Test Server Findings

[Julian]

that's... retarded, lol. Good thing most of this gear is shit anyway. (Why are they wasting time redoing this gear anyway? We already have AF3, fix stuff that actually could use some fixing, like nyzul/salvage. Also fuck job specific gear )

[Slycer]

That makes way more sense than currency. Also gives more use to the tougher versions of the mobs besides just dropping pop items.

I assume you can upgrade the whole set at the same time this way also which is nice.

@Julian, I think the main point of upgrading this gear will be for the merit-related enhancements which have yet to be seen.

[SargentRemora]

Wait, not only do we more then likely have to be on the job to upgrade the gear, we more then likely have to fulltime the gear. Currency made a lot more sense for Stage 1.

[Toth]

So wait...how does this work?

You need to kill 50 exp mobs for NQ and 20 HQ? Kinda lost. Or is it 1k exp, 3k for xarc af3?

[gilgam]

You can upgrade AF2 like Empy/Coin weapon.

Upgrade from AF2=50 items then EXP in Dynamis.
or
Upgrade AF2+1=20 items then EXP in Dynamis.

items is first trial, EXP is second trial.
Upgrade from AF2(NQ) need more than EXP.

[Taint]

Honestly don't mind it.

You can solo it if you want to, farm currency, farm pops etc. Beats spending gil on useless items and can get them done at your own pace.

[Toth]

Okay so can we confirm that items involved are currency or are there new items specifically for this?

[Julian]

You can upgrade AF2 like Empy/Coin weapon.

Upgrade from AF2=50 items then EXP in Dynamis.
or
Upgrade AF2+1=20 items then EXP in Dynamis.

items is first trial, EXP is second trial.
Upgrade from AF2(NQ) need more than EXP.

Calling BS on this, please provide a source.

Or rather, not really BS, but you've said a ton of different things. I don't know. First it was coins, then it wasn't coins but actually exp, and now it's both.

[SargentRemora]

Also, any idea on what the "Stage 2" upgrade rewards?

[Kaisha]

Gravity II appears just as useless as Gravity 1.

Quick run-around shows me no difference in the -Movement, and it resists on anything that would matter, just as Gravity 1 did.

[Rocl]

What about evasion?!

[Kaisha]

I wouldn't know how to test that, and it's not like it would matter anyways for me.

[Kalasin]

Currency as the item would make sense I guess, since you need currency anyway to upgrade from the NQ to the +1, so if you have the +1 already you would need less to get to the same total.. but it's SE.

[Helel]

I really hope we don't have to be on the job for the xp upgrade... even though it wouldn't make sense otherwise. Still, it's going to be annoying going RNG/DNC to dynamis. BLU I don't mind.

[shen]

placeholders for new WS are in, but not the animations yet...

Any idea how they're obtainable? Skill level?

[Atomic Skull]

Let me take a guess, Relics are 10,000 unit currencies aren't they?

Tried trading Empryeans, +1 Relic and +3 staves to find out what trials are, and errors on all of them. Also the chat log change is very badly done. If you reduce the width of the log once there's something in there, it won't wrap the text, it'll just cut it off until you expand it again.

The UI engine doesn't support that because it never needed to re wrap the text once it was displayed and it would require major recoding to fix what is only a very minor problem. It's not like you are going to resize the log window constantly anyway.

[Kaisha]

The UI engine doesn't support that because it never needed to re wrap the text once it was displayed and it would require major recoding to fix what is only a very minor problem. It's not like you are going to resize the log window constantly anyway.

It does, just it isn't triggered come the resizing. Quick-fix is to open your chat log after the resizing, and it'll force it to re-organize the data.

[Taint]

Let me take a guess, Relics are 10,000 unit currencies aren't they?

If its 1000 of something its not a 10,000 piece. That would be pretty cruel of SE.

[dasva]

If its 1000 of something its not a 10,000 piece. That would be pretty cruel of SE.

1000 10k peices would be pretty crazy. That'd 10 million peices at just 10k each that'd be 100 billion gil for stuff that is by an large sidegrades to slight upgrades. Not to mention just finding that much on any server in any serious amount of time just to upgrade 1 armor is pretty crazy lol

[Taint]

1000 10k peices would be pretty crazy. That'd 10 million peices at just 10k each that'd be 100 billion gil for stuff that is by an large sidegrades to slight upgrades. Not to mention just finding that much on any server in any serious amount of time just to upgrade 1 armor is pretty crazy lol

I worded that funny. I meant I doubt its a single 10,000 piece because its 1000 of something. Even a single 10k piece would be quite annoying.