May 2023 Version Update (Part 1)

The word "Afterglow" is missing in the descriptions for i119 III stage.

I hope the name for the Katana WS is a mistranslation. I can’t have a list of WSs called “Blade:” and then a random Jijin Kaimetsu at the end.

That's intentional, it randomly picks another WS to use and just applies the Prime weapons SC property :troll:

I bet my Daurdabla it's the exact same mechanic as Eikondrites. Random chance of getting the requisite stone from any blue/red/gold objective if you have a prime on that stage in your inventory.

Maybe Amnion kill / Voracious Psyche also required for the final upgrade.

Oh my. Fujito be firing someone this week.

So does COR get Scavenge now? Or does every COR have to lvl a RNG just to get the Prime Bullets?

emergency maint inc.

I just spent a month getting my relics, empys, aeonics done and only for this update to pretty much make them all obsolete lol.
feels good to be back in XI, nothing's changed

PURPLE SUPREMACY RISEEE

Yah that was in my thoughts too... I'm assuming it could be translation error instead of dispenses turned into scavenge.

Can confirm 3 gobbie keys completed the top one and gave expected reward lol

That would definitely make a whole lot more sense

1 down. 3 to go. Someone has to go and beat every single high tier battlefield, lol.

It's shadowlord. Chocobo race and do a woe.

It's always the same top 3 and a random htb

I thought of this as well but refrained from mentioning it earlier. The thing about scavenge is it's level 10, so a cor could just level ranger to 10, then go out to any normal zone with ranger as their sub job to gain access to them. Even if they never played ranger in their life that's really not that big of a deal.

The bigger issue I have is "how many of them are we able to scavenge at a time". If they only give a small handful per scavenge attempt you'll just end up with people running scavenge bots overnight while they sleep to build up a decent stockpile. That's hardly the type of design mechanic you'd want to encourage players to engage in, and quite frankly seems pretty stupid.

So yeah, I'm also hoping it's just a mistranslation of "dispense". It seems kind of dumb for corsairs to not be able to get the bullets natively without having to jump through hoops like that...but this is s-e we're dealing with here. It probably is scavenge...and it probably works just like I suspect. I really hope I'm wrong though.

Last I checked Expacion can't SC worth a damn, and these seem to be similar to Aeonics in that they favor multi-step SCs.

Sword's usefulness will depend entirely on how strong Imperator is. If it's half decent then Imperator -> Imperator -> Savage Blade -> CDC would be a strong four step double light. Doing the same thing for BLU that Excal does for RDM. I don't think anything is ever going to beat Tizona/Thibron for pure WS spamming on BLU, same with Naegling/Thibron for RDM.

The DT / refresh is ... interesting, I'd have to check but maybe lets us drop an accessory in our TP set and maintain defense. The refresh is obviously to makeup for not having infinite MP from Tiz.

I wouldn't get too ahead of ourselves here, the only thing that is flat out obsolete is Ochain and that happened months ago with the base Duban. Possibly BRD instruments, you'd need to fully complete it to get full potency out of the PDL song, but otherwise having the other rea instruments is giving you the same or better.

There is a lot we still don't know, like completion requirements/time aside from a 6 month estimate and the potency of the aftermath effects. Aside from properties, we don't know much about the weaponskills either, they could be hot garbage for all we know. If they are, then a lot of these weapons won't be very useful. Some look promising, but I wouldn't go into obsolete territory based on what we know now except for Ochain.

Ya I dont think se over here thinking cor subs rng lol. Can't imagine it wouldn't be on the weapon itself like you said I think it maybe wrong translation.

What is dissolution? New SC property?

Yeah the usefulness will depend largely on if the WS's are worth using in a multi-step SC. It's obvious they intend for these to make SC's or they wouldn't of built them all to be so easy to link with. Currently Sword and Great Sword are terrible at multi-steping while Great Katana, Great Axe and Scythe are amazing at it. The rest fall somewhere between the two. I'd be happy as long as these offer ways to get more creative with SC's.

Looks like one of them is watch a Chocobo race. If anyone knows the other two, that would be cool to know. Thanks.

You are all colour blind.

It's violet-pink.

Sword is also the only listed Prime Weapon with Atk +70. If the theme is get to PDL, then at least it has that going for it. BLU could be very useful, RDM/PLD maybe less so without some serious hand holding.

The bullet and arrow stack size is 1 and it's rare ex, so I guess the scavenge thing makes sense

Not sure about PLD, RDM is already pretty strong in places where it does melee, typically low man team doing random stuff. Basically anywhere you'd be doing Excal. Not sure anything would put RDM into a premium DD slot though.

RIP cor but hey unlimited shot is back baby

Unlimited Shot will never be back, because that would require it to have been here in the first place. Nothing SE could release would ever equate to the dps increase from Double Shot.

Are the new WSs the same animation as old Relics with new names, or also new animations?