Just Saw The News Flash About Update Info

And I ....jizzed in my pants.... lol

Ok but seriously how awesome is that? Empyreal WSs to go with the new weapons? Awesome... Armor Trials? Awesome again.... Magian Specs now giving you a 2 day weather forecast? SCORE!!!!! Discuss. :P

Weather glasses are amazing and anyone that has ever camped KV is cursing SE right now..

But*** worthy? I dont know..I'm not sold yet..as soon as I learn I can ToTM my Homam Legs, Adaberk and Byakko's Hiadate then yes I might join you in ClubJizz.

It's a teaser. We'll see how great it is when it's actually released. Remember how excited people were over FoV augments being announced? Yeah, we all know how well that turned out...

This isn't***-pants worthy yet, otherwise that's premature ejaculation.

I'm working on Masamune and Verethragna, and I want to see what new WSs will come of them...I'm 4 trials from completing each (Damn lack of VNM help lol). I'm sure the WSs will be pretty sick.

edit: lol Tool and hell I've gotten a REALLY REALLY nice FoV augment and I saw one that made me soil my shorts lol (was a flame ring with dex+2 vit-3 agi-3 acc+5)

I'd rather see them update other gear than Kings stuff which is usually under a monopoly on most servers. Would be a good way to finally kill ancient content.

Which clearly the OP suffers from..

LOL....I love the posters on these forums..so damn funny +1 internets for you sir lol

You were extremely lucky then, most FoV augments look like this.

lol hey thats my submitted screen shot of a guy i saw on my server!!! LOL


edit: my really nice augment was a flame ring with +3 racc on it which may not sound like much but its pretty damn nice for rng or sam/rng or cor slug build, and i saw a flame ring with +7 racc as well which is just @_@

edit2: also i REALLY hope they raise the limit of 5 trials to more considering how armor sets run 5 pieces....maybe more if they include accessories..

Well you dont have anything to worry about then... please see below.

Taken from spoiler:
Introduction of Armor Trials
To this point, Trial of the Magians has focused on the enhancement of weapons. New trials to be introduced in the coming version update, however, will be centered on a new series of armor that will be obtainable in Abyssea. A unique set will exist for each job, and when augmented through trials, their powers will truly be a sight to behold!

Too bad it's nigh impossible to get the level 80 weapons, let alone the level 90 ones. We already know that we won't get to use those weapon skills, you heard it here first. Seriously who has the level 80 ones right now ? Noone. See you at level 99 when you finally can farm the level 90 weapons.

LOL Seriously, who pissed in your cereal Pimpchan? All I ever see you post on these forums is QQing about how badly this game is dead or how old armor is absolute garbage now (which isn't always the case)... Do you need a hug? lol

you got the level 80 empyreal ?

To this point, Trial of the Magians has focused on the enhancement of weapons. New trials to be introduced in the coming version update, however, will be centered on a new series of armor that will be obtainable in Abyssea. A unique set will exist for each job, and when augmented through trials, their powers will truly be a sight to behold!



THAT just screams ! lol good luck getting this and the augments!

Yea, remember when synergy + Evolith's were released, and how popular they caught on? Yah? Me either. I feel it's just going to be like that.

basically yeh!




(oh and will this constitute AF3?) seeing how its EACH job specific?

pls god no

Regular AF armour is lv.50-60, relic armour is Lv.70-75, and I reckon the new augmentable sets will be the new equivalent of these sets for Lv.80-90. There's already a screenshot on the Scars of Abyssea site of a RDM wearing what looks like a new style of pimp hat (one that's completely red in colour, rather than red & black), and the fact they say that there will be one set for each job seems to scream AF3 to me.

As for what the augments are, who knows. At the moment I'm thinking they'll be something along the lines of the relic weapon trials (although far less grueling), where you simply upgrade the gear to a higher level and its stats get boosted as a result. This would allow a Lv.80-90 set to get upgraded for use from Lv.90-99, which seems fitting for something such as AF3 armour.

Maybe it will be better than that though, and we'll get to customise what bonuses our AF3 sets give us. Instead of relegating the armour pieces that 'define your job' to use in a gear swap macro for a few brief seconds (looking at you, Temple Gaiters and Temple Crown), maybe we'll get to decide from a list of possible augments to the base piece so we get exactly what we want.

RDMs with +25% Fastcast, THFs with Treasure Hunter 6, SAMs with enough Store TP to achieve 4 or 3 hit builds, a DRG helmet that combines "Wyvern uses breaths more effectively" with "enhances Wyvern's breath"... I could go on for a while listing all the stuff that might appear as part of these augments. Of course I'm probably being unrealistic with some of them, but then again I don't think anybody expected NIN to lose their monopoly on dual-wield last time. SE are a bunch of crazy mo-fos, so god knows what they'll end up doing.

I find ToTM taking a downward turn now, all SE's hype of augment your "Favorite" weapons and armor translated into none of your favorite weapons and armor only stuff in the chest.