[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

[Tsukino_Kaji]

[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades
*The following content is still in development. Specific details may differ from the release version.
•Relic Armor will be upgradable via Trial of the Magians.
•Two upgrade stages will be available, each offering the following augmented attributes:
•Stage 1: Item-related augments
•Stage 2: Merit point-related augments
*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.
•Upgraded armor pieces will have a higher level requirement than their base forms.
•Armor pieces upgraded to Stage 2 will be storable with the Moogle Porter service.

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So they wont be 99% useless anymore?
Will you still be able to +1 the armor after trials?

[Helel]

So they wont be 99% useless anymore?
Will you still be able to +1 the armor after trials?

Huh? Like it says, both the +1 and the NQ version will upgrade to the same item.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Huh? Like it says, both the +1 and the NQ version will upgrade to the same item.

I see what you're saying, but I read it as A +1 will get you a +1 augmented and a NQ will get you a NQ upgreaded. Can we get a clarification from the devs?

[Greatguardian]

I see what you're saying, but I read it as A +1 will get you a +1 augmented and a NQ will get you a NQ upgreaded. Can we get a clarification from the devs?

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension skills, then. The post was fairly clear.

Here is an expert artist's (me) rendering of how this upgrade tree will look:

[SpankWustler]

Here is an expert artist's (me) rendering of how this upgrade tree will look:

This is how the equipment will progress. BELIEVE IT!

[Eri]

•Relic Armor will be upgradable via Trial of the Magians.
•Two upgrade stages will be available, each offering the following augmented attributes:
•Stage 1: Item-related augments
•Stage 2: Merit point-related augments
*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.
•Upgraded armor pieces will have a higher level requirement than their base forms.
•Armor pieces upgraded to Stage 2 will be storable with the Moogle Porter service.

So they wont be 99% useless anymore?

In my World white Frames were never useless! /Sarcasm off

Will you still be able to +1 the armor after trials?

As it looks like (to me) these are static Upgrades. So there is a good possibility that it will be possible... but Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading.
So what i expect is further future upgrades will need something we don't know about yet.
Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.

Better be a huge diffrence so +1 is still worth getting.

Another question is:
Will these Armos have Set bonus?

If they do, will that set bonus stack with af3+2 ?

[Vold]

I doubt very much you'll be able to +1 a NQ after you did trials on the NQ. +1s aren't that great anyway except to set them apart from the other stuff so you could get a NQ rep and store armor as a set so you weren't doomed to holding four pieces of useless armor just to use the one piece. That's not a problem anymore.

I suppose both pieces having the same stats is a small price to pay for static augs. In before the hellstorm of people wanting their cake and to eat it too, though. It's anyone's guess whom will be first to utter the words "but hqs should have better aug stats than nqs because I made the effort to obtain the hqs typical se I rather do random augs atleast they make logical sense" hey it's too late now. You wanted the benefits of static augs. You got it. Stick with the devil you know. That be the lesson learned here on this day by all who hold dear the white lines, 16 of November, 2011.

[Rosalie]

I frankly don't see the point of +1'ing a relic piece anymore unless the differences between the trials are so stringent that you'll just want to +1 everything first...

[hideka]

I frankly don't see the point of +1'ing a relic piece anymore unless the differences between the trials are so stringent that you'll just want to +1 everything first...

dont give them any ideas. i dont want to go farming a ton of dyna currency to avoid another Nyzul isle disaster. ( and yes nyzul was a disaster. either you climb to floor 100 or you dont get your WS. end of story)

[Vazerus]

If part of the trial is turning in the same amount of dynamis currency and the -1, I'm okay with this.