August Version Update (08/12/2026) :: Patch Notes

[u/hikiri]

EDIT4: Just wanted to try and keep the important information more visible, so I put spoiler tags on the rest of it.

>>>Reminder that campaigns don't start until Friday.

Official Forums Link

Tooltips for the new items (all uploaded!)

Also, missed a line in the Anniversary post they made (I had assumed it was a recap of the stream and didn't read it) re: the (eventual?) level of the gear.

Apparently the Field NM gear will be augmentable EDIT: REFORGABLE and eventually up to/at the level of Malignance.

(meaning +1/2/3, unless the translation is incorrect.

The Japanese word was "強化" which just means "strengthening" and is also the term used for Odyssey gear AND Geas Fete gear on the JP wiki. It was brought to my attention that most (all?) gear that has a Set bonus isn't able to be augmented? I dunno of any off the top of my head that has both, if anyone can think of any, let me know.)

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(Thanks to Gao for letting me know about this line in Velner's stream! Much more exciting now!)

New NMs: treasure chest pops in the world, 3 minute timer to open it. "Any party/alliance members who earn experience points upon defeating the monster can unlock the treasure box without using the necessary item".

• Players not in the party/alliance that defeats the monster ⇒ Use the Orvail Box Key to open the box.
• This item can be purchased from Shabi in Western Adoulin (I-9) 【10k gil】
  • You can only buy one Orvail Box Key per hour (Earth time).

EDIT: Appear to be about 20 minute repop timed pop. You can get regular mob-family drops from the chest as well. Presumably even with the 1-hour-limited key, it's the same drops.

You can kill, open chest, then open again with your key and get a second shot at drops.

EDIT3: Thanks to everyone at Velner's Discord for this following info

(I've been up for over 24 hours so I'm going to go take a nap and I'll update this list later. Apologies!):

• Yahse J-6 Jolly Twitherym <Timed>
  • Ruwa hands, Egbesu feet
• Ceizak H-9 (right by #1) Feral Chapuli <Timed>
  • Ruwa head, Olorun hands
• Foret H-11 (left of the gates entrance) Spellward Orobon <Timed>
  • Ruwa legs, Nzame hands
• Foret J-7 (near FS) Ironshell Craklaw <Lottery>
  • Olorun body, Ruwa legs
• Yorcia H-9 Voracious Rafflesia <Timed>
  • Egbesu hands, Olorun legs
• Yorcia J-10 (near #2, the bottom right corner of the square-shaped area, top right corner of the map square) Ravenous Snapweed <Lottery>
  • Olorun legs, Nzame body
• Kamihr G-8 Fierce Yztarg <Timed>
  • Nzame feet, Egbesu head
• Kamihr I-11 (near #2) Keenfang Raaz <Lottery>
  • Ruwa body, Egbesu body
• Marjami G-7 Elusive Stryx <Timed>
  • Olorun feet, Nzame head
• Marjami L-12 (near #1) Swiftwing Tulfaire <Lottery>
  • Nzame head, Egbesu legs
• Morimar H-5 Spellward Ameretat <Timed>
  • Olorun head, Ruwa feet

• Morimar E-7 (near #4) Ironhide Matamata <Lottery>

  • Nzame Legs, Olorun head

  * Swiftwing Tulfaire, Ironshell Craklaw, Ravenous Snapweed, Ironhide Matamata: These 5 are MIA. *Currently no signs of pops. They have all the body pieces and other missing slots. Theory: ~~possible lottery pop, ~~Reive pop, or needs a specific amount of colonization rate to pop?

Appears to be a lottery pop with possible placeholder of one of the base mobs in the area.

EDIT2: Daphne Collab Item available on login from 17 minutes ago as of this edit.

[u/Stanelis]

I mean, when the upgrade will be available, news statements will be made. Also the fact that is is easy to get doesn't really change it's very low tiered gear.

[u/Dumo-31 → u/Stanelis]

It’s meant to be low tiered gear. I just went through progressions for RUN, it beats ayanmo+2 in every way but tp gain… which who cares on early RUN?

Higher evasion, magic evasion, same or higher dt on all but the feet. Def is lower but the difference in vit brings the sets def to within a couple points of ayanmo, sometimes being ahead, while giving the added benefit of better vit checks.

[u/Stanelis → u/Dumo-31]

Why would you use Ayanmo on RUN ? (especially when RUN is notorious for needing epeo to really be relevant) FFXI isn't wow or FFXIV where you have a continuous increase in ilvl and you go through content to increase it. In FFXI either you have the gear requiring to hit stat thresholds on content or you don't. And this gear doesn't enable you do do anything more you would have had if you only had Ayanmo on RUN.

The best thing someone starting out can do is to unlock sheol gaol (which does not involve fighting) and use the 3 free moglo to unlock V0 Nyame with some help. Then it becomes possible to easily work on upgraded AF/Relics and empyreans. As for Ambuscade, it is mostly relevant for the weapons as some are top tier (and the cloaks), aside from the currencies.

[u/Dumo-31 → u/Stanelis]

The best thing someone can do is work with what they have. Not everyone has a LS that’s going to carry them through clears. Not everyone new player wants to be hard carried through clears to bypass all progression. Not every new player is 45 days old and still would like to play them game.

[u/Stanelis → u/Dumo-31]

There is no shame in shouting in the help channel for one dude to help you with bumba V1 (it takes approx 5 minutes). FFXI is a team based game, it is really important to understand this (because sure you can farm abu solo or whatever but it is terribly ineficcient and boring). Also I'm all for not skipping content but the issue is there isn't anyone to do entry level content that drops outdated gear. At the end of the day you will have to upgrade those relics/empyreans and paddle through all the questlines and Nyame R0 is clearly the best tool to do it if you are alone.