[Dev 1141 — 1148] Testing In Progress

[dev1147] Various Effect Area Recognition Adjustments and [dev1148] Geomancy Special Effects Adjustments are my favorites.

Built in distance plugin (sort of), and you can actually see through the auras now.

the GEO aura change is nice. can still see visual feedback of the spell, but can see things OTHER THAN the visual feedback of the spell now, too!

Oh snap! Thief so broken now!

Instead of that target distance nonsense why not implement an official distance plugin >.>

PS2 limitations? :<

The color cursors will be good for telling if mobs around a target will be hit with the current AoE spell/ja/WS.

nice casting time adjustment for lower tier nukes.

Hay guys can I cast Thunder III on my drk now cause its faster?

Um, the 1-handed and ranged adjustments weren't already implemented? This is great news, so MNK is going to be even stronger, or am I missing something?

Don't know if this was meant for a joke or not but didn't SE say they've stopped the support of PS2?

Not in Japan, they didn't.

Must be a hard life in japan when all you have is a ps2 :(

quick lets get a windower plugin that does this before se can add it!

They dropped support for PS2 only in NA, it would cost too much to continue support for NA PS2.

The survey they had us take about 2 years ago was for this very reason.

All that purple text on the main page. I was hoping one of them was a REM update

I think they are actually adding it to all mobs in range not just to the target mob :<

Important to note there are no REM stat changes here... or are they just going to push those changes to live with no testing(balancing)?

R/M/E/C adjusting is still ongoing, and won't be ready for the test server for some time.

I didn't thing they were adjusting Coin weapons, just making them capable of unlocking their WS.

I have noticed with the spell casting time and recast. It affects helix spells as well.

Makes it much easier to solo SC. No more 8 seconds for luminhelix.

Or fire 1 thunder 1 = fusion. This should make kurma easier

This... this is pretty game changing from what I can tell.

Let me think a min, so they are giving the one-handed weapons the same bonus that 2-h has had for a while. I cant imagine jobs like thf and bst after this.

Of course, ranged weapons have enjoyed a nice pdif, and this atk-acc boost will be pretty big!

For blm (didn't see whm in there), looks like the main utility is directed at weaker spells. Ok for jobs like drk, but you need a int+ build to really benifit. Leveling a DD mage will be 'funner'.

I doubt around 30-50 attack/accuracy (depending on your gear) will be game-breaking for one-handers or even make them competitive. Don't get me wrong, it's nice, but one-handers are still pretty behind two-handers in the appropriate situations (Big buffs so DW loses value).

Also it seems that they decided the boost to attack only applies to mainhand, dunno how that'll affect WS damage- gonna guess you'll get the attack boost on all the "normal" hits of the WS and only the reduce attack for the one offhand hit, but who knows.

Kinda disappointed they didn't decide to change the MP costs of spells other than Stone a bit. INT+100 isn't really a rare situation, so you're going to end up with Stone V costing half the amount of Thunder V for like 100 less damage. All it's going to do is make people shift from spamming Ice/Thunder to spamming Stone spells.


I think it's just for the target mob (It says PC VS target and not target VS other targets)- I think it's just to tell you if pressing confirm will bring up the "too far" error for the spell you're using.

If they made the game show up multiple arrows for AoE spells I'll be very impressed though.

All I can say about these adjustments is WOW.

Other than I need to study them before the LS run tomorrow.