My Character's Bugs

[Princessjim]

I have so many bugs associated with my account. This will be an attempt to list them all. I mainly play my one character Princessjim. I play him on Rdm Sch Smn all level 99.

The Dagger of Trials used to unlock Evisceration is not keeping trck of Weaponskill points or if it is its not getting rid of its latent effect. i have well into a 1000 points associated with that weapon by now and i dont know what to do with it.

I cant get tuning fork of water from the Taru in Norg. i got all the other tuning forks. But this Taru just says the line thats he hurts all over then stops talking to me, im trying to get the items to get Fenrir.

My Hste Gear Dual Weild traits and double triple and quadruple attack gear is not being calculated correctly for my character when im playing. Neither is my accuracy or my attack. /checkparam doesnt bring up the menu. I cannot battle Apex monster at all due to this, because i cant land a hit on them at all even with the besst accuacy food and a B rating in the weapon. Im even using 119 weapons with added skill which shouldnt be nessicary.

My bloodpact rages do no damage whatsoever against even relatively weak monsters nd im geared correctly.

This is just a list of what i can think of now, i will keep this thread posted as more comes to me.

How can an account become so comprimised?

[Princessjim]

Also Enmity is in some way really screwed up for my character, i have 5+ enmity merits for my Character and i cant generate any enmity no matter what i do, i use Flsh and Stun and it has no Effect on Enmity no matter what

[Stuzey]

For trial by water, you do need fame level 4, do you know what your fame level is for Norg?

For your other issues, it may be useful to share some examples of the gear you are using, both melee for accuracy issues and blood pact gear for smn

[Alhanelem]

pics, my friend, we need pics. What you're fighting and what you're using on them, etc.

There's a reason for everything.

[Princessjim]

i figured this could be the problem, but i wanted to report it anyway, ill look into it

[Princessjim]

My MAB set for ANYTHING including Aeolian Edge Weaponskill is completely wrong not even closely coming to the damage i should be dealing out

[Princessjim]

My Store TP Gear isnt being Calculated correctly either

[Princessjim]

The Defense Down on my Nitric Baselard is not being calculated correctly either. Or is it proccing correctly, its not behaving the way it should imean.

And it would Proc on Titan Prime, but non of the other Avatar Primes, which thats wrong too

[Princessjim]

My Enspells from Bloodpact Wards arent doing much damage and dont seem to be based off skill level like there supposed to either

[Voidstorm]

so much detail. so precise with what should be happening and shouldn't.

owait, that's what is missing from all these reports.

[Alhanelem]

Your comments are kind of meaningless without showing us the gear you're using , what you're fighting/doing, etc.

Anecdotes are not evidence.

[Princessjim]

i have 280 MAB on and my ninjistsu NI magic subbed is doing like no damage at all with a ton of magic accuracy

[Princessjim]

i cant get Avatar's Favor off wehn i dont want it active anymore, and i dont know if this is normal or not, but if i dont have a summon out and i resummon a summon out the avaatar's favor icons come back up as if its active if i activated during the login

[Tharly]

Sounds more like your expectations are the problem, not 15 different bugs. If you check all your files and no errors are found I would imagine things are working as intended.

If you don't use the template for bug reports, your posts will not be considered by SE.

[Alhanelem]

i cant get Avatar's Favor off wehn i dont want it active anymore, and i dont know if this is normal or not, but if i dont have a summon out and i resummon a summon out the avaatar's favor icons come back up as if its active if i activated during the login
This is normal. Avatar's favor remains active between summons, it does not need to be re-used when you switch avatars.

I expect it's been a long time since you've played, a lot of things may have changed and you just aren't expecting it and assuming they're bugs. But if they were bugs, we'd all be complaining about them.

[Princessjim]

more trolls, is a SE represenitive ever going to reply to be useful, im not delisional, these are real problems

[Princessjim]

there is no way to get rid of it being active

[Stuzey]

As mentioned above, your post won't be considered by SE unless you fill in the official template, I'll attach a link with instructions

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35051-Welcome-to-Forum-In-Game-Bugs%21

No one has been trolling you, we were simply asking for more information so we could give you some advice, I'm sorry if you feel otherwise.

[Alhanelem]

more trolls, is a SE represenitive ever going to reply to be useful, im not delisional, these are real problems
We're not trolls, we would like to help you, but you aren't giving us enough information to work with.

SE generally doesn't help with gameplay issues like the ones you're describing, which are almost certainly not bugs but rather things that aren't working as you expect.

Again, and I say this with full sincerity, if you want help (from anyone), you're going to need to post specifics. We would happy to help you to gain insight into any potential problems, and then if we actually do find a bug, we can tell you how to report it properly so that SE can potentially address it.

If you think the damage of something is wrong, post the gear you're using, what you're fighting, a copy of the log showing exactly how much damage was done (over several uses), and we can tell you if its correct or not. But you simply have to be more specific for anyone, even SE, to help you.

[Tharly]

i have 280 MAB on and my ninjistsu NI magic subbed is doing like no damage at all with a ton of magic accuracy

NIN spells from a sub will always do barely any damage. You will not have the NIN skill to do much with them.

[Tharly]

I cant get tuning fork of water from the Taru in Norg. i got all the other tuning forks. But this Taru just says the line thats he hurts all over then stops talking to me, im trying to get the items to get Fenrir.

My Hste Gear Dual Weild traits and double triple and quadruple attack gear is not being calculated correctly for my character when im playing. Neither is my accuracy or my attack. /checkparam doesnt bring up the menu. I cannot battle Apex monster at all due to this, because i cant land a hit on them at all even with the besst accuacy food and a B rating in the weapon. Im even using 119 weapons with added skill which shouldnt be nessicary.

My bloodpact rages do no damage whatsoever against even relatively weak monsters nd im geared correctly.


How are you judging the gear isnt being calculated correctly?

Seems odd that your SMN skill would be capped if you still lack all avatars. That would explain the low dmg despite being "geared correctly".

[Voidstorm]

My post was half-troll since you gave so little info, you were asking to be made fun of.

For screenshots, a good way to take them is microsoft's snipping tool which is standard w/ windows 10. tab away from the game, but nothing obstructing the part you want to screenshot, then [windows key]+[shift]+['s' key]; crop the section you want to take a screenshot of, if it doesn't automatically save the pic as a file, open paint and paste/save.

[Alhanelem]

Snipping tool is wonderful. They keep trying to depricate it and bury it and hide it with every passing version of windows in favor of their much more bloated and crappy newer tool for the same purpose though. Thankfully even in win11 I can still easily access it since it's pinned to my taskbar.

Literally one of the best things ever added to Windows.

[Catmato]

Snipping tool is wonderful. They keep trying to depricate it and bury it and hide it with every passing version of windows in favor of their much more bloated and crappy newer tool for the same purpose though.

What's crappy and bloated about Snip & Sketch? IMO it works great and being able to activate it anywhere instantly with a keyboard shortcut is incredibly useful.

[Alhanelem]

What's crappy and bloated about Snip & Sketch? IMO it works great and being able to activate it anywhere instantly with a keyboard shortcut is incredibly useful.
There's no reason the original can't be used with a keyboard shortcut, so that's not much of a plus. But I went with pinning it to the taskbar.

The original tool has a much simpler interface with all the controls right there the instant you open the app, where S&S uses a bizzare setup with a gaint empty window that requires you to click the singular existing button to get access to all the controls that Snipping Tool provides up front. They made some other bizzare design decisions as well- To snip on a delay, Snipping Tool has a button clearly marked Delay where you can set the delay, next to all the other commands. On S&S, the delay options are fewer and hidden under an unmarked drop-down.

About the only thing I like about S&S is the ability to open an existing file, which is nice, but I may as well use a full featured image editor if I'm going to do that.

[Catmato]

I see where the problem is. You're running Snip & Sketch from the start menu or a shortcut. Using the universal windows keyboard shortcut Win+Shift+S brings up the buttons instantly. I honestly had no idea there was even a window at all. I was wondering where the bloat was because in my head, the program was just 4 snip option buttons and a close button. It does seem that there's no way to snip on a delay using the keyboard shortcut, but I'm curious what the use case is for having a delay anyway.

[Alhanelem]

I see where the problem is. You're running Snip & Sketch from the start menu or a shortcut. Using the universal windows keyboard shortcut Win+Shift+S brings up the buttons instantly. I honestly had no idea there was even a window at all. I was wondering where the bloat was because in my head, the program was just 4 snip option buttons and a close button. It does seem that there's no way to snip on a delay using the keyboard shortcut, but I'm curious what the use case is for having a delay anyway.

It really should operate that way no matter how you open it, which is a design flaw.

The behavior of S&S with the shortcut is closer to what I would want from it, but it shouldn't behave differently if I launch it some other way.

[Catmato]

It really should operate that way no matter how you open it, which is a design flaw.

The behavior of S&S with the shortcut is closer to what I would want from it, but it shouldn't behave differently if I launch it some other way.

You're right, it should open the same way, or at least let you get to the window with the delay options when using the shortcut. Do you have a use for the delay options? I'd assume MS found that few people were using it so they hid it, or at least made it less accessible.

[Alhanelem]

You're right, it should open the same way, or at least let you get to the window with the delay options when using the shortcut. Do you have a use for the delay options? I'd assume MS found that few people were using it so they hid it, or at least made it less accessible.

The delay feature is super useful. It can be difficult to set up the screen just right without a delay. I use it for taking screenshots of console games I'm playing through my capture card. Sometimes you need to tab to other windows after you press the snip button, so the delay allows you to do that.

Snipping Tool allows you to set a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 second delay. S&S only has a 3 second and 10 second option.

[Catmato]

Im even using 119 weapons with added skill which shouldnt be nessicary.

No offense intended, but it seems like you might not quite understand the current state of the game. 119 weapons are absolutely necessary to hit Apex mobs unless you have significant accuracy buffs, and even with a 119 weapon, you still need some accuracy gear.


The Defense Down on my Nitric Baselard is not being calculated correctly either. Or is it proccing correctly, its not behaving the way it should imean.

And it would Proc on Titan Prime, but non of the other Avatar Primes, which thats wrong too

Defense Down is wind-based, so all avatars besides Titan are extremely resistant to the effects.


The delay feature is super useful. It can be difficult to set up the screen just right without a delay. I use it for taking screenshots of console games I'm playing through my capture card. Sometimes you need to tab to other windows after you press the snip button, so the delay allows you to do that.

I think not having a separate window for Snip & Sketch limits the need for a delay since you can trigger it almost instantly at any time. Personally, I never really used snipping tool because I was used to the old method of PrtScrn > paste in MSPaint. I never bothered to look into anything else because that worked and it was what I knew. Once I found Snip & Sketch could be triggered with a keyboard shortcut, I started using it. My biggest gripe is that the editor doesn't have any way to rotate the image, but it looks like snipping tool doesn't either.

[Princessjim]

my skill from wepons isnt being calculated

[Catmato]

my skill from wepons isnt being calculated

Skill from weapons isn't reflected in the Skills menu.

[Tharly]

How are you checking and what are you expecting?

You are basically writing a letter to a car shop with no details other than car is broke and are expecting someone to fix it just from saying that, but not helping doing any diagnostics on it.

Nobody can help you if you do not give more details.

[Voidstorm]

my skill from wepons isnt being calculated
yes & no.
/checkparam <me> will show the changes were applied to your character.
:combat skills: won't show your skill having increased.
The same is true of many things, when I craft, if I go into crafting skills it doesn't say my skill level is 121 or 124 (gear +/- adv. support), but the effect is obvious if I craft for a while.

[Princessjim]

my skill from weapons isnt being added to my overall skill in the category

[Princessjim]

thats funny, someone online while i was playing told me it did for him, and i suspect many others given the circumstance, my Kirins Pole with enhancing magic skill shows, but not when i put on a +99 weapon

[Princessjim]

yes they will, my combatants torque showed the increse, so did my Limbus Hands

[Princessjim]

ever doing /checkparam in the past it was never followed by a < me >

[Princessjim]

where are all the GMs, instead of the trolls, or are the GM's Trolls for SE, because i feel a lawsuit coming on

[Catmato]

How is anyone trolling? GMs typically don't reply to comments here, especially when there's no evidence of anything not working correctly.

None of the things you listed are weapons that increase their combat skill. Skill on weapon uniquely doesn't show in the skills menu because it only applies to that weapon specifically. This is to prevent equipping two of the same weapon type for double the increase. You can verify that this is intentional by reading the post in this link (https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35239-Item-Levels), near the bottom, in red.

If /checkparam worked for you without a <me>, it was because of a third party program.

[Tharly]

Hard to justify trying to help you at this point. We have nothing but assumptions to go off of to try and either explain how things work or try to help you fill out the bug report properly. You aren't being trolled. You are being questioned for the information you are not providing that would allow you to be helped.

[Alhanelem]

where are all the GMs, instead of the trolls, or are the GM's Trolls for SE, because i feel a lawsuit coming on
Okay, who's trolling now? Lawsuits? lol, you have nothing to sue them for.

We've been legitimately trying to offer you help but you have not provided specifics.

GMs do not provide gameplay assistance. That is not their job. The GM staff has two roles: In-game technical support and handling player reports/disputes to investigate terms-of-service violations.

Ultimately, as far as we can tell by the information you've provided, you're misunderstanding gameplay mechanics, which is something GMs can not help with. You are not experiencing bugs, as what you have described to us so far has sounded well within the realm of normal.

If you somehow think you have an actual bug, in order for it to be investigated, you must follow the template provided in the sticky thread in this forum section. Those are the rules. Use the template and fill it out completely. If you don't do that, nothing will come of it. You can post and call us trolls til the cows come home, nothing will happen until you either file a support ticket or fill out the bug report form correctly.

This is the honest truth, and telling the honest truth is not trolling.

[Alhanelem]

my skill from wepons isnt being calculated
Skill from weapons, as was said before, is not shown in the skills window. it is also not factored in the same way as your natural skill level is.
Target yourself and use the /checkparam command. This will tell you your actual accuracy (calculated from your weapon skill level plus all modifiers), evasion, etc. Hopefully this will give you some more insight into why you're having trouble.



This is the last thing I will say to help you. Do with it what you will.

[Voidstorm]

If /checkparam worked for you without a <me>, it was because of a third party program.
Not true, if you're targeting yourself when you /checkparam even w/o the <me> it will work. I left it in assuming the chance he doesn't have himself targeted was >0%.

[Voidstorm]

If you somehow think you have an actual bug, in order for it to be investigated, you must follow the template provided in the sticky thread in this forum section. Those are the rules. Use the template and fill it out completely. If you don't do that, nothing will come of it. You can post and call us trolls til the cows come home, nothing will happen until you either file a support ticket or fill out the bug report form correctly.

This is the honest truth, and telling the honest truth is not trolling.


Example:
Thread Title: While under the effect of Slow , Backhand Blow will not initiate

Platform: Windows 7
ISP: Optimum Online
Type of Internet Connection: CATV
Internet Connection Speed: 15Mbps
Date & Time: Feb. 6, 2011 21:42 EST
Frequency: Once (did not reproduce)
Character Name: Ffximike
Race: ElvaanM
World: Alexander
Main Job: Monk, Lv.80
Support Job: Ninja
Area and Coordinates: Pashhow Marshlands [S], J-9
Party or Solo: Party with 4 members
NPC Name: None
Monster Name: Croque-mitaine
Steps:

We were camping in Pashhow Marshlands [S], waiting for the NM Croque-mitaine to spawn. At around 20:30 EST, it spawned.
About 8 minutes into the battle, the NM used the weapon skill “Blow” and my character received the effect of Slow.
About a minute later, the TP gauge of my character became 100% and I attempted to initiate “Backhand Blow” by using the macro(/ws < Backhand Blow > < t >).
However, the effect of Backhand Blow didn’t appear and wasn’t displayed in the log and the TP gauge remained the same.
Attempted to initiate Backhand Blow again by selecting it manually from the battle menu but the result was still the same.
We finished off the NM with Garuda’s “Predator Claws” that our Summoner has summoned.
I fought the same NM at around 19:20 EST on Feb. 1st, 2011 but at that time, I was able to initiate “Backhand Blow” even when “Slow” was in effect.


*Please note that this is an EXAMPLE only and is not an actual bug report.



this is how you have to write each bug report for SE to look at it. If we weren't responding, this thread would likely have either been moved to /insufficient information/ or /not a bug/.

[Princessjim]

when calling SE corporaation in California, they said the GMS read the posts here and fix bugs. thats why i posted here. I know my account is not working properly and that things arent being added up correctly, your not offering any valuable service. It makes no differerence if i say my Nibiru Cugel is eqipped and go through every specific item i have on. The "mechanics for my character are not being calculated correctly and its obvious, i have 700 something accuracy when i should have 1300 or so, my weaapons arent being calculated, and your liars saying the skill isnt put into the menu box under skills, it has before, and how else would you account for it, lots of contradictory things you say. My gear really cant be much better. And at this point it shouldnt need to be or will be cause nothing can be achieved.
Im not trolling but when your paying for a service for something it should work properly and get adressed in a timely manner. You shouldnt be inconvienced and blown off to such great extent as i have been being treated. That is against the law, they are not fullfilling there side of our agreement " contract". and i dont know what to say about it.

[Princessjim]

And i have ingame tetimony from people saying "there" skill shows up in the box. i wonder if you work for SE, Because as i suspect theres a consiparcy issue going on with Jay Brannan the fake owner of the company.

[Tharly]

Just a word of advice, be less vague in the future when describing issues to get help. You cannot be helped because you have given no actionable info. You have been told SE doesn't respond unless you use their template a total of 3 times.

[Catmato]

And i have ingame tetimony from people saying "there" skill shows up in the box.
The other people are either mistaken or lying. If you read the link to an actual developer's post that I posted earlier, it explains that this doesn't actually happen. Since you may have missed it, I'll quote myself:

None of the things you listed are weapons that increase their combat skill. Skill on weapon uniquely doesn't show in the skills menu because it only applies to that weapon specifically. This is to prevent equipping two of the same weapon type for double the increase. You can verify that this is intentional by reading the post in this link (https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35239-Item-Levels), near the bottom, in red.

Edit:

when calling SE corporaation in California, they said the GMS read the posts here and fix bugs. thats why i posted here.

Maybe, since they haven't replied, that means there aren't any actual bugs.

[Alhanelem]

when calling SE corporaation in California, they said the GMS read the posts here and fix bugs. thats why i posted here. I know my account is not working properly and that things arent being added up correctly, your not offering any valuable service. It makes no differerence if i say my Nibiru Cugel is eqipped and go through every specific item i have on. The "mechanics for my character are not being calculated correctly and its obvious, i have 700 something accuracy when i should have 1300 or so, my weaapons arent being calculated, and your liars saying the skill isnt put into the menu box under skills, it has before, and how else would you account for it, lots of contradictory things you say. My gear really cant be much better. And at this point it shouldnt need to be or will be cause nothing can be achieved.
Im not trolling but when your paying for a service for something it should work properly and get adressed in a timely manner. You shouldnt be inconvienced and blown off to such great extent as i have been being treated. That is against the law, they are not fullfilling there side of our agreement " contract". and i dont know what to say about it.

GMs don't fix bugs. GMs are customer support personnel, not engineers.

There is no contract. You have no grounds for a lawsuit. There isn't even any malfunction here, this is you misunderstanding how the game works. It's that simple.

Also, you can't just sue a company over any bug in a software program. Programs are created by human beings and there is no guarantee of them being perfect because humans are imperfect. If you could sue a software company over every little bug you could find, the courts would be completely inundated with frivolous lawsuits. There is nothing in the user agreement or terms of service, which are the "contracts" you agree to by installing the software, that guarantees that their software will be bug free and that they will have a solution for every problem you might have.

You are trolling, you know you have no case, as there is no guarantee of the game being bug free. The only person mistreating anyone around here is you. You have ignored legitimate efforts to help you by the people who frequent these forums, dismissing them as trolls, which is insulting to us who genuinely want you to have an enjoyable game experience. Further, your lack of correct grammar and borderline non-sensical sentences lead me to question whether you're telling the truth about anything you've asserted.

What kind of Karen does someone have to be to get this outraged over a perceived bug in a computer program?

[Catmato]

What in the ever-loving hell...