VanaFest 2012: Celebrating A Decade Of FFXI

Citation needed.

I'm surprised no ones mentioned that Tanakas character for the new UI stuff is called Exodus.

SEEKERS OF ADOULIN
*Travelling West to Ulbuka

*New town called Adoulin
-Walled off for hundreds of years due to the dangers in its wilderness

*Land is completely uncharted
-Will have a lot to do with pioneering the land
-A ton of new enemy types




GEOMANCER
*Geomancy to support party members
-Sphere that appears around the caster.
-Different category from all other buff types. (songs, rolls, etc.)
-Can move with the field, giving different party members the buff.
-Moves from party member to party member to support them.
-Special abilities that allow certain spells to be used, similar to SCH.
-Auras that can be cast on others/the ground? They have HP and deplete over time. Can be destroyed by AoEs.
-Effects such as Regen, Refresh, Regain, Stat boosts(STR, DEX), Attack and defense bonuses, Paralyze, Slow, MDEF down, EVA down, not affected by resistances

*Elemental magic for damage
- B- skill
-T4 spells
- -ra spells
-Some dark magic

*Job-specific bells
-Enhance geomancy.

*No VW/Abyssea procs. Do not interfere with other procs (paralyze etc)

*Polarity (Job Trait): Enhancements to spells depending on where you are in relation to mobs. N: MAB, E: Mcrit, W: Recast time, S: MACC




RUNE FENCER
*Tank job that excels in magical defense and elemental resistances

*Utilizes various runes

*Elemental Runes
-Added elemental resistance
-Enspell effects (elemental dmg on auto attacks)

*Enchantment Runes
-Attack Rune: Enhances attack capabilities by dealing massive elemental damage (consumes a rune)
-Defense Rune: Enhances defensive capabilities by reducing elemental damage (does not consume a rune)

*Ability to impart magic barriers on party members




NEW EXPANSION GAME SYSTEMS
*Special caves

*Monster "stronghold nests"
-Guards must be killed, stronghold can be destroyed.
-Can cause a Campaign-like battle to occur when destroyed.

*Giant monsters (Warlords)




NEW GUILD SYSTEM
*Nothing like crafting guilds

*Enhancements to the city

*Upgradable





INSTANCED SUNGEONS
*Rewards and enhancements based on difficulty, area size, and the number of rewards

*Statue pieces that you can find in the jungle
-Somewhat rare?
-Different pieces in different combos for different instances
-Heads: Size of dungeon and rewards
-Bodies: Monster difficulty and drop rates as well as enhancement materials (stronger monsters = better drop rates)
-Feet: Beneficial effects (Chain 5 monsters for x buff, Skillchain monster for x buff, etc.)

*Rewards differ based on which instance you go into, however the rewards are constant. Statue pieces only affect difficulty and drop rates.

*Incorporates elements of Moblin maze Mongers, Salvage, Assault, etc.




RANCH SYSTEM
*You get your own island!
-Your own area that you control independent of other people

*Farming

*You raise animals and monsters
-Can use them for materials (hides, meat)

*Can fish and mine there
-Can dig up a fishing hole and find mining areas

*Stress free, doesn’t require you to check your animals and plants every day




PLAY AS A MONSTER SYSTEM
*Complex system involving various elements and playstyles

*New version of PvP
-Can fight other players as monsters or players

*Can become any monster in Vana’diel
-Including HNMs!

*Notoriety Points system from defeating other monsters
-Defeating other players with high notoriety as players or monsters will give you points and other rewards.
-Better rewards if you’re a monster rather than a player.
-Unlocks different monsters

*New UI for the system. Works kinda like Blue Mage.
-Learn different knowledge of the monster families.
-Customize the monster to be your own. Can be a bee and set mandragora knowledge.

*Evolution
-Can evolve into higher tier types of monsters, all up to the HNM level.
-Ex.: White mandy -> Black mandy -> Chloris, Skeleton -> Robe skeleton -> GKT skeleton -> Naraka

*Limited to certain areas.
-Content-specific zones.
-PvP flag




JOB ADJUSTMENTS
*New two hour abilities (just about finalized)
-WAR: All normal attacks become non-elemental damage
-MNK: Counters all attacks directed at you

*Adjustments to enfeeble resists
-Possibly removing it altogether.

*Adjustments to ranged attack delay
-Up to 50% reduction between ranged attacks

*Strengthening Protect and Minne
-1.5x strength Protect (roughly 4x as potent Protect V when fully merited)

*DRK: We’re looking into it. No nerfs inc.

*MNK: Boost adjustments and higher tier Black Belt.

*NIN: New shuriken effects and Sange adjustments

*SMN: Blood Pact adjustments, Introduction of Cait Sith as a summon
-Range issues addressed, no longer acts as the BP executed if the monster moves out of range.
-Cait Sith will be soon

*DRG: Reduced Call Wyvern recast time merit (category 1)

*Reworked system, plenty of new items, maps, abilities and spells will now be possible.




NEW UI
*Completely reworked UI for PC players.

*Can open up multiple windows.

I just realized I'll have to use a mouse now.

mouse. :(

New UI is pure win!

What revised macro pallet?

Nope.

Enhancing Magic x 1.5x buff for Runic Fencer and Enspell effects. /wrist

imo, DRK is highly dependent on Last Resort as our source for increased damage, and to see it get dispelled once before it wears off means a chunk of your damage is *** for a while.

If there's a solution to this it would be interesting to see what SE could come up with.

GOD DAMN THEM!!!

I wanted a confirm on GS or Sword!

It leads me to think SE has made another long term commitment to ffxi. No point in modernizing the UI if this next expansion is the last episode.

RDM is officially only to skillup your Enhancing magic to play Rune Fencer :D lol

Well new UI looks kinda neat, if it requires a mouse to be used fulltime though wont be able to use it. I don't have a mouse on my pc D:

I was kind of hoping they would bring other DDs up to par with DRK SAM before they discussed making DRK any stronger.

You sure seem to think you know everything, when in reality you dont have a clue how the job will work. All they said its a magic defenced based tank vs the physical like pld. Guess youve never seen an aegis then since that pretty much makes magic tickle.

Japanese (phoenetic): ワイバーン, or "waibaan."

It's why the wyvern monsters in the old FF games were mistranslated to "Y-burn."

When SE says "Make DRK stronger" I guarantee you they mean from a magic-perspective.

i'm thinking sword. with the way 2 handers work now, would they give a tank job a 2hander as its primary?

i mean disregarding the fact that we just make warriors tank everything anyway <.<

Uh no I was actually listening when they said it would have the highest magic defense.

Ok this is way worse than the cosplay event.

CID!

Better than the "Guess the armor" event from FanFest.

I'm thinking a new class of greatswords. Similar to how COR got their own class of guns(hexaguns), Rune Fencers will probably get a specialized class of either sword or greatswords that enhance magic related things. Going with Great Sword since no job has A+ in it, and Swords are done to death with PLD RDM BLU.

Play-as-a-monster has potential if the system has real depth to it.

Cointeach -> Dvergyr -> Pandemonium Warden
Cointeach -> Dvergyr -> Fjalar

It all depends on what the game clock is when you evolve!

A PvP system that won't suck does sound intriguing

They did mention drops. Imagine if defeating someone who leveled up to King Behemoth could get you a D Ring or something similar.

my thinking is, how can you take less than -100% magic damage?

i guess aegis may not be ubiquitous enough to matter, but if you HAVE an aegis, do you really think you'd be better off tanking magic on runic fencer?

Base defense sure, ja abilities sure, but to actually think it would ***on aegis is purley moronic at this point when you have no clue what the job is or how it will compare.

echo drops?

distilled water ; ;