Last week, SE made two huge announcements, that have essentially trumped anything that has come out since the new expansion was released.

First off, the Mog Bonanza. Essentially an in-game lottery, the MB promises to be a chance for the everyday player to get something or lots of somethings, as the top prize is 100,000,000 gil. My previous post about how the economy is currently may no longer apply after July when the gil is distributed. Lots of players are trying to cap their chances at obtaining the big prize, and even some of the lower tier prizes are exciting as well.

Personally, as my secondary job is Paladin, the tier 3 prize of Hauteclaire is most promising, since Hauteclaire is an extremely rare drop from Khimaira, who himself only pops once every few days. This HNM is camped by 2-3 linkshells almost constantly, so my chances of obtaining one without joining any of those said linkshells is almost nil.

As for the second announcement: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/special/080502.html

The "new" relics SE promised us from FanFest '07! One for each job, and with unique weapon skills and models, it seems to have gotten players extremely excited about the prospect of obtaining a coveted weapon. There's not too much information as of yet however, so speculation abounds as to whether these will be comparable to the "old" relics from Dynamis, and as well as what SE plans on doing as far as the promised revisiting of the "old" relic weapons.