Square-Enix has informed Final Fantasy XI players that the next big content patch will be delivered in April, and players have much to look forward to. The Fields of Valor and Moblin Maze Mongers systems will be expanding, due to their warm reception at the hands of FFXI players.
Fields of Valor is the new questing system placed in the game that allows players to be rewarded with handsome amounts of experience and gil for taking down monsters in certain areas of the world in addition to the standard exp and rewards that the monster already gives, much like a World of Warcraft "kill quest." The difference is in completing these quests the player will receive a new type of currency, tabs, that give access to temporary buffs and home nation teleports at any Field Manual placed in the game.
Moblin Maze Mongers is FFXI's "create a dungeon" system, allowing players to form their own dungeons and run through them for experience, money, and special items that can only be obtained from these "do-it-yourself" dungeons.
The full details will be announced soon, but we'll keep our ear to the ground for you to bring you all of the juicy details.
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Posted: Mar 1st 2009 12:03AM Dblade said
Fields of Valor actually has helped low and mid level soloing and duoing a lot. You can do one "training regimen" per hour, and it gives a flat gil and exp bonus on top of what experience, gil, and drops you get from killing the mobs required. What they also don't mention is in addition, mobs have a chance to drop treasure chests with temporary useful items, like ethers and potions, which makes it even faster.
If your memories of ffxi were back in the old days where it was impossible to solo even easy preys on certain jobs, it's changed pretty radically. With FoV and other changes they made low level exp much friendlier.
Also, there has been a pretty massive deflation, as SE has driven a lot of RMT out and balanced out the economy. If you have memories of million-gil haubergeons, theu are now only 200k, and most things in the game have become a lot easier to get. It's a good time to come back.
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If your memories of ffxi were back in the old days where it was impossible to solo even easy preys on certain jobs, it's changed pretty radically. With FoV and other changes they made low level exp much friendlier.
Also, there has been a pretty massive deflation, as SE has driven a lot of RMT out and balanced out the economy. If you have memories of million-gil haubergeons, theu are now only 200k, and most things in the game have become a lot easier to get. It's a good time to come back.
Posted: Mar 1st 2009 1:54PM (Unverified) said
Lol.. I remember when Haubys and Scorpion Harnesses were 5-6 mill.. boy have I not played in years..
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