Unsolved Mysteries

[Alhanelem]

-Why doesn't RUN & GEO have relic & emp weapons?

This isn't an unsolved mystery. They don't have relic or emp weapons because they were created after these were released. They have no representation in the contents that these come from either.

-Why are mage jobs on weapons like GAs, Polearms, etc? (Not complaining, Raetic weapons are pretty fun to mess around with as a mage subbed WAR. Keep them on it lol).

For variety and uniqueness, and apparently to make some people ask questions. BLM does have skill for scythe and there do exist some "magey" statted scythes. FFXI is all about options, and the team wanted to create as many possibilities as possible, even if some would obviously be better than others, you can try everything out and do things that are fun, not just things that are the best.

-Xion has the design of an Avatar & been around since 2007 iirc, why isn't he a summon? Is he indeed an avatar?

Because it's an HNM. they do have the aura of a summon, but if there was plans for them to be a summon they probably would have been put into a BCNM or cutscenes and such instead of being a world spawn.

-What happens if a maintenance occurs during a besieged?

Most server events and such are reset when the servers go down. Heck the server doesn't even save best times for BCNMs, which raises the question of why they bothered to add that feature when the game wasn't going to keep a premanent record. If the besieged doesn't end normally, it's like it didn't happen.

-Are mobs immortal, because they can respawn?

While in a server sense it is the exact same mob each time (probably, anyway), from a world context I am given to understand that, at least for regular mobs, it isn't meant to be the exact same being getting revived, rather just another one of a bunch of beings that look the same. NMs however, could be considered immortal, since they're named, it can't possibly really be a different one the next time, otherwise it probably wouldn't have the same name.