Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Ophannus]

Wouldn't be surprised if 119 relic bodies come with "Enhances (SP2) effect " augmented on the +1 version.

[Draylo]

I was thinking the same thing.

[dasva]

They better add a trigger that if you already have these completed, you can just talk to the NPC and get them completed. Not even for the free sparks/xp (though welcome), it would be a constant sore spot to have these in the menu and be unable to clear out.

Seriously. I mean license and support job? That's something anyone who has played more than a day has already done

[dasva]

Oh looks like jps got 3 dev notes to our 1 lol.

[Byrthnoth]

I think the other notes are about trusts and Skirmish. Something about the drop rate of the new wings in Skirmish and ... I don't know, google translate says the next thread is "About Face"

[pancakesandsex]

I think the other notes are about trusts and Skirmish. Something about the drop rate of the new wings in Skirmish and ... I don't know, google translate says the next thread is "About Face"

Google likes to translate "Faith" as "Face. So that one is about trusts.

[Damane]

I think the other notes are about trusts and Skirmish. Something about the drop rate of the new wings in Skirmish and ... I don't know, google translate says the next thread is "About Face"

they better do something about that stupid KI droprate....

[Tarage]

They better add a trigger that if you already have these completed, you can just talk to the NPC and get them completed. Not even for the free sparks/xp (though welcome), it would be a constant sore spot to have these in the menu and be unable to clear out.

I was thinking the exact same thing...

[Damane]

Trust Performance



As has been pointed out by several people, the performance of Trusts while wearing high level armor has been purposefully inhibited. Trusts were designed to help solo players and low level play, and as such unsatisfactory performance may emerge when entering high level areas such as the Ra'Kaznar Palace.

That being said, we understand that players want to be able to use their Trusts in higher level content as well, I have asked for some tips regarding using Trusts:

1. Wear high level armor
Trusts consult your average item level when determining stats. Thus, even if the parameters of the armor are not satisfactory, you should wear high level armor in cases where you are using Trusts. As an example, changing only 2 pieces of level 109 armor to level Eminence 117 armor caused an hit rate increase of nearly 10% for Trusts.

2. Take advantage of support effects
Like real party members, Trusts receive the effects of magic, songs and rolls from players. If you take advantage of this by using things such as appropriate subjobs, it can further increase the strength of your Trusts.

I hope these points will help you in your adventuring with Trusts.

It is also a bit early to talk about it, but we have more elements in development that can further increase the usefulness of Trusts, so please stay tuned.

Vial of transmelange

I asked the development team how players can increase their odds of obtaining these Vials.

-Completing your secondary objective before clearing allows for a higher drop rate of the vials than completing your primary objective
-Higher ranks of Visages allows for a higher drop rate of the vials as well as Pulchridopt Wings

In addition the drop rate of the new Skirmish content has been set at a level less than that of the Yorcia Weald Skirmish content.

In concept, it is to allow many players to clear the Yorcia Weald content and obtain armor in order to challenge the new Skirmish content as a goal.

Compared with other level 119 content it is easier to obtain the armor from the new Skirmish content, so we hope people will continue to challenge it.

THIS makes no sense, why would you reduce the KI drop rate/general droprate compared to yorcia, when yorcias KI only needed to upgrade some weapons, while the KI from outer rakaznar is used for 40+ things (even more if people upgrade doubles of the same armor when going for different types of augments). That really makes no sense...

Skirmish 3, big fail, very big fail: 1. they dont let you carry over your augments to upgraded armor/weapons, then they state they REDUCED the droprates of KI/stones in skirmish 3 compared to yorcia. There is so much crap, fail event is fail.

[Shenrien]

They didn't carry the augments over from NQ weapons to +1, why the hell would you get so ass hurt and bent out of shape that they don't carry over from NQ(armor) to +1 and +1 weapons to +2.

[Byrthnoth]

Because Skirmish weapons were mid-shit-tier and Skirmish armor was good enough to warrant maxing.

That said, I only maxed Skirmish gear for SMN and I'm not really seeing a compelling reason to get the +1 piece and max it out for the same stats.

[Kincard]

The DEF increase on a few HQ pieces alone is comparable to having a mid-tier augment on the NQ, so I would at least upgrade the chest and possibly the leg piece if nothing else.

[dasva]

Ha I knew eminence weird ilvl was for trust!

[Ophannus]

Man the new delve boss synthesis materials are gonna be hugely expensive. They will most likely be used to synth 117 weapons for weapon types that got r/ex's from previous 3 delve bosses(Polearm, GK, Dagger, Sword, Axe, Xbow, Katana, h2h) as well as relic 119+1 leg/body quests.

If the new delves start off as 18man fights without scaling for smaller parties, gonna be a phenomenal bottleneck for a few months, especially if they're much harder than older delves. The proverbial Kumhau's Fang, Hurkan's Pinion and Yumcax Lumbers will be extremely expensive and most people won't be able to upgrade their relic armor for a while.

The only caveat I see to this is if, with the delve boss clear KI, they allow us to buy the new synth mats for 300k plasm(the new plasm, cuz I'm pretty sure they're not gonna use the same Mweya Plasm they used for the last 3 delves, otherwise everyone would cap gear in a few days).

[Kincard]

I dunno, I'm sure these days I'm on the low end of the playerbase as far as playtime goes, but are people sitting on millions of plasm really the norm? I know most people here probably do, but remember your big ol groups that ran delve like crazy are certainly the minority.

[Prothescar]

pretty sure they'll use the same plasm. I've had the feeling that pricing synth mats at 300k each and adding more demand for them was a countermeasure toward people with fucktons of built up plasm.

[Fwahm]

Last time they talked about plasm, they said that there were no plans to use old plasm for the new delve. They could have changed their mind, but I really doubt it.

[NynJa]

Because Skirmish weapons were mid-shit-tier and Skirmish armor was good enough to warrant maxing.

That said, I only maxed Skirmish gear for SMN and I'm not really seeing a compelling reason to get the +1 piece and max it out for the same stats.

For what its worth, smn doesnt exactly get anything from the base hagondes stats. The only thing it actually would make use of is avatar MAB+25 on feet, and +1ing it gives no new MAB...actually looking it over, it seems that SE just adjusted the stat vomit and eva/meva/mdb, atleast looking at the hagondes set, maybe the occasional haste increase.

wow thats pretty fkn weaksauce lol, no point at all.

[Ramzii]

Using old plasm is a good way to cap out on new content in a week

[Prothescar]

well to be fair, they don't seem to care or realize much about that. people capped out on skirmish3 the day it came out