Roadmap for October 2011 "Relic"

[MDenham]

The god gear and abjuration gear augments were hugely unpopular

I don't know that "unpopular" is the right word so much as "annoying".

[Vold]

They already said they would be fixed stat upgrades in the giant thread on this subject about a month ago. We were supposed to have relic gear augments right now but people grabbed the pitchforks and torches and started making noise so they changed their plans. The god gear and abjuration gear augments were hugely unpopular and SE apparently got the message this time.

I grow real tired of your troll stance on sky augs. They have made me 100 million gil. They also have made me jack in the past month because competition caught on quick and wanted a piece of the pie. Enough to the point that I'm about to retire until they go away with their retarded pricing. I make better gil with my thumb up my ass in town right now.

You're wrong. Stop it.


Now, if you want to go on about how no one likes random augments then by all means.

[Dragonlord]

They already said they would be fixed stat upgrades in the giant thread on this subject about a month ago. We were supposed to have relic gear augments right now but people grabbed the pitchforks and torches and started making noise so they changed their plans. The god gear and abjuration gear augments were hugely unpopular and SE apparently got the message this time.

Sure sure, i read that thread. However, I never mentioned random augs in my statement, but who's to say synergy won't be involved? Such as trade X relic with Y item and synth Z (static) result? It's a possibility if they want to continue the synergy upgrade system.

On another note, i was pointing out how in that thread they specifically called it "relic +2" but said something like "upgrade to relic and relic+1" in the roadmap.

[FrankReynolds]

Sure sure, i read that thread. However, I never mentioned random augs in my statement, but who's to say synergy won't be involved? Such as trade X relic with Y item and synth Z (static) result? It's a possibility if they want to continue the synergy upgrade system.

the devs said:

-Stats will be attached with static values
-Will be enhanced from a method other than synergy
-After enhancing the equipment, the level at which they can be equipped will be increased
-Will be increasing the difficulty more than we originally planned

*The implementation timing won’t be in time for the upcoming version update and is currently under consideration.

So hopefully no synergy crap.

[Dew]

Hopefully it is upgrade like this:

Duelist's Chapeau +2

Def: 30 HP+30 MP+30 MND+10 Enfeebling skill +20 Enfeebling magic potency +10% Adds "Refresh II" effect Lv.95 RDM

And not upgrades like this:

Def:27 HP+20 MP+20 MND+5 Enfeebling skill +15 Adds "Refresh" effect Lv. 95 RDM

Another example:

Warrior's Mask +2

Def: 38 STR+10 DEX+10 Attack+15 Double Attack+5% Haste+7% Enhances "Warcry II" effect Lv.95 WAR

Not:

Def: 34 DEX+8 Parrying Skill +10 Enmity+3 Enhances "Warcry" effect Lv.95 WAR

Some kind of example would be nice.

[Leonlionheart]

I can't imagine it will be much different from the base stats

[MDenham]

Hopefully it is upgrade like this:

Duelist's Chapeau +2

Def: 30 HP+30 MP+30 MND+10 Enfeebling skill +20 Enfeebling magic potency +10% Adds "Refresh II" effect Lv.95 RDM

And not upgrades like this:

Def:27 HP+20 MP+20 MND+5 Enfeebling skill +15 Adds "Refresh" effect Lv. 95 RDM

I believe they said the Relic +2 gear was going to be a sidegrade vs. Empy +2 gear at best.

So:

Duelist's Chapeau +2
DEF: 30 HP+28 MP+14 MND+6
Enfeebling magic skill +20
Adds "Refresh" effect (2mp/tic)

is probably more likely. Not as good as your proposed one, but still better than the "oh god not this" version.

As far as your WAR example... yeah, we're more likely to see those stats on some kind of hypothetical AF4 (out of The Last Stand?) than anything else, and especially not on relic +2.

[saevel]

IDK, I've completely lost faith in SE for designing gear after the recent VWNM release.

Now with Tanaka back in charge, he's gonna clamp down on anything more powerful then what was available at 75. If we're lucky the dev team will wait till he's out sick to do a release so he can't stop it or force them to tune it down .

[Atomic_Skull]

I grow real tired of your troll stance on sky augs. They have made me 100 million gil. They also have made me jack in the past month because competition caught on quick and wanted a piece of the pie. Enough to the point that I'm about to retire until they go away with their retarded pricing. I make better gil with my thumb up my ass in town right now.

You're wrong. Stop it.

[FrankReynolds]

I grow real tired of your troll stance on sky augs. They have made me 100 million gil. They also have made me jack in the past month because competition caught on quick and wanted a piece of the pie. Enough to the point that I'm about to retire until they go away with their retarded pricing. I make better gil with my thumb up my ass in town right now.

You're wrong. Stop it.


Now, if you want to go on about how no one likes random augments then by all means.

You probably made 99 million of that off of one or two stupid rich linkshells. Honestly, look around. there are very few people with sky gear that has any sort of decent augment on it, because no one wants to throw money out the window. Only a few people have that much gil to waste, and they made you rich. Its really not very popular.