All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (May 19)

[Cail]

May 18, 2011 22:51 [PDT] From: FINAL FANTASY XI


All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (May 19)



At the following time, we will be performing emergency maintenance on FINAL FANTASY XI. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

* This maintenance will be accompanied by a version update. After maintenance is complete, the update will automatically begin after you press the “Play” button. After that, please follow the instructions on the screen.

* The World Transfer Service will be unavailable starting 30 minutes before the maintenance.

[Date & Time]
May 19, 2011 from 10:00 to 12:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Details]

Event-related

•The following changes and additions will be made to Voidwatch.

•A new item will be added to act as a substitute for the voidstone.
* This can be obtained through exchange with Conquest Points, Imperial Standings and Allied Notes.

•Additional dialogue will be added for the Goblin NPCs that sell the key items required to enter Dynamis. These new lines will assist players by explaining the new system in detail.

•The synergy furnace will be placed in the following area.
Chocobo Circuit

•By entering Chocobo Circuit from Port Jeuno, players will be eligible to move to the following areas.
Ru'Lude Gardens / Upper Jeuno / Lower Jeuno / Port Jeuno

Battle-related

•The placement of monsters in the following area will be adjusted.
Inner Horutoto Ruins

•The following additions / adjustments will be made to Grounds of Valor.

•The amount of experience points earned upon completion of a regime will be adjusted.

•Additional Grounds Tomes will be added to the designated areas.

•The following changes and additions will be made to Abyssea.

•The game will remember the Atma that the player was last infused with.

•Additional "???" will be spawned, which can be used to spawn the following notorious monsters:
Abyssea - La Theine: Briareus/Carabosse/Hadhayosh Abyssea - Konschtat: Eccentric Eve/Bloodeye Vileberry/Kukulkan Abyssea - Tahrongi: Lacovie/Glavoid/Chloris Abyssea - Attohwa: Smok/Titlacauan/Ulhuadshi/Itzpapalotl
Abyssea - Misareaux: Cirein-croin/Amhuluk/Sobek/Ironclad Pulverizer Abyssea - Vunkerl: Bukhis/Sedna/Durinn/Karkadann Abyssea - Altepa: Rani/Orthrus/Dragua/Bennu Abyssea - Uleguerand: Pantokrator/Apademak/Isgebind/Resheph
Abyssea - Grauberg: Raja/Alfard/Azdaja/Amphitrite

•The key items obtainable from the following notorious monsters will also become available from Sturdy Pyxis.
Tunga/Amun/Gukumatz/Heqet/Lord Varney/Hrosshvalur

•New Abyssea support NPCs will be added to the following areas:
Ru'Lude Gardens/Chocobo Circuit/Port Windurst *Please note that Bastion status cannot be checked via the new NPCs.

The following issues will be fixed

•Incorrect messages may be displayed when players trade an item to Delivery Crate during the Trial of the Magians.

•The vial of shrouded sand can be obtained in Dynamis even though the requirements are not met.
* If the vial of shrouded sand is in the player's possession while the requirements aren't met, players must check the Trail Markings once again after the version update.

•The Treasure Casket appears after defeating Goblin's Bats in Ranguemont Pass.

•The monster that spawns from "???" in Behemoth's Dominion was not spawning.

•Pet, Wyvern and Automaton may become invincible under certain circumstances.

•The effect of Barrage Turbine was also active on frames other than the Sharpshot Frame.

•The following items being deliverable:
Bridal Corsage / Benedight Coat / Benedight Hose / Chocobo Whistle
* In case these items have been delivered to another character on the same account, they cannot be sent back to the character who originally possessed them.

Memorized atmas + more key item chests huzzah! Also, dunno why it's called an emergency maintenance when they have been planning it for a week.

[Gokulo]

They also called the last one for patch an Emergency Maint. too. I guess they do that just because they didn't provide the date of update in advance.

[Indalecia]

A push for more Chocobo circuit traffic?

Whatevs..

[Izzy]

Where does it say they're putting in memorized atma in there?

*EDIT* nevermind, I'm blind.

[Cail]

Like it was said in another thread, its not our saved favorites or presets for atma, but it is something. Will be nice for my mule who's always on WHM and always uses the same 3 atma lol

[Flic]

Like it was said in another thread, its not our saved favorites or presets for atma, but it is something. Will be nice for my mule who's always on WHM and always uses the same 3 atma lol

agreed, when setting atmas on 2+ chars this will make it alot easyier

[xerodok]

•The key items obtainable from the following notorious monsters will also become available from Sturdy Pyxis.
Tunga/Amun/Gukumatz/Heqet/Lord Varney/Hrosshvalur

wahhhing at guku aery comes to a close.

[Julian]

wahhhing at guku aery comes to a close.

Uh, no, it doesn't.

Sadly, I really doubt that this update is actually going to make any significant changes to how things are right now.

I think it will actually make it worse, because since multiple people can pop Sobek/CC/etc, people will burn through key items a little faster, and in return will need more heqet/guku key items.

Please, SE, just make these mobs poppable and be done with it. (This would actually be kind of a nerf, for the rare times that you're the only one camping, or maybe there's just one other tiny group also camping, since now you'll have to farm the mobs for pop items, rather than just grabbing a free nm every 10-15minutes, so I think it would balance out.) And then apply the multiple ??? thing to the pre-req NMs, and this system will truly be fixed and doable even with 100+ people in the zone.

Also, Fistule needs some kind of fix, it's incredibly retarded as it is right now.

edit: Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see these changes, and I'm looking forward to it, I'm just saying that it's not going to fix congestion all that much.

[Dooom]

Uh, no, it doesn't.

Sadly, I really doubt that this update is actually going to make any significant changes to how things are right now.

This. Unless you want multiple key items, adding these ones to gold boxes is a placebo, not a "fix".

[Esvedium]

It's better than nothing, but not by much. The remembering atmas is ok, I guess.

[Cail]

VNM spawning sucks too. Been trying to gather monk seals for a week for 3 people, and its always being camped/popped in Grauberg.. although, watching a group of 6ish half wipe to it and play double wind carols was pretty funny...

[Guitarman]

A push for more Chocobo circuit traffic?

Whatevs..

Helping alleviate zone memory issues i'd think. They already mentioned having that problem with the windurst abyssea npc. (hence why it was placed in heaven's tower originally).

[Jem]

VNM spawning sucks too. Been trying to gather monk seals for a week for 3 people, and its always being camped/popped in Grauberg.. although, watching a group of 6ish half wipe to it and play double wind carols was pretty funny...

Even worse if you want the souls from the T3.

[NynJa]

They need to adjust king HQ drop rate...0/11 is pretty pathetic.

[xerodok]

This. Unless you want multiple key items, adding these ones to gold boxes is a placebo, not a "fix".

Why waste time killing Guku when you can FC the entire set? I can understand if there are a few stragglers that need specifically Guku's KI but you can cap amber/pearl in the time you waste waiting for a Guku.

[Byrthnoth]

It's going to be faster to farm 3 KIs from NMs than from boxes, until the competition at those three NMs reaches a (fairly high) level.

Personally, I'm probably going to cleave for Tunga KIs while I camp Tunga. I doubt I'll be alone.

[Cesaria]

Now it's going to be waahing because all the chests in the zone are down.

[Dooom]

Why waste time killing Guku when you can FC the entire set? I can understand if there are a few stragglers that need specifically Guku's KI but you can cap amber/pearl in the time you waste waiting for a Guku.

Cleaving is a gamble, that you'll get gold boxes, that they'll hold KIs, and that they will be the ones you need. If you want CCs and Sobeks and those NMs are busy, then FCing might work out better for you. But if all you need is Guku KIs, then FCing for it seems a big gamble to me with your time. It's better than nothing, but still not perfect imo.

edit - and obviously, cleaving + camping is best, as Bryn says he'll do, but acting like this is a solution to camping those NMs is wildly optimistic.

[Odin'sLaw]

Cleaving is a gamble, that you'll get gold boxes, that they'll hold KIs, and that they will be the ones you need. If you want CCs and Sobeks and those NMs are busy, then FCing might work out better for you. But if all you need is Guku KIs, then FCing for it seems a big gamble to me with your time. It's better than nothing, but still not perfect imo.

edit - and obviously, cleaving + camping is best, as Bryn says he'll do, but acting like this is a solution to camping those NMs is wildly optimistic.

been doing this for chloris pop's first day got 5 pops in as many hours second day got 3 full pops in 6 hours (got a few glav pops also) yesterday we got 1 full pop in 6 hours random shit is fucking retarded must have gotten 20+ mossy shells

[Amok]

Now it's going to be waahing because all the chests in the zone are down.

I'm expecting this. However, it'll depend on the time of day. I haven't seen JP's aoe farming much.