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 Phoenix.Sehachan
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By Phoenix.Sehachan 2011-11-16 06:02:24
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It's not Kali style, but w/e.

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[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

*The following content is still in development. Specific details may differ from the release version.

Relic Armor will be upgradable via Trial of the Magians.

Two upgrade stages will be available, each offering the following augmented attributes:
Stage 1: Item-related augments
Stage 2: Merit point-related augments
*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.

Upgraded armor pieces will have a higher level requirement than their base forms.

Armor pieces upgraded to Stage 2 will be storable with the Moogle Porter service.

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As I’m sure most of you are curious about the various upgrade possibilities for relic equipment, I bring you a tidbit of additional information to whet your appetite!

Currently the below is the direction the development team is heading in for relic equipment upgrades:

Stage 1: Enhancement of base stats creating a more powerful version of the original relic piece
Stage 2: Enhancements with unique properties that are different from that of other existing equipment (Example: enhancing merit point-related stats, etc.)
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By Leviathan.Hohenheim 2011-11-16 06:04:16
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wait so i no longer get my whitebox!? sound's lame...
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By Asura.Ina 2011-11-16 06:09:35
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Leviathan.Hohenheim said: »
wait so i no longer get my whitebox!? sound's lame...
Unless it goes to a different +1 > +2 with the upgrades
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By Phoenix.Sehachan 2011-11-16 06:09:54
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I'm curious about that stage 2, wonder what it is exactly.
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By Fenrir.Crystenne 2011-11-16 06:13:24
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So relic is going to be designed to augment Group 2 merit JAs I guess?

Sounds pretty cool from a design standpoint since we've not had any (?) gear that ever did that before. I can imagine relic still being situational at best though.

Shame really, I miss my Valor gear. :(
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By Phoenix.Sehachan 2011-11-16 06:21:46
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I wish I could augment AF as well actually. Some pieces are still incredibly useful.
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By Phoenix.Cathaldus 2011-11-16 06:47:42
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+2 Refresh on RDM Head...... I wish!
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By Fenrir.Terminus 2011-11-16 07:59:31
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Phoenix.Sehachan said: »
It's not Kali style, but w/e.

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*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.

LAAAAAAAAAME

"Thanks for spending 3 months in Dynamis - Bubu in 2009 farming your -1. And thanks for giving us back that currency. As a thank you, you can turn in 30 *** Geodes instead of 40."

Although I guess the first stage for NQ could be to turn in the -1 and currency. I guess.
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By Sylph.Washburn 2011-11-16 08:24:11
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I read a few weeks back that Sagheera is gonna be putting her *** into another gear and will get the upgrades done faster, I can only hope they'll drop the amount of currency so it would actually be worth getting the +1 first, then doing ToM.
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2011-11-16 08:33:15
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Fenrir.Terminus said: »
Phoenix.Sehachan said: »
It's not Kali style, but w/e.
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[dev1041] *Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.
LAAAAAAAAAME "Thanks for spending 3 months in Dynamis - Bubu in 2009 farming your -1. And thanks for giving us back that currency. As a thank you, you can turn in 30 *** Geodes instead of 40." Although I guess the first stage for NQ could be to turn in the -1 and currency. I guess.

Hey, i'm excited!! I got the dozen item's I wanted to from Dynamis and GTFO! I can understand where you are coming from though. I know people who solo'ed duelist head when we used to have a double digit line for it.
I'm just hoping it won't be "kill dynamis lord while wearing your relic set x 5". Dynamis is my least favorite event and always has been. It feels like I'm playing a bad double dragon clone, where I beat up thousands of the same crap with the same bland moves. Hell, it doesn't even feel like an event.... "Hey, instead of fighting all those guys over there for just exp, kill waves of these guys over here".

/shrug. I'm more interested in seeing how good the items are. I feel like when the events were Limbus, Ground Kings, Dynamis etc, your gear was always situational. I could get a piece that I still use today (Af head, relic head for drg... etc etc etc). I feel that now each new event is "make a slightly more broken piece to completely replace the piece I just got".

/2cents
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By Fenrir.Terminus 2011-11-16 08:33:35
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Says you don't have to have the +1.
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By Cerberus.Saithorx 2011-11-16 08:41:36
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A little disappointing that they didn't make a +1 trial and an NQ trial. I love my white boxes. It better be night and day difference in trial requirements because having the +1 sets was quite rare and was a nice achievement back during 75 cap. To just make everyone back on par for possibly 30 minutes of additional work will get a big frown from me.
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By Phoenix.Sehachan 2011-11-16 08:43:44
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Well but that's a complaint that should go to the neo-dynamis. Everytime I go farming currency I get tons of -1 pieces, it's really not such a big deal anymore, regardless of these new trials.
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By Cerberus.Saithorx 2011-11-16 08:54:22
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Pieces still cost 250k+ that other people did not pay. We shall see how much of a reduction in trials they will make it.

I guess they are at least making them possibly useful again. I do pretty much have like 90 pieces of garbage at the moment.
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2011-11-16 08:56:38
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Cerberus.Saithorx said: »
Pieces still cost 250k+ that other people did not pay. We shall see how much of a reduction in trials they will make it. I guess they are at least making them possibly useful again. I do pretty much have like 90 pieces of garbage at the moment.

Maybe the trials will involve currency?
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By Cerberus.Saithorx 2011-11-16 09:01:20
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Could be. We shall see. I'll laugh if the first trial involves getting the -1 and currency in addition to items X Y and Z.

People with +1 don't require the -1 and currency.

That's my vote!
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By Fenrir.Terminus 2011-11-16 09:05:24
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Phoenix.Sehachan said: »
Well but that's a complaint that should go to the neo-dynamis. Everytime I go farming currency I get tons of -1 pieces, it's really not such a big deal anymore, regardless of these new trials.

Still, whether or not someone got them two weeks ago, or two years ago - the NQ relic armor and the +1 relic armor are still different items. Hiradennotachi +2 doesn't upgrade to Masamune.

Oops. I just tried to be sad about SE not making sense. LOL WHAT A NOOB.
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By Monko 2011-11-16 09:09:17
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"You defeat the Gu'Dha Effigy.
The Gu'Dha Effigy drops a One Byne Bill.
The Gu'Dha Effigy drops a One Byne Bill.
The Gu'Dha Effigy drops a One Byne Crest."

I see new currency for upgrades being made. Which in turn could make dynamis currency slow down from the flooding it is at the moment. On the other hand more people will be flooding dynamis making it virtually impossible to farm.

I really just hope it doesn't turn out that way.
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By Cerberus.Saithorx 2011-11-16 09:09:57
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Hopefully we can upgrade our Hydra gear too.
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By Cerberus.Savannah 2011-11-16 09:41:48
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Leviathan.Hohenheim said: »
wait so i no longer get my whitebox!? sound's lame...

I agree on this part...White boxes were pretty...

Cerberus.Saithorx said: »
A little disappointing that they didn't make a +1 trial and an NQ trial.

^^^^This in full force :(
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2011-11-16 09:47:51
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Phoenix.Sehachan said: »
I'm curious about that stage 2, wonder what it is exactly.

Tomahawk +30 second duration!
Aggressive Aim gives ranged attack boost!
Sange is affected somehow, but no one will ever know!

Damn you, SE!
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By Quetzalcoatl.Milliniar 2011-11-16 10:49:19
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the merit point related augments could be with the new merits whenever they come out. i would imagine stage 2 is 99 ish...
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By Bahamut.Dannyl 2011-11-16 11:01:30
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Stage 1: Item-related augments
Stage 2: Merit point-related augments

Am I the only one reading this that for Stage 2 you need to spend merits to complete your trial ?
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By Cerberus.Sevvy 2011-11-16 11:40:33
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I dont know how excited I am about this. I would imagine +3 Emp Armor will be out for 99 so how good can they make relic +2.
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By Asura.Ina 2011-11-16 11:46:31
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Bahamut.Dannyl said: »
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Stage 1: Item-related augments
Stage 2: Merit point-related augments

Am I the only one reading this that for Stage 2 you need to spend merits to complete your trial ?
More likely that they boost group 2 merits
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By Bismarck.Misao 2011-11-16 11:47:52
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kinda neat i guess.
now they need to release trials for CoP rings and earrings :x
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By Fenrir.Nightfyre 2011-11-16 11:58:23
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Cerberus.Sevvy said: »
I dont know how excited I am about this. I would imagine +3 Emp Armor will be out for 99 so how good can they make relic +2.
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By Ragnarok.Ashman 2011-11-16 12:01:29
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Bismarck.Misao said: »
kinda neat i guess. now they need to release trials for CoP rings and earrings :x

Salvage and nyzul!!!!
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By Bismarck.Altar 2011-11-16 12:05:39
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Bahamut.Dannyl said: »
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Stage 1: Item-related augments
Stage 2: Merit point-related augments

Am I the only one reading this that for Stage 2 you need to spend merits to complete your trial ?
That's how I read it.
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By Sylph.Krsone 2011-11-16 12:24:52
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Ragnarok.Ashman said: »
Bismarck.Misao said: »
kinda neat i guess. now they need to release trials for CoP rings and earrings :x

Salvage and nyzul!!!!

Im hoping they will add salvage armour upgrades at 99 with some lenghty but rewarding trials, would be nice if they added a few extra floors or something to each zone so we arent exiting with 40ish mins left even on a chilled run.

As for toau rings would be nice if they made it so the bonuses worked everywhere not just in salvage/assaults/nyzul or like you said augmented them but its very unlikely that its going to happen.

As for af2+1 and af2 giving the same af2+2 piece the trial hopefully should require 30 less currency if you have the af2+1 piece (or less of another new drop thats introduced) or obviously getting af2+1 beforehand will be pointless. Im personally not sure whether to stop handing af2 into npc to upgrade now before we know the full details.
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