Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Vanicent]

Patching complete, although I'm not sure I can be bothered playing now.

[talizker]

I give up... Off to bed, better not have this sh1t tomorrow ><

[Darwock]

Hmm, there's another update tomorrow according to the announcements about the problems.

[mikewl]

WOW, What an awsome evening.

I was lucky to get the update finished by about 7pm, when there were only about 350 people online, went and got started on the Fellowship Quest and its just crazy what was happening, I wont put the pictures up untill others have done the quest but lets just say this quest was causing chaos, it took me basically the whole evening to finish but I now have my NPC.

[Tsingtao]

Finally updated and in, now what was I suposed to be doing?

[Darwock]

I got on about 12:45am... just had a quick blast outside Jeuno to see what the new xp rewards were . Last week I was killing Death Wasps for 12-25 xp points, I killed two last night and got 33 for each. Also I pulled an EP gob leecher off someone who was getting chased, last week they were worth 18-43 and this one gave me 39. Not any massive differences then, but it depends on what the relative strength of the ones I killed was. They didn't seem particularly hard.

I also noticed that my Ice staff has an undocumented feature! When I had this equipped and summoned Shiva for a SC she was only costing me 2 mp per tick! (at this level it's normally 4 including the auto-refresh). This suggests that if I get a light staff I can have a subbed carbuncle running about with me without losing any mp at all! That will come in particularly handy for fishing.

Unfortunately it also means I'm going to need every single staff ><

Is there anything else they do that isn't listed in the description?

[talizker]

Last night was head-doing. I got on and started the update about 7pm and got maybe 400 files before it frooze. After that I was trying between 9pm and 12am and had no more luck. If it finally got past the initial 1160 error it would download a couple of file then freeze or come back with the 1160 error. I still have 600+ files to get and I REALLY hope these will come down when I get home from work.

[Darwock]

I've just seen some pics of last night, no spoilers thankfully.. but omg, people in this game were actually co-operative enough to form queues?!?!? That's amazing! I don't think I would be so desperate to start a quest that I would join the end of a 85 person line though, surely it can wait...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/El_Lobo/ff11/omgwtfbbqline.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~ubergeek14/line1.jpg

http://eesoft.org/images/ramuh_eldime_queue.jpg

[Tobal]

Set it downloading before I left for work, so it best be done when I get back.

[C']

Well after the ?excitement? of NPC partners and ?FREE LEAPING BOOTS FOR ALL? first details of the 2 big changes that came with this patch are coming through.

Early reports on the enmity changes to Utsusemi are that people are still tanking with Ninja as before and people have not really noticed any differences in their ability to hold hate. Probably need more time to fully come to see the full effects of this but so far the signs are good. I have noticed myself however from doing a couple fights this morning, that Goblin Rush is now classed as a multiple hit attack and as such removes 3 shadows. Annoying but just something else to deal with.

However, early reports from RNG indicate that many are not happy at all with the modifications made to their ranged attacks. I?ve heard reports that up close ranged attacks doing is impacted upon heavily and whilst damage from a distance is still good it?s impacting on the RNG ability to partake in SC as if their WS damage means they get hate the mob goes chasing after them and their SC partner struggles to chain effectively. Also, I heard some people say that damage on end game HNMs is severely impacted upon. Again more time will be needed to understand the full effects.

Personally I got the update done by about 11:30 last night but couldn?t be assed after that to play.

[Daragon]

Wow, all that fuss over the npc partner with the 20 rl hour reuse time? Quite pointless summoning it if it disappears when you zone Which genius thought up this one?

Also, whats this I hear about a free pair of leaping boots?

[Tsingtao]

Well I seem to be sorted at last, updated and even managed a nice spell of crafting this morning. It looks like given the right gear I can now craft up around the 100k per hour mark though I then have to wait for the junk to sell on. This discovery came as a suprise to me as I've never really sat down and put a watch on things before.

Thought of a few new paths to get more out of this as well, to get there though I need to raise both Woodworking and Goldsmithing so some investment is required. The crafting is always good fun, I may take materials with me when I go hunt the garlaige coffer so I've got something to do while I'm ouyt there.

[Tobal]

if think the main point of the NPC is to give party that missing 6th member of party while there waiting for someone to show, of course it needs to worked on as they start low level but its there for people to raise there very own 'pet'.

as for Rangers doing less damage.. from what I?ve read so far all the results aren?t done testing the full set of ranged weapons(throwing,Shortbow,longbow,crossbow,guns) instead just going with whatever Bow,Gun they have(high delay, high damage weapons), so far I only see results on High delay weapons give low damage close up(roughly35% less), but more or less the same damage at distance, it also seems range weapons have the same scale of damage decrease against high VIT mobs(read HNM?s) while they still do way more damage than regular melee per hit, there all crying about doing 50% less damage on a HNM. I can see a lot of the player that only play RNG for the Big, big number?s quitting there jobs, but those that actually love shooting things staying with it, cutting the trash.

[Darwock]

All good news in my opinion (concerning the rangers and the AI players)

[Tsingtao]

Sowhats the view for tonight, are we likely to try a BCNM run or are we still looking to sort out party memebers. I should be able to make tomorrow night if we're not on for this evening?