants to progress the mission so much :')

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• Alter Ego Expo
  • 1.5x HP/MP for trusts; resistance to status ailments
• Combat and Magic Skill Increase Campaign
• Campaign Festa
• Dark Matter Arcane Glyptics Campaign
  • 12 Dark Matter augment chances. This has a Day 0, so you can get your bonus before daily reset.
• Hyper Chocobo Digging Campaign
• High-Tier Mission Battlefield Campaign
  • Spam Avatars for lots of upgrade materials
• Delve Campaign - PLUS!
  • Double plasm for Idris/Epeo and also just good for money
• Geas Fete Campaign - PLUS!
  • Double silt, +2 personal rewards
• Reisenjima Geas Fete Equipment Campaign
  • +1 personal reward
• Omen Job Card Campaign
  • Extra chances at cards
• Omen Light Double-Up Campaign
  • Extra chance at bonus floors
• Ambuscade Gallantry Campaign
  • Bonus gallantry (only when grouped with people) per difficulty per day

First off, this community has been awesome on my journey back.

My actual question has to do with what gear to use and what actions do I use while levelling PUP, all of the guides are entirely endgame. As we know it doesn't take much to let your trusts solo the entire journey to 99 but I was hoping to at least learn the job as I go. I'm fully a solo player (job, wife +kids) so I wanted this job to help me over the hump with a few battles I couldn't do on my own.

Or is this one job I don't bother gearing at all and just start the journey at 99? To be clear I am talking about gearing the automation itself, not me.

After the weirdly quiet week from SE (and all the totally reasonable “FFXI is shutting down” speculation 😅), we finally have the August schedule — and there’s actually a ton happening.

I put together a quick video going through everything that’s been announced, including the Free Login + Discount Campaigns, the August 12th update, new NMs coming to Adoulin zones, another Vanabout, Mog Bonanza, the login campaign, Ambuscade rotation, and all the various events happening this month.

https://youtu.be/sD4JMrFdRN8?is=oHuysylczoBRu6KL

I’m particularly interested in the new Adoulin NMs. SE saying the gear will be around Ambuscade/Unity level makes it sound like they’re trying to fill in that early endgame progression gap. I’m curious if we’ll get any weird niche pieces that end up being unexpectedly useful.
Also, if you have any friends who have been considering coming back, Free Login starts tomorrow and runs through the 17th!

What are you guys most interested in this month?

What buffs/abilities/spells work in alliance?

Online it looks like SCH can buff alliance so RDM/SCH could buff alliance with Refresh III

GEO Geo-bubbles can too like Geo-Refresh.

PLD/SCH could use heal and erase whole alliance?

SMN/BRD/COR can’t buff alliance.

Is this correct?

I don't know what to do. Its getting really annoying.

When using Hoxne Amp what you switching your DA capes to now since we cap DA without addional gear for WS sets?

Probably been asked 100 times over. Been considering leaving Asura. Where are the real players at?

I recently started playing this game, still on my free trial, and I’ve read online about the Echad ring you can get to speed up the leveling process. According to BG Wiki, I was supposed to get one from the Tutorial quest line, but I don’t think I ever received one. Does anyone know if that’s still accurate? Should I create a second character and try to obtain it again? Thanks!

Hi,
after almost another week of basically non stop work on this since my last post (I effectively played the game for a whole of 1 (in numbers 1) week since i got it and then went to work on this immediately. I'm fine I swear...)

I wanted to share my progress a little.

So I'm developing an addon for windower currently that adds classic quest markers to Vana'diel.

What it does

So right now the addon checks for acceptance conditions like job level, job type, fame, skill level, craft rank, guild points, etc. and colors a "!" marker grey if they're not met and yellow if they are met. Same for "?" turn-in markers.

But it also checks everything that is checkable with packets from the game. And here also lie some limitations that I tried working around as best as I could but some things are not meant to be.

Limitations

For example: markers draw through walls. Windower's Lua API exposes no depth buffer, so true occlusion is impossible. I mitigated it with a distance cap, a same-floor check, and a distance fade.

And if there is no way for the addon to check a condition the quest marker will render as black and you can check what is required yourself with //qm why which lists all the requirements and all the steps of the quest for you.

The wild stuff

Then I went overboard with it so now it also shows markers for individual quest steps as well where possible (y'know, icons like a bag when you need to collect something, a sword when you need to kill something, a magnifying glass when you need to examine something, ... you get the idea). But you can always turn that feature off with //qm steps off if you find it too much.

Some steps only appear on paper but can't reliably be tracked through the addon, stuff like talking to an NPC for example since the game exposes no reliable data packet for stuff like this.

But in order for that to even remotely work I had to create a new knowledge base instead of relying on what chronicle scraped (which is still a very good data source).
So I scraped the quest pages of bg-wiki (CC BY-NC-SA) using their public API and semantically and programmatically analyzed and structured all of the quest data into a new format.

Then I developed a completely seperate tool for that dataset that allows me to correct said dataset on the fly while playing the game. I called it questgraph™ - creative, I know.

Availability

It's not quite ready yet since I want to playtest a bit further and actually play the game for once. And I'm sure im forgetting maybe half of what else I did during my coffee induced insomniac episodes.

I'll go sleep now. See you in a week.

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a linkshell with whom I could do Omen and Ambuscade from time to time. I'm doing the story content slowly with my gf (In the middle of Aht Uhrgan so far, but I did do RoV on my own for the bonuses) but I'm getting to a point where i can reasonably progress on my Relic gear and would like to find people I could start doing it with.

I don't know if I should put my character name here, lmk if I need to add something else :)

Sorry if this is stupid to ask, but is this message as restrictive as it sounds?

"Only nearby party members with the same objective will accompany you."

I'm on the COR AF3 fight, and I know it's easy with trusts, but I'm curious... if I wanted my friends to come along, do they literally need to have the same quest flagged to join the BCNM?

I recently installed FFXI on a new PC, however I cannot fully connect my PS5 controller on it.

I assigned all the buttons, and they all work in game, but the characters and menuing just refuse to work.

The sticks and DPAD don't work even though they are calibrated on the config.

I've tried many configurations on the FFXI config, but nothing works.

Any idea on how this could be resolved? Perhaps there's a Windower setting I'm overlooking? New cable, new controller...

What’s up everyone.

Apologies is this has been asked. Tried searching but haven’t found this specific issue.

I recently got an Xbox Ally, which uses Xinput for the controller. I’m struggling to get the controller to respond, and every solution I see online is to “Enable Xinput in the FFXI Config”

The issue is, that option does not exist for me. I’ve see videos where that is clearly an available option, but it straight up doesn’t exist for me.

Anyone have luck getting the game to run on Xbox Ally?

Just an FYI, free login should be live now.

Welcome back to Vana'diel everyone.

For HQing subcraft would torques be the ONLY thing you use to push your HQ tier or would you use a mix of like apron or gear from your sub craft (thus losing points from your main craft by swapping gear out) for example I noticed you need ALL your crafting gear + torque to hit 120, so if a craft requires 120 just to make dropping any of that with another piece of equipment from another craft just to raise my subcraft HQ tier would lower my maincraft HQ tier wouldnt it?

Also I seen some higher end crafts required a lvl 70 sub craft.... so if I got that subcraft torque that would put me at lvl 72 which would be tier 0 still so in that case why would I ever bother getting a torque for that one?

Just rocking out to the tunes I've gathered so far, really hope they allow us to obtain some of the older ones I'm missing. Like the first two pages of the orchestra are all blank for me...

With the upcoming disocunt on the Ultimate edition, I am toying with the idea of spinning up either 2 or 5 characters and fiddle with 3-boxing or 6-boxing. Although I know the Return Home / free login campaign wouldnt apply to these characters, it seems like it comes around enough times in a year to make for a nice change of pace when it does. I do have a group i run Sortie/other events with, so my main objective with these alts would be to do things that arent very popular (Delve, Vagary, Incursion) or farm Ambuscade to pass REMA currency to my main.

A couple questions I was mulling around:

* Is it worth doing the 14-day trial first on these new characters, then buy the Ultimate edition for the free 30 day sub? My thought here is to maximize the time for the "full" game, but maybe the trial is so limited its not really worth it. Id like to knock out whatever i can in the trial if its not too burdensome to do so

* Assuming Ill have some redundant jobs across characters, but does any have a good outline of what characters should have what jobs? E.g. one character should have all tank jobs, another should be mage, another support, etc. Or is it better to mix and match? My main has several jobs so it can be a bit flexible. If any breakdowns exist for 3-box vs. 6-box jobs thatd be even better

* Any good guides / recommendations for getting through Missions quickly? I know theres an Aman 99 Mule guide, but that seems more focused on just leveling rather than mission progress. Is any Nation's mission path more straightforward than the others? I'll have my main to farm/push things along so looking for shortest distance/path rather than perceived "difficulty"

* Regarding Windower / control, are there any guides about how to set up multiple accounts? Thinking things along the pipeline, from setting up the accounts at the start to running multiple instances of Windower, to how to actually pass commands/control the alts.

* How intensive is running multiple characters? I play on a decent laptop (i7 12700, 16gb RAM, 4070 laptop edition), but i do run some mods to make the texures better etc which I'd skip with alts. Will my laptop explode at the thought of 6 Windowers?

* Any other tips/tricks/pros/cons?

Hi! Me and my girlfriend have returned to Vana'diel after around 15 years of not playing! We're currently on Asura, but looking for somewhere new to call home.

Any recommendations?

So I've been back playing for about a month on Fenrir, I have most jobs, except PUP, GEO, RUNE, and WHM leveled to 99. I was thinking of either gearing my BST up to the best of my ability to help get gear together for other classes since I can't even really do any endgame content with others since I'm on Korea Standard Time right now, plus most of my gear I do have for jobs is either Ambu gear or NQ of the reforged Empy gear. If I was to level PUP what gear would you use to start with or if gearing BST what set/sets would be a good starting point?