Well isn't .DAT Special? (3/22 Mining Results)Follow

Holy christ they aim to deliver this update.

Best name for a gun outside of Army of Darkness

So, apparently quest text being found elsewhere for Trial of Magian quests is making it sound like you can't just upgrade anything through it, that you might be limited in selection to all those new weapons being found. If that turns out to be the case, all I have to say is what the hell? Haven't they been saying that part of the point of the magian quests is to keep current gear competitive through the grind up to 99? I'm hoping this assumption is just a misunderstanding of the dialog.

Added Shadowlord Campaign OP

They said it would be possible to upgrade relics, so yeah they did.

Summoner gear seem lacking as always. But the mini expansions update should hopefully at least make getting pet items better and easier so the update is still good. (Well to be exact, it is better than any other update except the Austere gear update)

I'm glad SE still has some humor left atleast XD
The perfect thing to shout out bashing someone's face in.

GIMMIE DAT

Yeah, sucks rdm can't use it though, especially since /sch will be the default sub now (as if it wasn't already...).

For my fellow thieves



Could potentially overtake Blau if it augments nicely or whatever the story is.

More likely a part of the Magian system. Kind of curious how that is going to work. I mean, just considering that there are four five versions of each blank weapon: Makes it appear that only certain upgrade lines will be available per weapon per type. Like I said, pure speculation, but a D:89 Delay:504 weapon that occasionally attacks two to four times is pretty substantial, and doesn't really mesh with eight years of SE gear philosophy. Probably the lower the base damage, the more potent augment available so it roughly balances out. If not, why the hell would you even consider the D:44 one over the D:89?

It'd certainly be nice if you could upgrade however you want, but there is always a catch.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2010 3:30pm by lolgaxe

That's all true I suppose, guess I was just hoping to even be able to do little things to start with this time around.

Armada hauberk RareExclusive
[Body] All Races
DEF: 54 STR +11 DEX +11 Accuracy +16
Attack +16 Evasion -11
Lv. 73 WAR / DRK / BST

I have to disagree. Even the NQ Adaman Hauberk is still pretty sweet. The Nocturnus Mail has no +Attack other than what you get from the 10STR, and less accuracy. I'm not a math expert so I don't know if the 1% Triple Attack makes up for it but my gut instinct tells me it does not. Being able to hit harder and more often on each attack with the added acc and attack on adaberk feels more worth it than having a chance to Triple Attack once in 100 swings.

Nocturnus Mail IS however a great piece for non Adaberk jobs, as well as an Osode replacement piece for weaponskills on SAM, and WAR on Steel Cyclone, and Drakesbane on DRG. Its also definitely a sexy option/alternative for using on PLD if you don't have homam body, or you don't like the -evasion on Haubergeon, or if you don't have an Ares Cuirass.



I wouldn't worry so much about your Haub+1 being obsolete. Granted that the Nocturnus set is most likely the reward from fighting the Shadowlord in the past via the new Campaign Ops, access to it will be very limited and incredibly difficult to obtain if they're accessed in the same was as existing nation campaign ops like Splitting Heirs, etc. I wager its going to take a lot of work to gain control of Beau/Xarc/Castle Zvahl/Zvahl Keep for a nation to even have a chance at obtaining the Nocturnus set.