Version Update Complete! (12/07/2009)

[seiji]

The "Healing Magic: Enmity -3" looked pretty good.

I prefer "Healing Magic: Enmity +3"

Synergy Furnaces
Communal synergy furnaces have been made available in certain cities, and access to them will be granted to players who have completed the quest offered by the Metalworks NPC "Hildolf."

watch it be a stupid quest needing some stupid mats whose price will stupidly jump or HL mobs Ex drops or key item (and FU lvl1 synth mule)

[vivix]

I guess I'm not entirely clear on how to get started on this from the moment of login. Thoughts?

[psubond]

But what he said implied that people would change to level 1 jobs so that if there was an explosion that would do damage and subsequently kill them, they would not be bothered by the lost experience. Therefore, your point has no relevance.

what he said. either i didn't state what i meant clearly enough of someone got wooshed.

i'm still itching to see what evolith i will get out of this "tachus" or however you spell it is. i'm SO hoping for haste since the description says "quick" in it so that i can put it on my hauby. actually if it's haste and can be put on a hauby +1 i'll spend the gil to get one.

[seiji]

some people craft on mules you know.....

synegies result cant be traded... (like augment) so what's the point to synegise something on your mule...(having alt account mule synergiser good so you can synergise for your main, but still need to do it with your main)

[Deimos]

I guess I'm not entirely clear on how to get started on this from the moment of login. Thoughts?

Talk to Hildolf in the Metalworks.

[Shamaya]

I'm glad they made failures relatively painless. Normally I don't mind failure possiblity, sometimes it's not even a bad system. But they made this system so incredibly complicated that adding harsh failure/material-loss would have been a bitch. As for skins I'm thinking they just forgot to add the recipe and it'll be non-synergy, but we'll see.

Really really hoping for a great new offhand for Mandau with this new aern dagger "machismo." Blau/X's/Ridill are great but in this age of 2h dominance, something truly epic would be sweeeet.

[Khiinroye]

I can see people shouting for scholars to give AoE Stoneskin and Phalanx for synergy, at least until people get their smocks and cuffs, or determine that the damage isn't all that high.

Looking at the synergy damage -XX% gear...

I hope that the smocks are from combining the crafting apron with some reward from cinders, since it looks like a +1 version. At the very least they should require a certain level of the craft skill, since they're split by crafts. The cuffs should be fine with just buying normally (with a requirement of skill since they're also divided by craft?) since there's no enhancement to the actual crafting skill.



Also, in before they screwed things up and make you take synergy damage if you fail a regular synth.

[Midnightjade]

Brb, exploding myself and a few friends with a giant furnace-shaped grenade.

[Albatross]

I've been tossing this idea around with a friend in game and this may or may not be the case but it involves the Aptants.

What we theorized is that since there are 12 Aptants, and 12 total new sets (3 base sets and 9 upgraded sets) that each Aptant corresponds to a "set." Meaning that in order to upgrade a piece you will need 2 Aptants total, one for the base piece and the other for w/e upgraded path you are hoping to go for, then you add in pigment for the color and up to 3 Evoliths.

[Nishida]

I've been tossing this idea around with a friend in game and this may or may not be the case but it involves the Aptants.

What we theorized is that since there are 12 Aptants, and 12 total new sets (3 base sets and 9 upgraded sets) that each Aptant corresponds to a "set." Meaning that in order to upgrade a piece you will need 2 Aptants total, one for the base piece and the other for w/e upgraded path you are hoping to go for, then you add in pigment for the color and up to 3 Evoliths.

Sounds pretty plausible..especially considering http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Aptant:_Fyrst

[Gergall]

There are a number of posts in this thread talking about doing Synergy on a level 1 job.

An explosion inflicts considerable damage on both the furnace and participating synergists, and ultimately shortens the time available to you and your and comrades for the synergy attempt.

My impression is that if you survive an explosion, the furnance's durability is significantly decreased. However, you can continue along with the synth and complete it successfully. The cause of an explosion (not dealing with Internal Pressure) is totally unrelated to the criteria for a successful/hq synth (Elemental Balance).

On the other hand, if you are all level 1 and die in an explosion, the reaction will surely fail as there is nobody left to maintain the furnance (durability will drop to 0 while you all lie there dead).

[Sho]

Time to level my Leather and Smithing mules to 30~40. SE, you really know how to keep a guy playing. >_>

[Albatross]

Or this

Aptant: Arkhe - Beginning http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Aptant:_Arkhe
Aptant: Primus - Source http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Aptant_of_Primus

[orson]

Ya they probably didn't want low level characters to use synergy, imo. It might be kind of a fuck you to crafting mules but I bet in SE's reasoning it'll prevent the system being abused by RMT for a while. Honestly though I'm very annoyed that they require certain crafts at all. It's getting harder and harder to find nevermind get a level 100 crafter to show up without paying them through the nose.

Edit: BTW is anyone doing more .dat mining to see if things have changed or new items are in the system now?

[pchan]

can't wait for my chainspell : magic accuracy -2. Inbefore time sink for absolutely no increase in performance.

[Pergo]

I think SE fucked up...they Synergy Furnaces and quest NPCs aren't appearing, people are running around crazy in metalworks because they can't find Hildolf... yet Apradar shows him the same spot he's been since the last patch... except it isn't active yet... wtf

[Destinye]

I think SE fucked up...they Synergy Furnaces and quest NPCs aren't appearing, people are running around crazy in metalworks because they can't find Hildolf... yet Apradar shows him the same spot he's been since the last patch... except it isn't active yet... wtf

More than likely they didn't turn the NPCs on yet, espcially if the servers JUST came up.

[Pergo]

considering thats what this whole patch is about... its a pretty big thing to overlook lol

[Destinye]

considering thats what this whole patch is about... its a pretty big thing to overlook lol

Yeah it's either an oversight or the server is having trouble loading the new data. If its like how MMM was it will probably be fixed in the next hour..hopefully >.>

[Pergo]

here's my convo with a GM, was actually pretty helpful for once lol