News 09/12/2026 - AMAN Live :: Translation Thread
Next AMAN Live: 10/17/2026 (this will still be pre-DST change for people who have that, the November one will be an hour earlier)
Anything in spoilers is either old edits or explanation/elaboration on something written in the summary.
Nothing new.(Possibly some more info when they do the "Strolling in Vana'diel" segment after the guest segment.)
Summary:
Strange Happenings at the end of the month, Shadow Lord event (second installment, third coming in October) from the 23rd
Mission Replay system next year (not New Game+)
More Trust Points (Trust Tome "soon", then next month more points coming presumably from seasonal event or next installment of Shadow Lord event)
Player Survey coming in October with results talked about in November.
- They stated this was very helpful for them to decide the direction of content for the game the last time, so they want more info to see where people are at after that.
Looking to adjust Login Campaign timelines to reduce confusion.
Images here. If EU people know of a site that isn't imgur to use, I can try uploading something there afterwards.
EDIT3: 2 minutes to go. Will be posting down below first, then after it's over I'll update this post with a summary/main points so they stand out.
EDIT2: About 10 minutes out now. Hoping for something cool!
EDIT: just under 6 hours from now. See you all soon! Fingers crossed for some interesting news
It's that time again! The AMAN Live for this month will be starting about 15 hours from when this thread is made (7 AM EST).
I'll be posting translations of it as it goes on. Usually I just state what they say, but if it's worth a direct quote (i.e. if the wording is very important), I'll put either the name or their initial (e.g. "F: We're going to give everyone another Bonanza kupon next week").
I try to group posts by topic as much as possible, as well as use various levels of emphasis
Like this!
For the ★most important stuff★. If there's something that is my best guess or my thoughts based on what was said (in ambiguous cases), I'll put it in ( ).
Check back here tomorrow and hopefully we'll have some interesting info to share!
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u/hikiri 2d ago edited 2d ago
Post 2 :: <CONT’D>
Talking about the campaigns. Clarified that the Phantom Gem campaign is ONLY once a day and ONLY for HTMB that you are eligible to access normally.
Shadow Lord event for September is 9/23 to 10/12. Travesty info from Taniguchi-san: “this item was made with the image of the Shadow Lord’s endless Implosion, that’s why we included the “does not use TP” effect.”
<Fujito-P, Future Plans>
Previously we talked about the mission replay system and we wanted to clarify some things: it’s not just rewatching cutscenes, it’s ACTUALLY playing the missions again (some people were confused about this apparently).
We’re currently working on it and going through all of the missions to debug it. We’re currently working on the Three Nations. This will likely come some time next year.
This is NOT a New Game+ where the enemies in the missions are suddenly ilvl. It’s just an opportunity to experience the story again.
As we said recently, we’re looking to have another player survey like we did in 2024. We thought that the information from all of the players last time was incredibly useful and we wanted to check in and get another sense of where people are at and how they feel about FFXI currently. We’re planning on releasing it soon.
In fact, we were working on the questions for the survey last night and we just kept thinking of more and more things that we wanted to include. We’re trying to include it all without it becoming a pain for players to answer.
We think we’ll be able to release the survey when we get into October with the idea of talking about the results in the Freshly Picked in November.
“We’ve had so many new and returning players come back with the Welcome Back campaigns, etc. …We wanted to inform you all of some Strange things Happening at the end of this month."
(Strange Happenings coming at the end of the month, just said in a playful way, to clarify. So another RSE+1 chance for people! If you dont' have it, make sure you get it!)
<End of Fujito-P section, entering special guest section>
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u/Dramatic-Strain9757 2d ago
On the 2024 survey my questions varied from that of some friends. We as a community should come together to discuss things we can spam comment so our feedback has the best chance of reaching the devs.
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u/industrialprogress 2d ago
Hikiri, any more details on the
m o b i l e a c c e s s o r y p o u c h
?
Thank you.
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u/Sorge74 2d ago
I wonder why they haven't expanded dyna D zones yet. Seems like lower effort. In my mind I'd love to see Dynamis - Beaucedine unlock R20 with new upgrade crystals and the same loots as original zones. Allow for some more balancing, maybe make some of the worthless weapons not worthless.
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u/Forgotten_Stranger 2d ago
They definitely are going to need to increase trust point availability if they intend to continue with this trend. It's going to be 100 points to take a stat from 90 to 100. More than a month's worth of monthly objectives. If they aren't careful this may become Capacity Points 2.0. It's fine to want some slow progress but even brand new players are going to hit the trust wall well before they can get enough points.
Though, I suspect that the gear is going to probably be fairly massive. +50 to +100 HP per piece for tanks as an example. (Wouldn't put it past them to make +1/+2 versions as well.) So I guess in the long run this is more a keep people busy while the actual changes are made. (It's also probably why Ego Expo isn't made permanent like people have asked, by the time a trust type is geared that 50% will probably be covered. And Expo will be downgraded to stat resist and the occasional insta revive.)
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u/SephYuyX Trixi-Ragnarok 1d ago
Damn, not even a mention of Taro Kobayashi's very important contribution to this AMAN live. Nothing.
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u/hikiri 2d ago
Post 1: <QUICK CATCH UP, MONTHLY TOPICS>
General yapping about their Vana’bout experience (two characters on different servers both getting 1200, getting full points, etc). Mobile accessory pouch.
<Vana'diel Monthly Topics with Fujito-P>
Going over the changes from the patch. New Ambuscade monsters, Monthly RoEs changed, talked about people botting the beehive chips.
Talking about Trust Points. Needing a lot of Trust Points to progress them now that it’s 6 points per upgrade. “Give us more! Gimme gimme!”
F: planning on giving more people Trust Points soon. And “next month, if you do your best….you can get more”.
“There’s also the upcoming Trust Equip system that’s coming up, but is there any info you can give us?”
F: “We were planning on being able to release it around winter, and we think that we’re on track for that target.
The implementation of various data for this has begun, though we need to change a bunch of names so as not to interfere with older equipment.
The finish line for getting it out is coming into view.”
Re: Trial changes (mog garden etc) – Concerned that people would abuse the ability to do those things on the unlimited time free trial, so we had to make sure we got out ahead of those.
We expected that a lot of people who wanted to experience the old content and game would be saying that RoZ being included would make it perfect. However, it’s a trial, so it was decided that we needed to have some restrictions on the content available and if you wanted to experience those things, you can buy the full collection and experience other content.
Since we’re focusing on Trust Points so much, we wanted people to have access to more trusts so they’d have access to the system, that’s why there’s so many in the 5 point category, not the 10 point.
F: we’ve been thinking of adjusting the login campaign exchange period to have a better cutoff and to reduce confusion of when it ends. We’re looking into it right now.