The Latest Evolution in Equipment—Announcing the Evolith System! (11/04/2009)

[Kongolo]

kill fov aug and past-aug-nms?

[test123]

crafting just became profitable

[Eratosthenes]

When they first announced augmenting items, this is how I thought it would work.

[Corrderio]

crafting just became profitable

Hasn't this been said before?

[Amok]

Thinking about it more, I expect that etching gear is going to be random like augments. I think that because it's easy to repeat this step until you have the right slot to fit your evoliths. For example, if you want int on your +INT Weskit, you can infinitely repeat the etching with the same piece (expecting this to cost gil) until you get your Triangle-ICE slot to go with your INT evolith. That alone makes it more worthwhile than FoV since you don't have to toss your crappy etchings and less of a boost to crafting.

Very curious what the cost of etching will be. Hoping it's a wind crystal!

[seiji]

Pessimism aside, this could be cool. Maybe they'll add rarer stats like song casting time reduction, pet stats, or great katana TP bonus. (Fuck you, hagun.)

Also, materia. I mean, really.

GK TP bonus will not happen, this would break sam ever more with higher ws dmg , and lol butachi+1(only rank9 GK no R Ex), or worst: evolyth TP bonus stack with hagun tp bonus (300TP ws anytime)

for 2h upgrade: meikyo shisui: hit give TP!!!!

[Eldelphia]

crafting just became profitable

Unless you go to an NPC to get it synthed in which case it just died...

[Albender]

This is your UPDATE BLMs!!!!! (and SMNs)

They'll probably throw in:

Black Magic: Stone V
or
Summoning Magic: Chaos Elemental

or some shit like that.




Then again, wishful thinking really.

Probably more realistic would be: INT-1 . . .

Fixed. Was saying INT+1, reads now INT-1.

Signed,
SE

[Ragnus]

I'm willing to bet that R/Ex items are going to be excluded from this and that 2H weapons will have the ability to hold more slots than 1H ones. I wonder if this means there will be a way to make a katana that is better than Senju other than a fluke Fudo augment or obtaining Kikoku.

[Aemora]

Could add Dark Magic accuracy and shit like that to Elemental Staves... Would further enhance the old native magic accuracy of the staves themselves... Perhaps lower cast delay and more INT/MAB?

Or is that wishful thinking..? Hope that you can do something like that with them. Would be nice.

[Araelus]

Shall we speculate on what the Hunt Registries consume to give pop items?

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...017/5017_3.jpg

That little green (EX) says "no secondary market for evoliths". At least we should be able to narrow down the random drops by selecting which NM to fight, similar to Augments... >_>

[Dooom]

Hasn't this been said before?

Been said before, and it didn't work out that way.

Gonna sit on the fence about this until more is known. People shot their load over augments thinking they could put haste on their haubys and stuff, then reality came and slapped them about a bit and broke their hearts. While this could work out better than FoV augments, it could also be random as hell and just another disapointment. Shall wait and see.

[xopher]

Anyone who says this is like materia needs their MMO license revoked.

This is like Diablo, WoW, Aion socketing.

[Toth]

Sounds like fun and I am hopeful it will brief some life back into the game.

The only sad part? They showed the new weapon in the teaser. They seems to indicate they are not avatar related weapons I hope Friday's announcement is the new avatar but its not looking likely.

[dantaro]

1) Fuck 6:30 fire alarms followed by 7:00 fire alarms

2) the fuck is THIS shit? Cause all the stones they showed were totally useless, and you can bet your bottom dollar that all the "hundreds of pieces" they say will get slots from the old equipment will be POS pieces who previously had the functionality of a rock (and will now be rocks with +6 attack during WSs!). FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Argettio]

Anyone who says this is like materia needs their MMO license revoked.

This is like Diablo, WoW, Aion socketing.

Except with SEs normal level of over-complication.

Aion socketing:
1. "Oh look a stone"
2. Is it the same level or lower than the socket in your gear (y/n)
3. if yes, stick it in on your own (no npc needed)

SE socketing:
1. Farm pop items/points to access the NM fight (guess here)
2. fight the NM
3. "Oh look a stone"
4. Is it the same element as the socket in your gear (y/n)
5. Is it the same level of element (or lower) as the socket in your gear (y/n)
6. Is it the same 'shape' as the socket in your gear (y/n)
7. If yes, Haul your ass back to town and trade it all to an npc with some sort of payment/other materials

[Sev]

its wow socketing in ffxi!

[Hioki]

Unless you go to an NPC to get it synthed in which case it just died...

Unless the socket amount is randomly determined, in which crafting will boom.

[xopher]

Except with SEs normal level of over-complication.

Aion socketing:
1. "Oh look a stone"
2. Is it the same level or lower than the socket in your gear (y/n)
3. if yes, stick it in on your own (no npc needed)

SE socketing:
1. Farm pop items/points to access the NM fight (guess here)
2. fight the NM
3. "Oh look a stone"
4. Is it the same element as the socket in your gear (y/n)
5. Is it the same level of element (or lower) as the socket in your gear (y/n)
6. Is it the same 'shape' as the socket in your gear (y/n)
7. If yes, Haul your ass back to town and trade it all to an npc with some sort of payment/other materials

I'd rather have the overcomplication than the devastating failures when you've put 3 300,000 kinah manastones into a piece and the last one fails.

[Dymlos]

Incoming /synergy shit is random or no good stats!