New Items Galore! (12/13/2006)

[MF Perm]

I like how they used the word "galore."

[Scythiroth]

I like how they used the word "galore."

I was thinking about that too. They show 3 armor sets and talk about food and say "galore!" I guess we just have to wait and see. ;/

edit: If that is PUP JSE, I sooooo called that. >.>

[Janice]

actually, they do.
every new patch the add 3 new IS items that require assault rank.
my bet is final assault rank will give access to something sweet (and costly in terms of IS)

Yes, technically correct, but does anyone actually get any of that garbage other than the maps?

Trooper's ring is good. And being able to raise my throwing skill is nice. But the only way to make most of that stuff any good is having the reward for beating all ToAU missions/assaults is to have the bonuses work everywhere. Don't need a fancy new ring or whatever. Allow us to actually use those pieces.

[Medivac]

i guess these are better for nothing, wheres the blm love though?

[spooky]

i guess these are better for nothing, wheres the blm love though?

YES WHERE IS THE BLM LOVE! :<

[Scythiroth]

i guess these are better for nothing, wheres the blm love though?

YES WHERE IS THE BLM LOVE! :<

Just be happy they aren't giving us more BLM "adjustments."

[safer]

ppl need to quit saying its af2 for blu,cor,pup there is already armor in the dats that fit those descriptions.

are you talking about luzaf's armor for cor, and maybe aphmau's armor for pup? or are you talking about files in the .dats that we havnt seen yet that could possibly be related to AF2

just curious...

personally i'd love luzaf's armor to be my Cor AF2 but somehow i dont think they'd give us the exact same armor as a storyline NPC... usually they try to make them stand out... i remember that one chick in CoP who gave you the ring, she had a tweaked byrnie which was pretty cool

however... AF2 is just reskinned AF1 with minor adjustments... those 3 new armors look absolutely nothing like the 3 existing af1 sets

[FFXIFlux]

New Assault:

Merit Crashing
Recommended Level: 70
The Mamool Ja are reported to have been strengthening their forces through mass meritting. If they continue at this rate, we may be unable to defend ourselves against their level 5 Warcries. You must infiltrate the Mamool Ja Training Grounds and crash their merit parties. Earn 10k limit points while preventing them from claiming any Sea Puks for themselves.

Heh. Pretty sure they merit in Al Zhabi though.

[Doombard]

All this about Salvage... I'm gonna laugh when they finally announce wth it actually is... only to reveal its a new battle system.... for Tetra Master!

[NynJa]

actually, they do.
every new patch the add 3 new IS items that require assault rank.
my bet is final assault rank will give access to something sweet (and costly in terms of IS)

Yes, technically correct, but does anyone actually get any of that garbage other than the maps?

Trooper's ring is good. And being able to raise my throwing skill is nice. But the only way to make most of that stuff any good is having the reward for beating all ToAU missions/assaults is to have the bonuses work everywhere. Don't need a fancy new ring or whatever. Allow us to actually use those pieces.

Sentinel Shield looks pretty hot too...
Kite type, 10 def, STR+3, Haste+1%

Shark Gun is also really good, its actually a decent endgame piece for cor's.
Alternatves to Shark Gun = Corsair's Gun or Coffinmaker.
Corsair Gun = D41 Del600, no other stats.
Coffinmaker is a KS30 weapon w/ D40 Del 600, RACC+9
Shark Gun is D39 Del600 racc+5.
Oh, did I mention that Shark Gun is available at lvl 60 whereas the other two guns are lv75 and 72 respectively ?

[Norelco]

Yeah, Shark gun is pretty good.

[Tomino]

personally i'd love luzaf's armor to be my Cor AF2 but somehow i dont think they'd give us the exact same armor as a storyline NPC

i agree it can't be the same as his, because Luzaf dresses are cut/ruined on the sides to give him the creepy look.

but still, his armor is exactly like COR AF except for different textures color and features, like him wearing leather instead of naked chest.
more, the "ancient" corsair armor should look as his, since Luzaf is the first corsair ever.
so as Hydra Corps wear Relic, the same should go for Luzaf...


as for PUP AF2, it cant be that of the girl NPC. the whole 3d model is completely different (nashira one).
I guess the one wearing PUP Relic will be Alexander's crafter, that legendary puppetmaster.

BLU AF2.. i really dont know how they can fit it storywise...

[shieldsofwindurst]

I think the real key point here is that each job that existed before ToAU came out (meaning not blu, cor, pup) has received access to, from all ToAU updates, a grand total of no more than 3 (in most cases 1 or 2) pieces of endgame gear that they actually want. As a blm, the only piece of gear I would actually wear from ToAU is yigit feet, and they are such a minor upgrade that I haven't bothered to spam enough assaults to get them yet. Yes, the entire yigit set is the best hmp set in the game, but inventory-5 for healing = fail as a blm (at least for me).

The problem here is not that SE doesn't introduce a ton of new items with each update-they Do, just watch the datamining threads-the issue is that SE continues to ignore the fact that the players:
1. Are willing to grind to 75 with existing gear, it's good enough
2. Want to stop going to the same goddamn places for the same goddamn gear that they've done since Zilart.

The items that have come out from ToAU have done virtually nothing to deal with problem #2. Almost everything that's remotely worthwhile in ToAU shines in the 40's to the 60's and then you get back to the standard endgame gear. SE is dealing with problem #1, and nobody thinks that #1 is a problem.

My hope is that the ToAU endgame area addresses this. The same was true for CoP (for the most part) until you got to Sea, where the available gear actually became useful, just monumentally annoying to get (af+1,nashira/homam,torques,capes,earrings,AV). My fear is that SE thinks that we have enough endgame content and continues to focus on gear to help us grind levels faster.

[Xno]

Enpsi in KI posted this :

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68.../LawlEnpsi.png

So dont you think it fit ? its obivous

[Septimus]

Enpsi in KI posted this :

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68.../LawlEnpsi.png

So dont you think it fit ? its obivous

Wow, I didn't notice how close the Mithra's armor is to BLU AF until I saw that, but I think that the first two are fairly obvious though. (I don't know why people said the Galka's set looks like MNK armor when it is so reminiscent of NIN Relic.)

[Purplenv]

It's obvious what SE used to create it? or its obvious which jobs its intended for?
because the later is not really so obvious, based on the previously available gear only.

Pln. is reskinned THF AF, yet can be used by many jobs above and beyond THF.

Just because the mithra is wearing reskinned BLU AF, doesn't mean that it is even wearable by BLU, (although likely) it could easily be an Abj. set, usable by a number of jobs. All of those COULD be.

[aznmajiktaru]

crush the hopes now while it's still early before you fall further when the actual update comes out

[Epical]

When I first saw the galka, I thought SAM JSE (same black/red/gold color scheme), but then I remembered they have Hachiman. But yeah MNKs are due for some true JSE (not some random body piece that is pretty lol).

[Kylen]

Shark Gun is also really good, its actually a decent endgame piece for cor's.
Alternatves to Shark Gun = Corsair's Gun or Coffinmaker.
Corsair Gun = D41 Del600, no other stats.
Coffinmaker is a KS30 weapon w/ D40 Del 600, RACC+9
Shark Gun is D39 Del600 racc+5.
Oh, did I mention that Shark Gun is available at lvl 60 whereas the other two guns are lv75 and 72 respectively ?

Close. Shark Gun is 582 delay, D39, R.acc +5 (and R.atk +5 in Beseiged, lol). Hands-down best gun a COR can use from 60-72, but an unlocked Coffinmaker is definitely a slight improvement over it when you hit 72. Some COR's prefer Martial Gun as their endgame gun of choice too, claiming that the TP bonus does more for their Slug accuracy than the R.acc +9 from Coffinmaker.

The only use I can see for Corsair's Gun is if your only goal is to maximize Quick Draw damage, or if you can't afford/obtain Martial Gun or Coffinmaker.

[deivi]

at least its not just a re-color, lot more detail