All Worlds Maintenance (Sep. 8)

[MaachaQ]

If it were announced in say July I could see your point.

They were...

Version Update Notification (07/23/2008 )
The next FINAL FANTASY XI Version Update has been scheduled to take place in early September. The development team is currently hard at work to bring you the following, just to name a few items:
- The continuing episodes of nation quests for the Wings of the Goddess expansion.
- Major battle-related tweaks and additions.
- Adjustments to fellows and Campaign.

We will be posting more detailed information on the next version update right here on Topics as it becomes available, so stay tuned!

and then:

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...41/detail.html
and
http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...20/detail.html

[terranova]

K FINE. You win >_> SUE ME.

[dejet]

there is going to be something added to SC/MB this update i think. maybe an exp boost if you can get a sc/mb off.(exp gained based off dmg delt from exp). i think they really are going to add something like this. but it still wont help blms... like they want it to. all that this will do(and i really really think we will get this by next update) is make rdms MB and still keep blms out the loop lol

[LD]

Starlight Medal Moonlight Medal Dawnlight Medal Medal Of Altana

These exist in the dats and are even displayed at otherwiki.

Who knows if they'd be added, and for all we know IR body could still actually be in the wings rank, just expensive.

All that matters to me and probably a lot of paladins is that it gets add x-x

Meaning no, they didn't say anything about adding them this cycle. Thank you for that succinct reply.

I've been reminding myself that since ToAU finished and nada yet lol

The thing that makes it different this time around (IMO) is the lack of any job adjustment notes, and we've gotten at least 1 per update since WOG came out. They've hinted at that NIN ability and new avatars for months and they've made good on all the other stuff they promised.

[Hellfury]

The thing that makes it different this time around (IMO) is the lack of any job adjustment notes, and we've gotten at least 1 per update since WOG came out. They've hinted at that NIN ability and new avatars for months and they've made good on all the other stuff they promised.

Except the RDM stuff ;;

[MaachaQ]

The thing that makes it different this time around (IMO) is the lack of any job adjustment notes, and we've gotten at least 1 per update since WOG came out. They've hinted at that NIN ability and new avatars for months and they've made good on all the other stuff they promised.

Big chance for at least some of those things being in the day of update note, after the servers shut down. There's always at least one big surprise there.

[Sho]

Or they might just release the info a bit later today, I hope.

[LD]

It all fits, imo: Job Adjustment they've been promising, we've been getting one each update, only 1 news bit in the middle of the week instead of the end (and it's not even bookended by non-update crap, only one), the last time they announced a summonable avatar, they did it the day of the update.

Get your hopes up, I promise I'm right.

[Xanthe]

Also, I'd like to see a club WS for whm only that has a reasonable amount of mp drain, a la Spirit Taker, that doesn't suck like Starlight/Moonlight.

Yeah, and they could make it quested so you at least feel a little accomplished for having the weapon skill. It'd need a cool name though. Something like Mystic Strike or Magic Boon.

[Kenji]

Coming in the update notes on Monday... Puppetmasters in groups of 5 or 6 will be able to join their automatons together to form a more powerful super-automaton! It will then proceed to cast paralyna instead of Cure V when you're at 5 health.

But seriously, SE has said new summonable avatars for awhile, but that they would be different. Less Blood Pacts, but more unique in use. I think people take that to mean a melee-specialized avatar that hits harder, a tank-specialized avatar with higher HP and defense, and a heal-specialized avatar that's cheap to keep out and can heal more often than carby. All of them with perhaps 3 BPs. Perhaps others along this line. Wouldn't surprise me to hear that they added the first few of this new line in the update notes on monday.

[Dohorehn]

The puppet is just too dumb.

Dumber than a gumball machine. Same concept too. We put in a quarter (maneuver) and hope we get a red one, but you never do.

[Sunrider]

But seriously, SE has said new summonable avatars for awhile, but that they would be different. Less Blood Pacts, but more unique in use. I think people take that to mean a melee-specialized avatar that hits harder, a tank-specialized avatar with higher HP and defense, and a heal-specialized avatar that's cheap to keep out and can heal more often than carby. All of them with perhaps 3 BPs. Perhaps others along this line. Wouldn't surprise me to hear that they added the first few of this new line in the update notes on monday.

I remember them mentioning that as part of some interview, and I recall wondering: where does that leave all the other avatars the SMN took so long to acquire? Would they just be hood ornaments? If the new avatars are the only ones to apply any practical use, what incentive would a leveling SMN have to get any others?

[Thiefami]

I remember them mentioning that as part of some interview, and I recall wondering: where does that leave all the other avatars the SMN took so long to acquire? Would they just be hood ornaments? If the new avatars are the only ones to apply any practical use, what incentive would a leveling SMN have to get any others?

New spells of different variety ALWAYS makes former spells useless you're absolutely right! If you're under 15 years old I apologize, if you're older than 17 you're a fucking moron.

[Kenji]

I remember them mentioning that as part of some interview, and I recall wondering: where does that leave all the other avatars the SMN took so long to acquire? Would they just be hood ornaments? If the new avatars are the only ones to apply any practical use, what incentive would a leveling SMN have to get any others?

I'm sure they'll still have use. But I'll be the first to say, that I wish they'd tweak the old avatars' abilities to be more useful. Buffs lasting at least 5 mins, and perhaps up to 10. Lower level rages doing more damage. We can't use the vast majority of our abilities, because we only have 1 rage and 1 ward per minute, and that means only a few rages and wards ever get used, because they are the best. If Buffs lasted longer, we could use more of them.

They'll still be the general purpose avatars. The specialized ones will have some weaknesses, such as the melee DD avatar having less life and defense, and thus easily killed. Perhaps longer recast times.

[Jakson]

You're asking for a bit much. Perdu Wand is free, everyone should have one if you REALLY want it. Also with weaponskills, you can't have it all. You either want MP drain with shit damage, or good damage with no MP drain.

You're kind of requesting something like "RDM should get manafont to go along with their chainspell".

Yeah yeah yeah, I just ask for something more reasonable because I've been saving up IS for Perdu Blade and I can't see myself not saving up for P.Voulge after that, especially since what you said in some other thread about how Mjollnir/KC works parses higher than /P.wand simply because you can spam more WS and that's the base of whm melee damage.

I know mp drain with shit damage is expected, it just would be nice is all. And I hardly think maybe 120ish mp every WS (for those of us that aren't /KC) isn't as gamebreaking as Chainspell+Manafont >.>

Yeah, and they could make it quested so you at least feel a little accomplished for having the weapon skill. It'd need a cool name though. Something like Mystic Strike or Magic Boon.

Hey, what's the formula for Mystic Boon's mp return? Clever post.

[Korremar]

But seriously, SE has said new summonable avatars for awhile, but that they would be different. Less Blood Pacts, but more unique in use.

Was talking to a friend of mine about this, he's SMN75. Personally I'd like to see a sort of SMN Ancient Magic; that is to say, avatars behaving like they do in the other games. I won't say it's the most useful new avatar ability they could conceivably give, but it would be dramatic at the least, and probably make them viable for a 6th slot in a manaburn. Diabolos' MAB/MDB buff to help all the BLMs, then the SMN can pretend-AM nuke along with the others.

[Ophannus]

DRG was intiailly designed to be full time solo,

wut?

[Xanthe]

Yeah, pretty sure SE stated no jobs were designed to be soloists. Doesn't mean there aren't jobs that can in certain situations, but it definitely wasn't the intention.

[Jkun]

Dumber than a gumball machine. Same concept too. We put in a quarter (maneuver) and hope we get a red one, but you never do.

You're my new favourite person.

[Ahlah]

The only job that has been officially regconised as solo job is DRG, SE mentioned it in their interview before. DRGs gear selections are quite limited until SE introduced Limbus. BST on the other hand have access to some of the best sky and king gear including Adaman Hauberk.