Weekly Announcements and Forum Posts from June 29 - July 5

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

As announced in the recent r/FFXI subreddit Q&A, we'll try our best to bring the Japanese digest threads over to the English forums. Please note the details will be summarized as much as possible to make it easier for our readers.

Without further ado, here are the weekly announcement and forum posts from June 29 through July 5.

Announcements

• The July version update has landed!
  We have added Wave 3 to Dynamis - Divergence. You can read up on the version update details here.

• Presenting the FINAL FANTASY XI Reddit Q&A!
  In celebration of FINAL FANTASY XI's 16th anniversary, the FFXI subreddit community gathered together and upvoted some burning questions for the development team to answer. Today we're pleased to present the results of the Q&A! Visit the r/FFXI subreddit and read over the interview.

Forum Posts

• Azi Dahaka's flight mechanic explained.
  • First post (Posted on the Japanese forums)
  • Second post (Posted on the Japanese forums)
  A player who recently participated in the Domain Invasion content with 11 players mentioned that they were unable to do much damage to Azi Dahaka in Escha - Zi'Tah because it remained up in the air majority of the time.
  
  We explained that by defeating the additional monsters which appear with Azi Dahaka would switch it back from flight mode to its normal mode.
  
  Next, they pointed out that even though they defeated the additional monsters, Azi Dahaka was still in the air, or only came down briefly.
  
  To this, we explained that the system looks into how many additional monsters are remaining rather than how many were defeated as a total. So players would need to defeat the additional monsters until it reaches a certain number before the mode switches back. In addition to this, depending on the number of participants the number required would change. As such, with a low number of participants, you would probably need to defeat all the additional enemies. Furthermore, the mode switch is determined based on the number of additional monsters remaining when the last one was defeated, so if any additional monsters have spawned before this, it wouldn't count.
  
  Since the number of additional monsters is determined based on the number of participants, if no additional monsters are available, Azi Dahaka will remain on the ground without switching to flight mode.