7/24/06 .DAT Information

[Ichthyos]

I hope you guys are kidding about monk merits, those are fucking garbage abilities.

They seem good to me.

Mantra your party before Souleater + Blood Weapon + Kraken Club.
Formless Strikes (+ Hundred Fists for more fun) on mobs that use Invincible and like Jailer of Fortitude, Aspidochelone, or just anything with higher defense than usual.

[nekoshoonen]

BLM AF HAT, BODY, LEGS, HANDs have all still their places in end game =P

[Aviendha]

I had this in the other thread but i'll repost it here for relavance (nice work Taj btw~ i just typed it all up and organized by jobs assuming most hosted pics would go down quickly enough here):

Warrior

Warrior's Charge (a) -- Will double your next attack
Tomahawk (a) -- Expends a throwing Tomahawk to inflict a special def down effect on an enemy
Savagery (jt) -- Adds TP Bonus to Warcry
Aggressive Aim (jt) -- Adds RAcc Bonus to Aggressor

Monk

Mantra (a) -- Increases Max HP of party members within AoE
Formless Strikes (a) -- While in effect, melee attacks will not be considered physical dmg. No effect on WSes.
Invigorate (jt) -- Adds Regen effect when using Chakra
Panance (jt) -- Adds effect to Chi Blast that inhibits an enemy's TP accumulation

White Mage

Martyr (a) -- Sacrifice HP to heal a party member double the effect
Devotion (a) -- Sacrifice HP to grant a party member the same amount in MP

Theif

Assassin's Charge (a) -- Will triple your next attack
Feint (a) -- Your next attack will greatly reduce an enemy's evasion
Aura Steal (jt) -- Adds Dispel effect to Steal. Occasionally absorbs dispelled effect
Ambush (jt) -- Grants an acc bonus to melee and ranged attacks from behind and enemy

Paladin

Fealty (a) -- Grants a powerful resistance to enfeebling magic
Chivalry (a) -- Converts TP to MP
Iron Will (jt) -- Adds spell interrupt down event to Rampart
Guardian (jt) -- Reduces enmity loss while using Sentinel

Dark Knight

Dark Seal (a) -- Enhances the accuracy of your next dark magic spell
Diabolic Eye (a) -- Reduces Max HP, increases accuracy
Muted Soul (jt) -- Reduces enmity while using Soul Eater
Desparate Blows (jt) -- Reduces delay for 2handed weapons when using Last Resort

Beastmaster

Feral Howl (a) -- Terrorizes the target
Killer Instinct (a) -- Grant's your pet's Killer effect to party members within AoE
Beast Affinity (jt) -- Increases the level of pets summoned with Call Beast
Beast Healer (jt) -- Enhances the Regen effect of Reward

Bard

Nightingale (a) -- Halves the casting and recasting times of songs
Troubadour (a) -- Increases the casting times of songs by 1.5 and doubles the effect

Ranger

Stealth Shot (a) -- Your next attack will generate less enmity
Flashy Shot (a) -- Your next attack will generate more enmity and ignore level difference penalties
Snapshot (jt) -- Reduces the delay for ranged attacks
Recycle (jt) -- Occasionally allows ranged attacks without consuming ammo

Samurai

Shikikoyo (a) -- Share TP above 100 with a party member
Blade Bash (a) -- Delivers an attack that can stun the target and occaasionally cause plague
Ikishoten (jt) -- Increases amount of TP gained with a Zanshin attack
Overwhelm (jt) -- Grants and Att bonus to WSes performed face to face with an enemy

Ninja

Sange (a) -- Consumes remaining shadow images to perform a ranged attack
Ninja Tool Expertise (jt) -- Occasionally allows use of ninjustsu without consuming tools

Dragoon

Deep Breathing (a) -- Enhances effect of next wyvern breathe
Angon (a) -- Expends an angon to lower the enemies defense
Empathy (jt) -- Copies beneficial effects to wyvern when using Spirit Link
Strafe (jt) -- Increases accuracy of wyvern's breath

[Dein]

Well for Pld, pretty much every piece of it can be used till 75 if you wanted. Feet and Body are argueably the best pieces though in that set and the only piece I really see worth using out of the Cor set is the lvl 60 head. If I hadn't gotten Pahluwan body the Cor body would be a good choice too but every piece aside from the head have much better options.

[½pint]

Cast time on :San magic is 2.75 seconds, with 1 min recast. In comparison, Ichi is 4s cast, Ni is 1.5s cast, so this is bang on in between.


Kard
Old - DMG 22 Delay 190
New - DMG 25 Delay 190

Venom Kukri +1
Old - DMG 22 Delay 200
New - DMG 25 Delay 200

Hoplites Harpe
Old - DMG 27 Delay 210
New - DMG 32 Delay 210

Harpe
Old - DMG 29 Delay 210
New - DMG 35 Delay 210

Valiant Knife
Old - DMG 21 Delay 195
New - DMG 24 Delay 195

Stun Kukri +1
Old - DMG 24 Delay 206
New - DMG 27 Delay 206

Sirocco Kukri
Old - DMG 21 Delay 150
New - DMG 26 Delay 150

Daylight Dagger
Old - DMG 24 Delay 183
New - DMG 28 Delay 183

Taillefer's Dagger
Old - DMG 23 Delay 187
New - DMG 27 Delay 187

Behemoth Knife +1
Old - DMG 26 Delay 201
New - DMG 32 Delay 201

Thief's Knife
Old - DMG 24 Delay 194
New - DMG 28 Delay 194

Khanjar
Old - DMG 23 Delay 192
New - DMG 27 Delay 192

Misericorde +1
Old - DMG 24 Delay 178
New - DMG 28 Delay 178

Stylet
Old - DMG 24 Delay 195
New - DMG 31 Delay 195

Titan's Baselard
Old - DMG 23 Delay 186
New - DMG 28 Delay 186

Blau Dolch
Old - DMG 22 Latent DMG 28 Delay 178
New - DMG 26 Latent DMG 33 Delay 178

Martial Knife
Old - DMG 23 Delay 186
New - DMG 27 Delay 186

Gully +1
Old - DMG 26 Delay 200
New - DMG 30 Delay 200

X's Knife
Old - DMG 23 Delay 201
New - DMG 34 Delay 201

Mighty Knife
Old - DMG 24 Delay 200
New - DMG 28 Delay 200

Heart Snatcher
Old - DMG 11 Latent DMG 24 Delay 205
New - DMG 15 Latent DMG 30 Delay 205

Perseus's Harpe
Old - DMG 31 Delay 210
New - DMG 37 Delay 210

Jambiya +1
Old - DMG 27 Delay 212
New - DMG 34 Delay 194

Thanatos Baselard
Old - DMG 24 Delay 191
New - DMG 28 Delay 191

Mandau
Old - DMG 32 Delay 176
New - DMG 39 Delay 176

[Pampei]

Cor af looks horrible stat wise... wtf is with only getting enhanced Quick Draw? I really hope that these aren't the final stats...

I thought that was pretty lame myself, only one enhancment



unless hidden effects....
"Everybody get your Roll on"
and
"Try to catch me rollin Dirty"


cuz that would be gangster

[Dustybrown]

Thank you v.v. much 1/2 Pint. m(_ _)m.

[DeadLegend]

Formless strikes is gonna get smacked with the magic nerf.

Cor AF has massive ranged accuracy+, more than ranger af lol, so that should be some compensation for lack of trait/ability boosts.
Not all AF is super duper shit, for example, look at the first pld af set, it gives no JA boosts except Holy Circle, just regular stat/hp/magic skill.

(fuckin taking me 20 minutes to post with this slowdown)

[miokomioko]

What about attachments and frames? =( I'll be really dissapointed if PUPs don't get new ones.

As for AF, seems ok, for PUP only the feet and hands look good, depending on how strong enhanced manuvers are.

As a 67 PUP (flame ;D) and from doing a lot of 'my-ex-pt-left-me-@2000-soloing' on high DCs, I can say:

Weapon = /loltoss

Hat = resting solo

Hands = sexy (I'll assume stat boost is at least doubled, and if maneuvers last twice as long, I'll crap my pants. They will probably replace pln. hands or battle gloves due to usefulness>3/4acc)

Body = sexy (probably replaced by pln. kaz. @ lv. 70 unless mp boost is big enough to significantly increase time the mage frame can spam Thunder II before converting and Cure IVing. Definitely replaced by pln. kaz. if using ranger or tank frame)

legs = solo (but very awesome for solo. PUP solo is made possibly purely by using the mage frame with attatchments that give MP+, Convert, and Curing priority+, At 66~67 mage frame Cure IVs for 375ish when I'm about 300~350hp down from full, depending on how many light maneuvers are pushing priority up)

feet = meh (hume RSE2 boots have 3 DEX over these in my case. Enhanced Repair only really good if you're using ranger or tank frame on AoE-heavy mobs, or perhaps if your race gets poo for footgear otherwise)


And they did mention "Several new automaton attatchments have been added." Although not important to most dataminers due to it being related to lolpup, I'd like to find out the descriptions on those (not just the "fire based automaton attatchment" the actual description when you trade and equip them.)

[Nagamaki]

The MNK abilities all depend very heavily on what the potency of the effect is.

If Penance's effect is strong and has a good duration (and even better would be stacking with Subtle Blow to break the 50% cap) it could be very awesome, but if its short and like 10% reduction, it would be useless. Potentially extremely powerful though.

Invigorate would have to be a very strong regen to be worth it (that stacks with other regens).

Mantra, if it gives significant HP for a significant duration could be good, its not particularly exciting stuff though.

Formless Strikes seems like a big question mark to me, does it just mean make melee hits give no TP at all, or ignore physical defense or does it actually turn them into magical damage, which would then depend on the whole resist thing... Could be great but could be total crap.

[½pint]

I know nothing about PUP, this is everything in the DATs, so some of it will probably already be ingame

Strobe
Increases Enmity
Occasionally use "Provoke"

Tension Spring
Enhances attack

Inhibitor
Store TP
Improves TP usage efficiency

Tension Spring II
Enhances attack

Attuner
Enhances attack against strong
enemies

Mana Booster
Increases frequency of spell use

Loudspeaker
Enhances magic attack

Scanner
Occasionally scans target's
magic resistances

Loudspeaker II
Enhances magic attack

Tactical Processor
Decreases decision-making time, but
increases the tendency to overload

Accelerator
Enhances evasion

Scope
Enhances ranged accuracy

Pattern Reader
Analyzes enemy attack patterns
and gradually enhances evasion

Accelerator II
Enhances evasion

Drum Magazine
Sacrifices accuracy for speed in
ranged attacks

Shock Absorber
Use "Stoneskin"

Armor Plate
Enhances defense

Analyzer
Increases chance of mitigating
the effects of special attacks
previously used by the enemy

Armor Plate II
Enhances defense

Equalizer
Reduces damage received according to
damage taken

Stabilizer
Enhances accuracy

Volt Gun
Adds lightning damage to attacks

Heat Seeker
Analyzes enemy evasion patterns
and gradually enhances accuracy

Stabilizer II
Enhances accuracy

Target Marker
Enhances accuracy against strong
enemies

Mana Jammer
Enhances magic defense

Heatsink
Reduces the rate of
"Fire Maneuver" overload

Stealth Screen
Reduces enmity

Mana Jammer II
Enhances magic defense

Mana Channeler
Increases magic recast time in
exchange for increased magic attack

Auto-Repair Kit
Increases HP
Adds "Regen" effect to Light Maneuver

Flashbulb
Use "Flash"

Damage Gauge
Prioritizes curing

Auto-Repair Kit II
Increases HP
Adds "Regen" effect to Light Maneuver

Eraser
Erase enfeebling and maneuver effects

Mana Tank
Increases MP
Adds "Refresh" effect
to Dark Maneuver

Mana Converter
Consumes HP to gradually restore MP

Mana Conserver
Conserve MP

Mana Tank II
Increases MP
Adds "Refresh" effect
to Dark Maneuver

Smoke Screen
Decreases accuracy, increases evasion

[gscott+1]

Cor af looks horrible stat wise... wtf is with only getting enhanced Quick Draw? I really hope that these aren't the final stats...

I thought that was pretty lame myself, only one enhancment



unless hidden effects....
"Everybody get your Roll on"
and
"Try to catch me rollin Dirty"


cuz that would be gangster

As for COR, overall its good but there are a few meaningless stats. The R.Acc is nice, but where is the R.att?!

Body:
R.Acc, Dex, & Agi - all are very nice

Hands
Dex is good, MND if you sub /whm, parry = meh

Head
This is the most sexy piece of the set; Str, R.acc, & enhances QD..very nice^^.

Legs
HP is nice, INT is useless, and negative enmity is a mood point.

Feet
Again more Str, R.acc, & Agi so nice aswell.

I haven't seen the AF weapon and its stats yet though, but I hope its a gun

[miokomioko]

Tension Spring II
Enhances attack

Attuner
Enhances attack against strong
enemies

Loudspeaker II
Enhances magic attack

Tactical Processor
Decreases decision-making time, but
increases the tendency to overload

Accelerator II
Enhances evasion

Drum Magazine
Sacrifices accuracy for speed in
ranged attacks

Armor Plate II
Enhances defense

Equalizer
Reduces damage received according to
damage taken

Stabilizer II
Enhances accuracy

Target Marker
Enhances accuracy against strong
enemies

Mana Jammer II
Enhances magic defense

Mana Channeler
Increases magic recast time in
exchange for increased magic attack

Auto-Repair Kit II
Increases HP
Adds "Regen" effect to Light Maneuver

Eraser
Erase enfeebling and maneuver effects

Mana Tank II
Increases MP
Adds "Refresh" effect
to Dark Maneuver

Smoke Screen
Decreases accuracy, increases evasion

These are the new attatchments, to which I say 'holy crap.' Many thanks, 1/2 pint. Many. Looks like 2 new attatchments per element, which finally makes for enough good attatchments for a PUP to actually have to pick and choose what might be best in each situation. Looks like the job finally might find its niche.

[Ichthyos]

Formless strikes is gonna get smacked with the magic nerf.

Maybe, but it didn't say it was magic damage.

[DeadLegend]

Is there a way for taj and any other dataminers to find out about the Max merit combo for Group 2 upgrades?

[nekoshoonen]

any info on the most likely useless AF weapons?

[Jehryn]

any info on the most likely useless AF weapons?

Immortal's Scimitar
DMG:26, Delay:236, MP+10, STR+1, INT+1

Trump Gun
DMG:28, Delay: 480, AGI+2, Ranged Accuracy+2

Turbo Animator
An improved version of the animator. Transmits commands at a faster rate than the standard model.

[Chupunpupun]

Formless strikes is gonna get smacked with the magic nerf.

Maybe, but it didn't say it was magic damage.

What other damage types are there?? I can only think of physcial damage and magical damage.

[Starfire]

I know nothing about PUP, this is everything in the DATs, so some of it will probably already be ingame

Strobe
Increases Enmity
Occasionally use "Provoke"

Tension Spring
Enhances attack

Inhibitor
Store TP
Improves TP usage efficiency

Tension Spring II
Enhances attack

Attuner
Enhances attack against strong
enemies

Mana Booster
Increases frequency of spell use

Loudspeaker
Enhances magic attack

Scanner
Occasionally scans target's
magic resistances

Loudspeaker II
Enhances magic attack

Tactical Processor
Decreases decision-making time, but
increases the tendency to overload

Accelerator
Enhances evasion

Scope
Enhances ranged accuracy

Pattern Reader
Analyzes enemy attack patterns
and gradually enhances evasion

Accelerator II
Enhances evasion

Drum Magazine
Sacrifices accuracy for speed in
ranged attacks

Shock Absorber
Use "Stoneskin"

Armor Plate
Enhances defense

Analyzer
Increases chance of mitigating
the effects of special attacks
previously used by the enemy

Armor Plate II
Enhances defense

Equalizer
Reduces damage received according to
damage taken

Stabilizer
Enhances accuracy

Volt Gun
Adds lightning damage to attacks

Heat Seeker
Analyzes enemy evasion patterns
and gradually enhances accuracy

Stabilizer II
Enhances accuracy

Target Marker
Enhances accuracy against strong
enemies

Mana Jammer
Enhances magic defense

Heatsink
Reduces the rate of
"Fire Maneuver" overload

Stealth Screen
Reduces enmity

Mana Jammer II
Enhances magic defense

Mana Channeler
Increases magic recast time in
exchange for increased magic attack

Auto-Repair Kit
Increases HP
Adds "Regen" effect to Light Maneuver

Flashbulb
Use "Flash"

Damage Gauge
Prioritizes curing

Auto-Repair Kit II
Increases HP
Adds "Regen" effect to Light Maneuver

Eraser
Erase enfeebling and maneuver effects

Mana Tank
Increases MP
Adds "Refresh" effect
to Dark Maneuver

Mana Converter
Consumes HP to gradually restore MP

Mana Conserver
Conserve MP

Mana Tank II
Increases MP
Adds "Refresh" effect
to Dark Maneuver

Smoke Screen
Decreases accuracy, increases evasion

I bolded the ones that are new so you all can see easyer.

[Dryhus]

Regardless of how the version update worded it, HNMs have crazy high physical defense and SE was sick of players circumventing that by:

1) "arrow-burning" HNMs because ranged attacks took physical defense into account differently.
2) "mana-burning" and Chi-Blasting HNMs because magic attacks and Chi Blast ignore physical defense.

So in this update they swatted at anything that ignores physical defense. That includes nukes, Chi Blast, ninjutsu, Dinive Magic like Banish or Holy, elemental WSs, and non-physical WSs like Spirits Within.

I fear for Formless Strikes.