Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Also something I overlooked for some reason when discussing annoying materials, but you can use kits for this. It would be trivial to keep a stack of kit 15 (recruit/initiate) and kit 35 (Novice/Apprentice) to hit those goals when they pop up. Theres likely a steady supply of kit 64/65 available for purchase for the Journeyman/Craftsman tier as its a requirement for the shield to turn 20 in.

I have very little experience with Sheol A, how LOW is the rate of Aurum Coffers to appear? It clearly seems it's much different from Sheol C.
I'm talking about Izzat, not Keys.

I'm at 20 Coffers opened, none of them popped an aurum (last 6 have been opened on floor 7 in the vain hope that the higher the floor the higher the chance, the others have been opened on floor 1-3)

It's been a long time since I farmed Aurums in Sheols, but it was not any different across zones from what I recall. It was always like 5% chance to upgrade a box using Keys, and like a 30~90% (totally eyeballed) chance to upgrade a box using Izzat, depending on the box quality. Just my own observation (and you can go back and find my notes on this in the original Odyssey thread way back), but I firmly believe there is a reduced upgrade rate going from Coffer -> Aurum vs Chest -> Coffer (which would make sense because it's a higher quality box). I even had trouble getting Aurums to pop when I used to Scale Farm Sheol A; I would kill everything on A1, then use Izzat to go Chest > Coffer > Aurum. I only saw an Aurum Chest about a third to half of the time. Even in Sheol C when Izzat is high and I burn it on Coffers, I don't see an Aurum every time either, but when I burn Izzat on Chests I almost always see a Coffer. So I think the rate to get a Coffer is very high, and the rate to get an Aurum is about 1/3 or so.

I agree with a chunk of that however I think you're moving goal posts at the end (of the long post), also wrt your 2nd post if you're doing that you're serializing it (which takes longer) I actually raised the shield skill and did crafter points in tandem. (they tended to finish close together, although I'd make some of the mats for the kits when I got the guild rank recipies, and tended to ignore the 5+ mats ones) I think the stage 3 ones I tried harder to hit due to the negative impacts of not doing it.

I did have a spread sheet of the various synths up and the mats and objectives they fulfilled. I probably hit closer to 80-90% (when I wanted to) but I don't remember, I took my time too, so I'd buy some stuff from guild merchants and when they raised the price I'd wait for it to fall again. I'd snipe some rarer mats off AH if I saw them to do some of the higher tier synths. I think at max I had stuff to do 1 of 15 snyths, but that was really inv. intensive. (some of them fulfilled the RoE stuff) typically I had about 3~5 cheap/easy/dual purpose synths to do. I didn't not keep any copious records though so its all anecdotal and I did morph stuff a bit as I went.

Raising a shield is not cheap, quick or easy in any case (to your point).

Would anyone be willing to break down how I could or should work towards all the missing guild points items and KI? I am 110 Cloth, 110 Fishing, 80 Synergy, 70 the rest. I think Cloth GP is done and now working on fishing.
Tried to read up some on how to achieve this but little lost. Seems I would need to take each craft to veteran to get all the items KI then jump to next. Once done I would need to either re-level Cloth or new guild if I decide not to redo cloth. Am I right or missing key info? Is there a proper game plan to try and achieve this? Thank you.

Allright, thanks for the input.
Because on Sheol C I always had the impression the Coffer > Aurum rate is higher on floor 4 than floor 1, but maybe that's a lie.
Either way it's not THAT rare to my experience.

0 out of 20 seems a bit low buuuut I'll keep going!

Do explain? Was it the part about removing the time based goals from the overall tally?

This was you, you said its ignore worthy.

I dont think its moving the goalposts. I cant imagine most humans doing this consciously will pump the brakes on their craftsmanship session because a time based bonus popped up.

How many people here, if they were doing this right now, would wait because "craft on Firesday" popped up? Heres how far firesday is at the time of this post:


You checking back in 5 hrs and 45 minutes? If I spent 10 minutes loading up my inventory for this session, I'm not pumping the brakes and dumping everything on mules / selling everything back to NPC, I'm ignoring it and waiting for the next bonus to pop up.

If its a day/night one, that depends on what time it is. If "Craft between 18:00 and 5:59" pops up and its 17:00, sure, I can go refill my drink or take a leak or whatever, its two minutes. If its 7:00, I'm not pumping the brakes for 15 minutes, I'm ignoring it.

I highly doubt the discount bonus affects your box spawn rate, but it could be possible. Check the moogle and see where you're at. I'm capped on boxes in Sheol A but not in other zones, and I don't notice any observable difference (less rate) when I open Coffers with izzat for Aurum chance in the other Sheols, so it really can't be related. It's for sure lower than Coffer upgrades from chest, but 0/20 is super unlucky (assuming all 20 of those were purely from Izzat and not from keys).

You just uncap the next subcraft you want to level, take it to 98, and do guild points until you have all the KI/items you want.

You need a lot of guild points, which can be done at any level. In my experience, capping and uncapping at level 70 is the best way to consistently get decent guild point items on a daily basis. This can be done at any time.

Then, start collecting synthesis materials for the crafts you want to take to 98, and go crazy when there is a crafting skill-up campaign (they've been more frequent in the past year or so). Consider farming up a Shaper's Shawl if you haven't already.

You only need 98 if you care about the KI, the furnishings only require level 88. But if you're going to 88, might as well take it 10 more levels.