I'd love the old guides updated and i agree with the some bgwiki guides just make assumptions on things that not everyone has or they should know it by default.

The FFXIAH guides get updated pretty frequently depending on the job, including low-mid-high and bis gear sets for different Weapon Skills, Job Abilities, TP/DT/MDT/M.Eva/HybridDT sets etc... As well as the fundamentals. Rua's Guides are great but it takes a lot of time for him to make new job guides and a lot can change by the time he's able to update older guides, especially because of the introduction of Odyssey an the reletively recent job updates SE has been dropping that range from small changes to changes that can fundamentally change how a job is played in the meta. Bgwiki guides can be good but imo the FFXIAH guides are superior, especially since it's a forum and usually have a lot of discussions after changes as well as people who'll answer your questions that may not be fully explored in guides .

Blows my mind that people play a game that requires more time outside of it doing extensive study and research on how to play it rather than actually playing the game itself and learning how it works through the content of the game.

@@Rykojames It's a 20 year old game lol. The fact it still has the amount of players it does, with a lot of the player base being people who started playing over 10-15 years ago and still have things to do is a testament to the development team and the game design as a whole. Is it out dated compared to modern MMOs? Of course. But part of the appeal has always been the fact the game doesn't hold your hand and the biggest accomplishments for your character take a pretty hefty time investment to complete which, imo, makes it much more satisfying when you finally get that item you've been building towards or finish that content with a group you've been doing it with that seemed insurmountable when you first tried it. FFXI has always had a steep learning curve for new players, and most end game content even back in RoZ, CoP, ToAU required a decent amount of research, reading forum guides and discussions, trial and error, and/or having people in your group who had already done it before teaching and leading the group through the content which eventually ended up having a whole new "generation" of players that went on to teach the next batch of players how to do the content. Nowadays unless you're brand new to the game or have come back to it after a few years you don't NEED to spend more time researching how to play than you spend playing the game unless you're starting a new job you're unfamiliar with and you're looking up the most optimal way to play it in certain situations or finding how to get upgrades for whatever sets you're building. That being said you're almost always going to be able to easily find someone in game who'd be willing to take time out of their day to explain something to you if you have questions and people in your groups who will happily to explain what needs to happen in order to clear whatever content you're doing, even if it's not coming from an altruistic place but simply because it's in their best interest that everyone knows what they're doing so they can get the content done themselves.

@@darkaero I get it.. I played back in the early 2000s. From my point of view accomplishing anything in this game was never satisfying because once you figure out the patterns of whatever your doing it ceases to be a challenge due to the fact that you are competing against AI enemies. Once you know what to do you just do it and it turns into another grind. While there is a certain element of satisfaction in figuring out a puzzle… assuming you intentionally avoid reading strategy posts from people who’ve already done it. The mental reward for figuring out the puzzle is massively under balanced by the 100k hours spent building up to being capable of participation in anything that requires more thought than targeting something and hitting the attack button. Like.. it was cool to kill Kirin for the first time back when I played.. but it only took us 2 tries.. we realized we couldn’t straight tank it so we decided to run it around in circles while rangers, black mages and summoners damaged it. Every time we did it after that 2nd fight it was painfully boring and we had to do it dozens of times to get everyone the drops off of it. At the time that was the pinnacle of the game (outside of dynamis lord maybe?) and the cost of getting the satisfaction of figuring out that “puzzle” was 9 months of playing 10 hours a day clicking attack and pressing the weapon skill button on crabs or whatever over and over and over and over again. Solving puzzles is fun for some people.. I prefer the dynamic challenge of playing against human opponents that can think and act unpredictably. When the players generate the challenge everything is rewarding including the grind for self improvement. And you don’t need constant updates in content either. Basketball for example hasn’t had a content update in like 100 years and the people who play it enjoy it every time. FFXI just requires way too much for way too little even if your idea of fun is the puzzle element of figuring out how to beat the bosses. And given that the game itself gives you so little in terms of instructions or guidance it forces you to collaborate with other players outside of the game. Especially back when I played.. I’m sure there’s more tutorials and what not now. I don’t really call it hand holding when literally your tutorial was the opening cut scene was 3 options to kill monsters, shop, and something else.. to which the advice you get to killing monsters was “go outside and kill something”. Nothing was really difficult to figure out as far as battle mechanics went.. I don’t even really know what I think I’d recommend as far as “hand holding” beyond a straight up walk through on where to go and what to do for missions/quests… that’s a little over board.. But as things were at the time.. without 3rd party help a person with no exposure to the game wouldn’t even be able to get rank 5 in their home nation if their life depended on it. Not to mention the extent of “puzzle” element in this game is.. go in fight.. find out what abilities an enemy uses.. find out what abilities/elements/whatever it’s weak or at least susceptible to.. Create a group set up that is strong in those areas… exploit its weakness and have the appropriate counter measures for whatever abilities it’s using. That’s incredibly one dimensional and basic in my opinion given that it applies to literally every aspect of the game. Might as well save time and look up what it does from the reports of people who’ve already done it and skip the testing phase. But at that point it’s no longer even a puzzle element and your just watching pixels on your screen move around while executing a pattern for the sake of getting pixels on your screen. Now it’s just a Pokémon item collection game. Square shoulda just owned the fact that there game requires massive amounts of out of game collaborations to figure anything out and implemented it into the game itself.. like instead of making us go on forums they could have had a “library zone” or “college zone” where players could leave battle strategies and mission/quest guides so that anyone struggling with something could go there and looks up info or leave requests. Basically an in game message board in a place where all players could go and also discuss things in real time as well instead of having to do all of it 3rd party… it would have created an in game resource for players who didn’t have connections to linkshell forums and voice chat channels that no one outside of whatever group had access to. Instead id wager ffxi-AH and the Wikis or allahkazam/killing ifrit back in the day got more traffic from the player base then the actual game itself. That would have at least created a way for them avoid having the game itself “hold your hand” while simultaneously providing a resource for players who aren’t interested in never ending trial and error.

You're missing out. It's a great game.

SCH is essential for others best magic damage in endgame. Storm II and Skillchain generation is way too strong to pass up. SCH's damage itself is not meant for instant results, like chunks of NM HP flying off. It's damage is meant to be over time in the form of Helix spells.

Thank you so much for the reply and the information, I look forward to your coming videos!

It's the Juogi, Tantra Gloves, Iga Hakama and Iga Kyahan.

...Ugh, there's always something that gets by...

@@SplitFinn I feel you man, but we all still love your content, keep it up 👍

Can you expound on that? My group is working on getting everything to V15 at the moment, almost done with tier 2, and while we've been able to do the tp drain methods with smn/blu/bst, 3 of us have SAM available, with it being my best DPS option (I tend to tank or support, lol)

@@mattlaw3804 yea sure - we used SAM RDM COR BRD SMN BST (BLU Can work better than bst or smn imo), The bard Hits elegy under nitro, and gets a nitro Reset from WC mid fight for 100% Elegy up time. RDM Can stick slow on him with some effort, and earth shot gives another 10% Slow, which is a whopping 114% Slow - this takes him from about a 3~4 Second attack to a 6~8 second attack, which if your sam has 5/5 Third eye merits - that is a 25 second Recast on Third eye- or 3-4 attacks that get in per anticipation. Toss in a maxed out paralyze II, which is absolutely absurdly strong - at 50% or more chance to stop an attack, and your sam is only getting hit 0~2 times per third eye, which results in it almost never getting consumed. i also changed up the sam's lua to put him into a full Counter/zanshin hybrid set up to give him a 70~75% Chance to counter if third eye is down - so if third eye is down, he counters almost everything, and if third eye is up hes in full dps mode. SMN and bst just Alternate TP Deletion skills, and RDM looks pretty. on V20, have the RDM Specifically spamming spells to be in 2nd place, and he can easily hold the add, as they really are only doing debuffing since nobody is really taking any damage

@@PaladinHideka That's awesome, thanks!

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@@SplitFinn thanks , great videos my dood

drk torcleaver is still whiff city haha

@@corriewallace2838 True, but I use Scythe most of the time.

I would say most other DD jobs have better equipment now, especially tp set. Tatenashi is amazing for damage, but it's super fragile. Kendatsuba has good meva, but lacks PDT. Mpaca has PDT but lacks high MEVA. Now other DD jobs (beside DRG) can either wear Malignance or Sakpata and laugh at most tp moves and debuffs coming your way, while sacrificing little or none DPS. SAM only complex option like that is really wearing path B Nyame set for TP, which doesn't synergies with SAM at all (Path B DA blocks zanhasso and has no store tp)

...and then came empyrean +2/3 and sam's gear got ridiculous again. ...and stupidly easy to get, on top of that.