August 2026 Version Update

There's no winning though. They either release this, it's relatively simple to get and super basic, so then people *** it's not worth it. (So don't do it? It's a tough concept.)
OR
They release lottery NMs with Empy+4 equivalent gear and people BAWWWW about wasting time in Limbus, or wasting galli in Sortie for years upgrading things.

People will do anything to avoid doing Limbus I guess.

I dont know where you got that impression, but they said this gear would be on par with ambuscade tier armor. Its not, its worse.

False dichotomy.

Instead of making BS, easy, *** content for 6 months in a row, they could spend 6 months making a new challenging event that rewards new gear that's better than what we have now.

Or, in terms of actual ffxi-style design, it could be a sidegrade, situational piece. There are dozens and dozens (probably hundreds) of ways they could do this without disrupting or replacing the existing gear.

They chose, instead, to release some easy ***for returnees to get some bridge gear. That's fine, maybe it will end up being the right decision, IDK, but they didn't have to choose between obsoleting old gear with trivial *** or making trivial *** for newbs.

Limbus is their new gear for endgame.

Its just ***content.

Define worse. From SE's perspective, they might look at the fact that it has more WSD, -DT, A as "better". 10 > 7 WSD. Every piece of these new sets have -DT (not PDT or MDT). They're at least better defensively, and some pieces are clearly better offensively. Now, there aren't any Flamma +2 head/feet or Meghanada TA+5 leg pieces in the mix (those are clear outliers), but there are some standout pieces with both -DT and STP or DA, Crit+10, or something comparable. To say these sets are worse is not true.

If you were inviting a completely new player to join you in any event and you were concerned about their survival, would you suggest any Ambuscade +2 set over these?

(I'm not saying they're great pieces, but its exactly what they said it would be, with hopes of it becoming "Malignance"-like in the future)

https://www.playonline.com/pcd2/topics/ff11us/detail/40260/detail.html



This is right from SE. Only 5% of this equipment, when accounted across utility of all 22 jobs, is inarguably "more powerful than Ambuscade gear".

I wasn't talking to you, you typed your response while I was typing mine. I was responding to Richy.

I have writeups for every set and I set the baseline of gear available. Feel free to chew them up. I wont revoke your honorary Galka card for it.

Remember that bridge gear character is not fighting ***where they need to turtle up in 50% DT to survive. Bridge gear is farming Sheol A/B poorly, is doing Sortie top floor for caskets and maybe Ghatjot, is doing wave 1 dyna-D, is doing Omen, is doing V0 Gaol. Nothing here is stomping you out for not having 50% DT full time. Nothing theyre fighting is going to punish them with death for getting caught with their pants down and WSing in 5% DT. You cant even bring up the MEVA argument because these sets have pretty terrible MEVA.

It's pretty obvious the eventual reforge will bring them up to near malignance meva standards.

That's pretty good for better than ambu. The base gear is a bit meh, but it's base gear.

They sure are drip feeding this stuff though.

Stand by what I said even before this came out.

Why should anyone bother with this instead of Odyssey V0.

I agree with you, but for some reason, people are already ganging up into alliances and fighting NMs and opening boxes, so apparently it's already more popular than Odyssey out the gate.

To the point that anyone who would benefit from the changes today, will instead be on to bigger and better gear by the time it rolls out. Mythical new player from the future will be pleased.

Again, straight from the horses mouth:

Unless my knowledge of the English lexicon is ***, to me that sounds like "these new items will be more powerful than Ambuscade gear and you can later make them equivalent to Malignance gear". With an exception to a select few for certain jobs, theyre not.


"But flamma head has no DT"? So what? Murky Ring takes 0 skill to get provided ??? is up in Apollyon, Alabaster Ear same thing, Defending Ring isnt hard to get, just dependent on shank supply, Ambu cape isnt exactly difficult to make*. Theres 25% DT + 5 DT or 10 PDT right there. This is more than enough for whatever bridge gear character is doing.
Moonbeam Ring is also AH accessible in place of DRing.

*I'm not sure how feasible farming ambu for a bridge gear character is, if Vol 1 VE is easier than Vol 2 VD/D, but its 8k hallmarks, which will also get them a full set of NQ from Chit, a Ring, a base weapon, 20 matter/fiber and materials to upgrade said weapon to Kaja.


These people are not fighting things that have the capability to dish out 4k damage at will. You guys seem to have forgotten the offensive capabilities of older/easier content because you've gotten so accustomed to getting OHKOed by Sortie Basement bosses, V25 bosses, Divergence wave 3 NM's / Disjoined, etc.

I agree with the general concept, but I distinctly remember getting absolutely floored by vagary bosses, all the omen midbosses, and honestly many of the UNMs when I first returned to the game. They're not exactly Aita, but some of that stuff is no pushover. Even a lot of the GF mobs as early as zitah will decimate you without DT.

Granted, you definitely don't need 50% DT and there are lessons to be learned there...but it's not as though everything in the "early endgame" is an unthreatening joke.

Skill issue

You got *** by Pain Sync
You got your buffs jacked by Blessing Sync

Carousel > View Sync combo sucks even with 50% DT, put up wilt/barrier instead or curaga faster.

The new gear is fairly common, but not as much from time spawns. The lottery spawn NMs are generous, but may not pop as quickly as you like.

What I've been doing is taking 2 mules to where the NM is with a key, log them off, and get on my main char to kill it.

I'll get the chest, open it, use the key to open again, and then quickly log in my two mules to get four overall opportunities to get equipment. A third mule "might" be possible if you're super quick with logging in, but would be cutting it fine with the chest's 3-minute timer.

Tbf i think trinary tap/quad cont/vanity dive can hit pretty hard with little/no DT