Nov 5, 2013 (JST) Version Update

[NOC_EU]

• New Seekers of Adoulin missions have been added.
  * The amount of fame required to proceed with previous Seekers of Adoulin missions has also been reduced.

  

• New quests have been added.

• A quest which enables players to reforge their artifact armor has been added.

  

  • Receiving the quest
    Players are able to receive the quest by speaking with Monisette in Port Jeuno (I-8)

    

    * This quest does not cover relic or empyrean equipment.
  • Acquiring items needed in the reforging process
    Specific items are needed to reforge your artifact armor, and can be acquired in the following new battlefields aimed at players of level 99 or greater.
    

    Orb	Exchange Rate	Available Battlefield	Battlefield Name	Entry Restrictions	Piece for which materials are obtainable
    Macrocosmic Orb	Twenty Sacred Kindred’s Crests (Added on Nov 13th, 2013)	Horlais Peak	Dismemberment Brigade	All Levels	Feet
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Waughroon Shrine	Grimshell Shocktroopers	All Levels	Feet
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Balga's Dais	Divine Punishers	All Levels	Feet
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Qu'Bia Arena	Demolition Squad	All Levels	Hands
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Qu'Bia Arena	Brothers D'Aurphe	All Levels	Hands
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Chamber of Oracles	Legion XI Comitatensis	All Levels	Legs
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Sacrificial Chamber	Amphibian Assault	All Levels	Head
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Sacrificial Chamber	Jungle Boogymen	All Levels	Head
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party
    		Throne Room	Kindred Spirits	All Levels	Chest
    				Thirty Minutes
    				Six Person Party

  • Required Items
    Clearing the battlefield will reward all players with these items in addition to the standard battlefield rewards.
    The number of items acquired varies by difficulty.
    

    Difficulty	No. Acquired
    Very Easy	1
    Easy	1
    Normal	2
    Difficult	3
    Very Difficult	4

• A quest which enables players to reforge their relic, mythic, and empyrean weapons has been added.

  

  • Prerequisites
    • Players must be in possession of a relic, mythic, or empyrean weapon only equippable by level 99 characters.
    • Players must either be in possession of either the detached stinger, flame-scarred skull. or craggy fin key items; or have cleared the “difficult” or “very difficult” version of one of the battlefields for which a macrocosmic orb is required for entry.
      * For mythic weapons, players must have viewed the associated cutscene that comes with acquiring them.
    • Note
      Items already delivered in the Magian Trials to augment relic, mythic, or empyrean weapons to what would be their most powerful forms prior to this update also count toward the completion of trials that augment the weapons' newly reforged versions.(Added on Nov 5th, 2013)
  • Receiving the quest
    Players must meet the prerequisites given above and speak with Oboro in Port Jeuno (E-6).

    

  • Items required to reforge the weapons
    The requisite items by be obtained by vanquishing NMs and boss monsters in Delve content.
    * These items may be obtained regardless of whether the NMs are vanquished in the field or within a fracture.
  • Obtaining items in battlefields
    These items may also be obtained as rewards in battlefields for which macrocosmic or microcosmic orbs are required for entry.
    * These items can only be acquired on normal, difficult, or very difficult settings.
    * The chance of receiving these items varies by difficulty level and type of orb used.
    

• A quest has been added in which players are able to acquire weapon skills that could previously only be used when equipping the requisite empyrean weapon or weapon obtained in the Walk of Echoes in the main hand or as a ranged weapon.
  • Prerequisites
    • Players must be in possession of a level 99 Walk of Echoes weapon or level 90 empyrean weapon.
    • Players must be able to enter Walk of Echoes.
    • Players most have cleared the quest “Guardian of the Void.”
  • Receiving the Quest
    Players are able to receive the quest by examining the ??? target in Walk of Echoes and speaking with Kupofried.

    

    * Aftermath does not apply to weapon skills obtained via this quest.

• The following areas have been added.

  

  Woh Gates / Kamihr Drifts

• New coalition assignments have been added to these areas.

• The following adjustments have been made to Monstrosity.
  • Players are now able to combat manipulators as a gladiator.

    

    Read on for details.
  • New sub-families have been added.

    

  • Certain background music will now play when players are monipulators. (Added on Nov 5th, 2013)

• The following adjustments have been made to Mog Gardens
  • A Porter Moogle has been dispatched to Mog Gardens.

    

  • Players are now able to invite party members to visit their Mog Garden.

    

  • Additional items are now usable as seeds.

• The following adjustments have been made to wildskeeper reives.(Added on Nov 5th, 2013)
  • Drop rates for spoils obtained from reives in the below areas have been adjusted. Additional spoils have also been introduced.

    Ceizak Battlegrounds / Foret de Henetiel / Morimar Basalt Fields / Yorcia Weald / Marjami Ravine / Kamihr Drifts

  • The key item "anti-glaciation gear" may now be purchased from Dimmian in Eastern Adoulin (E-6).
  • The amount of bayld needed to purchase key items has been reduced.

• The following adjustments of been made to Trial of the Magians content for acquiring weapons from Walk of Echoes content.
  • Additional trials have been added. These new trials do not require NMs to be vanquished or seals to be delivered.
  • Prerequisites for completing existing Trial of the Magian content have been relaxed.
    The number of seals / coins / devious dice / pouches of liminal residue needed to complete the trials have been reduced.
    * Players who have turned in more than the new requisite number before the November 5 update will not have the excess amount returned.

• The Reive evaluation system has been adjusted.
  • Actions taken immediately preceding the end of a reive will now be taken into account.

• New rewards may be received from Reja Ygridhi in Celennia Memorial Library.

• Survival Guide” targets have been added to facilitate teleportation between outposts.

  

  • Notes
    • This adjustment applies to areas that may be accessed without any expansion packs.(Added on Nov 5th, 2013)
    • Teleportation requires that players have already examined the survival guide at their desired destination.
    • Teleporting in this way requires gil.

• The following adjustments have been made to Treasure Caskets.

  

  • The drop rate has been increased.
  • The number of attempts to open the caskets have been increased.
  • The amount of obtainable items has been increased.
  • New equipment has been added.

• The following adjustments have been made to magic maps.
  • Rewards have been added to quests that grant magic maps.
  • The following NPCs will now sell magic maps for non-expansion areas formerly obtainable only by quests.

  Violitte – Southern San d’Oria (G-1) / Elesca – Northern San d’Oria (I-8) / Karine – Bastok Mines (H-9) / Rex – Port Bastok (J-7) / Mhoji Roccoruh – Port Windurst (G-9) / Pehki Machumaht – Windurst Woods (H-11)

• The prerequisites for fellowship quests may now be fulfilled simply by entering Jeuno. (Added on Nov 5th, 2013)