Get ready to chow down on the next version update, scheduled to reach the table piping hot in mid-February!
Fill up your plate with new Alluvion Skirmishes, a quest exploring another side of Adoulin, and additional gifts boasting job enhancements and high-tier elemental magic!
Should that not be enough to satisfy your pangs of hunger, feast on Mog Garden expansions, job adjustments, new job point categories, an increase in the maximum number of participants in Unity chat, and a veritable buffet of other additions and adjustments.
A new quest exploring a dark part of Adoulin’s present will be added in the February version update.
A Not-So-Clean Bill
Would that the mysterious illness striking Adoulinians young and old alike be cured by simple medical intervention--yet a vicious morbol appears to hold the key to recovery.
New Gifts will be added in the February version update.
These new entries feature standard upgrades, such as increases to physical attack and magic defense, as well as more exciting entries such as the acquisition of new high-tier elemental magic, improvements to existing job abilities, and more.
Alluvion Skirmishes will be added to Yorcia Weald [U].
The party leader must be in possession of a Yorcia eudaemon key item in order to participate in Alluvion Skirmishes occurring in Yorcia Weald [U]. As is the case with previous Alluvion Skirmishes, Yorcia eudaemons may be assembled by trading the appropriate parts to Oston in Eastern Adoulin (G-8).
Read on for more information about Alluvion Skirmishes.
The accuracy of the additional effect of blue magic spells will now vary based on blue magic skill.
Puppetmaster
New attachments will be added.
Strobe II / Tension Spring III / Loudspeaker III / Tranquilizer II / Accelerator III / Scope II / Shock Absorber III / Armor Plate III / Stabilizer III / Coiler II / Mana Jammer III / Stealth Screen II / Auto-Repair Kit III / Mana Tank III
The strength of the following weapon skills used by automatons will be increased.
Get ready to chow down on the next version update, scheduled to reach the table piping hot in mid-February!
Fill up your plate with new Alluvion Skirmishes, a quest exploring another side of Adoulin, and additional gifts boasting job enhancements and high-tier elemental magic!
Should that not be enough to satisfy your pangs of hunger, feast on Mog Garden expansions, job adjustments, new job point categories, an increase in the maximum number of participants in Unity chat, and a veritable buffet of other additions and adjustments.
I would hope there's gonna be new job point categories in this update D:
Greetings, adventurers! Matsui here with another version update preview. There’s only a few short days left, so let me give you a brief rundown.
Headlining the February version update content are new alluvion skirmishes in Yorcia Weald. I’m sure you all remember that existing skirmishes in Yorcia Weald [U] require players to protect a tract of land, and the new alluvion skirmishes build on that concept by having challengers summon friendly monsters to assault the enemies’ stronghold.
The key to victory lies in swiftly determining what your foes’ weak points are and summoning monsters that are capable of exploiting them to the greatest possible extent.
But what good is battle content without some juicy rewards? In this version, players can find weapons available in the old alluvion skirmishes—but they can be engraved with up to three types of arcane glyptics at a time. All-new armor also makes an appearance, with, again, up to three types of arcane glyptics that may be engraved at once.
Character-focused development for February centers on two new job point categories and seven new gifts per job. I hope that you will gather more capacity points and unlock additional gifts to help you get over the hump and conquer any content that has been vexing you.
Lest you think that everything is combat-focused, we also have several new elements in store for your Mog Garden. We’ve applied a bit of elbow grease to the area’s graphics and made a new monster rearing rank available. This new rank comes with it an entirely new section of the Mog Garden—the rearing grounds—and the ability to rear multiple monsters at once. Never again do you have to choose between one friend or the other! If that’s not enough, there are also new creatures available to take care of.
This version update is schedule to drop on Thursday, February 19, and we’ve got a fresh new promotional video for you to feast your eyes on.
As is customary, we’ve also prepared a table of all the content to be added, some of which continues to undergo testing. Please note that unexpected hindrances may pop up, causing some of these entries to be pushed back to a later date.
- Designing NM data - Balancing battles - Setting rewards - Adding new ethereal junctions to target areas - Reducing transport costs to target areas
Content and Systems
Alluvion Skirmishes in Yorcia Weald (U)
- Producing cutscenes - Designing system to summon allied monsters - Establishing strongholds and marchlands - Setting monster data - Setting special monsters - Designing boss monsters - Designing rewards - Balancing battles - Designing arcane glyptics
Records of Eminence
- Adding Unity accolades in exchange for A.M.A.N copper vouchers - Adding ability to receive up to 36 combat and magic skill books from Records of Eminence NPCs simultaneously. - Increasing Unity accolades earned for time-limited and daily objectives - Decreasing number of successful actions required to fulfill certain objectives - Adding Unity accolade display to content lists
Unity Concord
- Adding Unity Wanted objectives - Adding new reforgable equipmen - Adding teleportation services to additional areas - Doubling Unity chat participant limit from 64 to 128 - Adding new items
Mog Gardens
- Adjusting area graphics - Changing certain enchanted items to be useable
Monster Rearing
- Unlocking rank three - Unlocking rearing grounds - Adding new rank three creatures - Setting rewards for new monsters - Modifying method of acquiring certain feed.
Linkshellï¼Linkshell2
- Add shortcut key for Linkshell2 -Add system to equip linkshells stored in Mog Satchel/Mog Sack/Mog Case
Trust
- Adding content where alter egos may be called forth - Adding new alter egos - Adjusting attributes - Creating and adjusting behavior logic - Adding new ciphers - Adding new quests
Legion
- Lowering the minimum number of participants from three to one
Campaign Ops
- Lowering the minimum number of participants in certain Ops from three to one
Gobbie Mystery Box
- Adding items that may be converted into daily tally
Inventors' Coalition
- Adding the ability to engrave job-specific capes with arcane glyptics to an existing NPC
Battle System
Job Points
- Adding two new categories to all twenty-two Jobs - Creating attribute information for new categories
Gifts
- Adding seven new categories to all twenty-two jobs - Creating attribute information for new categories - Adding high-tier magic - Adding high-tier job traits
Beastmaster
- Adding pets summonable with Call Beast and Bestial Loyalty - Adding more food that affects pets - Reducing recast time for Sic and Ready - Adjusting special abilities of pets summonable with Call Beast and Bestial Loyalty
Blue Mage
- Adjusting accuracy of the additional effects of blue magic so that they scale with blue magic skill -
Puppetmaster
- Adding high-tier attachments - Adjusting certain automaton weapon skills
Elemental Magic Adjustments
Adjusting cast times and MP costs of certain elemental magic spells
Items
Alluvion Skirmishes in Yorcia Weald (U)
- Adding new equipment -
Unity Wanted Battles
- Adding new equipment
Synthesis Recipes
- Adding new pet jug recipes - Adding new furnishing recipes
Items Storable via the Porter Moogle
- Adding event items storable via the Porter Moogle
Synergy Recipes
- Adding new equipment related to elemental gorgets and belts. Added February 17, 2015
UI
Configuration
- Adding option to tile log windows horizontally - Adding option to enable or disable weapon effects
Treasure Box
- Adding a menu option to relinquish rights to cast lots on all spoils at once.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46055
PlayOnline wrote:
All Worlds Maintenance (Feb. 18)
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.
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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 19.9MB Windows Version Downloadable file size: Approximately 69.1MB Xbox 360 Version Downloadable file size: Approximately 50.5MB
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* Details of the version update will be announced separately on Feb. 18, 2015.
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[Affected Service] - FINAL FANTASY XI
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news23957.shtml Edited, Feb 17th 2015 6:57am by Szabo
Legion tome page: minimus (18-man battle) for 180,000 gil Legion tome page: maximus (36-man battle) for 360,000 gil
I don't know, that seems rather expensive to me for a single go at the content. It wouldn't be expensive for a group maybe, and obviously if you were lowman you'd only spend the 180k, but that's still three times as much as Einherjar, whereas probably the only things you can even get from this that have any particular value anymore (Meteor/Arise, a low chance at Duplus Grip... any others?) all come from Hall of Mul meaning you'd need multiple wins just to try it.
Based on the horror stories I've heard about Legion, I'm not sure if it would be exactly that easy to do solo nowadays even with the new gear. Maybe a party might manage? Anyone tried? I just know that with the 180k price tag, I'm not going to be one of those people that tries >_>
It was a much better value when you had things like Ormolu, Penelope's Cloth, Staghorn Coral, Meteor, and Arise going for good prices. Not to mention things like Wyrdstrand and Thokcha/Palladian Brass that also had some value.
Based on the horror stories I've heard about Legion, I'm not sure if it would be exactly that easy to do solo nowadays even with the new gear. Maybe a party might manage? Anyone tried? I just know that with the 180k price tag, I'm not going to be one of those people that tries >_>
I've done it with a group since ilevel... um it was still challenging to kill monsters fast enough, I guess (I think we timed out before we had gotten everything but I dunno, I was just singing songs I have no idea how the event works) - the monsters themselves were not too bad I don't think... but nothing anyone wanted dropped... just eluders satchets for everyone.
Theonehio wrote:
Olorinus wrote:
Isn't legion ludicrously expensive? Or am I remembering wrong?
You are definitely remembering something else unless gil was particularly hard to come by for you/people you played with at the time.
Well at the time if you were going with a group - no that's not so bad, but what I had in mind was that price for someone soloing, seems pointless unless you're a blinkonaire
