Final Fantasy: November-December Announcements

The Next version update is planned for December 16th(Tuesday)

The raising of level cap to 75 will proceed as per the schedule mentioned in earlier updates.
There are currently no plans to raise the level beyond 75. Upon reaching 75, current characters can be further enhanced with high quality equipment dropped by notorious monsters or created through synthesis.

We will also continue to provide new ways to improve your character through the introduction of elements such as new weapons skill quests to be added in the next update.

The release of the limbo areas has unfortunately been delayed until after the next update.
Also, limbo areas of the three capital cities will now be released before the field area's.

The following is a simple explanation of the limbo area's
-What is "limbo"?
Limbo is another dimension that exists for high level adventurers and is not accessible from Vana'diel by normal means.
Certain requirements must be met in order to enter these areas.

It will be necessary to form multiple alliances beyond the standard 18-member group to survive the battlefields of limbo.

Further details will be announced in later version update reports.

The content of the December update are as follows:

QUEST UPDATES
-Final level cap quest will be added.
-Quests for gaining new weapon skills will be added.
-New items will become available from current avatar battles("Quest by Ice", etc)
-Changes will be made to the expeditionary force system

BATTLE UPDATES
-New notorious monsters will be introduced.
-New areas and target monsters will be added to the expeditionary force system.
-Adjustments will be made to the placement of monsters in several of the 50-70 areas.
Areas will be announced on the day they are adjusted.
-The distance characters are knocked back by certain monsters attacks will be changed.
-The amount of time taken for treasure chests to reappear will now be random within a set time frame.
-The ability "Sneak Attack" will be changed so that a character must be directly behind a monster for the attack to be successful.
-The "Resist" job traits will be altered.
-The "Killer" Job trait and "Circle" job abilities will be modified.
-The use of Cure V will be restricted to white mages.

ITEM UPDATES
-The level cap for synthesis skills will be raised to 100(Expert)
-New synthesis recipes will be added for each type of skill.
-Rank 9 conquest items will become available.
-There will be a new NPC that bundles sets of arrows together so they take up less inventory space.
-New items will become available for logging and mining.
-Certain items of furniture will now expand the storage capacity of your Mog Safe.
-The price for meal items will be adjusted slightly.
-The new gardening item "tree saplings" will become harvestable from "tree cuttings".

SYSTEM UPDATES
-The camera position for the "/sit" command will be lowered to the eye level of the siting character.
-The camera angle and degree of zoom will now remain the same when changing area's and after logging out.
-Changes will be made to some of the auction house categories.
-The level restriction for riding chocobo's in the three main nations will be decreased to 15.
However the riding time for characters under 20 will be shortened.
-The window for auto-translation function will change size automatically to accommodate the length of different words and phrases.
-Words and phrases taken from the auto-translation function will have their beginnings and ends clearly marked when displayed in log window.

WINDOWS ONLY VERSION
-A dialogue box for the number of sound effects that can be played simultaneously (SoundEffectNum) will be added to the configuration tool.

There are several other changes to be made that will be announced at the time of the update.

FINAL FANTASY XI Development Team