General Update Changes (May-09-11)

[InspectorGadget]

is it just me or are the Synergy Furnaces in Upper Jeuno gone?

[Draylo]

Yes it's in the patch notes.

[Deathbringer]

is it just me or are the Synergy Furnaces in Upper Jeuno gone?

They removed them

[Jeryhn]

is it just me or are the Synergy Furnaces in Upper Jeuno gone?

Was in the update notes, something about system resources?

What should have been done was remove them from Port.

[mdkuser]

Throwing animation for Mithra is glitched. Singing animation instead.

unload blinkmenot?

I've had this before the update too so nothing changed. It happens when you range attack and blink at the same time, its probably tied to windower but not to BlinkMeNot as I dont use that. Before I reactivated in January it was a throwing grenade animation, but i have to say singing is more fun than grenades.

[Arthars]

the additional NPC doesnt do shit to port jeuno congestion...

Port jeuno is still the best, AH and NPC are close....

while port sandoria may be as close, port bastok is a lil not convinient and idk wtf is with windurst NPC being in heaven's tower

inc metalworks drama

[grevenilvec75]

Did you oneshot the mobs you were killing? You won't get lights if the mob isn't claimed to you, and a good nuke will definitely oneshot a Licorice.

Most of them yeah, but I've 1-shot them before and pretty sure I got azure, anyway i'll go re-test after work.

EDIT: wasnt 1-shotting ephemerals though.

[Churchill]

Highest Crit I had on RNG was 711 vs Dolls in A: Altepa (Attempted to cap RATK, so Atma's were Stout Arm, Drifter, and GH). Ate food, used Berserk and VS.
Weapon was Vision Bow+Demon Arrow.

Barrage for 3400, Sidewinder for 3400 (Crits) - Average was 2400 for Sidewinder

Normal attacks were in the range of 400ish with all buffs on, 369 w/out.

Holy bolts with Obow were doing about 1900 Slugs, 1900 Barrage, just under 500 for crits and 250ish reg hits.

I got tired of waiting for Blast shot and arching arrow to crit and do more damage (as presumed they would). It never happened, but only tested about 5WS each. I'm assuming that using RR in place of drifter may help, but I wanted to make sure RATK was capped.

Interesting (or maybe not, since I kind of expected it) but AF3+2 had about 25dmg on Loki's crit wise, but 12STR will do that.

Overall very pleased with RNG, reminds me of 2003/4. The atmas I used are not incredibly hard to mimic outside abyssea (except maybe the STR/AGI bonuses) with a BRD or COR.


EDIT: Also did some DRK testing since I moved merits around to lower LR Recast instead of SE.

DRK/WAR with 100+164STR and 999 attack, 123DMG weapon (VV/RR/GH Atma's)

Crit damage was all over the place, I forget what my dex was but obvious RR bonus and Twilight for TP atm puts me at ~175DEX. I saw everything from 350ish to 650 with the same gear, same attack, same str and dex. I tried everything I could to find a cap or make it consistent and couldn't. Also, no+2 gear for DRK

[Kametame]

Apparently a WS property of String Shredder is Distortion.

Spoiler: show

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/415/ohsnapnv.jpg

This was last night btw. I heard they buffed Stringing Pummel after the emergency update.

[Draylo]

the additional NPC doesnt do shit to port jeuno congestion...

Port jeuno is still the best, AH and NPC are close....

while port sandoria may be as close, port bastok is a lil not convinient and idk wtf is with windurst NPC being in heaven's tower

inc metalworks drama

Shoulda put it in Whitegate :/ I miss it.

[Koyangi]

Apparently a WS property of String Shredder is Distortion.

Spoiler: show

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/415/ohsnapnv.jpg

This was last night btw. I heard they buffed Stringing Pummel after the emergency update.

Buffed Stringing Pummel?

[Kametame]

Buffed Stringing Pummel?

In the sense that it does around 5k+ now, but it could be just a spike. (Source)

[Chun Liroy]

Buffed Stringing Pummel?

lolallah. They buffed crit damage + cap.

[Kametame]

lolallah. They buffed crit damage + cap.

Which is essentially a buff to all crit WS as well, but yeah. Hearsay isn't the best way to make ends of things.

[muhn]

Rng crits on dolls for me were mostly around 890 with the occ 1k crit and my barrages were doing 4.5k with my high being 6.5k. I was using yoichi but on 85 gandiva was getting near the same crits. Was fun to play rng again since i havent played t in so long

[Alkar]

Anyone tried Pulling the Strings with PUP to see which attachments they've added there?

[Kametame]

Anyone tried Pulling the Strings with PUP to see which attachments they've added there?

Seems like the new ones are only attainable through the use of Imperial Standing. They're listed under "Common items" and are 5k each.

[Alkar]

Seems like the new ones are only attainable through the use of Imperial Standing. They're listed under "Common items" and are 5k each.

Yeah I know that but the update notes mentioned new attachments being added to Pulling the Strings. I'm kinda hoping they've added the Ashu Talif ones there.

[Alistaire]

Did some Grounds of Valor + Tandem necklace quest in Inner Horutoto...

Blue chests had things like Lucid Ether III, Stalwart's Gambir, Vicar's Drink
Locked chest had an ether+1...
One of the new goblins dropped Leather Gloves which was kind of silly.
Got boosts of cure potency (changed magic fruit from 453 to 470 with what I had on me) and one that was mab/macc.
Grounds book offers better buffs than field manuals, rr2, rr3, 2 new types of food, and haste.

Finished quest, unlocked fellow npc limit to 75, immediately went to Promy Dem and got npc 4800 xp, get back to Jeuno and npc says they're still lvl 70. So, definitely get that 1 xp to level up before doing that.

[Toth]

Apparently a WS property of String Shredder is Distortion.

Spoiler: show

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/415/ohsnapnv.jpg

This was last night btw. I heard they buffed Stringing Pummel after the emergency update.

Very neat. I look forward to playing with this later today :D

I will add that with Stout Arm, I have been able to get Armor Shatterer up to 1200-1400 damage. Combine this with the Barrage from the new attachment and the def down effect, the frame did become quite stronger.