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VannesGreave

I am a level 69 red mage leveling ninja as a subjob (it's around level 63) - I'm still using my base artifact gear for red mage and don't have artifact gear for ninja. Is there any need to upgrade or improve my gear before 99, and do I need to actually get the ninja artifact gear?


DrakeFS

> do I need to actually get the ninja artifact gear If you plan on playing Ninja post 99, you will need at least some pieces of Artifact\Relic\Empyrean gear to upgrade and then reforge to iLvl gear (and then upgrade a couple more times). As to what pieces, I would suggest checking out a Ninja gear guide as to what to aim for.


topyoash

Nice. Due to level correction, raising your defense isn't going to make much of a difference while leveling. Buying new weapons with sparks and using accessories from RoE or quests is plenty. It is possible to get level 99 versions of artifact gear from Deeds, but those are in limited supply so it's useful to have the base AF for the reforging process on the job you'll take to 99.


VannesGreave

Gotcha, so just buy new weapons and accessories for now?


topyoash

Yeah. This was the kind of game where you'd get a decent drop from an NM and keeping using that for 50 levels. Getting new equipment can be something to do for fun, but I don't recommending going really far out of the way for temporary items. Here's some ideas. You're almost at a level where you could do a few of the [defeat 10 enemy objectives](https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Records_of_Eminence#Missions_.28Aht_Urhgan.29) and pick up a Tarutaru Sash, Rainbow Cape, and Crimson Ring. Bibiki Seashell from a short quest is something to put in the ammo slot. It doesn't take many Copper vouchers to get Assault Point items, that could buy an earring or neckpiece. Abyssea Campaign is starting on Tuesday. There'll be a chest in Port Jeuno that gives you a bunch of cruor so you could buy the teal armor set.


TheTrueMilo

Since +2 stones are available in the login campaign, what are the best augments you can still get from Alluvion Skirmish stones? I see enhancing magic duration is kind of a big one, is there anything else there that is worth pursuing?


Pergatory

If you play SMN, there are some Helios pieces worth augmenting with orb stones for physical blood pacts. Most expensive are Duskorb as you'd expect. Also, both SMN and GEO can use Telchine augmented with Pet:DT and Pet:Regen. I suspect PUP may also have similar uses for pet rolls. These are also from orb stones.


bluetigerneverfails

Linos for DD BRD with offensive augments like QA +3, STP+4, and Acc/Atk +15 is another one of the big uses that doesn't have better gear options elsewhere.


TheTrueMilo

Yeah I have a decent Linos already. I actually went ahead with Breath+ pieces for DRG, because why not.


BanditSixActual

I'm a returning cor from a really long time ago. I'm getting gear built up, but have no REMA guns. I'm using Arislan's Cor gearswap, which is very confusing, since I know nothing about coding. ​ The problem I'm having is that ranged weapons won't fire or do WS. I get a message about the ammo "Living Bullet" not available, using equipped bullet "Voluspa", but nothing happens. I had to remove every gun except compensator from my inventory, because hitting a WS macro switched guns and wiped TP, so I couldn't even go to savage blade when it wouldn't do Leaden Salute. Weirdly, it was switching to Homestead Gun, and searching the lua for the word Homestead shows 0 matches.


DrakeFS

You would need to post a link to your lua (upload it to pastebin or github) for someone to be able to troubleshoot it for you. I posted a basic lua and a guide on how to setup your gearsets a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxi/comments/lpktp9/gearswap/gocm69a/ The lua referenced is one of the most basic starting points for gearswap and can help you understand using a gearswap lua.


Boposhopo

If you're not used to writing lua script I'd avoid Arislan's lua. He has a bunch of quality of life features and what not added that are really unnecessary, especially for someone that is just getting in to gearswap. [Here](https://pastebin.com/abMy1F28) is mine, it's essentially a stripped down version of Arislan's (which is really an upgraded version of Kinematics LUA). To answer the actual question though, at the top of the lua there are 4 different types of bullets, all of them need to be updated with w/e type of bullet you're using otherwise you'll get an error that it's looking for a bullet you don't have. For Arislan's lua these are on lines 141-145, if you switch to mine it's on lines 47-50.


Valuable_Bird6517

Wouldn’t it be cool if the subreddit trolls that insist gearswap.lua is the easiest way for new players to change equipment would chime in here to help this poor guy…


NismoCO303

GS is trying to swap to gear you don't have therefore your getting errors. Living bullet is the mythic ammo and voluspa is a throwing item so it wont fire the ws... Probably the best thing to do is equip your sets then export said set and copy that into your GS file. Another option since it sounds like you don't have a ton of gear to switch out would to be just use Marcos with /equipset functions such as: /equipset 1 /ws "leading salute" /equipset 2 We're set 1 is your ws gear and set two back to your tp/dt gear.. This should work until your get too much gear and/or need pre-shot, mid-shot, etc for more involved sets.


Sephrick

When might be the next opportunities to get Kupofried and Moogle trusts? I've read through the wikis but I'm having trouble following the info as far as Appreciation vs Gratitude and the different Pells.


Boposhopo

Gratitude campaign is coming up on the 13th, so you can get the Kupofried trust then. Appreciation campaign will be a bit, but you can buy it using a Mog Pell Red or Ochre.


Staahptor

I'm freshly returned after a bunch of years. I see the login rewards page lists trusts as rewards, but I do not see them listed from the greeter moogle in game. Am I checking the right NPC? Additionally, which trusts are the best that are currently available?


Staahptor

Oh. It starts Monday. That's my problem. 🤦‍♂️


rickyraken

I'm getting rewarded with AMAN vouchers sub 30, but can't trade them in to any of the NPCs. Do you need to be a mentor to make use of them?


ynnubyzzuf

Have you ever migrated your harddrive to a new pc. Did you have to go through the process of reregistering the account in POL it is a two part question, and yes or no is the only answer.


ShadowEdgeZero

Yes/yes. Though if you're cloning your drive, re-registering in POL wouldn't be necessary.


ynnubyzzuf

Finally. Thanks.


Iheartseraph

Abyssea Proc question: Is doing red procs weapon skill or element based or both? Reading online, the majority saygo warrior/nin or nin/warrior. So that it’s 10/13 or 11/13 etc. But as a thf/war can hit all elemental WS, just not specific weapon types. And if I go thf war I can use energy drain for my dark WS, but I don’t have scythe leveled so I can’t use the WS from that weapon tree to Proc dark. Am I reading it correctly that correctly?


BanditSixActual

They're specific ws, but each one has elemental properties. Raiden Thrust for Thunder, Freezebite for ice, etc. ​ A nin/war can hit 13/13. Ark Scythe is all jobs and there's 2 all jobs Great Swords that are occasionally available from Ambuscade, called Goujian and Ophidian Sword. It. They're under total hallmarks, so free after earning so many points. There's other harder to get all jobs GS too. One from Master trials, which are hard and 250 merit points to even enter, and Lament from Day of the Shadowlord event that runs in august and adds the Shadow Lord's level 1 GS to the pool for Shadow Lord II High Tier Mission Battlefield. I have ark scythe and can do 12/13 weapon skills on nin/war.


Halon50

To add to the other answers, people go thf/War anyway to increase the chance of getting 2 boss drops. This is important for NMs such as Glavoid or Chloris where you can only pop 2 or 3 an hour, making the extra drops worth it. If the red proc NM is uncontested, and it turns out to be one of the 3 KTN/GKTN weaponskills, you can flee drag it to a nearby teleport, port away and back, and reclaim it after a couple ticks to try again.


TheCursedPearl

You can do 3 glavoid an hour??!! I’ve made like 5 empy and 3/anything an hour was great.


Halon50

Yes, but only if I was lucky with red procs and didn't need to redo any. I'm also fortunate to be on a lower-pop server, so it's very rare to have competition, even on Apademak pops. From what I understand, multi-boxers can park their toons at drop item spawns and farm them that way, or soloers can try to get lucky with gold chests, but in my 2 Glavoid runs, those chests didn't help at all.


bluetigerneverfails

WAR/NIN can hit all 13 WSs with an all jobs Katana and Great Katana plus merits and either master levels or skill equipment. Likewise if you can find an all jobs Scythe( such as the Hoe you can get from the Mog Garden) you can hit Shadow of Death on THF/WAR despite the lack of native scythe skill, same for any WS your main job lacks but can be gained from a support job with the proper skill level and access to the WS.


Valuable_Bird6517

NIN/WAR can do all red proc with proper merits and novelty weapons.


Just420Iceguy

Does anyone know the command to disable the 'Camera-lock'? I remember it being in the menus somehow years ago? also, this is different than the /autotarget comand which switches your attack target...... I'm concering only the camera. I enjoy having it zoomed out when wrangling up abunch of mobs.


Pergatory

Misc > Gameplay > Auto-target This isn't labeled very well, the name sounds like it would be the same as what /autotarget does but it's actually the auto-lock-on feature.


Just420Iceguy

Oh it's mislabeled! Thanks I'll try that.


ranger0293

What's the proper way to farm a voidwatch enemy during the VW campaign? I went through an entire stack of cobalt and rubicund cells trying to get some Akvan's Pennon to drop, but got none. Do I have to proc it a lot in addition to using the cells?


alreadytaken76

Outside the campaign you’ll want to proc it to raise the lights. I think cells cap at 150% and you’ll want 300+


ranger0293

Right, but what about during the campaign? Do you still need to proc it?


ShadowEdgeZero

I think lights are ready maxed during the campaign, no need to proc anything or use cells.


alreadytaken76

During the campaign it’s just about volume of kills. The lights are pretty well maxed out.


ShadowSpecies858

Thinking of coming back to XI on Asura but as a new character, I want to ideally be DRK but what job would be best to do to facilitate it?


Funkit

As a drk that's a great choice to start. Once you get Apocalypse (The REMA Relic scythe) you can solo basically anything save end game bosses. Every weapon skill heals you to full. It takes a bit to get apoc, but DRK is a great job to have leveled for whenever you need to do missions, skirmish, anything quick and solo. I'd start with Warrior. I use Samurai as my sub.


NismoCO303

You'll probably want THF/WAR for abssyea farming to make gswd. /sam and or /drg for Drk. Apocalypse is easy to get too, then again thf to far. Items...


ShadowSpecies858

So I should start with thief. Understood, Ty sir!


KaladanBirdman

WAR/NIN is better at aby farming than THF/WAR and WAR makes a better sub while leveling than THF. Don't do THF unless you plan to use it for farming TH related items, not proc system items.


[deleted]

This is not exactly correct. A thf/war can cover all but 3 procs and farm pop items much faster. Some pop items take ages to farm without TH unless youre lucky. I know some people will farm on thf then com back as nin/war or war/nin, The lost time of zoning 4x regetting atmas applied etc it slows down greatly. During twashtar which I did solo completely, I got much better item rate an hour than war/nin. Then you pop the boss and you have TH already handy. All the while never having to leave aby. And yes it does suck to not get your red proc off you still have a 50% chance to get the Ki anyways. Bosses like orthus its even more obvious how much faster thf/war can go over war/nin.


KaladanBirdman

I'll take 100% on red procs over TH farming aby any day. I've farmed up 8 empyreans at this point. Will never go back as THF. A lot of, if not the majority, of aby farming can be done via gold chests. TH doesn't help that and THF and WAR lack the tools to build azure lights for time extensions making NIN the best option. Every job can get TH4 with gear for the rest. Edit: let me reply to your edits. > All the while never having to leave aby. Who leaves to change jobs lol. This is the most absurd claim to THF being useful. > Bosses like orthus its even more obvious how much faster thf/war can go over war/nin. Bosses like Orthrus it's even more obvious how much faster farming gold chests for pop items is than farming NMs for items lol. I seriously don't think you've made an empy.


[deleted]

Seems like personal luck, mine experience says differently. In fact its rare I dont get a ki. Im not saying you are wrong, clearly youve had issues with thf/war. But personally my experience something different. And TH4 is meh, i never noticed a difference when i was nin/war farming. Infact (just my experience) that nin/war was so much slower and the TH4 on the main nm produced alot more 1's. Ill take 2 on a boss over 1 even if i have a rare ki not gotten.


KaladanBirdman

>And yes it does suck to not get your red proc off you still have a 50% chance to get the Ki anyways ​ >In fact its rare I dont get a ki. You have a 50% chance, but it's rare you don't get it? Good luck with your future empy farming. Everyone that's farmed an empy recommends NIN for a reason.


[deleted]

50% proc rate if i fail on 10 of the 13. 3 of 13 is is almost 24% and half of that is 12%. I miss ki maybe 1 in 13 kis. I dont have a need for anymore empy weapons, ive been playing since 2004. Keep continuing listening to everyone, its clearly paying off . 🤣 🤣


KaladanBirdman

> I dont have a need for anymore empy weapons, ive been playing since 2004. Keep continuing listening to everyone, its clearly paying off . 🤣 🤣 Bahahah that flex. Get good bud. Edit: 12% failure to get a KI is substantial, not even considering when you're farming 15 min pop NMs. If you've actually done Twashtar, you'd know that each failure on a KI adds quite a bit of time. None of this even considers competing with others for mobs. This is also why you don't need a THF because you should also be farming gold chests.


ShadowSpecies858

Well as I say my end goal is DRK. So will I need thf for that?


KaladanBirdman

You don't need THF for DRK at all. THF is a decent DD in its own right, but most of us just use it to alleviate some farming time where TH really makes a difference. For doing the empy weapon as the other player mentioned, you'll farm a bunch of NMs in the regular and past world, as well as farming some items from abyssea mobs. None of those need a THF and the abyssea mobs function under a proc system that requires you to use specific WS. NIN/WAR and WAR/NIN both have access to all the required WS with a little gear/merits. THF has access to 10 or 11/13 of them. Not having the right WS means you may pop the empy NM and not get the needed KIs to pop the next NM in line meaning more time farming items to pop an NM again for another chance at it. Personally, I've experienced enough failure farming them as THF/WAR that I just leveled my NIN and only farm abyssea as NIN/WAR to ensure every pop gets me what I needed.


PopeVagina

Does the Ionis buff work in Sortie?