New Stuff for WHM in September 2010 UpdateFollow

Well, some details are out including

Only going to 85 so we will all be WHM85/SCH or RDM42

JA: White Mage: An ability offering increased resistance against status ailments.

JT: - White Mage: Shield Def. Bonus

Interestingly there are new spells (may impact on us) mentioned which increase the attributes of party members (possibly SCH as they have a meritable JA that does this and the update was pictured with a SCH) and magic spells to manage enmity levels.


Incidentally, /SCH at 42 gives us Sandstorm for cheap movement speed (Dune Boots + Sandstorm). Oh and Refresh from /RDM of course.

Edited, Aug 25th 2010 7:21am by eldelphia

My D level shield skill isn't impressed >.> But hey, least we're seeing something interesting.

So with the Sheild Def up bonus, will this mean there will be an increase in Whm DD PTs at Kings R. Tomb? lol

While I do love my desert boots when I'm on my scholar and they will be fun for my whm... I'm actually more interested in sandstorm for my White mage for erasing that pesky double dark weather in dynamis and apollyon. /sch will never get light weather, but to me simply killing "cure potency -25%" is win. So that's one other thing I'm looking forward to...

Ok, more details up today (you can see the full message here)

Job Trait
WHM Lv.85 Shield Def. Bonus

Job Ability
Divine Caress (WHM Lv.83 Ability Delay: 1 min. Effect Duration: 1 min.)
If the next spell you cast cures a status ailment, your target will gain enhanced resistance to that ailment.


Spells
Boost-VIT: WHM Lv.81
Cura II: WHM Lv.83
Boost-MND: WHM Lv.84

The full spell list includes the following. Note: SCH gets Regen III now.





Edited, Aug 27th 2010 5:29am by eldelphia

Edited, Aug 31st 2010 7:48am by eldelphia

I need to stop expecting so much T_T

Really other than hastega or haste II, this update gives everything I could have hoped for. I've been wanting Cura II for a very, very long time. Rdms get 'Gain' spells the same level we get the 'Boost' spells which leads me to believe ours are aoe. Finally, the wording on Divine Caress sounds like it will work with Esuna/Sacrifice. Which is pretty damn hot if it's true.

Tell SE that, it's a direct quote...

Let me caress you with Stona, hmmmmmmm :3



Also, I'm still waiting on my BarLightra and Bardarkra.

SCH Storms and helixes cover all 8 elements. And just now Enspells will, too, cover all elements. It's about time we get our missing 2 elements.



Edited, Aug 29th 2010 8:30pm by Drakonite

New third tier artifact been found... courtesy of Spira and from his blog Wild Dragon Chase







Spira says no bodies or hands yet. So perhaps those are Dec? We'll find out after the update.


Edited, Aug 31st 2010 7:43am by eldelphia

I love the details on the legs and the new hat looks gorgeous.
Can't wait to see the rest!

Orison Set

Wow the conversion of cured HP to MP... simply awesome!

Also, cure potency... yeah... gonna be really easy to hit the cap soon. Expect Roundel price to plummet. Picking your Cure set is not going to be so easy in the future... I think the no-brainer pieces will be Surya's Staff, Aristocrat's Coat, Orison Cap, and Orison Cape. That gives you Cure Potency +45% if you have the +2 cap. There are several single pieces that'll bridge that last 5%, or you can combine pieces like Augur's Gloves and Fylgja Torque.


It won't, the "enhances Divine Veil" is the only thing Yagrush has, it's completely worthless as a melee weapon and in all other aspects. They wouldn't destroy a mythic like that. It does, however, make me wonder what it could mean. Could make it so that instead of hitting the whole party, it hits the whole alliance? Or perhaps it extends the range from 10' to 20'? Either way would be pretty sweet!

In case it's of any use - CuraII is about 88k (can't remember the exact figure - it's almost 2am and brain fried) from Brave Ox in Rabao before it gets stuck on the AH for like 200k or something.

Hadn't even thought of that. Guess we'll have to see. Roundel price won't drop all the way because RDMs can use it and it is super rare; it may come down a bit though. I was praying that the Surya's staff would upgrade so I could change my gear around. I can now drop the Selenian but I wasn't expecting them to give me up to 10% Cure potency on my head.

The convert % thing is amazing. Depending on how good it is... (is it like an ethereal) then it may be as useful as refresh which leaves us still back at /SCH. Who knows :)

No minus ENM on those pieces which will also come into it. Right now I have no -ENM on my ASA pants but I do have on Headpiece. I think Novia will go up in price if anything! -ENM on feet and hands for me, so I'd keep my Roundel if I'm honest.

Roundel (5)
Orison Cap +2 (10)
Aristocrat (12)
Surya's +1 (20)
Orison Cape (3)

Which frees up hands/feet for what? Feet probably Marduk's but hands? Are we back to Blessed (+1) again or are there some sick -ENM hands we could work on?

Suggestions welcome, I have no clue. Just hope that even the +1 hat isnt' too bad to upgrade so I can ditch my donald duck hat on WHM.

Re: Cura II is also available from a quest in Abyssea - Attohwa. The quest is called "Something In The Air". You can find this on FFXI Wiki here, but let me put my thoughts on it..

First thing, get the map. The map for this zone, like the real Attohwa Chasm, is worse than useless really but it'll help a little. I suggest you do this right after a Aby party so you have plenty of time. Or do it if you got a surplus of stones. The starter is Yoran-Oran btw.

The thing the wiki leaves out is it can be ANY flower around F-8, aka that conflux. Basically you're trying to find the one that will give you a key item..well, to show what's making people sick. Try to find either conflux 00 or 02 after, it will tag both for you if you activate and is a quick way back (as always activate the conflux at base camp if you don't want to waste time running back)

It's not a bad run, you'll see jellyfish mobs on the way, but as always, I s/ied there (wasn't sure if they'd aggro) If you've done Sheep in Antlion's Clothing, kinda go like you'd go to get to the fight....that's the best way I can explain it without being there.

I'm sure some people will exploit it to sell for stupid prices but why not just do the quest if you got Scars of Abyssa? It took me about 10 minutes. And that's ONE scroll I don't have to buy. :)

That's fair. Oh! Btw though. I haven't taken the time to cap out my healing skill and I have a pretty basic set up when it comes to cure potency.(Have a nasty max mind build though) What were your cure VI looking like at 80 in comparison to your Vs?

I was hoping VI would pull away from V more with cure potency gear instead of just being 200 more hp still.D: If no city owns it. Alicorn unicorn a great tester. That's who I tested VI on when I first got it.

My numbers on my cures were a little low... I had 1058 for V but its still going up now as I level. Just cured with VI for 1338 but not sure if that's capped. That's at 82.

Yep:

Orison Locket
[Neck] All Races
HP+33 MP+33 Enhances "Fast Cast" effect
LV 84 WHM

This is a good list to check out new items but there are others linked to from Blue gartr

No, but I can probably pretty safely say that it's just like Cura, only with a higher cap on the cure (and probably an increase in the multiplier over the last hit's damage).

EDIT: Based on one comment to date on the Wiki consisting of a single "hit by 1000 Needles", it looks like the multiplier is about 0.275 (70/256?) for Cura II, on top of a base of 100 (your Cure II base, more likely than not). I'd have to actually do some testing to see what the multiplier on Cura actually is, considering that nobody's getting anything like consistent results when I looked that up.

Edited, Sep 18th 2010 10:54pm by MDenham

Only tried it a few times in one short party farming jellyfish in attowha but it almost seems like a shadow for the next enfeeble.