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		<title>PM6-4 redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 19:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: I should really start posting more often nowadays) Last monday, for one of my group, I re-did one of the hardest missions of the whole Chains of Promathia expansion: PM6-4, better known as &#8220;One to be Feared&#8221;. I was &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2008/05/pm6-4-redux">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Note: I should <em>really</em> start posting more often nowadays)</p>
<p>Last monday, for one of my group, I re-did one of the hardest missions of the whole <em>Chains of Promathia</em> expansion: PM6-4, better known as <a title="One to be Feared" href="http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Promathia_Mission_6-4">&#8220;One to be Feared&#8221;</a>. I was looking forward to redoing it, mainly because I wanted to see if the adjustments that came after I finished the expansion (Sentinel modification, shield blocks modification, etc.) made the job easier.</p>
<p>The first attempt was embarassing, because we all died in the supposedly &#8220;easy&#8221; stage, fighting the five mammets. We redid it using the so-called &#8220;super tank&#8221; method (extremely boring on my part, sadly) and we moved on to do a dry run (no items, no two-hour abilities) on Omega and Ultima. We got Omega down to around 40% before it killed us. I noticed that the new abilities helped a lot, but it was still hard, and worse, I had become very rusty on such difficult fights.</p>
<p>The third time was our winning run, and went well. Both the party and I got into the right mindset and with two more or less controlled wipes, and the use of <a title="CCB Polymer Pump" href="http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/CCB_Polymer_Pump">CCB Polymer pumps</a>, we were able to achieve victory. It was even fun&#8230; more fun than the <!--intlink id="380" type="post" text="watered-down <i>Wings of the Goddess missions&#8221;&#8211;> offered so far. I hope that the new update (scheduled for mid-June) will bring at least half as that fun.</p>
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		<title>Back, and movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a month or so. Quite a long time, considering I used to write at least once per week. The reasons are mainly two: first of all, my work schedule has taken a turn for the &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2008/03/back-and-movies">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a month or so. Quite a long time, considering I used to write at least once per week. The reasons are mainly two: first of all, my work schedule has taken a turn for the worse, which means I have to do my job a lot harder than before; secondly, there wasn&#8217;t much interesting stuff to report.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s resume from the hiatus by writing about my latest Final Fantasy XI session. Given that Square Enix didn&#8217;t release a lot of content for the recent <em>Wings of the Goddess</em> update, I did the few (four) quests in total in one day. Although the story was quite interesting, they were <em>far</em> too easy. I could have done them alone, probably. I wonder, what was the point of waiting four months for that? At least some form of challenge would be appreciated.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to write much about the quests themselves, because my brother has done a good job at putting everything together in a single movie. You&#8217;ll find the streaming version below (direct link once I manage to get it):</p>
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		<title>FFXI-URUSHI-Chaos: 01-02-03</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a change, my brother has found a place (DLsite.com) that sells dojinshi even to non-Japanese people, and also found three non-hentai Final Fantasy XI dojins, which I&#8217;m going to cover in this post. For reference, they are available with &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2008/01/ffxi-urushi-chaos-01-02-03">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a change, my brother has found a place (DLsite.com) that sells <em>dojinshi</em> even to non-Japanese people, and also found three non-hentai <em>Final Fantasy XI</em> dojins, which I&#8217;m going to cover in this post. For reference, they are available with these prices:</p>
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<li><a href="http://eng.dlsite.com/work/=/product_id/RE036317" title="Chaos:01">FFXI-URUSHI-Chaos: 01</a> &#8211; ¥  735;</li>
<li><a href="http://eng.dlsite.com/work/=/product_id/RE036318" title="Chaos: 02">FFXI-URUSHI-Chaos: 02</a> &#8211; ¥ 735;</li>
<li><a href="http://eng.dlsite.com/work/=/product_id/RE036320" title="Chaos:03">FFXI-URUSHI-Chaos:03</a> &#8211; ¥ 945.</li>
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The dojins are by a circle/person known as <a href="http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/t-dash/" title="TWO-DASH homepage">TWO-DASH</a>, and I admit I had not heard the name before. Assured that they didn&#8217;t contain adult-only material, I took a look at the three volumes which my brother bought.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_1.png?cda6c1" title="First page of Chaos: 01"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_1.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="First page of Chaos: 01" class="imageframe" rel="lightbox" align="left" height="260" width="183" /></a><em>Chaos:01</em> is the oldest of the bunch, and it shows. The style is very nice but very rough, almost as if the pencil wasn&#8217;t completely erased when ink was put on. In any case, it&#8217;s aestethically pleasing. The story (as the dojin titles may hint at) revolves around the very famous Dark Knight flag quest, <a href="http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Blade_of_Darkness" title="Quest description on FFXIclopedia">Blade of Darkness</a>. In this case a Hume named as Yui Sofianull which happens, during the course of an investigation in Palborough Mines, to run into Zeid, the last Dark Knight remained after the Great War. What follows is basically a recap of the same quest, with Zeid giving Yui the Chaosbringer. There are some differences, in the sense that the author has brought the &#8220;Dark Knight feeds on negative emotions&#8221; paradigm to the extreme, as Yui goes berserk and slays a lot of people, including her Elvaan Paladin partner, who is shown in the picture on the left. After that, she starts traveling around Vana&#8217;diel.</p>
<p>For being a dojin, the gratuitous moments are quite minimal, which is refreshing and welcome at the same time. Story-wise, save for the dramatic events near the end, it is pretty easy to follow if you have played FFXI. Also, aside Zeid, Volker also appears as a guest in some scenes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_2.png?cda6c1" title="Bastok 2-3: complete (more or less…)"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_2.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="Bastok 2-3: complete (more or less…)" class="imageframe" align="right" height="240" width="97" /></a>The second dojin, <em>Chaos: 02</em>, appeared roughly a year after the first. In this case we see that the author&#8217;s style has quite matured, and there&#8217;s no longer that feeling of &#8220;being raw&#8221;: in general everything is much cleaner. The picture on the right already gives the story of the second volume away: it&#8217;s about mission 2-3, better known as &#8220;the dragon&#8221; among FFXI players. The plot shows Yui, still heavily tormented by the massacre she did in the previous volume, getting in touch with a group of Tarutarus and an Elvaan thief. The progression of the mission isn&#8217;t really like in the game (there is a traitorous Mithra involved) but the outcome is the same, and even in this case Yui manages to go berserk and slay the dragon as shown (technically she couldn&#8217;t wear Artifact Armor, but that is minor). The dojin ends shortly after that, with a &#8220;To be continued&#8221;.</p>
<p>Unlike the first dojin, there are more risque scenes (nothing too much, luckily), and again we see some important characters in the FFXI universe such as Nanaa Mihgo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_3.png?cda6c1" title="Souleater Freezebite(?)"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chaos_3.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="Souleater Freezebite(?)" class="imageframe" align="left" height="240" width="170" /></a>The third and last dojin for now is the most recent (2006) and the one with the best art of the bunch (not too surprisingly). It is also the one with most risque scenes (also not too many). The story here seems original, and involves Yui and a new partner, aided by a White Mage and a Beastmaster, looking up a Weapon in Delkfutt&#8217;s Tower (which ends smashed like in the picture). In the end, Yui gets detained by the Jeuno palace guards and the story is again continued on the next volume (which sadly isn&#8217;t out yet).</p>
<p>What to say on these three dojins? I&#8217;m quite pleased overall, both because they aren&#8217;t H and because they talk  about FFXI. It is a plus of course that it is a coherent story instead of small, unrelated tales like some of the (officially licensed) FFXI manga and they&#8217;re quite recommended (also given that they&#8217;re not expensive at all).</p>
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		<title>Wings of the Goddess &#8220;opening&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the utter lack of content in Wings of the Goddess my brother has managed to create a movie clip (inspired by the opening of Wild ARMs The Vth Vanguard). You can view it below (streaming) or obtain a higher &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/12/wings-of-the-goddess-opening">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite the utter lack of content in <em>Wings of the Goddess</em> my brother has managed to create a movie clip (inspired by the opening of <em>Wild ARMs The Vth Vanguard</em>). You can view it below (streaming) or  obtain a <a href="http://files.filefront.com/wotgwmv/;9247703;/fileinfo.html" title="High quality version of the movie">higher quality version</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/12/wings-of-the-goddess-opening"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>(apologies for the lack of updates. I&#8217;ve been quite busy. I will probably post more in during the Christmas holidays)</p>
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		<title>Dancer&#8230; dancing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m waiting for KDE 4.0 to compile, I just wanted to share a small clip of my brother&#8217;s character doing the Drain Samba animation. A bit of background: he has leveled Dancer up to level 7, and now he &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/12/dancer-dancing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I&#8217;m waiting for KDE 4.0 to compile, I just wanted to share a small clip of my brother&#8217;s character doing the Drain Samba animation. A bit of background: he has leveled Dancer up to level 7, and now he stopped because there is no artifact armor available yet (probably out in February) and because he&#8217;s also leveling another job, monk. Given how people rushed to get Dancer to 75 in less than a week (comments are left to the reader) it is a nice change.</p>
<p>In any case, here I present the animation. I feel Square Enix has put a lot of &#8220;fan service&#8221; in it, like with the Mithra race itself.</p>
<p align="center"> <script src="https://media.dreamhost.com/ufo.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<p id="mithra_dance_high.flv"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</p>
<p><script type="text/javascript">   var FO = { movie:"https://media.dreamhost.com/mediaplayer.swf",width:"480",height:"360",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#FFFFFF",              flashvars:"file=http://www.dennogumi.org/media/mithra_dance_high.flv" }; UFO.create(FO,"mithra_dance_high.flv"); </script></p>
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		<title>Wings of the Goddess &#8211; first impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally my copy of Wings of the Goddess has arrived. It was just a matter of putting the DVD in the drive and let install the measly 350+ Mb of update (rather low for a DVD). As usual, Square Enix&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/11/wings-of-the-goddess-first-impressions">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-14-56-28-86.png?cda6c1" class="shutter" title="WotG title screen"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-14-56-28-86.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="WotG title screen" class="imageframe" height="150" width="200" /></a></p>
<p>Finally my copy of <em>Wings of the Goddess</em> has arrived. It was just a matter of putting the DVD in the drive and let install the measly 350+ Mb of update (rather low for a DVD). As usual, Square Enix&#8217;s installation program is greedy with regards to information. Once it was installed, I enabled the expansion in PlayOnline and was good to go (save a 20,000+ file check).</p>
<p><span id="more-343"></span> Let me start by saying that I didn&#8217;t see much of the expansion. I did it purposefully, as I postponed exploring to Wednesday, when I&#8217;ll gather my group and go around (one member has not the expansion yet: he will get it on Monday if all goes well).</p>
<p>For now I  started by &#8220;unlocking&#8221; (i.e., enabling the passage from the future to the past) some Cavernous Maws (namely the ones in Rolanberry Fields, Batallia Downs and Sauromugue Champaign) and wandered around in the areas around Jeuno (that&#8217;s where you start &#8211; Jeuno itself is not accessible, though).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-46-18-60.png?cda6c1" title="A pixie"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-46-18-60.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="A pixie" class="imageframe imgalignleft" align="left" height="150" width="200" /></a> With each new expansion, new monsters appear. In this case you see a Pixie on the left. Pixies are neutral enemies that generally do not attack you and in some occasions they can even heal you (Cure IV) or give you a raise (Raise III) if you&#8217;re knocked out. From what I have read pixies have a &#8220;hate&#8221; system like fomors or apkallus, meaning the more you kill them, the more they get hostile towards you. Luckily you can lower your &#8220;hate&#8221; by doing a certain action in the past. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, I won&#8217;t be touching them (what kind of Paladin would I be?).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-46-28-24.png?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="A run through Batallia Downs"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-46-28-24.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="A run through Batallia Downs" class="imageframe" align="right" height="150" width="200" /></a>Of course there aren&#8217;t just enemies, but also scenery. In this picture I&#8217;m running through the Batallia Downs of the Crystal War time. As you can see, even though the forest has been already cut down (to build fortifications against the Shadow Lord&#8217;s armies) the ramparts and everything seems to be in top shape (well, of course: they&#8217;re still battling).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-18-04-44-79.png?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="A strange comet in the sky"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-18-04-44-79.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="A strange comet in the sky" class="imageframe" align="left" height="150" width="200" /></a>Another &#8220;strange&#8221; phenomenon is the comet in the sky, highlighted already by the trailer. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s related to the Shadow Lord himself (I doubt it: when he resurrected there was no such thing) or to the entities which brought me (and countless other players) in past Vana&#8217;diel. I guess it will be explained through time.</p>
<p>Last but not least, two images from a rampart in Sauromugue Champaign and the interior of Garlaige Citadel, a well-built fortification back then and not the ruined, undead-infested  place of modern day Vana&#8217;diel:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-59-14-28.png?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="A look down the ramparts"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-17-59-14-28.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="A look down the ramparts" class="imageframe imgaligncenter" height="150" width="200" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-18-10-30-96.png?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="Garlaige Citadel during the Crystal War"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-30-18-10-30-96.thumbnail.png?cda6c1" alt="Garlaige Citadel during the Crystal War" class="imageframe imgaligncenter" height="150" width="200" /></a></p>
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		<title>Cavernous Maws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the new version update, these strange portals have been appearing throughout Vana&#8217;diel. They&#8217;re supposedly the gateways to the past, but since I don&#8217;t have Wings of the Goddess yet I can&#8217;t really see what will they do. Nevertheless, I &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/11/cavernous-maws">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the new version update, these strange portals have been appearing throughout Vana&#8217;diel. They&#8217;re supposedly the gateways to the past, but since I don&#8217;t have <em>Wings of the Goddess</em> yet I can&#8217;t really see what will they do. Nevertheless, I was curious and went to take a look at them.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re <strong>huge. </strong>I estimate at least twice the height of my character. For those curious, here are two photos (one is of my brother&#8217;s character, the other is mine):</p>
<div><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-20-20-52-51-38.jpg?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="Me near the maw"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-20-20-52-51-38.thumbnail.jpg?cda6c1" alt="Me near the maw" class="imageframe" height="150" width="200" /></a><a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-20-16-49-42-65.jpg?cda6c1" class="thickbox" title="My brother doesn’t understand what these are for"><img src="http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/pol-2007-11-20-16-49-42-65.thumbnail.jpg?cda6c1" alt="My brother doesn’t understand what these are for" class="imageframe" height="150" width="200" /></a></div>
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		<title>Final Fantasy XI windowed mode</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so, with yesterday&#8217;s update, FFXI has gained a windowed mode. This has been a much-requested feature from the playerbase, especially from people who didn&#8217;t want to use the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; windower. However, being the first major touch to the rendering &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/11/final-fantasy-xi-windowed-mode">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And so, with <a href="http://www.playonline.com/pcd/update/ff11us/20071120wwnX41/detail.html" title="FINAL FANTASY XI Update">yesterday&#8217;s update</a>, FFXI has gained a windowed mode. This has been a much-requested feature from the playerbase, especially from people who didn&#8217;t want to use the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; windower.</p>
<p>However, being the first major touch to the rendering engine, I think something got broken along the way. Mainly, I&#8217;m talking about a 20% performance drop of the engine (which didn&#8217;t shine before, but that&#8217;s another matter).</p>
<p><span id="more-338"></span>My tests have been done on two computers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Intel Core 2 Duo 6600, 1 Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7950GTX: a <strong>huge</strong> performance drop, which was strongly reduced by updating the video drivers. Now it&#8217;s about 10% slower than pre-windowed mode adjustments;</li>
<li>AMD Thunderbird 2100+, NVIDIA  Ge Force 6600,  1  Gb RAM:  a performance <strong>increase</strong>, at least 10% more.</li>
</ul>
<p>So what  is to be gathered from this? By updating the codebase, which is stale and rather old, the developer team has probably broken something along the way. I expect a fix very soon, though.</p>
<p>Aside that, I like the new windowed mode. When the window goes out of focus, music stops, which is rather good when you&#8217;re idling in Aht Urghan Whitegate (especially if you&#8217;re looking for party the music can really get on your nerves).  Even with the issues, I would prefer it to the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; windower for a series of reasons, mainly because the developers inject code into the POL.exe executable and they won&#8217;t release the source.</p>
<p>This poses a security risk, since you don&#8217;t really know what the unofficial windower is doing. Add the fact that one of the people in the windower team {{post id=&#8221;idiocy-at-its-maximum&#8221; text=&#8221;has been involved in the Wiki fiasco&#8221;}}, and you have very good reasons for not using it.</p>
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		<title>Wings of the Goddess &#8211; the details emerge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so I&#8217;m reading that the FFXI Fan Festival has kicked off yesterday (I wish I could have been there). Naturally, reports have been flowing. The FFXI Encyclopedia has a good report of what has been said so far. 1up, &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/11/wings-of-the-goddess-the-details-emerge">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And so I&#8217;m reading that the FFXI Fan Festival has kicked off yesterday (I wish I could have been there). Naturally, reports have been flowing. The <a href="http://www.ffxiclopedia.org" title="FFXI Encylopedia">FFXI Encyclopedia</a> has a good report of what has been said so far. 1up, the online branch of EGM, has also covered the event, but the article is only focusing on the new jobs (talk about explaining something no one else will ask&#8230; not to mention the attitude of that &#8220;journalist&#8221;).</p>
<p>Some random thoughts:</p>
<ul>
<li>A lot of people have been asking about a &#8220;new tank&#8221;. Personally I think Square Enix will never create a new one, because otherwise people will just stick the Ninja subjob to it, while they don&#8217;t seem to keen on &#8220;uniforming&#8221; things;</li>
<li>Dancer seems a technical job. Whether the playerbase will try to screw it up (like they did with the Bard) or not remains to be seen. It is certainly interesting to have a healer/enfeebler who uses TP;</li>
<li>I haven&#8217;t seen anything of the Scholar (save a &#8211; rather useless &#8211; video where two bash a bee with a dancer), especially regarding abilities and spells;</li>
<li><strong>No one</strong> seems to have asked anything about the missions. The first ones in <em>Treasures of Aht Urghan</em> were embarassing to say the least (little content, no player action, artificially lengthened), so I would hope the developers have learnt from that.</li>
</ul>
<p>The people at Square Enix said that FFXI is not finishing with <em>Wings of the Goddess</em>. I wonder if it is true: the codebase is many years old and I&#8217;m unsure of how much this MMORPG  will be profitable for them in the next years.</p>
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		<title>New Wings of the Goddess trailer</title>
		<link>http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/09/new-wings-of-the-goddess-trailer</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most people know already, Square Enix has put a new trailer of Wings of the Goddess on their web page, which has been updated as well. Unlike Treasures of Aht Urghan, it looks that story-driven content will be more &#8230; <a href="http://www.dennogumi.org/2007/09/new-wings-of-the-goddess-trailer">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As most people know already, Square Enix has put a <a href="http://www.playonline.com/ff11/altana/asx/US_HD.asx" title="Trailer (HD version)">new trailer of <em>Wings of the Goddess</em></a> on their web page, <a href="http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/altana/index.html" title="Wings of the Goddess official page">which has been updated as well</a>. Unlike <em>Treasures of Aht Urghan</em>, it looks that story-driven content will be more present. Also, the trailer shows much more of the story than ToAU&#8217;s (and apparently, new weapon skills!): I hope it is an indication that Square Enix has learnt from the problems of the previous expansions.</p>
<p>A new job has also been announced, <a href="http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Image:TGS_newjob_01.jpg" title="Photo of the Dancer (hosted on FFXIclopedia)">the Dancer</a>. I doubt I&#8217;ll be leveling it, though. Generally speaking, the trailer has piqued my interest and I look forward to seeing the new expansion (out on November 20th).</p>
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