FFXI Crossover Event

[Colorful]

JP Blog



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Gotta say, that armour looks amazing.

Edit: posts on Reddit are saying we only get the armour set, not 100% confirmed but likely.

[Warlyx]

Uhm.....a event about rhapsodies....something that nearly none of FFXIV have played? no cool

[Enkidoh]

I knew the event would involve Iroha rather than an older more familiar FFXI character. The armour is nice but, unless you're playing the final Rhapsodies of Vana'diel story in FFXI at the moment Iroha won't make much sense to even old-time FFXI players given the fact she's a new character created especially for that storyline (I really enjoyed the previous FFXI event because my FFXI character was Windurstian and Shantotto was more familar to me). Ah well, this will still be fun to do.

[Colorful]

Uhm.....? a event about rhapsodies....something that nearly none of FFXIV have played? no cool

It's an event to celebrate the ending of FFXI, which will happen on the 10th or 11th I believe. I'll have to assume they'll make it so that non-FFXI players will understand the story too in this event, or at least I hope they do.

[Warlyx]

i expected something about Maat /Lion / Prishe / Tenzen / ect ....maybe Shadow Lord involved (SL theme , "awakening" is just awesome!)

[Nalien]

So, as far as the weapon goes, is it just a lancer, or will there be something for each Job?

That armor just makes me want Samurai more...

hope so , because as old FFXI player i expected , Maat /Lion / Prishe / Tenzen / ect

I imagine the entire point of the event is to build interest in XIs current story to maybe get people to check it out. Reminding me of CoP isn't going to get me back, but this could have. I do have some interest in their current story, and this event certainly peaks it, it's just a shame I have no real desire to put myself through XI again... It's very dated and XIV has spoiled me...

[Colorful]

So, as far as the weapon goes, is it just a lancer, or will there be something for each Job?

That armor just makes me want Samurai more...

I can safely say that I'll be incredibly disappointed if it's just a LNC weapon, I'd love other weapons based off its design or other weapons from FFXI.

[Enkidoh]

But is there any confirmation that weapons are even a reward for this? That blog image just shows a miqo'te and elezen wearing Iroha's custom costume with no visible weapons. Given the fact the previous FFXI event didn't even grant a costume to players as a reward (the reward was a Shantotto minion), I'm liable to think that weapons will still not be a reward for this. May I be proven wrong though!

[Vydos]

I'm not going to lie. This is making me want to play ffxi again, only to do all the stories. I loved FFXI stories.

[Nalien]

But is there any confirmation that weapons are even a reward for this? That blog image just shows a miqo'te and elezen wearing Iroha's custom costume with no visible weapons. Given the fact the previous FFXI event didn't even grant a costume to players as a reward (the reward was a Shantotto minion), I'm liable to think that weapons will still not be a reward for this. May I be proven wrong though!

Well, the second image shows the weapon in XIV, but I guess it might be unique to her... I kind of expect something on the level of the Lightning Returns event though, which had equipment and weapons for all the Jobs, back then at least. There is certainly no shortage of quality weapon designs from XI that they could port over... After the Wootz/etc. equipment I'm really hoping they give us more old XI gear... Scholar and Summoner would be the only Jobs which don't share a weapon design with XI, but they could easily use XI Scholars Light/Dark Arts books for those though... Heck, that would kinda make me disappointed that Dragoon is getting this lance...