Judgement Day. (Also, Mog Bonanza In 26 Hours).

Some folks in Funkworkz stream said they'd get a Rank 1 bonanza prize if they won the Bonanza. (The numbers will be released in ~26 hours).

I spun up a private server a few years ago and took these pictures of it so other folks can see what they'd be getting:




Now that you know what it looks likes, do you still want it?

I'm the one who said I'd get it.

I stand by my choice.

I respect your decision.

In case anyone is actually curious why I want it and not the other choices, I don't really have a need for any of them on the jobs I do play. The staff gives Raise V... okay? I walk around with RR3 on all the time. I can't think of many situations where a single weakness-less raise will help that much. The rest of the stats don't matter that much. I'll admit I'm not a COR expert yet, but that gun doesn't look mind blowing either. The club doesn't seem all that useful for GEO either. That leaves a bunch of weapons for jobs I don't really want to play, a free hallmark boost every 3 days, the Kupo set which at best removes weakness which again... very niche IMO, lolfishing rod, or the painting. Honestly, I've wanted the painting for a long time now. I'm a SMN, and it's directly tied to SMN. I collect weird lore ***, so it suits me fine.

Anyway, I don't think anyone cares, but that's my reasoning.

Not at all. Thanks for sharing. I like to learn about people's motivations for doing stuff in FFXI.

Rank 1: 800
Rank 2: 71
Rank 3: 7

Here's a list of items that are not deliverable on the same account.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/14591

I won 20 Rank 3 prizes (and 1 rank 2 prize on the mule of an alt). I'm not making a mythic on that $1 character, so maybe I'll just get a money item or Sagasinger to dbox on the same account? The main character on this account has 5/5 omen bodies, so.....yay?

The Rank 2 prize list looks like 2012, with those delivery restrictions...

A double zero. Very unexpected. If I would've bought my 950 marbles I still would've lost.

Tell me about it. I felt the urge to pick 700, just in case, 7 because July is the 7th month of the year. Nothing makes any sense. Every thing is just pixels. :P

I was counting on more 0s with my 000

Didn't win again this year. Closest I've ever gotten though... off by about 30. Oh well, no painting for me.

Numbers of winners should be rawly 1/10 of the win-rank below. But surpise-surprise, rank 1 is only 1/20 of rank 2 -__-

Well played, SE...

I'm not trying to give SE any ideas, but imagine if they just did lottery based on all active characters. No buying marbles, just a single database query. Sure, SE would have to cap the number of winners at say 100 randomly-selected active characters ....but the catch is that SE has to announce the name of the character: Congratulations <obscene name here>! Forget obscene numbers, haha

It is interesting how many did not choose a 00 number. The last bonanza had 200 rank 1 winners (109 were the digits), and this one only had 62. I do know that the moogle has suggested a "00" number for me in the past, and I have always changed it to something else because *** that.

FWIW, rank 2 winners did decline as well, but not more than half. 1,700 winners last bonanza compared to 1,299 this time.

How many Players/Pearls though. BG doesn't track that for some reason. 10% reduction in participants, and a double zero winner


The one before that was
With 185 Winners

Are we forgetting that this is the first 0-999 bonanza where players can buy TWO pearls? So, 127,420 sold pearls divided by 2 means 63,710 characters participated.

If before that 200,837 pearls were sold, then 200,837 characters participated. That's a HUGE DROP.

I feel like not too long ago people were saying "it'll never be 420 or 69" so we know there's bias in selection. 911, 777, 666, ect. It makes sense to me that a winning number like this would be low result.


Rank 1 is still incredibly tough to break into so rare things are rare, but the other rewards are starting to sag. I won 2x rank 2 and I hate to say it, but I'm ungrateful.


Pssh, whatever /shrug

A friend just turned their rank 3 into a rank 2. Traded marble for a mars orb and got an omen body. That's a win.

It's been 2 per 0-999 for the last few

I feel like they don't have the tools for this.
If they did the guy that designed them didn't tell them.

Actually, they do. If you have ibar loaded and you target yourself (or if you have ashitacast, target yourself and type "/echo %t_id" and you'll see a 6-digit number that is the unique identifier for YOUR CHARACTER on the server. SE Would just have to pick a random number between 0 and 1,000,000 and then "select * from table where ID = thatrandomnumber).

Edit: I can see why they do marbles instead...

Wtf are those lockstyle sets not sendable. It pisses me more than any other SE decision in past few years...

I think it's just lack of attention to detail but aren't most bonanza items not sendable?

I won the best prize of all... +2 Inventory Space

You can send most of the stuff you can use, but upgrades for RMEA and a lot of the cosmetic stuff is not deliverable.

What cosmetics aren't sendable (same account)?

Quite a few from a quick search sadly
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/14591
Statues aren't sendable either

Maybe not all of it, but a lot of the Aw-Cos stuff isn't deliverable. Only some of the lockstyle stuff can be sent to same account. Sorry I realize I said cosmetics and not costumes.


Felgarr linked the list above.

In reply to the original post, I still wish I'd just got the big ol painting last year. My Yagyu darkblade is sitting on a mule and has been used once to show off aoe shadows in Mhaura.

The weapons should have been a POL sendable voucher that once exchanged is no longer muleable.

Rustled Jimmies Activate

Bonus doubled rustle, someone poke Leviathan.Nitenichi and ask where his Yagyu is and how much it got used

Totally, Even if it was on my main I'd still be on RUN/SAM :D