Vanadoubt 2 Hope You Like Fishing

Two separate accounts, three mules each.

All the mules on one account were in a Unity already, only one of the mules on account 2 was. The other two mules had done *zero* RoEs.

Most of them had the Mhaura HP already, one did not.

Highest was 30, lowest was 1. Leveled it to 6 in the process of unlocking Unity warp.

The Lv 30 mule did AFK bazaaring so it has plenty of playtime.

Not a single mule earned plaudits after completing the RoE. Just the two main characters.

I havent tried joining and seeing if I will get the points retroactively.

Not saying to not waste your time, as getting plaudits post maint. seems weird tbh. But, on my lvl 1 mule, started RoE pre-vanabout. Flagged/completed ambu RoE. No Plaudits.

I did do more of the basic tutorial RoE and joined a Unity. Went back to talk to Gorpa, re-logged, no plaudits yet.

What can i do with vana points?

Get a vanity wpn

Rewards are on the wiki, but the highlights are 300 tier Kupon 1-Aby each good for 2 NM drops, for upgrading Armor/Weapons or 22 ANV Dial Key good from Random disappointment and Maybe something half ok.

750 Tier 100 Deeds of Heroism. good for catching up, or getting some rewards early. 2.5months worth of deeds. 100 Pieces for Dyna if you need, or don't want something else there.

1300 Tier Exepmlar points based on your Plaudits ex if you have 1320 you'd get 13200 Exemplar.
Job points, @1320 points it gave the option of 102 job points
2 Stacks of Alex
2 Umbral Marrow or 1 Mulcibar's Scoria Used for upgrading weapons, or selling, both of these sell in the 2-3 mil range (server varying)

Assuming there will be a reward at the end based on personal performance again.

The reward gives 3 kupons btw, so 6 nm drops for the reward

You really do get 22 ANV keys

Figured it was a typo or they were just wrong but nope. Still like a .001% chance of anything of literally any value.

>>>>

Back to the addiction I suppose.

Got the "Venerated Adventurer" title today for finishing 8th on Cerberus. It was cool to be out doing things we'd normally never do. SE did well with this.

Max points this event was 3210 Plaudits it seems. You had to start at 1AM PT when they first started I think since they were reset at 8AM PT the same day?

Was it always 150 points possible from daily objectives?

On May 20, it seems the total possible points should have been 1840 (150x6 + 440 + 500 free points) but I noticed some people got 1860 pts by then and 3210 pts by the end of Vana'Bout (150x15 + 440 + 500 = 3190)

First place on Lakshmi was 3190 plaudits.
Second place was a 3-way tie with 3060.
Fifth was 2980.

Cutoff for top 10 was 2780.

"Venerated Adventurer" title is reobtainable by talking to the Coordinator Moogle and viewing the ranks again as well as for 200 gil at the title changer in Mhaura.

It was more lenient for the ghost town that is Cerberus. I got up to 2310 without doing stuff like Emptiness and Heroes Combat every day, and I didn't get in at the start before Japanese midnight. First place has 3030, and 10th has 2290. Compared to other servers, I probably did the least amount of work to get this title, lol.

They didn't go as hard as expected, would've thought at least 10 would max out but guess only 3 did it

maybe the whole "day 0" thing got more people than expected, on Shiva I squeezed by in 9th with 3060, which is doing everything from day 1 onwards (I slept through the day 0 window) few people did max it out for first place with 3210.

It seemed a lot of people waited to the last day to register as expected, yesterday was me watching my name creep down the board.

Overall though much more engaging this round, was fun to relive some nostalgia with enms and such. hope they keep developing it (and do a sortie campaign obv)

Tied for 8th with 3060 since I lost day 2 objectives from the bug.
Won't go for title again if it's the same one next time.
Hopefully they increase # of ranks that can get the title next time or something so less FOMO to go around for people.

I'm glad it was "Venerated Adventurer" and not something like "Venerated Adventurer of Vana'bout Round 2."

3210 for ppl who got all day 0 objectives
3060 for ppl who got every objective starting from the first JP midnight



Plaudidiot would've been better

Shiva were savages lol I was 4th on the 28th (two players tied for 2nd). Then on the 29th after doing everything for the day I was 10th and then when it finally closed shop I ended up 12th. A handful of people holding out on reporting until the very end. I had 3030 plaudits closing.

Overall reward seems to just be flat. 10000 exp/exemp at 500 plaudits, 10000 exp/exemp at 1790 plaudits. Could be a bump at 2000 or something, but I doubt it.

Considering we hit, what, like 1100% of the goal, 110000 exp would have been cool, but whatever, 20 mobs worth of experience is the established baseline for things we're meant to be excited about anyway.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/61790

"never in my wildest dreams did I expect you to exceed a 1,000% completion rate"

...after giving every single active character 500 free plaudits, that ~may~ have just counted towards the completion rate...

It was already over 300% when they did it though, but yeah, it would've added to the 1000% total. But ultimately the 150% goal was reached, so whether it was 400%, 1000% or 578938957378%, the rewards and result were the same

Yeah the 100%/125%/150% milestones were going to be smashed regardless. If they hadn't given us the free plaudits Fujito would've been gushing over a 500% completion rate or whatever. It's not like the first one where we had no hope whatsoever.

"So for the next time around, despite no give away... we will be mulitplying the goal by 20!" - Future Fujito