Cactuar Needles

[Draylo]

Fix the BLU spell 1k needles!

[Mathieu]

Yes!

Still kind of bugs me what these are actually for

Someone that I played with a long time ago said they were a Sailor Moon reference.

[Kristal]

Yes!

Still kind of bugs me what these are actually for

I think they prevent agro from cardians if you hold their card in inventory, but they still link and react to attacks.

[Mathieu]

I think they prevent agro from cardians if you hold their card in inventory, but they still link and react to attacks.

That's a really old rumor that has been disproved. It only persisted because most people never bothered trying to check it.

[Kristal]

That's a really old rumor that has been disproved. It only persisted because most people never bothered trying to check it.

Not to mention inconvenient... carrying an entire deck of cards takes up a lot of space... and generally you wanted those buggers dead anyway.

Although I guess you could play cardgames with them if you could gather the whole set. Did anyone every try to collect the whole set? Poker Night at the Colliseum anyone?

[Ophannus]

Difficult to gather the set since the ace cards only drop in a non repeatable final BCNM Windy mission. I soloed it on THF at 99 and none of them dropped Ace cards.

[Ophannus]

Daimonic Casing
Cactuar Needles
Adaman Scales

These items have been in the game for YEARS and have no purpose. Please give them some use...

[Demonjustin]

Hmm~ bit old a thread but yeah, this is dumb. Items without a use shouldn't exist, it's just torturing our inventories that already have limited room.

[Deifact]

There are loads of items in the game that don't have a use right? They're there to add flavour.

[Karbuncle]

Actually... almost every item in the game has a use and a purpose, even if its a one-off quest or another.

Still items without purpose I don't believe add any flavor to the game, dumping water in a cup of water doesn't add flavor to the water, you just got more water. Cactaur Needles could lend themselves to recipes in throwing weapons at the very least. Adaman Scales feel like they were added because every other Sheet recipe had scales, and SE just forgot to make a recipe for Adaman Scales, and Daimonic Casing... idk, It's rather unusual for them to add an item thats used in nothing that wasn't introduced eons ago.

Some useless items that were given a use involve Doll Gizmo and Nidhogg Scales.

Theres no reason for useless items to be useless. Items like Nidhogg Scales were probably seen as a trophy item back in early FFXI, a concept that was a little flawed, but items like Cactaur Needles and Adaman Scales are not trophy items, and therefor don't even serve that purpose. Also, 2 years ago SE mentioned wanting to make recipes for them lol... its like the second response. I guess they forgot