Nyzul Relic Weapons?

Zeri

Zeri

Retainer of the House of Ultimague
So... think these are the new relics? See the link for the kewl weapons.

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The Myriad Arms of Balrahn (02/05/2008)

<!-- TITLE AREA END --> <!-- TEXT AREA --> By now the name of Balrahn, great restorer of the Empire of Aht Urhgan, has resounded throughout Vana’diel, reaching the ears of all in the form of both history and legend. Blessed with multifarious talents and gifted in nearly every field of human endeavor, the tales of his exploits and travels have become an undying source of entertainment and delight. The restoration of the reign and dignity of the throne which he ushered in has earned him recognition as the greatest hero that empire has ever known. Though, we would of course be getting ahead of ourselves to posit that his grandeur or regality was on a scale with anything approaching that of our King Ranperre.

During his time on the throne, Balrahn garnered enormous respect amongst the people for his utter lack of interest in the superfluousness of royalty. The magnificent structures, the lush garments, the grand banquets… Rather, Balrahn was obsessed with, and dedicated himself wholeheartedly to, the amassing of rare and powerful weaponry. Indeed, the vast majority of valuable weapons stored in the Imperial armories are from his personal collection. These are weapons heralded to be unparalleled in their artistry in form and efficacy in battle.

However, according to an Imperial spy, the official ledger containing the list of those weapons, though guarded to the utmost and never permitted to pass through the palace gates, was obtained by subversive means and made known to the public. What degree of truth and significance can be ascribed to these entries? Could it possibly be some clever scheme on the part of the Empire to leak false information for its own ends? Or could this truly be an instance of espionage unprecedented in scale throughout history?

But for our purposes here, this is a moot point. The information has been made known, adventurer. Whatever action that knowledge may lead to is entirely in your hands now.

History teaches us that the misuse or misappropriation of weapons of this magnitude can only lead the most disastrous of consequences. We can only pray that a threat so great as to warrant their consideration for use will ever cast its shadow over our Aht Urhgan.

Halver M Borel
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No question about it. :)
 
The interesting question is, what will we have to do to upgrade them..... I'm pretty psyched. I think SE might have learned this time about the mage weapons and they might actually be worth a damn (fingers crossed).

-benny
 
A weapon for BLM & RDM that has the same effect as all 7 HQ staffs (meh to light) would be awesome!
 
Some of the speculations for upgrading them, involves:

Imperial Currency
Imperial Standing
Captain Assault rank
Runic key

Personally, I think the most likely of these are Imperial Currency and Captain rank, combined with something else - from the list above, or actual R/Ex items. God knows how much currency we're talking, though. Someone pointed out that for 10k Imperial Gold Pieces, bought solely with IS, you'd have to get more exp than it would take to get 15 jobs to 75.

Did the development team at Fanfest say anything about these weapons being easier to upgrade than the current relics? I seem to dimly recall something like that, but it could be wishful thinking.
 
I'm hoping to dodge the captain rank bullet <.< half a year of nothing but nyzul isn't great for the rank ups lol.

PS Def your avatar is strangely entrancing to me .... where the hell is that from?

-benny
 
I felt gypped that all my friends were off doing Nyzul and getting pretty stuff, while my own static was still doing regular Assaults, working for rank-up (as we've done since ToAU came out), but now I'm thinking I'm glad we got Captain first. :) Having 5 tags at once is awesome, as is the free runic portal pass (at least for me, since y'know, I don't exp much and as such am always low on IS).

If Imperial Coins will be used (as I'm fairly certain they will), I'm gonna have force myself to merit more. XD
 
Some of those look cool...

Some of them... like the WHM club, RDM sword, THF dagger and DRK scythe... look horrible.
 
I think the RDM sword looks elegant, and I like the alternative look of the DRK scythe.

The WHM club looks like shit though. I thought the THF dagger was a Gsword when I first looked at the picture.
 
As I recall they were going to buff Dynamis relic WS and release these relics with new WS.

In terms of looks, I think WHMs are getting left holding the bag.
 
Incidentally wasn't the Laevateinn a legendary SWORD? I've seen it in several other games + the MMO that Konata plays in Lucky Star and it's always been a sword... right?

-benny
 
Random thought/question... I wonder if these weapons will actually have additional animation/components to them? Mind you I'm looking at dancer (as usual <3)...

Upon first examination, it seems to differ in no particular way from conventional daggers. It bears a concealed button however, which, when depressed, causes the blade to trifurcate.
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So the dagger normally looks... normal. But gets the cool three prongs upon engaging in battle? Or doing weapon skills? I wonder if SE actually bothered with animating that or not. Would be cool if they did. :D
 
Zeri said:
Random thought/question... I wonder if these weapons will actually have additional animation/components to them? Mind you I'm looking at dancer (as usual <3)...



So the dagger normally looks... normal. But gets the cool three prongs upon engaging in battle? Or doing weapon skills? I wonder if SE actually bothered with animating that or not. Would be cool if they did. :D
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I'd think that they look normal when hanging by the wearer's side, but when engaged in battle they'll be freaky. I wish they'll animate that as well - it's not exactly like it's beyond their abilities.
 
I bet the "button" simply means it has a charge proc you can use after equipping - similar to warp cudgels, etc. This being SE, it will be like STR+2 that lasts for 30 min with a 21 hr cool down to recharge.

I envision Archain dual weilding Mandau and Mandau-1.
 
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