Augmented Items Abound! (07/13/2009)

[Hapernack]

Mostly I think it's prepare for a flood of augmented NQ items and some weird weapons all of which are below the best thing.

That.

[Gergall]

I doubt that you will be able to augment HQ items. I haven't really paid that much attention to them although I have yet to see any HQ items that can be augmented. I don't have high expectations for NQ augments either. Augmenting an item to make it better than the HQ would defeat the purpose of their crafting system. I don't think there are any non-crafted items that can be augmented so that rules out potentially good items like Warwolf and Trance. Mostly I think it's prepare for a flood of augmented NQ items and some weird weapons all of which are below the best thing.

So you didn't see the guy who minus 1'ed his Penance Robe? You can augment HQ items.

BTW does anyone know which Field Manual is being shown in the OP teaser screenshot?

[Arximiro]

I doubt that you will be able to augment HQ items. I haven't really paid that much attention to them although I have yet to see any HQ items that can be augmented. I don't have high expectations for NQ augments either. Augmenting an item to make it better than the HQ would defeat the purpose of their crafting system. I don't think there are any non-crafted items that can be augmented so that rules out potentially good items like Warwolf and Trance. Mostly I think it's prepare for a flood of augmented NQ items and some weird weapons all of which are below the best thing.

Both Sniper's+1 and Swordbelt+1 have been augmented in the masses.

[jimbobsonofgod]

BTW does anyone know which Field Manual is being shown in the OP teaser screenshot?

Eastern Altepa Desert

its by the OP Tent

[Blaubont]

Mmmm some Hedgehog Bombs with MND would be nice

[Jesifromgaruda]

Until reading about this stuff I pretty much ingorned FoV augments because you had to be super lucky to get anything even decent augmented onto your armor. Like +1 DEX on a snipers ring was like OMFG crazy.

If they have upped how cool the augments can be like in the picture with the errant hpl......holy freak. This has some crazy potential.

When I posted the last time I didn't know weapons could be augmented for some reason. Now that I've done some reasearch and found out that they can be, this could be pretty cool. Not only my HQ staves, HHB, dusk gloves etc can be thrown into the augment machine, but my freakin hagun can be too.

Hmm. Even if I got something small like DMG+1, STR+1, DEX+1 or something along those lines it would be insane just because you are taking the best weapon and making it a little bit better.

But...of course SE always makes everything out ot be better than it really is. I remember being hyped by the SS when they came out with the FoV augments originally. Then we all saw the billion SSs of horrible augments and 99% of them were just lolresist stats.

So, I'll probably be forgetting how cool I thought this could be after I see a SS of a hagun with STR-1 Dark resist +8 on it. lolz.

[Virtuous Saint]

Mmmm some Hedgehog Bombs with MND would be nice

Impossible.

[Blaubont]

Impossible.

Reason? Unstackable nor rare nor ex

[Virtuous Saint]

Reason? Unstackable nor rare nor ex

Because SE wouldn't allow something useful.

[jimbobsonofgod]

No Ammo No grips can be augmented. . . Fucking square . . .

[Blaubont]

No Ammo No grips can be augmented. . . Fucking square . . .

Is there any evidence that we cannot augment ammo (Imp. Egg + Hedgehog)?
So far we have only had stackable, rare, and ex ammos up to 50 as far as I know of.

[Knyghtmayre]

Is there any evidence that we cannot augment ammo (Imp. Egg + Hedgehog)?
So far we have only had stackable, rare, and ex ammos up to 50 as far as I know of.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/ff...olyampulla.jpg

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/ff...thlum_2007.png

[Jaunty]

Both of them are stackable .

[finalfabio]

where is Atomos????????

fuck wotg

[Sifer]

After reading this thread I feel like I'm going to see a million SAMs runing around with haguns with - str/dex and no other augmented gear....

STR+1 on wyvern helm is just as good as STR+1 on a hagun. dont ruin your expensive gear just to have "best weapon" or whatever. Smart players are the ones that augment their cheap gear 1st (weskit, warwolf, wyvern helm, chiv chain, errant, NQ rings, etc).


As drk it seems that I can get extra STR on my Alkys, ruby ring, warwolf, foragers and black cuisses. not sure how much some of them are worth nowadays but assuming at least 3 str cap on lv 75 items that adds 18 STR to the maximum str set for drk (15 if u have ares legs).

EDIT: typoo

[Sifer]

Also this might make some KS30s/KS99s more profitable if some of the drops became high demand again (like warworlf belt).

[Knyghtmayre]

Both of them are stackable .

Wow, I can honestly say that I've never noticed that in the 4 years that I've been playing. <_< I see that peiste darts stack too... so there's no ammo that isn't stackable or rare pre-50

[Jaunty]

Only ammo I know of that fall into the augmentable catagory would be Goblin Grenade, Hedgehog Bomb, Imperial Egg, Tsar's Egg. Though as augmenting these would probably make them better than anything else avalible in that slot I recon SE will stop it.

For as far as I can tell thats the only reason they have stopped augmentation on grips. SE didn't intend on FoV augmented items to be better than whats avalible, as they said from the start it was to personalize your cherished armour, those pieces you just cant bare to throw away as they mean something special to you.

[Belgaer]

The most stable thing a crafter has is consumables, people always need those. Sure, this augment dealie is taking out some of the non-consumables, as people will buy new ones if they get bad augments, but at some point, that item is going to tank again.

This. The augmenting, unless it's somewhat decent, is only a temporary jolt to the crafting world. It won't even last until the next update. People will get fed up with the stupidity of the augmenting system, just like they did before, and just stop doing it. Besides, a lot of the highlight items to augment would be BCNM/KSNM drops or Assault Point items, not crafted items. This was a stupid way to fix crafting.

Is there any evidence that we cannot augment ammo (Imp. Egg + Hedgehog)?
So far we have only had stackable, rare, and ex ammos up to 50 as far as I know of.

Optical Needle

EDIT: Gah, it's rare. My bad.

[Belgaer]

Sorry, double post. ><