VanaFest Coverage (now with actual LiveBlog)

[Elesar]

Yeah the new Beastmaster thing they are doing will be useless if they don't remove the despawn time on jug pets and if they do remove or extend the timer to a higher number, it will only be useful in small group situations and still make Beastmaster useless in end game events.

[Kenji]

unless one of your DD is crazy and if he see you with extra MP he stop blink tanking and let mobs hit him for faster tp gain , and the other DD is a Drk who use SE in merits when I have 50% MP -.-

WHM/SCH is better in a merit situation than RDM. Every single RDM I've partied with, has had to rest often. And their cure IV's pull hate a lot. A decently played WHM/SCH never has to rest, and rarely if ever pulls hate. Hell, I have enough MP to help sleep things, and still keep 4 melee hasted full time, regardless of merit camp.

Not sure why people think RDM has unlimited MP. WHM/SCH is vastly more efficient.

The only issues are WHM pre 70 having mp issues. Maybe those treasure caskets with temp items will reward ethers and elixirs often enough during a normal xp group. The only other issue is aoe status removal; yagrush is an expensive bandaid. Divine veil needs it's own 1-3 minute timer. Still, stuff like a Pax spell would be fun.

[Rocl]

I rarely rest, if ever, in merit parties on RDM. >_>

[fusionx]

Everybody probably knows everything now, but i was finally able to compile a write up of the event using information from the live blog, elemen, dev blog, and elmer and corinth
http://petfoodalpha.com/1948/vanafest-2008-pfa-write-up
Hopefully its useful to someone

[Vajra]

Special Task Force

* STF Wars: while only 1000 names appeared, they stated that 328,000 accounts have been banned
* They now have a way to trace the gil in the game to ban more people involved with RMT activity
* Plans to change fishing in regards to 14 day free trial abuse
* Allowing only friends to message you to help reduce RMT message spam
* Auto Jail

What exactly do these two mean, because they seem very intriguing o.0.

[Vajra]

Moogle Sheild

* Moogle’s Japery will give movement speed in town when used (party AoE) of 25% Will increase food effect on the field
* Chance of turning into a Moogle if the item “fails”

Moist, i wants one of these weeeeee!

Glory Crown does indeed have a hidden effect:

When a player wears the crown while getting sanction, they will receive an additional +1 imperial defense bonus. This defense rating, usually calculated by the number of successful defenses of the capital, is beneficial to players as it has a direct influence on the amount of exp gained by defeating enemies, and also grants bonuses such as prolonged food effects. However the highest imperial defense bonus is 8, after that it will have no effect.

Ahh your translation makes it more clear now, sounds very handy thank you. I've been getting sanction with crown on now a days also.

[Lordwafik]

Originally Posted by fusionx
Special Task Force

* STF Wars: while only 1000 names appeared, they stated that 328,000 accounts have been banned
* They now have a way to trace the gil in the game to ban more people involved with RMT activity
* Plans to change fishing in regards to 14 day free trial abuse
* Allowing only friends to message you to help reduce RMT message spam
* Auto Jail

What exactly do these two mean, because they seem very intriguing o.0.

Auto Jail means this :

http://wafiks.com/images/GM/0001.jpg

[Vajra]

Auto Jail means this :

http://wafiks.com/images/GM/0001.jpg

lol so they can jail u when u log on omg, and leave Gm NPCs that leave messages o.0.

[BRP]

Did you read him?

[Lordwafik]

Did you read him?

Yeah he said this

http://wafiks.com/images/GM/0002.jpg

[Gwynplaine]

*Audio correction no same sex marriages the words for “synthesis” and “same sex” are very similar in Japanese. We’re sorry for the mistake.

Et tu FFXI?

[fusionx]

Et tu FFXI?

i guess the japanese word for synthesis is gosei and the word for same sex is dosei (i think those are spelled right :3 )so when the talked about the tuxedos being synthable the word was misheard ^^;

also there wasnt much about auto jail, it was turned on awhile ago but there were some "victims" but they're adjusting it and will put it back into the game soon

Imagine someone spamming JP ONRY over and over again (lol), the system would see it and automatically jail them without a GM having to be called
Or maybe something were the persons name comes up in multiple GM requests they get jailed, stuff like that.

Glad you guys enjoyed the write up, i'll definitely get one up for FanFest as well. PFA is also doing a live blog with FFXIclopedia just like the one we did with JPbutton, i'll toss the info for that up closer to the event.

[Kenji]

I rarely rest, if ever, in merit parties on RDM. >_>

You'd be one of the only ones I know of, then. Every single RDM I've partied with, has had to rest. I *never* have had to rest as a WHM/SCH. Unless everyone decided to come MPsponge/WAR.

I also do a lot of pickup meripos, while you probably do meripo only with friends and good people you know.

[Lordwafik]

You're playing with terrible RDMs I don't recall having to rest in merits either, especially if it's colibris, because wtf colibris!

A tip I have for RDMs out there with MP issues but perfect hate control in merit camps : After converting, you do not need to heal yourself. Cast regen1 on yourself untill your HP fills up which should beat your timer for convert. Use stoneskin though for just in case. But this alone helps a lot if you really need MP and hate is perfect in your pts, lets you save Divine Seal for when it's actually needed, or if /blm you don't have to waste a good chunk of mp on cure4. Then again if you have a proper convert macro this isn't a real issue.

[Hyan]

Creator's Voice added some kind of mini Q&A to their website.. Nothing huge there but the last line sounds interesting:

There were many more questions about things like Salvage and Jobs, but you can look forward to hearing all about those at Fan Fest in America!

S i l v e r S e a?

[Rocl]

Honestly for Colibri I think I'd go RDM/SCH nowadays