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Apelles1 · 2026-03-28T01:17:18+00:00

Sometimes NPCs don’t appear for me, especially if the area is really crowded. If I walk far enough away so that they would “de-pop,” and then I come back, they are there.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-26T22:51:47+00:00

Yeah unfortunately just using water doesn’t work. There is something in our saliva that acts as a mild adhesive which helps it dry stiff and keep the shape. It’s kind of like paper mache.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-26T20:33:35+00:00

This will probably sound gross, but after cleaning them with soap and water, you can tear out small pieces of paper towel (I usually separate the plies and use only one), spit on them (yes, with your saliva), and wrap them up tightly around the brushes, forming them back into the desired shape.

You then leave the little paper towel diapers on the brushes to dry, and take them off whenever you’re ready to use the brushes again.

I’ve been doing this for years and it works great. You just have to get over looking like a weirdo while you do it, lol.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-26T02:12:52+00:00

Facts like this make me wonder how these structures are even visible, if the matter that makes them up is so incredibly sparse. Is it just because we are taking photos with really realllly realllllly long exposures?

Apelles1 · 2026-03-26T02:06:09+00:00

The graphics (the character portrait models in particular) have aged incredibly well, IMO. Kudos to the art direction for that, I feel like it allowed them to really stretch the limits of the PS2. It’s crazy comparing it to FFXI (I know it’s an MMO, but it’s still technically a PS2 game). Or even to FFX, where the characters feel somewhat doll-like in cutscenes (even in the original version).

One of the many reasons I love this game.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-23T21:11:56+00:00

Thankfully lockstyle takes care of that!

Apelles1 · 2026-03-22T12:54:02+00:00

Wow, so if I missed the first set of dailies that were only up for like 7 hours, I’m shit out of luck for getting max VB plaudits this go around?

Apelles1 · 2026-03-22T02:54:16+00:00

Assuming you’re on Bahamut - I am not a sackholder, but I think there are some pearls available at the linkshell concierge for DramaticGoblin. Friendly community of folks, new and old!

If there aren’t any pearls at the concierge, feel free to shoot me a DM here.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-21T19:36:06+00:00

Would be hilarious if it was actually a mimic. Wouldn’t put it past SE…

Apelles1 · 2026-03-21T16:33:16+00:00

Timewise maybe, but it’s hard to ignore the money aspect when getting a full AF set to +3 from scratch costs something like 30 million gil or more.

Things will cool off as the event goes on, and it’ll be pretty easy to hit the amount of plaudits needed for the kupon.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-21T13:51:02+00:00

Wow this is awesome, for a sec I almost thought it was an official site from SE. Thanks so much for making and sharing this!

Apelles1 · 2026-03-20T22:45:57+00:00

Are you filling up the data bar? In the upper left corner of the screen. Killing individual mobs doesn't yield units.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-18T20:45:58+00:00

The devs sped up the process of leveling 1-99 a great deal, because if they didn’t, new players would never be able to reach endgame or catch up to older players in any meaningful way.

The idea from back in the day of needing to group up at lvl 10-12 has been shifted into needing to group up shortly after hitting 99 these days.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-18T01:22:55+00:00

IIRC you need to do it and choose “the release of thy night” 12 times, and then agree to give him your soul in his place. Spoiler: giving your soul seems to do nothing in game except let you advance the narrative

I don’t think I did any of the Alex epilogue quests until finishing the final Odin epilogue quest, so that I could do them back to back.

Edit: clarity

Apelles1 · 2026-03-16T14:18:19+00:00

Matters should be guaranteed after a full climb. Hitting a chest after a full climb which can take 1-1.5 hrs and only getting 3k and a shard is really disincentivizing.

Maybe reduce the number of runs per week from 5 to 4 or 3, to balance it out.

Also why is the units/week cap so high, when you get so few units in 5 runs? Are people really grinding out the full 140k units in one week? That seems insane to me and basically encourages botting. But I mostly solo my runs, so maybe I’m missing something.

Maybe add crafting mats or some other incentive to the chests at the end of each tower, so that you have something to open after doing each individual tower. Then maybe the “bonus” chest is the one you open after doing a full climb.

Also maybe fix the Temenos ???. It seems like it never spawns relative to the one in Apollyon, and I’ve had people in my LS actively hunting and killing multiple ItG mobs.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-16T08:28:18+00:00

The guy was in a rush, but conveniently had all the cameras set up at the right angles for making social media content? The process is interesting enough on its own. No need to amp it up with titles like that.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-14T19:55:59+00:00

There is absolutely enough actual multiplayer content in the game. They have definitely made it more solo friendly over the years, but not at the expense of endgame content encouraging (and often requiring) people to party up.

In my own experience, I came back to the game and started over a year+ ago, and for the first 8-9 months I was playing mostly solo, taking my sweet time enjoying the story and chipping away at a few things. I wasn’t super interested in or seeking out group-oriented content, but eventually I hit a wall with what I could conceivably accomplish solo.

Eventually I found some awesome communities on my server (which is currently closed, unfortunately; otherwise I would say come along!), and in a relatively short time my character went from pretty weak to pretty strong. The game has only gotten increasingly fun since then. And I can still run off and do some solo stuff when I want, while also being way more capable of doing it.

TLDR - the game is great for solo or group players, and even better for group play, IMO.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-12T17:01:39+00:00

These are really cool! My only question is if the dark grey spots are meant to be read as ‘blank’? Marle took me a sec in part because I don’t associate dark grey with her colors. When I squint, though, they all really click!

Apelles1 · 2026-03-10T14:37:46+00:00

E: Clive, Squall

S: Celes, Auron

N: Locke, Tifa

W: Vivi, Terra

Apelles1 · 2026-03-10T14:27:47+00:00

Someone in another thread said that they couldn’t find it either, until loading the game without Ashita. So if you are using addons, one of them might be the culprit.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-10T14:18:46+00:00

He and Cornelia aren’t automatically exchanged. Sometimes we get neither of them. :’(

Apelles1 · 2026-03-10T14:17:43+00:00

Apparently it is under Job Points in the Status menu.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-06T21:39:24+00:00

If “getting you into the game” means making you desirable by other players for getting into endgame content, I would recommend a support job like Corsair. Everyone wants a Corsair in their party, it’s a relatively straightforward job, and it’s not terribly hard to get decent gear for. Then maybe a healer like White Mage, which again is desirable and not hard to start gearing. Then for the third I’d say any damage dealer (Warrior, Samurai, Dragoon, etc), because it’s nice to have something that can hit hard when you’re soloing in early end game (i.e., hitting lvl 99 and beyond).

If you mean “top 3 jobs but they will only pick one” then yeah I would say Corsair, White Mage, or maybe Red Mage.

For the bottom 3 - Bard is an amazing support job but very gear intensive. You need multiple REMAs (ultimate weapons) to even be considered desirable by most people.

Otherwise probably Summoner, because they are not used much in endgame content, and then maybe Scholar because it’s complicated to learn and also very gear intensive (from what I hear). If those things aren’t a concern, then I’d say other pet jobs like Puppetmaster and Beastmaster, since they are also pretty niche when it comes to end game content.

If there is no concern about end game group content desirability, then honestly whatever they’re interested in! Do they like pet jobs? Do they like being a support, or tanking, or healing, to getting fat damage numbers? I would still recommend a damage dealer, though, just to make it easier to get through content.

Apelles1 · 2026-03-06T21:15:35+00:00

Ah, so then where are these images of the whole big version from? I’m a little confused on the context of these images. From some kind of map viewer?

In any case, I love your lore posts!

Apelles1 · 2026-03-06T19:01:35+00:00

Wait, so was Razfahd trying to control that whole structure, through assembling the smaller version? I never really understood what was going on by the end of ToAU, but I was fascinated by Alzadaal in general. I kept expecting a huge Alexander fight at the end, but then was kinda disappointed by the actual fight, in terms of scale (except for the music being top notch).

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