April 2020 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Akihiko_Matsui]

The latest FINAL FANTASY XI Digest is now available! The digest covers key features from the most recent version update. Check out the video, try the version update, and leave a feedback based on your experience of playing the new content.

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[Alhanelem]

Well, that was an impressive introduction in English. Understandable how the current circumstances arer impacting progress, but I'm glad you did a video anyway.

[Trishula]

Hi Matsui, my only question is this;

Where can I get your sweatshirt?!

[Kalimairo]

Thank you Matsui for letting us have fun during these hard times.

[bigbubbablu]

Curious if a person will ever be able to catch up to date on the deeds if you keep adding more ?

[Smokenttp]

Thank you very much for the weapon skills merit things, i am not sure if it is a good idea to tie this in with deeds but it is still better then not having then at all.


Curious if a person will ever be able to catch up to date on the deeds if you keep adding more ?

pretty sure their intention with deeeds was mentioned before is getting players good reward for the same amount of effort, and i kinda agree with that in a sense this means that they can just bring better rewards down the line.

[Lockhart]

First Post Warning:

Thank you for getting an update out at all! I know with everything going on its going to be hard to do more than just the standard ambuscade and objectives changes, but I just wanted to potentially toss a few suggestions to hopefully get them on your radar.

1. It would be amazing to get a little mini map or if that is not possible an upgrade to the existing radar.

2.As suggested by many other players on the forum, a place to store dynamis currencies, beitetsu, plutons, boulders, alexandrite, Detritus, Heroism Crystals/aggregate, and other such items. Mostly due the fact that these items are required in extreme high amounts, (30,000, 10,000, etc.) to do create or upgrade items. This causes a huge strain on my already strained inventory because it takes me a long amount of time to gather these. To speak to some responses, I have seen in the past, while some of these can be stored if you're on that quest, I.E. Paparoon will hold your alexandrite while you're working on a mythic, however, if you complete that before the other items, but are working on getting enough for your next mythic you have nowhere to put these. Another example, 10,000 Boulders for Empyrean upgrades, he will hold your boulders for that weapon but if you don't have enough to complete (its 102 stacks, that's 102 inventory spaces) for this weapon he won't hold your plutons or Beitetsu. It's my hope that you can make Coelestrox could hold job cards/omen scales, and Aurix could store Dyna-D metals, cards, and possibly shards/void pieces, Haggleblix or Switchstix store dynamis currency, Oboro store beitetsu/plutons/boulders/Detritus/heroism etc. Or possibly put an NPC beside those that'll store these.

3. It would be nice if you could make an option to decline confirmation on HomePoint's travel, if you decline confirmation instead of the screen saying "add to favorites, yes please, no thank you" it would just warp you. In order to receive this screen again just enable confirmation.

4. Abyssea confluxes show on the map where they are, like HomePoint's.

5. I really liked how you brought a use for merit points again with Emporox, I understand that Oboro takes job points for a while but once you've cleared content they just cap out and you don't get anything. If you could come up with a job point Exhange/storage like Emporox it would be incredible. Currently if you only play a handful of jobs (which I think is common due to the current inventory constraints) and you cap them out of job points you essentially have no reason to CP with others. This means all the events that your providing for increased Capacity points gain are useless to me. If I could use these job points for anything it would allow me to take advantage of these events.

6. Implementing something under Unity menu, making a new tab or just adding into ‘unity info’ where the DI dragon is. Accessing unity chat is near impossible sometimes and jumping to each place to find the dragon is incredibly frustrating when in theory the info should be at your fingertips.

Thank you for reading, I know this is a lot of work, but I wanted to give suggestions for things currently hindering myself that I think would improve quality of life.

[Pellerian]

Thank you Mr. Matsui and you the whole SE development team for all your hard work. I only have one question:

Can we please permanently learn the Campaign Weapon Skills? We have a Trust NPC who can perform one of the Weapon Skills; so can we have the ability to do so as well? Please?!

[Sirmarki]

Thank you for getting a monthly update out, considering what is going on in the world at the moment.

All the best and stay safe!

[Historic]

Will there be a Login Campaign being continued from last month? If there is any skips will the items from previous months be included? Just wanted to know cause Shantotto II is taunting me haha.

[Dekusuta]

Thank you for working hard to get an update out this month. Please stay safe!

[Ferth]

I understand this month is a bit unusual, and last month was all about Odyssey, and February was all about Siren... but can we get an update or a timeline on the rest of the planned job changes or atleast acknowledgement that you aren't planning any more? There haven't been any job updates since Beastmaster in January. If the plan was to give adjustments to EVERY job there are still a few who haven't been touched. And if the plan was to make meaningful changes to the jobs that have been adjusted, then ninja would like a word with you guys.

[Alhanelem]

I don't think there is going to be any sort of timeline until real life begins to return to normalcy.
I understand this month is a bit unusual, and last month was all about Odyssey, and February was all about Siren... but can we get an update or a timeline on the rest of the planned job changes or atleast acknowledgement that you aren't planning any more? There haven't been any job updates since Beastmaster in January. If the plan was to give adjustments to EVERY job there are still a few who haven't been touched. And if the plan was to make meaningful changes to the jobs that have been adjusted, then ninja would like a word with you guys.

[bigbubbablu]

Thank you very much for the weapon skills merit things, i am not sure if it is a good idea to tie this in with deeds but it is still better then not having then at all.



pretty sure their intention with deeeds was mentioned before is getting players good reward for the same amount of effort, and i kinda agree with that in a sense this means that they can just bring better rewards down the line. thanks but not what i asked ..

[Alhanelem]

thanks but not what i asked ..
Well they won't keep adding new rewards forever. It's like the veteran's rewards in FFXIV for total days of subbing. But they stopped adding more rewards eventually, so once that happens, you can "catch up."

[Smokenttp]

thanks but not what i asked ..

My bad , but yeah i can see where you are coming from they will most likely either stop at some point like alhanelem said or just do rotations in regards to certain rewards (Afs) while keeping interresting milestones along the way (however i do feel tough that they will need to be extra carefull with rewards if they chose this route, merit weapon skills KI shouldnt be there thats for sure and i kinda see why ppl are upset about trusts being here as well, i would rather have then adding interresting itens like cats eye for this kind of rewards specially as the years progress rather then something extremely usefull that might affect gameplay overall like lets say an ki that allows for 2 unity trusts).

[TullemoreAsuraFFXI]

Changes don't need to be fabricated into the pathing. If people are concerned about time gates, you should be lobbying for monthly deeds to be increased to 8 objectives or 12.

[Alhanelem]

Changes don't need to be fabricated into the pathing. If people are concerned about time gates, you should be lobbying for monthly deeds to be increased to 8 objectives or 12.
The deeds thing is basically a rewards program you have to do some work for, like I was talking about above. The rewards were set with the understanding that you would only get them by being a regular player- the tasks are simple, but you have to at least log in for a bit to do them.

[Ilisidi]

Thank you.
I came back during the second half last year and am enjoying the whole Deeds system.
Given the current situation I had a lot more time to enjoy FFXI recently and it brought me a whole lot of happiness in these dreary times. It's nice being able to walk or ride around relatively safe and just look at things. Back in the day I hardly ever got the chance to just look at monsters like the Yovra, now I can just fearlessly see them whipping about their tentacles.

We currently have many exclusive items that can be sent within our PlayOnline account, there's also at least one exclusive item that can be sent within our Square Enix account. Would it be possible to make the items sendable within the PlayOnline account, sendable within our Square Enix account?

Shantotto II is also taunting me. :)

[Lockhart]

The deeds thing is basically a rewards program you have to do some work for, like I was talking about above. The rewards were set with the understanding that you would only get them by being a regular player- the tasks are simple, but you have to at least log in for a bit to do them.

Sounds a lot like coalitions! It will take a new character a year to get to some of these rewards, if they do not miss any.

[Sirmarki]

We have the following categorises in the Records of Eminence:

Basic
Intermediate

Can we get an Advanced one for closure? Obviously these will be no easy feat.

[Zhexos]

Will there be a Login Campaign being continued from last month? If there is any skips will the items from previous months be included? Just wanted to know cause Shantotto II is taunting me haha.

Greetings Historic,

There will be a new Login Campaign for the month of April.
This month we're featuring not only the Mutsunokami from last month, but the Model Synergy Furnace, and ♪doll mount from previous months as well.

Here's the link to this month's Login Campaign page.
NA: https://sqex.to/hyM0O
EU: https://sqex.to/rWUeC