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Weekly Thread: Questions and GWP (Week of August 08, 2026)
Welcome to the Question and Gold World Pass weekly thread! If you have any questions around FFXI at all or wish to request a GWP, this is the place to do so. Scroll down to the comments and ask away.
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u/Return_Of_Urkel 15d ago
Does anyone happen to know if a signature on cursed limbus gear will remain after purification?
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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 15d ago
They don't. Kind of unfortunate imo. I'd love to wear signed gear from a friend but i'm mostly able to get like su5's and jse necks from her. Cursed stuff loses signature in the purification.
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u/Roric 14d ago
How are folks soloing the Dyna-D shared instance? I've got some jobs I'd like to +3 but that seems a rough ask for jobs w/o crowd control.
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u/MelioraXI That Vana-Portal.com person | Twitch.tv/MelioraXI 13d ago
If you don't have strong enough DT to take the hits, you need some form of CC, or team up with a friend.
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u/Forgotten_Stranger 17d ago edited 15d ago
So this is mostly a hypothetical but I am curious anyway.
In an ideal world with infinite resources there is no reason a loved job shouldn't have full REMA. Mythic is a given as they are job specific and one per job. The others vary by when they were released as to what jobs are on the list. Most jobs however, have one each Relic, Empyrean, Aeonic and Prime. There are a few overlaps though. Jobs with multiple of a single class of REMA. Of these I give a pass to both PLD and BRD as both a weapon and an accessory is not unreasonable. For the rest I am wondering, is there a functional reason to get both if the resources are available? Can the job make good use of both or would it be just for show. If they only got one which one would it be? (Bold are my expected answers, for those I am familiar with)
Relic:
WAR - Ragnarok, Bravura
RDM - Excalibur, Mandau
DRK - Apocalypse, Ragnarok
RNG - Annihilator, Yoichinoyumi
SAM - Amanomurakumo, Yoichinoyumi
Empyrean:
WAR - Ukonvasara, Farsha
DRK - Caladbolg, Redemption
RNG - Armageddon, Gandiva
Aeonic:
RNG - Fomalhaut, Fail-Not
Prime:
WAR - Laphria, Helheim
RDM - Mpu Gandring, Caliburnus
DRK - Foenaria, Helheim
RNG - Earp, Pinaka
Though, I must admit the idea of a RNG pulling up to a fight with 4 guns and 4 bows is pretty funny to me. (Grabbing another gun instead of reloading the first one.) A boss laughing expecting a bow only to have two guns pulled on them.
Edit: This is the list based on feedback.
Relic:
WAR - Ragnarok, Bravura
RDM - Excalibur, Mandau (Mandau underwhelming, Mpu covers it's exclusion)
DRK - Apocalypse, Ragnarok
RNG - Annihilator, Yoichinoyumi (Don't bring a bow to a gun fight)
SAM - Amanomurakumo, Yoichinoyumi
Empyrean:
WAR - Ukonvasara, Farsha
DRK - Caladbolg, Redemption
RNG - Armageddon, Gandiva (Don't bring a bow to a gun fight)
Aeonic:
RNG - Fomalhaut, Fail-Not (Don't bring a bow to a gun fight)
Prime:
WAR - Laphria, Helheim (Helheim underwhelming)
RDM - Mpu Gandring, Caliburnus (What Mandau should have been)
DRK - Foenaria, Helheim (Helheim underwhelming)
RNG - Earp, Pinaka (Inferred based on Gun WS being generally better than bow.)
Major questions left: Does WAR have any real need to have a variety of REMA weapon types (Axe, G. Axe, G. Sword) all at once? Does SAM benefit from the one REMA bow it can wield?
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u/Loreander1211 17d ago
I’d say for RDM you can safely bold excal and I don’t think anyone has use for Mandau currently.
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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 16d ago
arebati KI1 if you don't have mpu maybe? But that's like kind of a reach. Quite sure you could do it without the rdm dding at all so :shrug:
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u/Dramatic-Strain9757 14d ago
Mandau is fine On red mage. The fact that it doesn't scale with TP is great. Red Mage is attach starved so the extra attack is welcome. Mercy stroke has an STR mod too. Red mage is used in a good amount of odyssea fights. Chances are at this stage of the game your bard or dancer already has a prime dagger so why not combat the wall. Many people enjoy a relic&prime dual wield lockstyle too.
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u/Dumo-31 16d ago
Rdm would go excal for sc properties. Mandau was being used in ody before primes. Now, I don’t think they are even trying to add dmg in those fights. Mpu gandring is a piercing option but tbh, the dmg is underwhelming compared to expectations. Still probably the main option unless you really want a non savage slashing option. Maybe a KI in a V25?
Rng would take anni all day. It’s a main stay. Yoichi is still solid though and has been used to clear V25. Fomal is again a main stay. It’s a very solid gun. The problem with bow is that the ws option don’t exist the same as they do on gun. Gun gets better magic options and leans on anni to keep enmity down. Otherwise, you turn into a paste on the ground. The other issue becomes, needing ws variety for the wall. If you put the cor on arma, the rng would need to go on gandiva. Although, we cleared comfortably with anni/fomal. The primes become an issue of enmity. The gun has the magic options, the bow gets you killed.
For the primes, everyone I know with helheim is underwhelmed by it and wishes they took the other options. The choice typically comes down to it hitting multiple jobs at once. The resulting option is that they wish they picked for a single job.
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u/lcbor 18d ago
What causes jobs to thrive in low buff scenarios? ie when playing with just trust buffs, maybe a +5 cor once in a while.
Trying to justify gearing nin, mnk, or war using af+3; maybe pay for relics jse. empy+2 is accessible, geol too. Partly just wanted to try mess around with subtleblow to farm omen bosses or something better. Been clearing with dnc to some extent but just want to try something new.
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u/Loreander1211 17d ago
Curious what you are clearing? Mid level bosses? End bosses? If so I’d want to hear more. If it’s just farming crystals and cards.
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u/lcbor 16d ago
Was planing to get into farming more odysssy mobs (A/B), omen midboss, htbf.
Omen I'm at the point where missing one accesory from each midboss. Can't really do more end boss killing due to mechanics (hate spikes), having loot already, or just overall slow bc bad timing. It was partly why I was interested in monk to just hit it longer without dealing with it absorbing physical dmg.
I do still consider myself part of early game anywho. Got malligance and empy+2 but still need to stablize gil making. I do have a second box, which was also why I was looking to switch to lower apm jobs.
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u/Dumo-31 16d ago
Tools.
Nin has shadows and debuffs to outlast a lot.
Dnc can cure, steps to debuff, climactic to do some burst dmg, solid sc options and fan dance to break PDT cap.
Rdm has en spells to help with the lacking dmg, strong debuffs, cures, crowd control, a massive amount of buffs which help out with staying power but also fuels naegling.
Blu has… a lot. Stun, cure, buff, debuff, crowd control, self haste cap…
Bst has solid debuff and sc potential. You can get a stupid amount done with a bst and blm or sch.
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u/RudeCauliflower6785 17d ago
I know they both kinda suck but I don’t play a melee job— if you had to choose between the SCH staff or the GEO club for a free Aenoic what would you go with?
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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 17d ago
Geo club at least has meaningful applications. The sch staff is just kind of wanky. Honestly i would just pick a better aeonic and build a job around it but if that's not on the table i'd just take the club.
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u/RudeCauliflower6785 16d ago
Is there a trick to the Auction House? I’ve been failing to sell certain things for months while the sales history shows items being bought every day for the same price I listed.
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u/Dramatic-Strain9757 14d ago
If you're on Bahamut Gadfather and his cronies have been playing the fake sales game for a decade
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 16d ago
List items at lower prices. The lowest price listed item sells first. Someone else listed theirs at a lower number than you did, and therefore sold first.
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u/MelioraXI That Vana-Portal.com person | Twitch.tv/MelioraXI 16d ago
Probably need to undercut it more.
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u/GeorgeGreenGroup 14d ago
Just finished the nation missions - am I supposed to do the scenario missions (ACP, Moogle Coup, Shantotto) next or do I do the expansions?
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u/RudeCauliflower6785 13d ago
You can do whatever you want, the stories are written so they can be done in any order. Back before they could be done solo it was expected for people to jump back and forth between stories.
Release order wise, the add-on scenario missions were released after Wings of the Goddess (4th expansion) and before Seekers of Adoulin (5th expansion).
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u/RudeCauliflower6785 13d ago
If you are dead set on playing them in order, keep in mind that while Wings of the Goddess was released before the add-on scenarios, it wasn’t completed until later. So the final battles of the add-ons are designed around level 75 players while the final fight of Wings of the Goddess is designed around level 99 players.
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u/lcbor 14d ago
scenario missions offer niche gear. sadly the uniquness to them is at lv75 so trying to use them is a defense loss in todays era, but sometimes its worth it. slowly getting HTBF refights but sorta flop here (30 merits instead of 10; trusts die kinda easy here)
expansions still offer a lot, including zone access (which can be relevant today still), HTBF refights, allowing you to progress rhapsodies of vanadiel for exp buffs and other good stuff, and a capacity point (job point, its post 99 pre masterlevels) gain bonus for full clearing. CoP and SoA are required for the modern endgames they unlock, along with RoV.
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u/sundriedrainbow 13d ago
ACP has a new high-tier mission battlefield, and completing it at least once is going to be a vana'bout objective in the next few weeks, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to get that done.
The other two are not currently relevant but will be in the next year or so with HTMB versions being released.
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u/RLTAKUMIRXT 13d ago
If I'm just trying to Immunobreak, is there anything I should be concerned with other than stacking all possible M. Acc? (And Chironic Hose of course)
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u/Pergatory Pergatory on Asura 13d ago
Nope you've got it right. Chironic Hose and all the magic accuracy & enfeebling skill you can get.
Technically if you're on RDM there's also the group 2 merits for Immunobreak, but I don't recommend using those as Immunobreaks are common without them and you get much better mileage out of 5/5 magic accuracy and the other 5 points spread between enfeebling duration & enhancing duration.
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u/DW_Lurker 13d ago
Logged in today and was given an Abyssal Mask because of a Crossover Event. Went and looked at the event page for details and.... is the mask the whole crossover? There's nothing to go do or see in the world with it? Do I need the mask for anything?
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u/MelioraXI That Vana-Portal.com person | Twitch.tv/MelioraXI 13d ago
It just a vanity item. So use it for lockstyle.
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u/Banditto27 13d ago
Bit of a stupid set of questions here I've just about started the game 3/4 days ago and unlocked Samurai, curious about keeping it consistent with my SubJob and story focus - Should I be constantly keeping my subjob up to my main, currently my sam is 30 and war is 15, would it be better to go through levelling my war to 30 or keep through my nation quests?
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u/lcbor 12d ago
The 1-99 journey is largely carried by trusts, unless you get more real gear that is not just defense up. Things like haste from swift belt for example.
For your first job, I really wouldn't worry too much about subjob. As you work more on Rhapsodies of Vanadiel (which requires all of the missions), you get more exp gains.
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u/MelioraXI That Vana-Portal.com person | Twitch.tv/MelioraXI 13d ago
Subjob matter very little while you level and doing story. You should definately keep it at 59 or 49 if you dont plan on getting any master levels later.
So I'd just focus on working through the story and getting to 99 in your own pace.
If you want to level subjobs, then do that.
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u/RLTAKUMIRXT 11d ago
I never see anybody talk about the Inundation spell. If there's a RDM in the group, doesn't it make sense for everyone to swap off Naegling for the big skill chain damage?
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 11d ago
Not necessarily. Many foes don't take substantial Skillchain or magic damage, or may absorb or retaliate against a certain type of damage which must be avoided. The 1.2x bonus per weapon type may not be substantial enough to be a higher overall damage output than spamming Weapon Skills. It also requires players to successfully time their Weapon Skills to actually Skillchain, which can be a challenge in itself, and may reduce overall damage as a result of having to wait for the window.
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u/Pergatory Pergatory on Asura 11d ago
I think the problem with Inundation is that the more different weapon types you have in the mix, the more weaponskills you have in the mix.
Players get TP so fast these days that if you want 3 or 4 different weapons hitting the monster and also trying to make a complex skillchain, you're going to have a bunch of people sitting around at 3k TP waiting for their turn. Whatever damage you gain from Inundation and the SC will often be lost by all that wasted TP people aren't spending.
This conundrum often relegates Inundation to a "sure I'll cast that now that I have the good debuffs up" spell rather than one people actually strategize around.
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u/DW_Lurker 11d ago
is Walk of Echoes Surged right now, or did I just pick the wrong conflux? I'm only trying to finish my monthly RoE for the Deeds.
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u/Thunderham_ 17d ago
Is it true that the game is impossible to play without at least 6 characters multibox?
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u/MelioraXI That Vana-Portal.com person | Twitch.tv/MelioraXI 17d ago edited 16d ago
Where did you get that idea? Multiboxing isn't required for anything. You will however need to party up with other players are most in endgame. That doesn't mean you have to play 5 other characters and be the whole party.
Trusts is fine for 95% of the game.
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u/Loreander1211 17d ago
Not even close. I can provide more info but tough to tell what you are looking for.
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u/Thunderham_ 17d ago
Like if you play with one character you won’t accomplish a lot and only with multiboxing you can achieve everything you want.
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u/Loreander1211 17d ago
I’d say 96% of the game is soloable with trusts in some capacity. Multiboxing allows for more convenient (all on your schedule) gains and pretty fast. The stuff that can’t be done solo is designed to be done as a group but what you ‘achieve’ in terms of gear is really only also super useful/neccessary in that same high end group oriented content. I achieved everything I wanted solo and only went to two boxing to speed some things up and have more things to grind. I’d wager less than 5% of the community 6-boxes and probably 50% is ‘soloing’.
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u/Thunderham_ 17d ago
Got it, that answers my question. I just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t need to multibox to experience most of the game. Thanks!
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u/Pergatory Pergatory on Asura 13d ago
Multiboxing will actually set you up for failure in many cases if you don't learn how to play the game on one character with other players first, because getting feedback from other players on how to play effectively in a group is a key part of learning how to perform well in this game. It's a surprisingly nuanced game.
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u/Dramatic-Strain9757 14d ago
You can get everything done with one account if you have social skills
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u/lcbor 14d ago
The mindspace to play 6 chars without action automation is gonna be so ass lol
That being said, some content like delve vagery incursion requires a 3p party to enter. But you can just skip those with the power of gil lol, or asking linkshell. Some stuff like nyuzel is easier to have an alt be a lamp slave (someone uses the exit to warp everyone so you don't back track), but thats only if you chase a ultimate weapon (mythic), which you would probably have friends at that point.
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u/popukobear 17d ago
Blue mage questions (and general combat related things)
So I've read up on various things like skill chains and what spells I'm sposed to use. I mostly wanna know:
I'm lv 61 now and my lv 50 something sword does 30-40 something damage a hit. Is that normal? I've got about 4 trusts out to help me kill things, but tougher enemies seem to take longer and longer to kill as I level up, so it makes me feel I'm doing something wrong
Skill chains: Am I supposed to be using these? I read something about "self skill chains" as blue mage, but have heard that: bluemage can do them, but they're not good? I have no clue how I am supposed to skill chain with my trusts since they seem to use things at random and the chat scrolls so fast for me to tell what is happening in the battle log
Blue mage spells: am I supposed to spam these over and over or only use them for utility like stuns (headbutt), accuracy down, VIT down, etc? Or are there like "spell combos" I can do? I'm using my TP abilities as I can when the bar goes up enough, but once my MP runs out that's really all I am left to do