Dev Tracker - Discussion

Thanks.. time to try to see if it lets me do it again

FFXI JP Page:http://www.playonline.com/ff11/index.shtml

They mentioned that they'll be adding more content to We Are Vana'diel. They didn't show what the new content would be, but I assume more interviews.

They are having an in-person AMAN Live event. It seems like they'll have some of the current devs speak at this event about what 2025 was like from their perspective. They'll also be interviewing the GOAT, Mizuta, on what it was like to compose for The Voracious Resurgence, along with performing unreleased tracks. As part of this event, Fujito will be talking about future plans for the game with a segment on the Trust Updates. The event will be on March 7th. It's crazy that FFXI will have an event of this size in 2026, even if it's JP only.

--Monthly Vana'diel section---

Released FES Dial key, Cornelia because of Vana'bout success, titles from Limbus will be available again.

FES Dial has some great items, but since it's not a guarantee, quite a few people are saying the FES Dial is stingy. It's similar to the ANV key.

Released new NMs in Limbus, Ultima/Omega Forerunners. The fights became a festival (lots of death hahahaha) of sorts on every server. People think, depending on the population of their servers, that defeating these NMs every month might be too difficult. --->

Fujito-P: when we were planning these, we did not imagine that you would be the same strength as now the entire time; meaning: if you open a lot of boxes, you'll get stronger buffs..."buffs...meaning uh...what was it called....GRACES, yeah hahaha". For fast servers, "they've gotten about half of the strength of the graces so far" Also, we hope that you remember us talking about strengthening Trusts previously, we designed these NMs with both of those in mind because players will keep getting stronger and stronger.

The EXP penalty on death is also pretty painful, right? Yes, with the graces getting stronger than this, we think it will eventually not be a big problem.

-- 2025.12.10 Version Update Section --

--New Limbus Gear:: Creation Order of Events

Cursed Items (open chests and use the items obtained to creat cursed items) >>

Purifying Item (open chests and receive XYZ Shards and Murky/Alabaster matter and trade them to the NPC) >>

Creating the Item (trade the cursed item and the purifying items to the NPC)>>

Augmenting the Item (use the purification items and units to augment the items and you will be able to transfer the augments to higher quality items if you get them in the future)

"We feel that these sets are quite powerful, with the base sets being similar to the Odyssey base sets"

Fujito-P: we hadn't added much to synthesis recently, so we wanted to do that at the same time. As far as the strength of the gear, we think that this gear will be similar to Odyssey gear depending on the ranks, with some of the pieces being stronger than the Odyssey counterparts.

---Changed the linking behavior and aggro range of many mobs in Temenos. Euvhi will spawn open or closed, so do your best to keep an eye out for the differences. Changed the shared Dynamis instance for W2 spawn location and added the Boss HP Gauge.

Made changes to the login campaigns (didn't want people to only login the first day, get their 500 and then never login again). This time we added Alabaster Matter to the 1500 point category. Fujito-P: "Don't worry, we may also add Dark Matter hahaha"

Explained current campaigns and the Starlight Celebration.

Welcome Back campaign/Discount Campaign happening now. Adventurer Support campaign also happening (red/ochre mog pell one)

From 1/1 to 1/6 (Japan Time), Shami's Trove event will start. "Does Cats Eye actually show up?" "It does! Good luck!"

From 1/1 to 1/12 (Japan Time), Happy New Year event will take place. You can get the new Alicorn mount from this. Collect items from the event and purchase limited time items from Chacharoon (two types of items, one of each per Earth day) in RuLude Gardens. You can get a special Monstrosity item from the NPCs Ake and Ome (these names are a play on the shortened form of "Happy New Year" in Japanese). This is the 3rd year that we're doing this event.

From 1/16 to 2/4 (Japan time) the next campaign will run (these are the campaigns on the official site; check there for the full list).

--From Fujito-P-- "This year, we took a lot of time to prepare many different things for everyone. We started moving forward on actually putting these into place. We have almost completely finished the server upgrades. We talked before about POL having issues with newer hardware and we're thinking that in 2026 we will be able to finish addressing the issues with this and preparing our new implementation (note: this had no details otherwise, so it could be anywhere from just fixing code to a full rehaul). Also, next year, the Trust strengthening will be coming. We're strengthening them at their core, so a lot of things will be happening there. With the strengthening of Trusts, solo play will become easier to do than currently. You will probably be able to do more and more events with fewer and fewer people if you desire. The Trust updates will be split into two stages next year.

--AMAN Live in Shibuya-- They have announced a live version of the AMAN Live stream. 3/7/2026, split into two parts. Tickets will be a lottery system. First part will have a screening of the FFXI live reading dramas held in 2024 and 2025 with the two people who wrote the dramas there as guests to discuss; a "Special Secret Talk" with two of the game designers (Taniguchi Sho and Watanabe Iyo; guessing on the reading of their given names), talking about this past year in developing the game; and a discussion with the composer behind FFXI music (Naoshi Mizuta) and performances/playing of previously unreleased tracks.

Second part: Live Stream with Fujito-P like this stream. Also, a "live paint" event that people at the venue can take part in. Tickets are available on e-plus in Japan. Part 1 and Part 2 are separate, each costing 4950Y and will come with some stickers and other goods.

(It seems like new info ends here)

--Special Guest Talk: Dragon Quest director Jin Fujisawa--

Talking about Dragon Quest X Online.

--Strolling in Vana'diel--

Divergence has been difficult to take on solo for many people. With the updates to the Trusts coming in the next year, it will become much easier, but for people who can't wait, we wanted to talk about upgrading your Empy armor to +2 to make your trips to Divergence easier.

Talking about why Empy is good. DT conversation. Murky Ring, Adoulin Ring. Chart showing the various Meva values of gear and the importance of DT and Meva in your gear. Malignance has more DT and meva than Empy+3 so it comes after those in strength of defenses.

There are a lot of people who struggle with the Vagary fights to get even Empy+1. We wanted to show these battlefield fights with Vagary bosses, so we're going to fight Plouton. We're going to have a handicap here and only use Malignance, Tauret/Ternion+1, Ambu Cape, a DT neck and D ring without other pieces.

Fighting Plouton to show people how to do it and the trusts they recommend.

Time to end the stream, we're going to announce our new present for listeners. (It's a wooden box for drinking sake with a cute mandragora stamp burned into it).

Take a look at the We Are Vana'diel website to read some of the articles and check out the other content there.

(Other various yapping about nothing really) See you at the live event or the livestream in March!

People willingly log in 16 accounts every day for sortie earrings. Not *** darkmatter. Not Murky Matter. Not Alabaster Matter.

Crafting equipment
Use the shards, Alabaster Matter, and Murky Matter that can be obtained from the treasure chests and trade them to the Temenos Furnace or Apollyon Furnace.

Buy at your own risk. The codes have a soft expiration date. I've had and heard some work, and some don't work, even though they were new sealed products.

Is that DVD/CD still worth getting, besides for code reasons?

Fujito-P: "Don't worry, we may also add Dark Matter hahaha

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml

Maybe that's going to be a mega boss in one of the zones

Limbus is too involved, I don't wannna do that ***.

Wanna do solo? You can, it won't be super efficient with the 3 trusts limitations but you can do it. They needed to go this way or something similar to promote party play.

It doesn't help the devs are extreme hyper-galactic autists and make everything overly complex so you have to study the wiki for 3 days before you can properly engage with it.

Any case, as a semi-casual and veteran player of 2 decades - I'm curios how much impact their hyped-up trust update will have.

If they wanna be evil can just make it trust specific leveling, lock the AI/potency boosts behind said leveling. But think itll just be MMesque stat/DT increases and maybe theyll do an unrelated change to some trusts AI/potency boosts on the cor/brd, though i think even the 2nd part is expecting too much