Dev Tracker - Discussion

There's a new Scroll of Instant Reraise III
A new Synergy Furnace II item
An item called Evanessence, that applies sneak/deo/invis and stacks to 99
An item called Aht Urhgan Whitegate glyphs, that warps you to Whitegate

And a bunch of "Dathaba" weapons that, while in besieged, have DMG+10%, Occasionally Attack Twice, and another stat (Regain +50, Regen +50, Crit +50, etc), akin to the DI weapons

That's it

EDIT: Took some pics

https://imgur.com/a/eMyN8TV

Be patient and let BGWiki people (Funkz) do their thing.

you can log and check.

LUL *** christ. It has assault rank tied to them.

That's just funny. A new player can't even get em. You have to finish all of assault basically.

I tried to do it using POLUtils. I'm still learning how to use it. I did check all four NPCs that sell things for imperial standing. They all sell the same things, either "common items (all ranks)" or "3000-pt items (first leutenant)".

Common items: Scroll of instant reraise III (20 accolades)
Aht Urhgan Whitegate glyph (instant warp to aht urghan) (10 accolades).
Bottle of evanessence: applies deodorize, sneak and invisible.

3000-pt items consist of only weapons that are lackluster but quite powerful during besieged. This is similar to the DI armor. The items available when you select the 3000-point option are:

Dathaba Claws (22166 accolades)
Dathaba Knife (22167 accolades)
" " hanger (22194 accolades)
" " sword (100 " )
" " axe (100 " )
" " voulge (100 " )
" " sickle (20000 " )
" " spear (20000 " )
" " blade (20000 " )
" " tachi (20000 " )
" " wand (20000 " )
" " bow (20000 " )
" " crossbow (20000 " )
" " staff (20000 " )

Clearly there is a mistake here, regarding the cost of accolades for each of these items either being vastly greater or less than what one would expect to cost 3000 imperial accolades.

Aside from this glaring mistake, it also feels incomplete. For one, there are other ranks that aren't listed. If this is similar to DI there should be at least some useful niche gear not restricted to Besieged.

During besieged, all the weapons receive "occasionally attacks twice," a hefty damage increase, as well as unique buffs specific to each weapon, i.e., Dathaba claws: DMG +140; kick attacks + 50; occasionally attacks twice.

I'm waiting (and hoping) for an announcement that this is incomplete and they will be finishing adding other items later.

Based on this... there's still some hope despite the release of stuff this time around being totally lack luster...

The fact that theres still plenty of other ranks (Superior Private > Lance Corporal > Corporal > Sergeant > Sergeant Major > Chief Sergean > Second Lieutenant > First Lieutenant > Captain)...
Means that theres potentially that many more menus to spend currency on in the future.

In typical SE Fashion we're meant to jump in, do the content for currency that has no purpose FOR NOW and hope for the best.

Wait, what? Really? Fenrir got the same first three values (I thought maybe they corresponded to wins or win streaks on armies) and then "(0 accolades)." on all the rest. I was expecting that to be the same and the first three numbers to be different on other servers. Weird stuff going on there.

It sounds like they copy/pasted something from another menu to fill in the english side and they left extra data. I would assume they are all 3000 until proven otherwise.

They also called the currency imperial standing in the update notes, but it's accolades here? Both are already in use elsewhere, good job SE.

They should start using ai for that. Everything would be better than those interns...

Imperial Accolades!

RDM is on...checks notes again...only the club! Weird choice. EDIT: and Bow. Even weirder choice.

But the staff is pretty sweet for some earth crusher and cata. Looks like I'm going to be taking out the trash DRG/WAR.

Also they are alt tagged so get out your mules...so you can do besieged on your alts while doing it on your main...wait a minute? Where is the clear monetization of alt characters!? *fills out a survey*

I do like the reraise 3 scroll. The sneak/invis/deo if it stacks to 99 could be good for sortie.

It's pretty clear they will do another update to this.

They call it "Imperial Standing Accolades" at least once in game, at the NPC:


See, each one was in use ON ITS OWN, but if you put them TOGETHER...

Survey is up

New interview with the big three: Mizuta, Uematsu, and Tanioka is up! Of course its only part 1.

https://we-are-vanadiel.finalfantasyxi.com/post/?id=841

so whats with the difference in cost on the weapons? also, I dont even see the RR3 scroll and the whitegate warp item. Im captain rank.

The non-weapon stuff is in a separate category, Common Items. Think, like, conquest point or imperial standing menus, it's broken out by rank but there's only the one rank plus "everyone" right now.

As for the different cost... it's not. Fenrir has 0 for a lot of those and they definitely don't just give us the weapons for free. Not sure what that's about (if it's not just junk data), but the first three were curiously consistent so that suggest some kind of common source.

Bug report's in but... English localization problems, lol, maybe we'll fix it in three months.

must be a bug then, one of my characters the 4th weapon and lower all cost 0, my other character 5000. both same rank ect
but neither have the RR3 scroll

edit: figured it out, you need the new currency before they show up

This was a good read, fun to hear from the legend himself. That 840,000 yen piano would cost ~5,500 USD!

Big 3 of what?

FFXI's Music Composition team over the years.

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth

Technically it's big 4, but everyone always forgets Anthrax

Damn, they still tour too. Anthrax was my jam, never cared for Metallica or Slayer much.

I just started listening to John Bush-era Anthrax(which I refused to back in the day :|) and it's not bad at all! Not Belladonna, but not bad!

A bit confused with this entry. i thought imperial standing already existed. what new reward currency was added?

it's called Imperial Standing Accolades

no this is not a joke

it's a distinct currency