Drops in any MMO are sometimes a frustrating business. You can kill an enemy for its head, a clearly visible part of its body, and yet no head is dropped when it dies. You can kill a boss dozens of times before you finally get its weapon, even though that weapon is visible each time. And in
Final Fantasy XI, you can fight an
Ironclad Triturator without getting any sort of iron plates, despite the fact that he's both visually and eponymously covered in them. But as
the latest round of questions and answers states, that's a temporary problem -- the February mini-version update will fix this oddity.
That's not the only change forthcoming, naturally, and one of the other issues addressed is the sometimes frustrating art of fishing. Rusty equipment is going to stop eating up the potentially expensive bait in the February update, and directions for fishing will be changed to provide more useful information for players.
Take a look at the full rundown for more information about what's coming with
Final Fantasy XI's upcoming mini-patch, with promises of a more comprehensive schedule in the near future.
