Final Fantasy XIExclusive: Murgleis, The Red Mage Supersword
Written by Thayos
Until now, the joyeuse has been the sword of choice for many red mages.
Key words: until now.
Red mages, meet your dream sword.
The Murgleis.
As designed, the Nyzul Isle relic sword is stronger than the joyeuse. It's just as fast, and attacks twice.
The convert-enhancing effect is absolutely amazing. When you convert with the sword equipped, you automatically get back half of your hit points, plus whatever hit points were just converted from your mana pool. In other words, no more sudden deaths from converting just before a mob's AoE attack. No more cure bombs after converting. No need to stop nuking if you're in the middle of a chainspell. Simply put, it's made of win.
The aftermath effect of increased magic accuracy and magic attack is also something to behold. The effect kicks in after using the new weaponskill, Death Blossom, with the sword equipped. And, the potency of the aftermath effect is boosted when the weaponskill is used at 200 or 300 TP. From what I was told, the boost to the aftermath effect when used at higher TP levels is intended to be extremely generous.
Because these weapons have not yet been officially tested, the total damage capabilities of these weapons and their weaponskills remains unknown. Also unknown is whether the Murgleis or the new weaponskills have any hidden effects.
As you can see from the photos, the weaponskill itself is stunning, like a giant, exploding rose. We reported earlier that the weaponskills will be obtainable separately from getting the relic weapon. The nature and difficulty of these weaponskill quests remain a mystery, but a member of the FFXI community relations team told me "most" players will be able to learn these new moves.
I nearly fell out of my chair on Friday when it was announced that Pikko and I would be the first to test these weapons. We sat side-by-side in the Alexandria conference room at SE headquarters, playing on Xbox 360s hooked up to giant flat-screen monitors. Our characters were brunette Hume females, decked out in full Morrigan's gear with the relic weapons. We entered a special assault area of the Mamool Ja Training Grounds on the Atomos server, aided by a massive TP regen (added solely for our enjoyment) and a member of the FFXI community relations team who served as our Tarutaru white mage.
We swung our swords and spammed Death Blossom. The rose animation grew and shattered as mobs fell dead left and right.
It was beautiful.
Information on other Nyzul Isle relic weapons can be found at:
FFXIclopedia: Dragoon
FFXI Vault: Thief
Warcry: Dancer
Stratics: Puppetmaster
Onlinewelten (German): Corsair
JeuxOnline (French): White Mage
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MY.
GOD.
*dies*
*reraises self and breathes*
...I want this....dual weild rdm/nin Murgleis/Joytoy...oh god...I think I'll die before I get this lovely piece of smex. *GASM*
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Edited, Jul 29th 2008 7:17pm by Ryh
Giving WHM a sword wouldn't work well since they have no sword skill.
WHM's club aftermath has mag atk/mag acc according to wiki, so it would enhance holy.
Also it gives you permanent Divine Veil, which sounds pretty nice.
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uh? is that the prerequisite for the new WS? o_O
I thought its gonna be by going through some sort of quests like the trail ones
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The magic accuracy is an interesting touch, but with all the accuracy gear and merits available I wonder if it will be as greatly noticeable as it might have been a few years back. That being said, when RDM chooses to melee they usually leave their magic gear at home.
At any rate I'll be checking on this sword's progress with great interest...
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Relic: WHM 3/5 SMN 4/5 SCH 4/5
The magic accuracy is an interesting touch, but with all the accuracy gear and merits available I wonder if it will be as greatly noticeable as it might have been a few years back. That being said, when RDM chooses to melee they usually leave their magic gear at home.
At any rate I'll be checking on this sword's progress with great interest...
Well, they expanded the size of player's backpack few patches before, which means RDM could carry a bit more gears. I always carry one set for ACC/ATK, one STR/MND boost set for spamming KOR, one for enhacing boost and the rest for enfeebles whenever i go out.
In fact, Excalibur's 3x dmg effect isn't that astonding for rdms since our base atk is low. and Exclibur's extra dmg effect gets overwritten whenever i offhand Kclubs with my own en-spells.
so, in many ways, Excalibur doesn't fully match rdm's need.
on the other hand, this sword has less delay, double attack and mag acc which has an effect on en-spells, i'd say it suit rdm more than excablibur does.
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NIN 37
WAR 37
BLM 09
WHM 06
BRAAAAAAAAAAAA
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that's what MMORPG meant to be :p
One can have only one life at the time, either in reality or in Vana diel.
Anyways, if you start off from nothing, the requirement looks nasty; however keep this in mind:
Aht Urhgan expansion has been out for almost 2 and half years.
For those hardcore players who participated in Nyzul, Salvage, Assult missions and Enherjar on their regular basis, they have probably reached those requirements even before this was announced.
So, for those people, the only thing left really is just
defeating ToAU Beastman Kings(some HNM LS may have done this already, even though, yeah, its really rare), Repeat all 50 assaults trading a book to each rune of release.
and collecting those points, tokens and Alexandrites.
the numbers of Alexandrites needed looked ridiculous before, but since SE said its gonna be lowered, we'll have wait to see that.
RDM 75
DRK 40
NIN 37
WAR 37
BLM 09
WHM 06
BRAAAAAAAAAAAA
Requirements
Have Captain Rank
Have the Runic Disc Key item which you get from clearing floor 100 Nyzul Isle
Get the weapon you are upgrading to drop from floor 100 Nyzul
Kill 4 Salvage Chariots
Kill 3 ToAU Beastman Kings in their strongholds
Kill Odin in Einherjar
Get 100k Einherjar points
Get 150k Nyzul Isle Tokens
Repeat all 50 assaults trading a book to each rune of release
50k Alexandrite (SE said they would lower this)
Win a BCNM (unknown what you fight its next patch)
PLD 75 / WAR 75 / RDM 75 / WHM 75 / RNG 75 / SAM 75 / MNK 75 / BRD 75 / THF 75
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?57256
Requirements
Have Captain Rank
Have the Runic Disc Key item which you get from clearing floor 100 Nyzul Isle
Get the weapon you are upgrading to drop from floor 100 Nyzul
Kill 4 Salvage Chariots
Kill 3 ToAU Beastman Kings in their strongholds
Kill Odin in Einherjar
Get 100k Einherjar points
Get 150k Nyzul Isle Tokens
Repeat all 50 assaults trading a book to each rune of release
50k Alexandrite (SE said they would lower this)
Win a BCNM (unknown what you fight its next patch)
So in other words, it'll take about three years to get it. No problem.
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...If it doesn't hit than it doesn't matter...accuracy first
you just proved yourself of being both impudent and ignorant
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/guide/development/census/08/07item.html
Total Fourth Stage 558
Final Stage 1869
this was by May
by now there are probably over 2000 relics in their final shape
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WAR 37
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WHM 06
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Edited, Jul 27th 2008 6:23pm by Obiar
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...If it doesn't hit than it doesn't matter...accuracy first
Thats 2000/250,000
Or rather, 1 for every 125 people, which are reasonable odds for something damn strong.
Thats just saying final. Lets say we round up to 2500 when we add in fourth stages since that still gets WS in with a reasonable weapon and is not THAT far off from final...
Thats basically 1 for every 100.
These strong weapons are NOT ment for everyone.
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*Meant.
Flawed logic. First of all, you presume that gathering all the mats for the relics will take skill (as the previous relics were *all* about the mats gathering). Clearly gathering mats takes SKILLED hands. After all, not just anyone can go out and gather materials, can they, no matter where they reside!
I can't wait to hear the 5,273,739 complaints a year from now where people are crying that their weapon refuses to drop so they can work on their relic weapon (or worse, a relic simply just doesn't DROP at all every week) simply because Square-Enix believes that the playerbase doesn't have fun unless it is punished by the RNG. After all, everyone loves their 'upgrades' being dictated by the RNG and completely out of their control.
Maintaining that the developers created content so that only a very, very small percentage their playerbase is supposed to see/obtain/achieve is an incredibly short-sighted and stupid stance. Square-Enix developers are stupid, but that doesn't mean the players should parrot their moronic outlook.
Maintaining that the developers created content so that only a very, very small percentage their playerbase is supposed to see/obtain/achieve is an incredibly short-sighted and stupid stance. Square-Enix developers are stupid, but that doesn't mean the players should parrot their moronic outlook.
Well, obataining and keeping updated contents for everyone is indeed one of the most important jobs for them to be done; however, being unique and rare is also what players pursuit in game, else you can just play offline FF12.
There is only one King Arthur and one Genghis Khan, if everyone can be King Arthur, then hes no longer speical
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WHM 06
BRAAAAAAAAAAAA
uh? yeah?
it is a relic weapon, so?
if its worth to get, then people will just devote their time and money for it.
so far Murgleis looks awesome, if its ensured its aftermath will have an effect on the en-magics
then I'm willing to spend my time for it.
RDM 75
DRK 40
NIN 37
WAR 37
BLM 09
WHM 06
BRAAAAAAAAAAAA
RDM 75
DRK 40
NIN 37
WAR 37
BLM 09
WHM 06
BRAAAAAAAAAAAA
no longer shall we RDM be ostrasized and treated as the PLD's B***h. with this Sword, I dub the Pwnasaurus....
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Lmao, that's a good one.
NVM. I should check the General forum first next time.
Edited, Jul 27th 2008 8:43am by Sanah
RDM75 BST75
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