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Yeah. There seems to be a LOT of options. And with vanity seeming to be rather expensive, I don't see the point in pre planning vanity gearsets. (I mean, one or two items, sure. )
He's there to give us an asskicking!
Mmmm doesn't seem too bad.
Crafting gear is i90 and with materia and take you close to i100 or higher, I'd imagine.
Tomes get you gear that's a step below High Allagan this time; i100 armor and i110 weapons.
High Allagan is the best gear this update, although BiS lists will be quite interesting this time around.
The stats on the new Thyrus suggests Atma is just a step before Animus which is weird because they're both i100, no?
No, no. Different tokens. The Solderiy token are 130 per, and you need 10 of them per Weathered Weapon (along with an Unidentified Tome, however you get those)
As for why to do EX primals now, you need to do them once to unlock new EX primals, and they drop new ponies. Depending on how many myth/soldiery you get from them I could see farming parties like we used to have for Garuda HM. Cannot imagine how fast Garuda EX would die with 5 i100+ dps.
Why is vanity expensive? They have separate master craft books as part of a quest I thought, they won't be the expensive ones. I thought Yoshida specifically said they wanted vanity to be cheap too.
The existing dungeon music tracks are also several minutes long; I'm absolutely loving listening to them on the OST (which even lets you sort by location, so you can select, say, "Limsa Lominsa" and the last three or four tracks will be the dungeons in that region).
Hopefully the fans will rise up and demand that the dungeon tracks play in full rather than cutting off to the overused dungeon battle music all the time. About the only thing I can say in favor of the dungeon music is that it alerts the unaware that a battle has begun. But FFXII didn't do this, and neither should FFXIV... particularly when those ambient themes are so good.
Also, for you piano players, they've released sheet music for Before Meteor:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4906976611/
The ilvl90 Primal weapons will still be useful for gearing up alternate classes, if you'd prefer spending your myth elsewhere. For the most part though, yeah, there's a reason they added the ponies. XD
Edit: Kinda pains me that the Dual Haken I worked so hard for, is now about to be considered scrub gear. T_T;;
:E Leves...
what i kinda hope this is but at the same time hope it isn't
each category (Enemies, dungeons, FATEs, leves) corresponds to 1 stat on the weapon. so completing enemies nets you +2 STR, leves gets you +x skill speed, and so on. the freedom of choice comes in by allowing you to clear a total of Y categories of any kind before the weapon stops accepting more points and becomes animus. downside of this will be that it's a no brainer which stat to stack and the whole thing is pointless.
on the other more likely hand, you just clear everything on that checklist, everyone gets the same stats in their final weapon, and everything continues to be boring.
devious.one
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Whoa, that's kinda neat.
EndcatOmega
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Read this on reddit but based on the amount of myth to buy the oil (for the original relic), it looks like the conversion rate of Philo to Myth is 4 to 1 meaning 500 Myth from capping Philo before the patch?
It's enough for me to buy my myth armour for my DRG at least I guess.
It's enough for me to buy my myth armour for my DRG at least I guess.
yes, and it's not these animus weapons so /shrug
it would be a nice experiment for sure though.
irfaanator
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I hope my gae bolg atma has a ring blade on it. Shit would be super dope
EndcatOmega
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It'll be enough to get me within spitting distance of the Myth Cap then. Guess I could always do some Main Duty roulette to get the rest of the way, assuming they give out 300 Myth.
don't tempt the powers of square!
It's about time, I'm tired of running out of mana on my dragoon.
The Trials of the Braves is a collection of sacred texts spanning nine books, each of which contains a series of objectives for enhancing your relic weapon atma. They can be acquired by exchanging Allagan tomestones with G'jusana at Revenant's Toll.
Each book will appear in the Key Items section of your inventory. By vanquishing all the foes listed therein with your relic weapon atma equipped, your weapon will undergo evolution.
Upon fulfilling the objectives of all nine books, your weapon will be ready to complete its evolution and become a relic weapon animus?one step closer to one of the transcendent Zodiac Weapons.
Each book will appear in the Key Items section of your inventory. By vanquishing all the foes listed therein with your relic weapon atma equipped, your weapon will undergo evolution.
Upon fulfilling the objectives of all nine books, your weapon will be ready to complete its evolution and become a relic weapon animus?one step closer to one of the transcendent Zodiac Weapons.
better just be myth...
No wonder many people won't have this by 2.25 (in case they talk about new tombstones). "Useless" and maybe overly expensive weapon in a time where peolpe actually need good gear for new content. Will be interesting how expensive the Trials of the Braves are and how good the stats of the weapons.
Ah, well, I wonder what kind of Tomes, and how many. Armor's a higher priority for Tanks like me, so if they're asking for Soldiery, it may be awhile before I can start this quest-line. >_>;;
Makes sense,
didn't he give his life force to Bahamut or whatever
I thought I read somewhere there was 2 paths when upgrading your relic.
Where are u getting this info from? I wanna look!
tiggerkiddo
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If that conversion rate is true...meh. I mean obviously 1:1 would have been too good to be true but I hope it isn't that.
Yeah, I remember that too, but things seem to suggest Atma is basically the weapon's growing stage and Animus is its final stage for 2.2.
xivdb guys.
devious.one
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A little longevity ain't so bad for something they are touting as something you are supposed to look forward to upgrading patch to patch.
Corran Horn
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Any good guides out there for pld while using controller?
Agree'd, yoshi always seems to underestimate how quickly we consume content though.
Robobandit
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well, if they cost soldiery tomes (which they probably will.. ).. it'll be impossible to do the first part of the zodiac weapon quest while still trying to gear up for new coil due to the 450 tome cap per week.. (depending on what the books cost)
I know. The things some people are saying are weird, especially considering that a couple of those people are the same people who complain about there being nothing to do in the game lately. If you want to be able to finish all of the content quickly, then you're not going to have anything to do when you're done with it.
You know the issue with this relic progression by killing mobs thing is it introduces a lot of competition, unless they remove the "need X amount of damage / started damage at X amount before the kill counts".
I'll be curious to see how bad it is. I don't know what our specific world population is.
I'll be curious to see how bad it is. I don't know what our specific world population is.
Could have sworn Yoshi-P said something about gimmicks on the new Allagan gear, was hoping he meant set bonuses or something. But I guess not. A little disappointing but its still cool!
It can't be worse than launch when people were competing for quest mobs. There were a couple of places where that was really awful, like the imps in the north part of Eastern Thanalan.
Depends heavily on the stats and how expensive the weapons are. High Allagan is better than Zodiac (or Atma etc) right now, and secondary stats mean basically nothing in this game.
I'm not just talking about the weapon stuff. There were also people complaining about the requirement for the tank mounts, among other things. It's like people want to log in and finish everything in one day.
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