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#1 Jan 10 2014 at 3:26 AM Rating: Good
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Pack your lunches and have your tickets at the ready, for the version update airship is set to depart the docks on Tuesday, January 21!

The cargo aboard includes more high-tier mission battles, sparkling new Records of Eminence objectives, and more convenient ways to utilize your pets!

Last but not least, our pilot for this journey will be a certain man straight from Zilart!

Full steam ahead!
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#2 Jan 10 2014 at 12:48 PM Rating: Good
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"more convenient ways to utilize your pets"

What does that mean? Vague much?
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#3 Jan 10 2014 at 1:23 PM Rating: Excellent
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"more convenient ways to utilize your pets"

What does that mean? Vague much?


In the official forums they've already said:
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We're currently looking into making a slight increase to avatar and wyvern accuracy in the January version update. While there won't be huge changes due to this, when summoners equip their high level sachet, avatars will land their auto-attacks more easily.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/38784-12-10-13-Udpate-New-Avatar-LVL-115-119-Ammo-Items?p=486603#post486603

So that looks like at least one part of it, remains to be seen whether there are additional pet adjustments or whether BST and PUP are also included.
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#4 Jan 10 2014 at 1:45 PM Rating: Excellent
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I think there might be something more, if only because one of the three images in the banner is of a BST. That, and experience has taught me that if you follow Anza, it will be the wrong way :)
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#5 Jan 10 2014 at 3:51 PM Rating: Good
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Looks like a new hard mode fight for Kam'lanaut in the ZM missions or Apocalypse Nigh. Would be an awesome reward to add a Cipher for him. I'm guessing just because of the 3 things in the picture that they are adding old NM kills like Roc to Records of Eminence.
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#6 Jan 10 2014 at 4:46 PM Rating: Good
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I think there might be something more, if only because one of the three images in the banner is of a BST. That, and experience has taught me that if you follow Anza, it will be the wrong way :)


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We’ve also been considering ideas to reduce the consumption of jugs, and we’ll be trying to strike a proper balance between this and recipe adjustments.


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/36907-Why-are-bst-pets-getting-shafted/page7

Might be this.
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#7 Jan 11 2014 at 2:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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We’ve also been considering ideas to reduce the consumption of jugs, and we’ll be trying to strike a proper balance between this and recipe adjustments.


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/36907-Why-are-bst-pets-getting-shafted/page7

Might be this.

It better be that you buy one jug and it never gets consumed ever. You decided to let RNG never use any ammo ever, between the 95% recycle proc rate and scavenge giving back the other 5%, and even COR can get 75%ish recycle rate, and with quickdraw never using bullets in the first place. Hell, they even added ways for NIN to get 85~ish% free ninjutsu casts, and have added several ways to not use quickdraw cards to COR. Yet BST has needed a new jug every time they call a pet, every time we zone because they are the only entities that depop on a zone, (doing 6 BCNM orbs, you'll need at least 6 jugs, and better hope they're not the ones that are 200k each) and even if you keep it alive and don't zone, they despawn after 2 hours for no reason.

It's like SE decided the entire economy has to be based on the only consumables anyone uses anymore: jugs. They need to be like attachments. Buy one, equip it, you've learned to summon the monster for free, forever. And if they're all kept in their own "Jug pet menu" like attachments, all the better. That we have to keep shoving consumable biscuits and mulsums down their gobs is more than enough gil sink, thank you.

Edited, Jan 11th 2014 3:09am by louispv
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#8 Jan 11 2014 at 1:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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I could see a middle ground where it's like, "Summon X 99 times, learn it forever..." It'll still be a niche market, but it'd also give more dedicated BSTs a bone.
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#9 Jan 12 2014 at 2:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Why the hell doesn't this update involve an actual airship in any way.
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Bastok was hit by a polar vortex and the galkas are busy de-icing the propellers.
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#11 Jan 15 2014 at 3:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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Gildrein wrote:

[dev1168] Additional Records of Eminence Objectives

  • “Subjugation” Objectives
New objectives that require adventurers to vanquish certain notorious monsters that inhabit the game’s original areas will be introduced.

  • Battle-related Objectives
Additional objectives, such as ones that require adventurers to deal over certain amounts of damage to enemies a specific number of times, will be introduced.

  • ”Spoils” Objectives
New objectives, such as ones that require adventurers to obtain certain items a specific number of times, will be introduced.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/39487

Edited, Jan 15th 2014 4:16am by Szabo
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#12 Jan 15 2014 at 8:36 AM Rating: Decent
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Well, here's to hoping that people are willing to alliance to get the kill instead of everyone trying to camp Leaping Lizzy again...
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#13 Jan 15 2014 at 9:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Huh..was wondering when they'd **** this system up. Let's hope they make them spawn regularly now or add multiple copies somewhere. Even with a low population, there's still enough to make this annoying as ****.
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#14 Jan 15 2014 at 9:42 AM Rating: Decent
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They greatly reduced respawn timers on most old-world NMs a while back, so there's that
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Well, here's to hoping that people are willing to alliance to get the kill instead of everyone trying to camp Leaping Lizzy again...


***** you all! Those Bounding Boots are MINE!!! Time to load up the bot and commence the Battle of Lizzy's Aery!
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#16 Jan 17 2014 at 4:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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Gildrein wrote:

[dev1169] Colonization Rate Increase

  • Successful lair and colonization reives will now provide greater increases to the colonization rate than before.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/39524


PlayOnline wrote:

All Worlds Maintenance (Jan. 20)

At the following time, we will be performing server maintenance to accompany the version update. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

* This maintenance will be accompanied by a version update. After maintenance is complete, the update will automatically begin after you press the "Play" button. After that, please follow the instructions on the screen.

* The World Transfer Service will be unavailable starting 30 minutes before the maintenance. Please wait until after the maintenance is completed before attempting to use this service.

* You may receive errors such as "POL-1160" or "POL-0010" during the download process due to heavy server traffic. If you are unable to access the update, we ask that you please wait a while and then try again.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding in making this a smooth version update.

Downloadable file sizes for the FINAL FANTASY XI version update are as follows.

[File size for clients with expansion data disk installed]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 63.7MB

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 94.9MB

Xbox 360 Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 101.1MB


[File size for clients without expansion data disk installed]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 41.6MB

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 72,9MB

Xbox 360 Version
Downloadable file size: Approximately 79.1MB

* Details of the version update will be announced separately on Jan. 20, 2014.

[Date & Time]
Jan. 20, 2014 from 09:00 to 10:30 (PST)
Jan. 20, 2014 from 12pm to 1:30 (EST)
Jan. 20, 2014 from 17:00 to 18:30 (GMT)
Jan. 21, 2014 from 2am to 3:30am (JST)
* The completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XI

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news22773.shtml

Edited, Jan 17th 2014 5:50am by Szabo
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#17 Jan 17 2014 at 4:45 AM Rating: Excellent
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Uh oh... it's another update on a holiday.
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#18 Jan 17 2014 at 7:54 AM Rating: Default
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Uh oh... it's another update on a holiday.


Yep, though it doesn't affect most supported regions unless for some reason they celebrate it..because why not.

(Since MLK wasn't a Japanese rights leader nor British rights leader, nor German etc.)

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My post was more of a tongue-in-cheek warning about the potential incoming ********** I guess that didn't work out so well.
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#20 Jan 19 2014 at 3:58 AM Rating: Default
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Camiie wrote:
Uh oh... it's another update on a holiday.


Yep, though it doesn't affect most supported regions unless for some reason they celebrate it..because why not.

(Since MLK wasn't a Japanese rights leader nor British rights leader, nor German etc.)



No excuse.. I live in Japan and my phone says "Martin Luther King, Jr's Day" and is highlighted as a holiday. It's really not that hard to schedule maintenance on non federally recognized holidays.
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#21 Jan 20 2014 at 4:26 AM Rating: Good
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Gildrein wrote:

[dev1170] Pets Will Be Made More Effective

The following adjustments have been made to pets.


Beastmaster
  • Damage and special ability strength of pets called with the Call Beast command will be increased.
  • Additional means to procure apkallufa and akaso, needed to create pet broths, will be added.


Dragoon
  • The damage wyverns deal will be increased


Summoner
  • The damage elementals and avatars deal will be increased.


Puppetmaster
  • New attachments for automatons will be added.

 
Name	            Description 
Turbo Charger II A wind-based automaton attachment. Functionality:  
                 Decreases melee physical attack delay. 
Vivi-Valve II	 A light-based automaton attachment. Functionality:  
                 Increases "Cure" potency

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/39568

Edited, Jan 20th 2014 5:28am by Szabo
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Vivi-Valve II might be useful, except autos have absurdly awful curing AI. Sure, maybe its cure V will do 1000 instead of 500 (or whatever low amount) like it does now, but it will still only use V and VI no matter what! I hope it at least gets adjusted so it will do V when V's new and improved value will cap the target...

And a better delay- attachment is cool, but not helpful if you want to make PUP useful for new content. Missing more often isn't useful. Sure, it will make it better for low level content, but it's not bad at low level content now! It's pretty great at it, really. It's just that if you go to a difficult or higher SCNM, or to AA, the auto has pretty awful accuracy.

I think that maybe the new animators give big bonuses to magic accuracy skill and magic damage, so maybe I'm now doing-it-wrong for high level fights. (Mage used to be the way to go for HNM and stuff, back in the 75 days, but it got left behind with the Alternator). But still, if that's what we're supposed to be doing now, where's the +magic damage attachment? ;)
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#23 Jan 20 2014 at 12:43 PM Rating: Good
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I wonder how much of a boost there was to BST pets. With players having so much stat vomit on their gear pets just can't provide the same percentage of damage as they used to. Unfortunately I am skeptical that what they have done will be enough to make a dent in the gap between BST and other jobs. Unless prices for new jugs crash I can't afford to play on a job that costs more to play than any other and is less powerful. I hope I'm wrong.

Edited, Jan 20th 2014 10:44am by Olorinus
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