Feb. 18 2015 Version Update!

[Skudo]

DNC:

Jig Duration - Increases the effect duration of jigs. Increase effect duration by 1 second.
Flourish II Effect - Enhances the effect of Flourishes II. Enhance different effects depending on the Flourish. Reverse Flourish: Increase TP by 2. Building Flourish: Increase weapon skill damage by 1%. Wild Flourish: Increases skillchain damage by 1%.

[dasva]

So never had any engraved capes. Got +4 Dex, +4 Agi, dual-wield+3 on thf cape. Worth it to keep, or can I do much better?

Of course keep it why wouldn't you if it's your first? It's better than non engraved...

[Xantavia]

Of course keep it why wouldn't you if it's your first? It's better than non engraved...

Sorry, obviously I'm going to keep it. Just didn't know if worth my time to grind out some more accolades and try again. Looking at the wiki page, guess it falls to slightly above average results.

[dasva]

Sorry, obviously I'm going to keep it. Just didn't know if worth my time to grind out some more accolades and try again. Looking at the wiki page, guess it falls to slightly above average results.

I wouldn't grind them just to grind them... let them come in the normal course of doing whatever random RoE you have equipped and use it whenever. Also supposedly they can drop from UNMs now too so their is that

[Skudo]

Hachirin-no-Obi affects spells both positively and negatively. ;-(

Naked, except for obi, Firesday, Rainstorm: 195 Fire on level 0 Tunnel Worm, 202 Fire on level 0 Huge Hornet. Constantly.
Naked, except for obi, Firesday, no weather: 214 Fire on level 0 Tunnel Worm, 221 Fire on level 0 Huge Hornet. Constantly.

[Fwahm]

Can Refracting Crystals be AHed, or just traded like dynamis currency?

[dasva]

Can Refracting Crystals be AHed,

Yes

[Capuchin]

Sorry, obviously I'm going to keep it. Just didn't know if worth my time to grind out some more accolades and try again. Looking at the wiki page, guess it falls to slightly above average results.

Yeah it's worth keeping as opposed to overwriting to re-augment. Just get another NQ cape to augment, you can have multiples.

What you REALLY want for THF is Crit dmg+ augment, which is fantastic for SA/TA Rudra. DW+3 is pretty nice for a solo piece when you're not capping delay from Marches+Haste (e.g. Salvage/Dyna situations). Can go up to DW+5, but 3 is solid and definitely worth using.

[Sechs]

Hachirin-no-Obi affects spells both positively and negatively. ;-(

Lame... but I'm gonna pick the inventory +7 option regardless, can't afford anything else with the amount of jobs I have.
Will need more specific rules for Gearswap I guess, will have to check both weather and day, compare them and only equip the obi according to the spell if there's no negative effect.
We can define these possible situations, please correct me if I'm wrong:

1. Single weather (or T1 weather spell), good day or not conflicting day ==> equip obi
2. Double weather (or T2 weather spell), good day or not conflicting day ==> equip obi
3. Single weather (or T1 weather spell), conflicting day ==> no obi
4. Double weather (or T2 weather spell), conflicting day ==> equip obi?
5. Good day, conflicting single weather (or T1 spell) ==> no obi
6. Good day, conflicting double weather (or T2 spell) ==> no obi

Sounds about right?

[Fwahm]

Fotia Belt and Fotia Gorget work like they used to; they give +0.1 fTP, not +10% WSDMG.

[Yeager]

Ok, we have Yorcia Alluvion figured out. Best setup we found so far is the following.

1. Book person (to summon pets)
2. 2-3 mages (GEO, RDM, BLM work)
3. 2-3 DD types. (THF or DNC would work best)

There are two types of Escalent mobs that free roam the area. Elementals, and Twitheryms. Upon entering the floor, you have to kill Escalents as quickly as possible to build up Puissance. Puissance is used to summon pets to help.

There are 4 types of pets that can be summoned. We only used 3 types though, as it seemed to work best.

Worm - basically a camp defender, it stays at camp
Crab - PLD type, will seek out and engage mobs that are spawned via the Stronghold. If all mobs from the Stronghold are killed, they will proceed to the Stronghold
NM - We encountered two different NM types. A Suzaku, and a Byakko. They give the party buffs when summoned, and will also attack and kill mobs from the Stronghold, then once they die, they proceed to the Stronghold.

Once the pets get the Stronghold down to 1%, a player must do an action on the Stronghold for the final blow. A melee hit, or a T1 nuke from a mage will do the trick. Once the Stronghold is defeated, a Living Cairn will manifest itself, which you can then proceed to the next floor, or exit if you choose to do so.

Loot works exactly the same as the previous Alluvion Skirmish areas. You'll see a list of what drops you get in your personal pool, and what armor will drop into the treasure pool once the key is used.

Here's a SS of what we got on a 3/4/4/Blade run.

Spoiler: show

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/w...psycxklt6g.png

However, be VERY VERY careful! If you start running out of Escalent mobs to kill and your summoned pets get overwhelmed, use the key before you end up losing everything. And yes, we ended up losing and I lost everything from that pool in the SS.

[Sechs]

Does it say the ilevel of the event when you try to enter, similar to past skirmishes?

[Yeager]

Does it say the ilevel of the event when you try to enter, similar to past skirmishes?

You know, I didn't even pay attention to that! lmao! But it's safe to assume it's 119.

[Sechs]

From your description it seems more challenging/interesting than I thought it would be.
It's a good thing. If it's fun it will be much better to spam it for stuff, and it looks like I sure need a lot of items/stones from there :D

[Yeager]

From your description it seems more challenging/interesting than I thought it would be.
It's a good thing. If it's fun it will be much better to spam it for stuff, and it looks like I sure need a lot of items/stones from there :D

Yeah, definitely not the snooze-fest the original Yorcia Skirmish was.

[Prothescar]

15 Second Sic/Ready recast is sweet, as is the 100pt BLU Gift. Not gonna reactivate to play with them, but still. Nice stuff.

[Sechs]

Yeah, definitely not the snooze-fest the original Yorcia Skirmish was.

Yorcia was cool as a concept, at least in theory. The problem there imho wasn't just the event itself but the fact it didn't "scale" with the quality of your group.
Which is what happened in Cirdas and Rala. Bad groups struggled with making it in time (on high levels) and good groups ended a run in 20 mins.
In Yorcia you had fixed waits no matter how good you performed, and that made the event pretty frustrating and boring.
They added an option to cut times but it came too late and didn't completely solve the issue anyway...

Regardless, looking forward for this
Did you notice if maps are generated "randomly" for the same body tier (like Alluvion Cirdas/Rala) or if there's a fixed map dependant on body tier like old Skirmishes?

[Yeager]

Yorcia was cool as a concept, at least in theory. The problem there imho wasn't just the event itself but the fact it didn't "scale" with the quality of your group.
Which is what happened in Cirdas and Rala. Bad groups struggled with making it in time (on high levels) and good groups ended a run in 20 mins.
In Yorcia you had fixed waits no matter how good you performed, and that made the event pretty frustrating and boring.
They added an option to cut times but it came too late and didn't completely solve the issue anyway...

Regardless, looking forward for this
Did you notice if maps are generated "randomly" for the same body tier (like Alluvion Cirdas/Rala) or if there's a fixed map dependant on body tier like old Skirmishes?

Regarding the maps, shit seemed random. Then again, I'm no map guy.

[Anissa]

I'm getting 55 tp/hit with double uson, so with with blu's new mega gift we can get dual wield 5.

[Tile]

just got Arciela's trust, mithra guard at castle said she went to battle grounds, found Sandy Overlook at J-10 and got CS and trust