Dev Tracker: Discussion (Old)

[Hitou]

Not sure what people are expecting from gap filling gear anyway. If you've maxed out delve gear you can probably ignore anything released till the next tier of delve. Some of the bayld armor might be better than rank 0 plasm gear, we'll have to see. It's not like we'll get access to it for a month anyway unless it's tied to the first option of peacekeepers expansion.

[dasva]

Yeah they already said there goal was to fill the gaps because the jumps they made were too high and right now they concentrating on horizontal development

[Toth]

Hmm I thought the bayld gear and skirmish gear were the same and we will be able to enhance that gear via skirmish II items.

[Kincard]

I was more trying to question the need for gap-filling content. Even mostly casual players have access to Delve stuff through plasm farming. Basically you only need to look at how many people are actually doing Skirmish for the weapons to know if the Skirmish II/New Bayld gear will be worth development time at all.

If they end up making it so that it's side grades to delve gear by giving it different stats not found on delve gear (-DT being an example) how is it any different than what they were doing before?

For the record I'm looking forward to running Skirmish II because I prefer low man content anyway, just kinda sucks that there's a good chance the gear won't be useful at all.

[Malithar]

there's a good chance the gear won't be useful at all.

Not sure where this idea comes from concerning Skirmish II gear at least. Going off of their previous statements (which admitedly, seem to always be changing) ilvl is based off of the maxed stats of the gear, and plasm is ilvl 110, where as Skirmish II is slated to be content lvl 113 (thus ilvl 112) at its maxed stats. How much better 2 ilvls will make it, who knows, specially since it depends less on ilvl and what the gear's dedicated stats are. Case in point, Kari feet ilvl 100, still the best in slot for heavy WS sets, at least until Monday when Whirlpool Greaves step up.

[Fwahm]

Matsui said they "discovered" that the block rate on Ochain on mobs above 110 was reduced by 30%. That's a pretty clear indication that it's not intended, regardless of if it's on the test server only or not.

[Martel]

The point of concern being, rather than saying they were going to fix that, Matsui stated they'd lower the skill+ on newer shields so they don't surpass Ochain.....

[Tymon]

Item level can mean virtually nothing if the gear has certain stats on it that other pieces don't have.

Like Pak Corselet+1 being that incomprehensibly good combination of DA, STP and Haste.

You could add something a little better than that that's better than a 119 body, easily.

[Morari]

Matsui said they "discovered" that the block rate on Ochain on mobs above 110 was reduced by 30%. That's a pretty clear indication that it's not intended, regardless of if it's on the test server only or not.

It's idle curiosity, but I wonder if they discovered this with "in the field" testing, or if someone just plugged in x >= 110 into the Ochain blocking rate formula for kicks one evening and realized that the numbers got all wonky.

[Ophannus]

Hurkan drops a 1h axe but so does the bee. I thought there's only 1 Naakual weapon for each weapon category. If the HQ Hurkan drops an HQ Axe then there will be two 119 axes no? SE said every weapon category will eventually have a 119 boss drop, and 117 crafted weapon. Right now the ones that are crafted don't have a 119 and vice versa until new delves come out(No 119 Gaxe/Scythe/GS/Katana/Staff/Club). Is Axe is on its way to getting two 119 boss weapons?

[fantasticdan]

What's wrong with DW jobs getting two boss weapons? If bst got an exclusive weapon, seems blu has a decent chance of getting a new kilij or whatever.

[Ophannus]

Should be a 119 Animator and 119 SMN Avatar Satchel too hopefully.

[dasva]

Yeah really hoping they do add a 2nd weapon to all the dual wield jobs. Otherwise it's basically a -att/acc on the offhand no matter what. Or they could ya know rework it so it isn't so stupid as per hand.

And hopefully they will make jugs that can naturally go to 119 or even just more that will with merits so bst can ya know actually fullly use there ilvl weapons. Crazy thought. And some with ingredients that aren't hard as heck to find.

[Tymon]

The bee can be seen more as a hybrid since WAR is on it, unlike Hurkan's axe or the plasm one.

WARs right now are pretty much stuck with that and the Skirmish one if they want to use Axes (and I think that once Skirmish gets an update, dual Axes might be pretty damn good)

[Ligray]

2nd login page up on JP side, looks like the new shield from the shield design contest is there, nq pops is still there yay mules and Behemoth lines, some mog gardens stuff for monstrosity, and 2 costume items for toad and meeble. Starts Aug. 11th JST at midnight ends Sept. 2nd.

[Taim Meich]

Hmph, I'm on vacation from 15 to 28...I won't even get the 1100 bonus for the 11th login >_<

[Ligray]

Matsui posted an overview of the update here, light the Slycer signal!

New Bayld armor is iLvl 106 and 3 Furrows for Mog Gardens confirmed.

[Toth]

Can any translate the artifact gear stats for the two screenies? They look quite powerful. 109 item level!

[Slycer]

This is a massive translation undertaking, I've been working on it for 30 mins already and just about half done. I figure everyone wants stats, so give me like 5 minutes and I'll post gear stats first, followed by the full translation a bit later.

[Martel]

This is a massive translation undertaking, I've been working on it for 30 mins already and just about half done. I figure everyone wants stats, so give me like 5 minutes and I'll post gear stats first, followed by the full translation a bit later.

As always, thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to let us see this stuff early.