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[dev1261] Alter Ego Adjustments
It will be possible to summon alter egos in the following content.
Walk of Echoes
Wanted battles
It will be possible to summon alter egos in the following mission battlefields.
Wings of the Goddess missions
When Wills Collide / Maiden of the Dusk
It will be possible to summon alter egos for the following quest battlefields.
Wings of the Goddess quests
Champion of the Dawn / The Dawn Also Rises / A Forbidden Reunion
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Since dusk-type stones were just implemented, we'd like players to do alluvion skirmishes to obtain them, so there are no plans to add the ability to trade other items for these stones at the moment.

However, we'll look into increasing the amount in circulation and the means of obtaining them in some way in a future version update.

[dev1262] Mog Garden Adjustments
Monster Rearing will undergo the following adjustments.
A monster's mood will no longer degrade from "beaming with pure contentment" after collecting items or interacting with the monster.
The collective moods of all creatures will generate auras of light or darkness that affects them all.
Light
When the number of creatures beaming with pure contentment is greater than that succumbing to darkness, all creatures’ contentment and mood are increased.
Darkness
When the number of creatures succumbing to darkness is greater than that beaming with pure contentment, all monsters' contentment and mood are decreased.
The following information will be displayed when entering your Mog Garden.
The number of days left on assistants’ contracts.
The current affinity of the Mog Garden.
Mog garden gathering points will undergo the following adjustments.
It will be possible to scrap any unwanted flotsam directly without receiving it in cases where the player’s inventory is full or he is otherwise unable to recover it.

This is something that is difficult for us to address at the moment as we would have to send data each time you open the menu to see which tier you currently have. We're concerned about this largely affecting UI response time.

Similarly the same holds true for saving the data client-side as well. Since all of the trait data for this would have to be saved, it would consume large amounts of memory, which also makes this feature difficult to implement.

prepare for a massive lag every fight.

The development team has confirmed an issue where players are not receiving bonus bayld in reives other than Wildskeeper Reives. They are reviewing the current state of the campaign and making necessary adjustments for future campaigns.

Due to preexisting schedules, the dev. team won’t be able to address this issue before the bonus bayld campaign ends, but they are planning to have this issue addressed by the next campaign.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you, and ask that you wait patiently for the next bonus bayld campaign.

こんにちは。

仰るとおり、スナップショットの上限を皆さんが調べるのは簡単ではないと思いますので、
開発チームに確認してきました。

[スナップショットの上限は、魔法／アビリティ／装備特典など、すべての要素を合算して70が上限です。
狩人の特性「ラピッドショット」は、スナップショットの上限とは別に計算されます。
とのことでした。]

この数値を基準に最適な装備の組み合わせを探していただければ幸いです。

Hail, adventurers! Matsui here with an update for you.

I would like to inform you that, based on your feedback, we have begun to consider balance adjustments for melee jobs, specifically the thief and samurai, in the March version update.

We are currently looking at adjusting balance in the following two ways:

The addition of a new spell known as “Ardor”
The adjustment of certain dagger weapon skills
I would like to share with you the thought process behind these adjustments.
The addition of Ardor
In our preview of job adjustments several days prior, we made mention of a new magic spell known as “Ardor.” We elected to add this spell in order to decrease the gaps in damage dealt between the various melee jobs.

As noted in that topic, Ardor increases skillchain damage based on the number of successful melee hits up until the time the weapon skill is activated.

Jobs that often go for long periods of time without using weapon skills will receive stronger bonuses, thereby decreasing the damage gap that currently exists.
The adjustment of certain dagger weapon skills
One topic keeps popping up where we hear players discussing the thief: skillchain damage when using the weapon skills Sneak Attack and Trick Attack

These skills are particularly effective in content such as Wanted battles, where it‘s possible for thieves to accumulate TP in advance and when combat ends in a short period of time, but we believe that this is one of the job’s strengths.

Not all content enables players to accumulate TP in advance the way Wanted battles do, and other melee classes are competitive with thieves in extended combat scenarios.

As such, we wish to avoid adjusting Sneak Attack and Trick Attack, as doing so would be tantamount to destroying part of the thief job’s identity.

However, in its current state thief damage output is on par with or even surpasses that of other melee jobs even in long duration combat, and upon looking at melee jobs as a whole, we cannot deny that thieves are located at the top of the charts in a wide variety of content.

Ardor has an incredibly strong synergy with thieves, who autoattack quite frequently, and thus we expect that their skillchain damage would increase to numbers even higher than they currently are. As such, we believe it necessary to somewhat reduce the potency or certain dagger weaponskills in order to maintain balance with other jobs.

We are currently considering adjusting the following four weaponskills.

Shark Bite
Mercy Stroke
Mandalic Stab
Rudra’s Storm
These adjustments are meant to normalize damage between melee jobs, and there are some adjustments that can be viewed as nerfs when taken on the individual job level, so we wished to communicate these details to you in advance as we continue to thoroughly discuss this matter.

So hit me if i'm wrong, but i can now say goodbye to my 3K TP RUDRA + Climatic @ 30K dmg as DNC ?

Hope no...

If they gave us ardor (and ardor is at least half as good as they're making it out to be) and left rudras as it is, it would be horribly OP instead of just OP.

It all depends on how severe the nerf is. If the fTP anchor points went from 6/15/19.5 down to 4/10/13 Your 30k rudras will do 20k instead, with a (potentially big) SC DMG bonus if you bring a RDM, possibly ending in the same overall dmg you have now.

The dev comment made it sound like they see no problem with things as they are now, but with ardor coming they have to adjust things or rudras will be horribly OP. I don't think they'll nerf rudras down to 1.5/4/6 like some people seem to have been screaming for.

I'm happy rdm is becoming even more relevent

If they gave us ardor (and ardor is at least half as good as they're making it out to be) and left rudras as it is, it would be horribly OP instead of just OP.

It all depends on how severe the nerf is. If the fTP anchor points went from 6/15/19.5 down to 4/10/13 Your 30k rudras will do 20k instead, with a (potentially big) SC DMG bonus if you bring a RDM, possibly ending in the same overall dmg you have now.

The dev comment made it sound like they see no problem with things as they are now, but with ardor coming they have to adjust things or rudras will be horribly OP. I don't think they'll nerf rudras down to 1.5/4/6 like some people seem to have been screaming for.

I'm happy rdm is becoming even more relevent

So hit me if i'm wrong, but i can now say goodbye to my 3K TP RUDRA + Climatic @ 30K dmg as DNC ?

Hope no...

If they gave us ardor (and ardor is at least half as good as they're making it out to be) and left rudras as it is, it would be horribly OP instead of just OP.

It all depends on how severe the nerf is. If the fTP anchor points went from 6/15/19.5 down to 4/10/13 Your 30k rudras will do 20k instead, with a (potentially big) SC DMG bonus if you bring a RDM, possibly ending in the same overall dmg you have now.

The dev comment made it sound like they see no problem with things as they are now, but with ardor coming they have to adjust things or rudras will be horribly OP. I don't think they'll nerf rudras down to 1.5/4/6 like some people seem to have been screaming for.

I'm happy rdm is becoming even more relevent

So nerf one job to make another less useful job better? I see the logic