Neo-Dynamis Changes

[dasva]

The price of currency already appears to be dropping. My dream of making every relic is here!

[Foldypaws]

192 currency and 28 forgotten thingies. I subbed NIN instead of nothing and killed the DC mobs. Drink the Kool-aid, it'll be good for you.

This may drive the price of currency down a lot.

If Alex prices don't drop substantially when they revamp Nyzul, there goes my hope of owning a mythic :/

Of course, if you end up needing to kill 500 PWs to finish a Mythic, I'm quitting the game anyway so the point might be moot.

[Byrthnoth]

If Alex prices don't drop substantially when they revamp Nyzul, there goes my hope of owning a mythic :/

Of course, if you end up needing to kill 500 PWs to finish a Mythic, I'm quitting the game anyway so the point might be moot.

Well, I think that prices will drop but I can't swear to it. There are a few factors in play:
1) I'm incredibly used to doing Dynamis and went at an off-peak time using monster groups that aren't on the bgwiki maps. Most of the guys who start up due to AF2+2 are just going to congest the camps and reduce currency yield during primetime. Even at my obscure and remote monster groups, I still saw a BST sneaking around.
2) Some people are not going to want to farm every day, and a lot of them have a substantial amount of gil thanks to Abyssea. This may keep the value of Forgotten items high, which will cause the farmers to prioritize them over coin drops. Proccing doesn't affect it, so you can get more Forgotten items at the cost of coins if you just kill shit as fast as possible and let the procs come as they will. Point 1/2 are basically that more people may farm, but less efficiently.
3) As long as Forgotten crap remains about 1.5x more expensive than coins (which it likely always will), it will make sense to upgrade armor before you do the trial. This will take coins out of circulation.

Lowering:
4) That said, I can upgrade 1 armor a week and I can farm over a thousand coins a week. The effect of that might be pretty small.
5) You *have* to get 20,000 xp in Dynamis even after you've got all the Forgotten stuff just to store the armors. That is about 2-3 Dynamises duo, which is comparable to the +2ing time. That's a lot of extra time people will be spending in Dynamis.
6) Relics have an uncertain future. It is looking kinda likely that everyone is going to end up stuck at 95 with the "special" weapons. This will drive demand down for all types of currency.

I would not totally abandon hope, basically, but at the moment I'm predicting prices will continue to drop.

[Mojo]

An update to Salvage is coming, they stated this, so I expect that salvage currency will become more practical to obtain if that's what you desire.

[shaggnix]

i have to think a znm system overhaul may be coming, just the time spent gathering zeni for that many PW pops would be far far more than 99.999% of the gaming population would be willing to do regardless of the reward, nvm for just an upgrade. if you use the median zeni price on pops its ..... 67k zeni per PW, the thought of gathering 67 million zeni would make anyones ass pucker. hell, 1 mil zeni would make my ass pucker.

[Helel]

Dunno why they're waiting so long. They could have at least increased the drop rate of alex this update... something... anything.

[Shenrien]

went SAM/WAR WAR/SAM THF/NIN BRD/WHM WHM/BLM(:/wrong sub) and pulled 206 currency, 46 forgotten touches, doing trents only.

[Helel]

I believe that only city zones + beaucedine and xarcabard can double drop +2 items. Just did tavnazia, including the kindred there, and we didn't get a single double drop. If anyone has any pics otherwise then let me know.

Tav drops both thoughts and hopes. I popped diabolos just for kicks to see if the NQ would drop relic upgrades (for relic weapons), but no luck. Anyone done HQ version since update?

Edit: OH I forgot the main reason I wanted to post. XP rings DO work. Sorry for confusion. Finished the augment on THF hands.

[Foldypaws]

Finished the augment on THF hands.

So what do they do?

[Ustav]

I believe that only city zones + beaucedine and xarcabard can double drop +2 items. Just did tavnazia, including the kindred there, and we didn't get a single double drop. If anyone has any pics otherwise then let me know.

Tav drops both thoughts and hopes. I popped diabolos just for kicks to see if the NQ would drop relic upgrades (for relic weapons), but no luck. Anyone done HQ version since update?

Edit: OH I forgot the main reason I wanted to post. XP rings DO work. Sorry for confusion. Finished the augment on THF hands.

How does it enhance/augment PD?(if you've tested it yet)

[Helel]

I'll have her test it on the chariot in a few mins.

[macross]

I got 31 touches, 350 coins or so. Died on te when I aggroed 6 DC mobs hehe. Prob could have gotten a few more if didnt' die. Was dnc/thief blu/dnc thief/dnc.

[Helel]

She said it just added 10s to PD.

[Arthars]

thf/dnc + nin/dnc and 2 whm mules

idk how many coins but got 50 steps (i got 25 and we each lot 1, so prolly 50 or 49) could have been more if didnt do beastman

EP also seem to drop alot for me.... definately lesser but we did farm some beastman for friend's af....and did get a fair share from EP beastmen

[macross]

I saw a party just mass killing the DC orcs. I guess they might drop 2 or all beastman can drop 2?

[Alkimi]

Went THF/DNC to Qufim solo, got 148 currency but only 2 forgotten journeys. EP mobs only and no beastmen mobs. Both mine dropped from diremites.

[Julian]

Went THF/DNC to Qufim solo, got 148 currency but only 2 forgotten journeys. EP mobs only and no beastmen mobs. Both mine dropped from diremites.

Same-ish. Solo 3box'd qufim, 351 coins, 3 journeys. 2 from diremites, 1 from gaylas.

[phafi]

Spoiler: show

tome NMs can yield forgotten "x."

[Raffi_XI]

few days ago, we got a hope of NQ DL too.

[Mikus]

sticking with only DC mobs in Bubu, got 15 steps today. Those that are getting 40+ seem to be quite lucky!