December 2023 Version Update

I doubt they put the dev effort into it that quickly, it was likely planned out further in advance. Even if they pulled froggies numbers halfway through the month, I'm not sure it'd be enough time to implement/test everything. It was also announced in advance via Freshly Picked, wasn't it?

They probably chose Ambuscade figuring more people could participate and reach the goal as opposed to content requiring a more efficient group or that emphasizes endgame content with a lot of prerequisites. Their mistake was tying it to a stupid mob no one wanted to do.

Naw it's simply a lack of proper carrot. Morons would drag themselves through broken glass for something better than a box of beitetsu and 10k exemplar points.

***is a joke.

Things we do for mommy milkers

I could be completely wrong but as far as I know their "updates" approval process is extremely slow and bureaucratic.

This means that whatever they plan for month "X" is, at least to some degree, ready on month "X-2" to say the least.

This means that 99,9% of this patch was "completed" and sent in for approval way before the frog month, so if they used data from a single month it probably wasn't the frog one.

My longest queue was like 3 min and I'm on Bahamut too.

12pm 575k / 1.6m Where it needs to be at this update

There's about 60 updates, need 267k per update to hit 16m

Only an entire million behind where it needs to be lul

Slightly off-topic, but isn't the Ethereal Greatsword from the 300 plaudit tier visually identical to a weapon dropped by a T3 ZNM?

Even though it seems like we're going to royally fail, if anyone wants to complete it for their personal rewards or whatever, I tested my theory about DRK taking damage and I can take about 6-7k damage in < 30 seconds inside the fight. Depending on your queue times, this is about 1 minute per fight start-to-finish or about ~15 minutes start to finish if you want to zerg the "take damage" objective.

Probably best to wait until nearer to the end of the event so as to not waste your time if the objective would naturally complete itself as you run your regular ambus, but hey it's an option if you want to finish it quickly.

Yes, the Naglering.

I don't know if it's identical, but it's damn close.

They did similar with the Prime scythe and the Enforcer too, although they're very slightly different, but almost identical.

A bunch of non REMA weapons reskinned to red, standard FF11 low effort.

At least primes, malignance gear etc. being a basic colour swap were accompanied by useful stats, what's the point of ethereal weapons as just lockstyle pieces? not like they're master trial weapon lvl cool looking, even ambuscade lockstyle weapons have more individual options.

Most of the ethereal weapon re colours are tied to boring, basic weapon models, and only my personal opinion, but lots of them don't suit being red anyway.

Just want to point out the real goal is actually 24,412,500. 1.6m is just where we get the first consolation prize. So that's, you know. 407k per update, so almost two million off track.

But it's okay, 'cause like, all the weekend warriors will show up Saturday, raring to go. Get us... uh. 350 points apiece. 550 if they do both weekends. That'll put us over the top for sure.

So, 575,150 on day 1. I'm going to assume that everyone who contributed to that target did so by getting all 10 daily objectives and then an average of two and a half out of five long-term objectives, for 175 plaudits each. (Which, if true, means we had approximately 3,287 suckers participants go all in from day 1.)

That means that if the same number of players keep putting in the same amount of effort for the remainder of the campaign, we'll see 2x 575,150 and 12x 328,657 (4/7 of the day one total, for 100 plaudits daily.) That's going to be 5,094,186 plaudits total. So we'll have 19,318,314 left for people on the busier weekends to make up.

So hey, if you only play FFXI on Saturday and Sunday, we need you and 35,123 of your closest friends to work your *** off doing Ambuscade for the next two weekends so we can have six extra days of... I dunno, probably Gallantry and Chocobo Digging campaigns in January.

Stans just need to make 10000 accounts and tank 100,000 damage on each for their sQUEENix's honor.

I hope someone's making a graph of actual vs target. It can be like the pandemic all over again, but with Plaudits instead of death.

Completed all dailies today in 15min on RDM solo vs the VD flan.

Enspell works for the "deal ice/wind/thunder magic" dealing more than 300 when it's weak to magic when it had the slow aura up it seemed. Got two T1 spell MBs in every SC from spamming CDC

And how did you deal with the "heal for more than 300" 10 times?
I usually need to turn around and strip all my gear for a couple of hits, rinse and repeat.

That or curecheat. Simple enough.

Cures can be done with a single macro in about 30 seconds. Haven't seen it myself, but someone earlier said that trust heals count, if true you can just pull out healer trusts and they'll do that objective for you while you do the rest of them. Failing that, pop your cure macro and you're all set.

Trust heals don't count, but you healing Trusts does.

I have a macro that strips off all of my gear, I then put on my idle set which has loads more HP, and voila. 300 HP to heal without having to get smacked.

Eh, maybe I'll login and do the bare minimum for a Redill once free login starts? Big Maybe. This nonsense doesn't feel like it's worth my time, it definitely isn't worth resubbing for.

I have a set that I used to use for Omen tasks with +HP gears and -HP gears for precast so you can just spam cure on yourself before engaging

Can't speak to resubbimg, but I am having fun messing around. Would rather it not be tied to anything imstsmced. But has been interesting to jump on different jobs and try to find an efficient way to do it on my maim and worse yet the dollar mules to help the cause... Lol

It isn't sortie or ody level content, but really is a nice little bonus, if you want to do it. it isn't efficient to make Gil or any of the other rewards, outside lockstyles. But then, I am making a crafting shield I don't even plan to use that much
.. Lol to each their own, but I am appreciating this content this far and to see if we make it to the goal.

06am _20k / 250k / 400k
12pm 210k / 500k / 800k
06pm 260k / 750k / 1.2m
12am 330k / 1m / 1.6m
06am 421k / 1.3m / 2m
12pm 575k / 1.6m / 2.4m
06pm 625k / 1.9m / 2.8m - Where it needs to be

Green is where we are, Red is the win, Yellow is the bonus

Did you make that graph? NICE.

It took way too long to find a free data input site with no registration that could plot more than 2 points. Christ.

(I'd do it in excel, but that takes time)

So we're on track to be 33% by end of the vana'bout? What a joke... they really dropped the ball

We're on track to be 10% lol. Currently ~33% of needed and falling further behind.

Points of no return would be nice, IE "This requires 50% of all active users to max every day". I suspect we'll hit those limits soon where winning will become impossible even if every single character maxes per day.

As long as I get my 100 deeds, I kind of don't care about ***. Get Monbie a month early, and get closer to more Merited WSes!

As a solo or twoboxer, for the 2.5 month jump in deeds, I'd do it too. Simple but irritating, but for 90 days of otherwise unachievable progress that'd be worth the nuisance.