So are new items being added in today's patch?

[Alina]

Zhayolm Remnants Arrapago Remnants Bhaflau Remnants Silver Sea Remnants

New Dynamis type areas?

[layoneil]

Thats what the zone list looks like, I suppose. Pretty huge list. Wonder what the Remnants are...

depends how many of them are BCs.

[Eternus]

Hmm all the new jobs look awesome lol... gonna have to level each of them... and will need subjobs to match.. goddammit

[Zhila]

I think this particular update only has the model files, which somewhat makes sense. I've seen models for the 3 new job's AF, the NPC Assualt armors, a couple 'relic'-ish weapons, and then the strings already posted.

Adding the actual item data (stats) that connect to a model is easy and a lot smaller of a download. This data will probably be released in a later when ToAU is actually released. They're just trying to get the larger part of the patch out now, to relieve some of the stress the servers will get next Tuesday.


Of course, I could been wrong and the new item data could be hidden in there somewhere, but I give up on looking for that right now. For now, I'm just gonna find the mithra BLU / COR AF dats and run around with those on ingame. >_>

[Razz]

MP+10 VIT+2 AGI+2 Covers you with magical lightning spikes. Enemies that hit you take lightning damage.


Another Shock spikes?

mother globe shock spikes? :D

That would be sexy lol

I wonder if BLU can get a tank build going by abusing KV's draw-in ability...could be hot.

[budd]

edit: budd at least learn to take the "none"s out...

But maybe it's a PH for an additional zone!

[ddazska]

haha, BLU is gonna catch hell on the beaches in the dunes dropping those direction attacks on pugils on accident I can't wait for the madness

[layoneil]

Chocobo Circuit <- HOT.

that was on the timeline in the Fan Festival, it won't be open till like the August or October patch.

[Not Kuno]

I see bomb toss, bomb explosion (that gives you weakness after, lol), bad breath, Sea Pot spikes (enhances defense and gives ice spikes <- pimpp). I wanna lvl blu now. The stat thing is also very interesting for some setups.

[Alathar]

If you have this as an active ability, you will have a static +2 STR on you?

yeah that's what most of the notes imply. you'll have melee builds, mage builds, maybe tank builds. but you can only "junction" (i like your word) in Mog. and you can gear accordingly as well.

Sounds a hell of a lot like FF8, I believe junctioning was the term they used. I guess we'll find out if it actually works, because this has the potential to offer the most customizable class available to date; however, some setups are going to be a hell of a lot better than others (i.e. tanking abilities are really weak but support/DD abilities are more powerful, hypothetically). Even if they intended the job to be customizable to DD, tank, or support, odds are there will be one that gets overutilized relative to others.

At least in the first few weeks people can do whatever job combo they want without people shouting noob ... since nobody knows for sure what is viable ^^;

[Razz]

haha, BLU is gonna catch hell on the beaches in the dunes dropping those direction attacks on pugils on accident I can't wait for the madness

People still level in dunes? lewl

[Amara]

Yeah from the sounds of all those different aoes the job is gonna require alot of attention to play without mpking your party constantly.

[Wizerd]

Chocobo Circuit <- HOT.

that was on the timeline in the Fan Festival, it won't be open till like the August or October patch.

(((((((((((

[Cuer]

This was indeed one of the "get the graphics out of the way" patches; I'd forgotten, they've done those before as well. It lowers the strain on the servers for the real patch, which is no doubt a good thing.

Since there aren't any actual items updated here, we won't put out a Compilation of Info yet; that will wait for the full update. Those tidbits of text are interesting to think about, though.

And with that out of the way, I'm back to trying to get info updated from the last expansion, before the next one hits...

[Septimus]

edit: budd at least learn to take the "none"s out...

But maybe it's a PH for an additional zone!

Could be, similar to Apollyon, Temenos, and the Emperial Paradox since they all had name changes before they were introduced into the game.

[Janice]

I wonder if all the TP abilities can only be used if you have over 100 TP? Well maybe its good they have A- in sword cause they are going to need it.

And will these abilities be on timers. There is Blue Chain and Blue Burst, could it end up being like Blood Pacts?

[Avvesione]

Could be, similar to Apollyon, Temenos, and the Emperial Paradox since they all had name changes before they were introduced into the game.

Lower Promivian? :O I forget what the others were....

[Alina]

Ou'Hupat Obelisk?

[Demetrios]

I can't find anymore .dat information that can be opened with notepad =P. I probably missed the .dat that has job abilities and job traits. Someone go find that, it'll have the new JAs added from the job balance.

If you have any idea how to parser these things all of the patch information is located in:

PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ROM\162
PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ROM\163
PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ROM\164
PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ROM\165
PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\ROM\166

[Dein]

I'd love to see what the models look like but I don't know a good way to access the new .dats. Blu certainly comes off as a very flexible job with the way they can change their builds just from what spells they can use. I wonder what kind of builds will people use the most often by time the first wave of 75 blus come around.