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Me and my son have about 3k tabs each in FoV, I'm waiting to see what they add to that, and hopefully some long awaited job adjustments, i.e. BST.

But I like being a SMN...

All I know is this better be an epic update. I have a feeling we won't get another until late July/early August.

Nah, that's just another in the long line of hints to defeating AV that we haven't been paying any attention to. This one is meant to tell us that we need a line of Taru cheerleaders waiving Christmas bells. Doing this will keep AV from using Meteor for approximately the first three seconds of the battle.

SE will be implementing the new mini-game Whack-A-Mole.

Further examination leads me to this:

There are 3 items mentioned.

1. Thrilling new episodes of nation quests for Wings of the Goddess.

2. Battle-related adjustments and additions.
3. Large-scale expansion of the Moblin Maze Mongers and Fields of Valor systems.

There are also 3 pictures. The image on the left is obviously MMM. The center image is obviously WotG. This leaves the image on the right to cover battle adjustments.

Since the 3 taru are each wearing a colored cloak worn by specific jobs we know that they are from the left: BLM, WHM and RDM. They are weilding a weapon that is obviously not a staff. This leads me to believe that SE will be removing Staves from the game altogether making RDM, WHM and BLM more likely to melee as they will no longer be swapping out staves every 3 seconds.

I really want to slam a mob with that hammer and see it fly into the horizon yelling "JIGGLYPUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuffff.........." /ding

Edited, Feb 27th 2009 9:25am by Alisaye

My guess is the hammer will be a reward available through MMM (It is shown in a MMM picture, after all). They originally said the rewards from there would be stylistic more than anything, and this has definitely got people's attention. It will probably have mediocre stats, but be another collectors item due to it's unique appearance, which won't be quite so unique once everybody does MMM long enough to obtain one.

And, the update got pushed from March to April....didn't see that one coming :/

Edited, Feb 27th 2009 8:41am by TheTang

Well, bells have often been a weapon in the Final Fantasy franchise, especially the Tactics games. They're usually not the best for physical damage (though they're not bad) they often carry some other perk to them. I'd imagine for FFXI, they will carry small amounts of Magic Accuracy+ for lower levels, or perhaps a series of bells that could enhance the effect of charm on certain mobs.

early april? I think were all about to get april fooled

Maybe it's time for me to get past Back to the Beginning.
I finished CoP right after ToAU came out.
I finished ToAU like the day after WotG came out.
Maybe it's time for me to break this trend.

Can we FINALLY get the body armor for the level 68 Wings gear PLEEEEEASE??