Hello, adventurers of Vana’diel! Matsui here.
I’d like to give you all a preview of the content coming in the December version update.

In the December version update we’ll be adding quests that continue to explore the lore of Adoulin. These new quests will focus on the witches of the Blackthorn Coven as well as the exorcists, which were only touched on very briefly in the main mission scenario. Look forward to expanding your knowledge on the lore of Adoulin even though the main scenario has concluded!

On the battle-side of things we’ll be adding a system known as “Gifts”.
Gifts are a new element of character growth that is derived from job points. They will allow you to earn various bonuses depending on the total amount of job points that have been spent.

We’ll also be introducing a feature that allows you to create separate log windows as an element to enhance the community. With this feature, you can freely separate the logs into, for example, a battle log window and a chat log window. The opportunity to chat with other adventurers is surely increasing due to Unity Concord, and I hope you are able to put this feature to good use.

We originally planned to implement battle content involving the Xol Triumvirate, the “linkshell 2” feature, and increase the participant cap for Unity Concord chat this month; however, we determined that further testing and adjustments are necessary and we are now aiming to implement these in a future version update. I apologize for making you wait.

With that said though, we will be adding an element known as “Chacharoon’s Cheer” to the monster rearing system, adding new notorious monsters for wanted battles, and making various other additions and adjustments with one-hand weapon enhancements headlining the list.

The version update is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, December 10 (JST), and I hope you are looking forward to enjoying all the new content.

Among the items scheduled for implementation with this version update, there are still some that are currently in testing. Please keep in mind that we may remove certain items from this implementation list in the event that bugs take an unintentionally long time to fix or balancing issues occur during the development process.

Missions and Quests
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Additional Seekers of Adoulin quest 1 - Create text
- Create cutscene 		-
December Additional Seekers of Adoulin quest 2 - Create text
- Create cutscene 		-
December Chacharoon's Cheer introduction event - Create text
- Create cutscene 		-
December Celennia Memorial Library - Add text -
December Starlight Celebration - Create related items -
December New Year's event - Create related items -
December Login Campaign - Set new items -


Areas and Monsters
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Unity: Wanted - Create notorious monster data
- Adjust battle balance
- Set rewards
- Place "Ethereal Junction" in the related areas 		-


Content and Systems
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Unity Concord - Increase Unity chat participant cap from 64 to 128
- Add objectives to Unity: Wanted
- Add equipment that can be enhanced
- Add areas that can be teleported to 		Due to the need for further adjustments, increase on the Unity chat participant cap has been pushed to a future version update.
December Linkshell2 - Add system that allows you to equip two linkshells at the same time
- Adjust the linkshell UI in the main menu
- Adjust chat channel UI
- Create related text commands 		This feature has been postponed to a future version update pending further adjustments. Some elements of the UI have been altered but will be unavailable for the time being.
December Monster rearing - Add the "Chacharoon's Cheer" system
- Set effects
- Adjust balance
- Set items that are sold through "Chacharoon's Support" 		-
December Trust - Change the icons for Trust magic based on roles
- Create icon data
- Change the sort order of Trust magic when sorted
- Add a bonus effect to Galadar, Zazarg, Mihli Aliapoh, and Najelith alter egos when specific alter egos are summoned 		New Trust magic icons are available on the Windows and Xbox 360 versions when the icon type is set to 2.
December Adventuring Fellow - Address certain event equipment -
December Records of Eminence - Add tutorial objective
- Add objectives for Unity: Wanted 		-
December Waypoints - Add map icons that display the Waypoints in Adoulin areas
- Add a system that displays the map of the Waypoint destination for Adoulin areas 		-
December Survival Guide - Add "Survival Guides" -
December Home Point - Add "Home Points" -
December Battle content with the Xol Triumvirate - Due to the need for further adjustments, this has been pushed to a future version update.


Battle System
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Job points - Create the "Gifts" system
- Adjust UI
- Add gifts for each job
- Adjust balance of gift effects
- Create the "Superior" system 		-
December Weapon skills - Increase the power of certain weapon skills
- Increase the TP bonus for certain weapon skills
- Adjustments so that certain weapon skills that had bonuses applied to only the first hit will have the bonus applied to all hits 		This adjustment is focused on enhancing the weapon skills of one-hand weapons.
December Adjustments to the calculation of accuracy rates - Increase the accuracy rate cap of one-hand weapons
- Increase the accuracy rate cap of pets called via Call Beast, wyverns, avatars, and automatons 		-
December Summoner - Add new Blood Pact for Carbuncle
- Add new Blood Pact for Ifrit
- Add new Blood Pact for Leviathan
- Add new Blood Pact for Ramuh
- Add new Blood Pact for Titan
- Add new Blood Pact for Garuda
- Add new Blood Pact for Shiva
- Create effects for new Blood Pacts
- Adjust the balance of the new Blood Pacts 		-
December Blue mage - Add new blue magic spells
- Adjust the balance of new blue magic spells" 		-
December Puppetmaster - Remove the animation lock for the job ability "Maneuvers"
- Change the type of weapon damage for Harlequin and Stormwaker frames from hand-to-hand to blunt damage 		-


Items
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Unity Concord related items - Add new equipment -
December Synthesis recipes - Add new equipment recipes
- Add new food recipes 		-
December Magic maps - Add more maps that are sold in shops Certain magic maps that were only obtainable via quests will be sold.
December Superior - Create equipment that supports the gift effect "Superior" -
December Furnishings - Create new furnishings -
December Porter Moogle - Add support for event items -


UI
Implementation Timing Update Task and Overview Tasks Being Worked On Notes
December Chat log window - Add a system to display two chat log windows
- Add and adjust the "Window" option under "Config" in the main menu
- Add a "Chat Log Setting" option to the "Config" under the main menu
- Add a feature that displays a time stamp in the chat log
- Add the text command "/timestamp" 		-
December Linkshell2 adjustments - Adjust the linkshell UI under the main menu
- Adjust the chat channel UI
- Add the text command "/linkshell2"
- Add the text command "/makelinkshell2"
- Add the subcommand "linkshell2" for the text command "/search"
- Add the subcommand "linkshell2" for the text command "/nominate" 		This feature has been postponed to a future version update pending further adjustments. Some elements of the UI have been altered but will be unavailable for the time being.
December Gift adjustments - Add Gift UI to the Job Points section of the main menu
- Add item level and Superior sections to the Profile section of the main menu 		-
December Map icons - Indicate Waypoints that have not been unlocked on the map -
December Auto-translate function - Add to the auto-translate dictionary -