September 2023 Version Update

Anyone beaten the new master trial yet?

I have seen shouts on Asura asking for ML30 for content (both Ody V25 and Sortie) which I don't consider unreasonable. If anything it just filters people to using jobs they actually play and care about and not just have or used to play and have some outdated gear for. Asking for Mlevel 35/40/45/50 would be bs.

The real lynchpin is COR. Eventually they will be ML 50 and you hopefully have a 2nd one to rotate in. They can carry 3 or 4 people easy with the right partner. If 1 or 2 of those people actually wants to do work as well then you've got a stew going!

Yeah, let's refocus the topic to the update, this has been like 4 pages of ML arguments, which I appreciate, but aren't that relevant other than 'they added another shitty Locus mob to the game'.

I see a couple people doing important testing which is nice, but are any full groups going in and doing serious attempts yet? Looking at the dmg they are putting out, this is gonna be rough and someone isn't just gonna be able to hold them all outright.

The only thing that makes ML a chore is needing a BRD/COR/GEO+<healer> to get remotely decent progress. Doing it solo is simply not feasible, and your friends are going to get tired of playing BRD/COR/GEO/Healer (the GEO can do this technically). Now if you have alts, then you can assign one of those roles to them, but unless you can field all four yourself, your going to run into the same problems.

Thus the RMT step in and "solve" the problem... for gil/money.

Yeah, let's refocus the topic to the update

There isn't much else to talk about.

It isn't, but people think it is. That's what matters.

If you're an M50 with R25/30 everything you definitely "earned it" and are more competent because of it.

Whenever somebody pops around that we haven't seen them ever, but they have all weapons and necks r25 and crafted armor

I figured I'd poke my head into the master trial -
This is obviously a lie:
Be in possession of the Crystal Paradise item.
* Players joining the instance must be in possession of this item.
You can just use one item to get in, like a standard BCNM Orb.

Buffs don't wear on entry, can probably do some buff shenanigans outside if necessary. Short cutscene on entry, no trusts ofc.

Eald'narche and the TT teleport onto the aggro-getter on pull, was funny to see. The GK used Call Wyvern, HM used Mighty Strikes on pull. Just before I died to a big nuke, a Behemoth and Adamantoise were summoned from somewhere - I assume the Mithra?
An orbital spawned (after stellar burst?)

Eald'narche's nukes hurt. Thunder 6 hit my RUN for 2.4k. Water 6 hit me for 2k, so they hurt a lot.(Windsday for both)
An ES Sleepga on RDM/BLM slept the wyvern, behemoth, both orbitals, and got immunobreaks on Kam'Lanaut and HM. Resists on everything else.
Stymie Saboteur Sleepga landed just fine. Lasted 93 seconds and they all woke simultaneously, with this set: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/392981

No exoplates, but looks like more enemies to handle at one time than I was expcting. I think Kam and Eald have auras or something going on when they're close to each other? Definitely some TP gain buffs, and they glow, but they might always do that.

Aggro radius of 20', they won't re-aggro if you reraise after a full wipe and are out of range. I didn't check if you lose Exemplar Points, whoops.

we test new fight yestarday master trial ★Crystal Paradise★ its spawn Behemoth and Adamantoise those can sleep with rdm/blm ES JA SLEEPGA , Kam'lanaut spell silencja 20' and other debuff , Eald'narche nuker hard fire , all aggro link , no aggro after rr 20' , crystal can used more time and all pt need 1 trade first time i think good pt for this fight pt job: tank rdm/blm dd cor brd/whm healer or cancel cor 2whm plan all set 50%-DT all get remedy stacks ; tank set turtle , use all sp full buff and all pt out 30" to avoid silence if whm see tank get silence erase and spam cure 3 , rdm try sleep Behemoth and Adamantoise , dd pull 1 1 Kill order EV > MR > GK > HM > TT or tt mr first , 1 whm focus tank 1 whm focus dd whm buff barsilence barfira equip set shamash rob and ressist silence equip boost str and other buff , brd def songx2 HM minuet mad or str and give whm tank Puppet's Operetta Scop's Operetta

Gotta make sacrifices. You're gonna run out of COR/BRD/GEO if you throw them in every party. Unless you want to make 3 alts of BRD COR GEO whos sole job is to ML all your mains jobs.

One of my best MT parties saw me pulling skeletons on Red Mage while our Monks bashed their bones. You can get experimental with camps, but it depends who you have. Of course, BRD/COR/GEO will always be needed for decent points, but I can see other types of parties over time, and even more so if SE keeps introducing new camps.

Why tf is this called Crystal “Paradise”?

My definition of paradise involves lots of mithras, and certainly not sore losers that were beaten over and over over the time, and always come back trying another 15 mins of fame.

Everything about the potpourri system screams "black market". You pays the goblin, and maybe a pulse weapon just happens to fall off the truck. You rough up some past-due clients, maybe it's an Aeonic weapon instead. Capishe?

PLD/RUN, BRD//WHM, RDM/BLM, BLU/NIN AND SAM/DRG - first attempt fail.
today trying swapping out blu/nin for a RDM/NIN for temp tank/kiter, help on enfeebs and heals. even though the blu rocked it and managed to hold 3 before tank got destroyed

someone tried Perfect defensex2 strat before us with cor and got lucky with 4x total and said they timed out.

RMT seem to be trying BSTx5 strat. I see a lot of dead bst with random names.

Can't say I ever was a fan of the Imps exp spots even during the ToAU era, but the more Locus/Ampex mobs the better, so I can't complain.

I actually wish we're gonna see even more spots in the future, but they need to do something about the insane ML levelling speed post 40.
Some could say post 30, really.
They should've never re-activated the old party-member-level penalty. That thing was stupid even in 2004, who the *** was "missing" that in 2022, really?
But it's too late for that, now that the thing has been implemented they won't go back on their way on that.

They need to release some KI, some campaign, some exp ring, something to make it more realistical though, or the current situation where the activity is in the hands of bots and RMTs won't change.

I was at the imp camp last night. It actually wasn’t completely horrible. Amnesia/silence didn’t really land that often with the level of magic evasion we have now. And the imps are pretty damn squishy.

Why would RMTs be doing anything that isn't earning them gil???