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Flattus Maximus

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FFXI: Flattus @ Bahamut (COR, SAM, WAR, BLM, WHM(in training))
FFXIV: Flattus Maximus - Leviathan

Co-founder of the #AzureSkies linkshell

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Flattus Maximus @flattusmaximus.bsky.social · Jul 11

Today marks my 1 year post op #VSG!

What a life changing event and one of the hardest things I've done in my life.

Was it worth it? 1000%. I feel so much better and love my life so much more. I'm still learning the new things I can do that I couldn't before.

#bariatric #bariatricjourney

Flattus Maximus

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#AzureSkies turns 1 year old today! This is the post that started all the kidnapping, I mean... recruiting of FFXI players. I'm ecstatic to see how we've grown in a year and excited for the next year.

Love this community so much

Flattus Maximus @flattusmaximus.bsky.social · Dec 6

Did you know, the #FFXI Returner Campaign starts Dec 20th? You can join the brand new Blue sky linkshell 'AzureSkies'! We're based on Bahamut and comprised of like-minded #FFXI lovers from all over Blue Sky!

Come to our discord to find out more!

discord.gg/cCZQSMuu

Join the AzureSkies Linkshell Discord Server!

Check out the AzureSkies Linkshell community on Discord - hang out with 30 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

discord.gg

December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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Digi

@digic300.bsky.social

#ffxi #gart
"Look what I found!" (featuring @flattusmaximus.bsky.social )

Flats lifting up Biggmann. He's grinning while Biggmann looks confused.

December 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM

Flattus Maximus

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Final Fantasy XI is the best MMORPG

I will not be taking debates at this time

December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM

Flattus Maximus

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Hey Ali, what music do you like?

Me:

December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Flattus Maximus

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Mom look, the wings are choking

December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Richard Kadrey

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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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🎁 GIVEAWAY 🎁

We're giving away 1 Year of Sticker Club Buddy Tier Patreon Membership! This means, you get 1 standard sized sticker set per month for 12 months straight!

To enter:

- Follow
- Comment Below

Winner will be randomly selected on 12/1/25.

November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Flattus Maximus

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Having people ask you how to do their job, that you've applied for and got denied; drives me BONKERS

November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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chá matt 🇵🇸

@patodeborracha.bsky.social

Captura de tela de tweet de @STALLE0N com um emoji de uma galinha e um emoji de carro. O post diz "Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken. It is bigger than the car". O emoji de garnisé é de fato muito maior que o emoji do carro vermelho. O tweet foi feito em 03 de Agosto de 2021.

November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Flattus Maximus

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I started reading (omg he can read?!) Dungeon Crawler Carl last night and I am INTO it.

November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Also Ars ❄️🍂

@casuallyars.bsky.social

As a newer player, I don't know half of the things people talk about in FFXI, especially what a DD is and what DT means when setting up my gear.
So I thought I'd make a small graphic for just a few terms I felt were important/used often enough for new people like me to use as reference!

BCNM - Burning Circle Notorious Monster
"A burning circle, here?!" - Alxaal
In FFXIV terms, these would be most similar to your trial fights.
It places you and your party members into an instanced zone to
fight an enemy; buffs will typically wear on entry, but some can
be outliers.
HTMB - High-Tier Mission Battlefield
If BCNMs are your trial fights, these are your Extreme versions.
These use a KI to get in, which can be bought for varying amounts
of Merits. Most of the gear has been outstripped these days, but
it's still neat to get some for lockstyle or the experience!
These come in varying difficulties that will be explained later here.
If you clear on the highest difficulty, you can get a title specific
to that boss!
Occasionally, events will run where you're able to get special items
from these (looking at all of you, people that joined from San d'Oria
The Second Walk). The POL website will announce these.
ilvl - Item Level
Like in FFXIV, there's a level for your gear to denote how strong it
is. Since FFXI stopped player progression past level 99, it's the
gear that strengthens people beyond the threshold.
If gear has <119> in the lower right corner of the box, it's considered
'ilvl gear' and is 'current', as in 'added in the last five years'.
Often contested as a term because some gear will rocket players
past the 119 mark, even when not written.
DIFFICULTY LEVELS
This applies to content like Ambuscade and HTMBs,
and uses item levelto show how much trouble the
fight ahead will be.
(Note that these are NOT indicative of damage because
some will push your shit in even on VE, looking at you in
particular Kammy.)

VE - Very Easy - 113
E - Easy - 116
N - Normal - 119
D - Difficult - 119+
VD - Very Difficult - 119+

KI - Key Item
Exactly as it says on the tin. There's a special inventory just for
these, so they won't take up space in your main bags thankfully.
There's temporary key items that will be consumed on use, often
items used to get into specific battles.
Some of these have humorous descriptions, so don't be afraid to
take your time and read through them if you get the chance!
AH - Auction House
If you're familiar with FFXIV, this is the market board. It works
a bit differently though, where you put up how much you'd pay
for an item, and if someone listed it for that amount or less, you
buy it! You can lowball something and occasionally get LUCKY.
Could also mean 'FFXIAH', a website where you can check player
bazaars across the server you're on as well as what an item
recently sold for.
LP - Limit Points
Points accumulated after you hit level 75, or whatever your level cap
would be. Rather than EXP, you begin gaining Limit Points. If you gain
10,000 Limit Points, you get a single Merit Point!
Merits - Merit Points
These can be used to strengthen your character further, with
your first cap being 45. This can ALSO be raised, up to holding 75 merit
points that can be used on battlefield orbs!
CP - Capacity Points
The next level after you get to 99. You begin to accumulate CP as you
kill monsters around your level. When you hit 30,000 CP, you gain a
Job Point.
JP - Job Points
Every 30,000 CP you get a JP, which is the pinnacle of strengthening
your job's specific qualities. These are gained per-job, unlike Limit
Points that can be obtained across all your jobs.
As you use JP for attribute increases, you gain Gifts that will
overall improve things like your damage, how many CP you earn, and
other more job-specific things like wyvern stats.
When you hit 2,100 JP, you become a job master and can get those
little stars above your head!

DT - Damage Taken
If you hear someone talk about 'DT sets' or 'DT gear', they're talking about gear that keeps you alive! There's PDT (physical damage taken) and MDT (magical damage taken). This doesn't include MTDT (mental damage taken from yell chat). (Jokingly)
DD - Damage Dealer
While 'tank' and 'healer' are still the main terms used in FFXI for those specific jobs, rather than calling something like a Dragoon a DPS, they're called a DD.
2HR - Two Hour Ability
In FFXI, all jobs have an ability specific to them that has a crispy full 2 hour cooldown in real life. Be careful on misclicking it; it's not something to worry about when you're going through for story, but it can mean life or death in a particularly hard fight sometimes.
LB - Limit Break quests
A set of quests starting at level 75 that will allow your character to get to level 99. Happens every 5 levels; get used to saying hi to Maat and the moogle!
TP - Tactical Points
1,000 of these and you can execute a Weapon Skill!
WS - Weapon Skill
In the early game, it's best to think of these as a Limit Break from the Final Fantasy franchise as a whole. As you level up and gain new abilities, you're be able to use these MUCH faster.
SC - Skillchain
When two Weapon Skills used in succession are appropriate and used at the right time, a Skillchain is activated. This can go MUCH further in-depth, but there's online charts dedicated to telling you how to make specific SCs depending on your WS you have available.
Or you could just not bother with these and spam Savage Blade, which is not very advisable.
Fudo - Tachi: Fudo
A Great Katana weapon skill. Used for cheese.
Naegling
Weapon used to make cheese out of Savage Blade.
Savage Blade
Also used for cheese.
Mostly memes with these last few, but you'll see people talking about them sometimes so I thought it'd be good to add them!

Lockstyle
If you're familiar with XIV, this is your glamour system!
Rather than having a glamour chest and plates, you have up to
200 sets! These share slots with gear sets though, so balance
is key when you begin to make gear sets for playing the game
(which I'll admit is terrifying).
Which means, technically, you have 200 glamour plates with no
restrictions on use in any zone AND no restriction on the type
of gear you can use for your appearance!.
My own lockstyle is a mashup of both melee, ranged, and
caster gear because I think it looks cool all together!
As long as you have a job leveled that can equip it, it can
be used as lockstyle/glamour on any other gear piece!
The major snag for lockstyle is weapon types; you can't lock
some types of weapon over others. If you want a sword on a
spear, for instance, it'll flag an error at you. Just something
to keep an eye on!
Also known as the TRUE end game of FFXI. Go forth and make
your mark on the fashion world!

November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM

Flattus Maximus

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How do I sell furniture without Facebook Marketplace? I've tried OfferUp and it's ok I guess.

I just want to sell this couch so I can get a new one

November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Stella Claus I Guess

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Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙

Stella Claus I Guess @antlervel.vet · 20d

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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vicenarian.bsky.social

@vicenarian.bsky.social

Arciele, the FFXI legend, made some new showcase images for FFXI's ultimate weapon types! Here are the first 4 graphics:

#FF11 #FFXI

November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Flattus Maximus

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Help a fella out:

Where would I even start to get a career in the programming field? I have no degrees and no formal experience. Just familiarity with computers on a personal experience level

I need a career change. Since I'm so infatuated with tech and computers, might as well make it a career

November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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Also Ars ❄️🍂

@casuallyars.bsky.social

What is Vana'Bout?? As a newcomer myself, I don't know much either but I can try to stumble through an explanation for other FFXI newcomers!

November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Digi

@digic300.bsky.social

#ffxi #Biggventure
To celebrate 11/11, I compiled almost all of Biggmann's art and landscapes into one lil digital zine! I thought it'd be nice to have something all together to look at
Download here!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h2w4r...