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 Lakshmi.Byrth
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By Lakshmi.Byrth 2025-09-03 19:07:46
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It's 2025 and this screenshot has me thinking about the FoV augment system. As a refresher, the FoV augment system is basically abandonware from just before Abyssea when they were throwing augments on everything. You trade a non-rare, non-augmented, <= 75 armor/weapon, pay tabs, kill an NM, the item you traded gets 1~3 random augments (which generally suck) and IIRC there's some kind of time gate to repeating the fight.

Back when the system came out, I compiled a list of the posted augments:

We're more tolerant of random augment ***these days with dark matter augments and the like. What theorycrafty stuff can you imagine?

Off the top of my head:
* Chatoyant with Summoning Skill+5 or Healing skill+5 or MND?
* Pluto's Earring +1 with Light+, MEva, and HP for a Warder's Charm build

Basic facts (outside of the table) may be wrong. It has been a lot of years since this system was released.
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By Ragnarok.Martel 2025-09-03 19:20:10
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The FoV NM fights are daily, iirc. JP midnight reset.

I used to do Black and Green ribbons to try to get ele resist+ on them. iirc, I saw up to +20, making for a total+30~32 ele resist piece. Which was pretty good back at 75. Now... not so much. I'm uncertain if the augment caps differ by slot. To be useful now, the ele resist would have to be in an accessory slot. Like with the light/dark earring idea.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2025-09-03 20:38:00
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This took me 2 tries and 20k gil, a fraction of the price of Hades Earring +1



I could see something like Lamian Kaman +1 possibly having a swap use for PLD?
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By Carbuncle.Maletaru 2025-09-03 20:44:35
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Lakshmi.Buukki said: »
I could see something like Lamian Kaman +1 possibly having a swap use for PLD?

Needs at least 3 MDB to beat Vanir Battery, and Vanir doesn't cause you to lose TP, so even then it would be quite a small niche...
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By Ragnarok.Martel 2025-09-03 21:17:49
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Hmm, since there are examples of enmity+ augs in byrth's list, an Aumoniere +1 could technically become the best in slot enmity+ ammo with even a +1 aug. But uhh.. god, you'd probably tear through a ton of them trying to get enmity+ at all. Augmenting an NQ would need a +2 aug to surpass existing options, and I don't see any enmity+2 augs recorded so far. Could well exist, I just don't recall any personally, and there's none in the list.
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By Bahamut.Zedoma 2025-09-03 21:18:35
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I regret not tracking augments in the beginning when I began this little project but below is my table so far since I started tracking. I also kept track of the elemental day to see if I could form some kind of pattern, but it seems to be completely random system.

Here's a baby Arete de Luna made a few days ago. My goal is to obtain 12 Dark on this earring for idle.
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By Bismarck.Bigheadkitty 2025-09-03 21:23:14
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I remember this being a big risk I almost died with my genie Weskit on the line. Got +5 INT on it which was godly back then.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2025-09-03 21:26:01
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Bahamut.Zedoma said: »
I also kept track of the elemental day to see if I could form some kind of pattern, but it seems to be completely random system.

We used to track day of week and time, but I agree there is no rhyme or reason to the augments. You can also get conflicting augments (like hp+11 hp-10). It's like a very low quality Oseem system.

I did manage to get Critical Hit Rate +1% on a Terra's Staff and STR+1 on Behemoth Mantle +1 for ballista, but those are the only good stats I could get. It's a very ideal system for something like Ballista though, if you dont just accept the synced down stats
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By Quetzalcoatl.Jakey 2025-09-03 23:15:04
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I've been compiling my own list of augments for a while as well, so far looks like mostly just good for being extra OP in level capped content like ballista which is not very popular these days but if I find even 1 DW augment there's enough slots that I will break the game so I will continue for a while.