Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Karbuncle]

Yeah, He uses that in the Tenzen 1 (Storyling)fight, I got hit with a different one in the Tenzen II(High-tier) fight, I thought it had "Ultimate" or "enlightenment" in it. It was definitely a different name though... wish I could recall

Edit: "Universal Enlightenment" is what Tenzen II uses. okay.

[Miroku_Asura]

Isn't the Fellow NPC weaponskill/super skillchain thing called something like that? Blessed Radiance maybe? They're totally new animations, right? I never leveled my fellow much.

[Karbuncle]

Blessed Radiance is more of a "2hour/Job Ability" as its used as such.

[TummieGaruda]

Yeah I didn't see Umbra in the logs but it was hiding and it is there. They have both takes damage and heals for damage, so like other skillchains it can heal mobs under certain circumstances if the mob is able to "absorb" it. I played around with it on my private server and while the animation does look nice their idea for Ultimate Skillchain seems lackluster.

[geno3302]

Yeah I didn't see Umbra in the logs but it was hiding and it is there. They have both takes damage and heals for damage, so like other skillchains it can heal mobs under certain circumstances if the mob is able to "absorb" it. I played around with it on my private server and while the animation does look nice their idea for Ultimate Skillchain seems lackluster.

I was not impressed by the damage of the skillchain like they said we would be. I don't see it being worth saving 3K TP unless the extended MB window is worth it.

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[dasva]

Geez just noticed they did the freshly picked a week ago. So guess we know what the moogle items do now. Now every whm wants rod

[Byrthnoth]

Cures Weakness . . .

Synthesis Skill +3 . . .

I'm not going to win, but if I did win I would pick that set.

[Tidis]

It sucks that you can only pick one. I would be very tempted to pick the synthesis skill +3 rod, the power of being able to T2 synths no one else can.

[Tarage]

Can someone explain to me why people with afterglow think they should have an easier upgrade path? It's a fucking glow. It's cosmetic.

[geno3302]

Wooo finally my Afterglow is going to be less useless! (assuming the normal upgrade path is hard...)

[arus2001]

Can someone explain to me why people with afterglow think they should have an easier upgrade path? It's a fucking glow. It's cosmetic.

"I spent all my time and money on it plz luv me more SE!!!!" with a side some people being unable to let shit go as per the whole RME situation with Delve's launch.

[Draylo]

Can you explain why you have such a problem with it?

[Byrthnoth]

Glow
15 Attack
AND slightly less work for the final upgrade

I'll take it!

[Tarage]

Can you explain why you have such a problem with it?

Because it's always been just a stupid cosmetic thing. To make it anything but is a slap in the face. "Psyche, it actually did matter lolz"

[Seha]

Seems fair to me to give glows slightly less requirements.

[Isiolia]

Because it's always been just a stupid cosmetic thing. To make it anything but is a slap in the face. "Psyche, it actually did matter lolz"

Whatever the actual benefit, there's a massive difference in effort involved. Whatever the final upgrade process entails (I'd assume something with the other paths on the Aeonic goblins), how likely do you think it'd be that Afterglow will wind up being less work overall? Chance of that seems slim to none to me, and so, it doesn't seem unfair. At least not with the information given.

That said, there might need to be other balancing done. Where the parallel to armor upgrades may not hold is that ileveling differently upgraded AF/Relic/Empyrean results in the same i109 piece regardless. Weapons may not/probably won't have that, so they'd also likely need to adjust the requirements for Afterglow down on the final form weapon. Hard to say until we see what they've come up with either way.

[Kincard]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're not going to be able to (or at least, unwilling to) top the amount of time needed to be spent to get 250 marrows, 150 scoria or 2000 or whatever the fuck it was Rift items.

The only thing I think would be kinda dumb is if both paths ended up with the players having a glow which is why this is the only time they've bothered having two different ones. They didn't really clarify on what they're doing at all.

[Rehn]

So rank 2 bonanza gives kupo gear, and rank 1 gives a coupon to exchange for.. 1 piece of kupo gear? Am I reading that right?

[Draylo]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're not going to be able to (or at least, unwilling to) top the amount of time needed to be spent to get 250 marrows, 150 scoria or 2000 or whatever the fuck it was Rift items.

The only thing I think would be kinda dumb is if both paths ended up with the players having a glow which is why this is the only time they've bothered having two different ones. They didn't really clarify on what they're doing at all.

I was kinda worried about that tbh, I would be really annoyed if everyone glowed. Not only would it look dumb it would really cheapen all the effort people who have afterglows had went through.