Abyssea Adjustments

The upcoming major version update will see the following adjustments made to Abyssea:

* New Ways to Obtain Empyrean Upgrade Items
* Empyrean +1 seals will be made obtainable via new battlefields.
* Empyrean +2 items will be made obtainable from notorious monsters in additional Abyssea areas as follows:

o Heroes of Abyssea area items will also appear in Scars of Abyssea.
o Scars of Abyssea area items will also appear in Vision of Abyssea.

* Visitant Light Status
In addition to visitant duration remaining, players will be able to inspect their active lights when healing.
　
* Notorious Monster Weaknesses
The following blue magic spells will no longer be effective against enemy weaknesses:
Death Ray / Blitzstrahl / Hecatomb Wave / 1000 Needles / Frost Breath / Firespit / Regurgitation / Seedspray

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Like the part about the +1 and +2 ***, second thing is nice, light status *** yes... but ... the weakness thing... uh ...

Looks like landing 1000 Needles won't be a problem anymore.

well will help BLU proc faster less spells to worry about.

lol yeah true, i wasn't really sure but that's what I thought lol.

I'm gonna need to read up alot on blu :x

Was just last night 1000 needles was the trigger too!

Was always a horrible idea to use that spell.Then again at least it wasnt our flash spell lol

I wonder what the point of opening up more EAF item drops really was? To maybe stop a little congestion with Empyrean Weapon conflicts? (CC, Sobek, blah blah)?

I mean, it's not like it was actually hard to begin with.

Good *** god, FFXI easy mode v2.

Nice they took some things away from BLU that made it more than a mindless aoe farm or tp > ws.

Pretty much, people were complaining about it being "hard" still.


It's not fyi.


Get off your *** and do *** (yeah I need to do that also lol >.>)

will be nice and all since now it'll be almost instant gratification to get things now, but hell... put a little hard stuff in ffs.

Any chance they are just replacing those spells with new ones? or is that one of each element?

Yeah it's one of each element. All it does it make blu cost less set points lol.

Inb4 dusk lizards drop jewels of ardor and coins of wieldance np

one spell of each element will be reduced to proc grellow

I've seen a few :/

I'm not a casual player, nor a hardcore player, but it will be a little nice to be able to at least catch up to some things that I haven't yet had the time or patience to do lol.

If anyone was complaining that ***was hard now or time consuming, they need to stop playing this game. Period. Any casual with enough skill and knowledge of this game can get a AF3 upgrade done within 2~3 hours easily. It's just idiot casuals that want ***handed to them that complain and ***.

This is how i feel. I got flamed for it in the "cry about HNMLS some more" thread but it's a valid point. I just leveled blue mage recently so I can feel challenged (sorta) learning the spells......

That's a sad day when you have to look for a challenge in a video game. I remember when Game-Genie first came out for NES. Games I had played for hours and hours before now felt broken. I would literally play 20 mins, hit reset, write over the game without using Game Genie this time. I understand that not everyone feels the same (account buyers etc) but I still want some challenge to keep me here :/

Lol I finished 1 piece of AF3 in like ... a hour :/

I just haven't really put the effort into getting the rest done (I need to though lol) cause it's either i'm at school, helping LS with something, skilling up (ugh) or just being lazy.

let's hope they adjust dynamis more that high that you will be kicked in the butt the first times. would be nice to have a challenge for a while till voidwatch.

People are killing this game with their bitching and moaning, soon exp mobs will drop seals kirin won't summon the demi gods, AV won't ever 2hr, *** man Bubbly bernie may be killable soon. Challenge is gone forever ; ;

Isn't it going to be really congested come the merge? Thats the reason I'm seeing behind this. Atleast for empyrean crap.

Didn't really think of that, but that could influence it I guess, but I still don't think it's something that needs to be done.

So much mad, if new mobs dropping stuff is so horrible just pass it all and do it the old fashioned way srsly ffxi players are the epitome of neckbeard nerdragers

Gems/Helms would still be easy even with increased server populations.

Fistule Discharge(Timed pop?)
Glavoid Shells and Chloris Buds *cringe*
Might be much more difficult with a crowded zone.

Then there is Guku/Tunga/Amun as well.

I was just thinking honestly. Trying to get my level 80 done but RL isn't going my way atm. Playtimes been limited ><

Bah 19 more Glavoid Shells to go. I need to finish this before the merge :(

ok first of all i dont c where people r getting at with some of the BLU spells not landing and stuff...cuz i'm a level 90 BLU (NOT ABYSSEA BURNED OR LEVEL SYNC BURNED) i lveled it waaaay b4 their even was a level sync and i have no problem gettin any of my BLU spells to stick when it comes to gettin magic procs with those spells so i dont know where these people gettin with cant get those spells to proc

They are just making things easier just for the sake of making it easier. 1k needles wasn't that bad provided you stop feeding the mob tp and put some macc gear/ascetics drink on. If the mob was immune, than oh well. So are many other NMs to specific elements (kurayami and threnodies to be specific.) I don't think people see the bad when all these things make the game easier. They could have at least adjusted the damn spell so it wasn't a HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE MP cost and recast/cast time.... They are too lazy and don't wanna fix that spell, so now its completely useless for most part, iconic spell that does nothing.

The lights is the best part of this update.