Post your FFXI goals of the week!

[Satori]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Urat's Lu shang's whilst fishing guide was ok and fairly fast for me.
Apart from when it gets to Al zhabi and starts telling lies. It doesnt mention 99.9% of catches are goldfish. I stopped at that point as i didnt see any better guide to carry on.

[djose]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Gunna log in now, and give fishing a try :3

[cidbahamut]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

I think you're confusing it with the Ebisu Fishing Rod . . .

Oh god...

Ebisu owners are to Lu Shang owners as Lu Shang owners are to sane people.

[Raydeus]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

How do you know these things? You weren't even on the same server when I was doing that quest...

I saw it first hand because I lost a good girl friend to fishing addiction back when I played the game.

It wasn't pretty. >_<

---------- Post added at 12:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 AM ----------

PS > And we lost Jei to Ebisu didn't we? <_<;

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Logging on in a few to take screenshots of all my equipment in my various storage places... and trying to organize them to better facilitate easy-access.

I'm also going to see if I can re-work my macros for at least SMN to make them more efficient. I need to macro some weapon swaps into my Rage and Ward BPs to get the effects of both the -bp timer and the +smn skill and bp damage effects that I have on certain pieces of gear. With only 6 lines to write in... this could get tricky if I'm not using windower macros. I might end up having to do those after-all.

---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:58 PM ----------

... for instance:

Say I summon Garuda... and I have the Vayuvata III equipped to make use of the -12bp timer and -7perp cost that's on it.

Say I want to use Fleet Wind for increased movement speed... and I want the max duration. The duration is directly effected by summoning magic skill... and thus... I'll want to macro in Soulscourge as my main weapon for it... given it's significant boost to SMN magic skill. I'll have to make my macro look like this:

/pet "Fleet Wind" <me> (with Vayuvata III equipped when this goes off, I'll get the -12 to my bp recast) <wait 1>
/equip main "Soulscourge" (for the added smn skill) <wait 3> (I think that's enough time for the ability to go off... where I'll get the benefit of the +smn skill)
/equip main "Vayuvata III" (to get back the -bp and -perp effect right away)

Sadly... this takes up 3 of my 6 lines... which means if I want to switch out any other gear for the +smn skill... I could only pick one. Any more and I won't be able to swap them back with just the 1 line.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Come to the dark side Yyg, we have fancy spellcast XML files. Also: milk and cookies.

[djose]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

My goal for tomorrow, get the weathers done :3

Wayy sleepy to log in tonight

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Totally making windower macros right now for SMN. I've given in to the dark side.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Baby steps. We'll get you to come around to Spellcast eventually.

[Satori]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

in my 1st row of macro's I use

Ctrl row, 1Buffs 3Cures 5Na's 8HMp gear 9Idle/ -perp gear
Atl row. avatars in order of the week. 0. Favor + siphon together

Each avatar equips the corresponding stave and flips to a different set in the book.
1 on each row is the "back" command which flips the macro book to the menu type area.
3 on the control row is assault. 0 is dismiss
on the alt row 0 is the one to call the avatar back to you.
Within the blank areas I've mad space ready to build my gear sets a +skill, Pet Mab, avatar phsical set, -perp set.

Using this set I'm able to summon my avatars and flip between my spells and gear, I select the bloodpacts using the ctrl/alt + B option. after I've pressed the macro's to swap gear. I dont have avatar specific gear so I'm not sure how that would figure into it.
Sorry if this seems like crazy ramblings it's 5am here, I hope it was a little useful. There's a macro guide on the wiki I think which gave me the idea to have most thinks available at my fingertips.

[Truece]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Don't forget that you can put <wait>s at the end of a line now, they don't need to take up their own macro line.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

I opted to ignore spellcast and use the windower macro function. My macros are now HUGE... but not terribly complicated.

To avoid potential mistakes... or just missing something in general... I included gear swaps for all my available slots... several times in each macro. So effectively it looks like this (inserting item names of course):

Precast Set: Equipment that reduces BP timer
input /equip Main
input /equip Body
input /equip Hands
input /equip Legs
input /equip Feet
input /equip Neck
input /equip Back
input /equip Waist
input /equip Ring1
input /equip Ring2
input /equip Ear1
input /equip Ear2
input /equip Ammo
Ability is used instantly... accounting for the new equipment
input /pet "Predator Claws" <t>
Wait time is entered to allow enough time for the ability to actually go off. The delay is around 3 seconds, but I add en extra 1/2 second to avoid mistakes.
wait 3.50
Midcast Set: Swapping out for the gear that boosts my Mattk/Macc, Attk/Acc, BP Attack Power, Blood Boon or +Summoning Magic Skill... whichever is most important for that specific BP.
input /equip Main
input /equip Body
input /equip Hands
input /equip Legs
input /equip Feet
input /equip Neck
input /equip Back
input /equip Waist
input /equip Ring1
input /equip Ring2
input /equip Ear1
input /equip Ear2
input /equip Ammo
Added a 1 second wait time so as not to complicate the BP or change gear too early.
/wait 1.50
Postcast Set: Back to my Avatar-Specific Gear set focusing on Defense, -Perp Cost and Evasion.
input /equip Main
input /equip Body
input /equip Hands
input /equip Legs
input /equip Feet
input /equip Neck
input /equip Back
input /equip Waist
input /equip Ring1
input /equip Ring2
input /equip Ear1
input /equip Ear2
input /equip Ammo

---------- Post added at 04:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:07 PM ----------

1 Button press... 3 complete costume changes... maximum effectiveness accounted for... and total elapsed time is 5 seconds.

The only real hit I take is the additional Perp cost I factor out during the 1.66tics that it takes me to finish the complete cycle.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

I opted to ignore spellcast and use the windower macro function. My macros are now HUGE... but not terribly complicated.

I see I have a new project now.

*schemes*

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

The only thing I could see using Spellcast for is maybe to add in gear changes based on day and weather changes... you know... to make AF2 gear worth wearing apart from the feet and hands.

That being said... I don't have much use for additional -perp gear these days. I have enough gear to neutralize and even reverse the perp cost for every one of my avatars. What I do need is additional refresh gear to fill the spots where I am not currently using -perp gear. That would be mint.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Post your FFXI goals of the week!

Oh that's right, Summoner's have a metric ton of super situational gear like Scholar don't they? Maybe I'll just hunt down a good XML for you rather than building one from scratch then.