August 2026 Version Update

Thank you.

Says this


They're not even close too this, but they've done everything they said they were going to do, so it looks like these week see several reforge upgrades until like maybe +2 or so. So they are probably worth getting now. Reforge has never implied augments, so I would lean more towards upgraded version.

If you dont get them now you'll be riding the struggle bus when they do add harder mobs you have to team up for to upgrade.

Also remember THEIR idea of "equivalent to malignance" is not YOUR idea of "equivalent to malignance". "Roughly Equal to" is not "the same as".

They will definitely not have STP and PDL that are the same or better, they won't be malignance+1

this is one fugly mask i'll never glamour.

Before your bolded part, they said this:
I dont think this stuff excels over Ambu+2 stuff. Would be nice if I could store this ***if the expectation is that people will prefarm with the expectation of reforging in 6 months.

Everything will be based on mid-tier catch up gear:
Ambu+2
AF+4 (kill an Omen mid-boss is a very low bar to get access to +3 every job, Limbus isnt difficult either)
Relic+2 (Enter dynamis on job, I think 100 kills is a bit higher of a bar to do solo, hence stopping at +2)
Emp+2 (I dont think 10k muffins and a sapphire is that high of a bar)
Anything from pre-Selb HTMB's
UNM loot, including augment
Escha loot (is this too high of a bar?)



Nzame set
Snapshot:
Head (+7): "BIS" for snapshot on COR, but if you've capped it, you'll want rapid shot, and emp+2 has +RS16. RNG has Emp+2 for same snapshot.
Body(+9): BIS if were ruling out Oshosi Vest (+12). Again, we come back to snap vs RS. Rng has Emp+2 (which Velocity Shot is calculated separately), COR has AF+4
Hand (+9): Carmine+1 has Snap+8 and RS+11, so its BIS for strictly Snap, but Carmine+1 is better because of RS.
Leg (+8): RNG has AF+4 with +15 , COR has Adhemar with +9 and RS augment. Otherwise Emp+2 and Relic+2 both have +8. Oshosi has +10
Feet (+7): Meg+2 has Snap+10 right there.

midshot:
I cant imagine midshotting in any of this across the board. Ignoring the fact not one piece has StoreTP, every piece has inferior racc/ratk to Meg+2 set. Sure the set enmity down bonus might play a factor, but I cant imagine a RNG or COR using this set will run into enmity problems.

WS:
Cor AF+4 body has better wsd and accompanying stats for physical WS. Neither this nor COR AF+4 body have stats to make it nice for magic WS, I'd assume the "Magic Atk. Bonus"+54 on Relic+2 would be better without even bothering to estimate numbers.
RNG can make use of Body for WSD. If they've unlocked Jishnu, I'm not sure if the Crit+7 or WSD+7 from Meg+2 is better. I doubt that can even be answered without looking at the bigger picture.

They couldnt even give the *** boots Movement+18, god forbid COR's run a bit faster.




So
Head: Maybe good for COR for Snapshot, depending if you can cap it using other pieces.
Body: Good for RNG for WS. Maybe good for COR for snapshot if Oshosi not available.
Hand: Might be useful for RNG for Jishnu, if Nzame Crit+7 >> Meg+2 WSD +7
Leg: useless
Feet: useless

Feel free to chew this up. Might do another set analysis as "catch up gear", but the RNG/COR was obviously the easiest one to work with lol.

How do you analyze a set when 7 jobs use it. (MNK / THF / BST / NIN / PUP / DNC / RUN). Thats a lot of extra ***to compare individually.
I'm not too familiar with BST or PUP.

Again, no store TP across the board. One Piece has multi atk, I'll cover it when I get there.

Head: depending what you're doing, Counter+7 isnt a terrible stat to have coupled with DT-4. Blistering+1 is available to all jobs, Adhemar+1 available to all but BST/PUP could use Tali'ah.
Body: Adhemar+1, Mummu+2, Tali'ah+2 would probably be better.
Hands: Finally some multi attack, Double Attack+5, Mummu+2 has Double Attack+6, so for MNK THF NIN DNC, Mummu+2 is probably better. They dont have any DT though. PUP has Emp+2 with STP+10. Bst might need to use these, Argosy+1 would have better DPS, but Argosy+1 also has no defenseive stats.
Legs: MNK Emp+2, THF AF+4, BST Zoar+1 (BRUH NEGATIVE STORE TP, chill it wont slaughter your DPS), NIN Tate+1 (I'll be honest, I think acquiring this might be a bit of a nuisance) or Ryuo+1, PUP Ryuo+1, DNC Meg+2, RUN Emp+2 or Meg+2
Feet: The Inquartata can be interesting for not mnk or pup to bump parry rate up, depending what theyre doing, since mnk and pup cant parry. As far as TP boots: MNK AF+4, THF Rel+2, BST Emp+2, NIN Tate+2 or Kendatsuba, PUP battlecast or Herc, DNC Emp+2, RUN Carmine+1 or Emp+1

None of this looks worthwhile for TP other than maybe feet for PUP. Hands might be useful if you really need that DT-3, I just cant fathom that being a breaking point.

WS:
MNK and PUP have next to no use for WSD, their best WS's are all multi hit. But lets presume theyre using one of their single hit WS, MNK could use the body, PUP has AF+4
THF and BST have Emp+2 with WSD+8 if theyre using one of their single hit WS. I'd prefer to use Olorun though, so theres less risk of getting caught with their pants down when WSing.
NIN DNC RUN this is their only WSD+10 option.


Olorun body good for 6 of 7 listed jobs.


I'll offer my expert S tier analysis on the other 2 items tomorrow, maybe, if work leaves me alone.

Here's the tl;Dr - it's Odyssey -2 gear for folk/alts/mythical newbs that can't or won't clear Gaol.

It literally says Nyame with a single letter changed.

Use it until you get some odyssey bare minimum r15 then throw it away.

Good job, peace.

Augmented
Don't forget about Augmented Taeon, it's 10 snapshot each and has a much bigger job selection. It's not difficult to get either. It's worse defensively but that's not something people usually worry about when ranged attacking.

Some of them (caster set) are worse than even Ambuscade armor. Going out and camping/farming NMs for one piece at a time of worse armor. It just doesn't have to be this way SE...

But, blah blah blah reforge later.

This will be the final update as everything as been found, armor with an asterisk* have 2 NMs that it can drop from. I got my revenge on Ironhide matamata, took 1hr to spawn + whatever the guy before me waited.

~Timed spawn NMs~ Chests last 3min, Respawns 15min after chest despawns

Yahse J-6 Jolly Twitherym - ruwa hands + egbesu feet

Ceizak H-9 Feral Chapuli - ruwa head + olorun hands

Foret H-11 Spellward Orobon - ruwa legs* + nzame hands

Morimar H-5 Spellward Ameretat - olorun head + ruwa feet

Yorcia H-9 Voracious Rafflesia - egbesu hands + olorun legs*

Marjami G-7 Elusive Stryx - olorun feet + nzame head*

Kamihr G-8 Fierce Yztarg - nzame feet + egbesu head


~Lotto spawn NMs~ Spawns can take up to 1-2hrs~

Foret J-7 Ironshell Craklaw - olorun body + ruwa legs*

Morimar E-7 Ironhide Matamata - nzame legs + olorun head

Yorcia J-10 Ravenous Snapweed - olorun legs* + nzame body

Marjami L-12 Swiftwing Tulfaire - nzame head* + egbesu legs

Kamihr I-11 Keenfang Raaz - ruwa body + egbesu body



NM by armor: (Going to stea.. add this from Nynja)

-Ruwa
HD: Feral Chapuli @ Ceizak
BD: Keenfang Raaz @ Kamihr (lotto)
HN: Jolly Twitherym @ Yahse
LG: Spellward Orobon @ Foret && Ironshell Craklaw @ Foret (lotto)
FT: Spellward Ameretat @ Morimar

-Nzame
HD: Elusive Stryx @ Marjami && Swiftwing Tulfaire @ Marjami (lotto)
BD: Ravenous Snapweed @ Yorcia (lotto)
HN: Spellward Orobon @ Foret
LG: Ironhide Matamata @ Morimar (lotto)
FT: Fierce Yztarg @ Kamihr

-Egbesu
HD: Fierce Yztarg @ Kamihr
BD: Keenfang Raaz @ Kamihr (lotto)
HN: Voracious Rafflesia @ Yorcia
LG: Swiftwing Tulfaire @ Marjami
FT: Jolly Twitherym @ Yahse

-Olorun
HD: Spellward Ameretat @ Morimar
BD: Ironshell Craklaw @ Foret (lotto)
HN: Feral Chapuli @ Ceizak
LG: Voracious Rafflesia @ Yorcia && Ravenous Snapweed @ Yorcia (lotto)
FT: Elusive Stryx @ Marjami

Rude.

Be back for round 2. (I hope it's as soon as september, this was fun)

Good Morning,
With the lotto NM's, was the widescan results checked or were they just identified via ID?

every new piece for the last 5 years has had pet acc (special shoutouts to the su5 limbus set, which has pet acc and then augment #4 is... more pet acc)

none have had pet atk

this is an exaggeration, but only by a little, and these five new pieces do not break the trend. the one PUP I know is mostly cracking jokes about how they're a starving flower you have to pet acc on them

Independent of the armor being useful or not. SE can go suck a fat one and choke on it for bringing back time and lottery spawns.

I'm going to disagree. It was fun making an alliance last night for the Raaz NM. The NM pops quite often and we got to chat with people I never would have.

~20min timers on the pop NMs and the window on Lotto NMs seems to be 20 min as well.

It's solidly in the mixed bag category.

On the one hand lotto is dogshit period. On the other hand the gear sucks and it's a waste of time. On the third... hand? the drop rates are meh. On the fourth hand, you can't store the gear (yet) and they won't be "malig" for a year(+).

Oops that's four negatives and no positives. nothing is stopping you from being social literally anywhere else.
(take them to go get a V1 bumba instead)

Definitely not a fixed 20 minutes. Snapweed took an hour :( Craklaw took me about 25 min.

How hard are these nms to kill? I appreciate that people can group up so we can all get rewards as opposed to the old days where we had to fight each other for claim. But how many people does it actually take to bring these down? I’m assuming they can’t be that tough if the gear they drop is so mid.

2~3 weaponskills. (not hyper buffed) They're "nm" but they're just normal mobs.

A fair bit weaker than a peculiar foe.

I’m familiar with and play almost all the jobs on the olorun set. I can analyze it very easily. The head, feet, and hands are next to useless in their current state. 7 counter, 5 double attack with no sTP, and 4 parry isn’t even worth considering, even for newer people. However the legs and body are more serviceable. Thief and beastmaster’s empyrean +3 bodies both surpass rank 30 nyame, but dancer has no Jse equivalent. Dancers with no nyame progress will happily use the body with rudra’s storm. The legs likewise have 10 crit rate. They’re inferior to ranked up gleti’s, but if players don’t have gleti’s then olorun is fine for evisceration and victory smite. Crit weaponskills are pretty weak in general though. We need crit damage gear instead of crit hit rate to make them stronger at this point. But people with no REMA dagger who are still using tauret will probably at least consider those two pieces.

I was looking at it compared to other mid-tier catch up gear, not Emp+3 and R30 Ody lol

I figured that distinction was assumed after I set the baseline on the first set I analyzed. If you start throwing in R30, Limbus armor, Emp+3...yeah its all dog ***.

Thief and beastmaster Empyrean +2 body is still Bis for wsd. I only mentioned the +3 versus nyame to put in perspective just how good those two jse pieces are, but dancer has no wsd jse body option. That was the main point I was making. I’m not analyzing any of this stuff against high ranked nyame either. I was using Adhemar as the baseline for the hands head and feet in my mind, and assuming no oddy progress for the body and legs.

I was specifically responding to the lotto side of the new NMs. This is not like the old days of camping Tiamat for 72 hours.

All your points are valid, there is nothing about this gear that should be rushed beyond doing it just to do it.

Dancer can use Mirce Wardecors (non Nyame option), which currently is better than lolarorz body.

this gear was designed for these NMs to be basically always up or up after a short period of time for easy catch/step up gear.

this is not happening currently because they are brand new.

this will be the case in a few weeks when the novelty wears off.

this is good returner content, no one cares what you think if you were expecting new BIS gear or some revolutionary system. absurd

Has anyone reported set bonuses? Mostly interested in the regen set to see if it's potent enough for my lazy *** to finally have a regen set

Yeah, but lolarorz actually drops. You can only use gear you own, not gear that doesn’t exist. I was taking the shinryu-esque drop rates on the ceystal fight into account when I analyzed the set. If we’re trying to help new people catch up we shouldn’t expect them to spend months of grind for one piece if there’s something they can get on near equivalency for a drop of effort instead. The ACP HTBF drop rates are downright criminal for the stats you get.

I know guildwork isnt in a good spot and this might not be the most reliable option, but heres the list of people who own Mirce Wardecors

Blah, url is breaking
https://www.ffxiah.com/search/player/?owned[]=24306

It's better defensively. Offensively it's

Mirce: 32str 32dex 32agi 82attack 74acc
Olorun: 42str 38dex 30agi 78att 73.5acc

so Olorun wins, even before potential reforge.