[Zebby]

Just talked to the Moogle that gave me my Wooden Katana in Southern San d'Oria at 4:30 AM EST on May 11th and received an Anniversary Ring.

Anniversary Ring
Rare/Exclusive
[Ring]All Races
Experience point bonus: +100%
Maximum duration: 720 min.
Maximum bonus: 3000
Lv.1 All Jobs
<10/10 0:15/[1:00:00, 0:15]>

Question that arises:
Is it rechargeable like the Empress Band?

The Moogle also hints that there will also be other items to coincide with the new event along with giving you a detailed adventuring life in a nutshell.

Be on the lookout for more stuff to come in the Adventurer Appreciation event!

Official Announcement via FFXI Home Page:

Adventurer Appreciation is Here! (05/11/2007)

Do you remember...?

Do you remember the first time you stepped into the world of Vana'diel?
The never-ending sky opening up before you?
The sense of pride and accomplishment after completing your very first mission?
The wind whipping through your hair as you rode across vast plains and scorching deserts?
And the companions with whom you shared those memories?

How many tales have been woven?
How many destinies fulfilled?
How many memories etched into the annals of history, like stars, ever lighting the heavens?

On May 16th, 2007, FINAL FANTASY XI enters its fifth year of service.

However, we could not have made it this far without you. It is you who brings life to Vana'diel, and for that we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.


To show our undying gratitude to the adventurers of Vana'diel, we have been working closely with the M.H.M.U. to put together this year's Adventurer Appreciation Campaign. As in previous years, moogles will be stationed in several cities passing out exciting prizes, such as giving adventurers data on their numerous exploits. Hurry over to Bastok, Windurst, or San d'Oria and be one of the first to collect the all-new anniversary ring, or a plethora of never-before seen fireworks designed especially for this year's celebration!

Campaign Period

Start: 0:00 May 11, 2007 (Friday)
Finish: 0:00 May 31, 2007 (Thursday)

Moogle Locations

Northern San d'Oria
Southern San d'Oria
Bastok Markets
Bastok Mines
Windurst Woods
Windurst Waters

[hideo]

This is great news, Ill have to check after work. Gives me another reason to check on my chocobo 0.o;;

[darktickle]

Try trading it to the signet NPC's!!!!!

[Mirae]

Just got mine too! Hope it's rechargable. Gonna wait using it til I know for sure, otherwise gonna save it for when I need to cap exp on DRG or do STR merits @_@

[NinjaGorge]

The moogle says "Oh, just don't accidentally throw it away or you anything, because you'll never get another one... ever, kupo!"

Interesting. Maybe this will be the only time they'll hand out anniversary rings or it may be rechargeable every year in this event.

[Squall1986]

darktickle :
Try trading it to the signet NPC's!!!!!

Fails and the ones in Aht Urhgan too

[darktickle]

Have you used a charge on the ring thou?

[Aikawa]

... using this ring in meritpo are kind of useless... unless ur party sucks u will always get good exp/h

im just lvlng another job, @50 atm.. with this ring u should hit 55 soon... but i hope others party members use it too..

and SE cant be that stupid to put this rechargeable... or maybe like some1 said in another thread... "rechargeable every year..."

[Evilkairi]

try 1 use then trade it to mog??? maybe mog will recharge it?!?!

[Papoose]

Used one charge and tried trading it to the event Moogle/conquest guy, doesn't work. So I highly doubt these are rechargable.

And, just in case anyone was wondering, Empress + Anniversary doesn't stack. Yeah, I was tempted to try.

[Lindil]

Just got an "Adventuring Certificate". Some kind of furniture item. Don't know what enhancement it gives since I'm in sandy, and my home is Windy, I'll edit it later.

[Won-ton]

In the past year:

Chat Frequency: 32015
Conversations With NPCs: 14541
Parties Joined: 402
Alliances Joined: 15
Battles Fought: 7020
Number of Times KO'd: 208
Enemies Defeated: 3485
GM Calls Made: 2
Play time: 72 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes

Got the anniversary ring for myself and all my mules on the first try. Waited a game day, but nothing else. Does that mean you only get a prize once per earth day? If so, I missed the first one. (

[Lauli]

uh, 4 years now?

Chat frequency: 560,598
Conversations With NPCs: 35275
Parties joined: 2281
Alliances joined: 353
Battles fought: 24773
Number of times KO'd: 1032
Enemies defeated: 13313
GM calls made: 35


Raaaawr.

[Lindil]

Not per earth day, I got the ceritficate thing, but I don't know what it does yet, gonna go try it out.

[Juriva]

Lauli :
Chat frequency: 560,598

Jesus Christ, Lauli. You talk too much! XD

[Lindil]

The certificate thing only gave me a "Mogenhancement: Light"...and it goes on the wall like a picture, ehh....not worth it IMO

[Samiam]

I find mine more funny then anything.

105,510 chat frequencies
11,009 NPC conversations
552 parties joined
9 alliances joined
11,170 battles fought
172 deaths
7,068 enemies defeated
Called GM 5 times.
Little under 5months since I started this character.

I talk a lot it seems.

[Aesk]

Papoose :
Used one charge and tried trading it to the event Moogle/conquest guy, doesn't work. So I highly doubt these are rechargable.

And, just in case anyone was wondering, Empress + Anniversary doesn't stack. Yeah, I was tempted to try.

Well if its anything like empress band. IF it is rechargeable. You'll have to use all 10 charges before trading it. But I doubt it is.

[Obiron]

Just curious for those who have attempted to recharge the ring: Have you recharged your empress band this week? I wonder if maybe you can only recharge one exp ring per conquest period (still hoping it's rechargeable...). I've recharged my empress band, so maybe I'll try next week. Or maybe try like the post above me to drain all charges first. It is npc tradeable, hopefully they made it that way for a reason. :con

[Rolund]

Well if its anything like empress band. IF it is rechargeable. You'll have to use all 10 charges before trading it. But I doubt it is.

You don't have to use all 10 charges on Empress to recharge, but most ppl do since you can get back to back uses that way.