July 2020 Version Update

So Priwen's DEF stat got doubled from 65 to 130......wow

https://www.ffxiah.com/item/17738/hauteclaire

That is a not insignificant bump, every ilevel shield DEF is doubled

*Some aren't, some only jumped by 1 def, looks like it might be anything 119 is double

My "wow" was more like......neutral wow, if you know what I mean. Slightly underwhelmed "wow".

Glad i got the 2nd all world Srivatsa back in the day. Srivatsa all of a sudden 150 defense. I prefer it to Ochain on anything 140+ anyways with some of my 'block' sets.

I'm gonna run some reprisal testing, unless Martel beats me to it, which he probably will. He maths better than I do anyways lol

Priwen with 130 def should be... dmg -121% on block. Waaay over capped. So any block should = 0 dmg taken regardless of how hard something is hitting you.

I mean, assuming there's not a lower cap on this.

Srivatsa now has 150 def.. <,<;

They doubled the DEF values of most (all?) ilevel 119 shield.
Since they were there they could've adjusted Srivatsa too... Kinda of a lame shield considering it's part of the RMEA series.
Not sure what they could've done to Srivatsa to make it useful.
Meva+100?
Turn the DT into DT2?
I dunno whatever, but in its current stat it still feels a bit lame for what should be a "rare" equipment.

Priwen looks interesting now.
Already was better than Ochain with Reprisal up. Is Priwen the best PLD shield for physical damage now?

I wonder though, when do you ever feel like PLD needed more physical damage reduction these days?

^

Pld never had trouble staying alive. While its a neat little addition, they should have added new unique stuff and not this. Hopefully there's more coming.

It's usefull jsut ochain destroys it up to 135, with enough shield skill they are comparable at 140 (ochain ahead in block rate but Sri does other things), 145 plus i always use srivatsa (when aegis is not needed). Besides if u ain't taking zeros on PLD with physical dmg, you should probably be on RUN.

My ochain sits in satchel 90% of the time, CBA to carry it for trash mobs or weak ***NMs. 7jobs rip inventory

Is the addition of Crit Hit rate on the Triska Scythe / +1 significant for DRK possibly? Or nah, not really?

They didn't just "add" crit. They changed Crit Damage with Crit Rate (with higher values)

with the buff to reprisal & the def increase making shield blocks be 0 dmg reprisal might be pld's version of battuta, minus turms hands.

Divine Emblem giving access to AoE flash would have been nice....

You don't have to cape for SE. They purposely omitted BLU from it, lol. That's the final answer. Just like they did GEO from Raetic Kris /+1. Sometimes they do weird stuff like that and it has little to do with lore or weapon style and it was simply an oversight. They go back and add jobs to certain weapons, but Sometimes miss ones.

Example
Rune fencer can use axes
Rune axe they added rune fencer to it
Raetic axe has rune fencer on it

Geomancer can use Kris and small size type daggers worn by other mage jobs (black mage, summoner). Literally all of them
Rune Kris they did not add Geomancer to the original base weapon
Raetic Kris does not have Geomancer on it, but summoner and black mage are on it >.>
Geomancer has higher dagger skill than summoner and same skill as black mage

Doesn't matter. They just ignored GEO for raetic dagger because they did. Nothing to do with weapon style or overpowering anything. Just a miss

Nope. Has both stats now, even in the patch notes. HQ = Crit Dmg+6% Crit Rate+10%

I see both Crit Hit rate (added) with Crit Damage still the same value.

What is this supposed to show lex?

That they retroactively added run to haut, while ignoring other jobs on other pieces retroactively

(which you already knew)

no, it was added. Crit damage got pushed to the 4th line.

So.. Are the augs mine-able or do we need to wait til we can login and check the NPC? <,<

They added RUN to the original item aka u are right (however they did not add RUn to the bloodsword) Before Lumber Jill came out.

tl;dr they hated on BLU when hey released Lumber Kill and purposely left them off Sangarius

The latter Nyarlko, the latter Q_Q

So, Adapa Shield has a "Physical Damage: Reprisal" stat on it. With tonight's update, what happens with this Shield other than it's DEF stat getting doubled?

Crap. I was afraid of that.. bedtime for me then. :(

Also possibly notable, but looks like Passion Jacket changed from "Waltz received" to just "Waltz". Might be nice when /dnc I guess?
I don't DNC/ so no idea if that is a good thing for dancers or not.

They didn't change it, they merely corrected the text. Was translated incorrectly to be received.

Speaking of damage reduction... and shields... this could open up Blurred+1 could be more viable for lolddPLD (and not dropping your pants in the process) ,,, and WAR fencer could get a bit more interesting in terms of a pure/defensive tank mode

Probably nothing since no stats other than DEF appears to have been changed on any shields.