The March version update of Final Fantasy XI has arrived! The second installment of the popular Delve battlefield content has been implemented, bringing adventurers face to face with new challenges deep within the Yorcia Weald [U]! With these new challenges comes new rewards, with both crafting materials and new weapons and armor available from felled fiends. To help combat these new challenges, Relic body and leg armor upgrade options are now available, allowing for them to be increased to item level 119.

 Other content that has been implemented or updated includes changes to Reives and Campaign, the new Job Points system, the new Cait Sith avatar for Summoners, an overhaul to the fishing system, changes to Treasure Hunter, new Monstrosity and Trust options, and much more!

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From the official Final Fantasy XI forums:

Event-related

 

• New quests have been introduced for Seekers of Adoulin areas.

Fishing has been renovated.

Read on for the details.

New alter egos have been added to the Trust initiative.

Read onfor the details.

• New objectives have been added to Records of Eminence.

Battle-related

A new advancement system called "Job Points" has been introduced.

 

• What Are Job Points?
  Job points are a form of advancement for players who have reached level 99.
  
  Besting monsters in battle will yield capacity points for a player's main job, and can be converted into job points to further enhance that job.

Unlocking Job Points

Speak with the Nomad Moogle in Ru'Lude Gradens (H-5) after fulfilling the conditions given below in order to receive the "job breaker" key item.

• Conditions for unlocking job points
  • Be in possession of the "limit breaker" key item
  • Have your main job at level 99

• Earning Job Points
  Vanquishing monsters of level 96 and above while in possession of the job breaker item will yield capacity points in addition to experience points.
  
  Players will earn one job point once they have acquired 30,000 capacity points.
  Please note that the amount of capacity points earned varies by monster level and that the number of capacity points earned by a single player is reduced when in a party.

• Allocating Job Points
  While inside one's Mog House, selecting "Job Points" from the status section of the main menu will provide a list of available jobs. Selecting a job displays a list of categories that may be enhanced.

• Notes
  • Experience point and capacity point acquisition is reduced when in parties. However, this reduction is lessened in the following areas.

    Sih Gates / Cirdas Caverns / Dho Gates / Woh Gates / Moh Gates

  • Players are unable to earn capacity points from experience points gained by monsters vanquished in Abyssea or reives, by chain bonuses and other bonuses, or by completing certain types of content.
  • Dedication has no effect on the number of capacity points earned.
  • Capacity points exist for each job, and can only be set for one's main job.

New Delve Content Has Been Added

Read onfor details on participating.

• Available Areas
  New Delve content has been added to the following areas.

  Marjami Ravine / Yorcia Weald / Kamihr Drifts

Joining the Fray
Veils have been discovered at the following coordinates, but will not be available on the date of the update (March 18) in order to undergo further testing. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and plan on having a maintenance period in late March to open up the content.

Marjami Ravine(M-9)

Yorcia Weald(J-7)

Kamihr Drifts(H-11)

Note, however, that the corresponding notorious monsters may be fought in the field and yantric planchettes will be able to be constructed in advance.

• New yggrete shards and yggzi beads have been added
  • Marjami Ravine

    Phlox Yggrete

  • Yorcia Weald

    Russet Yggrete

  • Kamihr Drifts

    Aster Yggrete

• Forri-Porri in Western ADoulin (I-10) will exchange new items for Mweya Plasm when certain conditions have been fulfilled.

• Benjamien in Western Adoulin (J-10) will engrave certain equipment obtained in the new Delve content with arcane glyptics in exchange for airlixirs.

The following job-related adjustments have been made

Summoner

 

• A new avatar, Cait Sith, has been added.
  
  • Acquiring Cait Sith
    Upon entering the Walk of Echoes, a new quest will be available to players who have completed the Wings of the Goddess mission "A Token of Troth."
  • New Blood Pacts
    The following blood pacts will become available to those acquiring Cait Sith.
    
    • Blood Pact: Rage

      Name	Required Level	Effect
      Regal Scratch	SMN Lv. 1	Delivers a threefold attack.
      Mewing Lullaby	SMN Lv. 25	Puts all enemies within area of effect to sleep and lowers their TP.
      Eerie Eye	SMN Lv. 55	Silences and inflicts amnesia upon the target.
      Level ? Holy	SMN Lv. 75	Deals light damage to enemies within area of effect.

    • Blood Pact: Ward

      Name	Required Level	Effect
      Raise II	SMN Lv. 15	Revives target from KO.
      Reraise II	SMN Lv. 30	Grants target party member the effect of Raise II when they are KO'd.
      Altana's Favor	SMN Lv. 1	Minimum Requisite MP: Level x2. Grants the effects of Arise and Reraise III to party members within the area of effect.

• Average monster levels have been increased in the following areas as given below.

  Dho Gates: Increased to 122.
  Woh Gates: Increased to 125.

• The amount of merit points needed to purchase the requisite key items to attempt high-tier mission battlefields has been decreased.

  Key Item	Merit Point Cost Pre-Adjustment	→	Merit Point Cost Post-Adjustment
  Phantom Gem of Apathy	20	→	15
  Phantom Gem of Arrogance	20	→	15
  Phantom Gem of Envy	20	→	15
  Phantom Gem of Cowardice	20	→	15
  Phantom Gem of Rage	20	→	15
  Pentacide Perpetrator Phantom Gem	30	→	20
  Celestial Nexus Phantom Gem	20	→	15
  Stellar Fulcrum Phantom Gem	20	→	15

The following additions and adjustment have been made to the Trust initiative.Character-specific messages will be displayed for calling forth and dismissing alter egos, as well as when they fall in battle.
* Additional messages for various situations will be added over time.

Sample messages:

Upon being called forth:

Upon being dismissed:

Upon falling in battle:

 

• Alter egos will be able to fight alongside adventurers in the following battlefields.
  • Horlais Peak

    The Emissary / The Three Kingdoms

  • Waughroon Shrine

    Journey Abroad / The Three Kingdoms

  • Balga's Dais

    Journey Abroad / The Emissary

  • Qu'Bia Arena

    The Ruins of Fei'Yin / Darkness Rising / The Final Seal

  • Throne Room

    The Shadow Lord / Xarcabard, Land of Truths / The Shadow Awaits

  • Spire of Holla

    Below the Arks / The Mothercrystals

  • Spire of Mea

    Below the Arks / The Mothercrystals

  • Spire of Dem

    Below the Arks / The Mothercrystals

  • Monarch Linn

    Ancient Vows / The Savage

  • The Shrouded Maw

    Darkness Named

An upper limit has been set on the effects of Treasure Hunter.

This adjustment has been made in light of the future introduction of equipment enhancing the effects of Treasure Hunter.

• Upper limits of Treasure Hunter including the total of bonuses provided by equipment, atma, and job abilities.
  • Thief

    Treasure Hunter +8
    * The limit will be raised to +12 as normal when under the increased Treasure Hunter effects granted through thief autoattacks, Sneak Attack, Trick Attack, and the ranger ability Bounty Shot.

  • Non-thief jobs

    Treasure Hunter +4

The following additions and adjustments have been made to Monstrosity.

New monster families have been added.

 

• Players are now able to travel from the Feretory to the following areas.

  Recommended Level	Region Name	Area Name名
  Lv. 61	Elshimo Uplands	Ifrit's Cauldron
  Lv 70～	Halvung Territory	Mount Zhayolm
  Lv 78～	Lumoria	The Garden of Ru'Hmet

• The names of the following instincts have changed.

  Slime Instincts I-III are now Astoltian Slime Instincts I-III.
  Spriggan Instincts I-III are now Eorzean Spriggan Instincts I-III.

• Combat and magic skills may now be increased while participating in reives.

Campaign has undergone the following adjustments.

 

• Combat and magic skills may now be increased while participating in campaign battles.

• The following adjustments will be made to Influence, both when victorious and when defeated.
  • When victorious
    Influence will increase, and enemy force influence will decrease, at a greater rate than previously.
  • When defeated
    Influence will decrease, and enemy force influence will increase, at a lesser rate than previously.

Respawn times for the following notorious monsters have been greatly reduced.

 

Gulool Ja Ja／Gurfurlur the Menacing／Medusa

• The effects of slow now properly apply to enemies in the new Delve content.
  There is a possibility that this change will be applied to other monsters in the future.

Item-related

• New synthesis recipes have been introduced.

New items have been introduced.

 

• Makel-Pakel now occupies the Celennia Memorial Library, waiting for adventurers to trade him job-specific back equipment.

Makel-Pakel will grant adventurers an item of their choice from the list below in exchange for three other items from the list:

• Applicable Items

  Mauler's Mantle / Anchoret's Mantle / Mending Cape / Bane Cape / Ghostfyre Cape / Canny Cape / Weard Mantle / Niht Mantle / Pastoralist's Mantle / Rhapsode's Cape / Lutian Cape / Takaha Mantle / Yokaze Mantle / Updraft Mantle / Conveyance Cape / Cornflower Cape / Gunslinger's Cape / Dispersal Mantle / Toetapper Mantle / Bookworm's Cape / Lifestream Cape / Evasionist's Cape
  * Makel-Pakel will not let adventurers receive any of the capes or mantles they just traded him.

Certain pieces of Relic chest and leg equipment may now be reforged.

Read on for the details on reforging equipment.

* The items required to reforge these pieces must be obtained in the obscured domains added to Delve, but due to unforeseen circumstances, players will not be able to enter them as of March 18. We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your patience. We plan to rectify this issue during scheduled maintenance toward the end of the month.

• The attributes of the following items have been adjusted.
  • Chariot Band
    • Pre-adjustment

      Maximum duration: 90 min. Maximum bonus: 500 Recast time: 16 hours

    • Post-adjustment

      Maximum duration: 720 min. Maximum bonus: 750 Recast time: 1 hour

  • Empress Band
    • Pre-adjustment

      Maximum duration: 180 min. Maximum bonus: 1000 Recast time: 16 hours

    • Emperor Band

      Maximum duration: 720 min. Maximum bonus: 3000 Recast time: 1 hour

  • Emperor Band
    • Pre-adjustment

      Maximum duration: 210 min. Maximum bonus: 2000 Recast time: 16 hours

    • Post-adjustment

      Maximum duration: 720 min. Maximum bonus: 3000 Recast time: 1 hour

• Names of the following pieces of equipment have been adjusted.

  Laktisma Leggings → Laktisma Hose
  Quiahuiz Leggings → Quiahuiz Trousers

• Additions have been made to moogle storage slips.
  • The following storage slips have been introduced.

    Storage Slip 17: Item Level 109 Relic Equipment
    Storage Slip 18: Item Level 119 Relic Equipment

  • Additional items may now be stored via the Porter Moogle.
    • Storage Slip 11:

      Kadomatsu / Escritorio / Decazoom Mk-XI / Hatchling Shield / She-Slime Shield / She-Slime Hat / She-Slime Earring / Metal Slime Shield / Metal Slime Hat / Metal Slime Earring / Purple Spriggan Coat / Purple Spriggan Club / Red Spriggan Coat / Red Spriggan Club

    • Storage Slip 17:

      Agoge Mask / Agoge Lorica / Agoge Mufflers / Agoge Cuisses / Agoge Calligae / Hesychast's Crown / Hesychast's Cyclas / Hesychast's Gloves / Hesychast's Hose / Hesychast's Gaiters / Piety Cap / Piety Briault / Piety Mitts / Piety Pantaloons / Piety Duckbills / Archmage's Petasos / Archmage's Coat / Archmage's Gloves / Archmage's Tonban / Archmage's Sabots / Vitivation Chapeau / Vitivation Tabard / Vitivation Gloves / Vitivation Tights / Vitivation Boots / Plunderer's Bonnet / Plunderer's Vest / Plunderer's Armlets / Plunderer's Culottes / Plunderer's Poulaines / Caballarius Coronet / Caballarius Surcoat / Caballarius Gauntlets / Caballarius Breeches / Caballarius Leggings / Fallen's Burgeonet / Fallen's Cuirass / Fallen's Finger Gauntlets / Fallen's Flanchard / Fallen's Sollerets / Ankusa Helm / Ankusa Jackcoat / Ankusa Gloves / Ankusa Trousers / Ankusa Gaiters / Bihu Roundlet / Bihu Justaucorps / Bihu Cuffs / Bihu Cannions / Bihu Slippers / Arcadian Beret / Arcadian Jerkin / Arcadian Bracers / Arcadian Braccae / Arcadian Socks / Sakonji Kabuto / Sakonji Domaru / Sakonji Kote / Sakonji Haidate / Sakonji Sune-Ate / Mochizuki Hatsuburi / Mochizuki Chainmail / Mochizuki Tekko / Mochizuki Hakama / Mochizuki Kyahan / Pteroslaver Armet / Pteroslaver Mail / Pteroslaver Finger Gauntlets / Pteroslaver Brais / Pteroslaver Greaves / Glyphic Horn / Glyphic Doublet / Glyphic Bracers / Glyphic Spats / Glyphic Pigaches / Luhlaza Keffiyeh / Luhlaza Jubbah / Luhlaza Bazubands / Luhlaza Shalwar / Luhlaza Charuqs / Lanun Tricorne / Lanun Frac / Lanun Gauntlets / Lanun Culottes / Lanun Boots / Pitre Taj / Pitre Tobe / Pitre Dastanas / Pitre Churidars / Pitre Babouches / Horos Tiara / Horos Casaque / Horos Bangles / Horos Tights / Horos Toe Shoes / Pedagogy Mortarboard / Pedagogy Gown / Pedagogy Bracers / Pedagogy Pants / Pedagogy Loafers / Bagua Galero / Bagua Tunic / Bagua Mitaines / Bagua Pants / Bagua Sandals / Futhark Bandeau / Futhark Coat / Futhark Mitons / Futhark Trousers / Futhark Boots

    • Storage Slip 18:

      Agoge Mask +1 / Agoge Lorica +1 / Agoge Mufflers +1 / Agoge Cuisses +1 / Agoge Calligae +1 / Hesychast's Crown +1 / Hesychast's Cyclas +1 / Hesychast's Gloves +1 / Hesychast's Hose +1 / Hesychast's Gaiters +1 / Piety Cap +1 / Piety Briault +1 / Piety Mitts +1 / Piety Pantaloons +1 / Piety Duckbills +1 / Archmage's Petasos +1 / Archmage's Coat +1 / Archmage's Gloves +1 / Archmage's Tonban +1 / Archmage's Sabots +1 / Vitivation Chapeau +1 / Vitivation Tabard +1 / Vitivation Gloves +1 / Vitivation Tights +1 / Vitivation Boots +1 / Plunderer's Bonnet +1 / Plunderer's Vest +1 / Plunderer's Armlets +1 / Plunderer's Culottes +1 / Plunderer's Poulaines +1 / Caballarius Coronet +1 / Caballarius Surcoat +1 / Caballarius Gauntlets +1 / Caballarius Breeches +1 / Caballarius Leggings +1 / Fallen's Burgeonet +1 / Fallen's Cuirass +1 / Fallen's Finger Gauntlets +1 / Fallen's Flanchard +1 / Fallen's Sollerets +1 / Ankusa Helm +1 / Ankusa Jackcoat +1 / Ankusa Gloves +1 / Ankusa Trousers +1 / Ankusa Gaiters +1 / Bihu Roundlet +1 / Bihu Justaucorps +1 / Bihu Cuffs +1 / Bihu Cannions +1 / Bihu Slippers +1 / Arcadian Beret +1 / Arcadian Jerkin +1 / Arcadian Bracers +1 / Arcadian Braccae +1 / Arcadian Socks +1 / Sakonji Kabuto +1 / Sakonji Domaru +1 / Sakonji Kote +1 / Sakonji Haidate +1 / Sakonji Sune-Ate +1 / Mochizuki Hatsuburi +1 / Mochizuki Chainmail +1 / Mochizuki Tekko +1 / Mochizuki Hakama +1 / Mochizuki Kyahan +1 / Pteroslaver Armet +1 / Pteroslaver Mail +1 / Pteroslaver Finger Gauntlets +1 / Pteroslaver Brais +1 / Pteroslaver Greaves +1 / Glyphic Horn +1 / Glyphic Doublet +1 / Glyphic Bracers +1 / Glyphic Spats +1 / Glyphic Pigaches +1 / Luhlaza Keffiyeh +1 / Luhlaza Jubbah +1 / Luhlaza Bazubands +1 / Luhlaza Shalwar +1 / Luhlaza Charuqs +1 / Lanun Tricorne +1 / Lanun Frac +1 / Lanun Gauntlets +1 / Lanun Culottes +1 / Lanun Boots +1 / Pitre Taj +1 / Pitre Tobe +1 / Pitre Dastanas +1 / Pitre Churidars +1 / Pitre Babouches +1 / Horos Tiara +1 / Horos Casaque +1 / Horos Bangles +1 / Horos Tights +1 / Horos Toe Shoes +1 / Pedagogy Mortarboard +1 / Pedagogy Gown +1 / Pedagogy Bracers +1 / Pedagogy Pants +1 / Pedagogy Loafers +1 / Bagua Galero +1 / Bagua Tunic +1 / Bagua Mitaines +1 / Bagua Pants +1 / Bagua Sandals +1 / Futhark Bandeau +1 / Futhark Coat +1 / Futhark Mitons +1 / Futhark Trousers +1 / Futhark Boots +1

System-related

Transportation devices have been placed at the following coordinates in the lower section of Outer Ra'Kaznar so that players may return to the entrance.

 

L-10／L-6／D-6／E-11

• Players may now peruse the bidding history of posted items before submitting their own to the auction house.

• Home points have undergone the following adjustments.
  • The following descriptors regarding the location of certain home points have been introduced to the destination menu that appears after selecting on the "Travel to another home point" option and then designating a region.
    • Location Descriptors
      The descriptors are separated into the following three categories:
      • (A) for home points situated near auction houses
      • (E) for home points situated near area exits and entrances
      • (M) for home points situated near Mog Houses

The following text commands have been introduced./lockstyle on/off

Makes it so that your character's appearance remains the same even after changing equipment.

>>Subcommands:
on 　Locks in equipment appearance.
off 　Removes lock on equipment appearance.
Displays current setting if no subcommand is specified.

• Notes
  • This command will be automatically disabled under the following conditions:
    • Zoning in to a different area
    • Equipping items that affect character motions, such as weapons
    • Being the recipient of an attack that removes equipment that influences character motions
    • Logging out
  • This command cannot be enabled while participating in the following content:

    Monstrosity / Ballista / Brenner

  • While the user's appearance will stay the same to those in the area, switching equipment will grant the attributes of the new equipment.
  • The command will remain in effect even when changing into equipment that covers multiple slots.

• /hidefaith -- /hidetrust
  Disables/enables the display of alter egos not called by the player.
  

  >>Subcommands:
  on: Disables the display of alter egos.
  off: Enables the display of alter egos.

  • Notes
    This command is intended to lower system usage by disabling the display of other players' alter egos. The following issues will occur, but they are an intended effect of using the command.
    • If a non-displayed alter ego casts a spell on your character, there will be no visual or log notification, but the appropriate status icon will display.
    • If players who have disabled the display of alter egos dismiss one from their parties, the visual effect thereof will not be displayed.

• Measures have been taken to alleviate freezing during cutscenes for the mission "The Empress Crowned."