119 Artifact Armor

[Yugl]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Version-Update

Adventurers need only speak to Monisette in Port Jeuno (I-8) to begin the journey.

Requisite Items
In addition to materials, adventurers will need specific items to complete the quest, which can be obtained via the following methods.
Defeating High-tier Mission Battle Bosses
Entering the Battlefields
Certain key items are required to enter these battlefields, and may be obtained by bequeathing merit points to the following NPCs.
Key Item Exchange NPCs
Trisvain in Northern San d'Oria (J-7)
Raving Opossum in Port Bastok (J-11)
Mimble-Pimble in Port Windurst (L-5)
Please refer to this page for details on the requisite items, key items, and battlefields.
Fulfilling Records of Eminence Objectives
After completing objectives and receiving a sufficient amount of sparks of eminence, adventurers may exchange them with the following NPCs.
Rolandienne in Southern San d'Oria (G-10)
Isakoth in Bastok Markets (E-11)
Fhelm Jobeizat in Windurst Woods (J-10)
Eternal Flame in Western Adoulin (H-11)

Findings/Discussion etc.

[Fwahm]

You can exchange 15000 sparks of eminence for a 119 chapter.

It takes 8 chapters, the 109 AF, an old crafting mat (dependent on job), and a new crafting mat (dependent on slot) to upgrade.

[pancakesandsex]

Is there a chart somewhere for 119 upgrades yet? I can't find anything.

[Ihina]

Charts are useful when they list and detail things that are to be discovered.

In this case, the NPC that you're supposed to trade the items to straight out tells you what you need to give her. If you still want a chart, you're just being lazy.

[Kohan]

"List and detail things that are to be discovered?" So no list can ever be created before something is known? How would you ever make anything more than a DAT mining list, then? How would you ever write a general information guide?

Unfortunately, no, there's no list yet as far as I'm aware. Just the Reforge Armor page on BG Wiki.

[Botosi]

Just wanted to confirm a bug I heard about. Reverence Gauntlets +1 only give Shield Mastery +1, not +10 as shown

[Darkmagi]

That's a bummer.

[Botosi]

I feel like Shield Mastery +10 was exactly what Pld needed. It also gave them a way of getting tp by tanking instead of meleeing (in which Pld lacks accuracy) which I thought was cool.....Oh well.....

[dasva]

Well it's been accepted as a bug in the OF so maybe they will fix it. God though 10 on top of regular 4 from job trait and 3 from kaiser head... 17 tp per block 19 if it deals dmg. Ochain super tanking ws spam never been better

[fantasticdan]

The 'bug' they'll fix is the text lol.

[NynJa]

Okay so maybe im missing something, someone she some light on my idiocy if im wrong.

119s need a synth upgrade that is only obtainable from AA fights, presumably normal or higher (a fight that requires 6 people, some presumably doable with 4, lower tiers unconfirmed), at a non-100% drop rate (even on VD), with a presumed max of 1.


Yet they let you pick up REM w sparks? I guess to just "get the last 1-2 pages", but yeah, what a dirty tease: you can get the pages, but you still need to kill AA for the item.

[Damane]

Okay so maybe im missing something, someone she some light on my idiocy if im wrong.

119s need a synth upgrade that is only obtainable from AA fights, presumably normal or higher (a fight that requires 6 people, some presumably doable with 4, lower tiers unconfirmed), at a non-100% drop rate (even on VD), with a presumed max of 1.


Yet they let you pick up REM w sparks? I guess to just "get the last 1-2 pages", but yeah, what a dirty tease: you can get the pages, but you still need to kill AA for the item.

probably done to stretch the content out abit, maybe the other mission based hard fights (shadow lord etc, that have a present KI allready) are more mats based? Considering their trend, i doubt AAs will be the only source to get the mats off.

[Prothescar]

considering that they still haven't made things like ormolu more widely available, there's still a pretty decent possibility that they won't make these synth items more common

[ikariiiii]

considering that they still haven't made things like ormolu more widely available, there's still a pretty decent possibility that they won't make these synth items more common

they probably just forgot about ormolu, much like this

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[Prothescar]

don't think staghorn or penelope cloth drop anywhere besides legion either! (remarkably rarely from VW too I guess, like less than pulse item drop rate)

[Damane]

considering that they still haven't made things like ormolu more widely available, there's still a pretty decent possibility that they won't make these synth items more common

this is a bit different tough, legion wasnt matsuis work. As far as matusi content it allways offered multiple ways to get what you wanted (not saying each way was as efficient as the other).

Bayld: Colo Reives, Lair reives, Skirmish
skirmish armor: direct drop, wings to trade in
Delve: inside farm, outside farm, use shards for plasm, farm plasm on normal mobs inside.
WKR armor: 3 library quest, direct drops, now infnity eminence reward for clearing all 6
REM weapon upgrades: Eminence, Sacred KS BCs, AA BCs, Delve NMs.

You can see definitly a trend with him, so I wouldnt be surprised if mats show up on future late december to be released hard modes or so.

While yes he is addressing older content, he is doing so step buy step and focusing mostly on new content and fixing old stuff that needed fixing (movement speed, HP teleportations ZOMG etc).

[Prothescar]

He's also been really adept at creating choke points on content to make it last longer than it really should, so we'll see I guess.

[dasva]

don't think staghorn or penelope cloth drop anywhere besides legion either! (remarkably rarely from VW too I guess, like less than pulse item drop rate)

They dropped decently during the special BCNM drop events. Most of the legion synth maats do except orm. So orm stays at like 5 mil and stag horn went to less than a mill last I checked.

As far as the maats given you can get rem upgard items and rem tales from it why not just put the maats on RoE? Make it 50k each who cares just give a regular farm option

[Prothescar]

I would pay 50k. I keep capping out with nothing to spend on because i wouldn't be able to use the pages anyway... so I'm just stockpiling them

[dasva]

Yeah I've bought a full set of 1s and 6s for head and a weapon. And accidentally overcapped for a bit. And that's just my main. But it's nice I can just use 10 to go to RF instead of making the af+1 first and waiting on stupid npc