Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Tidis]

High tier CoP Omega + Ultima fight and Promathia fight.

Wonder if Ultima will still have the fuck off insta-kill move that Arch-Ultima has.

Wonder if Promathia's Chains of whatever attack will actually affect us even with the KI that prevents it in Dawn.

[Miroku_Asura]

High tier CoP Omega + Ultima fight and Promathia fight.

Wonder if Ultima will still have the fuck off insta-kill move that Arch-Ultima has.

Wonder if Promathia's Chains of whatever attack will actually affect us even with the KI that prevents it in Dawn.

God I hope so. Those two capped fights were defining moments in a lot of players experiences. You can actually see what the Chain moves do by the way in Dawn right now- they just need to hit/wear off on a pet. My questions are:

1. Will we get NPCs to assist us in Dawn and

2. Will Dawn drop 119 versions of the CoP rings?

[Snprphnx]

Also, will the Airship fight include the Mammet phase.

[Maurauc]

I'm not entirely sure what they mean about Addle. Are they saying that Addle has an effect of -20 to -40 MAcc, and Addle II has -50 to -70, or did they mean one of them to be the spellcasting time?

[FaeQueenCory]

God I hope so. Those two capped fights were defining moments in a lot of players experiences. You can actually see what the Chain moves do by the way in Dawn right now- they just need to hit/wear off on a pet. My questions are:

1. Will we get NPCs to assist us in Dawn and

2. Will Dawn drop 119 versions of the CoP rings?

Given how Diabolos and Carbuncle MBCNMs worked... I doubt we're gonna get NPC help.

As for the rings... Accessories don't get iLvs, so they'd just be 99... But I fully expect it.
People have been clamoring for 99 versions of those rings for years... This would be the way to do it, should it ever be done.

[Kincard]

Went to check again, it is the former (it is also true for both Distract and Frazzle). Edited my post.

tl;dr stack the shit out of enfeebling skill/magic accuracy as appropriate because the dMND value is pretty inefficient.

[Bukadan]

I'm not entirely sure what they mean about Addle. Are they saying that Addle has an effect of -20 to -40 MAcc, and Addle II has -50 to -70, or did they mean one of them to be the spellcasting time?

yea they do obviously, lol. it says it in the help text. its useful against avatars when you do the geo vex/attunement method, you can bring just like rdm sam and geo or something on D-VD so less people to lot drops

[Byrthnoth]

Unelonborro made a thread asking for help with remaining bugs (implying that if they aren't fixed before November, they won't be fixed):
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post558638

I'm still banned from there. Could someone point out that Terpsichore's description is wrong (the I~V after Augments Steps needs to be removed as the step augment doesn't change)?

Also, the description for every "Chance of additional effect" WS is misleading at best. What it means is that magic accuracy increases with TP, which may actually have no impact at all on the odds the additional effect will proc.

[geno3302]

Could someone point out that Terpsichore's description is wrong (the I~V after Augments Steps needs to be removed as the step augment doesn't change)?

Also, the description for every "Chance of additional effect" WS is misleading at best. What it means is that magic accuracy increases with TP, which may actually have no impact at all on the odds the additional effect will proc.

Done~

[Tarage]

EDIT: IGNORE ME!

[Byrthnoth]

Done~

Thanks, and thanks for the optimism!

[Capuchin]

Also, will the Airship fight include the Mammet phase.

Yeah that's an interesting question. Puppet in Peril did have the prelude Mamool Ja phase, but obviously Diabolos and Carby Prime v2 are lacking a lot of the features of their original fights. I'm gonna guess no Mammets! We'll see...

[Trumpy]

SE mentioned wanting to make a Soboro NM unity NM but for some reason the zone proved difficult to do that, but they intended to put it in the game somehow a ilvl Soboro GK. Im bettin we will see it in one of these 2 battles since they are CoP related.

[Sechs]

Don't wanna sound like an emo pessimist, but the message Ulenoboro posted gives me mixed feelings.
On one hand it's absolutely positive that they're asking for direct input to solve small things.
On the other hands it gives the hidden message that past november they're not gonna bother with the game, not even with small things like those.
Tells a lot about their real intentions for the game, in contrast with the optimists who were saying "they'll just stop major patches, but they might still release small things/content!"

Or am I the only one reading this into that post?

[Damane]

i think they are just getting rid of translation errors since after november they dont need any neemw translations (no content) but job or system tweeks would be quiet possible

[Draylo]

He specifically says "As you know, the final chapter in Rhapsodies of Vana'diel will be coming in a short time, and I'm excited beyond belief to help bring the conclusion of Iroha's saga to you." It would have been negative if he said the conclusion of Vana'diel. So I don't think anything much of it.

[Kincard]

Well it's only natural to assume that the XI team will probably become a lot smaller after this so that includes people translating the game- moved to other projects, I'm guessing (assuming we don't already share a translation team like with the community team). Considering how there will be no new content going forward isn't a translation team completely unnecessary?

[Sechs]

So I don't think anything much of it.

You and Damane may be right, maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

[Byrthnoth]

They're probably pulling the localization team off FFXI and they don't know when the next update will be (after November). It makes sense to try and hammer everything out before then.

[Lyramion]

Full Cure removing Kaustra is a nice touch.