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[Vivivivi]

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With merit points being the way to enter the new BCs, VW has even picked up again, so heavy metal is slowly returning to the market. One thing I noticed the OP say...

I have been playing FFXI over 9 years. Shouting has not helped me assemble a winning party. Ever. I have not had a party that filled when I shouted for over 3 years. So no, shouting does not work.

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[Xantavia]

Releics are not soloable. Wins in dynamis are impossible to solo because of instant death and there is no way to gather that much currency unless you spend years.

I don't know why you think it would take years to gather that much currency. I decided I wanted to make a Mandau and have recently begun to farm currency for it. THF/DNC wearing sparks gear I have been averaging about 150 pieces a run. I need about 140 100-pieces (if I count on getting a loan for the last 30). If I was dedicated, I could have it done in a few months. I have taken a few days off here and there so I don't burn myself out, but I think it is possible to have the level 75 version of it by the middle of summer.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I have in fact soloed Dynamis Lord on rune fencer.

How about Angra Mainyu?

One has to get to Dynamis - Xarcabard before one solos anything in there.

[Demonjustin]

Releics are not soloable. Wins in dynamis are impossible to solo because of instant death

With the MEVA of today and the ease of access to pet jobs, and the fact that so far as I know not all of them use death, and they crumble super fast so they can hardly get TP or MP to cast at you, the list goes on, they are not that bad, if you are really having such a hard time it seriously tempts me to make a character on Carby just so I can solo your wins and show you its possible.

there is no way to gather that much currency unless you spend years.

I spent 6 months making Excalibur, not 6 months of daily farming mind you, I mean 6 months of going only every 2~3 nights, on RDM/NIN rather than BST/DNC or DNC/nothing or THF/DNC all of which were heavily favored by others. Since that time I can now do DC mobs rather than EP mobs without a problem, where I used to do easier mobs since they died faster and RDM could gather them very easily. Now days its easy to farm any dream zone, do DC mobs, and walk out with 300 currency. Your average Relic is a total cost of 18,000 currency, 1 10,000, 80ish 100s, so if you math it out then 18,000/300=60, assuming you buy no currency, use spark gear, average 300 a day which isn't that hard with most jobs /DNC in Dynamis with this gear, and you farm daily, you can get a Relic in 2 months, that is quite a shorter period of time than years.

[Demonjustin]

How about Angra Mainyu?

One has to get to Dynamis - Xarcabard before one solos anything in there.

I can't say from personal experience but RUN with Darkness Runes, BST, SMN, PUP, and a number of other jobs should be able to solo him with great ease now days, just need to /DNC and tank the dragons while your pet works its magic.

[dasva]

I have been playing FFXI over 9 years. Shouting has not helped me assemble a winning party. Ever. I have not had a party that filled when I shouted for over 3 years. So no, shouting does not work.

I've made 3 last year shouting for my mules...one of them was shouting while in zone lol. Doesn't really take much to get an easy win. 1 kite/popper and 2 decent DDs. I've triboxed it with 2 bsts and a brd no meleeing. Was kinda hard since I don't have anything to help me control 3 characters at once and you can't run too far or you leave area but it can be done

[Inafking]

Dynamis wins are soloable.

No they are not. Instant death makes them impossible.

Currency collection takes years because there is no way to make gil to buy extra currency.

[Inafking]

I'm done responding to the "nuh uh" trolls. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're too stupid to reply to my thread so please stop.

[Vivivivi]

No they are not. Instant death makes them impossible.

Currency collection takes years because there is no way to make gil to buy extra currency.

Yes they are lol. And here is how (speaking from successful experience):
For the bosses that cast death (to my knowledge none insta-cast death)– you have at least two options. Using a pet job like BST. Let the pet do all the work, sub dnc and have steps ready before you pop it. If you see it casting death, use violent flourish. If you don't stun it in time, you can likely finish it off and/or resummon a new pet.

Option #2: Rune Fencer with 3 dark runes up– I personally haven't cleared the towns on Rune Fencer solo, only NQ Dynamis Lord, but again, subbing dnc and being ready to stun death is ideal, and the likelyhood you'll straight up resist it is pretty good, especially with gear that increases resistance to death (I believe there are one or two pieces that can be sold on the AH in addition to the gear DL drops himself).

@Ziyyigo-Tipyigo: I haven't tried soloing beaucidine, but I might tonight on pup. Last time I helped a friend clear it we didn't have any trouble with three people (bst, whm, thf).

As far as making gil, here are some viable suggestions:
#1 Salvage. You can easily solo Arrgapogo Remnants II on a variety of jobs. I've personally done it on Puppetmaster, Blue Mage, Ninja (though I think on NIN I wasn't able to defeat the armored chariot quickly enough). I even have a friend who regularly solos it on WHM/NIN (no joke). Even if you don't bother to farm all of the gears and just go straight for the HQ Boss, you'll get between 60-100 alexandrite, and people are buying those like candy. On my server, average going rate is 12K each.

Do salvage casually, say, three times a week, you're looking at making 2.1M-3.6M a week, or 11.4M per month, or 136.8M in one year (again, that's only going 3 times a week).
If you're willing to pay 8k for single dynamis currency, buying the currency for an excalibur will cost you 143M gil.

Other gil generating activities that can be done solo:
Moblin Maze Mongers. Check if your server has mazes available to do the NMs (mine does). You can go in on nearly any job and solo these, and they drop items required for reforging AF gear often times. These can be hundreds of thousands of gil.

Crafting! Again, with the way AF armor is reforged, crafters are back in high demand. Consumable items are always in demand as well. I personally don't have a super high level craft, but my cooking is high enough to make pet food and biscuits that generate a nice chunk of change.

Selling Aht Urhgan currency (yes people still buy this on the AH). Doing some Besieged will get you a lot of points now.


So assuming you do some dynamis farming here and there, and just one of the activities in additon to salvage you can legitimately create a relic in about one year without being a hardcore player.

[Inafking]

First new troll added to ignore list. Anyone else?