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Here are the new AF2 Stats.

Blue Mage



Mirage keffiyeh
[Head] All Races
DEF: 24 HP +15 VIT +3
Blue Magic Skill +5
Increases breath damage
Lv. 75 BLU

Dropped at Dynamis - Xarcabard and Dynamis - Tavnazia



Mirage Jubbah
[Body] All Races
DEF: 45 MP +20 Accuracy +10 Enmity -2
Adds "Refresh" effect
Lv. 74 BLU

Dropped at Dynamis - Beaucedine and Dynamis - Tavnazia



Mirage bazubands
[Hands] All Races
DEF: 17 HP +12 MP +12 DEX +5 MND +5
Evasion +5
Lv. 73 BLU

Dropped at Dynamis - San d'Oria and Dynamis - Qufim



Mirage Shalwar
[Legs] All Races
DEF: 31 HP +10 MP +10 STR +3
Accuracy +5 Magic Accuracy +3
Lv. 72 BLU

Dropped in Dynamis - Bastok and Dynamis - Buburimu

Could not find an image for the boots.

Mirage Charuqs
[Feet] All Races
DEF: 16 MP +15 AGI +3 INT +3
Attack +5 Enmity -2
Lv. 71 BLU

Dropped at Dynamis - Windurst and Dynamis - Valkurm

Could not find an image for the Blue Mage back.

Mirage Mantle
(Back) All Races
DEF: 6 MP +20
Accuracy +7 Magic Accuracy +3
Lv. 70 BLU

Dropped at Dynamis - Buburimu

Corsair



Commodore Tricorne
[Head] All Races
DEF: 24 HP +10
Ranged Attack +8
Augments "Phantom Roll"
Lv. 75 COR

Dropped at Dynamis - Xarcabard



Commodore Frac
[Body] All Races
DEF: 45 STR +3
Accuracy +8 Ranged Attack +8
Enhances "Random Deal" effect
Lv. 74 COR

Dropped at Dynamis - Beaucedine



Commodore Gants
[Hands] All Races
DEF: 14 HP +12 AGI +2
Ranged Accuracy +5
Enhances "Snapshot" effect
Lv. 72 COR

Dropped in Dynamis - Jeuno



Commodore Culotte
[Legs] All Races
DEF: 30 HP +22 STR +3 AGI +3
Attack +3 Evasion +3
Lv. 71 COR

Dropped in Dynamis - San d'Oria



Commodore Bottes
[Feet] All Races
DEF: 16 HP +12 DEX +3 INT +3
Accuracy +5 Enmity -3
Lv. 73 COR

Dropped in Dynamis - Bastok

Puppetmaster



Pantin Taj
[Head] All Races
DEF: 19 HP +12 STR +3 AGI +3
Adds "Regen" effect
Automaton: Adds "Regen" effect
Lv. 75 PUP

Dropped in Dynamis - Xarcabard and Dynamis - Tavnazia

Could not find an image for body

Pantin Tobe
[Body] All Races
DEF: 45 HP +15 Accuracy +10
"Subtle Blow" +5
Automaton: Accuracy +10
Lv. 74 PUP

Dropped in Dynamis - Beaucedine

Could not find an image for Hands

Pantin Dastanas
[Hands] All Races
DEF: 18 HP +16 DEX +2 CHR +2 Haste +3%
Automaton: Haste +3%
Lv. 73 PUP

Dropped in Dynamis - Windurst and Dynamis - Qufim

Could not find image for legs

Pantin Churidars
[Legs] All Races
DEF: 32 HP +13 STR +2 VIT +2
Accuracy +5
Automaton:
Magic Accuracy +5
Lv. 71 PUP

Dropped in Dynamis - Jeuno and Dynamis - Valkurm

Could not find image for feet

Pantin Babouches
[Feet] All Races
DEF: 17 HP +14 INT +2
MND +2 Attack +5
Automaton:
Enhances "Magic Attack Bonus" +5
Lv. 72 PUP

Dropped in Dynamis - San d'Oria

Wow Square Enix is doing something awesome with the party dynamics. They are introducing a system where a higher level can party with a lower level player. Square Enix with some feed back from the community of players will let them adjust say a level 75 player to a lower level of the leader of the party. For example, if the leader is say level 25 the other players that are higher level will be reduced to 25. In addition to leveling down the higher level players will be able to equip thier higher tier equipment but they will not be able to have all the bonuses of the armor or weapons. Once the players are the same level they can defeat enemies and gain 100% of the target's experience points. This by far is the best part of the update so far.

Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue are going to be adjusted to be easier due to the heat Square Enix took from a recent Yahoo! games article. The article pointed out that a group of people fought a new boss (Pandemonium Warden) for eighteen hours straight. The group claimed that they began getting sick because of the length of the fight.

My opionion about this is; Square Enix put these monsters in to be defeated in a certain way. For example, the Absolute Virtue video that the development team showed gave a hint in how to weaken the boss using the two hour specials when fighting it. I don't think Square Enix intended the fight to go over two to three hours.

This will be interesting in how they will weaken the bosses in the September patch.

In the Next update dancers and scholars are getting thier tier one merit category. This is great and unexpected, I thought they would get thier merit category way later like the last jobs like blue mage, puppetmaster, and corsair.

Looks like Square Enix is going to spice up Campaign with Stronghold Notorious Monsters. There will be a total of eight Notorious Monsters appearing in in La Vaule [S], Beadeaux [S], and Castle Oztroja [S]. When defeating these NMs the defense capabilities of current beastmen controlled areas will be weakend such as funds, tactics, reconnaissance to name a few. Additionally, if all eight are defeated by a player, they gain key items to access an area to fight a Notorious Monster which have not been identified yet. This is going to be interesting.

Square Enix finally figured out that campaign is broken. I mean geez the allied countries haven't controlled an area since the last update. Hopefully, they will get off their asses and fix this for the better.

The update is slated for early September.

Check out the stats and pictures for the new AF2 here.

HOLY CRAP!!! Square Enix are adding new AF2 to dynamis for blu cor and pup in the next Scheduled update set for September. This is great since those particualar jobs have been out for over a year now. I'm going to level my blue mage since we can get those gears now. The update will also reduce the cost of entering dynamis from 1 million to 500,000. Time to make my own dynamis shell /dance.

Ever wonder what the magic number is to get less resistance against High Notorious Monsters when casting spells with Black Mage(Blm). The most effective set up is having 120 Intelligence and 320 Elemental Magic Skill. My equipment set up for my Taru Black Mage is: High Quality Elemental Staves(weapon), Bugard leather Strap +1(sub weapon), Phantom Tanthlum(ranged), Moldavite Earring(earring), Abyssal Earring(earring), Elemental Torque(neck), Sorcerer's Petasos(head), Igqira Weskit(body), Wizard's Gloves(hand), Tamas Ring(ring), Snow Ring(ring), Prism Cape(back), Penitent's Rope(waist), Jet Seraweels(legs), Rostrum Pumps(feet). This set up has given me great success against being resisted with my spells on HNMs. There are alot more equipment that can be used to help get you to that magic number against High Notorious Monsters. Below is the equipment recommended to use against HNMs.

Weapon
High Quality Elemental Staves ie Jupiter Staff (Highly Recommended) - +15% Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus
Elemental Staves ie Thunder Staff - +10% Magic Accuracy and Magic Attack Bonus
Alkalurops - +10 Intelligence +20 Magic Accuracy

Sub Weapons
Bugard Leather Strap +1 - +1 Intelligence
Thunder Grip (Highly Recommended) - +2 Thunder Magic Accuracy
Ice Grip (Highly Recommended) - +2 Ice Magic Accuracy

Hands
Wizard's Gloves - +15 Elemental Skill
Wizard's Gloves +1 (Highly Recommended) - +15 Elemental Skill and +3 Intelligence

Head
Sorcerer's Petasos (Highly Recommended) - +10 Elemental Skill
Morrigan's Coronal (Highly REcommended) - +4 Intelligence +5 magic Accuracy
Wizard's Petasos - +4 Intelligence
Demon Helm - +5 Intelligence
Demon Helm +1 - +6 Intelligence

Neck
Elemental Torque (Highly Recommended) - +7 Elemental Skill

Body
Igquira Wisket - +5 Elemental Skill
Genie Weskit (Highly Recommended) - +6 Elemental Skill
Morrigan's Robe - +8 Intelligence

Legs
Druid's Slops - +5 Elemental Skill
Jet Seraweels - +7 Intelligence
Errant Slops - +7 Intelligence
Mahatma Slops (Recommended) - +8 Intelligence
Morrigan's slops (Highly Recommended) - +10 Intelligence

Feet
Rostrum Pumps (Recommended) - + 3 Intelligence
Morrigan's Pigaches (Recommended) - +3 Intelligence
Goliard Clogs (Highly Recommended) - +4 Intelligence +2 Magic Accuracy
Nashira Crackows (Recommended) - +5 Elemental Skill +2 Magic Accuracy

Back
Rainbow Cape - +3 Intelligence
Prism Cape (Recommended)- +4 Intelligence
Merciful Cape (Recommended) - +5 Elemental Skill

Waist
Sorcerer's belt (Highly Recommended) - +6 Intelligence
Penitent's Sash (Recommended) - +5 Intelligence

Rings
Tamas Ring (Highly Recommended) - +5 Intelligence
Snow Ring - +5 Intelligence
Balrahn's Ring - +4 Magic Accuracy

The reason I am writing this is to help new mages to stun special moves of High Notorious Monsters(HNM). I hate putting a new mage in the stun order and come to find out that they don't know when the move is triggered or is very late on stunning it. Okay let's go into your config then chat filters. Turn all your filters on except "Special actions started on/by party", "Special actions started on/by allies", and "Special actions started on/by foes". Below is a screen shot of which filters should be off.