New Version Update Announcement! (05/14/2010)

[gairaiden]

actually that white armor in the left pic is the white hauby set that has been in the dat files for hume male since the update that released ACP. bout time SE added it as a actual armor set.

[Sho]

Since this is a update along with a raise in level cap, I expect to get many more update notes than normal to tease the fuck out of us.

[Xanthe]

actually that white armor in the left pic is the white hauby set that has been in the dat files for hume male since the update that released ACP. bout time SE added it as a actual armor set.

It's gray.

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Someone had to start the new argument

I'm excited to see what new weapon skills they come up with, even if they aren't all overly useful. Although I imagine with how they plan to ramp up the difficulty with newer content I would not be surprised if they added weapon skills that outclass what we currently have and perhaps adjust relic weapon skills to be more potent. Of course the latter might be a bit optimistic.

[Toth]

Here we go baby!

[Aristio]

I'm going to assume that these WS won't just pop in your list once you reach a certain number considering lvl 71 and job specific WS need a quest to get them.

Trial of the Magian weapon skill unlocks most likely. I'm also betting you increase your cap through trial of the magians. And if they really want to push the lag in Ru'Lude, they will add unlockable JA through Trials.

[Alkar]

Trial of the Magian weapon skill unlocks most likely. I'm also betting you increase your cap through trial of the magians. And if they really want to push the lag in Ru'Lude, they will add unlockable JA through Trials.

I like the system but that would be a bit too much :X
I do hope that if the new WS are quested they add an in-game counter like the trials.

[ringthree]

Trial of the Magian weapon skill unlocks most likely. I'm also betting you increase your cap through trial of the magians. And if they really want to push the lag in Ru'Lude, they will add unlockable JA through Trials.

I think we might have our answer right here. The next set of Magian quests might be to add the new WS to the current Magian weapons. I don't know about that other stuff, but I definitely think these new WS will be either learned through Magians or only on Magian weapons.

[Not Kuno]

I figured with the skill cap going up they would just add new WSes. Would be really gay if you had to quest for them too.

[Xanthe]

It could go either way, but I think they will be acquired naturally. The reason our last two WSs were quested was because the level ~71 WSs were meant the be the penultimate to relic WSs at a permanent 75 cap, and mythic WSs had to be quested since there was still no intent to raise the cap and it fit with the mythic storyline. Now that we will have a cap increase and skill will rise along with it I think we'll simply learn them as we skill up until we hit our 99 cap which will probably have another penultimate quested WS.

[Spira]

It's gray.

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Someone had to start the new argument

No, it's cream!

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vWihfifjey...s1600/set1.jpg

[fusionx]

Guessing we'll see the other two sets as well, maybe they'll be the armor given to us for Magian Quests.

http://petfoodalpha.com/wp-content/u...5/newarmor.jpg

[Khajit]

Oh god i hope not. screw that pink bullshit.

[Xanthe]

I'm not a fan of the white (I mean gray), either to be honest. Now if they gave a Haubert set in blue...

[Midnightjade]

Looks like a reskinned white hauberk/haubert to me. Same for the white celata. The pic is too small to pick all the details.

Looks like a reskinned EBody to me, and maybe a DW WAR rather than a BST?

Is the new EBody white, off-white, or cream colored? You decide! :D

[EDIT - beaten! That'll teach me to read the whole thread before posting. ]

[Rocl]

oh boy reskinned CoP crafted armor

[Eldelphia]

I could handle the blurple mage gear but the pink potential COR gear... just wow.

[Kayatani]

God damn Windurst quest spoilers.

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meowmmy

[ronin sparthos]

What the fuck is SEs obsession with pink armor... other colors exist!

Green, Deep Blue, Black, Gray....

[ringthree]

What the fuck is SEs obsession with pink armor... other colors exist!

Green, Deep Blue, Black, Gray....

The Ranger AF actually looked good, it was generally the right color and I like the appropriately non-symmetrical look of the gear. They need to get more original with the designs. I am not saying that most of the new gear looks bad, hell Salvage gear looks amazing, but for the most part the actual design of the gear just looks too straight forward. More Iqgira and Ranger AF style designs would be cool.

[TummieGaruda]

I figured with the skill cap going up they would just add new WSes. Would be really gay if you had to quest for them too.

The problem with adding them based on skills is that you want to be able to provide weaponskills for all jobs. Giving new weaponskills to new level/level caps (Such as 80) would leave some jobs out of the running for a new weaponskill. For instance, if Sword got a new WS at 300 skill (following the pattern for an A+ skill, they should get ~301 skill at 80 pre-merits) then jobs like Blue Mage and Red Mage would get left out to obtain the weaponskill naturally. The next option is new weaponskills at 250 skill, but then that's a naturally obtained weaponskill and a lot of 75's would just login after the update with a new weaponskill, and we all know SE likes to make us work for things.

To me honestly, I have a feeling it's going to be either a weaponskill tied into a magian weapon, or a quested weaponskill at level 80 similar to Nyzul Isle weaponskills where the weapon drops from the new endgame area in Walk of Echos or from Abyssea.