FINAL FANTASY XI Updated (Sep. 3)

[Yugl]

A version update was performed on FINAL FANTASY XI at the following time.

[Date & Time]
Sep. 3, 2013 at 2:30 (PDT)

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Update Details]
Regarding Monstrosity, as a temporary solution to the problem wherein, if a player participates in a Ballista while junctioning a monster, the monster’s level is overwritten to the applicable Ballista’s level restriction, players will no longer be able to move from the Mog Garden to the following areas where Ballistas are being held:

Jugner Forest/Pashhow Marshlands/Meriphataud Mountains

[NynJa]

Soo instead of making it so those under monstrosity cant participate in ballista, they blocked off 3 zones completely, 3 zones that large mobs definitely need?

[fantasticdan]

Do they? I have a few blue box monsters at 50 and I've never touched those zones.

[NynJa]

Theyre not as crucial i guess since bubu/valk offer the same level range. Still stupid to block off 3 zones instead of just not allow monstrocity mobs to engage with those npcs...which is really strange since im pretty sure monstrocity chars CANT talk to npcs?

[dasva]

players will no longer be able to move from the Mog Garden to the following areas where Ballistas are being held:

Jugner Forest/Pashhow Marshlands/Meriphataud Mountains

Go home SE you're drunk

[fantasticdan]

Theyre not as crucial i guess since bubu/valk offer the same level range. Still stupid to block off 3 zones instead of just not allow monstrocity mobs to engage with those npcs...which is really strange since im pretty sure monstrocity chars CANT talk to npcs?

They can't interact with most npcs, just some doors and the skull dudes inside feratory from my experience. They can clearly flag what monsters can/can't interact with thou, so idk why they'd need to block those zones as a temp fix instead of just fixing those npcs.

For big monsters, I've always done:
1-10: starter zones
10-15: craig zones
15-25: bubu (can +2 monsters enter valk? i never checked, I figured they wouldn't be able to because of the tunnels)
25-30: zones outside of jeuno
30-41: glacier
41+: xarc

Go home SE you're drunk

On that note, I wonder why they made mog garden so small if they can give us a personal purgonorgo isle for feratory...

[Kaisha]

Go home SE you're drunk

I was wondering wtf was up with this also, since I don't recall there being any ballista-warp items that may have been potentially usable from the Garden.

On that note, I wonder why they made mog garden so small if they can give us a personal purgonorgo isle for feratory...

I'll take a garden with all the points 10 steps away from each other instead of a minute trek.