Absolute madness.

Well, I've been busy with work for the past few days, but things are beggining to let up, so I thought I'd log on for a bit when this caught my eye: the announcement of the Mog Bonanza.

They'd mentioned something about this previously, but I'd written it off as an insane idea and never expected SE to follow through. It seems that they did. It's going to be a lottery, where players (level 5 and up, so plenty of opportunity for RMT to level a horde of mules in time for the event) can buy up to 10 'marbles' each, which cost 1k and you need to choose 5 numbers for each one, and duplicates are possible. Now, you can win prizes that get more awesome the more numbers you match up to the winning number, from 1 to all five. Prizes are ranked as such:

Rank 1 prize list
100 million gil (what the shit?!)


Dalmatica +1 / Blood Scale Mail
Kaiser Cuirass / Armada Hauberk
Hecatomb Harness +1 / Shura Togi +1
Ares's Cuirass / Skadi's Cuirie
Usukane Haramaki / Marduk's Jubbah
Morrigan's Robe / Valkyrie's Breastplate
Valkyrie's Coat / Ridill
Kraken Club / Hofud
Futsuno Mitama / Valkyrie's Fork

Rank2
10 million gil / Black Belt
Homam Corazza / Nashira Manteel
Melee Crown / Sorcerer's Petas
Duelist's Chapeau / Abyss Burgeonet
Saotome Kabuto / Wyrm Armet
Summoner's Horn / Warrior's Lorica
Valor Surcoat / Scout's Jerkin
Cleric's Mitts / Assassin's Armlets
Monster Gloves / Koga Tekko
Bard's Cannions / Velocious Belt

Rank3
1 million gil / Melee Cyclas
Cleric's Briault / Sorcerer's Coat
Duelist's Tabard / Abyss Cuirass
Bard's Jstcorp / Saotome Domaru
Koga Chainmail / Wyrm Mail
Summoner's Horn / Warrior's Lorica
Assassin's Armlets / Valor Breeches
Monster Gaiters / Scout's Socks
Homam Cosciales / Nashira Seraweels
Hauteclaire / Seveneyes

Rank 4
100,000 gil / Damascus Ingot
Khroma Ore / Damascene Cloth
Behemoth Hide / Moldavite Earring
Rain Hat / Empress Hairpin
Bounding Boots / Matron's Knife

Rank 5
Miratete's Memoirs (lol)

Had this surfaced on April 1st, it would have been a pretty epic April fools' joke, I still find Rank 1 pretty hard to believe (and Rank 2 is pretty wtfsexy as well), in spite of how unlikely winning it is going to be. Now, implications of this: as already noted, there's the large chance of a vast number of RMT accounts participating (although they may not survive the usual monthly round of bannings, I don't think they're stupid enough to use fishbots for the lottery) also, it's almost guaranteed that a total idiot is going to win something big and cause me to rage and suffocate them with my 30 pages of Miratete's Memoirs. Sadly, with the level of deflation there is now, the gil rewards pretty much outshine Rank 1 and 2 items (with the exception of maybe Odin drops, but they probably have better alternatives.


Anyway, now that's destroyed any potential intrest in my shenanigans I'll get to it. It's mercifully short anyway since I've not been on much.


Messing around waiting for sky to start, I managed to get a few weapon skill points on my Dissector, another level in shield (180) and another parrying (127) and two in club (202) in about 10 minutes, whereas my last trip to the Boyahda Tree and an hour long skillup session got me literally nothing...

Also, Dynamis-San d'Oria. 18 pieces of AF dropped, one of which was RDM feet but that went to some third-rate RDM so meh. It's insane how contested RDM AF is, so it looks like I'll be waiting a long time before I get any. So anyway, 1 RDM, 2 PLD, 1 BRD, 6 WAR, 2 MNK, 1 NIN, 3 DRG, 1 BST and 2 RNG. Quite a lot went to autosort (see: DRG and WAR) but still a decent haul nonetheless. 360 odd coins and 3 100-pieces. Yay.