FINAL FANTASY XI Roadmap for October 2011 – March 2012 (10/20/2011)

[Sho]

Unless it's slipped in with new magian trials, salvage gear upgrades aren't coming soon either. Looking at their timetable I think we're looking at next June for that. Which is essentially too long and enough to kill off any remaining hope of creating a mythic without mortgaging your soul. I'm hoping that the magian trials +1 the salvage gear. The only reason my group has held on so long (and we've dropped to almost no runs recently) is because we thought upgrades to the gear were coming soon.

Same here man. 9k Alex remaining? Fuck it, going in on it doing w/e it takes now outside of Salvage. Can't be pressed to wait another 2-5 months for an update on Alexandrite.

[Trix]

Here's hoping the merit 2hr for SMN isn't another odin/alex situation with cait/atomos.

[Spira]

truthfully speaking tho SMN has the least right out of any job to complain if their merit 2hr isn't that useful.

[Slycer]

Wow.. that is a lot of content coming to us in the next 6 months >_>

I wonder how they'll release it, +1 month off the test servers release dates perhaps?

It kinda has to be +1 month off (or less) otherwise the test server schedule will have to get pushed out. For example, if we're testing level 99 in November, I highly doubt we'll be testing The Last Stand in December unless level 99 is introduced to the play servers before then. Similarly with the sequential nature of the Voidwatch updates.

Here's hoping that the relic armor upgrade stuff is introduced to the test server soon (gotta be in the next 10 days or so), so we can see the stats.

[Draginhikari]

I always wonder if the people saying "FFXI is dead" are just mad cause they are gimp/dumb. Most of the time when I hear/see if from someone it's either to a posted screenshot of a newly obtained mythic/relic, in the lines of "grats on obtaining an outdated weapon on a dead/dying game"(mind you, someone who doesn't know the person), or it's at the end of a lost arguement such as "Gonna stop posting, not worth wasting time to argue over a dead/dying game".

This has always been a silly arugment when it comes to MMOs or most online games. Only the most naive person wouldn't realize that playing a MMO pretty much means one day all the time you put into it will mean nothing because it will all disappear into cyberspace anyway.

[Toth]

I do like that many of the abilities put onto the test server before the Sept 2011 update were greatly improved prior to their implementation. So hopefully the same scenarios will continue. It is going to be quite busy for the next six months.

Also, Last Stand is coming out before VW is finished. So I am guessing it is not related to VM afterall.

[Draylo]

Same here man. 9k Alex remaining? Fuck it, going in on it doing w/e it takes now outside of Salvage. Can't be pressed to wait another 2-5 months for an update on Alexandrite.

9k? Just finish it lol, might be expensive but you can recover. I'm still almost 21k+ away so... yeah. 20k alex each on my server atm.

[Lordender]

FFXI isn't dead, it'll never be dead as long as people play but its almost like a t.v show thats in constant filler mode where maybe a couple episodes touch on the main storyline where people get really excited and go "omg whats gonna happen next!?" only to be drubbed by boring filler for months and then get another exciting "Wtf just happened mind blown" main story episode.

[Ansems]

fuck I have to start doing voidwatch

[Eldelphia]

Is it just me or does that new gear look nation-specific? I realise there isn't a red set for sandy but the green set is practically the windy flag. Guessing there will be a heavy armour version in red from Sandy line somewhere.

[Cail]

wow, glad i stopped playing a month ago. 6month road map looks like crap imo

[vagus]

God damn, so much new content. FFXI is dead.

[Alkar]

truthfully speaking tho SMN has the least right out of any job to complain if their merit 2hr isn't that useful.

Hmm why? Astral Flow is completely useless without Odin and Alexander. It's useful at lower levels but once you hit 70 you're better off using something else.
If anything Summoners have every right to complain because we haven't gotten anything good since the cap started raising.

[TehKerm]

Can safely say id be impressed if they would fix shitty voidwatch, the rest looks good at least i suppose.

[Trigun]

Don't be mad because you all won't get to reach the highest level in the most hardcore MMORPG ever made.

Spoiler: show

I laughed so hard I cried halfway through typing that.

[Greatguardian]

Hmm why? Astral Flow is completely useless without Odin and Alexander. It's useful at lower levels but once you hit 70 you're better off using something else.
If anything Summoners have every right to complain because we haven't gotten anything good since the cap started raising.

I think his point is more that many jobs have fairly useless 2hrs these days. Summoner still has Odin and Alexander. Monk's 2hr is useless any time you have a Bard and Dancer (which is just about any time you'd be 2hr'ing).

[Kimiko]

Game's dead to me... =(

[arus2001]

While I'll certainly be keeping tabs on things out of curiosity, my focus is going to be given to another game for a bit. Game really needs to step away from Voidwatch and give people some more reasonable short-term goals to chase other than hoping GoV puts out a rare drop if you can even use it. And if the last Magian updates were any indication, the next will probably suck, too.

[Khamsin]

I just hope the merit 2-hours don't share JA timers with each other or your current 2hour. e.g. if you have three different 2-hours you could merit, you could put a point in each and, every 2 hours, use each one plus the one you already have.

[shamusde]

Another set of quested weaponskills? The 99 cap increase occurs 1 month before the new weaponskills on the timeline chart.