Maiden's Rhapsody, otherwise known as "Yoshi P why you do dis?!?!"

[JonLuso]

So, did anyone notice anything familiar while fighting the first boss in Pharos Sirius Hard Mode? The animations used for the auto-attack look so familiar; they look like they're just slightly adjusted auto-attack animations used for the Hume in Final Fantasy XI.

That was not even the FIRST thing I noticed about the boss, too; his fighting stance is basically a Hume's when he has a sword and shield equipped.

Pinch me if I'm wrong/dreaming. =(

[FallenArisen0990]

While I can't say much about the auto-attacks but I do agree his idle stance is very similar to the Hume Male stance.

[Borgan]

The boss from Sirius HM looks a lot like Jailer of Fortitude from Sea in XI. Even his adds have Ghrah in the name.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Yea it's based off the boss from Chains of Promethia 8-2 mission which had hume, ball, spider, and bird form. u can see the adds use the other 3 forms in Pharos Sirius HM

[JonLuso]

I hadn't gotten that far in CoP. I've only gotten far a little in each of the expansions; I'm farthest in SoA.

Nice to see other references to XI besides the abundance of skills, monster models and such.

[FallenArisen0990]

Yea it's based off the boss from Chains of Promethia 8-2 mission which had hume, ball, spider, and bird form. u can see the adds use the other 3 forms in Pharos Sirius HM

I completely forgot about this fight lol. It was such a long time ago that I completed CoP. I just want to fight Promathia at that point lol.

[Blood-Aki]

The boss from Sirius HM looks a lot like Jailer of Fortitude from Sea in XI. Even his adds have Ghrah in the name.

That is the 1st thing that poped in my head when i 1st saw the boss. and his adds, it was clear he was a near carbon copy. Those days of kiting him around that area. with blms, hoping you didn't get reflected.

[EdwinLi]

They should have called this event..

Final Fantasy 11 Epilogue

and the story is not over yet.

[CyrilLucifer]

So, did anyone notice anything familiar while fighting the first boss in Pharos Sirius Hard Mode? The animations used for the auto-attack look so familiar; they look like they're just slightly adjusted auto-attack animations used for the Hume in Final Fantasy XI.

That was not even the FIRST thing I noticed about the boss, too; his fighting stance is basically a Hume's when he has a sword and shield equipped.

Pinch me if I'm wrong/dreaming. =(

Actually, that's just the reused Jailer of Fortitude model.
http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jailer_of_Fortitude

Edit: beaten by a lot of people and by hours. Wow, I need to learn to refresh threads.

[VirusChris]

I never got the chance to REALLY play FFXI... I did get to like Level 11 - 14 and try to go Ninja and picked the Pugilist class first but the combat was so slow and it took so much longer to get anyway on foot (haven't unlocked Chocobo) and I dislike I couldn't solo for a bit longer and even then at the start you needed a party to take on below level 10 enemies. I mean it's nice to form parties and work together and I did meet some nice people that helped me and even got me the item to become an Ninja as soon as possible... but I just never came back after that.

I don't know why, I played on the Xbox 360 version when I saw the Ultimate Edition because when I first saw in when I was a kid I wanted to play it but sadly did not have the PCs to play it and my PS2 didn't have the connection cables to make it work so I silently never thought about it that much.

Then when I did play it I was a little dishearten that there was barely any customization for your Avatar and everyone seem to look a like a lot too much. I get on during the Abyss Arc I believe, can't recall...


But playing and finishing this Event for FFXI makes me wish I did get to fully play FFXI from start to end as the cutscenes alone filled my heart with joy to see so much love and joy put into FFXI's story and characters. Sigh... a shame really, but never still I can't play FFXI because of how "chunky" it was to me before but I will say it's story and lore is amazing. I seriously wish I got to play it in it's Golden Era.