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The update and such (FFXI)
Mar. 7th, 2007 10:40 amFirst off, it's very very nice to see an update where the majority of people have only good things to day about it. Pages and pages of "Win!" "gg SE!" and such on BG.
One of the biggest "win" points is:
Players will no longer lose experience points when KO’d in Chain of Promathia mission battlefields.
While I suspect we'll see endless bitching from some corners, it's nice to see that SE has realized how little people want to do CoP. I only wonder what counts as "battlefields". BCs only? That'd be too bad, but at least better than nothing. A heck of a lot better than nothing! Let's have a round of "gg SE!" for this one!
- Level 7 Besieged has now been released.
Not a surprise, but... it worries me. NA players can hardly handle a level 6, and if the attack happens to fall in EU time? We're doomed. :/ But whatever, we're not meant to win all the time, so this makes it more "fair" in my mind. Maybe one day NA players will actually learn! ("lol")
changes have been made to the Chocobo Hot and Cold Game:
Yay for people who care, mostly "meh" for me. I do H&C daily, but only in the easier area. I'm not looking forward to working more in the harder area to get access to the new areas. Maybe once I can use my TF bird it'll be easier.
Items obtainable in the prairie chocograph and bush chocograph areas have been adjusted.
Please please please give fewer fish!
Your chocobo’s general digging ability will now be improved when successfully discovering treasure.
Um, uh. So your non-H&C digging skill may go up when you do H&C? I'm not sure what to think about this... Hopefully it'll be just a tiny little skillup, like digging a non-H&C item.
changes have been made to Assault
Yay new rank! My static won't get there anytime soon, but eventually!
A new mini game called “Venture Roll” is now playable on “Game Tables” found in the areas listed below. Two to four people can play Venture Roll, with the winner walking away with the combined participation fee.
I'd like to think that would be the end of player-run casinos, but I highly doubt it.
The NPC that extends Mog Locker leases will now accept more than one Imperial bronze piece at a time.
WIN.
A job level requirement has been added to the quests listed below. The required level varies from quest to quest.
The Rumor/Intermediate Teamwork/Healing the Land/Altana's Sorrow/Making the Grade/Curses, Foiled A-Golem!?/Know One's Onions/Acting in Good Faith/ Stop Your Whining/Secret of the Damp Scroll/The Sahagin's Stash/It's Not Your Vault
No more getting scrolls on your mules. Wish I had gotten off my lazy ass and gotten through those on my 74829174107410 mules. Oh well.
An NPC who will mark important locations on your map can be found in the areas listed below.
I hope the marks last forever! I can never find the NPCs I need.
An NPC with airship and ferry arrival/departure times has been placed in the areas listed below.
Art Urhgan Whitegate/Nashmau/Port San d’Oria/Port Bastok/Port Windurst/Kazham
About Damned Time! Yay!
The following new spells have been added.
Dark Magic
Drain II Lv.62
DRK Steals an enemy's HP, potentially increasing maximum HP. Ineffective against undead.
Dread Spikes Lv.71
DRK Covers you with magical darkness spikes. Steals HP from enemies that hit you. Ineffective against undead.
Yay! Just hope the scrolls aren't a bitchkitty to get. (I'm not expecting them to be, since the last new scrolls came from vendors.)
The enmity gained when using “Chocobo Mazurka” or “Raptor Mazurka” has been reduced.
Good.
A dragoon’s wyvern will now perform the following emotes along with its master:
blush/bow/cheer/clap/dance/goodbye/hurray/joy/panic/point/salute/surprised/wave
Oh my god, wow! Such a little thing, but that'll be so cool! I'm going to pounce Cy or Aurian or some LS DRG and make them show them all to me! I bet it'll be cute as hell. (I really should undo the datswap and turn wyverns back to blue.)
- The “Lock of Siren's Hair” will be removed from the treasure dropped by the following Notorious Monsters.
Voll the Sharkfinned/Zuug the Shoreleaper/Pahh the Gullcaller/Worr the Clawfisted
*In accordance with this change, the drop rate of this item from monsters other than the four mentioned above will be increased.
This was the only bad part for me. The Minstrel's Coat NM is getting an increase in hair drop, so it'll be more camped. I don't care about BRD and I keep telling myself (and everyone else~) that I don't want the coat, but it sort of bugs me that I don't have it. It really is good for the job. Bah. Oh well. I don't care~! :D
To avoid congestion, players will now appear in a slightly different location when exiting their Mog House into Aht Urhgan Whitegate.
YAY. No more removing some visible armor so I can force myself through the crowd!
----
Yesterday was Assault static, but it wasn't much to write about. We're spamming 13 for points until one of our static members is back online. 13 x 4 = zzzzzzz Just three more weeks of it though!
A Besieged hit in the middle of it, which luckily we took a break for some of us to attend. It was so close to a loss! >< NA players are so damned stupid, that's all I'll say on the subject.
Chaser got her first 'very rare' level item while digging. I made her a set of chocobo stuff so she can stay on her bird longer. I expect from now on she'll be getting her 100 items per day. She really really needs a callable bird so I can have her dig in the Dunes -- spending 10K on greens and chocobos and digging in the newbie zones (nothing but little worms and pebbles, mostly) isn't so great.
All in all, I'm back in (still in?) a downward cycle on the game. There's nothing I want to do and very little I have fun at, yet I don't want to quit. :/
One of the biggest "win" points is:
Players will no longer lose experience points when KO’d in Chain of Promathia mission battlefields.
While I suspect we'll see endless bitching from some corners, it's nice to see that SE has realized how little people want to do CoP. I only wonder what counts as "battlefields". BCs only? That'd be too bad, but at least better than nothing. A heck of a lot better than nothing! Let's have a round of "gg SE!" for this one!
- Level 7 Besieged has now been released.
Not a surprise, but... it worries me. NA players can hardly handle a level 6, and if the attack happens to fall in EU time? We're doomed. :/ But whatever, we're not meant to win all the time, so this makes it more "fair" in my mind. Maybe one day NA players will actually learn! ("lol")
changes have been made to the Chocobo Hot and Cold Game:
Yay for people who care, mostly "meh" for me. I do H&C daily, but only in the easier area. I'm not looking forward to working more in the harder area to get access to the new areas. Maybe once I can use my TF bird it'll be easier.
Items obtainable in the prairie chocograph and bush chocograph areas have been adjusted.
Please please please give fewer fish!
Your chocobo’s general digging ability will now be improved when successfully discovering treasure.
Um, uh. So your non-H&C digging skill may go up when you do H&C? I'm not sure what to think about this... Hopefully it'll be just a tiny little skillup, like digging a non-H&C item.
changes have been made to Assault
Yay new rank! My static won't get there anytime soon, but eventually!
A new mini game called “Venture Roll” is now playable on “Game Tables” found in the areas listed below. Two to four people can play Venture Roll, with the winner walking away with the combined participation fee.
I'd like to think that would be the end of player-run casinos, but I highly doubt it.
The NPC that extends Mog Locker leases will now accept more than one Imperial bronze piece at a time.
WIN.
A job level requirement has been added to the quests listed below. The required level varies from quest to quest.
The Rumor/Intermediate Teamwork/Healing the Land/Altana's Sorrow/Making the Grade/Curses, Foiled A-Golem!?/Know One's Onions/Acting in Good Faith/ Stop Your Whining/Secret of the Damp Scroll/The Sahagin's Stash/It's Not Your Vault
No more getting scrolls on your mules. Wish I had gotten off my lazy ass and gotten through those on my 74829174107410 mules. Oh well.
An NPC who will mark important locations on your map can be found in the areas listed below.
I hope the marks last forever! I can never find the NPCs I need.
An NPC with airship and ferry arrival/departure times has been placed in the areas listed below.
Art Urhgan Whitegate/Nashmau/Port San d’Oria/Port Bastok/Port Windurst/Kazham
About Damned Time! Yay!
The following new spells have been added.
Dark Magic
Drain II Lv.62
DRK Steals an enemy's HP, potentially increasing maximum HP. Ineffective against undead.
Dread Spikes Lv.71
DRK Covers you with magical darkness spikes. Steals HP from enemies that hit you. Ineffective against undead.
Yay! Just hope the scrolls aren't a bitchkitty to get. (I'm not expecting them to be, since the last new scrolls came from vendors.)
The enmity gained when using “Chocobo Mazurka” or “Raptor Mazurka” has been reduced.
Good.
A dragoon’s wyvern will now perform the following emotes along with its master:
blush/bow/cheer/clap/dance/goodbye/hurray/joy/panic/point/salute/surprised/wave
Oh my god, wow! Such a little thing, but that'll be so cool! I'm going to pounce Cy or Aurian or some LS DRG and make them show them all to me! I bet it'll be cute as hell. (I really should undo the datswap and turn wyverns back to blue.)
- The “Lock of Siren's Hair” will be removed from the treasure dropped by the following Notorious Monsters.
Voll the Sharkfinned/Zuug the Shoreleaper/Pahh the Gullcaller/Worr the Clawfisted
*In accordance with this change, the drop rate of this item from monsters other than the four mentioned above will be increased.
This was the only bad part for me. The Minstrel's Coat NM is getting an increase in hair drop, so it'll be more camped. I don't care about BRD and I keep telling myself (and everyone else~) that I don't want the coat, but it sort of bugs me that I don't have it. It really is good for the job. Bah. Oh well. I don't care~! :D
To avoid congestion, players will now appear in a slightly different location when exiting their Mog House into Aht Urhgan Whitegate.
YAY. No more removing some visible armor so I can force myself through the crowd!
----
Yesterday was Assault static, but it wasn't much to write about. We're spamming 13 for points until one of our static members is back online. 13 x 4 = zzzzzzz Just three more weeks of it though!
A Besieged hit in the middle of it, which luckily we took a break for some of us to attend. It was so close to a loss! >< NA players are so damned stupid, that's all I'll say on the subject.
Chaser got her first 'very rare' level item while digging. I made her a set of chocobo stuff so she can stay on her bird longer. I expect from now on she'll be getting her 100 items per day. She really really needs a callable bird so I can have her dig in the Dunes -- spending 10K on greens and chocobos and digging in the newbie zones (nothing but little worms and pebbles, mostly) isn't so great.
All in all, I'm back in (still in?) a downward cycle on the game. There's nothing I want to do and very little I have fun at, yet I don't want to quit. :/
