October 2023 Version Update

We do Aeonics as an alliance. . . we cleared 14 yesterday. 18 the run before. Are we doing it wrong??

SJs would make the fights a good bit easier, but you would still need the correct strategy and jobs.

/DRG would be huge since hate becomes a real issue towards the end of T3s.

New battlefield?

SE throwing curve balls!

Ashu Talif had great music and some (at the time) one-of-a-kind drops. it's good to see them still make new fights.

Barbarossa Zerehs! <3

I dunno, Ashu Talif was incredibly good and incredibly annoying at the same time. Love & Hate from me.

Guys - the game is fixed -

I beat V25 Arebati - Working on my prime now... Worlds healing

I know this has a 0% chance of happening, but seeing a balanced Sheol for alliances would be really wild and fun I think. Technical issues aside, most decent groups are full clearing at this point, so some changeup (or balance) there would be nice.

Or hell, while we're talking about things that won't happen, why not make it spicy. Sheol D, allow alliances, 4 floors, each floor you full clear to spawn a random Gaol boss of the same tier (with v25 damage resistances) that has to be defeated to spawn the crystal. Kill bumba at the end or no bonus reward. I'd play the ***out of that and I'm sure it'd be amazing madness. Watching an alliance try to coordinate magic bursting Ongo to beat the time crunch for moving up sounds like a riot.

then again, we can barely pull together 6 people to do v25, so maybe not.

I mentioned this before, but I think content needs to be Walk of Echoes style where anyone can enter and get muffins, segs, RP. Albeit at a slower rate than doing the actual current content.

Yeah, it sure would be hard to get 18 people to do something that 6 people can do. Imagine trying to "coordinate" a single person using 2 weapon skills and everyone blasting off nukes as fast as they can. What a laugh riot.

Imagine the segments and gil in D are better than A/B/C so everyone on small servers is whining about how they couldn't even get together 6 people and now all of a sudden they need to get 18 people together so they can get segments, and need to execute V25 fights in order to seg farm. People would be thrilled! Or the segments are worse than A/B/C so literally nobody does it and it was a waste of time.

Imagine having to prepare a melee blunt, melee slashing, piercing, and magic setups for T2/T3 clears, plus having a Bumba strategy ready. While also making sure to have enough crits to disable both Arebati & Xevioso in case they pop up. Oh, watch out, he has Glassy Nova.

This would be absolutely miserable.

Misery likes company

Oh I can work with so much here

1-You dropped from 18 to 14 cause the 4 extra people werent needed (or werent there or quit or whatever reason). In general, were the fights easier or harder? Asking because I very clearly stated the reason of "we need the alliance to kill it".
2-14 people means that you have 2 people who are left in the dirt when it comes to Ody/Sortie
3-Did you need the 14 people, or was it just a LS group event?
4-The fact you had 14 means alliance driven content should still be alive and well

Love new battlefields. Can anyone tell what zone the pudding is in?
Edit: Nevermind. Others said Ashu Talif. Cool!

It appears to show the Ashu Talif. Connection to the VR story? Well the captiain of the Ashu Talif, Luzaf, is present in the last fight of VR. My bet is there is a series of areas (potentially valhallan versions) related to each npc who appears (cornelia, ragelise, lehko, fickblix and luzaf)

I thought the game was in maintenance mode, what is going on.

I doubt it has any connection to the latest story, but them recently adding those red weapons could have something to do with it. Feels like SE remembered there are so many unused battlefields, and it has been years since we got one. Let's just hope the drop rates (screw Shinryu) aren't ridiculous.


One of the biggest gripes of getting Prime weapons is having nothing new to use them on. Even if they added a new HTB once every 4-6 months, it's encouraging players to improve so they can beat new content easier.

Confirmed new expansión in the works to the far east.

Nah cause that just encourages hyper optimization. One vs six vs eighteen should have zero difference reward wise. If it's "easy" for eighteen, so freaking what, the game is twenty years old. If we wanted Dark Souls then we'll just go play Dark Souls.

Six people does the contents, three to five friends want to come along and have fun. We all get to chill, drink a few beers and laugh on discord while silliness ensues. Everyone finish's feeling great and laughing.

I guess my assumption that this is VR end game type content is based on SE alluding to this a while back (and probably me being hopeful that this is more than another merit bcnm which crap drop rates!)

Didn't they outright say they plan to add multiple master trials? Is there any reason to believe this won't just be another one? Try not to get your hopes up too high.

Main reason - It says new battlefield and pretty certain they describe master trials as master trials, but it's not like SE works off a strict glossary of terms

I believe that SE specifically calling it a "battlefield", and not a "master trial", is enough to assume it is a new high tier battlefield.

Traditionally, Master Trials are extremely buffed versions of previous storyline bosses (I know most of the HTBs also do this), but this is just a random fight with a pudding... which to me, leans far more toward a HTB. It would be a bit of a slap in the face to bring out two master trials one after another, when so many players want new content with non-lockstyle rewards.

i think this is the best worst best game in the world

Ok?

You mean you dont like 0.001% drop rates?

edit: it might be closer to 0.005%

If the content cadence amounts to a new HTMB every 3-4 months, I'm cool with that

Would you really be ok with content you do 10 times for 1 drop the first day and nothing else for 120 days. (or content you do 1000 times, get no drop from)

Kinda depressing. Better than how it has been, but still.

When it's that or nothing, yes I'm ok with it. If you keep your expectations in check, you can't really be disappointed

Drop rates can be fair. Not overly common. Not stupidly rare to the point of giving up. If you rock up and get all the drops in a day, it is far too common. If you spend every day for an entire year and maybe get one or two of the rare drops (only if you're lucky), then that's not right, either. The dreaded word again. Balance.

If we're talking about fair drop rates, something along the model of the Odin/Alexander/Cait Sith HTBCs is pretty reasonable.