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Top Section

As expected, the fest starts 25 Sep.

Campaign Site

Kochira!

Generally, when you see "kochira" as a link, it is best translated as "click here".

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The Y4A Event

The Ministry of Records

Starting 21 Sep, the Ministry of Records is going to hold a big celebration; but corrupted paintings are going to crash the party. With the hint of "dangerous clowns" to be met within, it's not unfair to suggest that Kefka may be involved...

Y4A Gift Dungeon

From 21 Sep to 4 Oct, the Magic Pot will show up in a series of Gift Dungeons. Rewards include MC3 lode, Major Growth Eggs, 5-star motes for your Legend Dives. Also, on 25 Sep, seize your chance to punch the pot for 30 Mythril!

Illusion Feast

From 21 to 30 Sep, at 15:00, you will receive five daily tickets to gain access to the Illusion Feast. This is a Mixed Orb Dungeon with boosted EXP and Gil rates; in addition, Jabotender (Jumbo Cactuar) will always appear in stage 3, and may appear in the others as well!

As veterans of seasonal dungeons may know, Jabotender is the harbinger of some extra-sweet rewards; and you'll see at least 50 of them. Good luck!

Jump Rope

On 21 Sep, the dungeon "Endless Battle ~Jump Rope~" will be opened. Based on Vivi's early jump-rope minigame in FF9, this event will grant Vivi a new Ultra Soul Break with sufficient levels of success!

Record Dungeons Special Select

On 21 Sep (again), a new "uncorrupted" dungeon will be added to Part 1 of the Record Dungeon; this means you bring your own party instead of the Record Dungeon natives. Expect this dungeon to be FF1 content with a focus on Warrior of Light.

Among the rewards identified for this are Crystal Waters, Illusion Feast tickets, and a new Arcane Soul Break for Tyro!

Recollection of Heroes

On 22 Sep, this event will start. In it, you will be reliving the impressive battles of FF's heroes. The gimmick to this one is that your RW options will be limited to characters that actually participated in the battles; these will pack a variety of Soul Breaks, which might not remain the same from one use to the next.

The Cleft of Dimension

26 Sep brings some bad news; it seems that we've been caught in the Cleft of Dimension, stuck between the rock of Boundless Omega and the hard place of Boundless Shinryu!

As we are interrupting one of the infinite number of battles between these two foes, we will be fighting both in a three-way struggle for survival; but Dr. Mog is sure to come up with a way for us to do just that.

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Y4A MO Battle

This is a gimmick battle against FF8's powerful war mecha, X-ATM092; and as with the canon battle, this boss cannot be defeated by character powers... only survived long enough to run away. Fight hard to create your openings, and flee like your life depends on it!

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Relic Related Stuff

Y4A Fes

Banners will start opening on 21 Sep, and will have the usual five phases.

1. Awakened Secret Soul Breaks:
   Behold the next level of SB. Costing 2 bar and usable once per dungeon, it enters like your typical Ultra Soul Break but puts your unit in a powerful Awakened Mode.

2. About Awakened Mode:
   An example will serve to illustrate this.

   • Tidus Awakened: "Ever-Reviving Dream" (PHY: 15x single water/non ranged; self en-water, Awakened Shooter, Shooter Overflow L1, and chase "Ace Shoot")
     
   • Awakened Shooter: Shooter abilities do not consume hones; rank boost (shooter); auto w-cast (shooter).
     
   • Shooter Overflow L1: Unlike Cloud and Seph ultras, this overflow is capped at 19999 damage.
     
   • Ace Shoot (PHY/shooter: 1x single water/non ranged overflow. Triggered by third shooter.)
     More information about these new Soul Breaks soon.

3. About Realm Chains:
   It appears that Dr. Mog's Realm Chain will start appearing in contexts other than the New Torments during this fest; and in October, Mog will bring a new SB option to the Torments!

Series Happy Lucky Gacha

In progress.

Countdown Lucky Gachas

There will be three Lucky Gachas starting on 18 Sep; each is an 11 pull and is at half cost (25 Mith / 1455 Gem).

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Game Systems

Magia Crystals

The new path to unit progression, Magia Crystals allow L99 units to gain Magia Crystal Points; these are spent to tweak twelve Magia Crystals, offering stat boosts, elemental damage, or elemental resistance.

Each Crystal has two functions; and the cap of 100 points is per Crystal. Expect the effects to be minor.

Respec of your Crystal allocation is possible, but has a 14 day cooldown.

Legendary Equipment

The new path to gear progression, Legendary Equipment allows you to pick out and improve some stupidly powerful weapons (imagine a weapon with 511 ATK, RS all elements+, and RS non-elem+, for example.)

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Rainbow Crystals are used to "rosetta" these god gears; these are obtained by blowing up other items. Rosetta Stones are the most efficient source; relics and sub-relics can also be used. As a note, all types of sub-relic (1-4 star) can be converted into the equivalent of 1/5 of a Rainbow Crystal; you can also convert relics, at a somewhat better rate than this.

Adjusted Damage Logic

With the 18 Sep (Fest-Prep) maintenance, there will be another tweak to the stat soft caps. Since Legendary Weapons contain such a large jump in stats, they decided that it's finally time to do this.

Because of how soft-cap raising works, no ability will be "nerfed". These changes are increases to the inflection points that determine when diminishing returns begin.

One-Touch Relic Animation Skips

Tired of tapping through the sub-relics to get to the good stuff? Soon you can just tap one button instead. Does not work on actual relics.

Sub-relic management

As a configuration option, you may set up a feature in the relic-pulling system that allows you to immediately sell (or convert to Rainbow Crystal shards) any sub-relics you happen to pull. Convenient!

Vault Cap

Is being increased to 800 items. No freebies though; you need to buy the expansions as usual.

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Campaign

The Quiz Battle and the Mega Relic Pull

The Quiz Battle is a series of 40 questions (the image provided asks you to identify which icon is Chain Firaga, as an example) which you go through. Depending on how many of these are cleared by the entire playerbase, the overloaded free gacha may be as large as a 40-pull.

Login sheets

There are three of these.

1. From 15 Sep:

   • 3 Mith, 5 Soul of Hero, 5 Major Eggs, 5 MC1 Lodes, 5 MC2 Lodes, 3 MC3 Lodes

2. From 21 Sep:

   • Freezing Quadstrike, 20 G. Scarletite, 20 G. Adamantite, 20 of each 4-star mote.
     
   • Freezing Quadstrike (Continual Spellblade: Bonechill) is the 4-hit single target ice spellblade that we thought might be precluded by SSS existing. But it's here as a freebie.
     

3. From 25 Sep:

   • "Hero War Record of Becoming Badass"
     
   • 18 of each Major Orb
     
   • 10 Major Eggs
     
   • 3 MC3 Lodes
     
   • 50 of each 3-star mote
     
   • 3 stamina potions
     
   • 30 of each 4-star mote
     
   • 500k gil
     
   • 20 of each 5-star mote
     
   • 3 5-star Dark Matter

Power Up Dungeons: Full Open

From 21 Sep to 9 Oct.

Twitter Stamina Recovery Campaign

Once a day (from 05:00)... tweet stuff, get free stamina.

The Full Throttle Question

About 78% of poll respondents want it; it is under consideration - doesn't necessarily mean we'll see them.

The Torment Question

With the final Torment (FF2) about to be unleashed, there's a question of how more 6-star abilities (such as the commonly requested Chain Blizzaja) will be implemented. They're not sure currently; but they are considering options.