[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

[Concerned4FFxi]

I would have rather seen the drop rates on -1 greatly increased, and the requirement to upgrade via the magian trail be the af2+1 version only. As it stands now, people who did +1 theirs are going to get reduced whatever on their magian trails (i have no af2+1, but loads of af3+2 and af1+1 and af2). I have yet to see a trial of the magians that's not a joke (except the 1500 plates lol, and that's only for 91+ weapons its not like you cant get the ws at 85). Especially now that the drop rate on vnm for souls has been fixed/increased, and an improvement to t1-t2 vnm abyssite changing colors in abyssea was increased. Ochain is that much easier now.

If the af2+2 trails require a -1 item, then i'd say this entire passage of text is pointless, except the ps about planting. However, I was disppointed by all the 70+ trials to upgrade my adventuring fellow and how horrible they were. Kill 'x' amount of mob, what kinda joke is that to do a cap increase for you fellow after all the great story and quests before it? Oh yea, the same as the 75+ cap quests have been, =dreadful. The last cap quest I actually enjoyed, but that's not to say I didn't want more because I did.

As it stands, I asume this or some similar version is going to be used in limbus as well when limbus gets redone. So basically, after you get whatever gear from the limbus soap dealing npc in port jueno all your ancient beast coins after that are going to be worthless, cause who is really gonna +1 something just to trade it in to get a step removed from a trial that gives you a +2 when you can not +1 it and just do a little (oh no trials are sooo hard) more on a joke trial to get the final augmented af2+2 or af1+2 (same applys to af2, because I feel to get -1 right now is tricky, but rather than make that easier to get -1 they just make it all one EASY BUTTON MASH GO on the af2+2). Is this perhaps a silent acknowledgement that af2+1 is actually as hard if not harder to get to get then af3+2, and because of this SE is attempting to balance out the effort required to attain either af2+2 or af3+2?

Why am i upset, besides the unfairness? I been collecting ancient beast coins for upgrades and now it's pointless, and I can't get them out of the npc to sell them before everyone else finds out how bad ancient beast coin demand is going to tank- like they weren't already of low value now they are gonna be worthless. Unless ancient beasts coins are used in the upgrade to af2+2, then it would make everything that much better. But i like the -1 idea and i like the items required to upgrade af1 to af1+1. Yes i still have yet to upgrade some af1 that needs upgrading, but i'm ok with that i do limbus twice a week and enventually i will get the items required.

PS- While your at it, how about bringing back items that can only be grown in pots from your moghouse or found as rare drops in bcnm/kcnm/etc, and not in every gold chest in abyssea. Yes i know fungus for the skillup foods and what not are good sells but where's the reciept for geode gems to be grown by planters or somethong that I can put on the AH that justifies me watching my pots in my moghouse for a week, i liked growing stuff in my pots.