--- 2008 ---
May 17th
THERE IT'S BACK YAY
--- 2007 ---
November 19th
For Glory updates:
- Yoran-Oran's position fixed. I never realized how many emails I'd
gotten about that...
A Land Besieged updates:
- ToAU missions 9 through 48 added.
- Pretty much the whole freaking mission guide
- Missions 1-8 slightly less cynical about how ToAU missions suck
- Assault guide updates
- Leujaoam Sanctum - Sergeant Major and Second Lieutenant
- Mamool Ja Training Ground - Chief Sergeant
- Lebros Cavern - Sergeant Major
- Ilrusi Atoll - Corporal, Sergeant
- Plus more screenshots for older missions
- Ranks 1-6 completely up now
November 5th
Let's play a game. It's called "no snide comments about the previous
update saying there won't be any more updates and that I'm retiring
from FFXI." You go first. Ready? Go!
For Glory updates:
- Updated various pages for over a year's worth of CoP-ish patches
and adjustments
- Changed all the CoP mission item sections that said you had to
farm stuff by pointing out what is now buyable off the auction.
- Updated the Jailers of Virtue page with a year's worth of
knowledge and slightly less paranoid strategies (but, as usual, the
strategies are lagely the same).
- Updated The Gallery with some items that have been changed
(rare/ex items no longer ex, items equippably by ToAU jobs, etc)
- Added exp reward for completion sections to the bottom of every
page that has a BC where you gain experience points. You won't gain the
exp if you are dead at the end of the fight, but you also don't lose
any experience for dying in mission battlegrounds.
- Added a few more items to The Gallery.
- Added Jailer of Love and Absolute Virtue to the Jailers of Virtue
page. No, I don't know how to beat AV.
- Updated the FAQ page with questions and answers frequently asked.
A Land Besieged updates:
- Assault guide updates
- Corporal - all areas except Illrusi
- Sergeant - all areas except Illrusi
- A few more screenshots for some of the lower rank missions.
- A few more showcase items.
Memoria de la S'tona updates:
- ADDED Missions 3-1 to 3-5
- ADDED an index page.
- Added links to Memoria de la S'tona from both other indexes.
--- 2006 ---
November 5th
This is the last update. Anything that's not up now probably never will
be. I've retired from FFXI. No long speeches or vague promises of
coming back some day. I just hope you enjoy the guide in what will
probably be its final form.
- ADDED a FAQ page
- Please read it before emailing me.
- Expanded The Gallery tremendously
- Expanded the Jailers of Virtue page tremendously
- Added lots of little farming and BCNM specific notes to mission
pages.
- Filled in as many missing enemy moves / move names as I
could
find.
- Updated the details of some poorly-designed strategies that I
came up with when battles first came out (but they are largely the same
strategies)
September 29th
Checking up on the site stats and hits per day and stuff, I see that
August and September have been very high. And more people are beginning
to recognize me in-game again. What's going on here? I haven't touched
the content in months.
>_>
You're all making me feel guilty about shutting this down.
<_<
Fine fine. If I can ever get some assaults done so I can do the blasted
ToAU guide I'll go back to regular updates. If you know anyone on Sylph
that wants a WHM, BLU, or BRD for some assault missions, put in a good
word for me or something.
Oh, and I didn't quit. Or rather, I didn't quit forever. I'm still
around. But my linkshell is very lazy when it comes to sea and
assaults. Sigh. Merit parties ftw?
June 29th
Kind of important annoucement
This site will no longer be updating due to my
lack of
interest in FFXI.
I’m not sure if I’m quitting the game right now.
It’s a
definite possibility, but I don’t want to say that I am and then have
to eat my
words later. So I’ll just say that I’m seriously considering it.
I will leave the site up, as it is in its current
condition.
Even though the information has been eclipsed (read: stolen and had the
life
sqeezed out of it by editors of FFXIwiki) by other sites, enough people
have
responded to it that I must have done something right. So it will stay
up.
Linsaran, the administrator of the website, will be able to decide what
to do with
it. If paying the bandwidth that supports the site is too much of a
hassle then
he may remove it, though I still have offline copies of everything in
case it
needs to be put up somewhere else.
Please don’t send me any more emails or messages
about FFXI
or this site. I am, as I said, not updating the site and so I’m not
looking for
information to fill the few holes that remain. And honestly I don’t
really want
to talk about FFXI stuff right now.
If people won’t leave me alone about it I’ll have
to take
the site down. I don’t like threats though so just, ya know, leave it
be.
It’s been fun guys. Thank you all for the
support and
feedback you have given me over the past 8 months or so.
- Erecia
For the Indefinite Future I have no Intention of
taking this site down, I'll continue to do as much as I can to keep
tabs on what's happening with the forums etc. I don't think I could
replace Erecia if I wanted to
and have no delusions about trying, but as much as possible I'll try
and provide advice and/or support for "For Glory"
- Linsaran
April 23rd
Treasures of Aht Urhgan is out! Everybody is doing ToAU! Nobody is
doing CoP! Well the For Glory site will stay up as normal of course,
and I will update things where I find it, but Treasure of Aht Urhgan
the big buzz.
To answer the only question I've been asked this month, yes, I'm making
a ToAU guide. Check out
A
Land Besieged. It's mostly empty right now, but so was For Glory
when I started it and I'm still amazed on how far this site has come.
Also, I set up some
For Glory
Discussion Forums for people to talk specifically about the site
and both expansions. It's not going to rival Allahkhazam or
KillingIfrit or any other major sites, but it's not supposed to.
April 11th
Not a word on how late this is... VERY interesting things are in the
works. Probably in the next couple of days. Or even tonight, who knows!
Enough people willing to donate a few bucks have responded so I'm going
to be setting up a Paypal account sooner or later. Thanks!
One other thing... I'm NOT putting up glitches and exploits onto the
site. While I find them interesting, that crosses a line in my mind
between sneaky planning and outright abusing the game to the point of
actually cheating. Please don't send me any more emails on how you
glitch your way through the mammets or Diabolos or the airship fights
or whatnot.
- Diabolos battle party placement update
- Kerutoto is in Windurst Waters
- A really really important warning
about the "Waking the Beast" quest has been added to Tenzen's fork.
Thanks for everyone that sent emails about this. All thousand of you...
- The Tavnazian Ring is aquired in mission 8-1, not 7-2. Yes...
- The Ix'grah's 2-hour in mission 8-2 is totally unlike what I said
it was. Darn you all for giving me bad info!
- You can raise Prishe in the 8-4 battle.
- Homan bug fixed in the gallery: the Homam feet now show up.
Considering that Sylph is the only server to get drops off of Absolute
Virtue I should have VERY interesting new gallery images pretty soon.
- I'm getting emails with the same questions so I'm going to write
a FAQ page soonish.
March 20th
Time for an update on a sensative topic: money.
Up until now Linsaran has been paying for the site
out of his own pocket. He doesn't mind; in his own words, he uses it
for more than this CoP site. However the continuing popularity of this
site chews up his bandwidth like nobody's business and so he has had to
up the hosting plan. This costs more money per month. He and I are
looking for ways to cut costs and support the site, not just today, but
in the future as well.
You may notice there are google adds at the bottom
of the page now. An unfortunate reality of online stuff is that it
takes money to keep websites going. This site has gotten a bazillion
hits and every month our bandwidth usage comes close to doubling. The
google add pays us for traffic received and will help cut costs, I
hope. If anything in the google add looks cool, feel free to check it
out and help support the site.
If you would be at least REMOTELY interested in
sending us a few dollars (via paypal or a similar system) to help
support the site, please say so in an email. If I get more than a
couple responses I may set that up. YOU DON'T HAVE TO COMMIT TO
ANYTHING IN THE EMAIL! Just if you think you'd be willing! But don't
send the email if you're not even remotely interested in sending cash.
Our monthy costs are still rather low so only a few people would need
to send in a few dollars every so often to keep things running fine.
It's not my intention to make any money off this site. Any and all
money received would go directly into the site upkeep. With enough
support we could vastly expand the scope of the site, including a lot
more screenshots than I have now, a great new section for ToAU, and who
knows what else. If we can't raise the money we will make due with what
we can, but the site's increasing popularity will make it difficult to
expand. I will keep this site online and updating as long as I can
mangage.
If only a few people sent five bucks, we'd be set for a fair amount of
time. Please, at least consider it.
- Ereblog added for all those rants I want to make but would feel
too guilty cluttering up the actual site with.
- Yes yes, I've been getting your emails. An actual site update
will be in a few days. Probably. Maybe.
March 14th
- New title image "The Legend of Al'Tiaeu", a painting of my
character done by my father. It's staying there for a while.
- 4-3 The Secrets of Worship
- Taurs all over
- Other ??? spots in professor rooms
- Link to maps of the maze configurations
- 8-3 When Angels Fall
- Enough people have died in the pot BC for me to be pretty sure
tractor doesn't work any longer. But I'll swear until my dying day that
it DID work in that BC when I completed it!
- "Monsters of Lumoria" page
- A long-overdue update to monster move lists due to an extremely
well-detailed email I received.
- "The Gallery" page
February 25th
Proto-Ultima got pushed back my linkshell. Again. So here are some other
things.
- ADDED CoP Misison 8-5 page
- Yes, another mission!
- Minor edits to other pages for continuity
- "The Gallery" page
- Added the four earrings obtainable from "Apocalypse Nigh"
- "Storms of Fate" page
- A few additional move names
February 22nd
Been a while. Been busy. Deal.
- ADDED Limbus Subsection
- ADDED Limbus Basics / Prepration page
- More to come
- A little bit of information (mainly an excuse to put up
screenshots) added to Ouryu Cometh on the Storms of Fate page
- Added more images to The Gallery
- 2-5: Ancient Vows
- Multiple Mammet strategies
- 3-3: The Road Forks
- Yoran-Oran is at position (E-5)
- More sceenshots
- 3-5: Darkness Named
- 4-2: The Savage
- Ouryu's 2-hour is Invincible
- 5-3: Ulmia's Path
- Considerably more information on the mithra BC
- Kerutoto starts Diabolos quest now, so talk to her twice for
the CoP mission cutscene
- Snoll Tzar is weak to fire. FIRE! Not ice! Seriously
- 5-3: Tenzen's path
- Disaster Idol NM's magic is based on the element of the day
- Fast-route directions for the second Pso'Xja dungeon on this leg
- 6-4: One to be Feared
- Omega occasionally can put up a magic shield. As if this battle
wasn't bad enough...
January 31st
- ADDED Contact Information page with my email on it. Send me stuff
if you want.
- ADDED The Gallery Page. This needs a LOT OF WORK but it has begun.
- ADDED Level Capped EXP page.
- Added a few more headings to the main page. Rematch fights? ENMs?
Limbus? Exp in level capped areas? I've done it all. Gimme a bit to
write about it.
- 4-2: The Savage
- Ouryu's Spike Flail confirmed
- 5-2: Desires of Emptiness
- Propagator miniboss can spawn strays if your luck is bad enough
- 6-4: One to be Feared
- Minor revisions and battle notes
January 14th, 2006
- ADDED Sea gods page. Yay sea gods!
December 25th
- Merry Christmas!
- 4-2: The Savage
- Added portal to "Storms of Fate" battleground
- 5-3: Three Forks, Ulmia's Path
- 8-4: Dawn
- "Monsters of Lumoria" page
- Aern and Yovra move lists
- "Waking Dreams" page
- Alternate battle strategy
- "Storms of Fate" page
December 16th
- ADDED Waking Dreams page. Go forth and fight Diabolos!
- Fixed a few minor site glitches
December 13th
- ADDED Storms of Fate page
- So many new ideas for pages, so little time... the index is
getting a bit cluttered as organization is becoming a major issue.
December 9th
- 2-5: Ancient Vows
- Alternate, non-kiting strategy added after several people
pointed this out to me. I haven't seen this in action so use it at your
own peril.
- Soldiers of Glory page
- Brimah has new cute pictures!
- About the Author page
- Uninteresting rants taken down. I'll put something better there
eventually.
December 7th
- ADDED CoP Map Quests page
- A lot of cross-linking between pages for easy reference now that
the apendices are finally getting made.
- 1-2: Below the Arcs
- Better listing of boss moves
- 2-3: Distant Beliefs
- Fomors never get true sight no matter how many you kill
- 5-2: Desires of Empiness
- Final BC boss names, move names
- 5-3: Three Forks
- Rewards page
- Archduke doesn't have a palace in Ru'Ann Gardens
December 6th:
- ADDED Tavnazian Safehold page
- 5-3: Three Forks
- Snoll Tzar self-destruct move name
- Monsters of Lumoria page
December 1st:
- ADDED Introduction page
- ADDED Site Updages page
- ADDED Soldieres of Glory page
- ADDED Monsters of Lumoria page
- 1-2: Below the Arcs
- Link to Allakhazam guides for additional material
- 2-5: Ancient Vows
- New and improved Mammet fighting tips and move lists
- 3-4: Tending Aged Wounds
- Aded a mysteriously absent cutscene
- 3-5: Darkness Named
- Diabolos move list
- Hint about seeing tiles that will be removed
- 4-2: The Savage
- Route explination with a map
- Mistmelts are EX, not RARE. I only got like 300 people telling
me this...
- Ouryu doesn't use Touchdown when forced out of the sky
- Disclaimer added about melee-heavy parties
- Cutscenes after mission
- 4-3: The Secrets of Worship
- Coral Crest Keys and Sealion's Crest Keys are both RARE and EX
- 5-3: Three Forks
- All paths
- Subdivided into sub-missions
- Cutscenes added
- 6-4: One to be Feared
- Pile Pitch isn't small damage
- 8-3: When Angels Fall
- 8-4: Dawn
- Rewards page
- added info on the final "CoP rings"
(back to the main page)