July 2026 Version Update

Awwww :(
Yeah it does.. Oh well, I tried.

I've magic bursted on acuex in sortie the few times I've gotten to go SMN to sortie lol

Did anyone do the "Ode to Life Bestowing" fight yet? I tried on Normal but didn't know it popped Seed Orc, Seed Yagudo, Seed Goblin, Seed Quadav all at the same time in the beginning. I don't know if they are sleepable either.

Did a test run on E since my alts don't have the fight unlocked yet, only spawned 2, and did under 100 damage per hit with DT on.

Has virtually no HP even on VD. Easy zerg. Ammo on first fight. Knife/Club on second fight. Killed adds on second fight hoping its like Lilith.

Menu IDs shifted. SE deleted floor 1 in central temenos and then the rest of them they deleted floors 1 through 3

Floor 1? The only good Central floor?

Off hand is the only use case I can see the club being used. If you are main handing on geo, you want prime or Idris or Ambu on lol. I’ve meleed in Ody NMs multiple times as geo, but can’t dual wield in there.

Also it’s only 30 acc on club, which is less than ambuscade (lol). So there’s that.

Why did they bother renaming the great swords. Yeah the new items aren't that great. The dagger as off hands seems kinda good with stacking even more crit rate on it.

I got stuck trying to get the KI drops from goblins. 2 hr farming for 1 drop, I gave up lol.

Is it just me or did this update change something with long-named items popping out of the text box onto the scrollbar?

Am I the only one that looked at everything and went ‘meh’?

Ammo looks initially OK for WS damage piece, but lacks Attack you get from Knobkierrie (omen ammo); but this REQUIRES you use it with one of the trash weapons for set bonus. So SKIP.

Reciente Coselete looks good if you lack Gleti augments, I guess -DT vs. -PDT for more defense on Drg. Maybe help on Bumba.

Mirce Wardecors is good for people who don’t have Nyame path B body, otherwise skip.

All weapons look like trash for main hand, questionable / bad for offhand compared to TP Bonus options AND you only get WS damage IF you use ammo at the same time.

Only class I can see using Club is Geo due to no TP Bonus club option, but Magesmasher +1 gives you +15% WS damage. So idk if I’d bother farming this new thing for the rare chance you melee on geo AND can dual wield.

You lose TP swapping from instrument to ammo iirc, so geo can't use the set bonus without losing tp. The weapons are trash and if the bodies cannot be augmented then they are basically DoA for me.

I like dropping the merit point costs. Now I can continue not getting Null Masque for fewer merits.

Reducing Temenos floor count and making the ??? easier to spawn basically calls my bluff. Internal assessment right now indicates I will still not be doing Limbus.

I like changing all the setting defaults. However, they missed the two that I change for every character I log into:
1. Auto disconnect time should be off.
2. Window animation should be disabled.

I’m fairly certain you don’t lose TP because I had a ‘melee engaged set’ on geo that used an ammo piece, then had an ‘engaged spell set’ for Geo spells with dunna and I wouldn’t lose TP.

Unless I misunderstood something. Can’t test, don’t have a sub.

What do you mean menu IDs shifted. Can you elaborate please?

GEO can use Ukaldi for TP bonus.



IIRC it has to be able to gain TP to lose TP when you swap, but also can't test.

Doing 1 VD fight for title and that's it.

Iirc the original strategy for this fight was aegis + rangers?

Pretty much my take. Since SE didn't mention anything about where to augment your rewards in the notes, it seems reasonable to assume there are currently not any augments.

It's more ladder gear for people who aren't done with Sortie/Odyssey. That seems to be largely the direction they're taking, which is probably fine for the game overall but definitely disappointing for people who are nearly maxed already.

Square failing to know their audience as per usual

And/or purposely chasing the wrong audience as all media has been doing

At least there won't be congestion, right guys

They mean superwarp no longer works in Temenos and will need an update.

I think that catering to recent joiners is a perfectly valid strategy, but if that was my goal I don't think I would make the BC cost 30 merit points.

Catering to the people that play for 6 months ain't the play

But catering to the lifers that won't quit no matter what isn't the smart play either.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are they even really better than RSE+1

I see it like:
* RSE+1 - all jobs (and time limited), starter gear with enough DT / magic evasion that you don't get oneshotted in high level content. Generally better than Ambuscade +2 stuff, but no head.
* These three bodies - Each for a subset of jobs, marginally better than RSE+1 for those jobs and higher magic evasion.

If this is the strategy for the next two BCs, users will also get an iLevel hat better than Ambuscade +2.

My new mule will probably take the Mirce Waldecors if it drops and use it over WN Kaftan +1 for COR, but I'd be hard-pressed to measure a resulting difference in performance.

Has anyone even gotten a body drop yet?

If they had better itemization it could cater to both. Problem is body is a very strong slot for almost all jobs. 10 WSD is meh, would had been nice to see a STP piece that out does maling? Maybe 5 TA? Would have some play.

10 DA body is technically good (besides for Sam) but would be better received as 10 STP or ....5 TA...

The thing is.. they could do both if they put the slightest bit of effort into these stats instead of what has become the standard copy/paste stat dump in recent gear updates. for example adding QD ability delay - onto that COR body would have had some lifers scrambling to get it, but also keeping it middling enough for newbies to improve without overtaking real endgame gear.

but alas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't think SE has a QA system for gear and I can't even think of an instance where they nerfed something that's already been released. They just don't take risks. Or maybe they're copying FFXIV's bland as *** itemization or something.

Probably will do VD for the title, then slowly collect the body pieces from Trove.

I think they may have made temenos a lot worse with this update. There’s gonna be a lot more congestion on the remaining floors, and now we’re gonna have to wait on mob respawns. If they upped the kill count in central as well then… ugh. I’m not sure I want this.

Quoted for truth.