High-quality items in Final Fantasy XI can be a bit of a bear to acquire. High-quality base items aren’t common, and they’re difficult to craft. But the game’s next version update on September 11th (bad choice of dates there, guys) will make high-quality items easier to acquire while also upping the success rate for high-quality crafting. Considering that the patch will also include the next stage of the Escutcheon quests, it’s a fine time to get in some serious crafting.
If you’re not into the whole crafting thing (perhaps due to too many memories of your HQ Scorpion Harness synth exploding and destroying everything), you can take part in the latest monthly update to Ambuscade, perhaps adding in a new alter ego to your lineup as one is arriving with the patch. Combine that with the usual array of bug fixes and improvements, and you should have plenty of things to do when the version update goes live in a week.
