Trust Ciphers!

Added it to her WS in the OP, as for Zeid, I assume Abyssal Drain is basically Sang Blade for Great Sword? Any idea what Abyssal Strike is? Just Physical/Dark DMG or~?

Edit III: also player AoE buffs will affect them. RUN Valiance and DNC Chocobo Jig II will land but pet abilities like Garuda's Fleet Wind will not.

Trust NPCs cannot currently receive:
AoE Blood Pacts and Avatar’s Favor cannot be applied to Trust NPCs
Trust NPCs receive no effects from dancer’s Samba
Job bonuses from corsair’s Phantom Roll are not applied to Trust NPCs. *Phantom Roll itself will work, however.
Automatons will not cure or do things to Trust NPCs
Trust NPCs cannot be targeted for Healing Breath
Wild Carrot cannot heal Trust NPCs
Geomancy effects are not applied to NPCs

least let us do light/darkness SC... not crappy SC LV1..

We can o.o. KCC is part of Light as is Ground Strike I believe.

to be honest.. I found them useless... even the Healing Automaton is "smart" than Kupipi-_-... how hard was just to copy that AI...

IF they can hit mobs in Kahmir.. they have to be @ least 99 with some ilvl.. 110?... why the hell they cant use Merited WS?... lvl 65 and lower WS... @ least let us do light/darkness SC... not crappy SC LV1..

Even my FellowNPC 95 is more useful Healer/DD wise ~.~...

What would be neat is if they expand on the system by offering quests to help npcs learn new abilities.

King Cobra Clamp to Shattersoul also does Darkness. so theres that.

From what I have heard thus far Upheaval, Stardiver, and now Shattersoul all Skillchain with KCC. With this info can we determine the properties of her WS or at least narrow it down?

Greetings,

As you've mentioned there are certain effects that Trust NPCs cannot currently receive:

•AoE Blood Pacts and Avatar’s Favor cannot be applied to Trust NPCs

•Trust NPCs receive no effects from dancer’s Samba

•Job bonuses from corsair’s Phantom Roll are not applied to Trust NPCs. *Phantom Roll itself will work, however.

•Automatons will not cure or do things to Trust NPCs

•Trust NPCs cannot be targeted for Healing Breath

•Wild Carrot cannot heal Trust NPCs

•Geomancy effects are not applied to NPCs

We will be working on adjustments for these and in February we will be making large adjustments to the Trust Initiative, which includes NPC AI. Among the NPCs, we will be looking into the feedback that is difficult for Curilla to keep hate.

Additionally, we are looking into a specialized command so that <stnpc> does not target other players' Trust NPCs. However, I cannot give a specific date for implementation at this time.

The best setup for healing Kupipi, Excenmille and Curilla. Those three you will be able to get around 30 merits (while double xp is up and RoE) in Kamihr on rabbits + raez in roughly 30 mins~ on Samurai. Usually can get up to chain 8 around I-11 J10.

Some options are still open.

Possible answers.
Fragmentation/Distortion/Light/Darkness

Some one will need to see if you can link it with a Fragmentation or Distortion type WS to see how the combo works.

Looks like it will be like an Empy/Relic WS though.

Most likely though its Fragmentation/Darkness since if Distortion KCC > Wheeling would likely end up being Fusion.

We’ll be making adjustments to tank NPCs to improve their behavior and increase their damage output so that they can gain more enmity and thus better hold the target's attention. We’ll also be increasing the damage output of damage dealing NPCs.

There is also a bug with Curilla and Excenmille where they cure themselves too frequently trying to gain enmity, and we’ll be fixing their AI as well as making other NPC AI improvements in the next version update.

In the future we will be making it so even when you are not in battle the NPCs will use enhancing magic and healing magic.

The weapon skills used by each Trust NPC are pre-determined. We’ve been looking into adjustments so that they use weapon skills that fit the level they are, but there are cases where the optimal weapon skills change depending on the monster and conditions, so giving consideration for skill chain elements, we made all of them use the same weapon skills. However, we’d like to continue to look into the weapon skills used by Trust NPCs further.

We were thinking really hard about the conditions for beginning battles with Trust NPCs.

We had looked into the same system as avatars, but we thought there would be some negatives associated with the system if they automatically started attacking aggressive monsters that aggroed you. We’d like to continue to look into the conditions for beginning battles a bit more.

Nanaa Mihgo has Treasure Hunter I. The Treasure Hunter for Trust NPCs works the same was as that of pets.

In regards to dual wield, as we need to create these animations from scratch and it would take just as long as adding a totally new NPC, it’s a bit difficult for us to address this at the moment. We’d first like to prioritize adding new Trust NPCs.

We’ve confirmed a bug where NPCs do not move when using waypoints or survival skills. I apologize for the inconvenience, but we are currently working on a fix.

We are looking into separating it into an individual category in a future version update.

We would like to make it possible to summon Trust NPCs while in a party in the future.

We’ll continue to improve NPC AI, increase the content and areas in which Trust NPCs can be summoned, and make other adjustments to the system, so we’d love it if you keep giving your feedback.

In regards to dual wield, as we need to create these animations from scratch and it would take just as long as adding a totally new NPC, it’s a bit difficult for us to address this at the moment. We’d first like to prioritize adding new Trust NPCs.

They have bascially all the assets they need already to do this...

1. There are animations in place for a mithra dual-wielding daggers, the ONLY acception is Nanaa's special move, King Cobra Clamp.

2. Nanaa's face is not unique, which goes along with point 1, there are animations for her mithra model with her face dual-wielding daggers.

3. Her armor model appears to be the same as a normal doublet, only the texture appears to be unique. I may have to look at it again to be sure.

They should be able to do this with minimal effort, as far as I can tell. The only two snags, which are small, are getting a dual-wield animation on KCC, and reassigning her body armor textures to an identical mithra model (with the same face and hair) that is dual-wielding daggers.