A Crystalline Prophecy Release date announcedFollow

The Release date for FFXI Pay Scenario has been announced today.


Title : A Crystalline Prophecy
Release Date: March 23th
Price : 980 yen

This scenario only selling through pol .

This scenario can be playable after April patch.

Addon site updated.

Customize Gear System announced.

Once players cleared the mission, players are allowed to choose one of the 3 gears.



http://www.4gamer.net/games/078/G007879/20090316043/



Edited, Mar 16th 2009 11:11am by Maruchiru

Edited, Mar 16th 2009 11:43am by Maruchiru

Edited, Mar 16th 2009 12:20pm by Maruchiru

You guys missed the best thing that we have been waiting for...


Paraphrase: Customizable equipment. We will be able to add to the equipment our choice of stats from a list of 20. Plus it's the only equipment with visible cape so far. Probably doesn't lock out the cape slot but it shows a mini cape on the body gear.

that gear looks promising, but you know it'll end up being like the other mission end gear, and you can only pick one, and one is gonna be mandatory, but they're all either gonna be awesome, or meh

Nuevo Coselete:
Jobs: War, Pld, Drk, Bst, Drg, Sam

Royal Redingote:
Jobs: Whm, Blm, Rdm, Smn, Brd, Sch, Blu*, Pup*(I hope not, but I know it will be)

Mirke Wardecors:
Jobs: Mnk, Thf, Rng, Cor, Nin, Dnc, Blu*, Pup*(I hope so, but I know it won't be)

Pup and Blu could go either way, since blu could benefit from the mage or melee piece, and pup will only enjoy the melee piece, but SE loves putting pup on mage pieces(hai2uhopestaff)

Edited, Mar 16th 2009 6:24am by Jinte

I have no knowledge of the language, but a couple of blind clicks found me THIS little baby.

£7.99 in my money. Very reasonable, I reckon.
Like the sound of the gear. Hopefully a sign of things to come.

Its more £7.05 converting Yen to £ or around $9.97, or 980 Yen is umm $9.25, be interesting to see how its priced O_o

Yea, it's already priced. $9.99 for the US version.

I'm looking forward to this. That's a price I'm willing to pay, and that armor has promise. My only problem is I can likely only get one, and the 3 main jobs I play would fall under each of the different ones.

If you guys noticed, the Royal Redignote was the original design of the Tidal Talisman that they showed at Vanafest. They said there was a miscommunication on what the Tidal Talisman would look like and the devs came up with that, and the head of the equipment division said it was way too nice for the tidal talisman and they remade it but kept the design. It's nice to see that it will be used in this mini expansion.

The first installment of three new add-on scenarios, entitled "A Crystalline Prophecy – Ode of Life Bestowing" will be available for advance purchase through PlayOnline starting from March 23, 2009.
(*Players purchasing the scenario will receive access to the in-game content upon the release of the next FINAL FANTASY XI version update, scheduled for early April.)

In honor of this occasion, the official site for "A Crystalline Prophecy" has been updated with the latest news. Head on over to read all the exciting details!
You also won't want to miss the new promotional trailer, scheduled for release in the coming days, so keep watching this space!

Click here to access the official site.

I think that PUP will go with Redingote and BLU will go with Wardecors. When I look at these 3 sets it reminds me of Nyzul Gear and their separation. For Royal Redingote, it will probably be DEF, MP, Resting MP while healing as the base stats. As far as the 20 Attributes to choose from I am guessing:

(This is just a guess)
- Attack
- Ranged Att
- Acc
- Ranged Acc
- Double Attack %
- Store TP
- Evasion
- Critical Hit rate
- Physical Dmg Reduction
- +HP%
- Magical Dmg Reduction
- Refresh Effect
- Regen
- Elemental Skill
- Enfeebling Skill
- Summoning Skill
- Healing Skill
- Avatar Perp
- Blue Magic Skill
- Song Casting time

These are elements that we commonly see on gear that is grouped for multiple jobs. So now we get to pick two of them instead of having a body piece with only certain stats that go with our job/playstyles. Depending on the amount of bonus, you can end up making mimic of some gear that you can't normally obtain.

Edited, Mar 16th 2009 5:22am by ImmortalAlchemist

SE said that Hardcore players will finish it in two weeks, while for the more casual player it will take about a month to a month and a half. You can start doing the quests around level 30 solo, but it will take a party 75's to finish.

Very, very, interesting. A nice mini-story that can bring something new to the present time instead of making us go through a bunch of new areas that would be inaccessible to people below level 75.

And for 10 bucks? Practically a steal.