Rhapsodies of Vana'diel [Missions]

[Yuella]

I read that Semih and Halver will be available as trusts as we progress through. their ciphers are in the dat. maybe this is not all we're getting for the first part.

[Gaztastic]

Semih can be picked up from Kupipi, Halver from himself. Need to finish this batch of missions first.

[Trumpy]

You might not need kazam keys anymore to get to elshimo... Now that we can take that boat to norg from selbina/mhaura?

[Sechs]

Semih can be picked up from Kupipi, Halver from himself. Need to finish this batch of missions first.

Wut? More details please? :'(

[dasva]

Wut? More details please? :'(

What more details? You finish the missions talk to Kupipi and halver to get....

[Shenrien]

You might not need kazam keys anymore to get to elshimo... Now that we can take that boat to norg from selbina/mhaura?

11 Years and you get to finally ride the boat! THE MYSTICAL MYSTERY BOAT!

[Kyreth]

Wut? More details please? :'(

Finish the Rhapsody missions up to the current end, then go talk to Kupipi in Heaven's Tower to get Semih, Halver in the Chateau in Sandy for Havler's Cipher. You get Lion II and Zeid II normally as part of the story.

[Richybear]

The thing you gotta remember is this is being slapped together in like 6 months, and that Wang of The Goddess was like 15 forevers to finish up.
Not sure why people are expecting some crazy storyline or mission epicness of a CoP or something.
Even if they had something brewing for awhile, trying to slap it all together in a rush isn't gonna be easy and/or good.
I guess you could hold out hope that this is just 1 of 3 installments, but expecting something other than "darkness/Odin did it!" and a few fetch quests is setting yourself up for major disappointment

[Selamis]

The thing you gotta remember is this is being slapped together in like 6 months, and that Wang of The Goddess was like 15 forevers to finish up.
Not sure why people are expecting some crazy storyline or mission epicness of a CoP or something.
Even if they had something brewing for awhile, trying to slap it all together in a rush isn't gonna be easy and/or good.
I guess you could hold out hope that this is just 1 of 3 installments, but expecting something other than "darkness/Odin did it!" and a few fetch quests is setting yourself up for major disappointment

Lol, Wang of the Goddess

[Kyte]

Spoilerish question I guess.

Spoiler: show

Is Lion dead? Or just incorporeal? I DCed during the CS at the crag, so to see what I missed I checked the goblin footprint. There's two entries for the same CS with very slightly different text. One is obviously pre-end of Zilart where she's got her normal hume model, the second she's glowing and is see-through, and rather than walk away at the end like in the first CS, she just fades away.

Spoiler: show

She's definitely alive but they are pretty vague about why she's glowy. I'm guessing that when she was trapped within the crystal line or whatever it was, she gained some new abilities that allow her to interface with the mothercrystals. The ability lets her phase around I guess. I think Eald'narche was similar in that way (he has a similar glowy effect when you fight him) and he also had some kind of interaction with the crystal.

[Retsujo]

I guess you could hold out hope that this is just 1 of 3 installments, but expecting something other than "darkness/Odin did it!" and a few fetch quests is setting yourself up for major disappointment

That's how I feel. This is story content that they're not charging for. Comparing this "expansion" with the ones we've paid for and expecting the same value is a little silly.

[Seha]

I think it's silly that people justify anything all the time.
It was too short.

[Sechs]

Fair point Retsujo, but a large number of people would've been more than happy to pay for a full expansion or a mini one, but it seems SE doesn't want our rl gil!

[Retsujo]

Oh believe you me, I would absolutely rather have paid for more in-depth content, but I'll reserve judgment until after its finale.

[vm0d]

For Fate's Call 1-3-1: don't need to be rank6 in your current nation, just have gotten rank6 at some point.

(currently rank3 bastok, but rank10 sandy and able to continue missions)

[Kyreth]

They're making money hand over fist with FFXIV and have wanted to let FFXI "retire"- it was only the failure of FFXIV 1.0 that kept the game going as long as it had. Abyssea was supposed to be the finale.

And it's not a matter of not wanting our money. The development kits used to make FFXI no longer get produced- everything in FFXI is literally translated from the PS2 kits into something for PC/Xbox/etc. Without those, it is impossible to develop FFXI further.

The game will go into stasis because of the oldest joke in the FFXI book- "LOL PS2 (devkit) limitations".

[Kyte]

Given that they planned for the level cap to rise to 99 and the Abyssea expansions only went up to 90 cap, I'm pretty sure all the talk about Abyssea being the intended finale are bullshit.

[NynJa]

Given that they planned for the level cap to rise to 99 and the Abyssea expansions only went up to 90 cap, I'm pretty sure all the talk about Abyssea being the intended finale are bullshit.

Shhh, the haters need something to base their hate on.

[Trumpy]

Did someone say you had to have rank 6? I only saw that we needed the shadow lord beat.

[Celebrindor]

Did someone say you had to have rank 6? I only saw that we needed the shadow lord beat.

Well...Shadow Lord fight is 5-2 for all nations...least that's my memory from years ago.