devious.one
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I feel like I need to set an alarm clock and wake up to get a few pieces of materia off the market before the price gouging starts... 
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tiggerkiddo
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Perfect timing, I need to wait around for leves to regen, time to spiritbond in the meantime!
finally someone gets it
I know for sure that not being able to join the PF of someone you blacklisted was already in the game, but no clue on the other way around.
i'm too uguu to be blacklisted
EndcatOmega
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- An issue where in enemies that appear during the final boss encounter of Haukke Manor (Hard) counted toward quest objectives for the Book of Skywind II.
RIP in peace real Lady Amamamamandine.
That dungeon has quite a few little treasure puzzles in it actually.
No worries! Yeah I'm gonna give this a bash this weekend.
Dangit, they're fixing that? I kinda hoped I'd be able to take advantage of that for my second Animus. XD
there has to be a hidden secondary stat weight limit too right?
i wonder if alexandrites will convert materia into a standardized "sphere unit" with an infusion worth.
kingofthedead45
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Hello price inflation! oh my word, I doubt its one point per materia. I would assume its how ever many points the materia is worth. I hope. :l
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Didn't notice this initially when I skimmed the patch notes. I hope this doesn't mean what I think it means. It just can't be, right?
EndcatOmega
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I think what he means is that a large variety of content aimed at a wide variety of demographics is the only way an MMO can actually function because the' lowest common denominator' player is literally the only way this MMO can actually continue to stay up because the casual player is 99% of the subscriber base. Yeah, that means a spread of focus and a lower effort put into the stuff I personally enjoy but if people like the Japanese player quit, even if I disagree with his premise on what's fun and almost everything he stands for, will kill the game in the long run.
So I guess alexandrites are catalysts for melding materia to the scrolls or something.
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31+44 stats added to the novus = 75
If it's one materia per stat point, good lord.
lol guess i'm just gonna stop at animus, i only have like 800k gil now
would be hilarious if this still uses the same materia melding % chance
I wonder if you have to choose what stats to give your weapon before it gives you the scroll and the Infusion allottment. That 31/44 split on those two specific stats is the same split seen on Rosenbogen, so I guess it goes without saying even Sphere Scrolls will have materia caps...but I wonder if there will also be a stat minimum; it seems like they might be incredibly strict with the split to the point of it being exact.
Choosing DET and ACC/SS might cut down Infusion limit to 0/66, and a combo of DET/CRIT would bring you down to 0/62.
Choosing DET and ACC/SS might cut down Infusion limit to 0/66, and a combo of DET/CRIT would bring you down to 0/62.
i wish wildstar wasn't down at the same time as FF so I wouldn't need to find fun in making up what scrolls do when we'll find out shortly after patch goes live
kingofthedead45
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Oh man, we totally gotta get a sight seeing party going tomorrow aswell guys! That'd be fun! channel a bit of detective gaf.
^Way I see it being done, once you infuse it with two different stats, it locks it. Won't let you set in a third.
And I just don't see it actually taking 75 individual materia. I feel like if you add a heaven's eye materia II it'll add the 4 acc from that materia to that 75 count.
But who knows, maybe it will be 75 different materia. It would certain be grindy.
^Way I see it being done, once you infuse it with two different stats, it locks it. Won't let you set in a third.
And I just don't see it actually taking 75 individual materia. I feel like if you add a heaven's eye materia II it'll add the 4 acc from that materia to that 75 count.
But who knows, maybe it will be 75 different materia. It would certain be grindy.
Books should have never cost Myth to begin with. The books themselves should just take longer and be more varied. Would make the whole process feel less grindy. When you finish one you go get another and repeat the process.
Methinks Novus should be 115 at this point. It may not be "hard" to get, but it's certantly time-consuming and expensive.
Not everyone enjoys SR Bray.
Not everyone enjoys SR Bray.
They would bump up High Allagan to 120 in response. Really though, the 5 extra ilevels are just there to make people feel good about themselves.
Augemitbutter
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had a few hundred materia lying around, but sold most of them last patch. time to make more.
You can't increase the vitality even more?
Methinks Novus should be 115 at this point. It may not be "hard" to get, but it's certantly time-consuming and expensive.
Not everyone enjoys SR Bray.
At best, Brayflox speedruns are boring, uneventful, and nobody talks enough. At worst, someone screws up and it becomes frustrating. I'll take the low level dungeon. >_>;
theSlacker
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Follow the quote path. There is no problem with providing a variety of content to suit a variety of people (which is what the game currently does, you shouldn't feel like you have to do coil stuff if you don't enjoy that kind of fight, and there is significantly less coil style stuff then not), but that isn't what this is talking about. A few quotes up he said this;
Just because you play the game doesn't mean every bit of content should be catered to you, or changed to fit your playstyle. I'm not a fan of high level crafting so it just isn't something I do. I don't complain that I don't have a ton of cash, or have to pay a ton to get anything that the people that do put the effort into end enjoy crafting get.
vit is a primary stat
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Hopefully it's the stat distribution and not per materia.
Theoretically you probably could, buuuut, the Primary Stats are already going to be on the weapon by default, and assuming this works at all like normal Materia Melding, the weapons are going to have a max-budget for any given stat, and the normal primary stat is probably mostly going to fill that budget to begin with.
So, basically, more than a lil wouldn't do you any good.
yeah i'm 100% sure that's stat budget and it won't be 0/75 for every single scroll
i'm guessing you'll have to choose your two secondary stats, and then you'll receive a specific scroll with a corresponding item budget of 0/75, 0/66, or 0/62.
tiggerkiddo
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The age of GSM is at hand?
Final Fantasy XIV Update Out Today, Sneak Peek at Next Patch
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/05/final-fantasy-xiv-update-today/#sf3181061
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/05/final-fantasy-xiv-update-today/#sf3181061
Probably stat distribution. I, REALLY hope that XIVDB or somebody can rip the patch and figure out these weapons max budgets for the various stats. After all, I really, REALLY, don't want to find out the hard way that more than 4 Det/Parry/Acc Materia's won't do you any good.
If we have to do this via Trial and error, the really fast players are going to invariably figure this out the hard way. This'll be exceptionally painful, given that you can't re-do your stats until 2.3.
Queue with a Tank. Not only does that reduce your wait time, but it slightly reduces the chances that the ensuing run being a fiasco.
Wait I can tank.
The example Novus in the patch notes seems weird since it's pretty heavy into crit chance which seems out of stat budget range when comparing to existing i110s but I'm sure someone out there has numbers to back up that gae bolg.
There ya go then.
Yeeeah, if it turns out that you can really put in any amount of any stat, so long as you had sufficient materia and alexandrites, well it'd be insane.
I mean, for starters, if that's the case, then DPS could just hunt down Strength Materia (Not sure how rare it is, never really looked into it,) and keep piling up that until your weapon beat out the stats on the High Allagan weapons.
Which is why I'm fairly certain they're not doing it that way. It'd make the Novus weapons hecka OP.
strength is a primary stat..
anyways, to answer your original question; assuming the values on the example gae bolg aren't misleading I'm lead to believe that the budgets will be like these*
0/75 infusion budget
Accuracy and Crit (44/31)
Crit and Skill Speed (44/31)???
Accuracy and Spell Speed (44/31)
0/67
CRIT/PIE (44/23)
SS/PIE (44/23)
0/66 Infusion budget
ACC/DET (44/22)
DET/Skill Speed (22/44)
0/62 Infusion Budget
CRIT/DET (31/31)
0/55 Infusion budget
DET/PIE (22/33)
*these are all probably wrong as i'm just pulling numbers out of my butt to pass the time
So many good quality of life changes - wow! I am curious to the details of the Novus upgrade path as well. Not entirely clear on how it works. Let's see if it's one materia (and any materia?) per upgrade point. That will be insane and materia market will be so expensive in a few hours.
No idea. You'd think it just wouldn't work, but we're probably not going to know for a certainty until somebody goes in reads the details of the quest line.
Square has a bit of a history here. They seem to like forcing thier players to figure these things out on thier own.
See, gardening, combining materia, etc etc.
SmarterUnconscious
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I'm thinking it would be best to skip accuracy, at least in my case. Right now I'm not missing in T6 or T7 and if I get the helm or legs all that extra acc would just be wasted. I can easily eat some food for T8 if I get there soon. It would've been nice back when I didn't have any sol gear but its a little to late now.
As for what I'll put on my Novus, I'm still debating. I haven't read up much on parry but if it's just going to add a 1% chance to parry more often is it really worth it? I'm crazy enough to go det/crit, but then again what's a little extra det or crit gonna do? Probably the same minimal results.
This is very clearly laid out in the patch notes.
You cannot mess with strength, dexterity, vitality, intelligence, or mind.
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