Dec 10, 2014 (JST) Version Update

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• A new job enhancement system known as Gifts have been added.
  Gifts are a new system with a variety of effects derived from the number of job points already spent.
  
  Some affect the performance of a job, while others provide increased capacity point gains and the ability to equip special equipment marked as "Superior."
  
  Read on for a list of Gifts added in the December version update.
  * More Gifts are scheduled to be added in future version updates.

• The following jobs have undergone adjustments
  
  • Summoner
    

    

    • New blood pacts have been added.
      
      • Blood Pact: Ward: Pacifying Ruby (Lv.99)
        Reduces Enmity of target party member.
        
      • Blood Pact: Rage: Conflagration Strike (Lv.99)
        Deals fire elemental damage. Additional effect: Burn.
        
      • Blood Pact: Rage: Crag Throw (Lv.99)
        Delivers a ranged attack that slows target.
        
      • Blood Pact: Ward: Soothing Current (Lv.99)
        Increases potency of cure effects received for party members within area of effect.
        
      • Blood Pact: Ward: Hastega II (Lv.99)
        Gives party members within area of effect the effect of "Haste."
        
      • Blood Pact: Ward: Crystalline Blessing (Lv.99)
        Confers a TP bonus on party members within area of effect.
        
      • Blood Pact: Rage: Volt Strike (Lv.99)
        Delivers a threefold attack that stuns target.
        
    • Cait Sith’s damage type has been changed from hand-to-hand to blunt.
  • Blue Mage
    

    

    • New blue magic spells are learnable.
      
      • Molting Plumage (Lv.99 Recast time: 25 sec.)
        Deals wind elemental damage in a fan-shaped area originating from caster.
        
      • Nectarous Deluge (Lv.99 Recast time: 45 sec.)
        Deals water elemental damage to enemies within range. Additional effect: Poison.
        
      • Sweeping Gouge (Lv.99 Recast time: 120 sec.)
        Delivers a twofold attack. Additional Effect: Decreases defense. Additional effect duration varies with TP.
        
      • Atramentous Libations (Lv.99 Recast time: 180 sec.)
        Steals HP from enemies within range. Ineffective against undead.
        
  • Puppetmaster
    

    

    • The animations and animation lock for maneuvers have been removed.
      
    • The harlequin frame and stormwaker frame weapon attributes have been changed from hand-to-hand to blunt.
      

• Weapon skills have undergone the following adjustments.
  
  • The potency of the following weapon skills has been increased.

    Shark Bite / Evisceration / Mercy Stroke / Mordant Rime / Pyrrhic Kleos / Rudra's Storm / Vorpal Blade / Savage Blade / Knights of Round / Death Blossom / Expiacion / Rampage / Calamity / Mistral Axe / Decimation / Onslaught / Bora Axe / Ruinator / Blade: Jin / Blade : Ku / Blade: Metsu / Blade: Kamu / Blade : Hi / Blade: Shun / True Strike / Judgement / Hexastrike / Black Halo / Randgrith / Realmrazer

  • The TP Bonuses for the following weapons has been increased.
    

    Mandalic Stab / Rudra’s Storm / Savage Blade / Expiacion / Calamity / Mistral Axe / Blade: Ten / Judgement / Black Halo / Mystic Boon

  • Bonuses for the following weapon skills that only applied for initial hits will now be applied to all hits.
    

    Dancing Edge / Evisceration / Pyrrhic Kleos / Vorpal Blade / Swift Blade / Rampage / Decimation / Blade: Jin / Blade: Ku / Hexastrike / Exenterator / Chant du Cygne

• The maximum accuracy of one-handed weapons equipped as the main weapon has been increased from 95% to 99%.
  * Owing to this change, the maximum accuracy of abilities that rely on main weapon accuracy has also been raised from 95% to 99%.
  Further, some monster damage types have been changed from hand-to-hand to blunt.* Fellows and alter egos enjoy this benefit as well.

• The maximum accuracy of beastmaster familiars, wyverns, avatars, and automatons has been increased from 95% to 99%.
  * In line with this change, familiars summoned using the following items have had their damage types changed from hand-to-hand to blunt.

  Carrot Broth / Famous Carrot Broth / Bug Broth / Quadav Bug Broth / Berbal Broth / Singing Herbal Broth / Carrion Broth / Cold Carrion Broth / Meat Broth / Warm Meat Broth / Tree Sap / Scarlet Sap / Fish Broth / Fish Oil Broth / Seedbed Soil / Sun Water / Grasshopper Broth / Noisy Grasshopper Broth / Mole Broth / Lively Mole Broth / Blood Broth / Clear Blood Broth / Antica Broth / Fragrant Antica Broth

• New foods that increase the effects for both players and familiars have been added.

• The Trust initiative has undergone the following adjustments.
  
  • Alter egos may now be called forth in the following mission battlefields.
    
    • Sacrificial Chamber
      

      The Temple of Uggalepih

    • Chamber of Oracles
      

      Through the Quicksand Caves

    • La'Loff Ampitheater
      

      Ark Angels one through five

    • Stellar Fulcrum
      

      Delkfutt's Tower

    • The Celestial Nexus
      

      The Celestial Nexus

  • Alter egos may now be called forth in the following quest battlefields.
    
    • Empyreal Paradox
      

      Apocalypse Nigh

    • La'Loff Ampitheater
      

      Pentacide Perpetrator

    • Riverne-Site #B01
      

      Storms of Fate

  * High-tier mission battlefields are excluded from these adjustments.
  
  Read on for a list of content where alter egos may be called forth.