Feast Of Swords Draws Nigh!

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The Feast of Swords is almost upon us, and any adventurer worth his or her salt knows what that entails—that heinous band of brigands will once again be upon us in an attempt to snatch the legendary Genji Armor from the hands of its rightful owners!

It is up to you, the stalwart lads and ladies of Vana'diel, to ensure that their dastardly designs will end in vain. Take shinai in hand and vanquish the vermin. You just might win yourself a most rewarding recompense!



Illustration: Mitsuhiro Arita

How to Partake of the Feast
1. Firstly, converse with one of the event moogles stationed in the following locations to procure an ibushi shinai:
Southern San d'Oria (J-9) / Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Bastok Mines (I-9) / Bastok Markets (G-8)
Windurst Waters (F-5) / Windurst Woods (K-10)

2. Having equipped said ceremonial arm, proceed to have it imbued with a dose of moogle magic by one of the friendly neighborhood M.H.M.U. representatives in the areas below.
West Ronfaure (I-6) / East Ronfaure (G-6) / La Theine Plateau (J-8) / Jugner Forest (I-8) / Batallia Downs (K-8) / North Gustaberg (L-8) / South Gustaberg (L-8) / Konschtat Highlands (I-6) / Pashhow Marshlands (K-6) / Rolanberry Fields (K-5) / West Sarutabaruta (J-8) / East Sarutabaruta (G-11) / Tahrongi Canyon (I-6) / Meriphataud Mountains (E-5) / Sauromugue Champaign (E-5)

3. Join forces with your comrades to seek out the armor-thieving brigands and put an end to their vice and villainy! Word has it that successfully fending off your enemies' special attacks with your enchanted shinai will reap you considerable rewards...

4. When the battle has been won, trade your shinai to the ??? that has appeared in place of your vanquished foe. You just might be awarded a fabled blade for your feats of valor!

Mind The Three Maxims of Moogle Magic
#1: The moogle-magicked hero will be fleet of foot, but feeble of body. (Level will be restricted to 1, but movement speed will be increased in its stead.)
#2: The enchanted blade is to be brandished against brigands alone. (You will not be able to target standard enemies, but neither will they attack you.)
#3: Moogle magic is a fickle mistress, and will abandon you if you venture too far from the fray. (The enchantment will be lifted if you zone into another area or log out.)

Event Schedule
The Feast of Swords will come whirling into town on Tuesday, April 28 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT) and return to its sheath Tuesday, May 12 at the same hour.

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Interesting...
Is this new or just another yearly event? I joined when the Anni rings were distrubuted last year so I'm not sure.

They do this every year. It's the male equivalent to the Doll Festival. It always occurs after the Egg Festival and before the FFXI Anniversary/Mog Bonanza.

Hopefully the rewards will be worthwhile this time around.

It's a yearly one.

Are they ever?

So more silly town gear then? ._.

More like more costume rice cakes. Ever wanted to be a galka boy? >.<

***. ; ;

one step closer to getting another Anni Ring!!!

Yesh, that's one way to look at it.

To correct my entry above, it's mochi you eat for the boy costumes, not girly rice cakes. Also, you can get these:



Hopefully, they'll add something cool. But then again, these are the same people who gave us this:

Oh yay more stables neck pieces, I blazed my Halloween ones rather fast. Only need Sandy since I have Windy OP WOOO

Gimme gimme gimme! I havn't owned a warp cudgel in like.. 3 years! And im all out on theese. Gimme now now now now!

Those teleports look good

Heh, I'd be content with the necks.. I burned through mine for dyna.. Made it a little easier to ride the starting time to within a few seconds, throw it on, and show up in the nick of time.

Not to mention, with the Mog Satchel, we'll actually be able to carry them with us, instead of fondly remember that the one we needed is keeping our moogles company.

But, like all events, odds are, it is just more town gear.. Hell, some of the events didn't even go that far.. they simply went.. Last year's town gear, and some silly consumable.

Suspense! How useless can this event's consumable be? (Beyond the rice cakes.. I personally preferred the thought of being a young tarutaru girl..)

SE Forgot to bug test them, and as a result they are non-consumable consumables.

Zing!

Though, don't forget.. SE will come out with a statement, saying that is as intended. They didn't want you to have to face the remorse of using your item, and then not having it anymore.

God I need those stable collars so bad, burned mine hella fast and have wept for them ever since...

Um, still new to some things. I got the item, and chased down the Samurai and started to fight him and I died. Am I supposed to be a certain job/lvl before I do this?

You have top talk to the Moogle in that zone and he'll cap you at lvl 1. Then, you take your lvl 1 GK he gives you can you go start killing him. Best that he's zerged though. When he goes to do a TP move, you need to use your sword as an item to 'Absorb Malice.' Once he's dead, take your sword back to the moogle.

Confused?

Me too.

So, check this out.

Oh jeez. Thanks for the help.