Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Here's an example:

Days of the week affected your spell potency along with weather, so if it's Darksday, you'd take a slight hit on your curing spells and on lights day with double light weather (auroras) you'd get a crazy boost to your light spells (offense/defense) in the right conditions.

In terms of moonphases, there's a Blue Mage spell called Plenilune Embrace which heals the party member and gives them attack and magic attack boosts that varied based on moon phase, given the name. Stuff like that is affected by moon phases and the days but people link it mostly to crafting.



Kira seen FFXI and immediately went into "NO!" mode lol. The only issue was how it was presented to us compared to XI being more straight forward about it.
Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time farming HQ darksteel and gold ore in FFXIV has noticed by now a difference in drop rate on new moon and full moon phases.

The only question is to what degree these things affect crafting and gathering. As you can see by my signature, I was an avid FFXI crafter and devoted all of my time to it. HQ theory crafting went to an extreme of testing whether equipping an elemental staff had an effect on the HQ rate but I can assure you that direction and time frames were the norm.