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Final Fantasy XI's Insane 18-hour+ Bosses Patched Next Month

"Included in the version update scheduled for early September will be modifications to the degree of difficulty of Pandemonium Warden (and associated pets), Absolute Virtue (and associated pets), and Jailer of Love. The aim of these changes is to create battles where a decisive outcome may be reached within a shorter period of time."

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Final Fantasy XI Boss Battl... - finalfantasyseries.net | By: deanogee
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Published: 501 days 16 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | PlayStation 2 | Gaming | PC
 
 

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TheHater - 501 days 19 hours ago
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I am playing Final Fantasy VII right now :)
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TheHater - 501 days 18 hours ago
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I love the fact that someone disagree with me. LOL
I am actually playing Final Fantasy VII right now on my PSP
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Cheeseknight28 - 501 days 16 hours ago
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Umm... good for you? How is that relevant?
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TheHater - 501 days 16 hours ago
1.3 - 2@^^
I don't know. I was playing Final Fantasy VII on my psp at the moment, and I feel like commenting about that
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FantasyStar - 501 days 15 hours ago
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/jealous
1.5 sumfood4u | 501 days 10 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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MrWeymes - 501 days 3 hours ago
1.6 - I disagree...
I doubt you have ever played Final Fantasy 7, or ever will. ;)
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UnDone14 - 501 days 18 hours ago
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I remember when I first read that story a few days back about that one group that took on the boss and were fighting him for like over 18 hours and they were all fatigued and passing out!

I couldn't stop cracking up! Imagine you're fighting the boss and are pumped to kick it's ass. One hour...5 hours....10 hours....15 hours passes and your all drained and thinking "What the eff? This fool ain't dying???" LOL sorry couldn't help but laugh.

Good news for those people that planned on fighting the boss but didn't want to play for like 24 hours straight!
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FantasyStar - 501 days 14 hours ago
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aww kinda kills the WOW factor.
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vlazed - 501 days 16 hours ago
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Mind over matter. Crazy indeed.
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Azurite - 501 days 15 hours ago
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Thought it was a cool feature, hope they don't lower it too much.
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Nevers - 498 days 19 hours ago
4.1 - I don't think they'll lower it's defenses
Square Enix likes to punish it's players and if some of you don't agree with that, you've obviously not played this Final Fantasy. More than likely this boss will not be lowered in ability but given a new ability. The group that spent 18hrs trying ineffectually to kill a boss were trying to do so without fighting it with the proper method. I think SE is just gonna put a de-pop timer on it so if you haven't gotten the beast down to specific HP by a certain time, then the monster will simply use an ability to vanish... which will proly occur 5hrs in so you'll still waste a buttload of time if you're fighting the thing incorrectly.

*Lvl 34WAr, 20Dnc, 27Thf, 16Rng, 10Blm, 10mnk, 9Whm, 8Bst... and no life...
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Reibooi - 501 days 15 hours ago
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It's kinda sad. The way SE worded what they said about the adjustment seems to be that the people who spent 18hrs fighting were doing it wrong but because it got so much attention they are going to fix it regardless. The second I heard about this I thought that the linkshell fighting it must have been doing the fight wrong. Having played FFXI since the US release I have fought every boss in the game and I can tell you that if you don't know what you are doing some fights can be extremely long and if you know what you are doing you can beat a boss in under a hr. If this Linkshell was really the best they would have quickly noticed that what they were doing wasn't working and wouldn't have wasted 18hrs on a losing fight.
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OMGLOLZ - 501 days 13 hours ago
5.1 - You've CLEARLY never fought the Pandamonium Warden...
Seriously, he's got like 12 forms...
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Nevers - 498 days 18 hours ago
5.2 - Rebooi may not have fought this boss
but I totally agree with his take on what SE is gonna do... SE ain't gonna make this badboy less difficult... they're gonna give it a timer so if you're not fighting it correctly, the monster is gonna de-pop (disappear) and you will have only wasted proly 5-8hrs LMAO/weep

{>.<}
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Weed - 501 days 15 hours ago
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Wow they are finally fixing absolute virtue. For those who don't know this is the most insane boss in any game, ever. It's only been beaten a handful of times and the first linkshells to fight it spent 40-60+ hours fighting. They had to use a glitch to kill him. SE did something to AV and acted like they never did anything to him. They would flat out deny it when asked. No linkshell beat him after that, and the only thing SE said was your doing it wrong. Nice to see them do something finally.
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ELite_Ghost - 501 days 13 hours ago
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LOL if you screw up at the 16th hour... THAT WOULD SUCK BALLS!!!
Sounds intense but no thanks...
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Blasphemy - 501 days 10 hours ago
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It's stuff like this that cause me to quit the game after two years. If you think this is just one random screw up in this game think again. This is basically how they designed the whole game and it sucks. FFXI is a life consumer. I wouldn't recommend anyone to play this game.
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militant07 - 501 days 10 hours ago
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that stupid and waste of life and time
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Kurokikaze01 - 501 days 10 hours ago
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Man I'm glad I don't play this game anymore... Grew way too tired of "beta testing" SE's bullshit content for them. About 2-3 LSes have killed AV, mine got it down to 6% (using the wall of justice after ~6-7hrs) before we were all tossed in jail and no one has killed it since. That was 2 years ago and those guys still haven't learned. They released a video to help out players but it raised waaaaay too many questions and not a single answer.

Now once again they release content that is clearly not ready. Theres no trick to it, its just unfinished/untested content. I'm also not very fond of how they are basically telling players "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG".
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gladiatory2k - 501 days 10 hours ago
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They should give a badge or something to the folks who actually DID beat the boss after 18 hours, seems like such a waste to have that kind of marathon only to have the accomplishment dumbed down for the masses. Sure it's only a bunch of pixels, but everyone should know you were dumb enough to fight something for 18 hours straight.

"MOM! I NEED MORE HOT POCKETS!"
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JokerSGS - 501 days 9 hours ago
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I'm surprised people still play the game. What a waste of time and energy. For my first MMO experience, it was horrible and showed so many signs of needing adjustment. Horrible gil system, horrible traveling and leveling. Pointless game, but thanks to it I found out I'm not that into MMO's at all, until the Agency and DC Universe come out. Than I'll give it a try I guess.
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Ngai - 500 days 17 hours ago
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Sad.
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Spydr07 - 498 days 14 hours ago
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Wow, that game got dumber after I quit. I wasted too much time on that game. For those who played: Lv75 Whm and Blm, and 63 Rdm; Alexander Server; Reflect/Defiance LS.
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