Furen's FFXI Cure Guide

Hello everyone, I spent lots of time over the last year or so to try and understand exactly how all the cures in the game work. It turned out more complex then I would have expected, but I think what I came up with covers all cure situations. If you're curious how/why I did this you can take a look at my cure testing adventures page.

Since the formula is pretty messy and lots of people hate math I decided to make a cure calculator. I had to learn Java Script to make this thing so hopefully there are no problems for anyone.


The Formula
Below is the formula in it's full form.

Mind						Your total mind
Vit						Your total vitality
Skill						Your total healing skill
Rate						The rate modifier affects how fast this cure goes up as you increase your stats
Const						General constant applied to the cure
Equip						The cure potency bonus your character receives from equipment
Daywx						The bonus/penalty you receive from day and weather
Power						Component of the cure related to your stats
Base						Cure without equipment or day/weather effects

Now the formula broken down into its components so that it is easier to understand.

• Not included in formula is Divine Seal. This is simply a doubling of the final result.
• I will often refer back to the values of power (cure power) and base (base cure) throughout the rest of the guide.
• Anything in brackets is always rounded down.
• Rate and Const are the variables used to define each individual cure. Every cure has 3 sets of these variables.
• The numbers you use for Rate and Const is dependent on which cure soft caps you have passed for the given cure.

The following table is a summary of the caps/rate/const values for all the cures.

White Magic Cures Cure Cap Rate Constant Cure 1   1 -10 20 2 5 30 57 29.125   Cure 2   1 20 75 2 47.5 90 35.6666 87.62   Cure 3   1 70 160 2 115 190 15.6666 180.43   Cure 4   0.6666 165 330 2 275 390 6.5 354.6666   Cure 5   0.6666 330 570 1 410 690 2.8333 591.2

Blue Magic Cures Cure Cap Rate Constant Pollen   1 -6 24 2 9 34 57 33.125   Healing Breeze   0.6666 -45 120 2 65 180 6.5 144.6666   Wild Carrot   1 60 150 2 105 180 15.6666 170.43   Magic Fruit   0.6666 130 370 1 210 490 2.8333 391.2   Exuviation   1 40 70 2 55 80 57 79.125

The Caps
All the formulas have 2 soft caps and those numbers were shown above. One thing that wasn't mentioned was that cures also have a minimum possible value. Unlike the other caps, these are hard caps. The cure will not go below a minimum cap (except when you experience a negative daywx effect). I have tested many of them directly, but I just can't get my stats low enough to test some.

Cure	Min Cap	Min Seen
Cure 1	10	10
Cure 2	60	60
Cure 3	130	*137*
Cure 4	270	*316*
Cure 5	450	*589*
Pollen	14	14
Healing Breeze	60	60
Wild Carrot	120	120
Magic Fruit	250	250
Exuviation	60	*81*

How did I determine the min caps for cures I never could get low enough to see, well there are actually 2 ways. The first is the cap relation. If you look at cure 1 for example, the min is 10, first cap 20, second cap 30. It increases by the same amount from min -> first cap -> second cap. This pattern was observed on all cures that I directly measured a min on.

The second method is via the WHM vs. BLU cure relation.


Whitemage vs. Bluemage Cure Spell Relation
BLU mage cures are all derived directly from existing WHM cures (guess it was just easier for SE to do it this way). All of them are just a WHM cure + or - a value. This applies to the base cure, and not the final equip/daywx modified cure.

Cure	Relation
Pollen	(Cure 1) + 4
Healing Breeze	(Cure 4) - 210
Wild Carrot	(Cure 3) - 10
Magic Fruit	(Cure 5) - 200
Exuviation	(Cure 1) + 50

These relations are extremely helpful because it allowed me to test things on regular cures that I otherwise could not have. For the cures which I had most trouble testing (low stat cure 4 and 5) I was able to use healing breeze and magic fruit to determine the formulas.


Curaga's
I do not list the cap/rate/const information for curaga's because they are simply an AOE version of the standard cures. Curaga = AOE cure II, Curaga 2 = AOE Cure III etc.... I listed healing breeze because it is unique from the other BLU cures. One thing you should know is the breakeven point of when it is efficient to use these spells (ignoring the obvious issues of hate control).

Spell	Breakeven Amount
Curaga	2.50
Curaga II	2.61
Curaga III	2.05
Curaga IV	1.93

So what does this mean. Basically to break even (mp efficiency wise) on curaga's you need to cure the equivalent # of full cures as the number in the table above. For example if your normal cure 2 was 100, you would need to cure at least 250 worth of hp using curaga to break even. Any more then that and you are being mp efficient, any less and you would have saved mp by doing individual cures (or regens ofcourse).


Equipment and Day/Weather Effects

Weapon Cure Potency Item Final Light/Appolo's Staff 10% Healing/Dryad Staff 10% Templar Mace 10% Asklepios 5% Dia Wand 1%

Armor Cure Potency Item Final Noble's Tunic 10% Aristocrat's Coat 12% Hospitaler Earring 5% Medicine Ring* 10% Healing Feather** 15% Volunteer's Khud*** 5% Lambda Sash*** 3%

Day Effects Day Bonus None 0% Lights Day 10% Darks Day -10%

Weather Effects Weather Bonus None 0% Light Weather 10% Light Weather x 2 25% Dark Weather -10% Dark Weather x 2 -25%

For use in the cure formula bonuses are added together then converted to a fraction + 1. For example Light Weather x 2 (25%) + Darksday (-10%) = 15% (1.15) for your Daywx variable. The maximum possible bonuses are 1.60 (Equip) and 1.35 (Daywx). Unfortunately because double light weather does not occur in besiged so you can not have these at the same time. Max combination at this time is (1.52 and 1.35) or roughly a combined bonus of about 2.052 on your base cure. One important note, day and weather affects either trigger in full or not at all. For example, if it is double light weather you will get either a 25% bonus or none at all (never anything inbetween). Day and weather are treated separately from each other so you can have the day effect triggering while the weather effect does not.

*    Yellow HP and TP < 100
**   Enchantment, you lose bonus if you unequip feather (lasts 3 minutes)
*** Besiged only



Graphs
A couple graphs here showing how cures compare to each other as you increase your cure power value. There are more graphs on the graphs page.


First graph is just a fairly standard WHM cure that has 20% cure bonus from equipment. Please note that although I display Exuviation and Magic Fruit it is not possible to cure these spells with 20% cure potency equipment. A nice reference chart to see the cures versus each other, but it is much more interesting to look at relative cure efficiencies.


I also plotted basic regen's on here (no merits or Briualt included). One thing you can see is how efficient BLU cures are and of course how efficient regen's are even without merits/Briualt.


Even Only Oddity
Every time I thought I had a formula that worked I found something wasn't quite right. In most cures, as you increase your cure power by 1 it follows a nice pattern. For example 0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1 would indicate a cure that is increase at a rate of 0.5 for every cure power. Eventually I noticed some cases where the pattern was quite strange. I instead got a pattern of 0,1,0,2,0,1,0,2. The numbers were only increasing when an even value of cure power was reached. I didn't notice this early on in cure testing because many cures have rates which already only increase on even numbers. To represent this behavior the cure power is divided by 2 and rounded down again.


Max possible Cure
What would a cure page be without a little high power curing fun. Before I get into any of this let me start off by saying the following is not practical in any way. To achieve this cure everything has to be setup perfectly to maximize one single Cure. Anyways time for more number crunching.

Item Notes Mind Vit Skill Base Stats Elvaan 75WHM/37NIN 72 68 276 Weapon Templar Mace 5     Weapon #2 Asklepios       Ammo Healing Feather       Head Maat's Cap 7 7   Neck Ajari Bead Necklace 6     Earring Communion Earring 2     Earring #2 Communion Earring 2     Body Aristrocrat's Coat       Hands Healer's Mitts +1 7   15 Ring Tamas Ring 5     Ring #2 Medicine Ring 5

Item Notes Mind Vit Skill Back Aslan Cape 5     Waist Deductive Brocade Obi 10     Legs Blessed Trousers +1 7     Feet Marduk Crakows 10     Food Goblin Mushpot 10     Merits Mind Merits x 5 5     Merits Healing Skill Merits x 8     16 BRD Buff 2hr Lower Tier Etudes 22 22   BRD Buff 2hr Higher Tier Etudes 34 34   SMN Buff Glittering Ruby (Mind and Vit) 12 12   SMN Buff Ecliptic Howl 8     Mind Potion 50% of Base Mind 38       Total 265 144 307

Assuming that you can somehow put all of this together you would have a cure power of 1122. Your equip bonus would be 1.57 and daywx would be 1.35. Cure I-V would be 79, 217, 457, 931 and 1671 (without divine seal). Although this is technically the max (from what I can tell) it is not likely to ever happen for many reasons.

• Many of the buffs are diminishing in nature. Thus to get the true full stat output you would need your cure V to go off almost instantly after all diminishing buffs are put onto you.
• Along with being a diminishing buff, glittering ruby randomly applies a stat (you need mind and vit).
• The mind potion is not a guaranteed 50% bonus (far from it), it can give you a 10% bonus and probably some %'s in between. Once you use one, you get medicated so you can't use another for a while.
• To get maximum effect from Ecliptic Howl you need to do this on a new moon.
• Has to be done in Temnos on Lightsday.
• Much of the gear required is very rare (Maat's Cap, Marduk Crawkows etc...)
• Because you are wearing Cleric's Belt (for mind) and not (Korin Obi) you have to hope for both Lightsday and weather to trigger
• There's a chance that you can not push your mind higher then 255 or 256 (this is a computing thing). I don't know if this is true or not, just going over possibilities.

On top of all that you have to drag SMN's, BRD's and someone with a lot of HP to temnos just so you can do a big cure.
Well I decided to give it my best try. Unfortunately I got a dud Mind potion (10% I think). I didn't have some of the especially rare pieces of gear. I did not receive either the Fenrir buff or higher tier VIT etude. All of that and some slight diminishing buffs resulted in this cure V.



I can do better but I don't want to drag people to Temnos again (anyone out there bored, would love to see a 1600+).


What Does this All Mean

• One Mind is as effective as 3 Vitality
• One Mind is about effective as 5 Healing Skill
• Healing Skill only contributes to your cure every 5 Healing Skill. This means that adding 1 Healing Skill when you have a cure power of 199 would be as effective as adding 9 skill when your cure power is 195
• Cures will only change on even values of cure power. Adding 1 Vitality when your cure power is at 199 would have same effect as 1 Mind when your cure power is at 198.
• Equipment bonuses and Day/Weather bonuses are multiplied to your base cure in that order. This is important because if you switched the order it could effect the final result very slightly
• Cure V has a soft cap (it actually has 2) just like all other cures. Cure V's soft cap is just not as strong as the other cures (I hear WHM's say Cure 5 has no cap way too often please stop)
• All of the Blue Mage cures are based off the WHM cure formulas
• Blue Mage cures are very efficient

Thank you
I didn't do all of this alone, I needed to use people in my testing. In some cases (because I don't have a BLU past 37) I had to ask people to test for me while I instructed them on what to equip and test. I'd like to take a chance to thank everyone for their help (I apologize to anyone I forget to list).

• Lilsha - My first ever cure test subject when I first started testing. This helped me find cure V cap.
• Draez - For letting me use his RDM to test lower stat cure IV in capped 60 Pso'Xja
• Tzu - For coming to brenner with his DRK and draining my MNK1/WHM mind and vit to 1 so I could test cure 1 with very low stats
• Ellatrix - For letting me use his BLU just after it hit 58 (the level BLU gets fruit) so I could test low stat magic fruit and find min possible value.
• Juvian - Bringing his BLU to Mamook so I could test out fruit and exuviation. Also for reminding me that exuviation existed :).
• Evrae - "/sea all WHM11". That is how I found Evrae (a person I had never met before that day). They helped me find min possible cure 2 (it was the last one I needed).
• Vryali, Terravcota, Jetta, Mashu, Darrick - For helping me try out a max cure.
• All the people that came and helped me get a dia wand so I could check if it did anything special beyond the reported 1% (I would list names but I can't remember all the people that had come so I will just thank the group).

Last few notes
Not sure if anyone will actually read through all this, but if you did I hope you find it useful and maybe somewhat interesting. I did my best to ensure that all the formulas and values I came up with are accurate. I have checked and double checked vs my cure testing spreadsheet so hopefully there were no transfer errors. If you have any questions, comments or corrections you can email me at furen33ihs@gmail.com (remove the ihs). I also read message boards a bit so if you post there maybe I or someone else can answer your question.