Crystalline Prophecy

The first installment of three new add-on scenarios, entitled "A Crystalline Prophecy – Ode of Life Bestowing" will be available for advance purchase through PlayOnline starting from March 23, 2009.
(*Players purchasing the scenario will receive access to the in-game content upon the release of the next FINAL FANTASY XI version update, scheduled for early April.)

In honor of this occasion, the official site for "A Crystalline Prophecy" has been updated with the latest news. Head on over to read all the exciting details!
You also won't want to miss the new promotional trailer, scheduled for release in the coming days, so keep watching this space!

Click here to access the official site.

I get the feeling the customisable body pieces are a reward for completing the expansion like CoP rings, so chances are it'll be a pick-one-of-three one-off (except you can change it later if you really want lol) kind of deal. Could be awesome, could be junk (considering alot of body pieces have pretty major chunks of stats on, would be hard to make something impressive that isn't broken).

This new storyline to follow (I think they're releasing it all at once, unlike before...not too sure about that though) along with new WoTG quests and such will have me with a lot of new stuff to do, so this update is looking promising already. Not to mention bigger gobbiebags and they probably still have alot more to announce before the update, it's looking to be a good one.

9.99 euros or £7.99 vs $9.99 is a bit unfair on European players though, having us pay more for the same content ftl. But then again I think we have to pay more for subscription to the game itself, so nothing new here.

And since when was the euro worth more than the pound?
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(ok, it's not. But they're almost equal now which is still worrying since 1 Euro used to = £0.8)


In other news I've been skilling staff in order to get more blue numbers, and it's around 180-something now. Yet to learn a good Weapon Skill.


I decided to wander out of the Boyahda Tree via the infamous Dragons Aery, since I'd never been in there and as such couldn't /search the area. Fafnir's room was smaller and prettier than expected.

Sky was cancelled because barely anyone showed up and nobody knew what needed doing. Nem is trying to find a way to use up our Kirin sets, we may have to bribe other Linkshells to help...it's not looking too pretty at the moment, we just want done with it I suppose. Instead I went to learn about MMM stuff with one of the newer members, Jarek. I now know more than nothing about MMM! We did a marble run, which involves one person gimping all the mobs by entering as a level 1 job, and a high level person butchering all the weak mobs. After that, we did a proper level 75 run which we duoed as DRG/whm and WAR/dnc. It was rough at the start, because Kraken AoEs hurt, and they hit pretty hard as well. It didn't help that I developed a mysterious lag at that point. But after those we had a bunch of scorps which hit like girls and were easy to kill. Finished with just under 15 mins left, so not much of a challenge.

I had enough marbles to get an eyepatch, but I have enough hats already, and I better start saving for some of the runes because they're really expensive.