HorizonXI Wiki - HorizonXI Changes

HorizonXI is an 'era+' FFXI private server. The 'era+' alludes to custom changes made by the development team in an attempt to balance the game more fairly and to make some lesser used content more relevant. This page contains a list of all KNOWN custom changes.

Jobs

Warrior

• Defender now adds 250 Cumulative Enmity (CE) (WAR as main job) to provoke. 180 CE (/WAR).
• Defender now adds -25% enmity loss reduction from taking damage. +10% chance to block with a shield for WAR main job only.

Monk

• Boost has a larger attack bonus of 20% , a longer recast of 30 seconds and a duration 3 minutes.
• Focus is learned at level 15 instead of 25, has a 3 minute duration and increases critical hit rate by ???.
• Dodge is learned at level 25, has a 3 minute duration and increases guard rate by ???.
• Chakra's recast time has been reduced to 2 minutes from 3. It also removed multiple status effects the player is inflicted with.
• Chi Blast now also removes 1 mob buff (Dispel). Testing is required to see whether this effect is random.

White Mage

• Reraise is available to White Mage's at level 25 instead of 33.
• Haste has had its recast reduced from 20 to 18 seconds. - Version 1.1
• The effect of Banish has been 'era+'ed' but testing is required to verify how
• Protectra V is now obtained via scrolls and not merits.
• Shellra V is now obtained via scrolls and not merits.

• Devotion is available at level 45 instead of via merits.
• Divine veil either doubles the potency and duration of the next Regen spell or turns the next status-removing spell into an AoE effect, whilst the job ability Divine Seal is active.
• The Banish Effect merit category has been buffed and it's effects against undead now extend to Cure spells and Holy. - version 1.2
• Changes have been made to Artifact Armor, Artifact Armor +1 and the relic weapon Mjollnir.

Black Mage

• Magic Bursts receive an extra +35 Magic Accuracy, +35 Magic Attack and reduced enimty generation, except on notorious monsters. * Ninjutsu Magic Bursts receive an extra +50 Magic Accuracy, +35 Magic Attack and reduced enimty generation, except on notorious monsters.

• Some Elemental magic scrolls bought from vendors have reduced prices. The amount needs further investigation but appears to be around 40%. Scrolls with reduced prices can be found to be marked as such on the wiki.

Red Mage

• The cost of Refresh has been increased from 40 to 50 MP and it's recast time has been decreased from 18 to 16 seconds. - Version 1.1

• Convert has had its recast increased from 10 to 13 minutes. Recast reduction merit now only reduces the recast by 12 seconds as opposed to 20.
• 30% reduction in enmity gained from casting enfeebling magic while on Red Mage as your main job

Thief

• The player's Accuracy and Ranged Accuracy when using Perfect Dodge are increased by 999.
• Triple Attack unlocks at level 30 instead of 55.
• Assassin is unlocked at level 50 instead of 60.

Paladin

• Holy Circle increased damage for party member against undead mobs. Protects against blood aggro but further testing is required to ascertain how.
  Recast has also been doubled to 10 minutes.
• Enlight wasn't originally in the Chains of Promathia era and was a level 85 spell on retail when it did become available. On Horizon is can be learnt at level 40.
• Auto-Refresh's level has been reduced to 25, from 35. It wasn't available until the Treasures of Aht Urghan era.
• Paladin's are able to use most Club Skill now and Starlight is available to them at skill level 40.
• Chivalry is available at level 45. It was originally a merit ability.
• Shields have been buffed and now have an increased block rate and damage reduction when blocking.

• The Shield Mastery trait wasn't available until the Treasures of Aht Urghan era.

• Cover - Now no longer requires the paladin to put themselves in between party member and enemy. Works as long as party member stays in range and does not move. While a Paladin is covering another player eg. a Warrior while using Berserk, the defense calculation is incorrect and the player will find themselves taking increased damage (it's as if the PLD has inherited the WAR's defense). It's generally regarded that cover isn't working correctly currently and as such is hard to decipher what is an era+ change and what is broken.

Dark Knight

• Arcane Circle has a damage bonus against arcana for all parties members as well as providing protection against magic aggro but further testing is required to ascertain how effective this is.
  The recast of this ability has been doubled to 10 minutes.
• Arcane Circle Recast now decreases the recast time of Arcane Circle by 20 seconds each level instead of 10 seconds each level

• Desperate Blows wasn't available until the Treasures of Aht Urghan era.

• Souleater now has a recast time of 5 minutes instead of 6 minutes
• Souleater Recast Merit now decreases the recast time of Souleater by 10 seconds each level instead of 12 seconds each level
• Last Resort's duration has been doubled from 30s to 60s

Beastmaster

• The night flowers that need to be examined while doing the BST quest can be examined as early as 16:00 and as late as 06:00 hours in game. This may or may not be a bug.
• Ready wasn't available until 2009. There are only 45 seconds between charges as opposed to 60 seconds when it was available. A maximum of 3 charges still applies but this is now attained after 2 minutes and 25 seconds has passed as opposed to 3 minutes.

Bard

• None

Ranger

• Camouflage grants an enmity reduction on the next attack.

• Velocity Shot wasn't available until the Wings of the Goddess era.

Samurai

• Hasso/Seigan - These abilities weren't available in the CoP era. They now share a recast time of 45 seconds.The bonus effects of Zanshin are no longer in effect (needs verifying ).
• Warding Circle - changes similar to arcane circle/holy circle?
• Zanshin - Doesn't gain the activation rate bonus from Hasso/Seigan. It has been reported that it no longer activates on attacks that are guarded, countered or deal 0 damage.

Ninja

• Ninjutsu Magic Bursts receive an extra +50 Magic Accuracy, +35 Magic Attack and reduced enimty generation, except on notorious monsters.

• Mijin Gakure - Has been replaced with Mikage. - Version 1.1
• Utsusemi - recast increased by 15 seconds for both spells.
• Yonin - learned at Lv.20 instead of Lv.40, modified to only -15% att, emn +10, and reduces recast of utsus by 10 seconds. Does not grant Ninja Tool Expertise. Unknown if it enhances it.
• Ninja Tool Expertise - learned at Lv.40 as a trait.
• Ninjutsu
  • All Ninjustu have +15 magic accuracy, with a further +10 for all elemental wheel spells (+25 m.acc total.) This effect is increased to +50 extra magic accuracy on magic bursts, on all non-notorious monsters.
  • The ichi elemental wheel starts at 12 (would have been 15 in era).
• Mikage - Custom 2hr ability. Player receives 4 shadows upon activation. Grants a 30 second duration where elemental ninjutsu spells deal a multiplied amount of damage, with the amount of multiplication decided on the amount of shadows remaining. - Version 1.1

Dragoon

• Ancient Circle - changes similar to arcane circle?
• Steady Wing - Wasn't available in era, learned at level 30.

Summoner

• Whispering Wind has erase effect
• Spring Water gives AoE 2 mp/tic refresh
• Crimson Howl lasts 3 minutes
• Ecliptic Growl has swaped with Ecliptic Howl and is level 54 vs 43
• Ecliptic Howl has swaped with Ecliptic Growl is level 43 vs 54

Combat

• WotG exp rates.
• Level Sync is available and limited to 10 levels before an XP penalty begins to take effect. See the level sync page for more information.
• Two handed weapon changes from WotG implented. One handed changes also from later time.
• Club damage was buffed
• 2007 Signet bonus changes are in effect.
• All Experience Scrolls give triple the amount of EXP. - Update. 1.1

Weapon Skills:

• Skillchain damage against mobs no longer has a chance of being resisted against non NM/HNM/endgame bosses.
• Many Weapon Skills have been found to have their had property changes but not had their in-game help text updated (yet).
• Energy Drain reworked to drain haste from target.
• Nightmare Scythe now has chance of Terror on target.
• Blast Arrow and Blast Shot now has chance of Stun.
• Swift Blade has swapped critical chance and accuracy effects.
• Gale Axe now inflicts weight to the target.
• Decimation now is a 3 hit attack that ignores def and varies with tp.
• Starlight and Seraph Strike have swapped from 100 to 40 Skill to learn.
• Wasp Sting has been buffed to be about equal to Viper bite.
• Most Elemental WS, including Gust Slash Changed to Hybrid.
  • All new hybrid ws's can now stack with Sneak Attack.

• Wheeling Thrust TP multiplier has been increased. - Update 1.1
• Skewer WS modifier has been increased. - Update 1.1

Spells and Magic

White Magic

Changes to the White Magic spells:

• Reraise is available to White Mage's at level 25 instead of 33.
• Haste has had its recast reduced from 20 to 18 seconds. - Version 1.1
• The effect of Banish has been 'era+'ed' but testing is required to verify how
• Protectra V is now obtained via scrolls and not merits.
• Shellra V is now obtained via scrolls and not merits.
• The cost of Refresh has been increased from 40 to 50 MP and it's recast time has been decreased from 18 to 16 seconds. - Version 1.1

• Magic Bursts receive an extra +35 Magic Accuracy, +35 Magic Attack and reduced enimty generation, except on notorious monsters.
• Ninjutsu Magic Bursts receive an extra +50 Magic Accuracy, +35 Magic Attack and reduced enimty generation, except on notorious monsters.

• The incremental rate at which MP is recovered through /heal is now +4, differing from the +1 value from retail/era.
• The set of Clear Mind job traits has been modified. Clear Mind III now features +15 total hMP but without any bonuses to the incremental rate. Clear Mind V now features +17 total hMP while only adding +2 to the incremental rate.

Black Magic

• Elemental magic scrolls bought from vendors have reduced prices. The amount needs further investigation.
• Poison's DoT effect has been increased from 1 a tick to 4 a tick.

Ninjutsu

Changes to the Ninjutsu spells:

• Ninjutsu - ichi elemental wheel spells are learnable at 12 but only useable from level 15.
• Provides +40 cumulative enmity and +450 volatile enmity. Essentially CE is halved and VE is doubled compared to retail/era.

Items

• Notorious Monsters drop the non RA/EX versions of gear and weapons if possible.
• Warp rings are no longer usable.
• Laurel crown is now cosmetic and not able to teleport.
• Some items are stackable that weren't in era eg. Yagudo Necklace.

Drops

• Kirin drops Shellra V.

Weapons

• Octave Club has been changed to Work as the Kraken club
• Added Malignance Sword.
• Hagun Damage Nerf.
• Thief's Knife no longer Treasure Hunter, replaced with quest for Nanaa's Charm
• Relic weapons: please review the Category:Relic Weapons page for a compleate list of know changes.
• Rune Chopper Had its Latent Effect: Haste reduced from 9% to 2%.
• The recipes for Shuriken, Juji Shuriken, Manji Shuriken and Fuma Shuriken have been changed.
  • These can now be bundled together in a pouch, each via a synthesis recipe.

Armor

• RoZ Rewards earrings all changed.
• CoP Rewards rings except Rajas Ring.
• Stealth Earring now has the enhances "Dual Wield" effect that Suppanomimi used to have.
• Added Shepherd's Armor Set for pet jobs.
• Speed Belt reduces to 5% haste.
• Armada Set gained small haste buff of +1~2% per piece.
• Many of the LVL 30 JSE Accessories for Subjobs were modified to attempt to offer more sub optional enhancements.
  • Healer's Belt (/WHM)
  • Pilferer's Belt (/THF)
  • Shield Belt (/PLD)
  • Song Belt (/BRD)
  • Warlock's Belt (/RDM)
  • Wizard's Belt (/BLM)
  • Wyvern Belt (/DRG)
• Most jobs Artifact Armor has had adjustments to the "Less desirable pieces" to have a small stat buff added to make them not entirely useless.
• All Artifact Weapons were changed to level 40, with some adjustments.
• Many Endgame armor pieces were modified from era (ie. Koenig Cuirass)
• Some Conquest items were changed.
• Exp Rings have been modified to provide more charges, reduce cooldowns etc. See page for further information.
• Level 30 latent effect earrings have been changed
• Players no longer start with their corresponding nations ring (eg. San d'Orian Ring. Instead they are awarded upon completing nation mission 1-3.
• Yinyang Robe now drops in the BCNM Waking the Beast - Update 06/04/2023
• The recipe for Sonic Belt has been adjusted.

Food

• Tuna Sushi and Fatty Tuna Sushi reworked to give positive stats to pets. - 01/20/2023
• Ikra Gunkan and its +1 version have been reworked to generally suit, but not limited to tanking roles.

Quests, Missions, & Battlefields

New Quests

• Fill In to obtain Nanaa's Charm
• Dyer's Woad Quest added. - updated version 1.1

Quest Updates

• Some quest cooldowns removed, allowing them to be repeated quickly.
• Chocobo's Wounds now only requires about one Vana'diel hour (2.5 minutes) between trades.
• Eco-Warrior (Bastok), Eco-Warrior (San d'Oria) and Eco-Warrior (Windurst) now yield 8k EXP upon completion.

Battlefields

• Multiple adjustments made to loot pools of various BCNM's. Notable changes are:
  • Protectra V and Shellra V
  • Enlight

• New HorizonXI specific items added to BCNM's such as:
  • Shepherd's Armor Set

BCNM

• Early Bird Catches the Wyrm - Wyrm Beard now has a 50% chance of dropping. - Update 1-1
• Steamed Sprouts - Morbolger Vine now has a chance to drop. - Update 1-1

KSNM

• Contaminated Colosseum - Morbolger Vine now has a 100% chance of dropping. - Update 1-1

Quest Battlefields

• Waking the Beast
  • Difficulty of the fight has been increased - Update 06/04/2023
  • Drop rate of weapons has been increased - Update 06/04/2023
  • Yinyang Robe has been added as a possible drop - Update 06/04/2023

Crafting, Gathering, Fishing

• Many gathered items (such as ores) are stackable.
• Many 'NPC-able' recipes eg. Darksteel Picks have had their NPC price reduced.
• The delay between HELM attempts has been lowered by 1 second. - 01/06/2023

Chocobo Digging

• Now has visible skill-up messages when undertaking in the activity.
• Real life daily limit in place.
• Loot pools have been changed to increase the amount of profitable locations. - Version 1.1

Clamming

• Clamming loot pools have been reworked to make the activity more worthwhile.

Excavation

• Pools in Tahrongi Canyon, Maze of Shakhrami, Attohwa Chasm and Korroloka Tunnel have been adjusted to increase the value of harvesting. - Version 1.1

Harvesting

• Pools in West Sarutabaruta and Giddeus have been adjusted to increase the value of harvesting. - Version 1.1
• May now be done in Beaucedine Glacier. - Version 1.1

Logging

• Pools in Buburimu Peninsula, Lufaise Meadows, Misareaux Coast, Yuhtunga Jungle and Yhoator Jungle have been adjusted to increase the value of logging. - Version 1.1

Mining

• Oldton Movalpolos and Newton Movalpolos Mining Points have had their item pools adjusted to increase the value of mining in these zones. - Version 1.1

Monsters

• Mob distribution in some zones has been changed. Instances of both mobs being moved and/or removed.
• New mobs have been added to many zones to increase the amount of xping locations.
• Dungeon type mobs respawn time is 5 minutes, in line with outdoor zone respawn times.
• Undead mobs spawn at 17:00 in-game time instead of 20:00.
• The ??? for Forced Spawn notorious monsters have a respawn time of 5 minutes.
• Various notorious monsters have claimshield in place.

Endgame

Sky

• Despot has a 2 hour cooldown (reduced) before the lottery re-opens. - Version 1.1
• Steam Cleaner has a 2 hour cooldown (reduced) before the lottery re-opens. - Version 1.1
• Zipacna respawns 2-3 hours (reduced) after its previous death. - Version 1.1
• Mother Globe respawns 2-3 hours (reduced) after its previous death. - Version 1.1
• Faust respawns 2-3 hours (reduced) after its previous death. - Version 1.1
• Curtana ??? respawns 2-3 hours (reduced) after being found. - Version 1.1
• Ullikummi is force spawned by trading a diorite to its corresponding ???. - Version 1.1
• Diorites drop from Aura Statues at a rate of 1%. - Version 1.1

• Kirin will always drop at least 1 abjuration. - Version 1.1

Limbus

• Cosmo-Cleanse can be obtained just short of every 72 hours. - Version 1.1
• The Armoury Crate spawned by defeating Proto-Ultima will now always drop a Silver Chip, Cerulean Chip, or Orchid Chip. - Version 1.1
• The damage of Proto-Ultima's Holy II has been increased. Version 1.1
• Citadel Buster will now always begin casting once Proto-Ultima reaches 20% health. - Version 1.1

Sea

• Ix'aern (Dark Knight) will not reraise itself more than 20 times per spawn. - Version 1.1

Dynamis

• The level range of monsters in Dynamis zones has been tightened and the maximum level range of Dynamis monsters has been increased. The purpose of this change is to make Dynamis monsters more challenging. - Version 1.1
• New NPC's added: Billrox, Bronzvox and Sheltrix. Each will convert one hundred pieces of Dynamis Currency into single pieces of currency. - Version 1.1
• Dynamis Lord now drops at least ONE 100 piece.

HNM

• Each of the 3 ground kings can spawn in multiple zones. "These monsters will now only spawn in one small area in each of the relative zones that they spawn in." - Update 06/04/2023
• Each of the 3 ground kings will always spawn in a different location to the previous day. "Fearful of the Adventuring alliance's activities the three ground kings now refuse to spawn in the same zone twice in a row." - Update 06/04/2023
• Behemoth & King Behemoth can spawn in Qufim Island - removed in Update 06/04/2023

System

• All Auction Houses are linked and each player has a 21 item limit.
• Bazaar tax is set to 10% across the world.
• Yells only appear in the log whilst being inside a town or city zone.
• Items inside a players Storage can be accessed in Jeuno as well as their home nation.
• Mog Wardrobes 1 & 2 via certain progress conditions.
• Mog Satchel is available by linking your discord and in-game character. See discord for more information.
• Players may have 2 linkshells equipped at the same time.
• Key items sort into 4 categories: Temporary Key Items, Permanent Key Items, Claim Slips and Magical Maps. These categories were only introduced in June 2007 source.
• Macro books were only introduced in November 2007 source.
• Beastmen seals etc. weren't storable with Shami until September 2008 source.
• Mog house exit cutscenes are disabled and mog house home points are enabled.

NPCs:

• All Outpost Teleportation NPC's have been located in their era accurate positions. Their locations were adjusted in December 2008. source.
• New Outpost Teleportation NPC's have been added to Jeuno. See Twinkstix/Burnstix/Sprinkstix.
• Two new warp taru's have been added to Windurst Woods - Port Windurst. See Polo-Colo/Mumbo-Bumbo.
• The chocobo rental NPC's in Yhoator Jungle and Eastern Altepa Desert are out of era, only being introduced in June 2007! source
• Nomad Moogles in Selbina and Mhaura were only added in June 2008 source.

Claimed adjustments from their website.

Server Settings

• Launch Expansion: Chains of Promathia ("CoP")
• Level Cap: 75
• Launch Patch Date: April 17, 2006 (day before ToAU update)
• Accounts/Characters: 1 account (single box) and 3 characters per IP address
• Movement Speed: 40 - Level 75 cap era default movement speed (-20% speed)
• Experience Rates: 1.0 - Wings of the Goddess (“WoTG”) EXP rates
• Crafting Rates: 1.0
• Level Sync: Launch System - Unlimited Sync with scaling penalty (see “System: Level Sync” section below)
• Equipment Scaling (Level Sync): Disabled
• Auction House: Stocked by players - 21 item limit per character
• Fishing: Enabled
• Gardening: Enabled
• Chocobo Digging: Enabled
• Dynamis: CoP era with 71 hour lockout (reduced from 72), rumors state it is an entirely new system built by the devs from scratch.
• Claim Shield: Added to prominent NMs to provide a fair playing experience for all players. HorizonXI uses a lottery based claim shield system where each person has the opportunity to act on the mob once for a chance to claim the monster. After all players have acted and the claim window has closed, the monster will randomly select one person who acted on it and give them the claim. Multiple actions taken on a monster during the lottery do not increase your chances at claiming - each person can only enter the claim lottery once before the lottery window ends.
• Inventory Expansions: Mog Wardrobes 1 and 2, and Mog Satchel to be unlocked by completing certain objectives (see “System: Inventory Expansion” section below)
• Treasure Hunter: Era accurate (we used SE's official Treasure Hunter chart to build our system)
• Era accurate drop rates: Drop rates for all items have been adjusted to reflect the era experience more accurately

Verification Needed

• Counterstance reduces more defense than normal and doesn't give any positive buffs.
• Gravity movement speed issues. Fixed with update on 03/03/2023?