March 3rd Announcements

[Altiea]

Late March Update
-- Pushed back to March 22nd in Japan due to a national holiday.

Strategio
-- Potential: Crit Rate/Damage UP (For those who didn't see the datamine, the exact values are +100% Crit Rate and +12% Crit Damage.)
-- Strategio SAF: S1:Brilliant Ruin (Restore PP when an enemy near you dies.)

Early Game Enemies
-- Enemies from Lv. 1~39 will receive an increase in their max HP.
-- Enemies in Easy difficulty Story Quests will have their HP increased just slightly.
-- Bare Handed Attack/PA damage buffed to compensate for the resulting difficulty increase in Challenge Quest.

XQ: Earth and Phantoms
-- No Dolls and Dark Blast. Clear to unlock Expert Matching.
-- Drops Invade-NT.

Solo XQ 3
-- Also drops Invade-NT at higher rates.

Austere-NT
-- You'll be able to trade for Austere-NT in the far future. This will require Invade-NT and an unknown material as trade components.
-- Something is planned for OT Austeres too, so hold onto those.

Time Reversal Stone Chronos
-- Drop rate was apporximately once a week before drop rate buff. After buff, it increased to around 20 per week.

14* Weapons
-- Every weapon class should have an associated 14* drop by Summer.

Crest Shop
-- Crest Shop 14*s are indeed Overgrind Limit 30.

Step Jump?
-- They're considering making Step Jump acccessible in a different way rather than keeping it as a Skill Ring. However, they don't want new players to have access to it right away, so maybe a Charm or something.

STANDO PAWA!
-- A new customization feature for Dark Blast is coming this summer! This allows you to manifest your Dark Blast as a "ghost" that appears above the player instead of transforming into the full Dark Blast form, with the ghost's transparency determined by the player. (This also means you get to see your character do all the Dark Blast stuff, like dash running and ORAORAORA)

[Moffen]

"However, they don't want new players to have access to it right away,"
God forbid people start the game with a basic way to move about.

[ralf542]

Still no Viel Hunar form?

[Kintama]

Early Game Enemies
-- Enemies from Lv. 1~39 will receive an increase in their max HP.


How about late game ennemies? I stopped playing DOs and TAs because things died in one hit..

[Silent_Flower]

Late March Update
XQ: Earth and Phantoms
-- No Dolls and Dark Blast. Clear to unlock Expert Matching.
-- Drops Invade-NT.

<sarcasm> OMG! No dolls, no Dark Blast. How I suppose to cheese it and drag the team down and fail every death limit mission</sarcasm>

Well, the expert requirements so need updating to keep up with the gear we keep getting.

Time Reversal Stone Chronos
-- Drop rate was apporximately once a week before drop rate buff. After buff, it increased to around 20 per week.

They actually drop?

Crest Shop
-- Crest Shop 14*s are indeed Overgrind Limit 30.

Great... I should keep my excubes then...

[Anduril]

Still no Viel Hunar form?

I don't doubt that that will come at the end of the Omega story when we merge with [Persona].


Anyway, I'm looking forward to the ghostly Dark Blast thing, especially with the [Loser] Dark Blast; time to come up with some flight forms for my Caseals.

[Altiea]

Added a preview image for your Stand the new Dark Blast option.

[doomdragon83]

Crest Shop
-- Crest Shop 14*s are indeed Overgrind Limit 30.

...hoo boy.

[the_importer_]

...hoo boy.

When you think about it, even if you were able to grab 10 crests per day everyday, it would take you 10 months to get a weapon at +35..... and 2 months later, these weapons would start dropping like 13★ currently do -_-

[echofaith]

I am personally happy for the 14* exchange grind limit. My OCD makes me want it even less, and my casual nature wont be grinding 3k crests for a weapon that will get outclassed not so far from now. I now have a good excuse to forget about crest farming
Happy to know about step jump too, since one extra slot open is always good. And of course happy about OT Austeres having a chance to be useful(though I wont keep my hopes up on how much...)