April 7 2014 Update Notes:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/41117-Apr-8-2014-%28JST%29-Version-Update

Sexy H2H

Incoming price rise on Hippogriff Tailfeathers and Mistmelts in 3, 2, 1...

You may be right, but that's also assuming Mistmelts will be required to bring Ouryu down from the air for the new BC. I imagine, though, that many elements from the classic COP BC will remain unchanged (like the type of earth attacks he uses, etc).

When it states the requirements for the job specific equipments, is it just one from each category, or 1 of each? I've done everything listed apart from any of the new Delve. Would I still be able to start the job specific equipment quest?

I loled so hard.

Tidus, it's "complete any one of these." I'm hoping I qualify, since I've beaten the AA TT on Normal, but have yet to get a Delve win or a MCO Difficult win.

Probably just 1.

You will need to have cleared at least 1 of the Delve 1.0 (Tojil, Daku or Muy) zones *and* 1 of the new Delve 2.0 zones (Wopket, Cailimh or Utkux).

EDIT: Nevermind, I misread the first statement.

"Players must have fulfilled one of the following prerequisites in order to undertake the quest."

You sure? sounds like fulfilling any one of the bullet points will do:

Yeah, I edited my post and corrected myself. I had misread the first statement. :D

WTF?

any ideas when people are .dat mining?

Well given that POL is also undergoing maintenance, so we can't even log in to get the new files yet, might be a couple hours.

Prerequisites
Players must have fulfilled one of the following prerequisites in order to undertake the quest.
Have defeated at least one of the following boss monsters appearing in Delve content in Cirdas Cavers [ U ].

Muyingwa / Dakuwaqa / Tojil

Have defeated at least one of the following boss monsters appearing in Delve content in Yorcia Weald [ U ].

Cailimh／Wopket／Utkux

Have defeated one of the mission battlefields requiring one of the items listed below on “Difficult” or “Very Difficult.”

Microcosmic Orb / Macrocosmic Orb

Have defeated a high-tier mission battlefield on “Normal” or above difficulty.
Notes
If the player has accepted a relic, mythic, or empyrean weapon repairing quest, they will be unable to accept the job-specific weapon quest while equipped with the weapon that started the repairing quest. Unequipping the weapon will solve this issue.

No where does it says AND. According to the text written, it would be one of the following categories. We will find out when servers are up. It could be a bad translation from JP to ENG.

I corrected myself 5 minutes ago. I misread the first statement on it.

Looks like 1 from each category to me tbh. I'd say they mean 1 of the following, then each bullet point.

1 from Delve 1, Delve 2, AA and Orb.

Looks like I'm ready, inb4 no craft item/mats because maint ends at midnight 30 so won't be able to see till tomorrow fml.

Is the update really going to last 7 hours?

This is totally how I read it, otherwise, why not just include all of those different scenarios under one bullet point? Why separate them?

I had the impression that each category was broken down by either item type or equipment slot (for instance, completing Delve1 boss = new weapons. Completing Delve boss 2 = new armor, completing difficult/higher in battlefields = new instruments).

I could be wrong, but that's how I read it.

Now I'm starting to do a double-take on whether I was wrong about my original thoughts on that, lol. It looks like it could go either way.

They did say it wouldn't be easy so it wouldn't shock me at all if you needed to do 1 of each category to be able to do the quest, don't think they'll break it down by armor/weap/range.

The avatar Cait Sith's abilities Eerie Eye and Mewing Lullaby are now listed under the Blood Pact: Ward command category instead of Blood Pact: Rage.

What possible reason could they have for this? Lullaby was actually useful as a rage since the tp reset stuck on high level nms even AA. It was nice to use with titans EA when fighting things.

Because that way, us SMNs can use Eye or Lullaby and Level ? Holy together, instead of waiting for timers to use one or the other.

You could hit EA beforehand and, unless you have an NM spamming AoE death spells or abilities, you can still come back with a Lullaby every now and then.

Alas, the limitation of being a SMN...

Yes, since besides the actual update they will also do maintenance on POL and replace/fix some of their server equipment. It's not something you can do in just a small 2 hours.

Pretty sure it being a Ward changes nothing for its usefulness, aside from lack of magic accuracy bonus from skill over cap. At least now its a bit easier to gear for pet magic accuracy though.

Better Worm Cosplay!

Looks too much like a penis!

The cosplay was amazing, it even had a bubble maker at the top to shoot a stream of bubbles i.e gastric bomb