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

[AmiableApkallu]

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

I'm not a terribly creative person when it comes to designing systems, and I suspect SE is spending their creative energies on the setting, Phantom Jobs (the actions), and FT:M. I also have trouble imagining that SE would want to dump any more power into a gear set, especially with N more rays mastery stacks coming.

Unless… the new thing is to start imbuing gear with defensive boosts. And if you do it in such a way that it can be applied to both the Arcanault's +1 and +2 gear, and without losing them when upgrading a piece from +1 to +2, then you don't have to worry about Sanguinite/X-Fixatives and potentially cannibalizing the main reason to run FT:B repeatedly.

[Supersnow845]

I'm not a terribly creative person when it comes to designing systems, and I suspect SE is spending their creative energies on the setting, Phantom Jobs (the actions), and FT:M. I also have trouble imagining that SE would want to dump any more power into a gear set, especially with N more rays mastery stacks coming.

Unless… the new thing is to start imbuing gear with defensive boosts. And if you do it in such a way that it can be applied to both the Arcanault's +1 and +2 gear, and without losing them when upgrading a piece from +1 to +2, then you don't have to worry about Sanguinite/X-Fixatives and potentially cannibalizing the main reason to run FT:B repeatedly.

To be fair the current gear set is only 14.5% damage, the mastery stacks are the majority of the current power

But imbuing defence would be good, because as soon as you remove incentives go get +2 then the last incentive to run FTB collapses which I believe they would want to avoid