November 2016 Version Update

No cumulus masque in the dat mine for armor?

not the worst set ever for BST/PUP.

MOOGLE MOUNT

Wow Funkworkz Great moves, keep it up, proud of you!

I'VE GOT YOUR MAIL, KUPOPOPOPOPOPO

OMG Haste on and Ambu set about time LMAO

A moogle mount lol

if the jingly rod turns me into a baby qiqirn im so *** in to this

legs mainly to not have to spend on Rao+1, but still lose out on the HP. Rest is side grades to decent herc augs but otherwise good for nuking/enfeebling on autos. couple pieces are good for master, though.

don't give a ***about bst.

Everything else is up. finishing misc stuff (KIs, etc)

i cant wait to see a galka on the moogle

Would be nice if they implement a simple free-for-all pvp arena or just add an option to be flagged for pvp and only attack flagged players only outside towns

And for those tickets, I guess OM/OMII = the new event and I-AF119 = new AF reforges.

Thanks for the reminder, added it.

Though all SMN probably won't agree, I think this is a nice set for summoner. A huge chunk of solo damage on summoner involves beating things with a stick and self skill-chaining with your avatar's bloodpacts. Currently this is done with mostly an onca suit and all the acc accessories you can find but this set will change that drastically, it's even better than you could perfectly aug a TP set for on merlinic if you only include the master especially with the uncommonly high DEX for a mage set, and it gets high acc for the pet too along with some haste and stp. With the patch note changes to Avatar physical pacts using TP now, tping on avatar actually became a concern for physical pacts. Couple this with an extremely high magical accuracy set for SMN debuff and offensive wards like shock squall and you got a multi use add to SMN. So all in all it's a good set for SMN imho.

I've been watching the FP, and looks like the new event is called "Omen" so yeah, makes sense that that OM kupons are related. ^^ Looks like it is a small arena style event, but w/ lots of trash mobs in addition to a boss mob. Not clear on how exactly, but we will be able to upgrade Artifact 119 by two upgrade levels using Omen drops. (The devs call them +2/+3.) In addition to that, accessories will be able to drop from Omen. (They say "ochiru" which would be "fall" or "drop", so probably no new currency type associated with this event.)

No new currecny drop would be the best thing about this event. There are so many currencies. I can barely keep track of them with the two menus for currencies, etc.

If the new event takes place at the Reisen Shrine, like so:

then I suppose that the Pagodite might be the currency. Just seems thematically appropriate.

Is a nice looking set for my SMN in some aspects, as for my pup doesn't do much for it automation wise, as when do you ever really just let your pet just do all the DPS for you/needing gear such as that for those very limited situations. Nice mix pieces for CP wise if you don't have sets alrdy otherwise you're pup is 99% of time a tank.Few pieces nice for master set tho

Eh, it's not that great for PUP either.

The pet Macc is very strong, and may well be BiS for automaton nukes. That may be the best use of the set for PUP. But pet nukes are still going to be super niche in any case, so this is hardly a huge deal.

From a hybrid master/pet melee set perspective, it's kinda disappointing. Even more so in an update that improves H2H, likely making it far more beneficial overall to focus more heavily on master focused stats (aside from using a small number of pieces to cap pet haste). As for the mix of pet stats, accuracy is often not that huge of a concern for puppets anyway thanks to attachment versatility - so the pet DD stats that would have been much more interesting would be stuff like multiattack, store TP, etc.

Piece by piece from a PUP perspective:
Head: Decent pet Store TP option, but nothing mind blowing.

Body: Not bad. Actually rather solid from the master perspective, despite the lack of attack. But using as hybrid gear forces you to give up one of the better pieces of automaton melee gear (Pitre+1 body, with Pet: Acc/Racc+21 and Stp+13). Probably the one armor slot where PUP was least in need of a good and easy to obtain hybrid option, so it woulda been nice to see the piece with strong master acc/TA and pet DD stats show up in any of the other 4 slots...

Hands: High crit rate initially makes you think of the possibility of being good Stringing Pummel/Victory Smite gear... until you see the weak STR. Can safely stick to Ryuo/Herculean.

Legs: Nothing special, maybe adequate DT gear for pet tanking but no better than a sidegrade or stepping stone to previously existing Taeon/Rao options. Personally, I'd rather use either Taeon (my DT-4% is paired with Regen/Meva) or even NQ Rao for higher HP. Also, high acc on pet tanking gear is often a BAD thing, since the puppet gets TP faster and becomes more likely to screw up important SCs (say, SCH BLM setups).

Feet: Odd piece, potentially nice for certain hybrid setups looking at capping pet equipment haste without one of the existing 10% pieces (Ohtas or Ambuscade capes, most likely paired with 8% on Klouskap Sash). I might actually end up using this with Kenkonken, or non-Kenkonken PUPs could free up cape slot for a 100% master-focused back (say, DEX Acc/Atk DA). Specific use cases though.

Unless intense is very easy this month, I'll skip this garbage set.

when someone finds out where to get moogle mount please post lol

If you are doing high end content prior to this update, that's all you do. H2H damage was so ***that it wasn't worth the potential danger, and you didn't have the accuracy anyway. Very few PUPs doing that content outside my LS though.

This is the highest accuracy for both pet and master possible in a set, and that has value. The hands having a shitton of dex and +7 crit rate is quite nice for what is essentially a free piece. The body has 5% *** TA, which is crazy good for free piece.

The biggest thing is that large amount of m.acc. While none of it offers any MAB, that might not really matter with the attachments PUPs have access to. When OF2 was released, myself and other PUPs did a lot of testing and realized that our automatons were severally lacking in magic accuracy, so much so that you did better, more consistent damage with tranquilizers instead of loudspeakers. This gear might be an answer to that situation. Tomorrow I'll likely have the full set of HQ and can do some actual tests to see if we have a viable amount of magic accuracy, and if we also have enough MAB to do things that are worthwhile in the first place.

Also worth mentioning is that more m.acc means that the RDM puppet might actually land it's goddamn enfeebles. Depending on how H2H damage goes, master focus PUP might be a really serious thing again.

Omen is not being added this month, unlikely the Pagodite is from that.. My money is it's related to the new crafting relics they talk about at the end of the FP. (At least that is what it sounds like to me ^^;; If someone else with stronger translation skills could please double check from 1:28:00 forward, would be appreciated.) They also say something about Kupo Shield not being very exciting compared to the new "ultimate equipment" for crafters ~_~

They mentioned there would be a new mount from the Jingle Baas campaign. And there's two new mounts and beetle is from the login campaign, so there you go.

ah ok thank you :3

Servers are up.

Listening to the new version of the Shadow Lord Battle Theme (also used in Dynamis - Xarcabard). It's basically a way better version of the old version, using much better instruments and adding a bit of that Raogrimm CS theme. For those interested in swapping it for Dynamis Xarc, the files are:

Awakening - Original Version: FINAL FANTASY XI\sound\win\music\data\119.bgw
Awakening - FFRK Version: FINAL FANTASY XI\sound\win\music\data\086.bgw

For those wondering about pagodite, you can buy it from the green thumb moogle for 160 gil.

lol logged in new objective vanquish birds(i read as vanquish bards) i was like *** yeah at least they are out and proud about it