Deus Ex Machina XI Version.

After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead: 'God personally stepping in to correct the world itself'
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I'm interested in how the GMs will do it, since from my limited understanding, the Judge gear is pretty bad by today's ilvl standards. I guess they'll use some kind of kill command or else the GMs have access to unlimited HP like Yoshi-P does in his showcase videos for FFXIV content? Or are we going to see these Balmung's of the Azure Sky get equipped with some new hardware for this task?

Word of former GMs is that each piece has some sort of hidden effect. Like the cape would give you a permanent brew effect while equipped, the sword has 100% endeath, etc.

But they're also GMs and have access to plenty of debug commands, they don't need to rely on gear.

Gms have access to the "JP onry" button.

As I wrote in the other thread, the only time I saw a GM kill stuff, that I can remember, was when LSs were using bad strats against each other at Tiamat, until cross-calling them a GM finally appeared, claimed Tiamat and slowly, slowly, slowly killed it.

Now... it could've been a noob GM who didn't know how to use the GM menu, or maybe he just wanted to put out a show for all of us there standing and watching, I dunno of course but it was a sloooooow kill.

I really like this, I used to be fascinated by GMs when I was younger, the "in-universe" part of them being these shadowy arbiters of the world's strongest, keeping them in check when nobody else could, was cool as heck to me, and I consumed any and all information I could find about them, had never heard their gear had hidden effects! Really wish there was more info out there about what GM characters are capable of.

Back on the topic, a guy did manage to record a couple of the GMs absolutely curb-stomping Omega, but there's not much to really see, they rock up, flap around a bit (clearly struggling with having flee speed active in combat lol) and it immediately dies.

GMs appear around 10:56 in the video, which won't embed for some reason, probably because it's a VOD or something.

I like how they are turning a simple bug into a cool thing like this, JP players especially are really enjoying this.

Most mmorpgs don't show GMs anymore, they just have customer service operatives. This is a cool thing.

https://x.com/Tukiko_WHM/status/2017100860778856775

That is such a cool screenshot....I'm so jealous. I guess no one on Asura took any pictures?