Test Server Findings

[Forte]

nah its the long awaited new SMN update avatar "Cait Sith"!

I swear to god I will kill someone if this happens.

[Zumi]

I'm a bit lost, is the final trials worse or better than what were the "placeholders" for the trials?

They went ahead and added the shitty trails everyone was complaining about as the final trail however they said they said they were going to add the trails in 2 parts, the first part being easier that just gives base damage stats (not yet implemented yet so nobody knows what it is), the 2nd part the really shitty trail just gives afterglow.

[Byrthnoth]

Terpsichore 99 does not give any increase to step potency, duration, cost, or extra finishing moves.

[Kanachan]

Conquerer 99 still spelled with an e, and another miniscule increase on zerk: 600 -> 801, and persists when changing weapons.

[Byrthnoth]

Yeah, it's +86/256.

It's a little difficult for me to test on the test server (because I'm not one to sit there and wait for 3 minutes and I don't have windower on atm), but I think BRD Mythic may only give +45% duration at level 99.

Edit: Nope, it's +50% as you would have expected.

[Foldypaws]

It's interesting to see that the Mythic GKat and Polearm have actual numbers associated with their boosts. (Third Eye +25 and Jump +35, respectively).

I'm wondering if that would make them easier to test. (See if it's a 35% crit rate boost to jumps and a 25% counter rate boost to Third Eye maybe?)

[Banalaty]

I am actually going to do my last salvage run for my lv 95 Ryunohige this evening after work. I havent been using jump a whole lot, but when i do it is suprisingly impressive damage wise. Testing the jump effects more thoroughly is on my to-do list. But with 99 at "+35" we can start to back track from there, or at least have an idea what im looking for at 95.

No promises on a date, but ill start looking into it and testing eventually.
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Edit: Also, somone on FFXIAH said the mythic 'afterglow' was a measly +15 atk!? (no source). Is this junk true? Ill keep my 30 FPS and no glow effect if thats the case thank you very much

[Darkmagi]

It's true, but don't even worry about it. The second stage 99 is quite literally impossible for anyone with a semblance of a life. So yeah just do NQ 99 and be happy with 30% drakesbane bonus.

[Byrthnoth]

Level 99 Mythic aftermath with Terpsichore:
AM3 is still 3 minutes, I don't know about the DA/TA rate. Eyeballing it looks about the same, but loleyeballing. Does not overwrite itself still.
AM2 is still 2 minutes, same scaling
AM1 is still 1 minute, I don't know about the scaling because nothing is evasive enough to find out.

I am doing these WSs using /ws "Pyrrhic Kleos" <t> and they don't appear to be getting the WS damage boost, but I'm also half naked. It is possible these aftermaths aren't what I'm supposed to be getting because SE replaced my Pyrrhic Kleos in the WS menu with Tachi: Koki.

[Foldypaws]

Getting a 15% boost, but not the 30% boost, or not even getting the 15% boost that's on the 90+ ones?

(would be easiest to test with a magic WS, go grab yourself a Aymur for your BST!)

[Ophannus]

Did they add the DRG adjustments to the server yet?

[Kuishen]

I feel like there are 2 forces at work in the SE office. I believe Ito may be a reasonable man who wants to see happy players and Tanaka is Tanaka. I think the original plan was to make the 99 trials what the first numbers suggested. There are no dats for stage 1 99s and I don't think they were going to exist until we raged. There was a debate about the trial being outlandish vs. people attaining goals and then quitting and this is the compromise. Now they need to go back and make the dats and figure out the exact requirements for the stage 1 trials which is why we don't know what they are yet.

That's what I'm saying. A massive on their part. Cancelled my account this morning, not having fun playing the game anymore and I'm tired of paying to get kicked while I'm down. I don't even have a relic yet but I was going to start making one soon, but this just completely fucking turned me off. Not gonna be spoon fed bullshit like this anymore.

[Ophannus]

I don't even have a relic yet but I was going to start making one soon, but this just completely fucking turned me off.

The relics/mythics/emps are already the best weapons in the game at 90/95 it makes sense that if you wanted to improve them even more that the trials would be harder or difficult seeing as how they're ALREADY the best and you don't HAVE to upgrade them past 95. Just be content with your 95 relic/mythic/empyrean I dont see why you'd quit just because you don't want to do the trials, nobody's forcing you to and likely your 95 version is still stronger than what most people have. All this is doing is making a further bottleneck for more elite players who want to take the weaspons past 95

[Kanachan]

Getting a 15% boost, but not the 30% boost, or not even getting the 15% boost that's on the 90+ ones?

(would be easiest to test with a magic WS, go grab yourself a Aymur for your BST!)

99 Burtgang Atonement 750 damage, no bonus. ;/

[Darkmagi]

Oh and a fun fact about the 99 glowy relics, if you did 1 kill a run on average with 18 people, and all 18 people could make at least 1.5m(extremely generous, but I put this as a lower amount to make up for the people who are not as good at dyna or don't care enough) on their own per dyna run... that's 8.1 billion gil for an accuracy afterglow and epeen glow effect.

[Byrthnoth]

You only have access to the Mythic WSs that you've done the quests for, I think. I can't get Mandalic Stab to work, but it recognizes that it is a weaponskill.

[Nightfyre]

The relics/mythics/emps are already the best weapons in the game at 90/95 it makes sense that if you wanted to improve them even more that the trials would be harder or difficult seeing as how they're ALREADY the best and you don't HAVE to upgrade them past 95. Just be content with your 95 relic/mythic/empyrean I dont see why you'd quit just because you don't want to do the trials, nobody's forcing you to and likely your 95 version is still stronger than what most people have. All this is doing is making a further bottleneck for more elite players who want to take the weaspons past 95

Shut up.

[Darkmagi]

Thank god, I wasn't the only one annoyed by his shit tier posts.

[Nightfyre]

Expiacion doesn't appear to be getting the damage boost either, probably safe to assume it's broken for all mythics and possibly relics too.

[Byrthnoth]

Enhanced Saber Dance, 12% DA in gear, 30% DA in Atma (67% base DA rate) + Level 90 Terpsichore AM3 gives me a high but non-100% DA rate. I did this with Haste because I wanted to go to bed, so I couldn't use Kparser. The idea that it uses some kind of strange separate OAT that can proc on WS instead of DA is correct.