Vanadoubt 2 Hope You Like Fishing

What do you have to do for the "Send off Lost chocobo" quest?

Also I'm confused about killing stuff in "The Gathering Storm", wasn't that a special Assault only available to people attending those old JP FFXI events in japan?


Edit:
Nope, can buy the item to entry with 10 login points.

This I would presume?

Although it says "send off", so idk.


One of the chocobo handlers will say theres a lost chocobo and ask if you can return them to their home stables. I remember back in the day people would do this for a free bird ride when rentals were over 10k.

What does the (VB) and (VBD) mean on objectives? Does VBD mean daily?

The dailies dont look that terrible.
Ambu related dailies:
Clear an Ambu x1
Heal 300+ x3
Deal 500+ thunder dmg x1
WS 5x
Can probably be cleared somewhat quick in a group on v2 with everyone on jobs can heal, TP relatively quick and do thunder dmg (blu or rdm). 20 minutes travel prep and clear. 50 pts

Galka sausage, 15 minutes (start quest, buy sheep meat from vendor, go to ???, finish), F for those servers that dont have control of zulkheim

Monster Rearing 5 min (4 of it is waiting for the garden to load)

Campaign Ops variable depending whats available, I dont remember much about campaign ops from back in the day, and I never even did it on my newer chars.

Gathering Storm 10 min (incl travel). Seems like an easy 30 though. I dont think it will be party friendly, depending how many mobs spawn in total.

Incursion 10 min, you only need to kill one of the NM's, not including Bramk. Worth 30


most likely. VBD are dailies, VB are the single use

Did the gathering storm and Fire 1 kills all monsters, they don't aggro unfortunately. Not more than about 10-15 monsters are alive at a time, kill them and they respawn. After killing 40 (the target for ROE), I had 1 min left (5min total). To enter, buy Training Grounds Key for 10 login points, use the actual item outside the runic seal to give you a temp item, then you can take party in.

I've never done monster rearing a day in my life, any tips?

The problem with this is that you need 3 people to enter, alas.

Lost Chocobo (sandy)

I think.... this may be worse than round 1, but I'm really not sure. I wouldn't do any of this. Infailsion and sandbaguscade dailies

Well, at least they didn't set the goal at 16 million again

*Cracks whip* Regardless, you need to win anyway so hop to.

Significantly ahead of last times first update.

Round 1 was 20k/4m
This time it's already 200k/4m

And Significantly ahead of the curve, need 43k per update, that's 5 fold already.

You'll need some amount of progress in your Mog Garden to unlock monster rearing, but once you do you're basically done. Check your monster (I think you automatically get a baby sheep to start with) and choose one of the interaction options. It doesn't matter which unless you want the monster to like you; I think the sheep wants to be petted. During the monster rearing campaign, I'm not sure you're even able to upset your pets anyway.


40 kills in 5 minutes with non-aggressive mobs is a pretty tight window. It sounds like total kills are per instance rather than per person, so party might be better. Take low-delay melees or fast casting single-target mages; not suitable for AoE specialists.

To be fair, it is a wider variety of content that many people mentioned they would rather with a difference of daily content vs the whole time period content seemingly. It may still fall into the category of nonsense but its realistically what many people wanted. Maybe not "specifically" what people wanted... but they were never going to make it involve only content that people wanted to spend their time doing like ody and sortie these days... they were dreamin if they thought so. IMO it is better simply because its a wider variety of content and at least it is now accompanied by a reward we have never received before as a playerbase, a new campaign for actually relevant content.

Avoid Windurst, to or from. To Jueno is the shortest amount time. A Chocobo wand gives you 30 minutes extra riding time if equipped before getting the quest. Ride into the zone of where you are supposed to deliver the chocobo (do not dismount) to complete the quest.

http://www.mithrapride.org/vana_time/chocoracetable.html list all of the routes and when they are available.

Daily objective wise? I think it's the same amount as round1 for the same plaudit each. So in this regard yeah, I'd dare to say this is worse than Round 1

But we have way more options for the one-time ones, which sorta compensates and means you're not forced to do every daily objective every day, I think?


Plus the rewards are nice and the goal is in the right place.
I still think there should be at least a couple more daily objectives, but w/e

Kills count is group wide, so group friendly. Firaga and\or Subduction both work well here. Mobs are generally close enough to kill 2~3 at a time. Hitting 40 kills is really easy solo. Did this as RDM\BLM without using a recast set.

Splitting Heirs did not count for the campaign objective for me. FYI.

I think it's much better than round 1. It encourages you to do content that is relaxing and shows the game is more than looping Sortie every day and crying that V25 is too hard. Experiencing a wider variety of what's in the game is a good way to enjoy yourself.

If your only goal is to get the plaudits for the sake of getting the plaudits and you're inconvenienced by having to play the game, then yea, it's more hassle.

Water Damage 500 is actually Thunder like the description says, not water

100% better. I said it before and I'll say it again, I love the idea of these RoE that have you going out into the world and doing ***again instead of standing in town.

Splitting Heirs doesnt award Allied Notes though, which are what the objective tracks.

I'll say it's less obnoxious than it was, but more tedious

If that makes sense. A lot of simple brainless menial fetch quest tasks instead of get on rdm and sandbaguscade.

I'm with Thorny on this. FFXI has all sorts of neat content that's been abandoned by players just because it doesn't offer rewards that are relevant to the current endgame. Here's our excuse to break away from the grind and try some things we never would have done otherwise.

Objectives reset at jp midnight and some of them are different now.

And if you didn't do the first set, you still have those and don't seem to get the new set.

Ah, right, from the update notes
"Any incomplete daily objectives will now remain until 7:59 a.m. (PDT) /2:59 p.m. (GMT) / 3:59 p.m. (BST) on the day of your next login following the day they are received.
* Completed daily objectives will be updated at 8:00 a.m. (PDT) /3:00 p.m. (GMT) / 4:00 p.m. (BST) on the day of their completion."

That just sounds like "if you miss a day, you lose those points" with extra steps. You never get two days at once, so if you miss a day, you lose the last day of the event.

Nah, it leaves the old and adds the new, they overlap for 1 day, I think

I just noticed there is a live tally (or perhaps daily tally) for the overall plaudits goal: http://www.playonline.com/ff11/vanabout/

4% there after 7.5hours (until 30MAY)