May 2017 Version Update

Glad I could do that I like to troll just a lil

When is maint. suppose to be over? I didn't check times, and can't find it on the site.

You'd end up losing more hate than you gained without dt though lol

and omg this ambuscade looks fun

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Thanks, just found it at the same time also. ^^

omg you guys gotta watch the live stream of them doing ambuscade it's friggin hilarious

link it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTNAsQq5dE

they wiping now though

That Sabotender running around tho... XD

I don't care about the rest. Cactrot rapido going looney toons n everyone was the best part and might be enough to convince me to do v2 for once.

So basic recap of what happened there was a huge antica doing the normal thing standing there at the beginning and then a sabotender running around the entire area even before the fight started... and then it would randomly do drive by 1000 needles lol. Big antica occasional summoned smaller ones

Also Matsui confirmed ***whm. Constantly stood in range with no dt/pdt gear or stoneskin.

shouldnt that be vol1 (beastmen?) but yea looks like it might be fun.

no one is going to be buying so many of these

DRK - Massive HP, also massive increase to Damage Taken. +36% on the NQ? you need that HP to soak up all that extra damage you're eating. it's the edge-lordiest armor set that likely will not see use outside of WS sets (Torcleaver just got even more of a boost).

PLD/WAR/DRG set likely has 1-2 pieces that might be worth using, bridging the -DT gap with accessories, and then using more DD oriented main slots while still hitting -50 DT. it's not exactly looking ground breaking here compared to Sulevia.

BLM/GEO/RDM set likely to be top tier for when you are bursting, Merlinic for nuking otherwise. it's likely going to be a lot of mathing out which pieces will manage to be better vs Merlinic with Burst augments.

THF/DNC/RUN has a couple amusing pieces (dat parry) but I don't see much Herculean getting replaced here.

here's the thing: all of these sets are attack starved. not a SINGLE piece for melee has a single point of Attack on it. not. a. one. the accuracy is likely not enough for DD to eat meat. there's some interesting tidbits here and there for specific pieces, but it's FAR from the end all that a lot of folks seem to be thinking. people are not going to be trading in many of their Reisenjima/Abjuration pieces in exchange for these.

1 Abj seal for doing 1 ambuscade per week via a new Eminence Objective.

OH sweet now instead of 1 a month we get 4... I mean I'll take it but lol if they think this will have a meaningful effect

war pld drg set has no magic evasion that I saw so it's relegated to the category of ***for -dt unless it's a static quantity like 1k needles.
Even better. I will be greatly entertained this month.

Arke set is somewhat notable in that it puts those jobs very nearly on par with RUN (sans Pflug and any meva considerations) for raw status resist rate. RUN with AF+3 legs and AF3+1 hands is just barely ahead of 5/5 Arke +1.

six. one per week for 4 weeks, one from total hallmarks, one for completing Vol 1 on any difficulty, but yeah, won't put a dent on traffic.

Mousai (BRD) armour set is Bonecraft skill. (Complete set)

more vagary mats....

Because there just weren't enough things that used those mats already.

Vagary and Delve mats. You've gotta hand it to SE; they sure know how to extend their game's lifespan with 1% effort.

No worries, those Vagary mats aren't used in any other synths anyway !

Well the Whale has a ton of hp and sometimes was taking rather reduced skillchain then sometimes increased. No adds but still took forever.

anyone know where to get "* Key Item: Tanner's argentum tome" is it new?

My guess would be it's just another key item you buy with guild points.

im at guild and nothing new

Might have to do with the next line of the Escutcheons quest line.

Agree. It won't help much since people can save the seals and spam at the congested times with everyone else.

I'm amazed that duty finder mechanics where they just give you bonus hallmark for completing 1 ambush a day via ROE is so hard to do apparently? That makes the bonus non-transferable and encourages people to do a little bit a day rather than spam on week 1 and week 4.