FFXI Fan Festival Report and Pictures!

[Zarath]

Good things: It was entertaining and didn't feel too dumb (circle the bomb! What does cure do! Explain enmity and -enmity and how provoke does both!) but at the same time, some parts of it where....interesting. One of the first quests was a crossword with all the drinks from besieged/salvage, and the hints where the effects. WTF? No one in my party had a clue, i was one of 2 75's. Thats when the xp jokes started :D But 4 people had never even been to besieged. And when I use stuff in besieged, I just look @ the effects because I play on so many jobs.

Other quests included the reciepe for baking soda (Wow, nice low kick there SE)
a Mine sweeper type thing with 6 puzzles that where status effect icons (you had to do 4)
a map of wajaom woodlands where you had to draw enemies and where they spawned.
and the steller constalation map (your welcome moggles guy)

So to say that some where unbalance isn't stretching it. Assuming a party got put together of low level players, they'd have been fucked without the internet. I WAS fucked without the internet, I had to go look up spellings for the crossword, the fill in the blank, and the constalation drawings. There we're also fetch quests.

This is part A, because I just got a call from Mr. T, and I wanna go run back to the hilton and watch the fun @ the wikia booth. More later!

Gah.... I know most of those off hand =/

[Tiernin]

Ok me and teffy just put in about 20 questions about AV for the dev panel. Expect more cheese sandwiches questions to be "randomly" picked.

[Apelila]

IN REVERSE ORDER:

The surprise was a concert. Distant worlds made ALOT of people happy. The band...not so much. A common theme of "WTF are they playing" was around me. (Hint: imagine the norg theme in hard rock with an electric fiddle.)

The promised to tell us how to defeat AV between now and the end of the year, and not mention the regen.
No cheese sandwhich questions where asked.
The ghetto warp taru was almost a general.
The level 100 nyzul weapons are the ingredients for the next relics, which will be crafted.
4 leaf korrigan, lucky egg do shit for treasure hunter
/dance is getting an emote (More on this in my update after I finish day 2's update)
Almight apkallu: Wut? Uh...we're gonna go see what the hell that is and answer it later.
NPC scroll merchants will get a message explaining what the spell does when you buy it (this was the second question)
Why do pup's and drg's pets loose TP when resting: ....wut? (that was the response, they said they're going to investigage)
Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

Brown mage NPC (more on this later, its not a job, its a poop joke)

Goblins have linkshells embeded in their heads.
There are still items with latent effects. Some ninja body peice that pamama's unlock. Avengers get an acc bonus as the users HP goes down. Some knife that lets you eat fish which everyone already knew about.

They're planning on adding private dungeons. this may/may not happen and is still in early, early development.

Choco circuit is getting revamped nicely.

New Guild MH items that allow you to sell stuff from your MH, and give crafting +1.

[yayaok]

dude is all that shit for real? i just came

[Shade]

Aww.. I had never given much thought to the idea of going to one of the Fanfests, but this looks like it was a lot of fun.

*wave @ all of the names on the Gilgamesh list* I know a lot of you guys!

[Turtlesoup]

Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

That's not even true. I've gotten 11 drops off Byakko before, A behemoth hide got randomly dropped to someone in the alliance as soon as he died because there wasn't space in the the pool for everything, would suck if it happened to be the Haidate that randomly got distributed...
There were probably 4 crystals that dropped when this happened.

[XxSlusherxx]

Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

That's not even true. I've gotten 11 drops off Byakko before, A behemoth hide got randomly dropped to someone in the alliance as soon as he died because there wasn't space in the the pool for everything, would suck if it happened to be the Haidate that randomly got distributed...
There were probably 4 crystals that dropped when this happened.

POIDH

[Lordshin]

Goblins have linkshells embeded in their heads.
There are still items with latent effects. Some ninja body peice that pamama's unlock. Avengers get an acc bonus as the users HP goes down. Some knife that lets you eat fish which everyone already knew about.

o.O where did i read that it was Galka w/ the Linkshells embedded in theire ear... i even copypasta'ed it on AIM chat

[Rocl]

Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

That's not even true. I've gotten 11 drops off Byakko before, A behemoth hide got randomly dropped to someone in the alliance as soon as he died because there wasn't space in the the pool for everything, would suck if it happened to be the Haidate that randomly got distributed...
There were probably 4 crystals that dropped when this happened.

That's what they're saying lol? Items get pushed out before crystals.

Goblins have linkshells embeded in their heads.
There are still items with latent effects. Some ninja body peice that pamama's unlock. Avengers get an acc bonus as the users HP goes down. Some knife that lets you eat fish which everyone already knew about.

o.O where did i read that it was Galka w/ the Linkshells embedded in theire ear... i even copypasta'ed it on AIM chat

Tekki said it was Galka via AIM I WAS QUITE UPSET

[Apelila]

Goblins. I have pictures, it happened. They're coming. I'm finishing day 2, and then going to upload the massive amount of day 3 crap I have. I took video's today :3

[recuperi]

Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

That's not even true. I've gotten 11 drops off Byakko before, A behemoth hide got randomly dropped to someone in the alliance as soon as he died because there wasn't space in the the pool for everything, would suck if it happened to be the Haidate that randomly got distributed...
There were probably 4 crystals that dropped when this happened.

10 items as in stuff like behemoth hide, haidate, etc. Crystals arent counted as 'items' in that scenario they mentioned but that should be obvious

[Lyramion]

Will signet kill an NM's drop? No, but monsters can ONLY drop 10 items PERIOD. ITEMS are processed before crystals.

That's not even true. I've gotten 11 drops off Byakko before, A behemoth hide got randomly dropped to someone in the alliance as soon as he died because there wasn't space in the the pool for everything, would suck if it happened to be the Haidate that randomly got distributed...
There were probably 4 crystals that dropped when this happened.

It could be semi true. The game always kicks out stuff out of your loot pool that is not RARE and/or EX. So punshing out a Haidate will never happen. Also the reason why AF in Dynamis dont get punshed out to random people when your box fills up with coins.

[Churchill]

I would so be there if I wasn't on the East Coast right now, I'd get in fights I'm sure.

Church, seriously... next year if we are still playing this game lets go to Fan Festival. Ill call Heian and if he isnt busy combing his 'fro or something he will come too, ill make him.

I'm coming to the next fan fest for sure <_< Was planning to go to USA again next year, what better time than Fanfest

If I'm in America and not Iraq I will be going.

[Apelila]

Part B of Day 2 then I'm getting food, I WILL have day 3 up tonight but I'm god damn hungry. The only reason I'm not going out right now is the cops are arresting someone outside, and well, lol. Also, Taj ran away before I could get a picture. Just as well, fucker was taller than I.

So yeah. complaining about the Live Quest. The grip isn't that it was TOO hard, its that unless you had internet access you couldn't complete it if you didn't have a photographic memory. Some of the puzzles had spellings that i've never used thanks to waj[tab] and such. I've never seen the same drinks in besieged consistently, and as I said never paid attention to the name so much as the effects since they're never in the same order.

So we did that from about 10 am till 3. 3 was the start of the TaruTaru Marathon. The more appropriate name for this event would be 'watch mamool ja buttfuck tarutaru's'. Either way, it was awesome. I almost wish they'd had similiar names like the 'bean' video from way back. Around this time my party started to wonder what had happened with out atomos challenge person, but after the taru challenge we went back to beating the hell out of the live quest. Because I was outside during this, I missed the drawings for the #'s for the quiz show on friday. However, our party leaders girlfriend got in and won (chick who got the head phones). lvl 20 blm with no sub ^_^ I wasn't actually present for the quiz show either. Yes, the live quest was work. But I got...something for it, I'm not sure yet.

After we finsihed the live quest I left to go get food and skipped the movie contest. Youtube+1 just didn't seem worth it, and from what I was told I was right.
I've already mentioned the debacle with the store, I want to elaborate on the WoG demo and how they fixed it saturday. I know, its breaking status, but SE fixed something and I'm guessing they either read people bitching or figured it out from people bitching at the show and they deserve kudos for fixing it.

Like I said yesterday, there was a waiting area for the WOG Demo. The line got routed into the waiting area for the live quest. HILARIOUS results. Before every round (while people where still playing) they would hand out exactly 72 tickets, and if you didnt get one tough shit, you get to wait some more. But you didn't have to stay once you got a ticket!
So, where do you wait? in the LFP area? In the phantom line full of people who have tickets from earlier and came back? In one of the 2 line area's that can only hold 2o people in the front where no one has tickets? CLUSTERFUCK.

Today, no one got a ticket until they got through the line. The line was routed through the old LFP area, and LFP was moved to the giant area next to the live quest desk. Bravo for fixing what most people hated within a day.

So anyway, I skipped the movie contest to come back and eat the left over pizza from day one. nom nom nom.

I went back and disappointed people who thought the second presentation was an hour after they thought it was, and laughed at all the people leaving before the second presentation. This next part is copy past from the job adjustments, but I'm going to clarify where I can what is coming tues and whats later.

WAR:- Ability to automatically strike back (ala Counter) and Store TP from the attack.
They mentioned this would be tied to provoke, and that was being 'considered'

MNK:- Considering new ability to slow attack speed of monk but increases attack power per hit.
This was a kick attack modifier. It had nothing to do with main attacks as was presented, only that it would increase the frequency of kicks and the over all strength of melee attacks while reducing attack speed. CONSIDERED Buy vishnu's cesti now whore's.

WHM:- Repose spell: SLEEP for WHM!
- More teleport spells!
Nothing to add here. Skill set wasnt mentioned. teleports where said to be NEXT update

BLM:- Lowering the rate monsters resist Skillchains
- New transportation spells for BLMs
LOL. They got boo'ed a bit here firstly. They very quickly snuck in the transporation blm spells, and gave no further hints than that. CONSIDERED

RDM:- Increasing RDM's usefulness as a FRONTLINE mage, meleeing
Same here. Can't add anything other than they wanted RDM to be a mage that can also do melee damage. This seemed like more for parties and not endgame. CONSIDERED

THF:- New JA: Accomplice - STEAL HALF a party member's ENMITY and transfer to the THF.
First big WHOO FUCKING HOO moment. Crowd went nuts @ this.

PLD:- Damage reflect with shield
As further discussed in the Elmer thread, here they said 'magic that will reflect damage'. again, considered

DRK:- DRK specific spells
Quote: We envisioned DRK as a melee that had Black magic, and we're happy with the magic we've added. Expect more in the future. They didn't confirm if tues was gonna add anything

BST:- HP recovered by pets using stay
- Snarl added, used for jug pets.. to transfer ALL hate to pet
- Add pet food for curing status effects
Pet food is CONSIDERED. Reward timers are CONSIDERED. Everything else is tuesday.Crowd went fucking nuts.

BRD:- New songs
- Ability select single targets for AOE spells.
Um....I don't remember if this is considered of in the update. I was listening to people jabber about the BST un-nerf.

RNG:- New Velocity Shot - Ranged attacks are quicker and more powerful
Again, can't remember if this was CONSIDERED, JAN update, OR tuesday. Sorry. Ranged attacks + comes at the expense of melee attacks being weakend

SAM:- Adjustments will be made due to 2handed updates
- Ability to improve effectiveness of SC's, increasing damage for SC's
SAM was targted specifically because of 'store tp, mediate, and the soboro for 'adjustment'. Expect a store TP nerf IMO. The SC's buffs are just going to help everyone.

NIN:- Sneak effect NINJUTSU
- Temporary reducing enmity then bringing it back up
CONSIDERED, not confirmed

DRG:- Increasing the number of actions of wyvern
- Bloodpacts for Wyvern!
CONSIDERED, not confirmed

SMN:- New ability, Healing MP via elemental spirits.
- ..........Odin Prime?
I uh...don't remember a new abliity. the healing MP was mentioned as a day of the week effect, and also was mentioned as CONSIDERED. Also, they said new SUMMONS PLURAL

BLU:- New spells
In jan update. Nothing else. Haha.

COR:- New rolls for new jobs
- New effect for Quickdraw
Jan update.

PUP:- New automaton attachments
- New automaton weaponskills for high level PUPs
Jan update, WS = considered.

There, hopefully that cleared some stuff up.

DEVELOPERS PANEL: Or - why WOG is going to have sex with you whenever you want.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00433.jpg

Also: the developers:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00437.jpg

Campaign:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00440.jpg

Campaign battles = besieged.
Campaign ops = Assault.
Headhunting = something new, assault had sex with the NPC escort.
Tactical assesment = vote for what the hell you think your nation should be doing in the war. Updates weekly.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00442.jpg

Campaign battles are basically besieged. They stressed when designing the campaign events that they where unhappy with the limits besieged had placed on the number of players available to participate. They did not say how this would play out, because supposedly campaign ops/head hunting will affect battles like breaking Arc. Mirrors affects besieged. So one person can have an effect on campaign that actually reflects in the battles (like when a group on your server zergs the AM's before a lvl 8 besieged with no generals /npc's)

They specified they wanted solo content:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00443.jpg

The room exploded when they announced this. It was in fucking credible. The look on some of the dev's faces told me they weren't expecting that reaction either, which is probably why we're only just now seeing this.

Some pankraton stuff I didn't care about (New arena, elementals as pets, new feral skills in jan update)
I've seen this image floating around in this and other threads so let me explain:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00445.jpg

This is the new mandy cap for adventurer recruitement. There is no ability yet, they only have the model. Sundi wanted ideas as to what it should do, so email them to SE and have them forwarded to him :D

That was it, and i have to say that the excitement at the job changes was palpable in the room. I would go so far as to say that this should have been the special event tonight, simply because of the reactions vs one another.

Afterwards, anyone from my server that hung around stayed together for a picture:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...2/DSC00448.jpg

I ran off after this because the lady at the cafe we'd overrun made fun of me for not knowing the names of any cocktails. I didn't think the old bitch would get "the pedophile" (Gin and dr. pepper) but now I wish i'd said it.

[Indalecia]

Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure...

THE SHIRT OF WIN

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o...hirtofWin2.jpg

Never take it for granite!

[Apelila]

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...x/FanFestLast/

Last set of pictures.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...DSC00564-1.jpg
Video's tomorrow, as well as summary of today. I'm going to bed, the negative nancy's have me a headache.

[Xanthu]

Picking out two:

I really hope Taj saw that

HOLY SHIT. HOLY GODDAMN AWESOME This is my LS mate and good friend. I'm totally the BLM on the far right getting Taru-attacked. Seeing this is so goddamn awesome.

He told me before, but I STILL didn't believe it until now. This seriously makes me happy as all fuck.

[Viena]

Midgerdsormr!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...t/DSC00525.jpg

[Rocl]

I kind of wished someone wasted a question and asked about an East Coast FanFest ;;

[Akiyama]

Awesome stuff, Apelila. xD Love the pictures.

Also, the part about SAM and your thinking of a possible Store TP nerf is enough to make me weep. ;;