Quote Originally Posted by Poppa View Post
So the game has nothing to do with umbral or astral, just classifying the elements under each?

I wish I had remembered, I havent played XI in over 5 years lol.
It have a big impact in the game for craft and your element spells

Each month is Umbral or a Astral month each day is a element also each hour is also a element so if it's
Umbral = Earth, Ice and Water
Astral = Fire, Thunder and Wind

Right now on FFXIV it's Day element: fire hour: element:Earth and it's the 5th astral

Which mean if you crafting with fire on that hour you have better luck but also the astral month help you out. But let's say the day element is Water and hour is fire and you are using fire to craft you may have low luck. This is why sometimes you can make a item 500 times with 100% luck but the next day you try it you have 10-30% that you break some.

So in FFXIV the day,hour and month have a big impact in the game. Right now there no way to tell if pointing a way would help out your crafting in FFXIV like FFXI. But if you see in the night sky you do see each element star maybe it does maybe it does not.