Overview

I was recently asked to do an informal interview with the Russian site can be found here.  Here is the English version of the interview for anyone interested.  I had no role in the making of the questions and they are aimed towards readers with little to no experience with Final Fantasy 11 specifically.

Special thanks to "Trotsky" for ( Read more... )

Overview

This enmity post will be the last.  Though there are still many unknowns, my time in FFXI has past and I have happily moved on, but I feel somewhat obligated to still show as many of my enmity findings as possible.  I will not be going over the in dept testing methods like I have before - these are just findings I can vouch for having ( Read more... )

Overview

In this part, I'll be going over basically everything involving "Cures" or the "-- C --" in the Enmity Table.  This part has been a long time coming and results turned out much more complex than I originally had anticipated.  Here's an overview of everything to be covered...

-  Does Curing targets for over 0 HP generate both CE and VE?

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The amount of Cumulative Enmity (CE) and Volatile Enmity (VE) generated by curing someone follows the 2 general formulas below.

[ CE ]  =  [ CE Modifier ] x [ HP Cured ]

[ VE ]  =  [ VE Modifier ] x [ HP Cured ]

*  The [CE Modifier] and [VE Modifier] vary with the level of the target cured, not the level of ( Read more... )

Overview

So sorry that this update to the Enmity Testing is about 5 months overdue.  Ashira and I have still be working on it, but progress has slowed down a bit as of late.  There is still much more insight to report, so I hope that this post adds to the growing knowledge of how hate works in this game.  There is really so much to cover, but in ( Read more... )

Overview

There are only 2 tests in this section; however, they are pretty important, so I've decided to go ahead and post them seperately.  After this section, we will have essentially found most of the basic concepts of Enmity other than Cure, Damage Taken, and Damage Dealt.  We're already starting on that data with the help of some other groups; ( Read more... )

Overview

The Enmity Table is currently filling out quite nicely; of the 358 spells and abilities which do not involve HP cured or damage, we've already filled out 100 CE values and 87 VE values in just a week's time.  I want to thank those who have contributed and encourage anyone interested to just pick a spell or ability not listed and do your own ( Read more... )

Overview

The concept of Enmity has really been blown wide open from the first 3 parts of our testing.  I've started a running Enmity Table of all actions that do not involve damage or curing in an effort to get a complete list of CE and VE values.  I hope that that list can be completed rather quickly - it will only grow after the new jobs come out ( Read more... )

Overview

In part II, we really started to get some nice results and have begun to really understand the basic system behind enmity - namely finding a method that quantifies actions, determining that there are 2 types of enmity, and that at least one of these types caps.  In this post, I'll go over more testing which attempts to help further grasp ( Read more... )

Overview

I realize the first post on this was rather dry and boring; however, I think it provided a number of controls which I needed to do more unique testing.  For those bored by the first post, I encourage you to read this one more carefully, as I assure you it will have unique and profound implications on the game - this post goes over testing ( Read more... )