Skirmish: Findings and Information

[Stan64]

That means Legs should drop as well. Damn. I've yelled my lungs out in Adoulin for those! Have two Visage/Torso sets...

Here is the whole jpblog: http://blog.livedoor.jp/alkx/
Attempt two: http://blog.livedoor.jp/alkx/archives/26451479.html
Attempt one: http://blog.livedoor.jp/alkx/archives/26427076.html

[Kincard]

I think a better question is, are they only getting 1 weapon per skirmish? >_>

[Arthars]

according to blog "seem to be 2 per skirmish" they mentioned

They got gaxe and gs the same run

[Kincard]

Oof, that's still kinda crazy. Nightmares of trying to get the right piece off salvage bosses are haunting me. Combine that with the fact that given how rare these things currently are it's going to effectively cost millions to do a single run.

in b4 you can't reaugment them

[Prothescar]

The blog says you can reaugment. Considering the potency of these weapons, having to have a degree of luck in order to get the one you want is absolutely justified.

[Damane]

Oof, that's still kinda crazy. Nightmares of trying to get the right piece off salvage bosses are haunting me. Combine that with the fact that given how rare these things currently are it's going to effectively cost millions to do a single run.

in b4 you can't reaugment them

^ this, if thats the case, the design would be horrible

[Kincard]

Okay so I don't know if anyone's pointed these out:

He actually tried augmenting the katana with a +1 before he overwrote it with +2 stone:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alkx/imgs/4/f/4f68bbb1-s.jpg
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alkx/imgs/d/d/dd2f53fa-s.jpg

Also the O. Fragments (tee hee Okazaki fragments, biology jokes make me so cool) you get from each kill can be used for purchasing Skirmish pieces in town, however they were only getting like 50 a kill and you need 2000+ to get a single piece:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alkx/imgs/d/2/d2b2cd83.jpg

The conflux-like thing also offers extra O. Fragments as one of the boons and he notes he only get about 100 from it:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alkx/imgs/e/7/e79d872a-s.jpg

[Arthars]

Got a head/legs so far, a 6-man party that only lost chain due to lack of mobs farming for 4-5 hours in cirdas caverns only came up with the legs from pyres. And I scrounged all the npc's even remotely near the ones mentioned in the OF thread, nowhere to buy them.

Then next day was randomly fighting mobs and had a pyre with a cirdas head III, got it to 5% but it disappeared after spamming 9 soul spectacles on it while I couldn't for the life of me get it below 5%. ...and the heads affect the quality of drops

pardon me... how do you use a spec? trade to pyre?

[Spira]

Just to pique everyone's interest in the skirmish weapons..
i pulled out all what seems to be the base weapons from the datamine page on wiki

they're all ra/ex. all have stupid names, and all don't have stats, with the exception of the staves (which makes sense cos loldmg for mages)
i'm guessing WHMs, RDMs and BRDs get the usual short end of the stick unless they have job-specific augments.

Ninzas 99 Hand-to-Hand DMG:+38 Delay:+51 MNK / PUP

Leisilonu 99 Dagger DMG:52 Delay:183 THF / BRD / DNC

Iztaasu 99 Sword DMG:68 Delay:236 RDM / PLD / BLU

Crobaci 99 Great Sword DMG:141 Delay:501 PLD / DRK / RUN

Faizzeer 99 Axe DMG:81 Delay:288 WAR / BST

Iclamar 99 Great Axe DMG:143 Delay:504 WAR

Iizamal 99 Scythe DMG:153 Delay:528 DRK

Qatsunoci 99 Polearm DMG:146 Delay:492 DRG

Kannakiri 99 Katana DMG:58 Delay:227 NIN

Shichishito 99 Great Katana DMG:126 Delay:450 SAM

Lehbrailg 99 Staff DMG:96 Delay:366 "Magic Atk. Bonus"+40 BLM / SCH / GEO

Uffrat 99 Staff DMG:96 Delay:402 Avatar: "Magic Atk. Bonus"+25 SMN

Aedold 99 Club DMG:86 Delay:300 WHM

Bocluamni 99 Ranged DMG:121 Delay:540 RNG

Hgafircian 99 Marksmanship DMG:70 Delay:660 RNG / COR

[Arthars]

seriously. wtf is with those names XD

its like "ok guys need some names for weapons, eastern style"
random guy 1 mashes keyboard and we have Ikasdml

[Azat]

for what it's worth, found these in Foret from a Soul Pyre that appeared from a Hoary Craklaw.

[Destinye]

I really hope SE adds some of those augments to relic/empys/mythics too, because this is starting to look ugh.

the WS damage +10 isnt the big deal tough, only applies to the 1. hit of the WS, the +12 STR and +D38 on the other hand...

Personally, I see this as when they stated Mythics were supposed to be the Casual player's answer to Relic weapons. So it does overpower some finished Relics, but it's not like everyone had a completed relic to begin with - plus these weapons won't even be common place.

[dasva]

So about these soul spectacles.. are they like free guesses or something?

[dasva]

I really hope SE adds some of those augments to relic/empys/mythics too, because this is starting to look ugh.

the WS damage +10 isnt the big deal tough, only applies to the 1. hit of the WS, the +12 STR and +D38 on the other hand...

Not that I expect it to be different but was there every testing to see if the first hit thing applied to the weapons with +ws dmg instead of boost to specific ws?

[Jem]

What's overlooked about that GSWD, and why I kept mentioning it as an option before I knew the augments, is that it's easily 5 hittable due to the delay.

[vagus]

Wow at that gs.

[ASG]

Okay so I don't know if anyone's pointed these out:

Also the O. Fragments (tee hee Okazaki fragments, biology jokes make me so cool) you get from each kill can be used for purchasing Skirmish pieces in town, however they were only getting like 50 a kill and you need 2000+ to get a single piece:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alkx/imgs/d/2/d2b2cd83.jpg

Any translation for the gear that he can pick from? Would it perhaps be this? https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Quauhpilli_Helm ? Or is that speculated to drop from the T-Rex Narkuul.

[Flippant]

The items in that SS are Skirmish pieces (legs I, body I, and rala head I).

[dasva]

Personally, I see this as when they stated Mythics were supposed to be the Casual player's answer to Relic weapons. So it does overpower some finished Relics, but it's not like everyone had a completed relic to begin with - plus these weapons won't even be common place.

Considering people already have them within 2 weeks of an entire expansion coming out I'm not so sure about them not being common place

[Tymon]

They are not hard to acquire if they're guaranteed drops from doing Skirmish, obviously.

If the augments are hard to get, and harder to get the right ones, then we have something that takes time and effort.