Bastok sucks on Phoenix too (and in fact, server-wide. It's a serious balancing issue SE refuse to believe exists).
It's just that some rich people kept them in Minor from Monday to Saturday, then traded in a boatload of equipment on Saturday night. Combined with the easter egg event, Windurst never saw it coming.
Of course, we then did the same thing to Ronfaure the following week, but somehow it was given to San d'Oria even though we were Majoring it at the end.
That might actually be my pic of Slow Axe, you know.
Edit: Nope, not mine. Mine can be seen at:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/mikaga/ffxi/bastok-sarutabaruta-03.png
Edited, Fri Jul 15 09:39:44 2005