It's also possible that they have a larger base of windows users than PS2 so they're trying to avoid some of the update congestion.

As a WHM, I think it's absolutley stupid that Raise spells are hard to get and that people sell them for so much.

Why?

Because we can't even use them on ourselves!!!!!

WHM's are not good farmers. Other than teleporting for gil, we never roll in the dough. It's insane that we should spend 5 million gil or have to collect 30 Kindred Seals to have a 1 in 100 chance of getting this drop, JUST SO we can go and raise you for free.

It would be in the interest of everyone to give these spells to WHMs if you have them. The more WHMs who can Raise (I, II, and III) the less experience you'll all lose in the long-run.

Edited, Wed Feb 16 16:31:43 2005

You got it for 1.5 Millions ? Your a lucky guy then.

On my server it's raised up to 5 million and still not available. That's way to much for a spell a high level whm must have.

Right now it`s dropped from Kindred Seal BCNM 30. With the right setup the BCNM with the pods surely is possible. A lev 70 whm might collect 90 Kindred Seals in his life. So he has 3 tries on this one. There is a post where someone did it 18 times without drop.

Another drop chance is Za'Dha Adamantking. It's a lev 85 HNM Quadav witch is a lottery pop of a lev 75 NM Quadav. You need to camp it for maybe 2 days with an high lev alliance. Hard to find enough ppl to help with this.

Last chance but maybe the best is to kill Kirin.
First you need access to Sky what means you need to finish ZM 12. Then you have to kill 4 GOD HNM to get the spawn items for Kirin. Then you have to kill Kirin. It's a lev 90 GOD HNM witch spawns 4 other GOD HNM. You need around 30-40 lev 70+ for this fight. My GOD LS killed him twice now. No Raise III drop. Poor result for the WHMs who did maybe 20 Raises in this 2 hour during fight.

Thank you SE for changing this now.

Edited, Wed Feb 16 09:37:05 2005

One thing, you should pay attention to what it says on http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/information/0214.html
Because it specifically states "New methods of obtaining the spell "Raise III" are being considered." Key words "Being considered." Which as we all know means that it's a possibility, albeit a slim one.