FFXI's September update will add new relic gear sets

by Samuel Axon Aug 5th 2008 at 11:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Patches, News items

Square-Enix announced that the September update to Final Fantasy XI will add the relic gear sets for the Blue Mage, Corsair, and Puppetmaster jobs. The FFXI team considered adding new content that would lead to the gear. However, the team finally decided to do it the old way. That means Blue Mages, Corsairs, and Puppetmasters will be working Dynamis and Limbus like everyone else.

Drop rates and entry item costs for those two areas have been altered to make everything nice and smooth for all the folks who will be working at acquiring this new gear. Yeah, we know that's vague! But Square-Enix didn't say anything specific about the drop rate changes.

It did, on the other hand, specify that the Timeless Hourglass entry item will drop in cost from 1,000,000 gil to 500,00, and the Cosmo-Cleanse will drop from 30,000 to 15,000. That's half off! Nice.

[Via WarCry]

Tags: blue-mage, corsair, cosmo-cleanse, dynamis, ffxi, final-fantasy-xi, gear, jobs, limbus, patch, puppetmaster, relic, relic-gear, se, september, sets, square-enix, squeenix, timeless-hourglass, update

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Arkanaloth said on 11:09AM 8-05-2008

the art direction of FFXI has always been pretty good.. but I could never go back to it... As I often tell people: I miss the world, not the game.

Iconic said on 3:14PM 8-05-2008

Just to give people an idea of the glacial pace that S-E works at:

These three jobs were part of the Treasures of Aht Uhrgan expansion, which launched in April of 2006. Players of these three jobs have been playing for the past two years without access to this high end job specific equipment.

Wjowski said on 9:02PM 8-05-2008

Proof that high-end graphics don't necessarily make for an aesthetically pleasing MMO. FFXI is nearing 7 years old and it still looks ten times more colorful, vibrant, and alive than more current games like Vanguard and EQ2.