Dev Tracker

[Malacite]

Yeah, five guaranteed wins floors that took about two~three minutes each were pretty awful. A spammy Cerb with his only TP move being Magma Hoplon or getting pathos: no white magic/weapon skills were as hard as Nyzul got. I wish I could have got 4 lamps floors and a boss every time, so I could be done with the run in 10 minutes.

That's all well and good if you had a good group, but Nyzul was 1 of those events where a random PUG could spell certain doom - especially if you had any JP in there. Not because they're JP, but the language barrier really made coordinating on lamps a nightmare.


And as for today's update, I read that as being able to trade 3 beastman's seals for 1 kindred etc. I could be wrong though.

[Dooom]

That's all well and good if you had a good group, but Nyzul was 1 of those events where a random PUG could spell certain doom

This is true of all events, and always has been; the reason Nyzul gets singled out for it though is that most people would not consider doing things like PUG dynamis, Ein, sky, limbus, etc. etc. - the closest thing in general would be /shout shells, and look at the reputation they have.

[Kyte]

battle trophies - traded it a total of once just to see if the armor was NPCable (they're not)

Why? Some of the stuff is actually pretty good.

[MaachaQ]

[dev1018] Assorted Refinements

The following additions and adjustments will be implemented in the next version update:

A new exchange NPC for crests and seals will be added.

Current plans call for allowing players to trade three seals/crests for any one seal/crest of their choice.

Porter Moogles will be introduced to the following areas:
Selbina / Mhaura / Rabao / Kazham / Norg / Nashmau / Southern San d’Oria [S] / Bastok Markets [S] / Windurst Waters [S]
It will become possible to redeem multiple battle trophies at once in the following areas:
Abyssea – Altepa / Abyssea – Uleguerand / Abyssea - Grauberg


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Some meh stuff posted today, but still welcome. I like the option to trade seals/crests.

[Cairthenn]

Yeah, the fact that "Crest" is a reward makes it pretty unambiguous. This isn't a job seal exchange, as much as I'd like to have used it for RDM body seals. 30 trash seals for 10 RDM bodies? Deal!

ftfy

[fndragon]

The dev tracker thread on the official forum added a clarification that seals/crests was referring to Beastmen Seals and Crests, not the AF3 stuff. Unfortunately.

[Byrthnoth]

ftfy

I'm 2/10 from Dominion Ops =p

[Koyangi]

Yaguarogui is easy. Do some Audumbla's or buy the hides, kill some tigers for hide and kill him a few times with grellow.

[Kaisha]

Shame the crest/seal didn't take into account the 'quality' of the crest/seal. Should have been handled like Imp. Currency,and have you exchance 1 HKC for 3 KC, for 9 KS for 27 BST.

[Julian]

I don't understand how anyone could possibly think they're talking about AF3+1 seals. At least it's confirmed, now.

[TacoTaru]

Shame the crest/seal didn't take into account the 'quality' of the crest/seal. Should have been handled like Imp. Currency,and have you exchance 1 HKC for 3 KC, for 9 KS for 27 BST.

It's a shame they didn't do it like this. Although I think 9KS/27BS is quite high, I would have accepted 3KS/5BC per 1HKC. Something is better than nothing I suppose so at least now I don't have to farm Kindred Seals <_<

[Byrthnoth]

With the exception of HKCs (which are currently worthless), the other seal types are about equally valuable, as far as I can tell. KCs may be worth a little more than the other two, but they all have about the same earning potential (>10k/seal).

[Malacite]

Cool, so I can trade my mountain of useless BC's (fuck going for K Club at this point) for more KS should I fail to get all my BB items with my current stock.

Also, I told ya it wasn't gonna be AF3 seals >_>p

[Maurauc]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...940#post123940
Fuck yeah? HD icons go! This is what the dev team spends their time doing.
It hasn't been posted in English yet, but it's nice to know what's going on.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...224457&thumb=1
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...224465&thumb=1
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...224474&thumb=1
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...224480&thumb=1
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...224486&thumb=1

[Gokulo]

I must say I'm happy

[Raen Ryong]

I wonder if they even recognised the last icon when they were improving it.

[Deadgye]

I wonder if they even recognised the last icon when they were improving it.

I know I didn't. What is that even from?

[Spira]

conflict no? ballista or brenner..

i like.. its a step towards HDfying FFXI. Also gives me hopes that a PS3 remastered version might be on the cards

edit: one can only pray the next step is in status icons

[Kaisha]

Glad to see they noticed how ugly the old icons stood out beside the new name font. So what's for the update after this, redoing all the item icons to use the higher-detailed versions we see used on the FFXI Linkshell Community?

Spoiler: show

I need my HD mentor status!

On the subject of the name font, still wanting an option to switch to the old version, or them to start rendering the names in 3d space. Much harder to read new font at a distance compared to old due to the horribly scaling on it, more-so at lower-resolutions.

[Gwynplaine]

That is fantastic. No more reinstalling font packs and having to edit out the shitty comic sans. People who have never used the cool icon packs will probably be surprised how much a little thing like higher res icons are noticeable.