FINAL FANTASY XI Update (Mar. 17)

[Xanthe]

At the following time, we performed a version update of FINAL FANTASY XI.

* This update consists of a version upgrade of the client program. When you press the play button after the time stated below, the version upgrade will begin automatically. Please follow the instructions on the screen.

[Affected Period]
Mar. 17, 2008 13:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]

- The restriction on a specific special ability of the NM "Skogs Fru" in East Ronfaure [S] has been removed.

The following issues have been addressed:

- If the expansion disc "Wings of the Goddess" was not installed, the game would freeze after completing the battle fields in Throne Room.

- Harvesting in Wajaom Woodlands and Bhaflau Thickets may have been unavailable.

- Inability to target Brittle Rock in the assault "Excavation Duty" in certain conditions.

- Dark Kindred "Shadowhand" may have cast certain spells on players which it normally does not cast.

- The affect of "Regen" was not listed on the item description of the item "Sol Cap."

- The help message of following magic scrolls did not include the level for Scholar:
Raise II/Reraise/Reraise II/Sleep II

- If the expansion disc "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" was not installed, the effect of the magic "Retrace," "Recall-Jugner," "Recall-Pashh," and "Recall-Meriph" would not initiate.

- Players may have been unable to target "Fortification" during campaign battles.
* Due to the change, "Fortification" and monsters from campaign battles will no longer link.

- Certain monsters may not have retreated immediately after the campaign battle ends.

- Even though the Campaign Ops "Bridge Too Far" was not offered, an event reporting the result of "Bridge Too Far" may have started to scroll after talking to Campaign Arbiters.

- Recipes other than Alchemy appropriate ones may have been assigned even though Alchemy was selected in Campaign Ops "Iron Anvil III."

- The Dancer job ability "Samba" was effective on player's pets.

- Magic "Sleep II" did not extend its effect to targets within range when the Scholar job ability "Manifestation" is used.

- Unknown characters appeared on the help message of "I.R. Chainmail" and "I.R. Sollerets."

- The help message for the Scholar job abilities "Accession" and "Manifestation" stated that the amount of required MP will become triple if used.

- The help message of Scholar's job ability "Sublimation" was incorrect.

- In case Scholar is selected as a support job, the number of Charge and recast intervals of the Scholar job ability "Stratgems" differed depending on the level of the main job.

- The character motions for "/dance1," "/dance2," "/dance3" and "/dance4" emotes did not play the correct motions for Tarutaru characters.

- BGM would start in the middle when it changed from the battle BGM.
Example: When player fishes while the battle BGM is playing.

- Sometimes was unable to access the "Mog House" menu while in the Mog House.

- Position of the cursor may shift in certain menus (Magic, Mission, Quest, Key Items, Bazaar) when the list were scrolled using the left or right keys.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnew ... 2849.shtml

[miokomioko]

And the PUPs are..............
SAFE!
http://images.jupiterimages.com/comm...4/23296417.jpg

[Octavious]

D: Nothing gimping Magic Mortar yet, we shall see what happens :3

[evilpaul]

- The help message of Scholar's job ability "Sublimation" was incorrect.

Um?

- Players may have been unable to target "Fortification" during campaign battles.
* Due to the change, "Fortification" and monsters from campaign battles will no longer link.

Nice to see they fixed this.

Although the second half...seeing people get wtfbbqpwned when the mobs linked on them for attacking the Fortification was half the fun of everywhere being BST controlled.

[Stanislaw]

- The Dancer job ability "Samba" was effective on player's pets.

Even though we knew this was coming... *sigh*

Was good while it lasted.

Gonna head out and see if they ninja fix'd <pettp>

[Maldra]

- Magic "Sleep II" did not extend its effect to targets within range when the Scholar job ability "Manifestation" is used.

I guess that explains what happened to my group last night! SCH used that, log showed all gears from the gear train in Silver Sea were slept but they did not. And no, dot was not on them.

[Almalexia]

Bugger. I guess Sekkanokki+Hagun is too for SE.

[Hanyoko]

- If the expansion disc "Wings of the Goddess" was not installed, the game would freeze after completing the battle fields in Throne Room.

I wonder what they edited in the shadowlord cutscene this time.

[Sho]

I see Magic Mortar dmg is intentional then. Leave it to the players to see this become nerfed soon. :3

[Seraph]

- If the expansion disc "Wings of the Goddess" was not installed, the game would freeze after completing the battle fields in Throne Room.

I wonder what they edited in the shadowlord cutscene this time.

...a little Retcon perhaps? Can someone who knows what they are doing go take a peek at the text log for that mission and see if perhaps the Shadowlord says anything different now?

"You Again!?!?! BLARG!!!"

[Toth]

And the PUPs are..............
SAFE!
http://images.jupiterimages.com/comm...4/23296417.jpg

I don't know why people think MM's damage was not intentional. To even get those 3kish MM requires a lot of prep, and honestly, a lot of luck. And one dead automaton.

[Stanislaw]

Bah, they still haven't fixed <pettp> (just tested)

For the love of god, is that so hard to fix? >_>

[Sho]

And the PUPs are..............
SAFE!
http://images.jupiterimages.com/comm...4/23296417.jpg

I don't know why people think MM's damage was not intentional. To even get those 3kish MM requires a lot of prep, and honestly, a lot of luck. And one dead automaton.

Same could be said for old skool RNGs (minus the luck part). And well we all knew what happened there. I don't think anyone wants to think of doing a flat out 1700-3000 dmg on Kirin (for a damn good example) as "intentional."

[Aksannyi]

Anyone else get kicked the second they chose their character? Tried to log onto one of my mules and I got "Playonline Viewer has encountered a problem and needed to close"

EDIT: Okay, tried it again, must have just been a freak occurrence. Everything is fine.

[Xanthe]

Anyone else get kicked the second they chose their character? Tried to log onto one of my mules and I got "Playonline Viewer has encountered a problem and needed to close"

Disable all plugins, etc, etc.
[edit]
Dang edits...

[Koga]

I highly doubt anyone had troubles downloading the patch.. but just in case...

* IF YOU CHOOSE THIS METHOD TO UPDATE YOUR FFXI FILES, YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE *
With that said... Follow the directions and you shouldn't have any problems at all. If you don't know what you are doing, don't try it. Don't PM me asking for help if you fuck up either.

Download this file:
>>> 031708.rar <<<
23,536 KB
Contains any file updated on 03/17/08 in the /install directory/FINAL FANTASY XI/ folder.

• 1) Backup your files. (duh)[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 2) Unzip the file into your FFXI Directory.[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 3) Open POL.exe[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 4) Run a File Check on FFXI Files.[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 5) Go watch porn for ~15-20 minutes.[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 6) Make sure the check is complete without errors.[/*:m:38w6pzuz]
• 7) Log in to FFXI. (As long as the servers are up)[/*:m:38w6pzuz]

Feel free to rehost this file, but I can not guarantee the quality of the file or the safety of your PC if you choose to download from a host other than switchstix.net

[miokomioko]

And the PUPs are..............
SAFE!
http://images.jupiterimages.com/comm...4/23296417.jpg

I don't know why people think MM's damage was not intentional. To even get those 3kish MM requires a lot of prep, and honestly, a lot of luck. And one dead automaton.

I think the PUPdate was completely intentional, and those who says it's "broken beyond belief" don't quite realize how difficult it and time-consuming it is to setup an Automaton to deal this ridiculous damage to ANY monster that does any kind of AoE move or spell. Literally, any damage will kill it. Doing 4k+ with skillchain is just us milking it for as much epeen as we can get and, in almost every case, result in a dead automaton with a 20-minute recast. Realistically, we can do 1300 damage every 100 tp, which isn't "broken beyond belief," just awesome.

[liefe]

Can anyone actually confirm that Magic Mortar wasn't nerfed? At work, can't test now.

[Gaea]

Yeah the fastest I've been able to set it up is about 4 minutes and even then puppet was still at around 30 HP. Assuming there are mobs to set this up on wondering around at whatever you are killing, you could probably do this twice on any mob, assuming the recast for Activate is already ready. After that it's about a 15 minute recast after you've set it up again and kill your puppet.

That's three times max on just about everything except maybe JoL groups that primarily rely on SMN DoT.


EDIT: No it wasn't NERFed or capped.

[Koga]

Can anyone actually confirm that Magic Mortar wasn't nerfed? At work, can't test now.

Read the thread then ask the questions.