ToAU update

[ziphor]

new announcement at the playonline site.

New Adventures in Aht Urhgan (03/28/2006)Experience a wealth of new areas, missions, and quests with the FINAL FANTASY XI Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion disc!

-New Areas
The number of new areas will be comparable to that of past expansions, but the formidable monsters at each location will try your courage and adventuring spirit like never before!

-New Missions
Players can experience the main story of Treasures of Aht Urhgan by playing through the new missions. Meet new characters and unexpected guests as you learn the secrets of the Aht Urhgan Empire!

We have already announced that players can reach the Empire of Aht Urhgan by ship from Mhaura, but please keep in mind that certain requirements must be fulfilled before the player is allowed to travel to the Near East.

-New Quests
The new jobs Blue Mage, Corsair, and Puppetmaster can only be unlocked through the completion of certain quests. We hope that you enjoy finding and experiencing this new content!

The new quests do not stop there, either--there are a host of adventures waiting for the eager player in Aht Urhgan!

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/060328.html

 

[Brin]

The new jobs Blue Mage, Corsair, and Puppetmaster can only be unlocked through the completion of certain quests. We hope that you enjoy finding and experiencing this new content!

If certain quests = Fellowship quests....i'm gonna laugh my ass off. Fellowship affinity maxed out ftw!

 

[Tiael]

Doubt that, certain quests only probably means the job quests.

 

[Brin]

Perhaps.....but one can never quite be so sure what SE has up their sleave.

 

[Tiael]

SE wouldn't be that stupid to make the new jobs only available thru a series of quest by lvling your npc. And considering the fact 360 FFXI is coming the same time as ToAU, which means new players, SE wouldn't make it where they need to get their max NPC affinity, and have their NPC at 55-60 before they can do a lvl 30 cap job quest.

 

[Skaw]

Doubt that, certain quests only probably means the job quests.

Lure of the Wildcat is an NPC hide-and-seek quest in which you get invitational cards for Salaheem's Sentinels, one of the big key parts of the AU Empire. I'm putting my money on those 4 quests(1 for each city) being the prerequisite.

The Job quests will most likely require going to Aht'Urghan. Atleast Puppet Master and Blue Mage anyway, so saying that they are the prerequisites are kinda dumb. You don't need to do Ninja and Samurai to experience Zilart. Infact, you can't, as both require venturing to Norg.

They did mention that people with NPCs will get more enjoyment out of Aht Urghan, but they were most likely hinting towards the solo-content, or perhaps the Assault missions. Notice they have 3 player and 6 player modes? 3 Player would mean a party of you and 2 others with your Fellowship NPCs.

 

[Tiael]

I never said they were the prereqs for going to Aht Urhgan, I said that most likely the certain quests to enjoy the new jobs, as in unlock and play them, are going to be job quests like all other adv jobs have you do to unlock it. As in responding to Trizzip's post:

The new jobs Blue Mage, Corsair, and Puppetmaster can only be unlocked through the completion of certain quests. We hope that you enjoy finding and experiencing this new content!

If certain quests = Fellowship quests....i'm gonna laugh my ass off. Fellowship affinity maxed out ftw!

As in this

 

[Skaw]

Yeah, sorry, kinda busy. Thought the quote was about the requirements to go to Al Zhabi, not about the jobs.

But yeah, ofcourse they're going to be quest-unlocked. RoZ didn't add any new basic jobs, just advanced ones.

 

[Tyrath]

If certain quests = Fellowship quests....i'm gonna laugh my ass off. Fellowship affinity maxed out ftw!

Even SE doesnt do stupid shit like -that-.

 

[Tiael]

Not to mention SE said the new jobs will basically be the only thing for new players/low lvls, and everything else about ToAU will focus more on high end. And having to have max npc affinity, and capped NPC(for the most part) doesn't scream low lvl to me, specially considering the fact the job quest(s) will be lvl 30 to start(like all past job quests), and that's the lvl your NPC starts out at.

 

[Brin]

lol, I just got served.

 

[Rones]

I think fellowship was just a beta test for the puppet master job. I wouldn't be surprised if they stop updating fellowship now that they got the new job announced.

 

[Brin]

I think fellowship was just a beta test for the puppet master job. I wouldn't be surprised if they stop updating fellowship now that they got the new job announced.

Dont say such things Rones! ; ;

That would suck so bad if Fellowship was discontinued. Fellowship is one of the greatest things I've gotten to do in this game, imo. RP is even greater, but that really isnt SE implemented so......feh.

 

[ziphor]

i actually really liked fellowship...

rones reallllllly hit that on the head(mabey)- nice thinking!