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Announcing the March Version Update



Greetings, adventurers! Matsui here, bringing you the latest in FFXI news amidst the hustle and bustle of the end of the Japanese fiscal year.

The main update in March is the addition of a new boss to Omen in the same vein as Fu, Kyou, Kei, Gin, and Kin. Those familiar with Japanese chess might be able to guess who the next in the series is.

Omen will also be made available to alliances—not because the new boss can only be tackled with a full entourage of adventurers, but because we want players who might be struggling to be able to tackle the content as well. Players may now also hold two of the requisite key items for entering Omen, so if you want to go twice in a row—or save up some for later—you’ll be able to do just that. In order to avoid congestion, we’ll keep the amount of time that must pass between receive the key item at once per twenty hours for the time being.

Those of you who have enjoyed with escutcheons will be happy to learn that we’re adding the second batch of quests and will also be allowing multiple sets to be turned in at once. No more rampant clicking required!

The standard Ambuscade changes will also be going forward, the gil repository will now be able to hold more gil, and there are some adjustments coming to notorious monsters appearing in Geas Fete.

Below is a comprehensive list of what we’re eyeing to put in March’s version update. As always, certain items may not make the final cut if last-minute issues rear their ugly heads.

Mission and Quest-related
Escutcheons
・Add text
・Add event

Content and System-related
Omen
・Increase the limit of maximum number of participants
・Increase the stackable amount for key items
Record of Eminence
・Add category
・Move some of the category
Mog Garden
・Increase the maximum limit in which gil can be stored inside a gil repository
Porter Moogle
・Add item help display feature
Titles
・Add new title
Escutcheons
・Increase amount of items which can be delivered at once
・Display when the craftmanship's bonus requirement has changed in the logs

Battle-related
Omen
・Add new notorious monsters
Ambuscade
・Add new notorious monsters
Record of Eminence
・Add new objectives
Geas Fete
・Adjust some enemies

Item-related
Omen
・Add new recipes
Ambuscade
・Add new recipes
Escutcheons
・Add new recipes
Synthesis
・Add new recipes
・Add new items

Omen will also be made available to alliances—not because the new boss can only be tackled with a full entourage of adventurers, but because we want players who might be struggling to be able to tackle the content as well. Players may now also hold two of the requisite key items for entering Omen, so if you want to go twice in a row—or save up some for later—you’ll be able to do just that. In order to avoid congestion, we’ll keep the amount of time that must pass between receive the key item at once per twenty hours for the time being.

New boss or new bosses?

Neat. Now I can make an 18 man alliance and wait around for a WHM to appear instead of a 6-man party and wait around for a WHM to appear.

Or - you could just ask me instead :p

we want players who might be struggling to be able to tackle the content as well.

Interesting wording, if they want struggling players to be able to join in then there would either have to be no HP scaling or only a minor one. If they keep with their standard HP scaling, groups won't bring struggling players because their presence will not be worth the additional HP.

Abyssea: Iratham, Kutharei, Sippoy, Yaanei, Rani, Raja (6)
Walk of Echoes: Mingyi, Myin, Ne, Sin, Sitke, Yahhta (6)
Voidwatch: Asb, Pil, Rukh, Sarbaz, Shah, Wazir (6)
Escha - Ru'Aun: Bia, Khon, Khun, Ma, Met, Ruea
Schah in Reisenjima being the only exception but he summons all the other Caturae.

Those of you who have enjoyed with escutcheons will be happy to learn that we’re adding the second batch of quests and will also be allowing multiple sets to be turned in at once. No more rampant clicking required!

That'll really depend. Currently I can do a Gin clear with 30+min remaining. There's really no reason I can't let a returning player tag along on a run even if it increased HP a fair amount.

The king model is missing so probably Gyoku. That is the model shown and the models used for Raja and Schah. Raja was based on the king piece and I'm pretty sure Schah is suppose to be the king also.

Hi (Rook), Kaku (Bishop), and Ou or Gyoku (King)

They might jump straight to King, but I bet they do Kaku instead.

Wish they'd apply this logic to ambu capes...

Vouchers for the second round of sets are coming in this month's update.

The limbus/nyzul sets?

Yes

Omen will also be made available to alliances—not because the new boss can only be tackled with a full entourage of adventurers, but because we want players who might be struggling to be able to tackle the content as well. Players may now also hold two of the requisite key items for entering Omen, so if you want to go twice in a row—or save up some for later—you’ll be able to do just that. In order to avoid congestion, we’ll keep the amount of time that must pass between receive the key item at once per twenty hours for the time being.