New Version Update Blankets Vana'diel in Layer of Warmth! Follow

There's a lot of awesome stuff going on in this update.

Trust
Up to 3 NPCs and can be used in any area that's not a battlefield/instance including reives. That's awesome. Having Kupipi as a healer will change how people tackle reives. If Curilla is any good as a tank, will make it nice for healers too. (hope that healing a trust npc counts)

Records of Eminence
Sounds cool but wonder how decent the rewards are will be the sign of if this content is good.

AF Upgrade
I am so glad they chose something new. It was a great idea using merit points as a way to upgrade AF. This will make people trying to level up happy I'm sure. Plus Ark Angel fights being less glamour and more mandatory for progress, I love it. I can only imagine how ruthless they'll be on higher than 119 setting (very difficult) in Divine Might.

Pet Changes
Woooo! Tulfaire and Raaz jugs! I hope it's not that one with Akaso. I wish they'd stop making jug pets with rare materials. Akaso is still heavily used for GEO AF, at least on Bismarck there are people still crafting it. I love that they added additional stat changes, I can only hope this makes it equivalent to Alternator on PUP. I'm crossing my fingers since PUP was left out of these changes.

GEO and RUN not 119?
I don't see their AF in the list on the storage slip. I was hoping they'd just be lumped in with everyone else. I hope it's an oversight and they aren't playing to add them separately later with their own system.
(Nevermind, see it in the BGWiki update list. They must have just made a mistake)

Movement speed, can't wait. Home points, was not expecting in field areas. Castle Zvahl Keep especially when trying to do Kindred Spirits.

Edited, Dec 10th 2013 1:39pm by Rwolf

oh god yes, I might actually be able to get past reives so I can get the final two wildskeeper reives I need

So basically log in do some record of Eminence till you have enough sparks. And people can get the full AF 119? Also do you know what activates the latents on the weapons?

Gonna go out on a limb and guess having a Trust NPC in party.

Mine's fine. Did you have any kind of UI mods installed?

Aparantly its Porter slip #15 holding all the reforged (109) af sets. Slip #16 is for the +1 version, that has an extra page or two with Geo and Rune at the end. I didnt think Run or GEo was in the list either untill I looked at the slipsto confirm. They may have just copied and pasted with out adding the two in.

The Homepoint warps do require gill to use, and you need to set your hp to it before you can warp to it in the list. Untill now I was unaware they were in the feild too. However it sure makes getting to and/or from Past [s], Sky, Throne Room, Altepa and possibly sea if there is one by or in the palace, and other really far out-of-the-way places. Now if there just was a quick way to get to Throne Room [s], and an alternate way to do a Shadow Lord [s] battle. (yeah outdated, but the helm and body are still decent. Wish there was more to the set though).

even if they are expensive it's still nice that you can earn them solo, AND while you are derping about on low level jobs. I am really really pleased with this update.

Edited, Dec 11th 2013 9:54am by Olorinus

I agree. I only have about 1 hour per night to play, so it's nearly impossible for me to go out and get any decent gear. There's still better stuff out there that people with more time than I have to get, but for me, I love that I can do Monstrosity, Abyssea, GoV or whatever, and build up points to get decent gear.

I started back in 2006, so I've been through the grind, and at this stage in my life, I'm so glad we got this update. I was planning on quitting in February, but I may stay on since I could be productive regardless of how much I get to play.

That's fair, although with seal exchange (especially right now when it's 2:1), it's not hard to make a group and get lots of pages for everybody.

I view the rare synthesis material as a significant roadblock for the 119 version.