April 2017 Version Update

no new weapons, they did fix the glitch on the regal gem though.

Was about to go down that path myself. Kinda glad my Body / Head were being stubborn. :D

Agreed. The only one that even looks remotely decent is the MNK/SAM/NIN/PUP one, and even that is a stretch when there are much better options out there.

The ONLY possible saving grace for these rings is if the set bonus on them + the other pieces is like.....OMFS good.

Sulevia+2 set effect is underwhelming, the haste is still terrible.

The hands/feet+2 are an improvement, as are the legs. Though I don't see myself TPing in the legs at all.

Even for DRG I have a pair of max Augged Taeon.(Max TA/DEX/Acc) Best part is I didn't spend too much on it, 2m tops (sorry night, if it helps I've spent almost 6m on my skirmish axe and Im still not happy with it though 8D)

I'd prioritize Hands>Feet>Legs>Body>Head Personally.

I'd take the ring for my hybrid DT/DD set. It's not good but it's not great.

Really comes down to if it's a scaling bonus like the Omen gear and if so, how much the scale it. Not holding my breath on it though.

Overall, the +2 ambu gear is very nice.

+7 WSD pieces for DD jobs
+4 refresh body
+duration song legs
Sulev+2 legs is nice hybrid multi-hit piece

Bunch of other upgrades for several of my sets.

Kind of torn though, as to how long it will take to acquire a set of 10. Based on the update notes, probably 10-20/month I'm guessing, from hallmarks + gallantry respectively.

They just keep making ways for you to choose between money or gear. :(

Inyanga set bonus "Enhances refresh" looks interesting. +1 per piece sounds too good to be true though. Sure would be nice to dodge DM augments for refresh lol

Also I still need to compare it but I'm hoping a few of the Sulev+2 pieces fills the gap from NQ to HQ argosy. Somewhere in the middle maybe, more attack on the hands/legs is a nice thing for Reso since it helps overcome the attack penalty some what.

Well tied with taeon and Adhemar+1 but at a much lower cost

Regarding melee, Meghanada Chausses +2 look crazy for such little effort. Like you can get those stats without playing Roulette? Sign me up.

Well, ALOT cheaper then Adhemar +1 and not as random as that little Derp of a taru and his augments. Those by itself push'em to best SS for me. :p

THANK GOD they renamed the terra crystal analysis crystal to geo crystal

Think you guys all missing the best piece. all jobs th head!

According to BG's Item changes, looks like that did:

Changed Attribute Description- "MND+7 Magic Accuracy+15 Enhancing magic effect +10" changed to "MND+7 Magic Accuracy+15 Enfeebling magic effect +10"

check version is up. 94 files. at least this should be an easy update

So check version popped pretty much exactly the same time Live Vana'diel came back... and update done

Honestly The upgrades are nice. You cant expect crazy increase on every part or it would make obsolete all other endgame gear.

I for one am happy for the upgrades and the small changes add up fast. Take sulveia feet for example, already the best feet for wsd, now it has 2% more wsd, more acc, stats etc. The hands give you 1 DA more which is great, and more acc etc too, all of it adds up fast to nasically a full set getting enough boost to act as another mini piece of gear! Not bad :D

so for a set like sulveia your looking at 6 acc/att 3 every stat increase, -1dt and specials increased: not doing the math perfectly but over the set which I know most jobs on it use for dd hybrid thats a positive increase of +15 to all stats +30 acc/att and + 2 stp + 1 TA + 1 DA + 2 wsd AND -5dt... thats pretty damn huge overall.

I keep looking at the play button and I'm thinking:

Holy heck they doing normal now and it starts out with 7 different beast type mobs. Rabbit, opo, coeurl, marid, elvaan, buffalo and tiger from left to right. None look that scary and them seem to wait to be engaged but sometimes an idle one joins one you fighting for 2 at most at a time. First one didn't so many all but one has a partner? Still looks like one of the more annoying normal ones

edit: nvm now 3 on them at once

5 metals from total hallmarks, 5 from hallmarks 10 from gallantry. The total ones take the place where dyes were. hallmarks are 200 each and gallantry 1k each.

Obtainable Dye/Metal are:

15 Dye from Hallmark buyables.
5 Dye from Gallantry
5 Metal from Hallmark buyables.
5 Metal from Total Hallmarks
10 Metal from Gallantry.

Ugh, deciding which two to +2 each month is going to be ***.

How do you get the rings?

Rings are 1350 for a voucher. Total hallmarks.

Hmmm seems I might have been wrong and maybe they were pulling extra mobs. As far as I can tell at 1% for each beast their hp wont move until they use a move called succession. And each one I fought took less and less dmg

AAMR
so far does cloudsplitter calamity
will do sneak attack if she is behind mob
will do trick attack if you are in front of her

Able to reliably get her to TA a trust tank?

she only did it once, so far
popped a warder, calamity doing 3-4k, cloudsplitter doing 5-8k

edit:
popped another warder. stood in front of MR and she TAed every minute. also did rampage for 3k

Does this mean they removed 5 Dyes from Total Hallmarks? (replaced them with Metal)

Ya it's just metals this month.