Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

[tdh]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

LOL @

Of course it could mean that golden monkeys are going to fly out of Bahamut's ass and fling tarutaru-shaped poo at the citizens of Vana'diel. I wish this thing would hurry up and come out already so we wouldn't have to sit here analyzing each others assumptions/theories, and could just play

Since COR will be using a gun, how about them subing RNG? I wonder will COR get Treasure Hunter too. Possibly Steal. I mean they are essentially pirates. 2hr should be their ship firing cannons at the mob! That would be sweet! lol

[klvino]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

I'm not saying you think this klvino, but since I have seen it as a somewhat common misconception on these forums, I will mention it...ToA is an EXPANSION, not an update. While the items will I think have to be added as Kafeen said so that they can be used even by those without the expansion, (otherwise they wouldn't be able to appear in the AH or be sold in bazaar to anyone who didn't have ToA, that would create a lot of problems.) but the new areas and jobs WILL require the expansion to access. That being the case, I would expect the April update to be a big one.

Nah, I didn't think the entire content of Tau would be in a free update. But the update will contain item textures and details so they can be viewable and possibly usuable by individuals who do not purchase the expansion.

Area access and job access will most likely be limited to those who do get the expansion. The acquisition of the new jobs may only be possible if you're able to reach the new areas, hence the restriction of the jobs due to the area access restriction.

Since I am getting the expansion, I'm ambivalent on whether or not they allow a job to be opened by individuals who do not purchase the expansion. There's a chance they may do it, since it has been done before. Inversely as well, they may keep them strictly in the expansion, not giving anyone a cookie unless they pay for it.

[sevenpointflaw]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

Nah, I didn't think the entire content of Tau would be in a free update. But the update will contain item textures and details so they can be viewable and possibly usuable by individuals who do not purchase the expansion.

Area access and job access will most likely be limited to those who do get the expansion. The acquisition of the new jobs may only be possible if you're able to reach the new areas, hence the restriction of the jobs due to the area access restriction.

Since I am getting the expansion, I'm ambivalent on whether or not they allow a job to be opened by individuals who do not purchase the expansion. There's a chance they may do it, since it has been done before. Inversely as well, they may keep them strictly in the expansion, not giving anyone a cookie unless they pay for it.

IIRC, they already said access to the new areas won't be required to get the new jobs. The new areas are high-level content, while the jobs themselves are the low-level new content. That was my understanding at least.

[Johnny]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

LOL @

Since COR will be using a gun, how about them subing RNG? I wonder will COR get Treasure Hunter too. Possibly Steal. I mean they are essentially pirates. 2hr should be their ship firing cannons at the mob! That would be sweet! lol

This would be awesome! A little odd if you were int eh middle of Altepa thougha nd a pirate ship showed up to fire cannons. Maybe they would call their trusty parot to do something...

Corsair uses Parrot Call
Petey flies of Bahamut and poops on him
Bahamut gains the effect of Blind
Bahamut gains the effect of Virus
Bahamut gains the effect of being really pissed off

On a more serious note, another job with TH would also be a nice addition. This actualy brings up a question, does having more than one THF in a party increase the effect of TH? If not, it would be nice if Corsair did get TH, if it somehow stacked.

[sdillon]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

This would be awesome! A little odd if you were int eh middle of Altepa thougha nd a pirate ship showed up to fire cannons. Maybe they would call their trusty parot to do something...

Corsair uses Parrot Call
Petey flies of Bahamut and poops on him
Bahamut gains the effect of Blind
Bahamut gains the effect of Virus
Bahamut gains the effect of being really pissed off

LMFAOL!! I was just telling a friend this afternoon that SE should add gag animations to the Corsair job abilities and one of them should definitely be the 'call parrot to poop on mob and blind it" hahaha then I came here and see the same idea lol same wavelength

They do need some gag animations though, something that makes people laugh but nothing that can be spammed so that it becomes annoying hehe Those moblin moves like frying pan is hilarious when I first saw it, when they started spamming my taru to death it with I was like - -;;;;

[Johnny]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

LMFAOL!! I was just telling a friend this afternoon that SE should add gag animations to the Corsair job abilities and one of them should definitely be the 'call parrot to poop on mob and blind it" hahaha then I came here and see the same idea lol same wavelength

They do need some gag animations though, something that makes people laugh but nothing that can be spammed so that it becomes annoying hehe Those moblin moves like frying pan is hilarious when I first saw it, when they started spamming my taru to death it with I was like - -;;;;

They say great minds think alike...apparently disabled ones do too

As for the gag animations, that would be pretty funny...

Taru does the tarutaru dance and kicks Galka in the shin

[tdh]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

Well the cannon fire from a pirate ship make sense in Altepa. But if you're in some place like Maze of Shakrami, or Kuftal Tunnel, you couldn't use it. lol

I can just see somebody at S-E going, "Wait... they want the COR to give birth to a parrot that flies around shit'n on everything?" lol

[Johnny]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

Well the cannon fire from a pirate ship make sense in Altepa. But if you're in some place like Maze of Shakrami, or Kuftal Tunnel, you couldn't use it. lol

I can just see somebody at S-E going, "Wait... they want the COR to give birth to a parrot that flies around shit'n on everything?" lol

I doubt it would sound too strange to them...afterall, you've most likely seen some anime...there are definately some stranger things than that going on in some of the anime I've seen...

[Karinya]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

The comment about not requiring access to the high level areas probably just means you won't need the TAU equivalent of sea or sky to get the new jobs.

Like in RoZ, all you need is Kazham airship pass and you can go to Norg and get SAM and NIN quests. You can complete them without doing any ZMs or any other RoZ related quests. DRG I don't think you even need that much - it all takes place in old zones. SMN you can get without expansions, but it's not complete unless you have them (both, now). BLU would most likely be analogous to SMN - if you don't have RoZ, how are you going to learn spider web? Even if you can get the job, without fighting the right enemies you can't learn all the spells.

They already revealed that part of the main city in TAU won't be accessible right away - you will probably need to do some TAU quests or missions to get in - so the comment in that interview probably means that the NPCs for the job quests are in the public parts of the city that anyone can get to with the expansion.

[Caspian]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

I think tdh could be right about possibly subbing rng. That pick shows him using detonator, a hi lvl marksmanship ws. Could possibly only be a solo sub, but who knows. The extra accuracy could help with landing these magic bullets.

[Kafeen]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

[QUOTE=sevenpointflaw]

I tend to agree with you, honestly. But we might see something for BLU similar to SMN... can only get certain things (probably some of the better) if you have the expansion. Then again, they have said that you will not need access to the new high level areas to play BLU and COR.

I very much doubt that. If you look at the description on the website its says:

Employing the legendary arts of Aht Urhgan, these formidable fighter-mages employ elegantly curved blades for close combat, while decimating their enemies from afar with fell magic mastered from their opponents.

If anything I'd say the quest to become a Blue Mage will probably start in Aht Urhgan.

[Macht]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

[QUOTE=Kafeen]

I very much doubt that. If you look at the description on the website its says:

If anything I'd say the quest to become a Blue Mage will probably start in Aht Urhgan.

Well that is unless a traveler from Aht Urghan who is a Blue Mage starts the players off on the path to being a Blue Mage. That would mean then they could place the starting NPC anywere.

[Kaga]

Im happy... April 18th is a few days before my Birthday! But Im gonna have to say Blue Mages probably will start from Aht Urhgan.

[Karinya]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

Regarding the COR using Detonator: they would have to have pretty high marksmanship in their own right to get it, regardless of sub. (B or better to get it by 75 with no merits; even with merits, B- would be the lowest possible)

Furthermore, some WS and gear that are only available to jobs X, Y and Z now will be available to X, Y, Z and COR after TAU (and similar remarks for BLU and the other new job) - in addition to having some gear and abilities of their own, they will be added to the lists for some existing gear/abilities. It's a good bet that they will be able to use the corsair's knife and corsair's and pirate's guns, for example. Given the description of BLU using curved blades, they will probably get the scimitar family that is currently WAR/THF/DRK/SAM (and therefore not used much, since all of those jobs have better weapon options generally).

So there's no reason to believe COR would need to sub RNG to use Detonator; they might have A marksmanship with full WS access (probably relic gun, too; heck, given how far ahead SE plans, that could be the reason it's not relic xbow) and no archery and be unable to use bows and crossbows. We can't really know yet.

[Caspian]

Re: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Latest News! 01/26/06

I don't think they should necessarily sub RNG for the WS's though its possible. What I think would be a bigger help would be the Accuracy Bonus JT's that come from the RNG job, along with Sharpshot and the GODLY Scavenge.