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Happy 23 years FFXI!

I just zoned and got the kupon WTF

Upgrade to WSD pieces can potentially unlock some slots for Nyame to be used for different paths (assuming you don't need them for hybrid/magic WSs too). If someone is wondering what mix of jobs is possible if you go that route, I made simple excel to check it (you need to make own copy to use it)

Who's making the "which weapon should I pick i'm too stupid to choose for myself" thread.

Achually...

Me

But which weapon should I choose?

I must admit, I never could've imagined giving everyone a free mog bonanza weapon.

Even though I said this 4 days ago

Free mog weapon, wut?
When? How? WHY?!

Apparently once JP midnight passed and it became anniversary day, you get a rank1 bonanza weapon kupon upon login in or zoning.

I would bet these are only given out if you login during anniversary day.

Holy ***, I have never expected that :O

eye am eggscite

But jp midnight is in 10 minutes!

JP midnight is in 55 minutes.

Did you really edit that post to change 56 to 55 because of your post timestamp? Absolute madman.

The weapon kupons went active in the last hour or two, I'd say it's pretty likely it ends at JP midnight tomorrow. Might be longer, but if you want them it seems silly to wait longer than you have to when we don't know.

happy birthday FFXI! I have zero desire for a bonanza weapon but still mark this a momentous change in tradition. Never before have we been given something so strong as a reward for simply logging in, and if the word is to be believed, a promise of better drop rates in the future? I believe people keep playing because FFXI has so many goals you can set for yourself to motivate you to keep playing. What will happen when all the shinies are that much easier to obtain? I don't know. Either way, good luck Fujito & co.

Happy birthday FFXI

As much ***I talk nowadays this was the last game my mom brought me so kudos

If you can do one thing, I would ask you to listen to your players for once.

Yes you need to complete the incredibly difficulty and time consuming quest of Log In.

Seriously, Fast Blade II here I come.

You also have to login to the management page and navigate POL if you were not subscribed.

I almost didn't.

wait - free mog weapons?

yeah ok...

*logs in*

Wasn't Freshly Picked supposed to happen? I can't seem to find it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RUWIClcKWc

Focusing on enhancing solo play, improving drop rates

New RoEs for Vanabout, talk about next one being in July, you can obtain "Mog Mask" this way whatever that is

Bonanza stuff we already know about, mention reforging the R1 weapons

Besieged stuff already talked about, morale gauge, as morale goes up their buffs go up. Adding new abilities to the serpent generals

Race change talked about, sounds like it goes live May 19. You buy it and it's valid for 14 days

Shami trove in June

Limbus, which Google Translate converted to "Rimbus" in very South Park fashion. Entry with a white/black card, posession of some sparkly item (final) whatever that means, no time limit, up to 3 trusts per party, difficulty set by each player ilvl119 to ilvl130. Currency used to reforge artifact and relic gear using a furnace in the zone, two areas give currency to reforge each respectively (Apollyon is for artifact). "No area occupied" - whatever that means.

If I read the timeline at 2:01:33 right, Limbus due in June.

Low tier effort. When the subtitles/translate become available it'll probably be better.

Giving that as a login bonus... what are they thinking lol

"We need to convince upper management that there's a broad base of players who don't subscribe, that we could bring back with something good enough. What's going to make people come back for the free login campaign if they didn't already plan to? How about if they started hearing about how they'd get one of those impossibly rare mog bonanza weapons just for showing up... and then they still need to stick around for the bonanza because they need to reforge it!"

Do we have anything regarding their reforging aspect? stats or something to go by with?

Nada

Huh? We know the reforge right? Gotta win Rank 1 from Bonanza to get a Moogle Iris, then trade that (presumably to the moogles or someone) to get the reforged item.

Stats for the reforged versions are at: https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Bonanza_Weapons. Basically just more DMG, Attribute+10, and Acc/Racc/Macc+10 from the NQs.

Did people think there are additional augments or something? Looks fairly straightforward to me.

I thought he was talking about af/relic not the weapons

Since we do know about the weapons.

People on the official forums have asked about being able to reforge NQ and +1 artifact/relic/empyrean faster; I wonder if that's what the furnace in the zone is, basically a second Monisette to allow twice as many reforges at once.

If the content level is only going up to 130, that doesn't sound consistent with what they've treated as appropriate for higher tier upgrades. Omen is, what, 139, and Dynamis - Divergence is 149; you'd expect something higher for upgrades over and above what that content allows.

I'm thinking this is an alternate path for the lower tier armors that allows you to bypass Rem's Tales at the cost of having to actually do stuff for your materials instead of just buying them on the auction house.

Alternatively, the lower level might be to compensate for it sounding like party-scale content again, basically just making an alternate path for Omen (which... is pretty doable in a party anyway, if you're after artifact upgrades?) and Dyna-D.