Blitz burly bovines before bovines blitz beneficiados

by Seraphina Brennan Sep 18th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Consoles, Humor

All of our MMOs sometimes have odd festivals, but they don't get odder than Final Fantasy XI's annual Buffalo Blitz. Each year during this festival buffalo are released into Ronfaure, Sarutabaruta, and Gustaberg, the starting areas outside of each city, and players must help the mog house moogles in wrangling them up!

Wrangling one of the herds of buffalo is as easy (or as complicated) as approaching a herd and seeing how they react to you. Use their behavior to lead them into one of the moogles stationed in the zone and claim some of the event rewards! It's silly, and it's fun, and it gets you stuff. What's not to like about that?

This year's Buffalo Blitz starts on September 25th, but the buffalo will run off into the sunset on October 5th.

Tags: bovine, buffalo-blitz-2009, buffalo-wrangling, event, ffxi, final-fantasy-xi, rewards, square-enix