"A Crystalline Prophecy" Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/2009

[Durahansolo]

Re: "A Crystalline Prophecy" Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

I can't remember if it was with ToAU or WotG, but the registration server was slammed with everyone trying to register the new content ID when the expansion launched. If you want to dig into the new content right after it launches, buying it now and thus registering the ID ahead of time might be a good idea.

I remember when that happened with WotG. I might pre-order just so that I won't get caught up in that connection melee again.

[Raydeus]

Re: "A Crystalline Prophecy" Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

lolRDM coat. Would it kill SE to give RDM access to decent (mission/quest) melee gear once in a while (I'm looking at you Mirke )

Good thing I'm just getting the scenarios for the story or I'd be pissed. <_<

[hexx]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Wow this looks pretty darn good, im proud of you so far SE ^_^

[Armando]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

lolRDM coat. Would it kill SE to give RDM access to decent (mission/quest) melee gear once in a while (I'm looking at you Mirke )

Good thing I'm just getting the scenarios for the story or I'd be pissed. <_<

You can turn it into a Haub. What more do you want?

[Aksannyi]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Was considering that, lol. Reverend Mail is awesome but it's only one job, and it has -MND and -MP. Though that mage piece is kinda ugly looking. ><

[Raydeus]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

You can turn it into a Haub. What more do you want?

Ahhh, I didn't notice Haub had INT, MND and CHR stats. My bad.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Helps to drop the jaded act so your "bad" doesn't get in the way of you seeing things correctly.

Somehow knew the mage piece wouldn't top SCH body, but I guess I'll be going for the melee piece instead on both characters. Pity they couldn't give BST the Sandorian armor.

[Raydeus]

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Just to clarify when I said "I'm looking at you Mirke" I meant it would've been nice to get that one instead. Not like any explanation would be enough to pull you out of crazyland, but just for the sake of clarity.

[nanatsu]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Just to clarify when I said "I'm looking at you Mirke" I meant it would've been nice to get that one instead. Not like any explanation would be enough to pull you out of crazyland, but just for the sake of clarity.

I think the point everyone is making is that you can add 10 acc and 10 attack to it, which is pretty much what every melee is going to do anyway. 10 acc and 10 atk is fairly close. If anything it basically turns the mage piece into a great melee piece for whichever mage desires it, including rdm. So of course, you complaining about it is raising a few eyebrows.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Sorry, its not working. RDM got melee gear, hell, RDM had melee body well before this.

If you want something close to Mirke, RDM already has access to it, its called the Paluwhan set.

[Raydeus]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

I think the point everyone is making is that you can add 10 acc and 10 attack to it, which is pretty much what every melee is going to do anyway. 10 acc and 10 atk is fairly close. If anything it basically turns the mage piece into a great melee piece for whichever mage desires it, including rdm. So of course, you complaining about it is raising a few eyebrows.

Sadly no, they simply didn't bother to understand my post. And are over sensitive about anyone saying anything that isn't a praise about SE's way of doing things.

Sorry, its not working. RDM got melee gear, hell, RDM had melee body well before this.

If you want something close to Mirke, RDM already has access to it, its called the Paluwhan set.

Let's reschedule this conversation for when you learn to understand what other people are saying. Say... 50 years from now?

[Karinya]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

They are mission rewards and you can only have one item at a time. If you want to change it you have to toss and re-do the final fight. Just like the AN and DM earrings. It's a screwing over people with more than one job, which is most of them issue.

FTFY. Not to take away from the coolness of this system, but seriously, SE does a census every freaking year. How hard is it for them to figure out that people play more than one job on the same character? It's what they designed the game to do. And they keep slapping people in the face for it.

BTW: all those "light armor" melee jobs that can't wear hauby (drg, thf, mnk, blu, etc.) can make one now.

Although, seriously, I'm not sure that would be the best option. Most of those jobs can wear, say, AJ, so it might be better to make your custom piece into a pure TP piece and swap in AJ for WS (or conversely, if you have something like Homam, TP in that and make your custom piece a pure WS piece). Hauby is a nice all-around piece, but when you can literally design almost from scratch for a specific purpose, you can probably do better.

Disappointed but not really surprised to not see 1/tick refresh on the list. That would have been crazy awesome for all kinds of people even if the overall stats still fell well short of Ares/Morrigan, but it's a plot reward that doesn't cost a zillion gil, so it can't be that awesome.

I might get it anyway, I dunno. Storyline fights are usually fun and cool anyway, a nice diversion from leveling or repeating the same endgame content over and over.

[Armando]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

Although, seriously, I'm not sure that would be the best option. Most of those jobs can wear, say, AJ, so it might be better to make your custom piece into a pure TP piece and swap in AJ for WS (or conversely, if you have something like Homam, TP in that and make your custom piece a pure WS piece). Hauby is a nice all-around piece, but when you can literally design almost from scratch for a specific purpose, you can probably do better.

Eh...

When your other options are DA+2%, Store TP+4, Crit+3%, or DW Enhancement+3%, the logical choice for jobs without Haub is the 10 Acc and Attack. The DW Enhancement only really makes a whole lot of sense for NINs and maybe THFs, I don't feel like figuring out how much faster they could potentially get TP. The Crit% is a waste compared to DA%, but I'm not entirely sold on 2% DA over 10 Attack. The Store TP+4 is only appealing to people without Rajas Ring and maybe SAMs; I highly doubt the extra 4 STP really does anything for DDs that already have Rajas + Potent + Chivalrous Chain. Store TP +7 is almost always enough to make the jump to the next tier of "X hits to 100 TP" for two-handers.

[LilithAngel]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

I'm pretty much going to have to go with Enmity+5 and Fast Cast +5% for a PLD piece. My DRG won't benefit much from anything there (sporting Askar, so kinda pointless), and it would only be a change of models for my SAM (who will, again, be sporting Askar).

The other options are to make a solid BLU melee piece (Acc+10 and Crit Rate or Fast Cast), or a good Quick Draw piece (QD delay-5 and MAB+4). I could also make myself a DNC Haub, and if by some wild chance I happen to come across the relic body, then I can swap it out for one of the aforementioned other builds.

The only other option is to make a body for my SCH, but there's just not much there for it. Oh well, I'm on PLD more than anything, and I've been needing a good upgrade in the body slot for a long time now, and this'll be a great one here.

[Taskmage]

Re: &quot;A Crystalline Prophecy&quot; Advance Orders Begin and Item Details Announced! (03/23/

After augments this stuff looks pretty good stat-wise, but why does it have to be so butt ugly? The waldecors is probably the best looking of the bunch and that's just because it isn't horribly gaudy. Where are the artists who made homam? They need to bring those guys back for an inning.