"Freshly Picked Vana'diel 12" Digest

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Greetings,

To coincide with the October version update, Producer Akihiko Matsui held another "Freshly Picked Vana'diel" to go over some of the new content and discuss other topics pertinent to adventuring. Below is a digest of what was discussed.

Hello,
Matsui here.

Thanks for tuning into Freshly Picked Vana’diel 12.

For those of you who were unable to watch the stream, I've created this digest of what was discussed.

(*Video will be added later.)

Table of Contents

• Quest: “A Forbidden Reunion”
• High-tier Avatar Battlefields
• Walk of Echoes Adjustments
• Job Adjustments Part 1
• Job Adjustments Part 2
• Job Adjustments Part 3
• Job Adjustments Part 4
• Job Adjustments Part 5
• Quality-of-life Improvemnts
• November Version Update Preview
• Return Home to Vana’diel Campaign
• Future Events and Campaigns
• Conclusion

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Quest: “A Forbidden Reunion”

*The video shows off a portion of the quest as well as the Lilisette alter ego in action.

We were finally able to implement a post-ending quest for Wings of the Goddess. Please be sure to witness what happens. After you finish the quest you’ll be able to obtain the Lilisette alter ego. She has a variety of flashy animations making her a glamorous alter ego.

Also related to Wings of the Goddess, we’ve made it possible to obtain the Karaha-Baruha alter ego from the October Repeat Login Campaign. He normally functions as a white mage, but he is also able to utilize Fenrir’s abilities. When summoning him alongside Star Sibyl they have special dialogue, so be sure to check it out.

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High-tier Avatar Battlefields

*The video shows off in-game footage of the battlefield.

We’ve added new battlefields where you can fight against the nostalgic six avatars once again. With the home points that were added nearby the battlefields, it’s easier than ever to get to these areas, so take a friend along and have some fun with the nostalgia.

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Walk of Echoes Adjustments

In response to requests we’ve been receiving on the forums, we added a system for surge walks to occur naturally as well as a system that allows you to purchase Kupofried’s Medallion inside of Walk of Echoes.

Additionally, we’ve largely reduce the amount of time for a walk to become active once it has been beaten from ten minutes to one minute. We also added a system that will automatically remove you from the battlefield when you win.

With these adjustments we’re able to make Walk of Echoes even easier to enjoy.

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Job Adjustments Part 1

We’ve made various job adjustments.

• Warrior
  We’ve made it so when your main job is warrior, both Berserk and Defender will grow in strength with your level. This adjustment does not change the penalties of each of these abilities, and it simply enhances them while warrior is your main job.
  
  
• Ninja
  We added the job trait “Daken” which makes it so you attack with shurikens between your auto-attacks. To coincide with this adjustment, we also changed the effect of Sange.
  
  While these adjustments do not make it so a single attack is significantly more powerful, it makes it easier to generate TP and enmity, so we’d like everyone to try it out and provide feedback.
  
  Additionally, Daken also has a special characteristic where the attacks do not feed enemies TP.

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Job Adjustments Part 2

• Summoner
  We’ve added the new avatar Atomos as well as the ability “Apogee” which allows you to immediately use another Blood Pact. We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback on both of these.
  
  Additionally, we also made changes to Avatar’s Favor. When using Avatar’s Favor the perpetuation cost of avatars increases, but we’ve eliminated the attack penalties and other limitations. Moving forward we plan on making further adjustments to Avatar’s Favor.

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Job Adjustments Part 3

• Blue mage
  In comparison to enhancement capabilities of other jobs, blue mage had some areas that were not up to par, and to improve this we increased the effect duration and reduced the casting time for enhancing-type blue magic spells.
  
  Additionally, we also added attribute adjustments to spells that were added after Seekers of Adoulin widening blue mage’s battle capabilities.

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Job Adjustments Part 4

• Dancer
  We largely reduced the recast timer for steps, Presto, Striking Flourish, and Ternary Flourish. While dancer is a job that has a lot of aspects to it, we’ve made it so more damage can be dealt.
  
  
• Geomancer
  We added the new ability “Entrust” which allows you to cast an indicolure spell on a party member. There are many uses for this ability, so please test it out.

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Job Adjustments Part 5

We’ve raised the skill cap for front line damage dealing jobs’ main weapon type to A+.

• Main combat skill increases

  Job	Combat Skill	Pre-adjustment→Post-adjustment
  Thief	Dagger	417 → 424
  Beastmaster	Axe	417 → 424
  Ninja	Katana/Throwing	417 → 424
  Blue mage	Sword	417 → 424
  Puppetmaster	Hand-to-Hand	404 → 424
  Dancer	Dagger	404 → 424

  *Values displayed are for level 99.

Additionally, we largely increased the accuracy, ranged accuracy, and magic accuracy for pets. We looked into making adjustments via abilities and such, but in order to make it easier for pet jobs to participate in content we prioritized speed. We’ll continue to make adjustments moving forward so that pet jobs can easily participate in content.

• Accuracy adjustments for each job’s representative pet

  Job	Pet	Pre-adjustment→Post-adjustment
  Beastmaster	Generous Arthur	798 → 866
  Dragoon	Wyvern	834 → 902
  Summoner	Garuda	807 → 875
  Puppetmaster	Automaton (Valoredge)	760 → 828

  *Accuracy values are for pets at level 119.

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Quality-of-life Improvements

We expanded the equipment set capacity from 20 to 100. I hope everyone will be able to put them to good use.

Additionally, we added new icons for stairs, teleport locations, and other locations to the map. We’ll be adding more as we move forward and we’re prioritizing those that involve transportation.

Furthermore, we’ve added a feature to Mog Gardens that allows you to perform tree pruning, weed removal, and excavation multiple times at once.

In the next version update we plan on adding a feature that halts consequent gathering attempts when the effects of fertilizer run out, and we’ll be making it easier to perform gathering multiple times at once when using fertilizer.