Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Silverquick]

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When did they start adding XI gear to Eureka?

I remember doing some Eureka back in the day but I do not ever recall seeing XI gear there. I can remember enjoying Eureka, but I remember it used to have to be a massive group raid type thing. So you couldn't always find people who wanted to do it.

[Sebazy]

When did they start adding XI gear to Eureka?

I remember doing some Eureka back in the day but I do not ever recall seeing XI gear there. I can remember enjoying Eureka, but I remember it used to have to be a massive group raid type thing. So you couldn't always find people who wanted to do it.

The first Eureka zone had a bunch of bits from XI no?

Assuming my memory stands correctly, I remember at least getting the Emperor's hairpin and Strider boots lookalikes from there, I suspect there might have been more too?

[Fawkes]

When did they start adding XI gear to Eureka?

I remember doing some Eureka back in the day but I do not ever recall seeing XI gear there. I can remember enjoying Eureka, but I remember it used to have to be a massive group raid type thing. So you couldn't always find people who wanted to do it.

That gear actually is from around Heavensward I think, it's the crafted Wootz sets, there's also role-reversed Titanium sets.

Eureka had FFXI items from the start. I don't remember Pyros having anything other than the Elvaan minion, and most of the Hydatos stuff is from Baldesion Arsenal, but Anemos and Pagos both had a few things (Emperor Hairpin, Scorpion Harness, Strider Boots, Optical Hat, Cassie Earring, Speed Belt).

[Silverquick]

Ohhh it's crafted, that's why.

[Enkidoh]

Ohhh it's crafted, that's why.

Yeah I've had that set for years, the Wootz Cuirass specifically was my main PLD glam for many years, and I still use the whole set as my WAR glam (because the Koenig set it was based on in FFXI had a similar appearence to the Adamant set I used as my WAR gear in FFXI for many years, and so nostalgia comes through).

Incidentally Arenvald in the MSQ wore the Wootz set as his actual armour so there is precedent for it being more than just "glam gear that has it's origins in FFXI".

[Fawkes]

I wouldn't mind getting the CoP low level gear. Especially Eisenplatte, but I also spent a lot of time wearing the Seer's set and I'm kinda fond of it.




I wonder if multiple healing/casting gear being that same model would irritate all the non-FFXI enjoyers. I always liked it in XI since it looks like a comfy hoodie.

[mallleable]

I haven't played XI so I don't really know what to expect in terms of bosses, and story, but I do hope it's better tuned than the Myths raids. Like the mechanics of the Myths bosses were fine, but I feel the mechanics need to come out a little faster, and the bosses need just a bit more HP.

Absolute Virtue was fun in BA, and I hope it makes a return either as an alliance raid boss or an S/SS rank hunt mark.

[Nestama]

I have a lot to say about the Myth raid mechanics (or lack thereof), but that's not for this thread.

I really do hope the mechanics will be similar to Ivalice. More actual alliance raid mechanics that require the alliance to split into three groups, more individual responsibility mechanics, etc. And like Mallleable said, just... fast in general (like Hashmal, for example). As for HP... that depends on how long the battle team designs the fight (if it repeats attacks after 4 minutes, then their HP will be low).

[TaleraRistain]

I wonder if multiple healing/casting gear being that same model would irritate all the non-FFXI enjoyers. I always liked it in XI since it looks like a comfy hoodie.

Eh, healers and casters are used to having to glam over what we get anyway. I haven't really seen anything in this thread so far that would appeal to me so I know I'd be doing that.

[Fawkes]

It should play this song if you die in the raid.

And also retroactively in Eureka probably. I also thought Eureka (Pagos specifically) should've given us the title "Frozen Dead Body", maybe they could add some memorable FFXI titles to these raids. It'd probably be hard to make "Vampire Hunter D Minus" make sense thematically though.