Freshly Picked #71

Nothing too exciting, but they seem to have big plans for the future.

Overview:


Alter Ego Upgrades


Limbus NPC Update


This is about opening chests, but I don't understand it. Translation seemed off.


More details on the CoD BF drop.


Dynamis Updates





Note: I believe the gray bits between closed and open are extension periods.

They jump scared me with this slide. It's an AMAN related slide, but I don't know if this is the new treasure pool, items their removing, or what it is. But Someone who can read JP may shed some light on this slide.

Christ, six more months for trusts to get +10 hp

How long ago did they decide this was happening, it better be a whole *** overhaul.

Turning dyna into WoE but no mention of drops, which means it will have drops which means absolute, unfettered *** chaos. Please look forward to it.

Now you get to do Dienamis daily, and semi daily, aren't you thrilled!1!!1!1!1!one!!!

Chants; MORE DIENAMIS

So they just teased Ultima/Omega as well as a substantial Besieged update?

Also, over the next couple months, they're revamping the PlayOnline Launcher and preparing the development environment for adding "new areas".

Tl;dr They have big things plans. The last slide they showed really looks like they're trying to prepare development for the addition of new zones. I'm sure somethings lost in translation, but I don't really know what "new areas" means.

Jesus Christ... They have an ENTIRE MOOGLE MASTERY SYSTEM THAT IS ALREADY IN PLACE AND WORKS INCREDIBLY WELL, AND THEY'RE ADDING REINFORCEMENT POINTS SYSTEM TO TRUSTS??????? JUST MAKE THE GODDAMN MASTERY SYSTEM GLOBAL!

AI translated, Looks like some Envy Gear / Rage Gear (costume items from past login campaigns?)

Yeah, this may not have anything to do with AMAN, that section of the stream was hard to follow. They also talked about either mastery rank or moogle mastery too.

Looks like Omen Boss Scales, AA cosmetic gear, dynamis shards, and alluvion skirmish stones. Guessing new login items in the future?

pol revamp is great, give a raise to whoever convinced that to get greenlit.

rest seems to indeed indicate big plans, which is always nice to see at this stage.

Inb4 it becomes an obscure mess.

In all seriousness, I hope that it is a lot nicer. Also maybe not so loud.

Could be the *** in AMAN trove they're taking out of the loud/ITG thud pool, because they suck.

This is the "Future Plans" slide I mentioned earlier.


From what I could tell, they kept talking about how there is way too much in the pipeline for one stream (JP speakers, correct me if I'm wrong. This was while they were showing slides of Limbus, Besieged, and this slide along with other minor updates. They also showed off some polished models for the new Ultima and Omega, no doubt from the FFXIV cross over.

These last couple updates have made me pretty optimistic. They added a 4-6k expemplar point drop for the CoD mission and they made Jugner (S) easier to navigate. Both things that indicate that someone somewhere in development is thinking about the new player experience.

If they are in fact preparing to add new areas to the game, this means some pretty substantial changes in the future.

If I had to guess, I'd say the envied and hated items are the NQ 119 cursed pieces. Small plates, Omen scales. Dark whatevers and whatever fragments, Dynamis reforge items. Job cards, obvious. Bags, skirmish stones. So yeah, pretty much all the junk that makes you regret spending your silver vouchers. Hopefully it's a demotion and not a removal though, cursed stuff and stones aren't great but the rest is still nice to get... just not on a loud thud.

Lots to pick through and I've barely watched any of it, but regarding the AMAN Trove slides:

- They're going to add chests that can have an "impossibly loud thud," this is just my guess at the coming translation but they use the phrase for "impossible to gauge" (計り知れない) followed by "loud noise" (大きな音). This sounds like it'll be a step above "loud thud" which in Japanese is literally a "very, very loud noise" (とてもとても大きな音).

- The addition of new battlefield spoils (戦利品). Fujito makes a point to mention this means "completely new items" (新しいものが入っています、完全に新しいもの、これは). That doesn't simply mean "items that have not yet been included" but quite literally "completely new things." Cute idol girl follows up and says, "Like, a totally new item? Something no one has ever seen?" and Fujito says "Yes." Exciting! Dunno if this is to further incentivize actually killing the mimic or what.

- They will be removing some battlefield spoils. Idol girl says she's very happy to hear this. Massive list at the bottom of OP is a list of items that will be removed from Trove. As you guessed it includes many nq 119 cursed items and upgrade materials. It doesn't look like the HQ items are being removed at first glance.

EDIT: If I'd watched five more minutes I could've made a better assessment, but some new items were shown in the video too.

- Earring that enhances "BP" (I misread this as Blood Pact at first) and scales with mastery rank (low mastery rank actually gives a negative, high mastery rank gives a positive). I've not played in about a year and a half so idk what "BP" is
- Ring with TH+2 and "TH effect +5%" at the cost of HP/MP. To my knowledge we've never seen a "TH effect +x%" piece, and there are no results for トレジャーハンター効果+x% on the JP wiki. Jump in if I'm wrong here. Again this is a distinct effect from TH+x
- Neckpiece that gives +30 combat/magic skill and slow +5%
- Ammo that consumes 1000 gil to give you +100% double attack for some amount of time as an enchantment. Works on weapon skills and is active for the enchantment's entire duration (longtime FF fans will appreciate that Fujito joked and said "Yeah, it's kinda like Zeninage!" which in recent translations appears as "Gil Toss")

Regarding Mars/Venus Orbs and drop rates, Fujito also mentioned they're going to increase drop rates for Venus Orbs to make them "feel more like Venus orbs," (in other words, make them feel like they're worth the extra voucher cost). He also said Mars Orb output kinda sucks but then didn't really expand on that. Idol girl strongly agreed saying "Yeah I feel like I never get anything good from Mars Orbs."

Related, the "impossibly loud thud" (my on-the-spot translation) is being introduced to better indicate the rarity of the drop to players. Fujito then says the purpose of this is to make players go "Oh, dang," when they hit the new chest being added.

Where do I find the link for these videos?

They did tease that 1000 Gil ----> 100% Double Attack Enchantment neck piece, so thinking its just new stuff like the Sroda line of accessories. Doubt it would involve killing the mimic since it's such a pita

3 new AMAN equipment shown off alongside the dbl atk ammo, congrats to those who kept up their mastery rank?
https://imgur.com/a/eY33iRg

Edit: Oh damn, so max Mastery Rank is all atrributes +30, new Maat's cap equivalent.

Interesting comment about winning chests in Limbus. Something I've taken to doing is switching up the chest I open. I'll pop it on a mule or two and if they get unlucky with matter, I'll try the chest in a different tower. Usually my luck is different there.

Anybody else try this?

People would kill the mimic if there was a reason to kill the mimic:
Respawn the remaining boxes
Guarantee a Rainbow upgrade on 10


No ones killing the mimic over a handful of noise and thud procs.

grouping assistance = duty finder I imagine. was just talking about this the other day. even if people gripe, they will help others if they get something out of it, and it does a wonderful job of propping up old content. 10/10

pol revamp, any improvement, no matter how small, is a win. 10/10

dev environment updates. probably making it easier for people who didn't spend the last 20 years coding ffxi to make changes. 10/10

server replacement, is this still ongoing? thought we did this already.

preparing room for new areas. at one point, did they not mention something about running out of zone ids similar to room for new spells/JAs? if so, that could mean that spells/JAs might get reorganized, too. long shot, but hey.

Is that what "Knowledge Rank" is? Are we sure that's what "ALL BP" means, attributes? Lol, now it "means" something. GG, gonna be a great race for those who never cared for it to get ranked up.

This is how it is referred to with the limbus graces. Pretty sweeet.

Also something about possibility of ilvl Prishe Boots? This would be amazing tbh

Slide that followed the AMAN showcase:


Edit: Assuming BP is referring to all attributes according to JP wiki https://wiki.ffo.jp/html/37955.html

Thank you. Does "BP" mean like "Battle Parameters"? I've seen it with Grace effects but thought it was a typo, but clearly it means something from SE's perspective. The link you posted confirms what I thought.

when you think your character is finely crafted and top tier but that earring only gives you -15 stats

I hope it's called Humble Earring

It'll be in increments of 10, and any character basically over a year old will be at +0

Just having sortie access is basically guaranteed rank 3, an aeonic and odyssey gets you rank 4 (more or less, assuming it's not a single job mule with zero skills etc)

Thats -30, -20, -10, +0 right there

probably should finish updating my node on how to get the max rank
https://www.ffxiah.com/node/433

all that yilbegan camping finally paid off :D

clever way to get people grinding old content/quests if this becomes something we see on more gear

Has the details for Mastery Rank ever been datamined, like the exact hard numbers or formula/combination of requirements based on the list? Like is it total accomplishments or a set number of accomplishments per category?

As a point of reference, I'm Mastery Rank 6, have never done any of the nation missions outside of Bastok and I'm only Rank8 in bastok (laziness), 546 ROE completed and probably can easily complete another 40 if I cared enough to. Think I've done every storyline in the game, but I've never gone out of my way to do anything besides finishing SoA/Mog Gardens for Ygnas as far as quests are concerned (MMM, VW titles etc). So I'm curious how much more effort is required for 2 more ranks.