Patch 2.2 (Through the Maelstrom) Data Mining Thread

[TheDirtyHobo]

The live letter said something about "You should do Leviathan ex right away so you can get your weapon and start working on... OH WHOOPS SECRET WE'RE NOT TELLING" so I assume it's ex that drops the 95 and then you do some other content to get the tidal mirror. Maybe hm, but that would seem a little backwards.

It does beg the question as to what the HM reward is, if not the weapon.

[perth]

why oh why does Liberator have Skill speed on it v.v

so, I upgrade my Gae Bolg and lose ACC and Crit and gain Skill Speed and DET >.> I think I would have prefered a straight up stat boost and cosmetic change

Liberator has nothing to do with relic. your relic upgrades to the Atma and Animus

[OWS_Tonx]

would be weird to not add some kind of reward, but it is for main story. I guess they could get away with not givin us anything

[Drai]

Liberator has nothing to do with relic. your relic upgrades to the Atma and Animus

ooohhh, ok, I was confused, for some reason I thought the Gae Bolg turned INTO the Liberator >.> makes sense, i'll shut up now lol

[Alistaire]

Is there any indication of whether or not the crafted i90's are convertible? And no sign of any tier 5 materia right?

[Shenrien]

There is a disturbing lack of T5 materia, which makes me sad because I had a ton of Vanya gear ready to convert for the patch in hopes that i70 would have a chance to create T5, we have access to carbonized matter 5 but seems pointless to have when T4 will do the exact same thing.

[Nitsuki]

I'm only looking at the new bagnakhs based on the amount of damage it does. Sure the off stats seriously suck, but the only item that gives the very beneficial stats is the Glanzfaust which is a lower ilvl. Sadly, SE keeps thinking that SS mnks are holyshittoptier instead of crit/det mnks. What can we do at this point? Seriously, considering to reroll to any other class out of mnk is beyond stupid, regardless we're still gonna be the highest dps in the game.

[Tsuki]

With the crafting holdups (getting geared/master recipe book) I wonder if people will even bother with i90 crafted gear. At the same time it might be a requirement for clearing coil. Not looking forward to having to sort out that mess whilst I'm waiting for my masterworked weapon for 3 weeks...

[Buffy]

People will bother with it. People are dumb. Individuals can be smart, but large groups of people are always dumb. Ergo, I'm going to make a shit ton of i90 crafted gear and sell it to the dumb people who could just gear to i90 in 2-3 weeks off myth and coil.

[Prothescar]

Noct shield is really nice. Can get the weathered version basically immediately too which would replace any other shield we had access to yesterday.

[Tsuki]

I've said it a few times already but the acc on the healer stuff is really making me rethink the dps checks in the new coil. It wouldn't surprise me at all if melded i90 gear and i110 weapon makes the difference there for speedy progression while people are held back three weeks on the masterwork weapon.

[Jem]

It's going to drive me crazy that they switched the position of Accuracy and Skill Speed on Artemis Bow Atma/Animus compared to Zenith...

[Kaiyoko]

I've said it a few times already but the acc on the healer stuff is really making me rethink the dps checks in the new coil. It wouldn't surprise me at all if melded i90 gear and i110 weapon makes the difference there for speedy progression while people are held back three weeks on the masterwork weapon.

They aren't giving you enough ACC to substantually impact DPS. They added this for things like debuffs a healer can do to support the group like SCH miasma slow debuff and WHM stone heavy debuff.

[Tsuki]

It's going to drive me crazy that they switched the position of Accuracy and Skill Speed on Artemis Bow Atma/Animus compared to Zenith...

Yeah levi bow upgrade seems like a much wiser choice. But then I factor in my poor luck at even getting the base weapon drop/mirror...annnnnnnnd yeah I'll probably finish the animus/atma weapon first.

[Jem]

Yeah levi bow upgrade seems like a much wiser choice. But then I factor in my poor luck at even getting the base weapon drop/mirror...annnnnnnnd yeah I'll probably finish the animus/atma weapon first.

I mean the display. It used to be Skill Speed above Accuracy. Now they have switched it so its Accuracy above Skill Speed!

[Kirbyprime]

Hummm with the new update I think I'm going to try to do VIT+DPS tank build instead and ignore parry. So many tasty dps tank pieces.

[Moridam]

Also fuck those high allagan baghnakhs stats. That's just bs.

this times a million. this dealt a pretty serious blow to my 2.2 hype

[SamanosukeShiva]

Looks like there's a healthy balance between allagan and evenstar for caster BiS for BLM. I am excite.

[Alistaire]

People will bother with it. People are dumb. Individuals can be smart, but large groups of people are always dumb. Ergo, I'm going to make a shit ton of i90 crafted gear and sell it to the dumb people who could just gear to i90 in 2-3 weeks off myth and coil.

The dumb thing would be to assume there's no situation a person might be in gear-wise where it'd be the better route. Could quite feasibly spend less myth making 1 heavy wolfram piece which covers both WAR and PLD instead of spending the myth on seperate WAR or PLD pieces, or the time spent on hunting coil drops, and have it be slightly better than coil drops due to secondaries + melds.

And have something to show for it once you upgrade (assuming these are convertible).

Case in point: If you're either tank working on your first turn 5 win, heavy wolfram is your only i90 head piece option with parry.

(Edit: hell, even the 110 tank heads don't have an option with parry.)

[perth]

I mean the display. It used to be Skill Speed above Accuracy. Now they have switched it so its Accuracy above Skill Speed!

hilarious....lol. i was sooo confused at first.