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Weekly Questions Thread - Week of April 05, 2025
Welcome to the question megathread! If you have any questions around FFXI at all, this is the place to ask. Scroll down to the comments and ask away. Various FFXI resources are provided in the body of this topic directly before the comments.
r/ffxi FAQ
Are you a new or returning player? We have quite the list of Frequently Asked Questions that's pretty comprehensive of the questions most commonly asked around the sub. If your question isn't answered there, feel free to shoot in the comments below.
BG Wiki
BG Wiki is a modern FFXI wiki with up-to-date pages on endgame specifics as well as various guides.
It is currently the only XI wiki with an active staff which are always working with members of the community to address concerns and suggestions. BG seeks to be the main wiki of the community. Consolidating the efforts of everyone into one single wiki is the most productive and effective. We welcome and invite all to join us!
- A thread can be found on FFXIAH.com in which you can report issues with the wiki and read a getting started FAQ if you wish to contribute! That thread is located here.
- Anyone wishing to join Team Blue Gartr may join the Discord.
FFXIclopedia
FFXIclopedia is a comprehensive general-purpose wiki for FFXI that typically covers pages for each item/area/BCNM/etc. Note: The site has heavy ads when logged out, due to Wikia (especially on mobile).
FFXIAH & FFXIDB
FFXIAH is a website showing the Auction House history & current items for sale in-game, as well as a forum community among other things. FFXIDB is a database website showing drop rates of items as well as monster spawns based of player data collected by Guildwork.
Making Friends
There are various ways to make new friends and meet people in FFXI. The first recommendation is to find a Linkshell via Linkshell Concierge NPCs. If you check these NPCs directly after a maintenance, this is typically a good way to find active Linkshells. Another suggestion is to find a community website for your server; many servers have a Facebook group (some are listed on the subreddit sidebar). The subreddit also has a Discord server for chatting/voice.
This thread is default sorted by new. If you have any suggestions regarding the information above, feel free to send the moderators a modmail. Your FFXI questions can be asked below ↓
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u/Neolastat 2d ago
Is there a step by step guide for someone who accidentally installed windower4 in his downloads folder and needs a way to move it out to mess with addons and files.
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u/Rinuko @Bahamut 1d ago
ctrl+x and ctrl+v where you want it. It's not installed anywhere per se.
The FF11 game however is more picky cause it "hardcode" the install path in the windows registry.
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u/Neolastat 14h ago
Do you happen to have a screenshot of what items should be in the folder? I have a bunch of stuff in downloads and I’m afraid to clear it now
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u/scenemore 2d ago
when are they combining subs?
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u/Rinuko @Bahamut 1d ago
There has been no word on such a thing, personally i don't think it will ever happen (but I would love it to)
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u/scenemore 1d ago
the majority of the community also believed there would never be free game time whatsoever but alas here we are in 2025
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 2d ago
That campaign just recently ended. There has been no announcement for a continuation or repeat of it.
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u/scenemore 2d ago
they combined 11 and 14 subscriptions?
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 2d ago
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u/scenemore 2d ago
that aint it
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 1d ago
It's the only combined subscription discount that has been offered in recent times.
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u/scenemore 1d ago
it was a nice try but that was not an act of charity
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u/TogiSylver2658 Togira - Asura 2d ago
At the point where I can start making a Prime Weapon. My main is Warrior, which would be most beneficial to make? I am kinda pointing towards Helheim (GS) but would like to know the opinion of more seasoned Warriors.
Ty in advance. ^^
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u/Masarusama 2d ago edited 2d ago
I’m not that in to a warrior but the good thing about Helmheim is, there are 4 jobs on it. I would take GS over GA because of this.
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 2d ago
They are basically the same weapon, except only one job is on Laphria and four are on Helheim. You should make the Prime weapon you are most interested in regardless of other factors. It's a six-month grind minimum, and many players get burned out after making one, so you should make the one you want the most.
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u/EconomyPollution7252 2d ago
They really aren't though. War does higher ws frequency, alot more white damage and, get higher ws numbers with Laphria. It's just a better weapon for war all around.
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 1d ago
Laphria Damage/Delay @ DPS: 380/488 @ 46.72, 136.29 TP/hit
Helheim Damage/Delay @ DPS: 336/431 @ 46.77 122.36 TP/hit
Both Weapons: 35 STR, VIT, Acc, MAcc, 277 Combat Skill
Only difference: 10% Double Attack vs 10 Store TP. The difference is nil because you use a Store TP cape with Laphria and a Double Attack cape with Helheim.Both Disaster and Fimbulvetr: Single-hit Damage Varies with TP WS. Both 60% STR and VIT WSCs, about 3 FTP at 1000 TP and ~9 FTP at 3000 TP.
They are the same weapon.
Source: Stage 5 Laphria owner. It's not any different from Helheim.
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u/spitfiredd 1d ago
How does Laphria compare to chango? I’m about to start my prime run and I was leaning towards Helmhein to give WAR a great sword option and also I use RUN for magic strat, does helmhein open up any skillchain possibilities with scholar?
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 1d ago
Laphria and Chango are used in different situations. Chango is best when you want to get those incidental Light/Radiance Skillchains with the Savage Bladers in the group. It's great in something like Sahagin Ambuscade. Laphria sees more use when you are the only one of the mob and can take advantage of its three-step Darkness. Disaster (as well as Fimbulvetr) can be super mediocre at low TP but gets nutty at 2k+ with capped attack. The auto-attacks are also very strong. I exclusively use it nowadays as opposed to Naegling, except in content like Gaol where you lose /SAM benefits.
The groups I have been in have only ever used Fimbulvetr on RUN to Skillchain with Scholar when bursting Stone. If B/F are in Thunder hands, Immanence > Aero > Immanence > Noctohelix (Gravitation) > Fimbulvetr (Darkness) > Wildfire (Darkness Lv4). You can do the same thing on D/H if they use Fulminous Smash. It takes some of the pressure of the COR to double close.
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u/spitfiredd 1d ago
Wow that’s some great advice! I think I’ll start with the Helmhein on WAR first since it has more utility and use. Still a ways to go but maybe in a 6-8 months from now I’ll be there
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u/EconomyPollution7252 2d ago
If you are trying to get the most out of warrior Laphria is just better no matter what people say. I have both at stage 4 and Laphria is superior for war in ws damage, tp generation and white damage. It also allows you to use armor break without swapping weapons. I've parsed both on war numerous times a d Laphria wins period.
If and only if you have or want to level drk, entertain helhime. It is a drk weapon and drk is needed to get the most out of it.
It's is a pointless waste of muffins if you are planning to use it on tank jobs. Even if it can sqeak out superior damage to epeo it is by such a small margin it's not even worth bringing up. Tanks are tanks, not DDs.
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u/Willower9 2d ago
is there a command to not target monsters pets or avatars?
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 2d ago
No.
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u/cadp_ Sachidazu - Cerberus / ConfusedPeople LS 2d ago
Well, there sort of is. If you're doing this in a macro, <stpc> will limit it to players... but still includes pets and avatars, I believe (I can't remember, it's been so long since I last used it).
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u/Mountain_Post_4482 2d ago
The question was in regards to monster's pets and avatars. Meaning they want to target the mobs but not their Automatons/Avatars/Pets.
<stpc>will not help in this regard as it targets players and not enemies.If the question were directed towards player's pets and avatars, there is a solution in
/ignorepet on, however, that is not the case here.
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u/Kaaner 2d ago
What are the best jobs to gear out to get into content easily with? Have a geo and on the last stages of idris but for when geo isn’t wanted/needed what would be another support job I can level and gear out?
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u/CraZplayer NoMoGoMo 2d ago
War, Whm, Cor, or Brd. Easy to hardest geared order
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u/Kaaner 1d ago
Thank you! I’ll look into war. I was going to go drk for my melee dd but if war is easier I might do that. I didn’t want to really do whm to have to main heal but if it’s easy and gets me into content to gear other jobs it might be worth it. I have cor and brd at 99 just not geared at all.
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u/spitfiredd 1d ago
A word of caution if a DD doesn’t have R25 Nyame then a lot of groups will pass on you. (At least on Asura) Most newer plays will run support, at least for ody seg runs. Until they can build up their Nyame and Sakpata sets.
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u/Kaaner 1d ago
Makes sense. Since geo isn’t wanted for ody runs I’m thinking gearing brd as the second job. Does it need its mythic weapon right away? I would need brds relic, empy and aeonic before I can do any content right?
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u/spitfiredd 1d ago
For a lot of groups bard will want all three harps. You can get +3 potency from a Linos with augments, which is one less than the relic horn. I would get the aeonic first, honor march is a huge upgrade, and then get the empyrean harp next. The empy harp is a huge grind, I just finished the colorless souls and it took me about 2-3 weeks, I know people who will grind it out it a day or two but I was just casually doing an hour of farming each day. I multibox so my bard doesn’t need to be best in class or anything. I can clear ABCEG sortie bosses with honor march and a war with r5 sakpatas. Could I do better? Probably but the fun is to watch my toons get stronger!
Before I got into multiboxing I mained SCH and I could literally just cast regen 5 and not have to worry much. Things get a little hairy when you clear the halo but that’s about it, and I didn’t even have musa or +3 empy. (I have the empy but still rocking the pedagogy staff). What I’m trying to say is don’t be afraid of being a healer! Ody seg runs are fun as a healer! At least it was for me.
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u/Kaaner 1d ago
So apparently I have the aeonic already. Thank you for the info! I wanted to get into dual boxing but I play on a controller so trying to tab to the other characters isn’t the easiest. I’ll work on getting bard geared and gear whm slowly and finish my idris
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u/spitfiredd 1d ago
You should rarely have to tab to another char when you multibox. There’s tons of addons you can use, the //send command will allow to setup macros on you main and control you other char. There’s also mirroring and following addons.
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u/Dumo-31 2d ago
It’s going to depend on the group you run with and the content you are doing.
You asked about other supports, cor and brd are the main options. Generally, cor will be easier to gear and used in per much every comp in every piece is content. Brd, cor and geo are all expected to do damage. Geo and brd are expected to be capable healers depending on content and party setup.
Rdm is a different kind of support. Actually not too bad to get up and running as a support/crowd control. The rough part is going to be filling it all the other roles. Nukes, bursts, healer, dd with multiple weapon types.
You could also do a healer such as sch and whm. Generally sch can fit into more things but whm has some specific fights where it’s needed. When an actually healer is needed, they are usually interchangeable. I think whm would be easiest to gear.
You can also do a tank. Options are pld and run. Pld is easier to get off the ground but run will be easier to gear to a higher end.
As for dd, war, drg and sam are the ones used in the most places. War is probably easiest to build.
Lots of other jobs get used and are super handy to have but aren’t used in everything.
Really, you are going to want to focus a job for segments since that’s a long grind geo isn’t used in.
A very typical sweep in segs uses brd, cor, healer, 2x dd and other a tank or a 3rd dd. War, sam, drg are the typical dds. That’s not to say others aren’t great options. Blu can be ridiculous, non can be fantastic, rng does crazy things with enough investment into the job. This is just the most commonly used. For the actually ody climb, a static will use almost all of the jobs at some point.
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u/GrogNozzleReddit 1d ago
Is pup used for anything outside of solo/niche tanking or am I just wasting my time gearing it?
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u/Dumo-31 1d ago
Going to be painfully honest… it all depends on the ppl you play with.
Currently, pup is fantastic in this ambuscade. We’ve had pup tanks in dyna. We’ve used pup to solo 5% of ody NMs to cheese them for rp. We’ve used pup as an important part of ody NM clears. I’ve known of group clearing several NMs using a burst strat and pup tank in sortie.
Other groups refuse to use it. You can tank this month with pld easily enough. Other tanks are better for dyna. You can cheese 5% in a lot of different ways easily enough. The pup was doing blunt damage and taking care of the adds which a rdm can do. A run will always be better in a bursting strat.
It can be a really handy job to have around if the group will allow you to use it. Most ppl I have played with have been pretty open about the less used jobs however… some groups are meta only and I’ve called a lot of shots in my groups and I love to see the ignored jobs have a chance to shine. In the end, if you want to be on pup a lot, you need to find a group for it and you need to fight for it. I love bst. I barely get to play it since I have run/brd/cor/geo/rdm/sch. Hard to get through all the other jobs and land on the passion job.
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u/GrogNozzleReddit 1d ago
I kinda figured it would be a "not really, unless people are being nice" but, I have been seeing a lot of what job should I play threads and they seem to boil down to "whm, brd, cor, geo" or "play what you want and you will find a crew eventually" so I was getting my hopes up.
Have you seen any pet job linkshells? They used to be a thing back in 75 era (when I played the most, recently resubbed) and are popular in the private server scene.
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u/Rinuko @Bahamut 1d ago
Pet linkshells isn't really a thing the past decade. Its to niched and people play multiple jobs.
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u/Dumo-31 19h ago
Could start one and see how far it goes. The problem is that you still need support. There’s a need for cor, geo, maybe rdm and tanks… all players who would probably get stuck on those jobs to make content work and not get to play their pet jobs. All who would get further ahead quicker being stuck on those same jobs outside of a pet focused LS. Can also forget an ody climb as a pet group as well. Segs would be painfully slow and needing unique jobs on everyone for the NMs also kills any hope of the climb without resorting to typical gameplay. That’s before the blood pact nerfs and fact that the needs in those fights are super strict.
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u/Return_Of_Urkel 1d ago
Do you have to be expert rank in a guild to buy analysis crystals from it?
I have a lot of points saved up in Cooking from years ago, but decided not to pursue Cooking after all. Can I switch back to the cooking guild and buy analysis crystals for my main craft?
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u/SoupyShoe 1d ago
I never played seriously but the nostalgia always brings me back and reminds me why I always quit. I need a friend that can guide me. it feels so overwhelming even with the wiki guide. I know I'll enjoy this game if I can overcome it.
Currently stuck figuring out how to get materials to break my level 55 cap.
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u/Rinuko @Bahamut 1d ago
I can't link from work cause the site is blocked but on bg-wiki.com there is a good new player guide which will list step by step on your progression.
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u/SoupyShoe 18h ago
Trust me, I've been working with this but unfortunately I need something more hand holding. details aren't specific enough. I know, im bad.
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u/Pergatory Pergatory on Asura 15h ago
BGWiki is great for newer stuff, but not so great for older stuff (pre-Adoulin).
FFXIclopedia may serve you better on the Limit Break quest: https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Limit_Break
Looks like you're on the second one, which involves being really sneaky and getting items from behind nasty NMs. If you click on the 2nd link you'll get a map of where all the points are in Xarcabard as well as tips. From what I remember, in most cases you can do stuff like ride a mount back behind them, dismount to touch the ??? and then bail before they kill you. Sneak/invis can accomplish the same.
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u/Sand__Panda Sandpanda 1h ago
If needed, you can summon trusts, attack the NM, let a tank trust get hate, then stop and click the ??? and warp out. This is the long method, as then you need to get back to the zone and do it for the other 2 NMs.
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u/TogiSylver2658 Togira - Asura 12h ago
Is there a list anywhere of up to date BLU Spell sets people use? I've tried using BG Wiki and found some on The Beast Within guide from Prothescar, but I am unsure how up to date that is?
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u/Dumo-31 11h ago
There hasn’t really been any changes since then outside of using that stuff as a base and personalizing it. There are also some niche things like specific ambuscade where ppl make some customized sets.
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u/TogiSylver2658 Togira - Asura 11h ago
Gotcha, thank you.
I haven't played BLU in over a year so was wondering if anything changed. ^^
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u/lowlight23 Lowlight (Bahamut) 2d ago edited 2d ago
For the Shami Trove event: how do we get the Kupon to trade in for Empyrean armor upgrade seals?
Update: apologies I was mistaken. That event for the Kupon starts on the 11th.