Akihiko_Matsui
10-03-2019, 04:35 PM
Good day, adventurers.
Matsui here with your monthly update.
Tokyo may finally have escaped from the blistering summer heat. Here in Japan, we say that autumn is the season for reading or playing outdoor sports, thanks to how mild the climate is this time of year, but no matter what activity you may choose to engage in, it’s clear that autumn is a great time to enjoy your favorite hobbies. If your favorite hobby is eating, then you’ll have something to look forward to in Vana’diel, as we’ve got a special new seasonal food item coming that may seem familiar to our North American players.
With that little teaser out of the way, it’s time to take a look at what’s in store for October.
Ambuscade will see the return of the moogles as well as a Halloween-themed fomor battle. The latter, although similar to last year’s, is a slightly different experience still based around the age-old Halloween tradition of “trick or treat.”
The main focus of job adjustments this patch are the monk and dragoon jobs. Monks are seeing mainly adjustments to weapon skills, with a side benefit of puppetmasters being able to reap some of the rewards as well. Dragoons are seeing adjustments that help their wyverns survive, as well as the addition of some new job traits.
In terms of quality-of-life adjustments, certain items will now be stackable up to 99. You may recall that we restricted certain items from being placed on the auction house several days ago—this measure was to prepare those items for this increase. On top of that, we’re making good on our promise to continue increasing the variety of augmented items that can be delivered to other characters on the same account. Batch two features Geas Fete items from Escha – Ru’Aun.
Below please find the usual list of items coming in October. As always, last minute issues may arise that prevent some of these from making the list, but we’re working our utmost to bring you all this in the next version update.
Mission and Quest-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Record of Eminence </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Add new quests </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Content and System-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Ambuscade </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add new notorious monsters </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Equipment Upgrade System </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Adjustments to Rem’s Tale system </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Porter Moogle </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add to list of supported items </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Battle-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Monk </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Adjust effects of certain job traits<br>・Add new job traits<br> </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Dragoon </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add new job traits<br>・Add new job abilities<br>・Add new feature that increases<br>player’s weaponskill damage when wyvern levels up<br> </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Weaponskills </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Adjust certain hand-to-hand weaponskills </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Item-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Item </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Add new items<br>・Make certain augmented gear shareable account-wide<br>・Change number of stacks possible for certain items to 99 </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table>
Matsui here with your monthly update.
Tokyo may finally have escaped from the blistering summer heat. Here in Japan, we say that autumn is the season for reading or playing outdoor sports, thanks to how mild the climate is this time of year, but no matter what activity you may choose to engage in, it’s clear that autumn is a great time to enjoy your favorite hobbies. If your favorite hobby is eating, then you’ll have something to look forward to in Vana’diel, as we’ve got a special new seasonal food item coming that may seem familiar to our North American players.
With that little teaser out of the way, it’s time to take a look at what’s in store for October.
Ambuscade will see the return of the moogles as well as a Halloween-themed fomor battle. The latter, although similar to last year’s, is a slightly different experience still based around the age-old Halloween tradition of “trick or treat.”
The main focus of job adjustments this patch are the monk and dragoon jobs. Monks are seeing mainly adjustments to weapon skills, with a side benefit of puppetmasters being able to reap some of the rewards as well. Dragoons are seeing adjustments that help their wyverns survive, as well as the addition of some new job traits.
In terms of quality-of-life adjustments, certain items will now be stackable up to 99. You may recall that we restricted certain items from being placed on the auction house several days ago—this measure was to prepare those items for this increase. On top of that, we’re making good on our promise to continue increasing the variety of augmented items that can be delivered to other characters on the same account. Batch two features Geas Fete items from Escha – Ru’Aun.
Below please find the usual list of items coming in October. As always, last minute issues may arise that prevent some of these from making the list, but we’re working our utmost to bring you all this in the next version update.
Mission and Quest-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Record of Eminence </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Add new quests </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Content and System-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Ambuscade </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add new notorious monsters </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Equipment Upgrade System </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Adjustments to Rem’s Tale system </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Porter Moogle </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add to list of supported items </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Battle-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Monk </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Adjust effects of certain job traits<br>・Add new job traits<br> </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> Dragoon </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb"> ・Add new job traits<br>・Add new job abilities<br>・Add new feature that increases<br>player’s weaponskill damage when wyvern levels up<br> </td><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center"> - </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Weaponskills </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Adjust certain hand-to-hand weaponskills </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table> Item-related
<table width="620" border="0"> <tr><td width="15%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Implementation Timing </td><td width="35%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Update Task and Overview </td><td width="40%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> In-progress Task </td><td width="10%" bgcolor="#a8d0d7" align="center"> Notes </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#c6e9ef"> October </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> Item </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3"> ・Add new items<br>・Make certain augmented gear shareable account-wide<br>・Change number of stacks possible for certain items to 99 </td><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center"> - </td></tr></table>