Relic Armor Upgrades

[Yellow Mage]

[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

*The following content is still in development. Specific details may differ from the release version.

* Relic Armor will be upgradable via Trial of the Magians.

* Two upgrade stages will be available, each offering the following augmented attributes:
o Stage 1: Item-related augments
o Stage 2: Merit point-related augments
*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.

* Upgraded armor pieces will have a higher level requirement than their base forms.

* Armor pieces upgraded to Stage 2 will be storable with the Moogle Porter service.

Cool stuff, for anybody interested.

More speculation to come later.

[Squiggs]

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That's interesting. I wonder how the merit point-related augments are going to work. That's a new way to do things, right?

[Yygdrasil]

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*Relic and Relic +1 Armor will result in the same items after upgrading. Owners of Relic +1 Armor will be rewarded with less demanding conditions for the first upgrade stage.

+1's will have less requirements than non +1's eh?

+1 Relic Upgrade: 10 Gil and 1 Merit point

NQ Relic Upgrade: Your kidney

[Taskmage]

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Random augment: Enhances effect of left kidney.

Dammit. I knew I should have given my right one.

[cidbahamut]

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It's going to be interesting to see how they manage to take the utterly worthless relic pieces, upgrade them and still manage to keep them worthless. I'm looking at you Duelist's Tights.

[Yygdrasil]

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Well... I'm just happy to have something to do with my relic pieces. At the moment I have them adorning my mannequins in my MH along with some of my useless AF1 pieces. They look pretty, but are also pretty useless.

[Taskmage]

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It's going to be interesting to see how they manage to take the utterly worthless relic pieces, upgrade them and still manage to keep them worthless. I'm looking at you Duelist's Tights.

To be fair, those were a pretty good choice at 75, when accuracy was more of a problem and before they were strictly outclassed by estoqueur's pants. Other jobs have had pieces that were never useful.

I hope the mirage set becomes useful again. With the exception of perhaps the hat, I like its aesthetic much better than the mavi.

[Yygdrasil]

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Other jobs have had pieces that were never useful

See: COR Relic

[Yellow Mage]

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Random augment

You see, in my opinion, that's the beauty of them implementing this via Trial of the Magians: no such thing as random augments. What you work for is what you get; nothing more, nothing less.

At most, all you have to worry about is a later patch wherein requirements are reduced. Given the current existence of the test server though, chances of this happening are probably not as high.

[Malacite]

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Wait, what exactly was bad about COR relic?

That was a damn good set at the time it came out.

Anyhoo, if they add any sort of further increased potency or lower the threshold for HB on the +1 Wyrm Armet I will crap my pants with joy

... more meditate on SAM gloves is probably hoping for too much.

[Taskmage]

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You see, in my opinion, that's the beauty of them implementing this via Trial of the Magians: no such thing as random augments. What you work for is what you get; nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, I know. It just wouldn't have worked with the kidney thing otherwise.

[Yellow Mage]

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Speculation: "less demanding conditions" for NQ Relic probably implies that the Stage 1 "Item" Trials will require Ancient Currency, at least for the NQ.

Merit point-related augments . . . well, that sounds all sorts of "too good to be true."

Also, in way before the demand for 99-par Artifact Armor. (Which would admittedly be pretty darn sweet if they had new storylines attached to those upgrades instead of a flavorless Magian fetch quest, but that's probably asking too much as this point in time . . .)

[cidbahamut]

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See: COR Relic

Looking pretty.

[Janay]

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See: COR Relic

Minus the feet lol...