Freshly Picked Vana'diel 21 Digest

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Coalition and Reive Adjustments

(22:38～)

We’ve made it so coalition ranks are easier to increase and at the same time harder to decrease. Furthermore, we adjusted the rewards earned when completing a coalition assignment. The rewards will scale with the difficulty, so you can now choose assignments with this in mind.

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Job Adjustments

(24:07～)

• Dark knight
  The duration of the maximum HP bonus effect of Drain II and Drain III has been increased. The effect duration of Dread Spikes and Absorb-type spells has also been increased, and at 500 skill the effect duration will be doubled. The recast time and effect duration of Scarlet Delirium has been adjusted, and it’s a uniform 90 seconds when taking damage and before taking damage. This can now be used more often, so please put it to good use.

• Beastmaster
  The range in which certain abilities and pet commands can be used has been shortened. While this changes the style of play a bit, please try it out and let us know your feedback.

• Ninja
  TP-related ninjutsus, Myoshu: Ichi and Kakka: Ichi, have been adjusted. Their casting time has been decreased, and the effect duration has been increased.

• Dragoon
  We made adjustments to better maintain wyverns. Due to the adjustments made, the Strafe bonuses found on certain equipment is not functioning properly. We are looking into switching this with another bonus in a future version update.

• Summoner
  In order to make summoner easier to play as a backrow job, we’ve increased the range in which pet commands can be executed.

• Blue mage
  The series classic Mighty Guard has been added as a blue magic spell. It’s extremely powerful, so put it to good use. Also, please note that the new spells Cruel Joke, Cesspool, and Tearing Gust cannot be learned from the Xol Triumverate encountered in the missions.

• Corsair
  We made it so Beast Roll and Drachen Roll give ranged attack and ranged accuracy bonuses to sharpshot automatons.

• Puppetmaster
  We increased the combat and magic skills for automaton heads. With this adjustment, combining the same type of head and frame will allow you to reach an A+ skill.

• Scholar
  We reduced the level needed to learn each of the storm spells. At level 99, you will be able to cast all of these spells when scholar is set as your support job.

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Alter Ego Adjustments

(33:37～)

We’ve added more areas and content in which alter egos can be summoned. You can now use them in Abyssea and Legion.

Additionally, we’ve made it possible for certain ranged, magic, and support-type alter egos to attack monsters from a distance. We’d love to hear your feedback on their behavior.

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Food Additions and Adjustments

(35:17～)

We’ve adjusted the effects for each kind of crepe. The sweet-type crepes will boost your magic accuracy based on percentage, so please decide which food you’d like to use based on your stats. As for the savory crepes, they will increase your stats by a set value.

Behemoth meat has been added as a new reward for King Behemoth, but this does not alter the equipment drop rate, so please don’t worry!

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Emote Additions

(39:43～)

We added an emote where your character sits in a chair, and there are four kinds of chairs. You can exchange chocobo coins as well as mummers’ coins for the Chocobo Chair. The Shadow Throne can either be crafted with bonecraft or purchased with cruor.

Additionally, we added job emotes for geomancer and rune fencer.

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Quality-of-life Improvements

(49:04～)

We added a party participation request feature. When creating a party, it will be easy for the leader to see who is looking for a party with a list. Using this feature will make it easier than ever to form a party for the objectives you are looking to accomplish.

Additionally, we added a status icon timer, the ability to change the size of the various windows when using the multiple window function, and an equipment comparison feature.

As an item-related quality-of-life improvement, we’ve made it possible to send certain notorious monster trigger items to characters under the same account. We’ve also made it possible to store Rems Tales with an NPC, so this should lighten the load on your inventory.

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Announcements

(1:01:14～)

A new blu-ray disc music album will go on sale soon. Experience the music of Vana’diel in high-quality sound with accompanying videos. Details can be found here. (*Please note the site is in Japanese only.)

All of the screenshots we received for the Mosaic Art Project have been compiled into a jig-saw puzzle that is going to be available soon. Pre-orders can be made here. (*Please note the site is in Japanese only.)

Finally, pre-registration for FINAL FANTASY Grandmasters has begun. Check here for all the details.
(*Please note the site is in Japanese only.)
Here is a trailer that was debuted at Tokyo Game Show 2015.

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Conclusion

(1:13:19～)

We’ll be holding a variety of campaigns between September and October, and I hope you enjoy these along with the version update.

The development team is moving forward with all the preparations for the November version update, so please look forward to it. The next Freshly Picked will have a lot of content, including the finale to the Rhapsodies of Vana’diel scenario.

See you in November!