Get More Malmage from Your Equipment with Augmented Items! (03/17/2009)

[Max™]

Def, dmg/delay, attributes, skill, direct combat bonuses, direct damage adjustments, elemental resistances, ability/trait augmentations, set bonuses.

Super ribbon only has like two or three of the slots filled.

Apparently for each piece of gear there are like lines for those groups, so any hp/mp/stat boosts go into one slot, acc/eva/crit go in another slot, enhances berserk/fast cast in a third, so on.

[jimbobsonofgod]

No earrings/belts/back/rings/weapons/ammo/ranged
If an item has any kind of stats on it other then def, cant augment it.
FoV tabs / FoV NM to augment
No gear above 50
Craftable items only
Once a day
Can chose stat, but the number that is added to that stat is randomly generated between 1-3 for stat and 5-10 HP/MP.

[LD]

The only piece of equipment featured in that note's pic that didn't have 'bonus' stats was (what appears to be) the Bhuj in the hands of the Galka. All of the shown pieces, however, are craftable. I doubt stat-heavy pieces like Errant or Byrnie will be wiped clean, since there would be no point in adding the system to those pieces if you're getting less out of it. In any case, it seems pretty clear the Augmentation will merely add stats and it will be limited to equipment that can be crafted, as advertised.

It's obvious this is a means to bring crafting back in a big way, but the question is how far they'll run with it. An NPC will definitely deal with the process, but will it simply be trading the equipment in, just cash, or some sort of item? If it does require an item (and this is the real question for me), will the item be something you have to collect yourself or will crafters also make the key ingredients for the augmentation? If it's the latter, even if they're relatively cheap, this would re-solidify crafting as a money-maker, but only if each craft got important augments (or if a full set of augment items were limited to the equipment's main craft, but that might cause and imbalance between the crafts since some synth types are just more common than others.)


Oh, also, this makes those new mini-expansion pieces less special, even though they looked kinda cool.

[Starless]

Hey, PUPs can finally make a decent back piece before relic!

Hey, and who knows, if SE's really crazy this could become another craft.

[Max™]

That totally depends on how the stats in general are handled.

Being able to add some HP or Enm to an Adaman Cuirass would be neat, but in general nothing amazing.

Assuming those are the "mission reward" type items, it would then come down to whether they had the same general list of stats, or offered shit like refresh/haste/fast cast/-dmg% as options.

I'm leaning towards the three expansion body pieces offering unique options, or at least a better range of options than most stuff you'd get from simply augmenting gear.

[LD]

I'm leaning towards the three expansion body pieces offering unique options, or at least a better range of options than most stuff you'd get from simply augmenting gear.

If they're at all special. They could just be more bison gear.

If they ARE special, yea, I agree.

[ringthree]

That totally depends on how the stats in general are handled.

Being able to add some HP or Enm to an Adaman Cuirass would be neat, but in general nothing amazing.

Assuming those are the "mission reward" type items, it would then come down to whether they had the same general list of stats, or offered shit like refresh/haste/fast cast/-dmg% as options.

I'm leaning towards the three expansion body pieces offering unique options, or at least a better range of options than most stuff you'd get from simply augmenting gear.

Max™ is smart. Listen to Max™.

[Kerberoz]

If this makes weskit better than morri I'm buying a ticket to japan to murder someone with 12 metal ingots.

[Knyghtmayre]

I just want to make some fucking Movement speed +12% pants/shoes for SAM goddamnit.

[Not Kuno]

If this makes weskit better than morri I'm buying a ticket to japan to murder someone with 12 metal ingots.

This. :/

[Knyghtmayre]

Can chose stat, but the number that is added to that stat is randomly generated between 1-3 for stat and 5-10 HP/MP.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...226/4226_0.jpg
Did you even look at the picture???

Edit: Also, I dunno if this has been pointed out before, but the little Rare/Ex symbol on the example is Red, sooooooo I dunno. An entirely different classification?

[Destinye]

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...226/4226_0.jpg
Did you even look at the picture???

Edit: Also, I dunno if this has been pointed out before, but the little Rare/Ex symbol on the example is Red, sooooooo I dunno. An entirely different classification?

...Uh people ignoring the obvious to give "facts" isn't a new concept lol. Of course s/he didn't look at the picture or s/he read waaay too deep into the "May not reflect final product."

[Francisco]

The red tag says "Aug"...

From this, I would like some boots that MNK can wear that give more than 3 VIT, so I can finish that stupid "Test Your Mettle" quest, and possibly a neckpiece with like 5 VIT so I can ditch that stupid ass Medieval Collar and not want a Fortitude Torque from my Chakra build.

And maybe some slightly broken stuff...

Aristocrat's Coat
DEF:41 MP+18 MND+7
Adds "Refresh" Effect
Cure Potency+12%
Conserve MP+7 Enmity -7
Lv.67 WHM

Black Belt
DEF: 7 STR+7 Haste+12%
"Subtle Blow"+5
Physical damage taken -5%
"Store TP"+10
Critical hit rate +5%
Lv.70 MNK

[Drace]

I just want to make some fucking Movement speed +12% pants/shoes for SAM goddamnit.

Seriously, this has been driving me nuts for years. I feel like a turtle running around on SAM -_-

[Shinta]

I think that about the only thing we can say for certain is that you can add two effects, like both screen shots, and like the Crystalline Prophecy pieces.

[Charismatic]

And the text.

[LD]

Black Belt
DEF: 7 STR+7 Haste+12%
"Subtle Blow"+5
Physical damage taken -5%
"Store TP"+10
Critical hit rate +5%
Lv.70 MNK

Even though it's pretty much agreed that aug is craftable only, skeet.

[Tulun]

Obviously Black belt isn't powerful enough..

weapon: En-Death.

Now we're talkin.

[ronin sparthos]

If this makes weskit better than morri I'm buying a ticket to japan to murder someone with 12 metal ingots.

SE obsoleting gear? Haha, surely you jest.

Im leaning towards vanilla gear only simply because it'd make no sense to augment gear that already has a defined and popular standing within the game. People buy Haubs, Weskits, Errants already - whereas items like Alumine, Cuir, Iron and Hare-Ates lie dead on the AH.

Perhaps if you can tweak popular gear with stats it'd come at the cost of replacing a stat boost on the gear already - creating gear that comes close to anything in the endgame just wont happen..... SEs actions in the past backs that up for sure.

[Silenka]

I don't know, I'm still hopeful, they might be turning over a new leaf...or trying to any-- pfff ahaha I can't even finish that sentence without laughing sorry