FINAL FANTASY XI Update (May 11)

# May 11 2005 at 4:02 PM Rating: Decent

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Last month on Playonline.com they mentioned adding a quest so you could get new poses for your mannequin. What ever happened to the quest? Is it out?

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RE: Mannequin Poses

# May 11 2005 at 4:15 PM Rating: Excellent

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The pose quest can be found here:

Mysterytour's Tavnazian Safehold Quests

Look at the bottom for the 2 quests you need to do.

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# May 11 2005 at 4:31 PM Rating: Decent

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TY Dude

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coffers.....

# May 11 2005 at 3:56 PM Rating: Decent

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I know itâ€™s been asked before, and I know Iâ€™ve read the answer before, but Iâ€™m feeling really empty-headed right now. So, Iâ€™ll ask it anyways: Will coffers spawn upon maintenance end? Iâ€™ve been spending the past couple of nights trying to get my tree coffer with not even a glimpse of a coffer >_> so I ask in hopes that one will be up when I log in after downtime and I can sprint through all the spawn points >_> any help?

Login

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Hi. I dont want to be rude, But this is about how everyone is saying how they just sit there and "camp the login button". Whats the point in just sitting there for a hour pushing login to see if its back up yet. Isnt that Borring? When i'm in a rush and its down I just open the POL site, and click on the server part, where it says the servers are up or maintenace. And just leave the page up and just look at it every couple minutes to see if there back up. It does auto refresh itself every 5 minutes. Just a thought, seems better then to keep clicking login. :)

when is it over

# May 11 2005 at 3:39 PM Rating: Decent

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stupid question.... what EST is it supposed to be done?

RE: when is it over

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Pacific Time is 3 hours behind us. The Maintenance is done at 20:00 or 8:00pm EST.

no down load ?

# May 11 2005 at 3:34 PM Rating: Decent

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is there a possiblity of no download ?
i have notice all the other updates have their "download time" estimate by SE. However SE doesnt mention anything about it on this. Could it be that the stuffs that we download last time cover this update as well ? maybe we have all the files just that SE hasnt activate it ?

RE: no down load ?

# May 11 2005 at 8:09 PM Rating: Decent

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hey i was closed wasnt i . only take 1 min to download ^^

RE: no down load ?

# May 11 2005 at 4:42 PM Rating: Decent

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lol sadly i find this very unlikely :(

no down load ?

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my bad triple post

Edited, Wed May 11 16:51:59 2005

no down load ?

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my bad triple post

Edited, Wed May 11 16:52:15 2005

Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent

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I wonder what they mean by coutner attack?
Do they mean the MNK Ability? Or do they mean all means of countering. (Such as parrying, blocking with a shield, ect.)

And why are they going to remove it? It doesn't seem like it would be a bad thing that you defend yourself against a mob that is attacking you, since you can't attack it because it's claimed.

I'm mildly confused...

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 6:32 PM Rating: Decent

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I am almost 100% positice that means: Lets say a prty is getting power lvled. that wonderful Plvler would heal so much that THEY would tank. Not anymore =/ They can heal but will not get hate from a monster they are not fighting(Calling for help is not affected by this update). Basically dont rely on the PL to tank nemore

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 4:58 PM Rating: Decent

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I'm pretty sure you will still be able to evade, parry, guard, and block w/ shield the mobs attacks, you just won't be able to Counter its attacks with the Counter ability. But I wonder if they mean just Counter or if spikes will no longer do damage to claimed mobs as well.

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 4:57 PM Rating: Decent

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I'm pretty sure you will still be able to evade and parry the mobs attacks, you just won't be able to Counter its attacks with the Counter ability. But I wonder if they mean just Counter or if spikes will no longer do damage as well.

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 4:12 PM Rating: Decent

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they are doing it so plvlers cant help kill the mob

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent

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lol i meant mnk main stupid weed messing with brain

RE: Hmmm

# May 11 2005 at 5:34 PM Rating: Decent

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If plvler helps kills mobs the pt getting plvled loses exp i subbed pld and plvled a party with ninja/pld main i had the af body ("Blaze spikes effect") and they lost exp. Might be different with my well i won't ever get a chance to find out; ;

see u guys on tommorow

# May 11 2005 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent

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i'm on cable connection and even though it takes like 5 minutes to download the updates i don't plan on even getting on tommorow because of the huge server flood of people downloading the updates. These 7 hr updates usually turn into 15 hr updates because of all the people rushing to get on before anyone else with the hopes that there aren't gonna be any bots camping the big NM's and the fact that all the HNM's are reset during server updates.

Time

# May 11 2005 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent

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Sorry to be asking such a stupid question but, what exactly is the time difference between PST (Or whatever californian time) and Eastern time.
Thx for answering

RE: Time

# May 11 2005 at 3:36 PM Rating: Decent

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Pretty sure it's 3 hours difference (+3 hours.) I live in eastern time too and I remember it being 3 hours faster than PST.

RE: Time

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There are 3 hours difference between Pacific Time and Eastern. Hawaii < Pacific < Mountain < Central < Eastern < Atlantic.
(If I wanted to be a little more complete there is one more time zone in Canada, Newfoundland. It's a half-hour ahead of Atlantic. Newfoundland always does things a little different than everywhere else^^)

I know there are lots that aren't in North America but I'm only familiar with these time zones.

Hope this helps^^

RE: Time

# May 11 2005 at 3:33 PM Rating: Decent

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double post >.<

Edited, Wed May 11 16:45:43 2005

COP

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More COP, good.

>.<

# May 11 2005 at 2:52 PM Rating: Decent

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Hey I m sorry to be a pest but what time will it be done in Ontario?

RE: >.<

# May 11 2005 at 3:11 PM Rating: Decent

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8PM EST. According to schedule.

PST + 3 hours = Ontario time

whaaa

# May 11 2005 at 2:37 PM Rating: Decent

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sry for being a whiner but i guarentee <spelling> that this update is going to take all night and all day... probly <spelling> 4-8 hours at the least. Sadly enough im not gonna be here for the summer so i nead to get to 51 (got ice and dark staff waiting on me ^^) just 6 lvls and a LB1 to go >>.<<

Peak time

# May 11 2005 at 2:36 PM Rating: Good

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This sucks, every update has been on European peak time. It's alsmot like we don't matter. 5pm-11pm is THE peak time for GMT particularly, it's okay for America and Japan, but it doesn't matter if WE can't play ; ;

RE: Peak time

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They do it in Japan's favor, but actually probably because developers are in Japan and want to start early and happens to be late in other time zones.

RE: Peak time

# May 11 2005 at 2:38 PM Rating: Decent

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It has to be on someone's time, doesn't it?

RE: Peak time

# May 11 2005 at 3:12 PM Rating: Decent

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yes but its always on ours

RE: Peak time

# May 11 2005 at 3:53 PM Rating: Decent

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Last year it seemed to be more or less on American Primetime, the updates would occur, now it's more on European Prime time. So eventually it has to make it's way over to Japan time...

hmm

# May 11 2005 at 2:27 PM Rating: Decent

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can we get the update yet?

bleh

# May 11 2005 at 2:24 PM Rating: Decent

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Haha funny. Last night before the update, I decided to get on my mule and send my chocopasses back to my main character for no particular reason. And then I read about this update and just had noticed that they cut out the chocopasses. Hehe yay! Whee!! What a coincidence. Ergh! ***** this update! It's going to take forever to download it. /cry

download

# May 11 2005 at 2:03 PM Rating: Decent

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the massive connectivity issues prior to the last update did have an effect on the [ /cringe ] outrageous d/l time, didn't it? things have been, for me, much better since then. i'm not so much fearing the d/l time of this one.

Weak

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Well, the big updates only come about every two months. Seeing as they are throwing this in on top of regular mantainance, I don't see how its weak. It isn't as loaded as a scheduled update, but its better than 7 hours of waiting on them to vacuum out the servers and keyboards, then log on later with nothing to show for it. I'll take everything I can get for my monthly fee.

download

# May 11 2005 at 1:50 PM Rating: Decent

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is there any download..........
4 hrs update last time was a abdfhafghagfhdbfh to download, now 7 hrs......

And several other issues

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Don't forget that last line. This may be a huge bugfix patch, and a solution to the d/c's at least my server has been having a lot of lately.

RE: And several other issues

# May 11 2005 at 1:57 PM Rating: Decent

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I wouldn't mind a fix. I've had a Warp Scroll drop from a Veteran Quadav, a 2-point damage hit from a battle that was nowhere to be found, and friends getting experience points while they're waiting for a raise! I think there is more to the DNS attacks than we might be led to believe.

RE: And several other issues

# May 11 2005 at 2:58 PM Rating: Decent

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lucky...

What!

# May 11 2005 at 1:21 PM Rating: Decent

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Now we can't use the delivery service to send chocobo passes? Drat!

Counter-PL

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-Players will no longer counter attacks from monsters being fought by other parties.

I remember reading up somewhere, that high level MNK/WHM would PL some players by using the counter method. Basically, the low-level player would engage the mob, and then the PL MNK would grab the hate with a cure or two, and then the MNK would counter the mob as it would attack them, helping kill the mob faster, and the low level player would get the experience. Though, not sure if they fixed that later to remove exp if you countered someone else's mob...

RE: Counter-PL

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You know, I used to do this same thing with my friend a while ago, I think as my RDM. I'd let Blaze Spikes mostly kill the mob once I grabbed hate, then she'd kill it for full xp. xD Though they fixed that one, unfortunately. I had never even though about doing the same with counter. When I first read about this fix, I had no clue what they meant by it, thanks for filling us in.

RE: Counter-PL

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Yeah... Seeing as blaze spikes on a PL stops them getting exp... I do this sometimes though :P just to stop them getting exp... and, theres not really anything they can do about it.

Hehe

counter

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Quote:

-Players will no longer counter attacks from monsters being fought by other parties.

heh this happened to me once. i was fighting a nm and someone ran by and healed me, causing the mob to go attack him. he countered one of the attacks and killed the nm. luckily he only got the more common drop, not the expensive one >.>

RE: counter

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He shouldn't have gotten any drop if it was still your claim. The only way he could get a drop is if it turned yellow when he got hate, then countered and killed it.

RE: counter

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You're right, he shouldn't have gotten any drops, but as it was, it would still give him credit for the kill.

I had a monster someone else was fighting kill itself on my Blaze Spikes before, and I was shocked to see me getting items from it.

Soooo... the credit goes to whomever technically struck the final blow, even if the name was in purple. (Or at least used to)

Meh

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Better be worth it; I was planning to farm all day.

^^

# May 11 2005 at 1:08 PM Rating: Default

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i hope they add new gear for pallidens. like something that gives you more gills every time you kill something! that would rock.

RE: ^^

# May 11 2005 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good

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Paladins.. and its Gil not gils, err.. sorry for correcting bad grammer but really.. Also, that would be impracticle for paladins, if you want to make more gil lvl up thf.. you can make a fortune on Gold beastcoins at higher lvls. If you sub THF (atleast lvl 5) you get Gilfinder, which gives you more gil from gil droppers.. really useful for farming in upper Delkfuts tower, Giants will drop 100+ gil a kill up there. Something to look into. I dont think they will be adding to much gear right now, there are already a ton of things you can wear out there. Im happy with the gear they have right now, we already can wear all the good Tanking gear, and also some good attack gear, (Haubergeon, Scorpion harness etc.) those arent to useful unless we have nothing better to do and want to "DD" while helping someone... lol sorry for the long winded post. Have fun doing something other than FFXI for the next 5hours..

RE: ^^

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it was bad spelling, not grammar
grammar, not grammer
impractical, not impracticle
too useful, not to useful (now, that could be either spelling or grammar, but in this instance it was likely bad spelling)

If you are going to correct someone else's errors, you should do so correctly.

Edited, Wed May 11 15:33:05 2005

RE: ^^

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Thank you for correcting me ^^, im not one of those people who get pissed off because i used the wrong word or accidentally mispelled something. But yeah... Ill make sure i use the right word in future sentences.

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And.. im curious why did you edit your post.. did you mispell and/or use wrongs too, went to find a dictionary and corrected yourself.. kinda find it a bit odd.

Edited, Wed May 11 16:24:21 2005

RE: ^^

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Oh, and I have no problem with people using wrong words or accidentally misspelling something, but I have a serious issue with hypocrisy. So to see someone correct another person's mistakes and to then see that someone perform the same or very similar mistakes in the same breath (or line of type as in this instance), this troubles me. I had hoped your original post wasn't meant to be mean or spiteful, but I still had to exorcise my demons.

RE: ^^

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I edited my post because the bold "a" in grammar in my first line didn't show up as well as I would have liked, so I had to add the "grammar, not grammer" line.

RE: ^^

# May 11 2005 at 5:54 PM Rating: Decent

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/clap, okay yes i do make the same mistakes but is it wrong to correct someone even if you make the same mistakes but on different words? come on now arent we here to try to help eachother, i mess up on one thing so someone else corrects me, and if they mess up on a similiar (yeah i cant spell all to well sometimes) thing shouldnt you correct them if you know its a mistake? i seen nothing wrong with what i said except for making the spelling error.

RE: ^^

# May 11 2005 at 6:05 PM Rating: Decent

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Oh.. and isnt Gil from Gils grammar too.. Gil in itself is its own plural and singular form. the extra S isnt needed.. just a thought.
Example.
I have 1 gil.
I have 200 gil.
you can have 2 gil.

Grammar >.> *Cough* anyway one was a spelling error one was grammar, So i was half right ;;