119 Artifact Armor

[Sechs]

considering that they still haven't made things like ormolu more widely available, there's still a pretty decent possibility that they won't make these synth items more common

I think for Ormolu it was a matter of a (failed) attempt to make old content still somehow relevant. To give a little more motivation for people to do old content.
That's not really the case here and I wouldn't really be surprised to see mats dropping from other BCs or, even more likely, seeing them added to Records of Eminence.

Makes sense they want to make things slower at first and then progressively make it faster after a certain amount of time has passed (see Sacred Crests BCs for instance, 119 trials for REM too to a certain extent)

[Francisco]

Is it yet known what exactly "Chakra" +62 means on Anchorite Cyclas +1?

[Shenrien]

62%

[Francisco]

Considering the gear no longer says "Enhances Chakra effect" - is the VIT*3 multiplier and paralyze removal still there? Otherwise, this piece would be significantly worse than Temple.

[Toth]

He's also been really adept at creating choke points on content to make it last longer than it really should, so we'll see I guess.

His pattern has been 'choke points' until the next update so that the content stays viable. I don't disagree with that though, especially since updates will now be monthly.

[Shenrien]

Considering the gear no longer says "Enhances Chakra effect" - is the VIT*3 multiplier and paralyze removal still there? Otherwise, this piece would be significantly worse than Temple.

Pretty sure it still enhances Chakra the same way it has from the original AF, and with people putting out silly number Chakras with just the NQ equiped, something in the 600s or 700s I can't recall exactly what it was, I'm fairly positive this is your BiS if you care that much about Chakra healing.

[Ophannus]

Likely it was always +X% and never VIT*X since most upgraded AF's havent changed the formulas of JAs but rather increased their potency. The localization team said a while back on the official forums that from now on they have a policy of transparent stat implementation. In other words, while it would be tedious to go back and rewrite all examples of "Enhances [Ability]" into "[X ability] +Y" for example "Enhances Berserk" to "Berserk +14", they said moving forward they would do that. That's why I guess AF109 still retained the old "Enhances X ability" even though behind the scenes the values were upgraded from 75AF, but for 119AF, the stats are now transparent and we can see by how much they're increased. It also sheds some light on previously obfuscated formulas and changes our paradigm of certain abilities. One example is it's quite likely that given how AF119 is a 1-3% increase over AF75, Magus Bazubands were probably Learning Blue Magic +10%(AF119 is +12%)