How do you hope 7.45 phantom job acquisition and 7.55 OC gear is handled

[Supersnow845]

Now I know that reception to OC has been lukewarm at best but this is more discussing progressing in the future

Mostly how right now the only “under-utilised” material in OC seems to be sanguinite as it’s the only one you can’t buy job crystals with. But it’s also a material locked behind forked tower. Do you reckon they will add new materials or new CE’s for the new 7.45 phantom jobs or cheap out and make them buyable with an existing material like sanguinite and annoy everyone

Similarly with north horn gear south horn gear is entirely vertical but the last upgrade needs ALOT of sanguinite. How do you think they will handle this going forward? Just ignore +2? Use jewellery? Go harder on mastery stacks?

I really wonder how they will handle the sangunitite problem going forward

[TaleraRistain]

It's possible they won't even have the gear related. We'll probably start over again with the second zone so they'll leave things as they are now most likely.

[Rithy255]

They wont handle it they will give more of the same and you'll like it.

[Supersnow845]

They wont handle it they will give more of the same and you'll like it.

But like more of the same how?

[Valence]

Probably silver and gold coins to buy the new jobs? Not that I hope they do this or not, but I wouldn't be surprised for them to just do that because that's how the rest has been done so far.

[RedLolly]

Probably a few more jobs and a lecel cap increase. I don't expect much to change.

[AmiableApkallu]

I'll start with what I expect:

Armor and accessories: North Horn will introduce new armor that will be useful ilvl for some, and glam for everyone else. It will be purchasable via platinum and mythril coins. It will not have the Special Attribute. At best, there might be a new accessory that's a rare drop from a CE.

Phantom Jobs: Platinum, mythril, and drops from CEs.

Currency and materials acquired in one zone (South or North Horn) will not be useful in the other zone.

Forked Tower: Magic(?) will drop something that can be used to imbue the otherwise final stage of the relic weapon with the Special Attribute.

(Yes, that is a combination of familiar elements from Eureka and Bozja/Zadnor… )

As for what I hope for:

A return to the weakly social/collective element of Eureka, where there was some intentionality and loose organization around spawning NMs CEs.

Phantom Freelancer becomes useful in combat (FT:M).

[Supersnow845]

I'll start with what I expect:

Armor and accessories: North Horn will introduce new armor that will be useful ilvl for some, and glam for everyone else. It will be purchasable via platinum and mythril coins. It will not have the Special Attribute. At best, there might be a new accessory that's a rare drop from a CE.

Phantom Jobs: Platinum, mythril, and drops from CEs.

Currency and materials acquired in one zone (South or North Horn) will not be useful in the other zone.

Forked Tower: Magic(?) will drop something that can be used to imbue the otherwise final stage of the relic weapon with the Special Attribute.

(Yes, that is a combination of familiar elements from Eureka and Bozja/Zadnor… )

As for what I hope for:

A return to the weakly social/collective element of Eureka, where there was some intentionality and loose organization around spawning NMs CEs.

Phantom Freelancer becomes useful in combat (FT:M).

Which would mean by proxy that arcanauts would continue to be OC BIS for everyone

I can’t say that won’t happen tbh but it would be a bit boring

[FuturePastNow]

I've already written off the possibility of upgrading my gear past +1. Even getting it to +1 is a stretch, since gold farming is one of the least fun activities in the entire game. Quite frankly I don't care what they do for the gear.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Which would mean by proxy that arcanauts would continue to be OC BIS for everyone

I can’t say that won’t happen tbh but it would be a bit boring

I think there’s enough precedent that we could get two unrelated sets out of it… the past field ops had multiple sets, although they handled them a bit differently. Eureka was first used to upgrade the level 70 AF gear into dyeable form, and introduced the Elemental zone gear with special stats later on. In ShB, we had Memoria to upgrade AF gear with, but we still had Bozjan, Blade and Law’s Order gear from the Southern Front. So I could see us getting a new set for North Horn that doesn’t require having +2 Arcanaut to get, possibly using a different currency unique to North Horn but maybe not, since the currency is kept in the UI and not in inventory. Guess we’ll see…

What I hope is that, failing both versions of the Tower getting a Normal mode (nope still not over that!), that either Sanguinite is made more plentiful through other means, or an entirely new currency (maybe platinum this time) comes from something in North Horn that is Normal difficulty and repeatable in-zone without the need for external scheduling!