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    The Starlight Celebration (12/13/2010)

    http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...3af083cd4fdd50

    History

    The history of Eorzea is a dark one, stained with the blood of those who have fallen victim to innumerable episodes of strife. Several generations ago, one such episode erupted into a series of battles that not only claimed countless lives, but left thousands homeless and without food. Yet none were hit harder than the children of Ishgard, who, in addition to being left hungry and alone, were forced to endure the chilling alpine winds of Coerthas in order to simply survive.

    But it is oft said, the darker the history, the brighter the acts of good do shine.

    Each night, while on their routine patrols of the city, a handful of Ishgardian knights would seek out these children and offer them room and board within the walls of their company barracks. This, of course, was strictly forbidden by the knight's charter, and so the kind men and women, many of them once orphans themselves, would disguise the children in the jackets of their scarlet uniforms, allowing them to slip into the building unnoticed.

    After many months, the fighting eventually subsided and peace once again returned to the realm. As Ishgard rebuilt, the number of orphans in the city-state eventually dwindled back to zero, and soon the wartime tradition was all but forgotten...

    Until a group of former orphans gathered together in order to pay tribute to the knights who rescued them, and ensure that no one ever forgot their remarkable deeds. On the coldest week of each year, they would dress up in brilliant scarlet uniforms and pass out gifts to the children of the realm, in turn, passing along the happiness that they once received on a starlit night, many years past.

    And that tradition lives on today in the Starlight Celebration.

    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...9bc5e5fa02b281

    Duration
    Wednesday, December 15th (4:00 p.m. PST) through Friday, December 31st (7:00 a.m. PST)

    Receive a Little Happiness

    Each city-state has put up decorations for the festival, including trees, arches, and bells. By ringing the bells at the following locations, holiday helpers known as Smilebringers will present adventurers with one of several gifts:

    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...0a227fe44c8ea0

    Bell Locations
    Central Limsa Lominsa - Upper Decks
    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...f529c259d29603

    Central Limsa Lominsa - Lower Decks
    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...774f51d1dbe271

    Gridania
    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...e8149237d8855b

    Ul'dah Merchant Strip
    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...5da9bd50fcfa60

    Ul'dah Hustings Strip
    http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...7bd59dd634f2d2


    Gifts
    Powdered Sugar
    Young Dodo Roaster
    Dodo Stuffing
    Dream Hat Materials
    Dream Tunic Materials
    Dream Boots Materials
    Twinklebox
    *Presents are available for pick up once every four hours (earth time), with up to six being held for each adventurer in the event that they cannot collect their gifts right away. For example, if an adventurer returns to a bell 20 hours after receiving their last present, there will be five new presents waiting.

    Create a Little Excitement

    Players can use the gifts they receive to create festive items such as lavish outfits, scrumptious holiday sweets, and more!

    Item Required Skill Materials
    Dream Cap Weaver Rank 11-20 Dream Hat Materials, Dormouse Fur, Cotton Yarn
    Dream Tunic Weaver Rank 11-20 Dream Tunic Materials、2 Circles of Dormouse Fur, Cotton Yarn
    Dream Boots Leatherworker Rank 11-20 Dream Boots Materials, Dormouse Fur, Antelope Sinew Cord
    Princess Pudding Culinarian Rank 1-10 Sunset Wheat Flour, Salted Butter, Chicken Egg, Cinnamon, Gridanian Walnut, La Noscea Orange, Blood Currants, Stardust Sugar
    Ore Fruitcake Culinarian Rank 1-10 Sunset Wheat Flour, Salted Butter, Chicken Egg, Cinnamon, Rasins, Almonds, Sun Lemon, Powdered Sugar
    Snowflake Peak Culinarian Rank 11-20 Sunset Wheat Flour, Salted Butter, Chicken Egg, Buffalo Milk, 2 Rolanberries, Sweet Cream, Powdered Sugar
    Roast Dodo Culinarian Rank 21-30 Young Dodo Roaster, Rock Salt, Wild Onion, Salted Butter, Flatbread, Laurel, Cotton Yarn, Dodo Stuffing
    Starlight Log Culinarian Rank 31-40 Sunset Wheat Flour, Salted Butter, Chicken Egg, Bubble Chocolate, Almonds, Rolanberry, sweet cream, Powdered Sugar

    Give a Little Smile of Your Own

    Embrace the giving spirit by surprising a friend or stranger with a newly crafted Starlight Celebration creation!

    Receive a twinklebox? Why not pass it along to one of Eorzea's less-fortunate children? There are NPCs in each of the six hamlets collecting donations, and presenting good Samaritans with Dream attire.

    *There are a total of three pieces to the Dream attire set. As they are not exclusive, players may possess more than one of each piece.

    Area Hamlet NPC
    Western La Noscea (11,23) Aleport Tsimh Panipahr
    Eastern La Noscea (31,18) Wineport Eyriguht
    The Northern Shroud (25,14) Hyrstmill Blavier
    The Southern Shroud (45,46) Quarrymill Imailie
    Eastern Thanalan (38,19) The Gold Bazaar Adeldreda
    Western Thanalan (13,35) The Silver Bazaar Gaganji

  2. #2
    New Odin
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    Although it was easy to guess, they are referring to the small towns around eorzea as hamlets. So the defense battles have something to do with them.

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    the whitest knight u' know
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    Finally at least 1 reason to visit those... until they open the guild shops (one of the NPCs even mentioned that they have items not found at other shops).

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    Ridill
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    Great, we have to craft event gear lol. I'm assuming the randomized reward NPCs can handle out the crafted items right?

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    You guys can have all the christmas gear, i will take the chocobo~

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    I trusted Zet and this is what happened
    Eleven owes me $40 bucks

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    Reindeer Chocobo and Miqote Santa outfit is win.

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    Ridill Ninja Lotter
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    Quote Originally Posted by miokomioko View Post
    Finally at least 1 reason to visit those... until they open the guild shops (one of the NPCs even mentioned that they have items not found at other shops).
    Hope those items they stock are semi-annoying items to obtain otherwise (brimstone, formic acid, come to mind but I'm sure there are others)

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    I haven't really been following things recently, but I take it there's no information on the stats of this gear set?

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    the whitest knight u' know
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    Hat: http://ffxiv.yg.com/item/dream-hat?id=8012501
    Tunic: http://ffxiv.yg.com/item/dream-tunic?id=8032101
    Boots: http://ffxiv.yg.com/item/dream-boots?id=8081501

    The only thing notable is the cumulative effect of Ice Damage -7%, Elemental Resistances +45, and the tunic having Ice Affinity +1.

    Obviously, no special effects are written on the items themselves... though it's possible they might have "hidden" effects like Gay +100.

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    Ridill
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    Now, there's a reason to log on for a little at least - to get the gears

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    FUCK YES

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    Holiday events are so lame. If I ran a mmo, I'd never do any.

    /scrooge
    bah humbug!

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    the whitest knight u' know
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    You must have started playing FFXI in 2004 or later.

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    Most NAs were too low level to get anything out of that event as it was, myself included.

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    We got outpost warps from that, didn't we?

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    the whitest knight u' know
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    Yeah, Outpost Warping was the reward for that... and NAs were definitely not too low level to enjoy the event as the event was capped down to like Lv.10/20/30 depending on the zone. The only areas I didn't participate in were ones like the Jeuno zones because I still got aggro running around there... not to mention I was pretty burnt out after a few long nights of fighting some in lv.10 cap zones before they emergency maintenance nerf'd them.

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