Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Ohgami]

New boss for Omen. Going by Shogi naming conventions Hisha, Kaku, Gin (Although Kin takes this place kinda) and Oh(Ou depending on how you wanna romanize it)/Gyouku (The King). Guessing since it's 1 it's the KING - Oh/Gyouku.
Fu (Pawn)*, Hisha (Rook), Kaku (Bishop), Kyou(sha) (Lance)*, Kei(-Ma) (Knight)*, Gin (Sliver General)*, Kin (Gold General)*, Oh/Gyouku (King)

* Are ones used already.

[Byrthnoth]

Gin is already a boss.

[Ohgami]

Gah I missed it thanks. I updated the post.

[The Assman]

So the king will drop a new synth material? Hoping it also has a guaranteed drop of gear from any of the glassy and caturae. That way you can pick it if you want a 100% chance of gear, rather than go through a run and fight a glassy you don't need and the catura doesn't drop any gear.

[Ligray]

Freshly picked happened this morning.

New Omen boss is Ou.


Gear Preview, if someone wants to translate:



No gear preview for Ambuscade, guessing only adding the tickets this month.

[Sechs]

First gloves are for DRK (Ankoku).
4% Haste, something +45 (either acc or att), Evasion+41, Magic Evasion +48, MDB+2
No bloody clue on the rest.

Ring is for MNK, DRG and something else, I don't see BRD in that list and that makes me sour!

[Lyramion]

Ring:

HP+50 STR+10 DEX+10 VIT+10 AGI+10
ATK+20 RATK+20
Set Bonus: ACC+ RACC+ MACC+
Lv99~ WAR MNK THF PLD DRK BST RNG SAM NIN DRG COR PUP DNC RUN


Hands:

DEF116 HP+182 MP+29 STR+40 DEX+40 VIT+30 AGI+20 INT+30 MND+30 CHR+30
ACC+45 EVA+31 MEVA+48 MDB+2 Haste+4%
"Increases number of attacks the lower your accuracy is"
Lv99~WAR MNK DRK SAM PUP


Edit: Thx to Kincard for giving a rough translation for the hands term

[Kincard]

The gloves' special stat says that it increases the number of attacks you do the lower your accuracy is.

So a bit like Zanshin I guess.

[Lyramion]

Thx ! Fun new terms. Guess the boss must be loaded with more than 2 gear drops judging from the setbonus ring.

[Sechs]

Considering how this boss will probably have no scales, he will likely have more drops than the other ones.
Hands are... huh... a nice WS piece for the raw STR/DEX stats. Ring can be interesting as WS piece and TP too according to the other set thing.

Not particularly overwhelmed by these drops so far.

[Byrthnoth]

I'm pretty happy with the ring. It replaces Shukuyu/Ifrit +1 ring everywhere and potentially a few others as well.

[Byrthnoth]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has thought about this, but we're getting a single new boss who is ostensibly the "King" (Ou) at the same time that they're generously enabling us to take alliances into Omen without any scaling.

Who wants to bet that Ou is designed to be killed by an alliance?

[Fwahm]

SE said that Ou is designed around party size.

[dasva]

SE said that Ou is designed around party size.

What was there exact verbiage. I mean master trials are designed around a party being able to kill them... but most the player base would need a tad more

[Lyramion]

I'm pretty happy with the ring. It replaces Shukuyu/Ifrit +1 ring everywhere and potentially a few others as well.

10STR 10AGI 20 RATK > sign my Last Stand up

[Fwahm]

What was there exact verbiage. I mean master trials are designed around a party being able to kill them... but most the player base would need a tad more

Basically, they said that letting alliances go in was a decision made independently of the introduction of the new boss, meaning it was designed around 6 people.

Omen will also be made available to alliances—not because the new boss can only be tackled with a full entourage of adventurers, but because we want players who might be struggling to be able to tackle the content as well.

[dasva]

So a partial video is actually up. They talk for a good 8 minutes in chat then go to fight a black/blue fairy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2m3XPCwQhI

At start seems to be pretty standard doing normal fairy tp moves. Mostly annoying but non threatening but 1 minute after engage and still rather high hp it uses some move that summons a porxie which is pretty much goes down after a couple of ws. About that time it also starts buffing itself. Blaze spikes, protect etc.

About 1 minute after first porxie dead in comes 2 more and they start the fight by casting some spells on themselves I don't recognize and right around then the fairy does almost instant cast firaga. One of the proxies also casts debuffs it looks like.

Bit later fairy starts casting aeorga then switches to ice spikes and blizzaga and nuking more often. After awhile went to single target wind nukes for some reason when low think it was tornado and kind of spammed them. Everything seemed to have decent regain and they barely won.

Then playing in the new mount

[NynJa]

Fuck yeah, Warmachine mount.
And being able to bring a 7th into Omen will be nice. Stupid Chiyio has 4 chars, and I hate having to always leave one out when I try to do stuff since it unbalances things.

[Damane]

I am kinda baffled by the "Stormwaker" frame bug/reply. The casting order of Stoneskin and Phalanx depends on the Master-job if its close combat or not. I mean... the main Job is PUP of the Master, allways unless you go BlaBla/PUP. is PUP not considered a close combat job?!?

[arus2001]

They're probably factoring subjob choice into it.