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[Yugl]

Maybe I can finally convince Oph to go at least 4/5 Empathy. Amazing buff!

[ronin sparthos]

Players suggestions: Adding Riftdross/cinder or Heavy Metal Plates/Pouches to increase Legion incentives.

SE response:

While we're not currently looking into adding the suggested items to Legion to increase participation, we are looking at how to increase participation via other methods.

[Septimus]

SMN updates were useless as fuck yet again.

What are you talking about?! The Summoner update makes the rest of these look like trash! Summoners never have to Bblood Pact ever again, we can just cast spirits and let them nuke the holy hell out of mobs! This is sooooo much more useful than if they bothered to reduce Blood Pact ability delay!

...

No wait, this was total crap and a complete waste of development time. And of course when SMN ask for a reasonable buff that helps the job, the Development team will tell them "Maybe next year, you just got two gigantic buffs that people were clamoring for in a row, now let us tell you about this new SAM ability that allows them to fart on an opponent causing every SAM in the region to glow and go super sayan..."

[Tsuneo]

Players suggestions: Adding Riftdross/cinder or Heavy Metal Plates/Pouches to increase Legion incentives.

SE response:

Meanwhile at SE:

http://blog.square-enix.com/ff11/images/tanap.jpg

[Septimus]

Good news everyone!

Thread: Final Fantasy XI 10th Ann. + FF 25th

So, I log into Final Fantasy XI last night, and I noticed the logos for the 25th anniversary for Final Fantasy and the 10th anniversary for Final Fantasy XI.

So, what I want to know is what will the celebrations in Final Fantasy XI consist of?

Will we see something really special here? Something to look forward to?

Let us know! http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...es/biggrin.png

We can't announce anything yet, but the teams around the globe are working to make sure that the 10th year anniversary is a year to remember and we think you all will enjoy some of the fun things we have planned!

As Keyln pointed out, the last update added some new additions to the FFXI title screen - the FINAL FANTASY XI 10th Anniversary logo and the FINAL FANTASY 25th Anniversary logo!

We created some logos/scripts to add to your website/blog if you'd like, which you can find below!

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*Currently the large size links to the Japanese FFXI site, but we'll get that fixed! http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...lies/smile.png

Also if you'd like to put the small banner in your forum signature using BBcode... Simply link to http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/ (using the forum URL tags) and use the IMG link: http://www.playonline.com/ff11/10th/s.png

For example (just remove the spaces inside the brackets):
[ URL="http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/"[ /URL][ IMG]http://www.playonline.com/ff11/10th/s.png[ /IMG][ /URL]

Thread: Mission Progress: Wait until the next day (earth-time).

Yes it does! I'm sorry for the confusion and the wait, I had to double check with the dev. team on this. I have also edited Camate's post to clarify that this change is indeed for both Relic+1 and AF+1 upgrades. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...lies/smile.png

We're also looking into shortening the AF+1 and Relic+1 upgrades wait times to 1 Vana'diel day instead of 1 Earth day! Hooray!

For those of you asking about missions and quests wait times being lowered, I mentioned earlier in this thread that this is a very large task to reduce them all at once, but I did forward the missions and quests that you guys requested to be prioritize first and we'll be sure to let you know when the dev. team will be adjusting the wait times.

Thread: Suggested Adjustments to Legion

If they want people to do the event and have a robust /shout community, I completely agree they should at least put in Heavy Metal/Riftxxx stuff.

While we're not currently looking into adding the suggested items to Legion to increase participation, we are looking at how to increase participation via other methods.

Let me fix that last one to what the devs actually meant...

We're not currently looking into increasing participation.

[Alkar]

SMN updates were useless as fuck yet again.

And they were already announced and pushed back to develop a spell that has a horrible drop rate and needs multiple people to even be worth using.

[cdgreg]

I'll be pretty sad if I am on 10, hit snake eye, double up, bust...

[Byrthnoth]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Mizuki_Ito http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...post-right.png
Hi, this is Ito, fresh out of a meeting.

I would like to respond to a few questions about the system and rewards.

I did say that I would like the reservation limitations to be removed, but I would also like the requirement of getting a card from the Aw'euvhi (the flower) in order to enter to be removed.

When Limbus was popular, we had to waste a lot of time fighting over them. Since Limbus has an area claim system, everybody wants to enter before the other groups, but fighting over the flowers makes everybody very frustrated. Since everybody needs to have a card, players miss out on runs just for being several minutes late or party members have to hold the flowers until that player arrives. These circumstances lead to unnecessarily long wait times.

It is good that this content can be taken on by 6 players, but I really do not like the system that makes players compete too much.


Regarding cards, we will maintain the existing method (every party member must defeat a specific monster) but also add the ability to obtain cards by checking ???s.


What bothers me is that enhanced Homam and Nashira gear are augmented…
Does this mean that they cannot be stored?ヽ(;´Д｀)ノ


Actually, we plan on allowing both the enhanced versions and new gear to be stored.


Even if enhanced gear is impossible, will CORs, PUPs, DNCs and SCHs be able to equip new Homam and Nashira gear?! I would like this to be possible, since they cannot equip Tu’lia gods gear …

Or add new gear for CORs, PUPs, DNCs and SCHs!!!


In terms of enhanced gear, they will remain the same. Regarding new gear, we are looking into adding more jobs that can equip these gear items.


Off to another meeting!

I guess there will be augmented Homam/Nashira upgrades? That's sure news to me!

Also, the requests for nominal changes to things that never made sense anyway were told "no, no, and no." Big surprise.

[Yugl]

Seems like they did listen to players on this one. The option is to find the ??? or obtain cards from mobs. That's a huge upgrade if they pair that with instanced events. The option to obtain new armor and augment old armor puts me in an ambiguous position because it is uncertain how they will make augmented homam enticing in comparison with the new armor.

Nyzul provides an assortment of WS and TP gear. Relic+2 provides an assortment of macro pieces. I assume the upcoming gear will have to "fill in the gaps" of TP and WS gear. The problem, however, is that they have two incoming sets. Can they really make room for augmented pieces, Empyrean+2, new homam, and nyzul gear within two narrow types of sets?

[Tarage]

Stop. Fucking. With. Old. Content. And. Make. Better. New. Content. You. Assholes.

[Wardeniii]

I hope we get something aside from an XP Band for the tenth anniversary. Although those XP bands were certainly god-like several years ago, and are still "neat" for burning jobs from 1-30....it truly would be nice to see something a little unique. Something like a TH+1 ring or earring, or a ring of instant warp with infinite charges and a low cooldown. Certainly not gamebreaking (although some may think the TH ring is), but christ at least it could be something aside from an XP ring that will rot until I pick another piece of dynamis gear to augment.

[NynJa]

xp rings are pretty meh too now...1-15 grind (28,350 total, and you can still book for extra XP), 15-30 gusgen bookburn (xp ring will only work on the 5-15 xp you get from the skeletons/ghouls), 30-99 abyssea (xp ring wont work)

[Taint]

xp rings are pretty meh too now...1-15 grind (28,350 total, and you can still book for extra XP), 15-30 gusgen bookburn (xp ring will only work on the 5-15 xp you get from the skeletons/ghouls), 30-99 abyssea (xp ring wont work)

They are nice for Dynamis Augments, I look forward to getting another ring even though all my jobs are capped.

[Kaisha]

I could go for an infinite-recharge Anny ring just so I can toss my other ones that are hogging space atm.

[NynJa]

They are nice for Dynamis Augments, I look forward to getting another ring even though all my jobs are capped.

I guess it serves that purpose nicely.

[Spira]

Stop. Fucking. With. Old. Content. And. Make. Better. New. Content. You. Assholes.

well, Limbus was part of their fiscal 2011-2012 plan to revamp everything old in the game that is kinda underutilized..

I'd wager they have more up their sleeve that they just aren't revealing yet..
maybe they're saving it up for a new expansion or something.

also, it should be noted somewhere that atomos and cait sith have yet to be released as summons...

if u ask me i think the things that need the most retooling are the bulk of WotG battle content.
ANNM, Succor to the Sidhe, Stronghold NM, Sandworm BC, MMM, lolEvoliths....

some were evidently better than others, but many of them used to give sidegrades at best during 75 days.. now they're all kinda useless.
also, most of the fun Campaign Op BCs are forever locked away...
looking back at it, WotG events were really very fail compared to like CoP/ToA.. at least for the latter you can kinda go back to it and solo/duo most of that shit, and actually have a reason to.

I suppose their time for adjustment will eventually come, so that they can breathe some form of new life into these things, that people may want to take part in them..

[Slycer]

If they have any big (or even medium-sized) announcements coming, I'm sure they will hold them off until Vana'fest. They may drop hints as we get closer, but I'm sure that's what their plan is.

[Septimus]

Stop. Fucking. With. Old. Content. And. Make. Better. New. Content. You. Assholes.

If it weren't for how successful the Dynamis revamp was, I would agree. Then again, Neo Nyzul is making me wonder if Dynamis was just a fluke...

But yeah, how about if they do add in new content, make sure it is good.

[Neisan]

I thought their recipe was release new content and have the players beta test it for another year before adjusting it?

[Septimus]

I thought their recipe was release new content and have the players beta test it for another year before adjusting it?

Calling it "beta testing" implies that it is in a playable state and that they are going to fix any bugs that we report.