Upcoming Version Update (02/09/2007)

[LD]

I just realized...Early March my Balls.
Watch it be the 12th. That's fucking mid.

[frozenx]

I just want the final assault ranking reward to be able to enter salvage without using assault points. Farming breaking morale is getting old real fast.

[Sagacious Sundi]

I'm guessing a third Beastmen NM to accompany the kings, or maybe one of the older NMs replaced (new NM in place of Fleetfinger, etc.) Definitely some of those new monsters too.

I can see myself in front of the troll's astral plinth already. 8)

SE's logic would be that since Gulool Ja Ja/etc. are beastmen along with Fleetfinger/etc., Hydra/Cerb/Khim will now assist the recurring non-beastman guys (Brontobugard/Killing Claw/the qutrub dood). And y'know what? Gulool/etc appear 2 levels after Fleetfinger/etc., and level 7 is 2 levels after Killing Claw/etc. appear. (God I hope they are not added, it would be very hard to add them, though, especially since monsters outside of beastmen strongholds seem to have no effect on Besieged.) Anyway, I wonder what monsters would be in level 7+ Besieged... Here are some guesses:
Mamool Ja:
Attack Colibri
Sahagin
Hell Lizards (Something I made up on the spot, dunno if they exist...)

Trolls:
Flame Dahaks
Moblins
Battle Bombs

Lamiae:
Siegeflayers
Qiqirn
"Fallen" Fomors

Anyway, I woke up today and said to myself "Maybe I should check POL in case there's a teaser for the next update." and secretly I thought "I wonder if they are going to add level 7 Besieges..." Too bad we have about a month until it reaches mid-March, which is probably what it will be closer to...

[Dank]

Who else got semi-excited as they read: "we will also be raising the maximum level..."?

I was about to post that but decided I should read through to make sure nobody else said it already, lol.

[Credos]

It'll be nice to get back to doing missions for ToAU; as far as besieged go, I would like to see some kind of bonus/something provided for attacking beastmen hordes when they are outside of the capital. This would cut down on the lag in Besieged, and would possibly add an element to the event that hasn't been seen before. Cue Rambo-esque divide and conquer scenes.

As far as a level cap increase, I got worried a bit. I wouldn't really want to level 7 jobs to level 80 .

[Kyreth]

Who else got semi-excited as they read: "we will also be raising the maximum level..."?

I'll take "1200 xp for particpation in utter anarchy" for $500, Alex.

It's good, though. People are keeping up with the L6 battles. L7 should mean more NM's...which might well mean more NM's in the beastman strongholds, too. Hopefully with a few interesting items.

[NynJa]

do any servers even kill Gulool Ja Ja, that troll guy or Medusa in besieged ??
And I mean, actually kill them...

[Suiram]

On Pandemonium we killed the Besieged Medusa a few months ago (got like 1200 IS for that one, too), and then just a couple days ago they warped when she was at 3%.

I think perhaps the Al Zhabi current state of defense level that the gate guards tell you may affect the amount you need to accomplish in Besieged before they will warp. A high state of defense = kill a lot of beastmen and maybe one NM, a low state of defense = gotta kill practically everything. I think this because the 3% Medusa the other day was the 3rd in a series of back-to-back-to-back Besieged, starting with an epic Troll fight where all the generals died and we almost lost. She was the among the last handful of mobs left in the zone, if not the last.

[Sidanoir]

do any servers even kill Gulool Ja Ja, that troll guy or Medusa in besieged ??
And I mean, actually kill them...

Leviathan has killed all of them..

In fact to date I believe we only lost the AC once...
Personally I was there when we killed Medusa..
resulted in 200 extra exp..1200 instead of 1000 if i remember right
We have alot of Besieged whores on our server

[Minions]

Gurfurlur is the only hard one, with all the retards spamming magic on it....

[safer]

guess better late than never


im hoping if they introduce something related to endgame ToA it involves completion of all Assault missions + Story missions... in anycase im all ready for it , and probably can rank up to the next Assault rank first day of the update ;D

[Reapz]

Killed Gurfulur in a Besieged a few days ago on Valefor, only Besieged I have been in that the NM was actually killed instead of warping. But I have only recently been interested in attending them so no idea if the others have been killed.

[TB]

This update gonna be boring as hell. ._.

[Not Kuno]

Dissapointing.

[Toth]

Thank goodness! Too little info to see what is really coming but I am just glad to finally see an annoucement. I am not surprised about it being early March though when you consider they usually give 2-3 weeks warning before the update and 3 weeks from now will be March 2.

Please let there be af2 and cat2 merits for the new jobs ; ; System improvements gogogogo

[Phla]

Who else got semi-excited as they read: "we will also be raising the maximum level..."?

afk /wristing

[Mifaco]

I SURE CAN'T WAIT FOR CHOCOBO RACING!!! maybe I can get a celerity salad if my choco comes in first place!

[Almalexia]

I think perhaps the Al Zhabi current state of defense level that the gate guards tell you may affect the amount you need to accomplish in Besieged before they will warp.

The Imperial Defense actually represents the presence of hired NPCs in Besieged (Qiqirn, Gobs, Imperial Army) and I think the strength of barricaded doors, if not simply the presence of those doors. Volunteers and Immortals appear based on which service NPCs exist in Al Zahbi.

And y'know what? Gulool/etc appear 2 levels after Fleetfinger/etc., and level 7 is 2 levels after Killing Claw/etc. appear.

Fleetfinger also appears in lower Besieges without Gulool. Before that, it's the DRG NM. Sooner than that is the WHM NM. The only NM unique to the Lv.6 Mamool siege is Eidolific, who replaces the DRG NM from Lv.5.

I figure they would continue with the pattern to replace, say, Fleetfinger for an all-new NM, or perhaps intruduce a third NM to the existing Lv.6 line-up.

Attack Colibri

Make it "Combat Colibri" and you've got yourself A MOTHERFUCKING DEAL! :D

[Elesar]

Well at least I have learned not to get my hopes up for any sort of update to Beastmaster. Square fails at pet type jobs. Also, why isn't Beastmaster able to charm anything in a besiege? Not only that but there are armors that Beastmaster can get that gives +charm in assaults but the funny thing is that Beastmasters can't charm anything in assault. Hmm :wink:

Edit: Sorry, there is one assault I can think of where Beastmasters can charm the mobs. That would be the assault in Mamool Ja stagging point where you have to kill all the Mamool Ja mobs and there are Puks all over there place.

[Tajin]

do any servers even kill Gulool Ja Ja, that troll guy or Medusa in besieged ??
And I mean, actually kill them...

Not that i have noticed on cerberus, they always warp at more than 70%
Also, there is any lvl1 besieged anymore? ive only seen lvl6 besieged now.

not that i pay much attention to when besieged happens >.>